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Post by mdsizzle on Oct 25, 2023 19:41:51 GMT
Damn Schlichy, easy boy! I thought I had a good day yesterday... And my former boy Hartman with a 27 point night?! Shit... I think Hartman was one of those players you're about to grab and then someone else piles in and drafts him from under me. Good ol' Schlichy. Exactly what happened.. Good on Schlichy!
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Post by bookboy007 on Oct 25, 2023 20:47:36 GMT
I think Hartman was one of those players you're about to grab and then someone else piles in and drafts him from under me. Good ol' Schlichy. Exactly what happened.. Good on Schlichy! Schlichy would win every year if he had the barest clue what the fuck he was doing!
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Post by schlich on Oct 25, 2023 21:40:50 GMT
Now that Woke-ism is so passe..can we please have Apu come back? Before Simu Liu was Shang-Chi, he was in a show called Kim's Convenience in Canada. On the CBC - the network that fired Don Cherry for saying you people or those people one too many times. It was about a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store and basically if you tranfer all of the Kwikky-Mart to from an Indian character in Springfield USA to Korean-Canadian characters in Toronto - and bleed out anything that's actually funny so that it's just tired stereotypes - you've largely seen the show. At least, that's what I'm told because even the unending stream of ads for it during HNIC was too much of it for me to stomach. That show ran from 2016-2021 and was renewed to continue but the creators felt it had run its course. Now, I'm not here to pronounce on "woke-ism" - I actually find that term and its adherents to be largely bitching that people who aren't like them are using the same economic levers to advance their own interests as pretty much everyone else - don't buy from companies that don't align with your values or interests. Let people know that's how you will be voting with your dollars. Let the almighty dollar "cancel" people because advertisers will run away from anything if enough people say they won't buy Pepsi if Pepsi keep using, I don't know, OJ Simpson in their ads. But I do find it to be false sanctimonious bullshit that people prefer no representation of Indian characters on a show with an audience the size of the Simpsons rather than one that uses stereotypes but in general was done with a lot of affection and was as good as any TV show at being funny while also humanizing the whole "fish out of water" theme of most immigrant comedy stories. Meanwhile Kim's Convenience was lauded as providing much-needed visibility to the Korean-Canadian community regardless of the broad stereotypes it perpetuated about the Korean community in Canada. And hey, it got Simu Liu paid. That's the one big difference, of course. Kim's cast was largely Asian Canadian, while Azaria's a standard average white guy getting a stiff paycheque for doing a stereotypical Indian accent. Bring back Apu and give the job to an actor who is from India or has Indian roots, I guess, and you'll get your wish. I watched the first 3-4 episodes recently. I loved Letterkenny/Shoresy/Trailer Park boys. But I’m done with Kim’s convenience I think. I saw there’s a new season of Shoresy coming soon. Very excited.
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Post by schlich on Oct 25, 2023 21:43:15 GMT
Exactly what happened.. Good on Schlichy! Schlichy would win every year if he had the barest clue what the fuck he was doing! Fuckin a right! Don’t forget it! Wait. What? Hey!
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Post by dannycater on Oct 25, 2023 23:41:27 GMT
Damn Schlichy, easy boy! I thought I had a good day yesterday... And my former boy Hartman with a 27 point night?! Shit... I think Hartman was one of those players you're about to grab and then someone else piles in and drafts him from under me. Good ol' Schlichy. Phil Hartman, another Simpsons voice great...died too soon..
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Post by dannycater on Oct 25, 2023 23:46:20 GMT
Now that Woke-ism is so passe..can we please have Apu come back? Before Simu Liu was Shang-Chi, he was in a show called Kim's Convenience in Canada. On the CBC - the network that fired Don Cherry for saying you people or those people one too many times. It was about a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store and basically if you tranfer all of the Kwikky-Mart to from an Indian character in Springfield USA to Korean-Canadian characters in Toronto - and bleed out anything that's actually funny so that it's just tired stereotypes - you've largely seen the show. At least, that's what I'm told because even the unending stream of ads for it during HNIC was too much of it for me to stomach. That show ran from 2016-2021 and was renewed to continue but the creators felt it had run its course. Now, I'm not here to pronounce on "woke-ism" - I actually find that term and its adherents to be largely bitching that people who aren't like them are using the same economic levers to advance their own interests as pretty much everyone else - don't buy from companies that don't align with your values or interests. Let people know that's how you will be voting with your dollars. Let the almighty dollar "cancel" people because advertisers will run away from anything if enough people say they won't buy Pepsi if Pepsi keep using, I don't know, OJ Simpson in their ads. But I do find it to be false sanctimonious bullshit that people prefer no representation of Indian characters on a show with an audience the size of the Simpsons rather than one that uses stereotypes but in general was done with a lot of affection and was as good as any TV show at being funny while also humanizing the whole "fish out of water" theme of most immigrant comedy stories. Meanwhile Kim's Convenience was lauded as providing much-needed visibility to the Korean-Canadian community regardless of the broad stereotypes it perpetuated about the Korean community in Canada. And hey, it got Simu Liu paid. That's the one big difference, of course. Kim's cast was largely Asian Canadian, while Azaria's a standard average white guy getting a stiff paycheque for doing a stereotypical Indian accent. Bring back Apu and give the job to an actor who is from India or has Indian roots, I guess, and you'll get your wish. The whole thing about Azaria getting basically shamed into quitting Apu is really just a huge disappointment. His Apu character was frankly a good thing for comedy and he made (and writers) that character genuine. It wasn't just a stereotype in the later years especially. Anyway, it's all bullshit. You want a India roots guy, then let's also talk about that dipshit, lying sack of a Muslim who is a comedian and lied about everything. What a douchebag, he set back the stereotype of Muslim people many years....and that's why you can have that or you can have someone who is flat out funny--like Hank Azaria, whose gay waiter routine in Bird Cage is right up there with classic comedy roles...flat out fucking funny. His baseball announcer series was also caustically funny. Guy is talented. Oh yeah, he's white...so talent doesn't mean shit anymore.
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Post by bookboy007 on Oct 26, 2023 11:42:48 GMT
I think Hartman was one of those players you're about to grab and then someone else piles in and drafts him from under me. Good ol' Schlichy. Phil Hartman, another Simpsons voice great...died too soon.. Loved Phil on NewsRadio
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Post by bookboy007 on Oct 26, 2023 11:46:31 GMT
Before Simu Liu was Shang-Chi, he was in a show called Kim's Convenience in Canada. On the CBC - the network that fired Don Cherry for saying you people or those people one too many times. It was about a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store and basically if you tranfer all of the Kwikky-Mart to from an Indian character in Springfield USA to Korean-Canadian characters in Toronto - and bleed out anything that's actually funny so that it's just tired stereotypes - you've largely seen the show. At least, that's what I'm told because even the unending stream of ads for it during HNIC was too much of it for me to stomach. That show ran from 2016-2021 and was renewed to continue but the creators felt it had run its course. Now, I'm not here to pronounce on "woke-ism" - I actually find that term and its adherents to be largely bitching that people who aren't like them are using the same economic levers to advance their own interests as pretty much everyone else - don't buy from companies that don't align with your values or interests. Let people know that's how you will be voting with your dollars. Let the almighty dollar "cancel" people because advertisers will run away from anything if enough people say they won't buy Pepsi if Pepsi keep using, I don't know, OJ Simpson in their ads. But I do find it to be false sanctimonious bullshit that people prefer no representation of Indian characters on a show with an audience the size of the Simpsons rather than one that uses stereotypes but in general was done with a lot of affection and was as good as any TV show at being funny while also humanizing the whole "fish out of water" theme of most immigrant comedy stories. Meanwhile Kim's Convenience was lauded as providing much-needed visibility to the Korean-Canadian community regardless of the broad stereotypes it perpetuated about the Korean community in Canada. And hey, it got Simu Liu paid. That's the one big difference, of course. Kim's cast was largely Asian Canadian, while Azaria's a standard average white guy getting a stiff paycheque for doing a stereotypical Indian accent. Bring back Apu and give the job to an actor who is from India or has Indian roots, I guess, and you'll get your wish. The whole thing about Azaria getting basically shamed into quitting Apu is really just a huge disappointment. His Apu character was frankly a good thing for comedy and he made (and writers) that character genuine. It wasn't just a stereotype in the later years especially. Anyway, it's all bullshit. You want a India roots guy, then let's also talk about that dipshit, lying sack of a Muslim who is a comedian and lied about everything. What a douchebag, he set back the stereotype of Muslim people many years....and that's why you can have that or you can have someone who is flat out funny--like Hank Azaria, whose gay waiter routine in Bird Cage is right up there with classic comedy roles...flat out fucking funny. His baseball announcer series was also caustically funny. Guy is talented. Oh yeah, he's white...so talent doesn't mean shit anymore. You're missing the point with that poor aggrieved white guy schtick. No one needs to do a GoFundMe for Hank Azaria. The guy has been getting something north of $9M a year for the Simpsons and doing one less character took zero dollars out ofnhis pocket.
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Post by dannycater on Oct 26, 2023 13:16:29 GMT
The whole thing about Azaria getting basically shamed into quitting Apu is really just a huge disappointment. His Apu character was frankly a good thing for comedy and he made (and writers) that character genuine. It wasn't just a stereotype in the later years especially. Anyway, it's all bullshit. You want a India roots guy, then let's also talk about that dipshit, lying sack of a Muslim who is a comedian and lied about everything. What a douchebag, he set back the stereotype of Muslim people many years....and that's why you can have that or you can have someone who is flat out funny--like Hank Azaria, whose gay waiter routine in Bird Cage is right up there with classic comedy roles...flat out fucking funny. His baseball announcer series was also caustically funny. Guy is talented. Oh yeah, he's white...so talent doesn't mean shit anymore. You're missing the point with that poor aggrieved white guy schtick. No one needs to do a GoFundMe for Hank Azaria. The guy has been getting something north of $9M a year for the Simpsons and doing one less character took zero dollars out ofnhis pocket. and you're missing the point completely...I'm talking about taking the "funny" out of comedy...it shut down so many good comics...or altered their course. Can't do this, can't do that, oh you're crossing the line! ...nothing to do with money. It's the lack of good comedy anymore.
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Post by dannycater on Oct 26, 2023 16:01:43 GMT
Back to Fantasy hockey for a moment, give Honey Badger major cred for doing whatever he can to improve his team...big part of Fantasy is putting time into the endeavor...It's hard to keep up sometimes...if you leave your team alone or forget to make lineup changes (work, family, lots of excuses), you are fucked...I am always thinking what I can do to improve.
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Post by bookboy007 on Oct 26, 2023 17:09:01 GMT
You're missing the point with that poor aggrieved white guy schtick. No one needs to do a GoFundMe for Hank Azaria. The guy has been getting something north of $9M a year for the Simpsons and doing one less character took zero dollars out ofnhis pocket. and you're missing the point completely...I'm talking about taking the "funny" out of comedy...it shut down so many good comics...or altered their course. Can't do this, can't do that, oh you're crossing the line! ...nothing to do with money. It's the lack of good comedy anymore. There's still lots of good comedy if you look for it. It's like anything else, though. It's not on basic cable. The best comedians do their thing - you can't cancel them. Lenny Bruce, Carlin, Pryor - lots went into trying to cancel them.
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Post by dannycater on Oct 26, 2023 18:33:56 GMT
and you're missing the point completely...I'm talking about taking the "funny" out of comedy...it shut down so many good comics...or altered their course. Can't do this, can't do that, oh you're crossing the line! ...nothing to do with money. It's the lack of good comedy anymore. There's still lots of good comedy if you look for it. It's like anything else, though. It's not on basic cable. The best comedians do their thing - you can't cancel them. Lenny Bruce, Carlin, Pryor - lots went into trying to cancel them. Not really. Even the pros of today are contained...Chapelle is still sort of on the edge, but I feel like even he is toned down now.
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Post by mdsizzle on Oct 27, 2023 2:17:09 GMT
There's still lots of good comedy if you look for it. It's like anything else, though. It's not on basic cable. The best comedians do their thing - you can't cancel them. Lenny Bruce, Carlin, Pryor - lots went into trying to cancel them. Not really. Even the pros of today are contained...Chapelle is still sort of on the edge, but I feel like even he is toned down now. 2 words... Jim Norton. Don't watch him with the wife or kids around.
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Post by bookboy007 on Oct 27, 2023 17:25:56 GMT
There's still lots of good comedy if you look for it. It's like anything else, though. It's not on basic cable. The best comedians do their thing - you can't cancel them. Lenny Bruce, Carlin, Pryor - lots went into trying to cancel them. Not really. Even the pros of today are contained...Chapelle is still sort of on the edge, but I feel like even he is toned down now. Yeah, but I'm not sure that's the same thing. As Sizz points out, there are still a few out there who give zero fucks. You know there's an audience for it. Even a guy like Jimmy Carr will push the boundaries from time to time, and he's a gameshow host half the time.
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Post by The OC on Oct 27, 2023 20:10:18 GMT
Not really. Even the pros of today are contained...Chapelle is still sort of on the edge, but I feel like even he is toned down now. Yeah, but I'm not sure that's the same thing. As Sizz points out, there are still a few out there who give zero fucks. You know there's an audience for it. Even a guy like Jimmy Carr will push the boundaries from time to time, and he's a gameshow host half the time. It's harder to find though. I don't think it's a good thing that comedy is being pushed to the fringes of society. Production of comedy movies has dropped something like 90% in a decade. I also don't like that honest comedy and society commentary is being pushed to "right wing" comedians, if you can call them that. There's a whole bunch of stuff that in society right now that, if you're being honest, if fucking hilarious and ridiculous. The trans issue. Race relations. The president is senile. Wars all over the place. Covid lockdowns. This is comedic gold, but the entertainment media in general won't touch a variety of topics. SNL and late night talk shows won't tackle anything edgy and politically will only make fun of Trump and MAGA people. I mean seriously, Joe Biden recently referred to Pete Buttigieg as "Secretary Booty Juice". He literally did that, on a podium. That should be a running punch line on every opening monologue for months, but it won't even get reported, let alone made fun of. Bill Maher is an exception. He makes fun of everything, and has had some comedic gold lately. I've seen some of the old SNL guys like Dana Carvey making fun of things, but they don't get any airplay. If Seinfeld was on right now and unrestricted, it would be amazing. Jerry could get repeatedly Tinder matched with Newman's ex's. George could accidently buy women's pants, they fit, and he's concerned he's trans. Kremer's "Bro" finds an all new audience. He falls asleep in the tanning bed again and joins BLM. So much potential to laugh at ourselves. I think a problem in our current society is ridiculous fringe ideas grow bigger because people aren't able to make fun of them. And as they grow, the rest of society thinks the world is falling apart even if 75% of society knows things are ridiculous. Humor is a check/balance for crazy, and hey... it makes us happy.
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Post by bookboy007 on Oct 28, 2023 2:03:38 GMT
Yeah, but I'm not sure that's the same thing. As Sizz points out, there are still a few out there who give zero fucks. You know there's an audience for it. Even a guy like Jimmy Carr will push the boundaries from time to time, and he's a gameshow host half the time. It's harder to find though. I don't think it's a good thing that comedy is being pushed to the fringes of society. Production of comedy movies has dropped something like 90% in a decade. I also don't like that honest comedy and society commentary is being pushed to "right wing" comedians, if you can call them that. There's a whole bunch of stuff that in society right now that, if you're being honest, if fucking hilarious and ridiculous. The trans issue. Race relations. The president is senile. Wars all over the place. Covid lockdowns. This is comedic gold, but the entertainment media in general won't touch a variety of topics. SNL and late night talk shows won't tackle anything edgy and politically will only make fun of Trump and MAGA people. I mean seriously, Joe Biden recently referred to Pete Buttigieg as "Secretary Booty Juice". He literally did that, on a podium. That should be a running punch line on every opening monologue for months, but it won't even get reported, let alone made fun of. Bill Maher is an exception. He makes fun of everything, and has had some comedic gold lately. I've seen some of the old SNL guys like Dana Carvey making fun of things, but they don't get any airplay. If Seinfeld was on right now and unrestricted, it would be amazing. Jerry could get repeatedly Tinder matched with Newman's ex's. George could accidently buy women's pants, they fit, and he's concerned he's trans. Kremer's "Bro" finds an all new audience. He falls asleep in the tanning bed again and joins BLM. So much potential to laugh at ourselves. I think a problem in our current society is ridiculous fringe ideas grow bigger because people aren't able to make fun of them. And as they grow, the rest of society thinks the world is falling apart even if 75% of society knows things are ridiculous. Humor is a check/balance for crazy, and hey... it makes us happy. I'm not disagreeing on that front, but i don't think the cause is cancel culture the way some frame it. Literally anything of quality is harder to find with the fracturing of the old media landscape. Treating writers and performers as just "content creators" for data harvesting prioritizes the mediocre. There is certainly some element of more and more people using the tools of the moral majority to enforce their values, but no one bitched about it when it was a majority using the tools to suppress other voices. Welcome to 2023.
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Post by The OC on Oct 28, 2023 3:20:17 GMT
It's harder to find though. I don't think it's a good thing that comedy is being pushed to the fringes of society. Production of comedy movies has dropped something like 90% in a decade. I also don't like that honest comedy and society commentary is being pushed to "right wing" comedians, if you can call them that. There's a whole bunch of stuff that in society right now that, if you're being honest, if fucking hilarious and ridiculous. The trans issue. Race relations. The president is senile. Wars all over the place. Covid lockdowns. This is comedic gold, but the entertainment media in general won't touch a variety of topics. SNL and late night talk shows won't tackle anything edgy and politically will only make fun of Trump and MAGA people. I mean seriously, Joe Biden recently referred to Pete Buttigieg as "Secretary Booty Juice". He literally did that, on a podium. That should be a running punch line on every opening monologue for months, but it won't even get reported, let alone made fun of. Bill Maher is an exception. He makes fun of everything, and has had some comedic gold lately. I've seen some of the old SNL guys like Dana Carvey making fun of things, but they don't get any airplay. If Seinfeld was on right now and unrestricted, it would be amazing. Jerry could get repeatedly Tinder matched with Newman's ex's. George could accidently buy women's pants, they fit, and he's concerned he's trans. Kremer's "Bro" finds an all new audience. He falls asleep in the tanning bed again and joins BLM. So much potential to laugh at ourselves. I think a problem in our current society is ridiculous fringe ideas grow bigger because people aren't able to make fun of them. And as they grow, the rest of society thinks the world is falling apart even if 75% of society knows things are ridiculous. Humor is a check/balance for crazy, and hey... it makes us happy. I'm not disagreeing on that front, but i don't think the cause is cancel culture the way some frame it. Literally anything of quality is harder to find with the fracturing of the old media landscape. Treating writers and performers as just "content creators" for data harvesting prioritizes the mediocre. There is certainly some element of more and more people using the tools of the moral majority to enforce their values, but no one bitched about it when it was a majority using the tools to suppress other voices. Welcome to 2023. Well, I think people bitched about it, just a different set of people. I find it truly fascinating to watch the flip of censorship/free speech from right to left. Same with conformity/rebellion and war/no war. Not taking sides, just observing.
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Post by bookboy007 on Oct 28, 2023 12:33:56 GMT
I'm not disagreeing on that front, but i don't think the cause is cancel culture the way some frame it. Literally anything of quality is harder to find with the fracturing of the old media landscape. Treating writers and performers as just "content creators" for data harvesting prioritizes the mediocre. There is certainly some element of more and more people using the tools of the moral majority to enforce their values, but no one bitched about it when it was a majority using the tools to suppress other voices. Welcome to 2023. Well, I think people bitched about it, just a different set of people. I find it truly fascinating to watch the flip of censorship/free speech from right to left. Same with conformity/rebellion and war/no war. Not taking sides, just observing. Yeah, that's where I'm at. Almost like an anthropologist. Or Jane Goodall.
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Post by The OC on Oct 28, 2023 15:23:22 GMT
Well, I think people bitched about it, just a different set of people. I find it truly fascinating to watch the flip of censorship/free speech from right to left. Same with conformity/rebellion and war/no war. Not taking sides, just observing. Yeah, that's where I'm at. Almost like an anthropologist. Or Jane Goodall. Or Michael Jackson with a bag of popcorn.
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Post by The OC on Oct 29, 2023 2:23:39 GMT
Damn I wanted a second straight shutout out of Roadhouse.
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Post by bookboy007 on Oct 29, 2023 2:25:34 GMT
Damn I wanted a second straight shutout out of Roadhouse. I bought a Joe Velene jersey. Need your address.
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Post by The OC on Oct 29, 2023 2:44:07 GMT
Damn I wanted a second straight shutout out of Roadhouse. I bought a Joe Velene jersey. Need your address. Dickwad.
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Post by dannycater on Oct 29, 2023 15:26:44 GMT
Damn I wanted a second straight shutout out of Roadhouse. Roadhouse has been really solid...great sign.
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Post by mdsizzle on Oct 30, 2023 1:18:28 GMT
Some familiar faces were pissed that they were traded and really whooped me this week for my first loss...
Strong work Schlichy!
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Post by bookboy007 on Nov 1, 2023 11:28:39 GMT
Some familiar faces were pissed that they were traded and really whooped me this week for my first loss... Strong work Schlichy! Speaking of familiar...Stupid Team Buttholeface with a full roadrunner imitation. Hung around about 5 points behind me all week and then did that weird tongue thing and sped way out in front. Why isn't Jack Hughes injured yet? Isn't that an NHL bylaw? Can we get Bettman to look into this?
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