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Anonymous wrote:Award shows should not be televised. Let them award their honors without taking up network prime time.

Meghan and Harry are pretty ordinary now that they have removed themselves from the UK.

I agree, but given that it is a huge moneymaker for everyone involved, it will never happen. For the same reasons, the NFL Draft is now a red carpet, network primetime event, which I think is incredibly stupid. BUT it's now a money-making venture and won't stop unless the dollars dry up.

NFL is the US’s biggest pro sport - CFB is arguably just as popular or even more so in certain areas - so the draft is an intersection of both sports plus a reality TV component when a prospect starts to fall in the draft or a team makes a reach or a last-minute trade. Idk as a football fan I definitely see the appeal. Plus it’s a way to give people NFL content in the middle of the off season. It’s really only the first day/first round that’s a red carpet circus, not the whole thing.

+1 It’s actually amazing that it was as low profile an event as it was for so long. It started at 8 am on Saturday and was only on ESPN for the longest time.

+1 I love the first night of NFL draft. Love the back stories. There’s an audience for it so they do it. That’s why ESPN has 24/7 sports center and 4-5 different channels. May not be for you but they have the numbers.

PP and I'm not disagreeing with the fact that there are people who will watch it. I'm certainly not interested, but I don't care about the NFL generally. I'm pointing out the silliness of making it a red carpet event, with celebrities in attendance being asked "what are you wearing?" and all that nonsense. Once the event becomes about something larger than the event itself -- that is, once there are interested sponsors and fashion houses and movie studios, all treating it like a big opportunity for promotion -- then it's very unlikely to go away, no matter what I or anyone else thinks about it.

That said, since the point of this post is unpopular opinions and mine apparently now qualifies, I'll give it: caring that much about a drafting event for professional sports is incredibly dumb, and you all need better hobbies.

Meh. No different than Golden Globes, Oscars, SAG, Grammys, MTV Music Awards, CMAs. One person’s love for country music stars is another person’s love for NFL.

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Anonymous wrote:Harry Styles is a stupid little botch. I want to smack him in the face hard.

I think James Franco has a face that's punchable.

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I detest Taylor Swift and always have.

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Anonymous wrote:Husband and I try to give most of the trendy popular shows (and movies) a chance and they are all just so awful. Like painfully bad. Last show I think we laughed at was maybe Modern Family and The Office? But even those get really over the top with the diversity, dumb white guy tropes, and other nonsense shoved down your throat. Outside of live sports every once in a while, our TV is rarely on.

Sounds like you guys have awful taste.

Didn’t the office have one black man, one latino man, and one Indian lady? That’s over the top diversity?

That’s a hard yikes from me PP!!

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Anonymous wrote:I like and respect Eminem.[/quote

Tell me what is respectable about him?

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Anonymous wrote:I like and respect Eminem.[/quote

Tell me what is respectable about him?

DP. There are a few things about how he has evolved that I respect, but one of the standouts for me is he seems to be a wonderful and supportive father who raised his biological child (Hailie) as a single parent. She is a college grad (3.9 GPA) and seems like she has her head screwed on right. In addition to that, he legally adopted his wife's daughter with an absentee drug addict, raising her as his own. He also adopted his niece, daughter of his ex wife's sister who died of an overdose, and has raised her as a daughter as well. He's a girldad from a truly rough background who appears to have raised 3 seemingly level-headed young women, valued education and giving back to the community they come from, and appears to have broken the generational cycles of abuse, neglect, and addiction.

I have a lot of respect for that.

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Anonymous wrote:Old Disney movies are cheesy and terrible… at best. I’ll take the likes of Moana and the like any day.

No! Give me old any day! The new woke stuff sucks!

Oops. You used “woke.” Your stupidity is showing.

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Anonymous wrote:These type of threads always bring out the racists. “Taylor Swift is better than Beyoncé” …”everything is too diverse and woke”….”I hate Lin Manuel Miranda”…

I was the Lin Manuel poster. My thoughts about him have nothing to do with race.

I'm brown and I agree re: Lin Manuel Miranda.

I love Hamilton and he was by far the weakest performer of the original cast. He had strong theater kid energy, which is super annoying. And all of his songs are starting to sound the same. Encanto is like a bargain bin version of the Hamilton score.

Exactly - all his songs in all the plays and shows sound the exact same.

If you all think Burn, Alexander Hamilton, Wait for It and It’s Quiet Uptown (four distinct musical styles in the same show) “sound the exact same,” you’re either stupid or deaf.

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Anonymous wrote:Old Disney movies are cheesy and terrible… at best. I’ll take the likes of Moana and the like any day.

No! Give me old any day! The new woke stuff sucks!

The old stuff was racist and misogynistic and disgusting. Have you watched any of that shit recently? there have been several we had to turn off because they were so inappropriate for young children.

For example?? I don't get it. You are really stretching for content now.

The Siamese stereotype cats. The racist stereotype of black people crows. The entirety of Song of the South.

This information is readily available on that phone you’re holding. Ignorance in the age of information is a choice.

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The Oscars/ awards shows in general were way better before EVERYBODY had a cause/ got so serious/ “I MUST change the world in my 30 second speech! Sometimes I just want to see pretty people being vapid and exchanging platitudes.

There is no replacing the collective societal engagement of 70’s/80’s miniseries events (think Roots, The Thorn Birds, The Day After) and we are worse off for it.

Star Wars was better when it was more a cult thing. I’m so tired of “nerd culture” being so dominant. Stop it with the superheroes. The Kevin McCarthy’s of the world need to go away.

LOL — Star Wars was never a cult thing. The first movie was one of the first ever blockbusters, and it was rereleased 4 times between 1978 and 1982.

There was a time after Return of the Jedi and before the prequels where you were kinda a dork if you were into Star Wars. Especially as a girl (which I am). Now it’s so mainstream, multifaceted, and a hugely dominant IP. My unpopular opinion is it was better when it was smaller, less mainstream, and still inherently dorky.

A movie that made millions and prompted multiple rereleases could never be considered anything but mainstream. You’re deluding yourself.

Sure thing, buttercup!

Calling people names doesn’t change reality. Sorry.

Imagine you being so desperate to have the last word and “win” an internet argument about Star Wars. Reevaluate your life.

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Anonymous wrote:Old Disney movies are cheesy and terrible… at best. I’ll take the likes of Moana and the like any day.

No! Give me old any day! The new woke stuff sucks!

The old stuff was racist and misogynistic and disgusting. Have you watched any of that shit recently? there have been several we had to turn off because they were so inappropriate for young children.

For example?? I don't get it. You are really stretching for content now.

Go watch Dumbo and Pinocchio and then come back here and tell us what you think.

Pass. No time for that.
if you have an actual point - just make it

Um...I made it already? I said "The old stuff was racist and misogynistic and disgusting." Do you not know how the "click to show earlier quotes" button works? You click on it. It shows earlier posts.

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Anonymous wrote:I still (re)watch Harvey Weinstein movies. Man was a monster but made excellent films. If he starred in them, they would be harder to watch now. The Kings Speech is one of my favorite movies of all time. Too bad they don’t really make films like that anymore- everything is either super niche, or a marvel movie. Nothing in between.

All he did was bring in the money, you know that, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Husband and I try to give most of the trendy popular shows (and movies) a chance and they are all just so awful. Like painfully bad. Last show I think we laughed at was maybe Modern Family and The Office? But even those get really over the top with the diversity, dumb white guy tropes, and other nonsense shoved down your throat. Outside of live sports every once in a while, our TV is rarely on.

Sounds like you guys have awful taste.

Didn’t the office have one black man, one latino man, and one Indian lady? That’s over the top diversity?

That’s a hard yikes from me PP!!

Forgot about Craig Robinson. So two black men. Really shoving diversity down your throat.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes me cringe when adults listen to the same garbage pop music as their tween children. It doesn't make you youthful, it makes you an empty wannabee. They used to have something called Adult Contemporary music specifically for this reason, but that seems to have disappeared. There is so much gorgeous music out there and when I hear a 40 year old coworker listening to Lil Nas X I judge.

I judge people who think there’s an age limit for listening to particular music.

+1. These are probably the same idiots who are like I CAN’T CARRY A HOBO BAG ANYMORE I’M FORTY.

My unpopular purse opinion is that hobo bags are ugly and no one of any age should carry them.

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I actually like Billie Eilish