Posts by giovanni tiso
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For once, I want what Dubai's got.
Little known fact: it doubles as the world's largest harp.
Much like David Fisher's dynamic tower, I'll believe that particular piece of Dubai infrastructure when I see it.
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Could you also ask the mechanic to put in a favicon for PA? The bookmark looks so bland without one.
Seconded. Useful for those of us who use bookmarks bars as opposed to menus, too.
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If that was sf you'd get ripped to shreds, but, of course, Bourdieu etc.
If you say so.
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i do think that the `heheh days of our lives' stuff is basically rather icky snobbery
You know, nobody is being snobby really but sometimes I almost miss it. Somebody found my blog the other day with the search phrase "people who don't watch tv are smug and disconnected from the world", which - it seems to me - is the new orthodoxy. Hence the idea that failing to be outraged at the cancellation of a particular soap opera (out of at least half a dozen more) means being against old people and the unemployed, or snobbish, or classist.
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The Simpsons are going to end one day and somebody is going to say to me 'watch another cartoon' and I'm going to have to punch them in the nuts but then I'll probably realise that hey, life goes on. Not for them, obviously, they're still going to need some serious medical attention.
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Well, Gio, most television drama is episodic and follows an ongoing narrative and has consistent characters, you know? The line between soap and drama is a bit of a fluid one.
That's precisely my point: I am a great consumer of fictions, I don't take it as a sign that my life lacks real social interactions, but looking at the TV listings I'm finding it a little hard to accept that this particular human need is going unfulfilled - even if we accepted a narrow definition of soap opera that I don't necessarily subscribe to. So bottom line a group of people is trying to orchestrate a backlash because a particular soap which has been on television for 45 years might be discontinued and sorry but I'm a little unmoved. It'll be replaced with something else and they can watch that. Life goes on. Half a century is a fucking good run if you ask me.
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I don't watch those shows myself, but if they can put on endless infomercials about Zumba ('spice up your body!'), they can sure as shit show some soaps, even if they change the time.
Do they always have to be the same soaps until we are all dead? But that's a pertinent question: do we know what these two mainstays are going to be replaced with? Because if it's not soap operas we would be dangerously under-served with just the bold and the beautiful, neighbours, shortland street and coro street on a given day (plus obviously all the drams that aren't quite soaps) and it might be necessary to call in the UN.
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Soaps act as a virtual social interaction for people who lack real social interaction.
Isn't that the opposite of what Geoff's correspondent is arguing? And a tad condescending?
We have to have our rugby and Two and a Half Men but it is only silly women who hanker after soap operas?
We don't in fact get our rugby, and I'd like to see somebody come here and complain about the cancellation of a show like Two and a Half Men.
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And yet the clip is so much more.
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I just wanted to support a bunch of fans, as I would hope they would rally to the cause if a favourite programme of mine was being taken to be shot!
Oh well, it must be that we are close minded and ungenerous then. That's the only possible explanation!