mrbaracuda
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Racist!
Racist!
I'm offended that he hates Blade Runner. Who in their right mind would hate that masterpiece?
I'm a big fan of the Mythbusters, and post regularly on their forum. I didn't see anything even remotely offensive in tonight's episode. Since when are funny accents demeaning? Jeez, I can remember way back to Sid Ceasar and his stable of ersatz languages...
As to the "man massage"....I'd note that it seemed to me the "torture" aspect was that it was particularly vigorous and painful, rather than homophobic....
EEeeeeewwww...only thing worse than a guy giving me a full body massage would be a fat guy giving me a full body massage. No, let me amend that. Only thing worse than a fat guy giving me a fully body massage would be a fat guy giving me a full body oil massage. No...still not quite there...the only thing worse than a fat guy giving me a full body oil massage would be a fat guy giving me a full body Thai oil massage.
*shudders*
Hey, it's shot in San Francisco. That mean's they're all gay, right?
That was my impression as well. It looked more like it belonged in the steak tenderizing bit than in the driving one.
Grant is gay? Drat, yet another one to file in the c'est la vie bucket.
Hey, it's shot in San Francisco. That mean's they're all gay, right?
Mostly gay. Which is fine by me. It's not a bad situation at all, being a straight single guy in a town like this.![]()
I like my science without xenophobia, thank you very much.
Good lord, lighten up. Save your outrage for people who really do have something against gay people and want to cause them harm. And I take no back seat to anyone in here in terms of defending the rights of gay people to live as they choose without harassment and to marry and to not be singled out as objects of social scorn.Tonight's episode of mythbusters included an experiment to test if Tory and Grant would use more gas when driving stressed than relaxed.
In the experiment, they are primed with either relaxation or stress before driving a set-out course.
Tory's relaxation: watching the director's cut of bladerunner while getting a massage from a woman. An older, 'homely' looking woman.
Tory's stress: he enters the "torture" tent where he gets a massage from a man ("madd matt's man massage"). And no alternate movie watched.
So without even having to watch a movie he hates, just getting a massage from a man is not only stress, but is literally called torture.
This bigotry against homosexuals is intolerable, and should not be condoned in such a manner by either Mythbusters or the Discovery Channel.
There were additional bigotries in tonight's episode. It seems every time they cook something, Adam Savage has to do this really lame stereotypical French accent. I like my science without xenophobia, thank you very much.
Then Tory had to catch himself from saying "x is a bitch" in front of Kari. If it's wrong to say it in front of a woman, it's wrong to say it at all.
Misogyny, homophobia, and xenophobia, all in one episode.
EEeeeeewwww...only thing worse than a guy giving me a full body massage would be a fat guy giving me a full body massage. No, let me amend that. Only thing worse than a fat guy giving me a fully body massage would be a fat guy giving me a full body oil massage. No...still not quite there...the only thing worse than a fat guy giving me a full body oil massage would be a fat guy giving me a full body Thai oil massage.
*shudders*
As to the "man massage"....I'd note that it seemed to me the "torture" aspect was that it was particularly vigorous and painful, rather than homophobic....
Yeah, but 1inChrist and ronpaulisright are no longer amongst us.I've seen sillier threads, though not many.