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11 May 2014, 7:36 pm

Is it even news? It was linked on the front page of CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/08/showbiz/c ... ?hpt=hp_c3

Does anybody really care in the least?

I'm imagining myself unable to sleep tonight, so riddled by the controversy of it.



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11 May 2014, 8:23 pm

Americans get way too excited over everything celebrities do. I just don't get it at all. Like a few years ago when some lady, I think it was Demi Moore but I don't remember, posed on a magazine while pregnant with just her hand covering her boob and the country went nuts. George Bush barfs while visiting Japan back in the 90's and it's like parodied everywhere, sometimes in graphic, disgusting fashion like on the cover of MAD Magazine. Our Prime Minister could have done the same thing, then have his head spin 360-degrees and start snarling out swear words while floating in mid-air and we couldn't even care if he was okay. :P SNL parodied OJ Simpson for nearly the whole stupid show for almost a decade and I thought it was very bad taste, even for SNL, to be making fun of a bloody, horrible murder. Bill Clinton... let's not talk about that, okay? I'll just say up here the PM could be a virgin asexual atheist who wears Iron Man PJ's to bed, has a collection of every color and variety of Silly Putty, and is really an alien from outer space and we still wouldn't care. :lol:



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11 May 2014, 9:14 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
Americans get way too excited over everything celebrities do. I just don't get it at all. Like a few years ago when some lady, I think it was Demi Moore but I don't remember, posed on a magazine while pregnant with just her hand covering her boob and the country went nuts. George Bush barfs while visiting Japan back in the 90's and it's like parodied everywhere, sometimes in graphic, disgusting fashion like on the cover of MAD Magazine. Our Prime Minister could have done the same thing, then have his head spin 360-degrees and start snarling out swear words while floating in mid-air and we couldn't even care if he was okay. :P SNL parodied OJ Simpson for nearly the whole stupid show for almost a decade and I thought it was very bad taste, even for SNL, to be making fun of a bloody, horrible murder. Bill Clinton... let's not talk about that, okay? I'll just say up here the PM could be a virgin asexual atheist who wears Iron Man PJ's to bed, has a collection of every color and variety of Silly Putty, and is really an alien from outer space and we still wouldn't care. :lol:


Our Prime Ministers are boring. :P I wish they would do more outrageous stuff to get attention!

Of course, I'm also the same guy who thinks Rob Ford is absolutely hilarious.



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12 May 2014, 12:42 am

I hate American culture.



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12 May 2014, 2:56 am

Personally, I think it's a waste of time when they could have been covering something of substance. Who knows, maybe it was a slow news day.


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12 May 2014, 4:24 am

Who is that?

Is that excited enough for you?



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18 May 2014, 12:06 am

jesus christ, this is actually real? people actually get paid to write this?
it's sometimes seems hypocritical when we claim to be upset, or even disgusted with cults of personalities other countries or sects have with their leaders; this seems hardly any different.



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18 May 2014, 7:18 am

lostonearth35 wrote:
Americans get way too excited over everything celebrities do.


Justin Bieber is a celebrity.

The Property Brothers are celebrities.

The mayor of Toronto is a celebrity.

The PM of Canada is NOT a celebrity.



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18 May 2014, 9:54 am

Never heard of 'Property Brothers'.


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18 May 2014, 10:28 am

Sylkat wrote:
Never heard of 'Property Brothers'.


See link ?> Property Brothers on W Network.



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19 May 2014, 3:43 am

Sadly, our media today will post celebrity stories to get page views, and get ad revenue. The more views, the more revenue. Ever been to Weather.com lately, and see those crazy stories that are not about weather. Like this story: http://www.weather.com/travel/trapped-b ... r-20140514


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21 May 2014, 10:06 am

em_tsuj wrote:
I hate American culture.


^This.


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21 May 2014, 10:53 am

sonofghandi wrote:
em_tsuj wrote:
I hate American culture.


^This.


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21 May 2014, 11:09 am

There's just too many people who are over-sensitive these days. If this was a woman posing in the same way, imagine the uproar!


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