Every time my college paper wrote about a drugging/date rape/crime/underage rushee dead from alcohol poisoning in a dumpster/whatever at a frat, hundreds of these jerks would storm the office complaining that we were trying to make frats look bad by reporting it.
The actual raping and dying and crimes weren't a problem as much as the image issues, I guess.Reply
as someone who went to a large state school and was in the greek system, i can assure you that these stories are not blown out of proportion. i can count on one hand my friends who WEREN'T date raped at some point during college. ugh.Reply
News flash Joe Jackson, that is YOUR SON that you are talking about. I'm sure your other kids and Michael's children just love that you're minimizing their loss as a financial transaction. Have a little respect for the dead, you heartless asshole. #seanpennhugochavezReply
@Hooplehead: Uggh, I saw This Is It last night (AMAZING) and I just kept thinking, how did Joe Jackson not treasure having a son with this kind of talent? #seanpennhugochavezReply
@bluetrain84: Because all he saw was a cash cow. I've seen some godawful parents in my day, but Jackson really takes the cake for bringing nothing good to the table. #seanpennhugochavezReply
@Hooplehead: Yeah, I wish someone could go back in time and say, "News flash, Joe, that's your SON you're violently beating and emotionally abusing!" Maybe things could've been different. #seanpennhugochavezReply
Unfortunately the full honor of a traditional Glamour cover has not been bestowed upon the First Lady, as she is still reasonably recognizable in her airbrushed glory.
Also, I wonder if one of the stipulations made by Mrs. O and her people was the absence of inane coverlines surrounding her image. There's nothing about a Secret Sex Spot or Boobs!! or Sex Slavery Escapees. Refreshing. #michelleobamaglamourcoverReply
The comment SYSTEM needs work. I find the Gawker comment system to be the most anti-user, anti-internet, anti-intuitive system out there. It's a self-defeating system. What incentive does anybody have for posting (AT ALL, let alone quality), if you haven't a clue whether your comment will ever get posted? How do you expect users to want to engage in or start a conversation if the time they put in to writing a comment is not rewarded with the feedback posting on a comment thread on the internet usually brings. You basically post a comment into a black hole and hope it meets the secret criteria for "good comment" and hope you have participated in the conversation. By that time, new posts have been made and you have to go dig to go see if your comment ever got posted. If you did get posted and want to respond, you have to jump through the same hoops and hope for the best again. It's not worth the effort to even comment because of the many occasions I've put the time in to craft responses that HAVEN'T been posted. Why bother?
@Anthony Puglisi: hear, hear! Months after registering, this is my fourth attempt at commenting, and only because the topic of the poorly executed comment has come up officially. Many a time have I thought of a witticism or valuable nugget of information, only to realise "this is Giz, so my comment most likely will not be posted anyway". So I did the only thing I could do: posted it on Engadget instead.
Giz complaining about the comments is indeed rich, when untold hundreds of quality commenters are driven off by intransparant rules and cronyism. #commentsReply
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@Anthony Puglisi: Don't forget Anti-IE... I yearn for the day when this new comment system doesn't cause IE to croak.... not to mention the poor implementation of the tab menu at the top. What's up with all the tabs (Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, etc) being stacked on top of each other? #commentsReply
@Anthony Puglisi: There also seems to be a need for timing when you post. If you read different articles later in the day and post, the chance that someone that has approval/promotion power will read it, is slim.
Once you get caught in the newer threads section, or post too many hours after the one you are replying to, you could be lost forever. #commentsReply
perhaps it is in the publics best interest if we reserve super power cars to tracks only and only allow 96 hp vehicles on the roads. clearly the drivers able to afford such machines whether they be camaroes, ferraries, corvettes, or godzillas...are incompetent drivers who have more than penis size to overcompensate.Reply
All of these bands are going to want the "Beatle treatment" in terms of being in these games now due to how brilliantly done that game was, but there's one unfortunate catch for all of those bands:
They're not The Beatles. Period. There are very, very few bands which will ever get that sort of game devoted to them, and while I don't have a problem with U2, they certainly aren't even in the same hemisphere as The Beatles.Reply
I'd gladly take the risk of going unvaccinated if it meant the end of the 2 MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR CAUSED BY DIARRHEA in the developing world. I apologise to those that have personal experience with cancer, but this is clearly a case of putting first world medical problems ahead, and I just can't support that.Reply
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@Opti-Miss: Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the Third World, primarily because women don't have access to diagnostics and treatments the way we do.
Gardasil will save the lives of millions more women in the Third World than in the First World, and, in fact, it was developed WITH THAT IN MIND.
@Opti-Miss: Frankly, I don't see the relevance. Since when do we have to decide between medical choices and caring about any other cause? This is news to me. I feel you when it comes to "Relay for Life" and things like that, because nobody in my college got riled up about any other disease or cause that didn't directly impact them, but I don't think that point extends to taking precautions regarding one's own health, nor do I see how refusing to do so is helping the developing world. Also, as I say to everyone here who is so flippant about HPV and this vaccine, as though the consequences are negligible, I wish you could go through a FRACTION of what I have with this disease and then ask you if you'd still like to "risk" it.Reply
I dont understand the hate here. But then I listen to the music not follow the band.
I mean just because you hate Howard Stringer does it mean you won't buy Sony?Reply
@Esper mind tricks: South Park told them to hate Bono, so they do. Not because of any actual opinion-forming process.
Ever since that episode aired, U2 hate has been through the roof. After all, who needs original thought when the TV can tell you what to think? All that time that could have been wasted thinking is now free to be spent on pounding the keyboard and hoping words come out.
This doesn't apply to everybody, of course. Some legitimately hate their music, and that's all well and good. I like one song of theirs, but the rest just doesn't do it for me.Reply
I did read Chuck Klosterman's article on Bono a while back, and the part that sticks in my head is when Bono picks up 3 random young kids and drives them to their destination. The kids are blown away that they've just been given a ride by Bono, and he's just so cool and they love U2. But then Klosterman writes that it's as if he's doing it for himself and because he is furthering his concept of "Bono," not because he's a genuinely great person. Or something to that effect.
But anyway, I dislike U2 because they are severely overrated, record sales aside. Lots of people buy shit music, and that perpetuates the existence of shit music. Of course that's one person's opinion.
They were here in Atlanta last night and some $30 tickets popped up two days ago. I would've bought them only to see Muse, who is amazing (or was, before they got all this Twilight attention).Reply
@Dr Durdon: I can't say one way or another whether Bono is an honest humanitarian, or just a "Bonotarian" looking for attention, as I've never met the guy.
But if Klosterman is correct, I'll gladly stand behind even the brain-dead "Bono is suck 'cause the picture cube told me so!" crowd. I despise people who pretend to be philanthropists just to get more time in the spotlight. It's an insult to the needy, an insult to the fans, and an insult to those who really do care. Musical talent be damned.Reply
@Dr Durdon: Wait. He does something nice for some kids and the writer decides that he thinks he did it because he's self-aggrandizing and that's conclusive evidence to you?
By that rationale, pretty much anyone that does anything nice for someone ever is doing it to make themselves look better.
Take the facts of the situation and draw your own conclusion!Reply
@The_Foo: It was more than the author saying "Bono is a self-serving taxi driver." There's a lot to the article, I suggest you read it.
@xgaxxkyhron13: Muse is a great band, and they have been for some time. However, their new album is a mere shadow of what they used to be, and I'm attributing it to the Twilight attention. Of course I could be wrong, but that's my opinion. As played out as it is, it seems as if they've "sold out." I know, I hate the phrase too, but it's what fits.
@TeXavier: I'm not hating on them, I'm just saying their stuff since Twilight has gone a little soft. I haven't really changed the fact I love their music, I just wasn't too happy with the newest record.
@Michael Combs: Having more people love one band than another in 10 years is totally irrelevant to the fact that I do not like U2. Lots of great bands don't get a lot of love, does that mean they're sucky just because they don't have 12 songs on the radio? What a stupid way to measure musical greatness.Reply
"Never in my career do I remember rap being so male-dominated. In videos, women are basically shown as the girl you shake the booty with. They're objectified."Queen Latifah, I'm not sure where you've been all these years, but this is not a new phenomenon.Reply
@eclare09: Its SORT OF a new phenomenon, though. I can't remember a time when there were seriously NO female rappers either. There were always at least a few, now all we've got are the really big ones left over from the 90s but they're not doing much, and there's no one new at all.Reply
@ketamineKitty: I guess that's true, but at the same time I suppose I've always seen the big name stars from the '90s as the exceptions, rather than the rule.
In any event, everyone should go out and buy a Jean Grae album right now.Reply
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The actual raping and dying and crimes weren't a problem as much as the image issues, I guess. Reply
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Also, I wonder if one of the stipulations made by Mrs. O and her people was the absence of inane coverlines surrounding her image. There's nothing about a Secret Sex Spot or Boobs!! or Sex Slavery Escapees. Refreshing. #michelleobamaglamourcover Reply
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They're not The Beatles. Period. There are very, very few bands which will ever get that sort of game devoted to them, and while I don't have a problem with U2, they certainly aren't even in the same hemisphere as The Beatles. Reply
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Gardasil will save the lives of millions more women in the Third World than in the First World, and, in fact, it was developed WITH THAT IN MIND.
Does that make you feel better? Reply
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I mean just because you hate Howard Stringer does it mean you won't buy Sony? Reply
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Ever since that episode aired, U2 hate has been through the roof. After all, who needs original thought when the TV can tell you what to think? All that time that could have been wasted thinking is now free to be spent on pounding the keyboard and hoping words come out.
This doesn't apply to everybody, of course. Some legitimately hate their music, and that's all well and good. I like one song of theirs, but the rest just doesn't do it for me. Reply
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I did read Chuck Klosterman's article on Bono a while back, and the part that sticks in my head is when Bono picks up 3 random young kids and drives them to their destination. The kids are blown away that they've just been given a ride by Bono, and he's just so cool and they love U2. But then Klosterman writes that it's as if he's doing it for himself and because he is furthering his concept of "Bono," not because he's a genuinely great person. Or something to that effect.
But anyway, I dislike U2 because they are severely overrated, record sales aside. Lots of people buy shit music, and that perpetuates the existence of shit music. Of course that's one person's opinion.
They were here in Atlanta last night and some $30 tickets popped up two days ago. I would've bought them only to see Muse, who is amazing (or was, before they got all this Twilight attention). Reply
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But if Klosterman is correct, I'll gladly stand behind even the brain-dead "Bono is suck 'cause the picture cube told me so!" crowd. I despise people who pretend to be philanthropists just to get more time in the spotlight. It's an insult to the needy, an insult to the fans, and an insult to those who really do care. Musical talent be damned. Reply
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By that rationale, pretty much anyone that does anything nice for someone ever is doing it to make themselves look better.
Take the facts of the situation and draw your own conclusion! Reply
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@xgaxxkyhron13: Muse is a great band, and they have been for some time. However, their new album is a mere shadow of what they used to be, and I'm attributing it to the Twilight attention. Of course I could be wrong, but that's my opinion. As played out as it is, it seems as if they've "sold out." I know, I hate the phrase too, but it's what fits.
@TeXavier: I'm not hating on them, I'm just saying their stuff since Twilight has gone a little soft. I haven't really changed the fact I love their music, I just wasn't too happy with the newest record.
@Michael Combs: Having more people love one band than another in 10 years is totally irrelevant to the fact that I do not like U2. Lots of great bands don't get a lot of love, does that mean they're sucky just because they don't have 12 songs on the radio? What a stupid way to measure musical greatness. Reply
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In any event, everyone should go out and buy a Jean Grae album right now. Reply
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