Confession

[Phatchick]

(04-21-2012 11:55 PM)Lady Julian Wrote:  Can I confess that, even though I'm a girl, I don't like most chick flicks?

And that I actually love sci-fi and action movies?

And that (geekiness alert!) I'm finishing up the Stargate Atlantis TV show on DVD?

Okay, confession over.

:heart:SISTER!
I am just soooooo geeky and have been most of my life. I was a Trekkie long before it was cool.

[Papa Bear]

I like Are You Being Served? and My Hero. (Any other Thermoman fans here?) I don't find Rowan Atkinson remotely close to funny in anything else, but I love Thin Blue Line. (I also don't find Jim Carey at all funny in anything but the movie Liar, Liar.) Guilty pleaures: How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men. I know, they're awful, but I can't look away!

I used to work at a home for people with CD. (That's the new word for retarded, now that there is a de facto ban on retarded. Once people figure out what CD means, the same people who banned the R-word will ban CD.) Anyway, the residents, as they were called then, (Later they were called clients, now they're changing to participants.) watched The Lawrence Welk Show every Saturday night. When it wasn't on because PBS was doing one of their fundraisers, the residents would be angry at me. They wouldn't believe it wasn't on. They were sure I was trying to trick them. Some employees went so far as to tape the show, so they would always have an episode to pop in. I saw enough of the show to last me the rest of my life. Still, I do catch myself humming some saccharine tune or other from the show now and then.

[amyrose5]

(04-22-2012 02:12 PM)Papa Bear Wrote:  (That's the new word for retarded, now that there is a de facto ban on retarded. Once people figure out what CD means, the same people who banned the R-word will ban CD.)

I hate de facto word banning. A moron friend of my husband's once chewed me out for the following statement: "Something is retarding the growth of my dad's tomato plants this year".

I was told that under no circumstances will he allow anyone in his presence to use the word "retarded"! Me: "I didn't. And I was talking about plants." Then he accused me of comparing CD (never heard that one, what does it stand for?) people to tomato plants. I refrained from asking him when he was going to reach the bottom of stupid in the conversation.

[Lady Julian]

(04-22-2012 08:51 AM)Darrell Wrote:  I was not a huge fan of the original Stargate but I loved that series. David Hewlett and (later) Jewel Staite made that show a delight.

Yes! My favourite character on that show is David Hewlett's. I like him because, arrogant and unobservant as he is, he has a very well-hidden compassionate side that develops over time. He gives me hope that people - myself included - can change. Also he is hilariously funny.

@Phatchick: It's always good to find another nerdy girl! I haven't read romance, with the exception of Jane Austen, since I was about fourteen. Thank goodness that stage of life is behind me.

[Papa Bear]

(04-22-2012 02:28 PM)amyrose5 Wrote:  I hate de facto word banning. A moron friend of my husband's once chewed me out for the following statement: "Something is retarding the growth of my dad's tomato plants this year".

I was told that under no circumstances will he allow anyone in his presence to use the word "retarded"! Me: "I didn't. And I was talking about plants." Then he accused me of comparing CD (never heard that one, what does it stand for?) people to tomato plants. I refrained from asking him when he was going to reach the bottom of stupid in the conversation.

The Jacobson Brake, or Jake Brake, on semitrailer trucks (technically, it's on the tractor) is also called the retarder, because it slows the truck down. The musical term meaning "slow the tempo" is ritardando. But once a word gets on some people's "bad word" list, they can't stand to let anyone use it, ever, not even when they are using it properly.

CD, depending who you ask, means "cognitively disabled" or "cognitively delayed". "Delayed" is usually only applied to children. It's not the term that's the problem, it's using it as an insult. Now that "hyper" is forbidden, kids insult each other with ADHD. My son has autism, and his IQ falls in the moderately mentally retarded range. I don't go around calling him or anyone else a "retard", but I refuse to get on the euphemism treadmill.

[elfdream]

(04-22-2012 02:46 PM)Lady Julian Wrote:  @Phatchick: It's always good to find another nerdy girl! I haven't read romance, with the exception of Jane Austen, since I was about fourteen. Thank goodness that stage of life is behind me.

I knew that no one reads my posts

[Defraudedbygothard]

(04-21-2012 06:33 PM)Natalie Wrote:  I like watching the old Lawrence Welk shows.

There's enough cheese in them to feed a 3rd world country, but I love them.

Natalie I am with you! I lived with my grandmother for 9 years and she loved to watch Welk. I guess she rubbed off on me.

Bubbles

[lucrezaborgia]

(04-22-2012 11:12 AM)amyrose5 Wrote:  I cannot get into the Big Bang Theory. Which is okay because we will never watch it as it is a show my batshit crazy sister-in-law has ordered the entire family to watch in order to prove both our intelligence and our loyalty to her. We tend to avoid the shows and movies she gives orders about.

I am seriously addicted to How I Met Your Mother. Pathetically. I quote it constantly. I watch it every day.

I think I need an intervention.

[bean]

Amyrose, despite my parents and friends raving about that show, (big bang theory)--I have tried, and I just do not get it. Whenever they gush about how funny it is...I don't have much to add because I can't watch it for more than a few minutes. It just doesn't interest me!

[Lady Julian]

(04-22-2012 02:49 PM)elfdream Wrote:  I knew that no one reads my posts

Oops. Guess I'll have to give up my nasty skimming habit.