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4 days ahead of you darlin. Four days.

i dislike ANYONE that advertises "Free Speech,"

and then makes you GUESS what you can or cannot say.

i'm really wondering if there isn't some legal recourse available to paid subscribers that are treated to banning over using their right of Free Speech.

And if there's no legal recourse?

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So your first instinct is to start a frivolous lawsuit against a BBS nobody gives a flying fuck about?

i keep reading te title as "i hate dirty hippes who cream free speech." sounds infectious.

So your first instinct is to start a frivolous lawsuit against a BBS nobody gives a flying fuck about?

Hahahaha seriously!

the usa is a very litigious society. 2/3 of our daytime programming is lawsuit stuff.

Maybe 1/3, anyway. I used to watch The People's Court when it was Judge Marilyn Milian (I have no idea if she's still around). Used to crack me up how she'd get upset with someone and rattle off some proverb in Spanish that her mum taught her.

judge judy, the mean guy, people's court, a couple others since i can't sit through the trash fest...it's like watching the people on cops in their best JC Penny's suits.

What's the appeal? Seriously, how boring do you have to be to watch that crap?

What's the appeal? Seriously, how boring do you have to be to watch that crap?

This is how I feel about pretty much all reality television. With the exception of Project Runway (hay, brook, you should be on that show, I think they're taking applications or whatever right now) and maybe RuPaul's Drag Race.

I don't have TV, just DVD and VHS.

This is how I feel about pretty much all reality television. With the exception of Project Runway (hay, brook, you should be on that show, I think they're taking applications or whatever right now) and maybe RuPaul's Drag Race.

I applied the 2nd season and failed miserably! Wooo!

I think it's awesome you did that, even. I mean, hell, I've only ever applied for retail jobs, community college, and FAFSA.

What's the appeal? Seriously, how boring do you have to be to watch that crap?

i really don't know. my mom and sister get a great hoot out of it. i will confess my greatest sadness: i really don't like seeing peopl truly make asses of themselves. tell no one.

You sad secret is safe with me!

What's the appeal? Seriously, how boring do you have to be to watch that crap?

It's boring as shit, but then all daytime TV is boring as shit. It's all syndicated talk shows and judge shows and soap operas, then you get the news in the evening, a few hours of "prime-time", a few hours of "late night", and then from a little after midnight till about when the sun comes up it's mostly informercials. Rinse and repeat. TV fucking blows.

The question was more How boring do YOU have to be to watch that crap, I take it as read that the shows themselves are garbage.

Oh right. Well I'd say you have to be pretty boring to be enthralled by that shit, but if you're in a situation where you're bored anyway, the judge shows beat the soaps as background noise.

Hence why I just leave it on ESPN or the Food Network all day.

It's all syndicated talk shows and judge shows and soap operas, then you get the news in the evening, a few hours of "prime-time", a few hours of "late night", and then from a little after midnight till about when the sun comes up it's mostly informercials. Rinse and repeat. TV fucking blows.

It's exactly the same here in Ca. All prepackaged canned shit that makes spam seem tasty.

Ok how about old hippies?

Kill your TV.

I could totally do without History and lately SciFi is a complete swing and miss fest...

What's the appeal? Seriously, how boring do you have to be to watch that crap?

It's boring as shit, but then all daytime TV is boring as shit. It's all syndicated talk shows and judge shows and soap operas, then you get the news in the evening, a few hours of "prime-time", a few hours of "late night", and then from a little after midnight till about when the sun comes up it's mostly informercials. Rinse and repeat. TV fucking blows.

I haven't watched a non-sports TV program in 5 years

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't got for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

That's right, folks..
Don't touch that dial

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin'room floor

I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go

I'm The Slime
by Frank Zappa

Frank was awesome.

And he fucking hated hippies.

"And he fucking hated hippies."

Yep, that's one of the reasons that article I posted about the birth of the "hippies" -the birth of the entire 60's counter culture in fact- was so interesting. They always claimed they were just in it for the money, yeah I'm not so sure about that.

You sad secret is safe with me!

thanks, man. if it got out that i'm at all pitying, people might start asking me for money and telling me their problems again.

I went to see a lady from the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee give a talk last night.  And next week, I'm going to go see one of the kids Bill Ayers adopted on a book tour.  That's at least tangentially related to hippies of some sort!

thanks, man. if it got out that i'm at all pitying, people might start asking me for money and telling me their problems again.

People still do that to me.  It happened today while I was at the liquor store. 

I'm gonna get me some of Obammy's economic stimulus money by building solar panels and solar heat exchangers and putting them in the home of poor black folk.

I'm gonna get me some of Obammy's economic stimulus money by building solar panels and solar heat exchangers and putting them in the home of poor black folk.

Sounds like a solid plan.

thanks, man. if it got out that i'm at all pitying, people might start asking me for money and telling me their problems again.

People still do that to me.  It happened today while I was at the liquor store. 

i hate that shit.