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Jan. 1st, 2010 at 11:56 AM

I've been laid up in bed with a nasty cold for a couple of days, so I rang in the new year by marathoning the first few episodes of MTV's new reality show, Jersey Shore.

Poll #1999 The Jersey Shore poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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Are you watching?

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Yes, and I'm horrified
0 (0.0%)

Yes, and I'm proud to see my people represent
0 (0.0%)

Actually I'm J-WOWW
0 (0.0%)

Not yet, but I've been meaning to check it out
0 (0.0%)

No, and I'm already sick of hearing about it
2 (33.3%)

Dude, your taste is appalling and I fear for your brain cells
2 (33.3%)

No, seriously, if you start posting about this show I'll defriend you
0 (0.0%)

Is this one of those bizarre American things?
1 (16.7%)

Just don't start referring to yourself as 'The Predicament', okay?
2 (33.3%)

Let's go dancing at Karma this weekend!
0 (0.0%)

So what are the chances that people will start writing Jersey Shore RPF? Anyone?

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sara wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 06:06 pm (UTC)

Actually, I was just sitting here this morning thinking, "You know, the great thing about fandom is that no matter how trashy my current fixation, someone else will always be watching something trashier."

And you've just demonstrated that. *GRIN*

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 06:12 pm (UTC)

Hey, glad to be of service....

Just how trashy is your current fixation?

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sara wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 06:17 pm (UTC)

I'm rewatching the show I was really fannish about when I was thirteen! It is SO AWESOME. Also quite trashy!

And I'd forgotten about how in the late 1980s, network television that aired at 8 p.m. was actually age-appropriate for children. So I am thinking about showing it to the kids.

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 07:32 pm (UTC)

I think nostalgia gets an automatic pass on trashiness.

I don't think I even watched television for most of the late '80s, since I was in college by then.

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sara wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 07:59 pm (UTC)

*snerk* Yes, yes, you are old, Father William.

I was growing up in LA. There was a lot of TV involved.

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sixbeforelunch: An illustrated image of a woman holding a towering stack of books. No text. (sg1 - daniel: *pinching nose*)

sixbeforelunch wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 06:27 pm (UTC)

Incidentally, when I said sick of hearing about it, I didn't mean from you. If you post a lot about it, I will probably just skim, but I won't care much. But I am so sick of hearing about it from the news media and their freak outs over the word "guido".

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 07:29 pm (UTC)

I promise that I won't try to convince you that it's basically a modern-day Pride and Prejudice, except with hooking up instead of getting married!

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sixbeforelunch: An illustrated image of a woman holding a towering stack of books. No text. (Default)

sixbeforelunch wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 09:07 pm (UTC)

*snerk* So is Snooki Caroline Bingley or Lydia Bennet?

...okay, so I may have watched half an episode once. I was house sitting and had cable for the first time in years.

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 10:51 pm (UTC)

I'm thinking Lydia Bennet, from what I remember of the book.

...oh no, now I really want the fic!

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sixbeforelunch: An illustrated image of a woman holding a towering stack of books. No text. (p&p - lizzy: bookworm)

sixbeforelunch wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 11:43 pm (UTC)

Heh. That could work.

I am not writing it. Really. I'm not. Make the plot bunnies stop chasing me! *runs*

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karmageddon wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 08:45 pm (UTC)

You should have a ticky for "Where's My Cheeseballs?"

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 10:43 pm (UTC)

Ha, that's always a relevant question.

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torachan wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 09:19 pm (UTC)

There was no option that fit! Since I don't really pay attention to these sorts of things, I have only actually heard of it once, in an article about how some Italian Americans are against the show.

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 1st, 2010 10:47 pm (UTC)

I ran out of ticky boxes! I don't really know what to think of the criticism from Italian American groups. I've always had a certain fondness for the subculture portrayed on the show, ever since my clubbing days, when I'd often share a dancefloor with them.

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egret wrote:

Jan. 2nd, 2010 07:42 am (UTC)

That subculture = large percentage of my students' demographic

Therefore, I watched one episode and then stopped because it was too much like work.

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 2nd, 2010 01:48 pm (UTC)

Ah, I can see that.

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vehemently wrote:

Jan. 2nd, 2010 03:01 am (UTC)

You put in that one about fearing for your brain cells just for me to ticky, didn't you? Because you know I think that Snooki and Sartre will get into a fight, and Sartre does not have sharpened nails nor indeed a can of hairspray to defend himself with.

(As I only know about the show from Gawker, I cannot guess whether aforementioned citizen of the Garden State pronounces her "name" to rhyme with bookie or to rhyme with kooky. I presume the latter?)

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 2nd, 2010 03:11 am (UTC)

You put in that one about fearing for your brain cells just for me to ticky, didn't you?

Why, yes. Yes, I did.

(IIRC, it's pronounced more like snooker, though her roommates tend to refer to her behind her back as 'Snickers'. But never 'Simone de B.', oddly.)

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vehemently wrote:

Jan. 2nd, 2010 03:52 am (UTC)

Well I know I snicker whenever I see a picture of her.

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