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Originally posted by robustpuppy
ABC has pulled "Welcome to the Neighborhood" after it was suggested to the network that a reality series in which three couples consider race and religion to help decide which contestant family gets to become their neighbor violates the federal Fair Housing Act.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2902817_2.html

My question is, how the fuck did this get through Legal in the first place, Str8?

Speaking of racist/religionist/sexist fucks, website for scary folk-music duo "Prussian Blue" -- 2 cute blond 12-y-os from Bakersfield singing about white power.

And club and spankster claim everyone in Cali's a liberal.

prussianblue.net -- may have sound, I dunno; I can't get to it from work. Unlikely to have nudity. Likely to have swastikas.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
That is so hot, in a G3 kind of way.

Wait. How do you know about my prostate?

G(ood Morning!)^3

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Wait. How do you know about my prostate?

G(ood Morning!)^3

Oh, come on. It's common knowledge you're a bit of a tightass.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
ABC has pulled "Welcome to the Neighborhood" after it was suggested to the network that a reality series in which three couples consider race and religion to help decide which contestant family gets to become their neighbor violates the federal Fair Housing Act.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2902817_2.html

My question is, how the fuck did this get through Legal in the first place, Str8?

The Yahoo article didn't mention the fair housing act, but they did mention a lot of pissed off gays and lesbians. It sounds terrible.

I think, though, that Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" on FX is excellent. He puts people in different communities for 30 days to live. In the first episode, he and his girlfriend left the Oscars and lived on minimum wage for 30 days. In the most recent episode, a nice Christian young man from West Virginia moved to Dearborn, Michigan for 30 days to live in a large Muslim community. The people in his show don't seem to be extreme examples of any member of a community.

[Replaced_Texan]

Anyone read Korean?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Am I alone in watching Sports Kids Moms & Dads here? I don't think it's quite as good as showbiz moms and dads, but it's still the best thing on right now.

I looked up how Bryce did at his Junior Nationals. If anyone wants the spoiler, IM me.

That letter that football dad wrote to Lloyd Carr? That guy's in a nutter-league of his own.

I watch it. The football dad is nuts (for those non-watchers, he delivers pizzas for a living because having a normal job - I think he was in marketing or something - was interfering with his ability to watch his 8-year-old son train to be a professional football player; he has a private coach for the kid, who goes to practice and then spends his entire weekend being run ragged by a semi-pro player), and the kid will most likely burn out or be injured before he gets out of high school.

The horse mom is just a horrible mother. The way she talks to her kids? Get out. Letting the daughter who is working 3 jobs to help pay for her horse find out that it is for sale after the fact? Fuck off.

Skating mom? I don't know where to start. Basket case. I wonder when her son is going to figure out that he is gay. Or if he already knows and he is just in denial.

Cheerleading mom? Part of the reason I was so anxious to get out of Texas. Also running a serious risk of burning her kid out.

Basketball coach/mom? Actually seems most normal, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to be her daughter. Keeping a tight leash so that her daughter doesn't make the mistakes she made is likely to backfire, but hard to blame her for wanting better for the girl.

Overall, entertaining show - probably better than Showdog Moms and Dads and less entertaining than Showbiz Moms and Dads. I give it a B.

I caught a bit of the Hilton show last night on Bravo. Meh. Though they did seem to get a solid group of dysfunctional rejects for contestants. It didn't make my Tivo list. What's the prize for that one? Becoming Mrs Hilton's personal assistant for a year or something?

I also watched Megastructures on National Geographic about how that island airport they built in Japan is sinking. Fast. Apparently in the first 5 years it was open, it sunk 26 feet. That was what they projected for more like 40 years when they built it. Oops. Megastructures might just make my Tivo list. I need to watch a couple more episodes before I decide.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan


Anyone read Korean?

I'm guessing it translates to "Can you handle my truth?"

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm guessing it translates to "Can you handle my truth?"

I was thinking "Luke, who's your daddy?"

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I was thinking "Luke, who's your daddy?"

"Your light saber needs polishing."

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I caught a bit of the Hilton show last night on Bravo. Meh. Though they did seem to get a solid group of dysfunctional rejects for contestants. It didn't make my Tivo list. What's the prize for that one? Becoming Mrs Hilton's personal assistant for a year or something?

I also watched Megastructures on National Geographic about how that island airport they built in Japan is sinking. Fast. Apparently in the first 5 years it was open, it sunk 26 feet. That was what they projected for more like 40 years when they built it. Oops. Megastructures might just make my Tivo list. I need to watch a couple more episodes before I decide.

Hiltons. Can't decide if it's mediocre or sucks ass completely. The casting is extremely odd, in that the people are entirely dysfunctional, which makes for plenty of cringe-inducing moments, but not much more. Far better if they had made an effort to find some diamonds in the rough. But these are all hopeless CZs. The remarkable part was watching Kathy, Paris, and Nicole gamely put on a sincerely happy face in dealing with them. BTW, were they told they had five minutes to pack before coming to NYC? Now, I understand that a hick from a cattle ranch isn't going to have couture, but they're wearing sweats, flipflops, baseball hats, football jerseys, and worse to polo matches and celebrity auctions. Doesn't everyone have at least some decent sunday clothes they could wear for this event? Couldn't NBC team up with Tommy Hilfiger to get some decent threads for them?

Megastructures. Should be fun, but I was extremely disappointed by the one on the autobahn. About five minutes of footage that they recycled throughout the show. Some interesting bits, but for the most part not. On the other hand, there was some show, but maybe not megastructures, showing how a North Sea oil platform was built, towed out to sea, and mounted. Fascinating. A job I would not want to have is a North Sea platform roughneck.

[robustpuppy]

Avocado on a sandwich, not so great.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Avocado on a sandwich, not so great.

Avacoda is way better.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
In other processed culture news, "Transatlanticism" is now the official background music of Something Important Is Happening Is Happening To The Protagonist.

Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

Great. Goes along perfectly with Damien Rice during the denoument.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Avocado on a sandwich, not so great.

I'll take yours. Want a pickle?

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Avacoda is way better.

Why did you post this.