TWOP3 - Television Without Pity

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Anyone having problems with the TWOP boards today? When I go to a thread, the page finishes loading but the posts don't show up and I have to refresh the page until they do. This only seems to happen when an ad for some kind of homeowner's thing.

[HotLips]

Aug 31, 2009 13:17:34 GMT -4 Lisa Miller said:

Those dummies at TWoP have closed the Guiding Light forum so Strega can clean up a bunch of posts that don't belong there. Whatever. Just open the damn thread. The show only has 2 weeks left, let the fans discuss the damn show.

I know! Are the posts she wants to "clean up" the discussion about the Guiding Light tribute at the Emmys? I don't see what the problem is with discussing that in the Guiding Light thread.

[Lisa Miller]

Sept 1, 2009 16:09:46 GMT -4 HotLips said:

Aug 31, 2009 13:17:34 GMT -4 Lisa Miller said:

Those dummies at TWoP have closed the Guiding Light forum so Strega can clean up a bunch of posts that don't belong there. Whatever. Just open the damn thread. The show only has 2 weeks left, let the fans discuss the damn show.

I know! Are the posts she wants to "clean up" the discussion about the Guiding Light tribute at the Emmys? I don't see what the problem is with discussing that in the Guiding Light thread.

She opened the thread back and said she had to delete over 200 posts due to off-topicness. And yes, I think the majority of the posts were about the Emmy tribute, but there were also a bunch of posts about organizing a campaign against Proctor and Gamble because their beloved Otalia is never going to kiss or some such bullshit. I can understand those deletions. The Otalia fans are nutballs. *crosses fingers that HotLips is not an Otalia fan*

[HotLips]

Heh. No, I'm not. I don't even watch Guiding Light. I just clicked on the thread because I wanted to see why it had been closed. I can understand deleting the campaign stuff, but the Emmy posts are really not that big of a deal.

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Delurking to give my two cents on the TWOP forums. My problem with the forums is that, for a site whose motto is "Spare the snark, spoil the networks", there sure isn't a whole lot of humor among the posters. I learned that the hard way when I was trying to find a message board for Degrassi circa season 4 or 5* that didn't consist of 13-year-olds typing in textspeak. I know it's a point that's been made before, but they talk about these characters like they're real people, and then get insulted if you ever say anything remotely snarky about the characters' actions!

*(Don't judge me! It's full of unintentional hilarity!)

[mouseketeer]

Sept 1, 2009 15:49:43 GMT -4 @jw7579 said:

Anyone having problems with the TWOP boards today? When I go to a thread, the page finishes loading but the posts don't show up and I have to refresh the page until they do. This only seems to happen when an ad for some kind of homeowner's thing.

Yeah, I was having that problem at work with both the homeowners ad and the mosquito ad, also problems one day last week. No problems at home where I use Firefox with Ad Block, though. Unfortunately, I can't d/l the Ad Block to use at work.

[margojata]

Aug 31, 2009 18:10:54 GMT -4 @littleediebeale said:

What's with the abject lack of humor over there on the infinitely snarkable HGTV show, Design Star? It seems the only thing the people in the TWoP thread of this very, very serious show want to discuss about the most recent episode is the lack of mulch around a recently erected child's slide. Did the designers surround this house of horrors with a river of razorblades, you ask? Um. No. Just grass. Deadly, horrible grass.

Last week they were all up in arms about a room with an cut out of rock fabricated from MDF above a child's bed. He's going to hit his head when he jumps on the bed!

Pages and pages of this. Pages and pages of joyless rage.

Speaking of ... here's an interesting take on it ...

I happened to pause the show while he was on screen and there is quite clearly a naked lady on his left arm. One breast was very visible with the other behind the little HGTV graphic.





How big where the boobs? I only ask because once when I was having roof repair done, I thought the guy was kind of attractive. Until he came off the roof with his shirt off. On the length of his arm was a naked lady with a come-hither look and the biggest boobs ever (including clearly erect nipples). I found it aggressive, scary and hostile all at once. Because it was so in-your-face and introduced something that is not always welcome when in conversation with strangers. But maybe he wasn't trying to be aggressive, he could have just been a dumbass.

Who permanently etches porn on their arm for all to see? And now that I think of it, there are elements to Antonio's personality that could be hints of an aggressive, scary and hostile man. But I did not see his tattoo; maybe it was a little winged fairy frolicking in the woods?

Wow, she got quite the good look at that tattoo - erect nipples and a "come-hither" look. Maybe she was just looking at the hot roofer.

That last line has got to be snark, right? Or hopefully the whole post is, because that's the only way it's not batshit and ridiculous. That's the problem with TWOP - you can never tell. And just when you think they're screwing with you - they're serious.

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If the fairy had big stiff wings would that be considered porn?

[kostgard]

Sept 1, 2009 23:27:12 GMT -4 @silverfish said:

Delurking to give my two cents on the TWOP forums. My problem with the forums is that, for a site whose motto is "Spare the snark, spoil the networks", there sure isn't a whole lot of humor among the posters. I learned that the hard way when I was trying to find a message board for Degrassi circa season 4 or 5* that didn't consist of 13-year-olds typing in textspeak. I know it's a point that's been made before, but they talk about these characters like they're real people, and then get insulted if you ever say anything remotely snarky about the characters' actions!

*(Don't judge me! It's full of unintentional hilarity!)

Yeah, that's mostly how they are now. It didn't start out that way. A few years back the posters were generally snarky and hilarious, but just as the recaps have become dull and/or long-winded diatribes, so have the forums turned into just a home for super-fans who often don't have a sense of humor about their shows. I miss the old TWoP. It used to be an awesome place for those shows you loved to hate.

[margojata]

Sept 8, 2009 13:54:34 GMT -4 @highondegrassi said:

If the fairy had big stiff wings would that be considered porn?

The erect frolicking fairy - now that's a reality show I'd watch.