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    Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'

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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    Saying someone "is the author of numerous...psychological tests" is like saying that someone has sawn off fresher dowsing rods.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    then: yes, well they may be rich but we have our snark

    now: they used2 be rich and we still have our snark
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    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    Very interesting, New Hampshire, but I think I’ll wait for the Ivy League to weigh in on this one. KTHNXBAI!
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    Pronunciations about the nature of snark are impossibly boring. I propose that we just lump all these high-minded analyses under the label "snarkolepsy."
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    Huh. I didn't know you could put the Facebook "psychology" tests you create on your resume.
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    Image of Kari's Favorite Mark Kari's Favorite Mark
    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    You know who the first snarker was? The boy who told the Emperor he was naked. I don't understand why people can't understand the function of snark. It's the great eqaualizer against the back-scratching, log-rolling and that people use to get and keep positions of prominence in our society and the intentional amnesia and ignorance of those who glorify them solely because they hold positions of prominence.


    And I hate crap like "To me...." It adds nothing, it's just ego, ego, ego.

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    Image of jaxdesert jaxdesert
    04/13/09

    @formerly it takes a lot to laugh: I made a resolution a few years ago to totally stop saying things like 'To me...' and 'In my opinion,...' because I had a brief paroxysm of feminism and had read that only women do that and it makes us sound wishy-washy.


    So am now throwing out that belief in a brief paroxysm of misogynism, since John there is doing it. To me, when people say to me, and, in my opinion, it is now my opinion that, to me, it is usually not something he or she made up but something he or she read. So not in reality, "to me."

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    Image of metoometoo metoometoo
    04/13/09

    @jaxdesert: I forced myself to stop saying "I feel like..." when making observations in my literature classes, when I realized that this was almost an exclusively female habit. But "to me" doesn't bother me when used correctly, to make it clear that one is stating a personal opinion, rather than a statement of fact.


    I think people tend to use it to weaken their own arguments and present themselves as humble and unassuming. But I hadn't considered the fact that some people use it to pretend that they'd thought of things they hadn't really thought of. Interesting point.

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    04/13/09

    @metoometoo: When I started prefacing announcements of my own baseless opinions with "I suspect" and "Apparently," people finally gave me the amount of intellectual respect that I deserved.


    Which exact amount that is, I leave to your imagination. I feel like.

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    04/13/09

    @formerly it takes a lot to laugh: Exactly.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    John Mayer here.


    Psychology needs to shut up because it's getting in the way of my Twittering.


    jm

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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    I don't know what Jennifer Anniston ever saw in this egghead and his bookie books.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    04/13/09

    @saythatscool: Human companionship.
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    Image of JosiePye JosiePye
    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    Ah, for the good old days, when I was jung and people were kind to one another...
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    Image of WindowSeat WindowSeat
    04/13/09

    @JosiePye: I'm aFreud those days are over.
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    Image of T.S._delegate T.S._delegate
    04/13/09

    @WindowSeat: Oh! The old days. Analyst goes on...
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    These days, Psychology Today is to actual psychology what People is to anthropology.
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    Image of booktart booktart
    04/13/09

    In reply to Big Psychology Nerd Talks 'Snark'
    Roger Ebert's thoughtful blog post on snark:


    Roger Ebert's Journal

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    04/13/09

    @booktart: who cares?
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    Image of Mark Graham Mark Graham
    04/11/09

    In reply to Eminem Tells Blogs: He Made You
    ENCORE actually had two celeb-skewering songs on it: "Just Lose It" (the song and video mocked Michael Jackson, Madonna, Pee Wee Herman, Bad Santa and, most interestingly, Eminem himself) and "Ass Like That" (the one where he sang about Hilary Duff, Mary Kate Olson, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey while singing in the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog).
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    04/11/09

    In reply to Eminem Tells Blogs: He Made You
    It's interesting that he got Bobby Lee to costar in this, because the whole thing came off as a "Mad TV" satire of an Eminem video. The pop-culture references seem fresh and kind of funny the first time you see it on a Saturday night, then old and stale when they rerun the episode another 200 times.
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    Image of PrincessKashmir PrincessKashmir
    04/11/09

    In reply to Eminem Tells Blogs: He Made You
    I thought "Crack a Bottle" was his first single. If it's not, someone needs to inform my local top 40 station, who are doing their damndest to drive us all nuts by playing it a million times a day.
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    Image of T.A.N. T.A.N.
    04/11/09

    @PrincessKashmir: Yeah, I guess first official single with just him on the record. the bottle song has Dre and 50.
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    Image of PrincessKashmir PrincessKashmir
    04/12/09

    @T.A.N.: I'm just tired of the implication in the bottle song that I waddle. It's more of a purposeful shuffle.
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    Image of Looker Looker
    04/11/09

    In reply to Eminem Tells Blogs: He Made You
    I've always been confused by the praise this guy has gotten over the years. It seems like every time he takes a dump people line up to blow him for being so original, witty and clever!


    Fucking seriously? Some of his work has been alright and all...but what am I not getting?

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    Image of PrincessKashmir PrincessKashmir
    04/11/09

    @Looker: Perhaps the standards for white rappers are lower than they are for white rappers.
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    Image of PrincessKashmir PrincessKashmir
    04/11/09

    @PrincessKashmir: Oops, meant to say "than they are for black rappers."
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