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Commercials I Hate Forums http://forums.commercialsihate.com/ This is an XML content feed of; Commercials I Hate Forums : Last 10 Posts Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:01:29 +0000 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:53:15 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.08 30 forums.commercialsihate.com/RSS_topic_feed.asp Commercials I Hate Forums http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png http://forums.commercialsihate.com/ Off-Topic : Jets get Brett http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1768&PID=25624#25624 Author: Skerlnik
Subject: Jets get Brett
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:53pm

Originally posted by Tiz

Hope the Jets have an offensive line to keep Brett "upright."

It's not too bad, now. Got Alan Faneca, and some other OL pieces. Favre will probably be good for 6-8 wins.

I love Pennington as a stand up, very nice, bright guy, but my grandmother could sling a 10 yard out with more zip, and she's dead. Not sure Clemens is the long-term answer, either, but another year with some veteran tutelage couldn't hurt.

]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:53:15 +0000 http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1768&PID=25624#25624 Off-Topic : Sad Times http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1756&PID=25623#25623 Author: Tiz
Subject: Sad Times
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:51pm

Originally posted by yutolia

She has now been moved into a rehab/assisted living facility. The nurses say that she will be probably be there for the rest of her time.

I hope this facility is good and somewhat nearby. Grammie spent her last days at a Home, of which I won't go into. She was 98.

Spend as much time there as you can, even if she's just sleeping.

]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:51:40 +0000 http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1756&PID=25623#25623 Jimbo's Jungle Gym / Thor's Hammer : "Skinny" Obama---racial code or not? http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1773&PID=25622#25622 Author: Thor
Subject: "Skinny" Obama---racial code or not?
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:46pm

No, tomatoes is not a racist word. Those kids were using it in place of one. In the case of Obama, it's just Slate looking to throw the word "racist" out there at anyone who says anything about Obama.

Here's the original article from the Wall Street Journal. Maybe you should decipher all the secret racist code words for me.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121755336096303089.html

excerpt:

These days he stays away from junk food and instead snacks on MET-Rx chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and drinks Black Forest Berry Honest Tea, a healthy organic brew. (Sen. McCain is said to have a weakness for Butterfinger candy bars, jelly beans, and coffee and doughnuts from Dunkin' Donuts.) On a campaign stop in May at Lew's Dari-Freeze in Milwaukie, Ore., Sen. Obama's wife, Michelle, and their two daughters ate ice-cream sundaes and onion rings, while Sen. Obama grinned for the cameras and swirled a spoon around in his quickly melting ice-cream concoction, taking only a few nibbles.

]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:46:21 +0000 http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1773&PID=25622#25622 Off-Topic : Our government is confused http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1713&PID=25621#25621 Author: Skerlnik
Subject: Our government is confused
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:46pm

Originally posted by Jimbo

So I ask you Thor.... is the word "tomatoes" racist?

Only to doofus junior high schoolers, who, knowing full well that they are being "naughty", make up silly code words.

But, I suppose epithets have to come from somewhere.....

]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:46:17 +0000 http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1713&PID=25621#25621 Television Related Rants : Court errrr TRU TV http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1721&PID=25620#25620 Author: Ad nauseous
Subject: Court errrr TRU TV
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:45pm

Yeah at first I thought they were part of the videos too until I saw the same video(s)on a different show like Real TV, and the sounds were missing, the same goes for the helicopter pilot voice I think it was a different one than the one I heard on the specials.

I think they uses microphones to pitch the sound higher over the rotors.
]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:45:31 +0000 http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1721&PID=25620#25620 Jimbo's Jungle Gym / Thor's Hammer : "Skinny" Obama---racial code or not? http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1773&PID=25619#25619 Author: Thor
Subject: "Skinny" Obama---racial code or not?
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:39pm

Continued from 55 mph thread:

So, Jimbo...is "skinny" racist, too?

Originally posted by Jimbo

Any word can be racist, or sexist or any other "ist" depending upon the way it's used & the intent behind it's usage.

I'm guessing that you're referring to the following incident...

From a recent Clarence Page column: Reporter Amy Chozick in a Wall Street Journal essay stirred up a lot of pundit and blogger buzz by musing that Obama's skinny physique might be a disadvantage in our notoriously overweight nation.
Timothy Noah responded in a Slate Web site commentary that skinniness might just be a code word for black. "This physical attribute looms large in our nation's history as a source of prejudice," he writes....

I remember when I was in jr. high school, a couple of kids who were sitting at the same lunch table as my best friend & me started talking very loudly about tomatoes & how gross they were & how they hated them, etc. etc. Then, after the black kids at the table right next to ours finished their lunch & got up & left, they gigglingly informed us that "tomatoes" was actually their code word for "ni**ers".

So I ask you Thor.... is the word "tomatoes" racist?

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Subject: Our government is confused
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:35pm

Seeing as how this is way off-topic, I'll move it over to the Jimbo/Thor forum.

]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:35:56 +0000 http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1713&PID=25618#25618 Off-Topic : Our government is confused http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1713&PID=25617#25617 Author: Thor
Subject: Our government is confused
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:33pm

No, tomatoes is not a racist word. Those kids were using it in place of one. In the case of Obama, it's just Slate looking to throw the word "racist" out there at anyone who says anything about Obama.

Here's the original article from the Wall Street Journal. Maybe you should decipher all the secret racist code words for me.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121755336096303089.html

excerpt:

]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:33:01 +0000 http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1713&PID=25617#25617 Off-Topic : Jets get Brett http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1768&PID=25616#25616 Author: Tiz
Subject: Jets get Brett
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:30pm

This was Brett's 3rd time "retiring......then un-retiring". I think if hadn't retired this last time, he'd be the Packers starter again this year. He cried wolf, one too many times.

He doesn't need the money, just the itch to still play. Just hope he remembers the dismal years Emmit Smith and Joe Montana had when they both decided to stick it out with different teams.

So, now Brett is going to start with a whole new team and the season is almost underway.....good luck. Hope the Jets have an offensive line to keep Brett "upright."

]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:30:50 +0000 http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1768&PID=25616#25616 Television Related Rants : Court errrr TRU TV http://forums.commercialsihate.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1721&PID=25615#25615 Author: Foxtrot360
Subject: Court errrr TRU TV
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 at 8:22pm

I kept wondering if I was the only one who noticed it sounded like the sounds in those police chases were added to the video, I agree, it sounds way to clear, and some of them are being shot from helicopters, so how would you be able to hear it over the roar of the helicopter? It even sounded like they added some of the voices to some of the videos!

The whole chase you dont hear much, then you hear collision sounds if they hit something, you hear them spinning wheels, and you even hear bullets sometimes. I kept thinking they added it but I thought it might just be me.

Oh and I agree with you about "Smoking Gun Presents...", alot of the commentary wasnt funny Dead

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