not so serious but I want to rant II: Redemption

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yep. a big ring too.
I wish you would get cancer of the ass and die.

Why are you all looking at me like that? Did I take my internet rage over trivial things too far again? Dammit, I hate when I do that.
 
Well, I guess I'll have to shave the rest of my hair off to match. I'm going to look weird with a shaved dome.
 
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Everybody loves vag. Much like Raymond. Except vag is totally cool, whereas Raymond is an obnoxious ass.
 
I always thought that a better name for that show would be "Everybody Tolerates Raymond," because he's a whiny putz.
 
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But the mom was funny right? Ive only seen one episode and she seemed amusing...

there was a mom right...

stupid sitcoms.
 
I've named a social phenomenon that I've encountered countless times after that show, I call it the Raymond Effect. It happens every time someone does something so awkward and embarrassing that you become embarrassed for them, waaaaay beyond the point of normal sympathy. Raymond would often embarrass himself and then continue to painstakingly dig himself in even further for the next three minutes or so. I can't watch that show at all anymore, I have to change the channel lest I witness an even of unbearable sadness.

The Raymond Effect is why it's so hard for me to watch the first season of the Office.
 
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Some people must enjoy others embarrassment and discomfort I guess.

In every issue of Cosmo (yes I read cosmo hang me up by my tits) there is a section called confessions where people admit their most embarrassing moments. I can't read it. It is too depressing but apparently some people really enjoy it.
 
Ugh, I met with my second tutoring student today. Apparently she wasn't happy with the experience and complained to the manager. He called me up at 10:50 PM to tell me about it, and to inform me that we'll need to talk about it more tomorrow. I have never had a complaint about my tutoring before (either here or in Hawaii) and I'm sure my other work will speak for itself, but I'm moderately annoyed.
 
Some people must enjoy others embarrassment and discomfort I guess.

In every issue of Cosmo (yes I read cosmo hang me up by my tits) there is a section called confessions where people admit their most embarrassing moments. I can't read it. It is too depressing but apparently some people really enjoy it.
This spanish website ¡Asco de vida! aunque podría ser peor is basically this and, while sometimes it depresses me greatly, for some reason I can't help but checking it every day.
 
I've named a social phenomenon that I've encountered countless times after that show, I call it the Raymond Effect...
My God man, you've put a name on one of my biggest hangups. My wife takes great amusement in noticing that I find something to take care of out of the room right when shit like that is about to go down. I can't stand watching stuff like that.
 

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That's exactly why I don't understand the appeal of The Office. Why is that funny? Why does that make a 'good' show? I will never understand that show's popularity.
 
For me, The Office is often funny because unlike the other shows mentioned here, the characters that should be embarrassed are blissfully unaware of that. Thus the sympathetic embarrassment never kicks in.
 
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makare

I don't really get The Office either. I watched a few eps and it never struck me as particularly entertaining.
 
I tried watching the first season of The Office and it just didn't seem all that funny to me so I stopped watching it.
 
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makare

Oh my god! The meetings for this organization I am a part of are just so fucking frustrating! Nothing ever gets accomplished. There are these two people, a couple, who think that everything said requires their input. And if someone said, the sky is blue. one of them would say, no it's more of a cerulean.
Fuck those two! With a fork!

The meeting today should have lasted ten minutes but we were there for 50. That is bullshit.
 
I had to tell some one in one of my college organizations that every motion on the floor does not need a 10 minute monologue. Then I introduced him to the concept of talking to the members during the week.
 
I've named a social phenomenon that I've encountered countless times after that show, I call it the Raymond Effect. It happens every time someone does something so awkward and embarrassing that you become embarrassed for them, waaaaay beyond the point of normal sympathy. Raymond would often embarrass himself and then continue to painstakingly dig himself in even further for the next three minutes or so. I can't watch that show at all anymore, I have to change the channel lest I witness an even of unbearable sadness.

The Raymond Effect is why it's so hard for me to watch the first season of the Office.
I also hate this show but for entirely different reasons. I found that Raymond would do something largely innocuous and his wife would just bitch him out for the whole episode. She was constantly pissed off at him. If they were real, they would be divorced, I swear to god, she never once expressed anything but contempt for everything he did and the rest of his (admittedly overbearing and annoying) family. This was supposed to be funny, I guess? I don't even know.
 
Raymond was a dick, Deb was a harpy, his parents were hell incarnate. I have no idea why anyone ever watched that show.
 
And yet it got 9 effing seasons! My mom would always have it on around dinner time. And now the mom from the show is on another mostly shitty, though has it's moments show.
 
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