OKAY SO I had a coworker who was otherwise a standard clueless Straight White Guy, but this dude loved his wife and he knew her real good. And his wife LOVES shitty grocery store icing. So the first thing she’d always do with any cake is shove her fingers into the corner and scoop off whatever abomination of a flower was on there and eat it off her fingers.
SO THIS DUDE GOES TO THE STORE AND HAS THEM MAKE A WHOLE CAKE OUT OF FROSTING Brings it home to his wife for her birthday She shoves her fingers into it and then they just keep going FROSTING ALL THE WAY DOWN He said the look on her face was the best thing he’d ever seen in his life It gives me hope that even a clueless Straight White Guy knew and loved his wife enough to give her the perfect birthday present cake frosting abomination
And I love to imagine the conversation he had to have with the grocery store bakery.
Can someone explain to me why people don’t like the Big Bang Theory? I don’t get it
Because it’s not a show for nerds, it’s a show about making fun of nerds. The characters are all contemptible caricatures of various nerd stereotypes, the laugh track is hideously overused and the jokes have the same fundamental punchline: socially atypical people are worthy of mockery.
An example from season six, episode eighteen:
Leonard: So now let’s bring out theoretical physicist, Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
Sheldon: Hello, female children. Allow me to inspire you with a story about a great female scientist. Polish born, French educated Madame Curie. Co-discover of radioactivity. She was a hero of science until her hair fell out, her vomit and stool became full with blood and she was poisoned to death by her own discovery. With a little hard work I see no reason why that can’t also happen to any of you. Are we done? Can we go?
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That’s not a joke for scientists, fans of science, or anyone who admires Madame Curie. It’s a joke for people who hold science, women and people with Asperger’s in total contempt.
Thank you. I think I understand the viewpoint a little more. I watched this show a lot with my dad, and I always sort of took it at face value, but looking back on it I’m seeing how they did it wrong.
Excellent explanation on why this show sucks.
Also can I just say? I like how maturely unlikelylightparadise handled learning why media critics dislike Big Bang Theory. Other Big Bang Theory fans take note.
As a Jewish woman of Bengali heritage I would also like to add that the show has a nasty habit of using its Jewish, female, and South Asian characters as fodder for its humour, which it then deflects under the banner of recognising the offensiveness, despite still playing up the original joke for all its worth.
For example:
Character A: [Joke using offensive Jewish/Female/Indian stereotypes]
Audience: *laughs at Jews/Women/Indians*
Character B: Hey, you can’t say that! That’s offensive!
Character A: Not as offensive as that last Superman movie was to comics!
Audience: *harharhar*
Basically, the show literally invites people to laugh at racist and sexist jokes and then tries to downplay that by acknowledging that they’re racist and sexist jokes, as if that somehow makes up for the fact that it’s still banking on its audience to think Jews, Women, and South Asians are worthy of mockery.
Y’all the white stripe on the trans flag literally is for nonbinary folk, so maybe stop yelling at nonbinary folk that we’re using the ‘wrong’ flag for ourselves.
Also the trans flag was inspired by the bi flag, so miss me with your ‘bisexuality is transphobic’ bullshit. Here’s more of a history on why that shit is ahistorical.
look i know this is a bit niche, but I would die for the human who wrote this pattern description. maybe you won’t feel the same if you haven’t spent hours and hours reading knitting pattern blurbs by the designer or the designers hype person.
listen, this niche is made for me and i am buying this pattern sometime this winter to make myself one!!! thanks for sharing, i am in love
the pattern is called the rangers cowl by Michael Vloedman, the image is a link, but i guess that doesn’t carry through on reblogs?? here’s the url – ravelry.com/patterns/library/ranger-cowl
So sorry abt that folks, i really didn’t think anyone would notice this post at all.
And some of us are over here like “6 fucking skeins of madelinetosh??? Are you shitting me mate?”
I know right??? That’s a $7 pattern and like $140 of yarn.
Or you could always make it with less expensive yarn, but where’s the fun in that.
guys I know I ask for help on here a lot, but this month if I don’t get some sort of assistance my roommate and I won’t be able to pay our rent or electricity and I’m kind of freaking out. (Okay I’m really freaking out.)
Anything helps to be honest but if all of you could help get us to $300 it would honestly mean so so so freaking much and we wouldn’t have to worry this month.
Honestly you have my undying gratitude and if there’s anything I can do for anyone who donates in the future let me know because I really hate doing this and I hate that it’s necessary.
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