You know whats tedious and obnoxious?

[GirlinContempt]

Celebrity worship. Not just actors and comedians, but in politics too. Tedious as all god damn hell. The flavour of the month rarely outshines the hardworking person that actually DOES something, and all it does is detract from real positive action and discussion.

What's also really obnoxious is negative celebrity worship. Way to feed the cycle by wasting your time thinking and talking about stuff that is totally irrelevant, trite and somewhat nutters.

[TheMightyFavog]

1. I thought that you were talking abotu that damn Brazillion joke.

End of Line.

[GirlinContempt]

4. That works too

:P

[LSK]

2. yeah, but poor Katie might be dumped by Mr Spaceman...

:cry:

[GirlinContempt]

5. Uh oh

Alert the president!

[anarch]

3. absolutely everything I am asked to do at work. n/t

[GirlinContempt]

6. That also works

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. Mid-term exams.

:grr:

[GirlinContempt]

8. Yuck

What subject?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. They start tomorrow:

Study Hall (so obviously no exam *phew*) and English (essay on individual freedom, whether humans can be trusted to know what's best for them, etc.).

Wednesday is Geometry (Worst. Subject. Ever. :grr:) and World Studies ("fishbowl" discussion on outsourcing articles we have to read).

Thursday is Science (Laws of Thermodynamics; a whole bunch of environmental/earth science "stuff") and Latin (over 200 questions, but *mostly* multiple choice; I have a 100 here for the quarter, so I'm not too worried :D :P)

Friday is just Band (performance test). Then I'm out at 9:30! :bounce:

Still...Yucky, yucky, yucky. :grr::grr:

[JVS]

35. Geometry is a zesty exercise of the mind that helps with clear thinking

[WritingIsMyReligion]

42. And it's fucking awful.

:P :D :evilgrin:

[JVS]

43. You should enjoy it

[WritingIsMyReligion]

44. Haha....

:D

Math just isn't my thing, I guess.

:evilgrin:

[Radical Activist]

9. Me too.

It seems like millions of people think the Democratic party has to become a cult of personality as soon as we select a nominee for President.

[GirlinContempt]

13. I've noticed that

*shakes head*

[eyesroll]

17. Or when we hear a speech by someone who had his chance 5 years ago.

Sorry. I'm in a mood.

[Blue-Jay]

10. yep.

:thumbsup:

[RandomKoolzip]

11. I remember back in the 80's, when people used to say...

"Madonna: Love her or hate her...." or "Morissey: Love him or hate him..." Can't I just ignore them? Expressing ANY kind of feeling towards any kind of celebrity is unecessary.

[GirlinContempt]

21. In some societies that seems to be a prevalent attitude

The world is bi-chromatic, there are two sides, load your paint balls and have at 'er.
As soon as someone says or does something 'good', you gotta toss them in the air with glee that they're on your side, and the second they falter you run off to find your next Cindy.
Like somehow individualism and privacy are somehow negotiable concepts. You demand, never deliver.

</end nonsensical bullshit>

[Shine]

46. No, I totally get it. We live in a dualistic world.

Good/evil, Dem/Repub, Happy/Sad, Black/White, Straight/Gay....the list is endless....

how do we get OFF the pendulum? Is it ever possible??

[Misunderestimator]

14. Angelina Jolie is a homewrecker.

:P But a damn gorgeous one. :bounce:

[RandomKoolzip]

16. She's 46% lips, did you know that?

'struth!

[Misunderestimator]

19. mmmmm.... lips

yeah... i suppose added together... 46% is about right. :rofl:

[Blue-Jay]

25. *snort*

hee hee hee

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[friesianrider]

15. Making a post just to talk about celebrity worship....

Is just as totally irrelevent, trite, and somewhat nutters. :)

[Misunderestimator]

20. Nutter butter sandwich cookies...

I used to love those.

[GirlinContempt]

24. mmm I beg to disagree

It clearly isn't irrelevant, in my books, cause when you use celebrity worship as a political tool, it becomes a relevant issue. However, when you worship celebrities in a political sense, it's generally irrelevant as it has little to do with the subject at hand (abortion, gun control, marriage, whatever)

[hfojvt]

18. "so you call her on the phone, to talk about the teachers that you hate

and she says she's all alone
and her parents won't be coming home 'til late ..." The Knack

"Talking 'bout what everybody's talking 'bout
let's talk about. I wanna talk about ..." Dweezil Zappa

[GirlinContempt]

28. How esoteric

[asthmaticeog]

22. I agree.

People I don't interact with aren't real to me, so sparing a thought for them seems a MASSIVE waste. Revering them even more so. I certainly respect famous people with actual accomplishments, but doting over their personal lives is a cliff-leap that's really not necessary.

And I resent the media AND the people who eat this shit up for feeding that whole cycle, for putting strangers private lives in my face all the damn time. I don't care who fucks who or how, and I don't want that information thrust into my conciousness just for turning on the news - or logging on to DU.

Heh heh, I said "thrust."

[GirlinContempt]

29. heh heh

you said fuck

[asthmaticeog]

36. Heh heh, oh yeah, heh heh

[GirlinContempt]

40. heh heh heh certs with retsin

two mints in one!

[hfojvt]

48. against boredom, the gods themselves contend in vain

Thus, we would seem to have a little bit of time to waste in harmless hobbies.

Some of the people we imagine we interact with, by reading their books, seeing them on TV or in movies seem like a larger part of our life than the obnoxious loony strangers who live across the street, or the hundreds we pass and never interact with, and it is now almost impossible to interact with because they are always on their tanjed cell phones. Many of the interactions will be negative throughout our day, so we turn on the TV and imagine we have friends. Not too much different from reading and studying history - fluff or substance, it is being entertained more than it is actual living. But when I observed youth hanging out in groups talking, it seemed to me to be the same thing - only worse. They told really bad stories, about the stupid things they were proud of doing, or mean things they thought were funny.

The only things that are thrust into our face are the headlines. We do not have to read the whole story. We do not have to watch ET either. What bugs me is when celebrity news is passed as "news" as if it is significant to everyone, or should be. Isn't that why we have shows like ET? It does not need to be on the news too.

[ghostsofgiants]

23. Wait, wait, wait...

Are you trying to say that I should take down my "Cindy Sheehan Is God" posters and put out my burning Tom Cruise effigy?

[RandomKoolzip]

26. You'll never take away my autographed pictures of Genealissimo Franco!

:cry:

[GirlinContempt]

31. Look in to your heart, primate1

the truth is there

[ghostsofgiants]

60. Okay, I did that...

All I saw was like, blood and stuff. It was kinda gross.

[hobo_baggins]

27. Ugh, i hate it too...and my roomate is obsessed with celebrities

all he talks about and watches are those gossip shows on tv talking about Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears non-stop. He's 24 years old! grow up!!! God, I want to choke him sometimes.

[GirlinContempt]

32. Choking might be a little extreme

but it does seem like a waste

[name not needed]

58. Nah.

If you choke him, the lack of oxygen getting to the brain may cause brain damage, and he will watch that shit even more. Killing him and hiding the body is your only option.

[Beware the Beast Man]

33. Amen!

I could give a fuck if Green Day is liberal, or what Kanye West said on live TV, or who Angelina Jolie is porking this month. It's irrelevant. But if it helps pass the time of someone's miserable existence, who am I to judge?

[GirlinContempt]

37. Agreed, with a clause

"But if it helps pass the time of someone's miserable existence, who am I to judge?"

Well, I think you have every right to judge when it starts interfering in things you think are meaningful and important.

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. YES!!! Let's hear it for MRG!! At work today, with a fever and a cold

even. Wearing his name on his shirt... :hi:

[GirlinContempt]

38. It's people like that

who keep our world spinnin'!
:hi:

[Susang]

39. But what if you're friends with a celebrity?

What then Ms. Smarty Pants? :P

[GirlinContempt]

41. Then

you go over to their house and say "Dude, stop nailing aliens, it's really hurting your rep"

[Susang]

47. Kirstie Alley would never say that!

Okay, maybe she would! What do I know? I've never read a People magazine in my life! :D

[Shine]

45. I completely agree.

How do we maintain focus on what REALLY matters, while living in the modern world?? :shrug:

I think about that question a lot, actually.

I think the answer comes in the way we live our lives....what we choose to focus on.

[GirlinContempt]

50. If you come up with something

let me know

[antigone382]

49. Both get on my nerves to no end.

Ugh... the months of observation of a celebrity "baby bump"!!!!1!1!1111...come on people, are your lives so meaningless that you have to spend MONTHS closely scrutinizing the size of some woman's abdomen? Maybe she's just been on a Dorito's binge, ferchrissakes...

Then, you have the celebrities--and celebrity couples--that everybody loves to hate--I never thought I would see the day that I would actually feel a little *sorry* for Britney Spears. The woman couldn't even have a baby without being dragged through the mud. I mean, sure she's annoying, and her political opinions as voiced in F9/11 were downright asinine, but if you find her so distasteful why do you pay so much attention to EVERYTHING she does? Generally, I ignore people I don't like, provided they're not doing anything to harm me. I don't devote my time and attention to analyzing their every move.

But the absolute worst is the celebrity "news" that actually makes it onto the national airwaves, when they're supposed to be actually informing us about things that affect our lives. How many times did we have to see some stupid-ass report on the Michael Jackson case taking time away from stories that actually mattered, like what was going on in Iraq or what new laws were being passed that were going to have a devestating economic impact on the poor and middle class? All that shit is nothing more than a timewaster devised to keep us talking about the crazy antics of those "hollywood-types" when we ought to be talking about the dangerous activities of our government.

Celebrity worship is annoying, distracting, and pointless, and it represents everything that is leading to the erosion of America's intelligence and integrity today. Please, DUers and everyone, stop giving celebrity "news" infotainment your time and attention.

And now I step off my soapbox.

[GirlinContempt]

51. The sad part is

it's not just actors and models anymore

[hyphenate]

52. I don't think it's all tedious or obnoxious

But then, I grew up in the 60s when so many wonderful people in entertainment were clamoring for liberalism and changes to the world; when The Feminine Mystique actually cried for equality for women, when people like the Kennedys, Martin Luther King and others were fighting for civil rights, an end to racism and so much more. When television shows like Star Trek actually said something about the common era with pointed criticism, but because it was cloaked in science fiction was safe to do; when standing up for your rights often meant seeming like a coward and leaving your homeland.

Celebrities that, a decade earlier, been singled out by McCarthy and Cohn, as being Communists--who saw their careers and lives ruined by hatred and intolerance, were finally able to have their say again but still knew what the stakes were; singers and musicians who sang or composed for the righteousness of it, and not for the money; people who stood up for something other than their own personal gain and made their lives stand for something.

I also grew up in front of the television, where some of the real life world of poverty could be put in a backburner, as my mind often fled that to imagine better things, better lives, and a woder world of possibilities. I aspired to many things, and my fantasy world kept hope while I was seriously being drowned in the gravity of the true reality. Unless you can dream--unless you can have hope for something better, you will die in desperation. And so, yes, I idol worshipped--television was my escape, and I do not regret it for a minute. The images on my TV screen held my attention, and gave me wishes for the future that could not be stifled or stepped on so easily. While it wasn't my truth, it was nevertheless an escape from depression, from my whole life's turmoil, and from the mere horror of what life was all about at that time.

[GirlinContempt]

55. Thing is, it isn't like that anymore

as asthmaticeog said, "I certainly respect famous people with actual accomplishments"

I guess I just don't equate celebrity worship with helpful dreams, mostly because the people involved often seem crushed when the celebs don't live up to their expectations.

We all partake in a certain amount of escapism, but pinning everything on the taste du jour is silly and unhelpful.

[LaraMN]

53. So you don't want to see my collage of Brangelina pics

following their relationship in sequence from the first early buds of their love, to present? But I used puffy letters and heart decals! YOU SUCK!:rofl:

[GirlinContempt]

56. Lara,

sadly I'll have to pass at this time ;P

[Ptah]

54. ooh! ooh! I know! I know!

Whipping Post. Allman Brothers

:nopity: :nopity:

[GirlinContempt]

57. Hey, as long as that makes sense to you

go with it

[Telly Savalas]

59. If the Conservatives win the election and form government...

who do you think will get the Celebrity Gossip portfolio? Stockwell Day or Rahim Jaffer?

[GirlinContempt]

61. I don't even wanna think about that