Comments on: Portlandia: Artisanal popcorn

By: kringlebertfistyebuns

kringlebertfistyebuns — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:50:00 +0000

A critical difference: The disabled have no choice in the matter. The stupid can stop being stupid with some effort.

By: echar

echar — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:29:00 +0000

This just made me think of a skit, or maybe hell:

A pre-laugh checklist. Was it politically correct, was it schadenfreude, would I laugh if it was me in this position, does data dream of electric sheep when his head is removed, would data help an overturned tortoise in the desert, did this list get a bit odd, etc…? However there is another checklist for the kind of laugh. Will it be a guffaw, a snort, a chortle, a full belly laugh, a snicker, etc.?

By: blueelm

blueelm — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:10:00 +0000

You know I laugh for an entirely different reason. To me it is based on empathy with the “straight man” or empathy with the ridiculous person, depending on whether I’m feeling more awkwardly obliging of stupidity or awkwardly stupid. Hence the cringe isn’t one of contempt, but based on the ability to relate to the person who is so very very stupid.

Must be nice to be smarter than all us cripples!

By: blueelm

blueelm — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:05:00 +0000

I don’t really like to eat while I watch movies (I know, weird) but I grew up seriously mostly having only gone either to theaters that served food there while you watched, museums/galleries that were showing film, or old theaters. Some times there’s such a thing as being too lucky :/

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:22:00 +0000

If God didn’t want us to laugh at stupid people, why did he make them so funny?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I was bitterly disappointed when I moved from SF to Palm Springs and discovered that European chocolates aren’t the norm at theater concession counters. From Lindt to Whoppers. Lucifer has nothing on me.

By: gamophyte

gamophyte — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:17:00 +0000

Right and it’s this contrast in my mind, that makes it funny. Also, ya don’t want bad publicity for real places. Some people think it’s real life.

By: Gregory Bloom

Gregory Bloom — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:49:00 +0000

I continue to be astonished at the popularity of cringe-humor such as Portlandia and Arrested Development. Watching people be stupid is only fractionally different from pointing and laughing at a crippled person. Maybe it’s supposed to be that we’re laughing at a whole subculture being stupid? So it’s really more like laughing at all cripples? Or am I just missing some deeper, essential source of humor in these shows?

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:32:00 +0000

Pfft… this is only available in 720p HD? I much prefer 1080p HD that more resembles 35mm analog film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR4n6OVoyYQ (language nsfw)

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:25:00 +0000

“Sundried grapes!”

I think it was someone’s BoingBoing comment that defined “artisanal” as “an otherwise mundane object, but made by someone with a post-graduate degree.”

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:54:00 +0000

The Landmark Sunshine Cinema on NYC's Lower East Side prides itself on its gourmet concession bar: "Espresso bar, vegan cookies, caramel popcorn, 10 different popcorn seasonings, Swiss chocolate and more!"

By: folkclarinet

folkclarinet — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:35:00 +0000

I read the “chain-iness” of the place as being critical of the tendency of chains to jump on bandwagons like “artisanal” whatever…

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:31:00 +0000

Aww . . . instead of Cinetopia, they could have filmed this in one of Portland’s genuinely odd non-chain movie places, like the Clinton Street Theater or Hollywood Theater.

The former . . . I once went to the Clinton to see my first Bollywood movie. There, was, I swear, one guy running the place. He jumped between the little ticket window and the concession counter, and then when he thought that everyone who was coming had been seated, ran upstairs to start the projector.

(The Clinton runs things like an evening of films made for Mormon teens, and a Scopitone film festival.)

By: Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:29:00 +0000

Absolutely. Cable monopolies, however, do.

By: Marc Boudreau

Marc Boudreau — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:24:00 +0000

Yeah, I know I could find a work around and have in the past it just bothers me when it happens.

The internet has no borders.

By: Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:21:00 +0000

It’s not “people” so much as cable networks who are beholden to local operators. It sucks. There are googleable workarounds!

By: Marc Boudreau

Marc Boudreau — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:17:00 +0000

People who put country restrictions on their uploads, please know that I hate you.