Wow, I really am a unique snowflake

So I was reading this article "Why are Friends Reruns so Incredibly Painful?" and I was like "Right on!" Totally agree! Except, well, I never really watched the show when it was on. But that was ok, because I pretty much agreed with the fact that Friends doesn't hold up to the test of time, while Seinfeld is absolutely timeless and always funny. And Gilmore Girls, well, meh, I never watched that show either.

But anyway, I read through the comments. There were like, 300 of them. And almost every comment disagreed with the article.


It was creepy. People said things like, sorry I disagree. There were long threads of quotes from Friends. None of which I understood, and none of which I found funny.

People said it was their "comfort food."

I was happy to see this:

-Heh. I feel terribly smug with my always and forever hatred of Friends.

BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) was starred BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) was unstarred

-Friends has not aged well because it was awful.

But it was the minority. So I guess I really am a whacko ....I have always found the show to be unfunny. I never identified with any of the characters. I thought the plotlines were ridiculous. The NYC that the show depicts does not exist. (this is something I learned later, though. Who knew that NYC wasn't made up of only reasonably well off white yuppies?) I was a prissy adolescent, and I found the idea of the Jennifer Aniston character having a baby out of wedlock to be insulting to my conservative sensibilities.

Actually, I admit that it still bothers me. I don't get the acceptance of having a baby with your boyfriend to be a positive trend. I am very tolerant, but there is something that bothers me about that. Whatever, I'll save the moralizing.

I just hate Friends, and I always will.
And I guess that makes me a unique and special snowflake because apparently the whole (English speaking, America centric) world seems to love that show.

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I seriously wish I could update this more. But now I am maintaining a WordPress blog for my class, the library blog for work, I am updating on Twitter, and I recently started a Tumblr blog. I may consider switching over to Tumblr because it's just so fun!

You won't be interested in reading my WordPress blog.
Perhaps someday I will consolidate all of this Web 2.o media. For now, I will just let it all float around.
Also: I am working on archiving my old Xanga posts. I don't want to lose them...I hope I haven't lost them already because I maintained that blog for nearly 5 years. Better get on that...

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