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Straight Edge Society said:
Unless you are Jennifer Lawrence-famous I don't think you will get any articles out of it. Big Brother-famous just doesn't cut it :biggrin:

Edit - Or, apparently, @smurfette famous
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I get that JLaw is more famous and hence more people care about the minutiae of her life.

What I strongly disagree with is that this 'NEWS' is basically fodder for GOSSIP RAG/TABLOID rubbish that's the vast majority of human beings who consume real NEWS would never ever consider to be 'NEWSWORTHY'. That's why I (and many other individuals who read REAL NEWS) make no distinction between Tim's and JLaw's minutiae.

A subjective take on the meaning of the word I'll admit but that's all what we're arguing at the end of the day.

I hope you finally get where I'm coming from. :)
 
Connoisseur said:
Other than calling out and poking fun at Jade fans for their their annoying one-eyed devotion I don't recall making any personal remarks to other posters, that's not my style. :confused:
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I don't get why you seem annoyed but that jab. It was so light hearted.

Connoisseur said:
You keep on throwing that word around, what else is someone accused of not following 'logic' supposed to think?:confused:
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That in this one case you didn't even think about why it was more newsworthy for Lawrence than Tim. I never once said you are "unable to use logic" full stop. Just that I did and came up with an answer, that did not require any knowledge on the subject ;)

Connoisseur said:
Like I said a number of time before I'm not sure what it takes for someone to link JLaw's hair to actual newsworthiness but one thing I'm certain of is that it has zero to do with logic.

I just fail to see it how her hair (to me and millions of other gay, straight, bi guys whatever) is any more or less relevant than Tim's in this universe. Sorry none of the 'logic' you've provided has convinced me. :p

Let's agree to disagree and move on. ;)
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You never actually gave me a reason why the impact on her movie roles and on fashion trends do not make it more newsworthy than Tim's (who impacts nothing). You just sort of got annoyed and talked about your straightness. But I am with you, lets move on.
 
smurfette said:
They are both a part of life. Deal with it - or go commando.
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Sheesh, you want to talk about responsibilities - I've seen Doctors and Nurses performing CPR on patient's for hours, that's a responsibility. Modelling fugly clothes for Tigermist is not a "responsibility". And I'm not sure it always involves underwear either. In fact, it is irresponsible and a crime against peoples vision
 
delcan said:
Sheesh, you want to talk about responsibilities - I've seen Doctors and Nurses performing CPR on patient's for hours, that's a responsibility. Modelling fugly clothes for Tigermist is not a "responsibility". And I'm not sure it always involves underwear either. In fact, it is irresponsible and a crime against peoples vision
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Perhaps she's finding sole parenting Luna while Tahlia is away too much to cope with
 
Straight Edge Society said:
You never actually gave me a reason why the impact on her movie roles and on fashion trends do not make it more newsworthy than Tim's (who impacts nothing). You just sort of got annoyed and talked about your straightness. But I am with you, lets move on.
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I guess that what I'm trying to say is that GOSSIP RAG 'news' is not what many (including myself) consider to be news just celebrity gossip rubbish, nothing more to it than that. :)

And the fact is that it is mostly women who consume that celeb 'news' stuff hence why I emphasised that in general straight men are oblivious to it.
 
Connoisseur said:
I get that JLaw is more famous and hence more people care about the minutiae of her life.

What I strongly disagree with is that this 'NEWS' is basically fodder for GOSSIP RAG/TABLOID rubbish that's the vast majority of human beings who consume real NEWS would never ever consider to be 'NEWSWORTHY'. That's why I (and many other individuals who read REAL NEWS) make no distinction between Tim's and JLaws minutiae.


A subjective take on the meaning of the word I'll admit but that's all what we're arguing at the end of the day.

I hope you finally get where I'm coming from. :)
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Connoisseur said:
I guess that what I'm trying to say is that GOSSIP RAG 'news' is not what many (including myself) consider to be news just celebrity gossip rubbish, nothing more to it than that. :)

And the fact is that it is mostly women who consume that celeb 'news' stuff hence why I emphasised that in general straight men are oblivious to it.
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I get that it falls into the same news category, but when you dig a little deeper and look at what impact it has on things like movies, international style and the business of celebrity (a big business) it qualifies as more newsworthy than Tim, who people are not interested in on the same level. People want to read about her more and on top of that it has more impact on business. That makes it more newsworthy, within the gossip news category.

The distinction you are making seems to be more about category of news (celebrity gossip) and that none of it qualifies as newsworthy. Which is a whole other debate. But I get where you are coming from now. I was just talking about the example with Tim. And its good to know all the straight talk didn't came out of no where like the Hawkins talk did :thumbsup:.
 
The distinction you are making seems to be more about category of news (celebrity gossip) and that none of it qualifies as newsworthy. Which is a whole other debate.
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Tell me you're taking the piss. lol I don't think even its female readers (or the few male readers) would insist it's news. In large metropolitan cities celeb 'news' has replaced the small village gossip of decades/centuries past. It's an itch to scratch for a section of the population if you will and celeb gossip satisfies that need. You do realise that most of the gossip 'news' is not even true, it's mostly made up salacious (occasionally slanderous) garbage that whets the appetite of those that way inclined. lol :D

Straight Edge Society said:
I was just talking about the example with Tim. And its good to know all the straight talk didn't came out of no where like the Hawkins talk did :thumbsup:.
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It was out of the blue in the sense that he's not a former hm but I did reiterate that IMO he somewhat resembled Drew, that was good enough of an excuse for me. lol :biggrin:
 
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Connoisseur said:
Tell me you're taking the piss. lol I don't think even its female readers (or the few male readers) would insist it's news. In large metropolitan cities celeb 'news' has replaced the small village gossip of decades/centuries past. It's an itch to scratch for a section of the population if you will and celeb gossip satisfies that need.
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Well the definition of "news" is newly received information. So it does qualify there. As to whether it is worthy or not? It sells a lot of papers, results in a lot of website visits and basically keeps the E network in business. Financially it makes a lot of people a lot of money and people want to follow the story. Does it matter on the level of Holden shutting down? Of course not. Does it matter at all? Not to me, but I don't know enough about the fashion industry to say if it had a big impact on styles, sales and trends. Fashion and hair would be a multi billion dollar industry, so it might matter to those people.

Connoisseur said:
It was out of the blue in the sense that he's not a former hm but I did reiterate that IMO he somewhat resembled Drew, that was good enough of an excuse for me. lol :biggrin:
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Not complaining, he is one of the players I enjoy watching play the most. Plus I was glad to point out how much he looks like Johnny Rico :biggrin:
 
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