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You're sticking up for WHO here? Britney??

I'm sorry, but that is just unfucking believable.

She fucked up her own charmed life people, and if Justin "I'm a man, I swear, despite the high-ass falsetto" Timberlake gets trashed for calling her out, then I'm DONE.

Anyway, can't we all agree that they are complete wastes of space, talent & spandex?

Fuck. That's like sticking up for Bush because Karl Rove made a joke about his "strategery."

Sorry. You get the brunt of my bad mood today.

yeah, I'm gonna have to go with boo, here. She fucked up royally...she's made all the wrong decisions...hell, she can barely see her own kids. Yeah, JT is being a douche...but at least he's in a position to say it. They started out on the same path...but he was able to parley his small talent into money...whereas she turned hers into tabloid fuel.

Also, I've never understood the SNL bashing. The show cycles pretty steadily (like most of life) with long periods of mediocrity around short spurts of new and exciting funny.

Usually by the time people notice SNL is funny, it's stopped being funny again.

Yep, that's why i had to do Plan B Grad School, I've got a journalism BA and they didn't exactly, you know, warn me that it doesn't open door one. But the field's messed up anyway. I feel for the people who are still trying, as well as trying to have some integrity about it.

Is that the McDLT commercial? Oh yes it is. That was a good damn burger, as least mass production wise. It looked and tasted as good as they want you to think everything there is. I am truly sad it no longer exists.

Kids! You just don't know! It was great!! I miss having the empty half of the containers for your fry basket. Wasteful styrofoam, yes, but the *shape* worked.

I looked exactly like one of those Mental Floss kids at the same age. Terrifyingly alike. What was I THINKING in the 80s???

Boo:

I'm with you all the way. I don't give a shit what Timberlake says and I don't see any reason to coddle Spears just because she's bottomed out. Anyone who turns his/her pathetic sexual affair into a reality show is inviting abusive comments.

Gotcha, Shadows. I laughed at your "he has a future (sorta)" comment. I also still fail to see what's so hot about him. Off-topic, but eh, all of my girlfriends are all "OMG HE'S SO HOTTTTTTTT!!!" Guess I like the geeky guys more.

Brie--every guy I've dated has admitted to liking JT, and my last bf, whose previous girlfriend cheated on him (with his good friend), will like him forever for "Cry me a river". Who knew, eh?

Jay- The McDLT was some serious dead cow nirvana (Consumed way back in the day when I used to eat dead cow)! "Keep the cold side cold and the hot side hot."

Is it way damn sad that I distinctly remember both the ketchup and the Pringles commercials. Never mad the connection that Matt LeBlanc was was the tool in the ketchup one.

I could give some of those 80's kids a run for their money. I was chub, had glasses, terrible haricuts, and fancied myself a Cyndi Lauper wannabe.

Not to Justin: At this point jerface, mocking Brit-Brit is like mocking the kids from special ed.

And yeah, I live in the South and there are days when I can't live without shorts. However, it is a bit ridunkulous when the temperature gets above fifty and people start whipping out the shorts, pale dead chicken flesh legs and all.

There was a guy at my college who wore shorts all freaking year long. In the winter, he wore wool socks with his Tevas.

"In the winter, he wore wool socks with his Tevas."

'Bama, people like that are the reason why Hell exists.

Cuz it's cold?

say what you want, I likes me some JT. He may be a douchebag and all, but mama's got a cougar crush.

Watching Fred & Sharon's video reminds me of my motto..."Canadian's are creepy". If not also a little medicated.

As a fellow Upstater, and regular Pajiba reader, let me thank the gods that Elliot has seen fit to get himself in trouble.

Also, as someone who works in the beverage alcohol industry, and a regular reader of Pajiba, let me thank the gods that Elliot has gotten himself in, what I hope will be, irrevocable trouble.

NY Pajibans, rejoice in the knowledge that, if all goes well for us, Elliot will not be able to finish carrying out his plans to overhaul (read: fuck over) your favorite establishment for purchasing adult beverages. As someone whose livelihood is so firmly entrenched in keeping things the way they are, I'll be tipping back a few bourbons tonight in hopes that the resignation is forthcoming.

Julie, I think it's even more guilty when you sing along with it and try to mimic the high pitch of his voice. Not that I've tried that, or anything.

PajibaMen & others, you're more open minded than I gave you credit for. Although I might be mixing up JT's solo bit with NSync.

I've gotta say, Stuff White People Like is kinda bad. Shorts? Really? I don't think they're particularly white...

Yeah, at the always lovely University of Miami there were shorts on display damn near 365 days a year. Of course, it was warranted there. More confusing to me is that I'm currently in Ireland, the temperature has a high in the 50's but an extreme wind chill, and there are people in shorts here. Just makes me shake my head a little.

I never got the Justin Timberlake appeal, he's kind of meh. I'm not into skinny boys though. They look bad in shorts ; )

My several cents:

I've never subscribed to the 'Powr Widdle From Podunk', or the 'Oh but this business, is just... and her family is so...' lines. If she were the only person to have poor decision-making skills based on a crazed past, there were be no such thing as psycho-pharmacology.

Everybody drags around his own sack of hammers through this life, and after a certain age--certainly if you have children, you have to make the decision to not make excuses for yourself, use your resources to better yourself, and grow up. So, yes I do find her culpable.

That said...

We're a bunch of anonymous nobodies who have no personal connection to her. I can be smugly superior and unsympathetic (and I mostly am), but I've never met the kid. I'm sure that a lot of the people there have. Yes, she brings this kind of ridicule on herself, but J.T.:

If Leonard Cohen is in a audience, you'd better show some class, boy.

There was no cause for his grudge-rant, it came apropos of nothing. Why couldn't he LET IT GO for a minute and not use someone else ceremony to air out his grievances? Haven't we heard him bitch about her many a time before? Didn't I have to live through years of 'Cry Me a River'-- and the awesome Julie London song? Didn't I nearly develop Munchausen's Disorder from enduring that song?

I am not a Britney Spears fan by any stretch of the imagination, and someone accused me of being one, I'd deny it up and down. Still, these two maniacs shared a personal, intimate relationship, and dipping into the 'Britney Spears: Lord Protector of the Shit-Wit and Fuck-Up Society' isn't only (SO) lazy and facile, it's malevolent. I mean, this was an audience of her former friends and colleagues, and it was being broadcast internationally.

The upshot of that is, 'Well, if you don't want people reminding you of what a twat-waffle you are, stop acting like a raging twat-waffle.' Yeah, well, if 'ifs' and 'buts', right?

J.T. SEZ:

'This is a party for other people who aren't J to the T, so they can sodomise themselves with maces, 'cause this is a young man's world, and a young man's par-tay, and this par-tay needs to get all falsetto up in 'hurr'! Word!

Madonna's a dried-up cougar who thinks she's a kitten, and J to the T knows from cougars, I dated an older someone who used nudie films to kick start a career. I'm talking about Jackie Chan!

Now seriously, since Madonna gained the distinction of having a dinner plate-sized snatch, many others--some of whom I may have tongue-jollied--have tried to steal that crown. Well, those pretenders to the thone are just kidding themselves. I'm J to the T, and if I find any of you trying to usurp her position, I'll do you like Henry VII did to Perkin Warbeck! Like Tjimojin and Jamucha! Word!

Speaking of snapped snatches, Madonna's husband directed a film called SNATCH. Word! Madonna's movies are embarassing, but J.T.s drivin' this bitch-bus to the bank, the MONEY BANK. ALPHA DAAAAAAAAAAAAWGS, 'A-ROO, A-ROOO!'

And if all y'all don't see THE LOVE GURU, I'm-a-gonna tell everyone about what you keep in your drawer next to your prayer book. J to the T is tired of all these bitch-ass faces, I'm Audi 3000. Word up.'

I'd call Madonna's musical accomplishments dubious to say the least, but it's not in fine form to hijack a ceremony to re-focus the attention on yourself. That's what Mickey Rooney would do. That's what Katharine Heigl would do.

That thing is full of typos, but I think you can figure it out. Had I read any of the previous posts, I might not have been so vociferious in stating my hatred for that song. Yes, for it it's the sonic version of an unanethetised trepanation, but it was damned popular for a long time, so I guess I'm the odd man out.

Are Canadian's creepy? I'm getting the sense that our friends to the south are cultivating this image of us being very gloomy and snow-shocked. Speaking of which, I'm black, so pasty legs is not an issue. It's not for a terribly long time that I can expose my gams (which are them same colour as the rest of me. White people are so demarcated in that respect), so whenever it even hints at getting warm, people start strolling about in their skivvies.

I don't understand fahrenheit.

I never knew anyone thought Canadians were creepy. How ARE Canadians creepy?

Canadians aren't creepy they're 'off' and hilarious Check out Trailer Park Boys, The State, The Kids in the Hall. In that order.

Any bets on when "Client #9" the, uh, 'movie' comes out?

I like to think Silda ex-Spitzer is standing there thinking about the divorce and the millions she'll get for 20+ yrs of emotional distress, suffering, plus the girls are almost in college and he's loaded...

Jo 'Mama' Besser: I first heard the term "twat waffle" from my ever-dainty and delicate niece (age fourteen at the time), and completely forgot about it until now. What a beautiful term! Thank you for jogging my memory!

Hey, I object. I'm not white but I love shorts, simply because it's always so stinkin' hot down here. Shorts combine all the benefits of being naked with the added convenience of pockets.

I agree with everyone else that Britney's brought her problems on herself, but it's totally classless to kick anyone when they're down. It's like throwing rocks at an old crippled dog.

The Spitzer thing boggles the mind. Truly. Very hypocritical. That said, I don't know why Wall Streeters are rejoicing (aside from enjoying some major schadenfreude). Just because Spitzer is a hypocrite and may have prosecuted your ass to feed his egomania doesn't mean you're not a fraudster, my friend. He'll be gone, but his "sheriff of Wall Street" legacy will live on (a good thing, as far as I'm concerned).

As to JT, well, if it sounds like a cheap shot and smells like a cheap shot, it probably is a cheap shot. Bad form.

Ok--my motto isn't really "Canadians are creepy". I was just messin' with ya. If you ask my kids, they'll say my motto is "Getyerassinbed!"

Jo Mama Besser (May I call you JMB?):

Thank you for bringing up Fahreheit. It is incomprehensible to me. I've been living in the US for quite a while now and I just don't get why people persist in using a scale that sets freezing at 32 degrees. Isn't it obvious that 0 is a good place to have a demracation line between freezing and non? It's so easy and yet the nation that embraces "lite" as a real word because "light" would be too long slog on with the impossible complexity of Fahrenheit. Somebody explain this to me please.

PaddyDog is obviously also a communist.

Hey Fred and Sharon's "video movie" editing skills are still light years beyond mine.

But I don't do that for a living, soooooo kind of a wash.

Is Sharon really really depressed?

Ok, so I'm actually trying to accomplish something at work today, so I haven't had a chance to read the comments yet, therefore this matter may or may not have been addressed already.

The problem with the McDLT, is that they put the cheese on the "cool" side, rather than on the "hot" side, where it belonged! Who the hell wants to each cold, American cheese?! I can barely tolerate it melted on fast food items, but cold is just nasty.

Maybe the McDLT would have lasted longer if they had figured out that the cheese was on the wrong frickin' side!

That's right TK, I'm actually part of a sleeper cell. Even Mr. PaddyDog doesn't know about it (so, sshhh). when I talk about what will happen "come the revolution", I'm not joking. Once we're activated the two dogs and I will begin our routing of you capitalist pigs and establish a glorious socialist republic here. It's amazing what one can achieve with one chick, an arthritic labrador and a mutt with trust issues. You'll all be measuring temps in Celsius, walking kilometres and first order of business is to make you all understand that "zed" is the last letter of the alphabet. I'll move onto "fries" versus "chips" versus "crisps" later.

Samantha t: Not a good idea to criticize the actions of your future socialist overlords (see Stalin, Joseph)

Phatgirl, "Hooker Cooties" is officially my new band name.

You did better than me, TK. I keep reading it as Hooter Cookies.