My boycott list is growing

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So far it include Kardashians, Duggars, any Real Housewife and most TLC reality shows. My life is so much more pleasant. I am now adding Donald Trump. I will not open any threads or articles that mention him, watch any show he is on or read any hard copy reporting on him. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese do not go completely crazy and elect him down there!

[Deleted]

No, no, no, when we let Beiber visit you he was a nice, normal kid. You broke him you bought him

[swamp]

I'm amused by Biebets song Love Yourself

[justme]

Bahaha! "You broke him you bought him"

Though to be fair a decent number of us thought he was a plague even with his first song.

[NancysSummerSip]

Dec 22, 2015 10:03:56 GMT -5 justme said:

Bahaha! "You broke him you bought him"

Though to be fair a decent number of us thought he was a plague even when he first crawled out from under that wet log. with his first song.

Fixed. He's a mess. We'd consider taking Rob Ford off your hands if you'd let the Biebs slither back over the border - for good.

[MJ2.0]

we won't vote for Trump if you please take Raven Symone.

[Deleted]

Oh we'll throw Ford in for free. No need to thank us

[Deleted]

What's wrong with Raven Symone?

[MJ2.0]

Dec 22, 2015 10:14:37 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

What's wrong with Raven Symone?

she crazy as all hell.

[Lizard Queen]

She was so cute on the Cosby Show though. Not too familiar with her as an adult.

[chiver78]

but at least she more or less keeps to herself. I don't hear much about her, anyway, yet I can't seem to avoid news about everyone in Later's OP as well as whackjobs like Bieber and Miley Cyrus.

[Deleted]

Dec 22, 2015 10:32:18 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

but at least she more or less keeps to herself. I don't hear much about her, anyway, yet I can't seem to avoid news about everyone in Later's OP as well as whackjobs like Bieber and Miley Cyrus.

My goal is to not increase any of their numbers! I'm hoping if enough of us stop looking they will go away! I've had to unlike a few entertainment and news sites because of it.

[Deleted]

Dec 22, 2015 10:54:29 GMT -5 @tbird said:

Dec 22, 2015 9:53:59 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

So far it include Kardashians, Duggars, any Real Housewife and most TLC reality shows. My life is so much more pleasant. I am now adding Donald Trump. I will not open any threads or articles that mention him, watch any show he is on or read any hard copy reporting on him. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese do not go completely crazy and elect him down there!

interestingly, I have a very similar list of things I don't click into, but I had not conceptualized it as a boycott, just a lack of interest and a mild level of annoyance that such fluff was mixed in as "news".

While I agree with that the trump situation has gone in a direction that I can scarcely have anticipated - I do feel that as a US voter, I do need to keep up on the political end of things. So - I have read a few more articles than perhaps I would otherwise on the trumpness. It's not like he's just campaigning - he may well get the nomination.


so - I'm not sure how I could avoid it all and still be an informed voter? 

Have any of the articles about him laid out his actual platform? Everything I have seen about him can only be classed as publicity about the latest person or group of people he has insulted.

[Deleted]

Hey, I'm not out to control what you read. But I do believe the more reach we give articles about him the more access he gets to free publicity to spread his garbage.

[Virgil Showlion]

Another Donald Trump thread?

We already have so many, but I guess I can't stop you.

Let's discuss whether the focus on the more theatrical and personal aspects of his campaign is the result of a deficit in workable policies or whether his ideas are being buried by a hostile media.

[Virgil Showlion]

Dec 22, 2015 12:02:24 GMT -5 @tbird said:

Dec 22, 2015 11:41:19 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Another Donald Trump thread?

We already have so many, but I guess I can't stop you.

Let's discuss whether the focus on the more theatrical and personal aspects of his campaign is the result of a deficit in workable policies or whether his ideas are being buried by a hostile media.

feel free to start you own thread. this one isn't about that.

Could have fooled me.

Hey! Here's an idea! Let's start a thread to talk about how determined we are not to talk about Donald Trump. The thread won't actually have any topic. It will only have an anti-topic: Donald Trump. On-topic posts can contain literally anything as long as it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.

People will flock to the thread to post about their gout or why they hate frizzy hair or what the best way to unclog a toilet is. They won't talk about Donald Trump just because the OP is me patting myself on the back for ignoring Donald Trump, because that would mean that the thread was about Donald Trump after all, and that would just be stupid.

Next I'm going to start up a thread about how much I hate snow leopards and how I've risen above all that by not talking about snow leopards... except when I'm talking about how much I hate snow leopards and how I've risen above all that by not talking about snow leopards... except...

Wait... This is getting kind of complicated.

[Deleted]

Virgil Showlion do you do this on all the threads you post on or am I special?

[Virgil Showlion]

Dec 22, 2015 17:10:28 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Virgil Showlion do you do this on all the threads you post on or am I special?

Reply #20 came off harsher than intended.

I just choked a bit on yet another "I hate Donald Trump" thread. You were the messenger.

For the record: we know you hate Mr. Trump. That's why he's so popular.

You're getting a taste of what it's like to be a conservative. We're used to various people, issues, and movements being blown up to a thousandfold their nominal importance for no reason besides the fact that we can't stand them. Welcome to the club.

[Value Buy]

Dec 22, 2015 17:10:28 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Virgil Showlion do you do this on all the threads you post on or am I special?

Someone does not understand the irony of starting a thread including Trump in it, and saying enough is enough, and keeps banging their head against their keyboard in the irony they are creating through their response on the now banned subject........

[Virgil Showlion]

Dec 22, 2015 20:29:41 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Dec 22, 2015 17:10:28 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Virgil Showlion do you do this on all the threads you post on or am I special?

Someone does not understand the irony of starting a thread including Trump in it, and saying enough is enough, and keeps banging their head against their keyboard in the irony they are creating through their response on the now banned subject........

What I genuinely want to know is what we're supposed to talk about in this thread.

I say we make it about how much we all hate snow leopards.

Who's with me?

[NancysSummerSip]

Dec 22, 2015 20:38:12 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Dec 22, 2015 20:29:41 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Someone does not understand the irony of starting a thread including Trump in it, and saying enough is enough, and keeps banging their head against their keyboard in the irony they are creating through their response on the now banned subject........

What I genuinely want to know is what we're supposed to talk about in this thread.

I say we make it about how much we all hate snow leopards.

Who's with me?

No one is with you. We all like snow leopards.

And who the heck is this Sesil dude that you've hooked up with? Are you two just BFFs or is there something else we should know?

[Virgil Showlion]

Dec 22, 2015 20:54:13 GMT -5 NancysSummerSip said:

Dec 22, 2015 20:38:12 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

What I genuinely want to know is what we're supposed to talk about in this thread.

I say we make it about how much we all hate snow leopards.

Who's with me?

No one is with you. We all like snow leopards.

And who the heck is this Sesil dude that you've hooked up with? Are you two just BFFs or is there something else we should know?

Don't tell me you don't know about Cecil, the world's favouritest lion!?

He was shot by a poacher earlier this year. His death sparked more tears and rage than was generated from all murders, wars, and genocides between 2011-2014 combined (excepting the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown affairs).

The man who shot Cecil, a dentist by name of Palmer, is so bitterly hated by the American left that it's fair to say Mr. Trump is revered by comparison.

[Deleted]

Dec 22, 2015 20:29:41 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Dec 22, 2015 17:10:28 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Virgil Showlion do you do this on all the threads you post on or am I special?

Someone does not understand the irony of starting a thread including Trump in it, and saying enough is enough, and keeps banging their head against their keyboard in the irony they are creating through their response on the now banned subject........

This thread is about my efforts to actually boycott topics that I don't want to know about and my efforts to have a more positive influence on the media's choices of what to focus on. It takes real effort to actively avoid being part of the numbers on these topics. I'm only one person but I'm not the only one that does this and if more of us do it and stop mindlessly reading or watching whatever tripe they put on the screen the better we can make things. I have only mentioned exactly what I am boycotting once in this thread.

[Deleted]

Dec 22, 2015 20:29:41 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Dec 22, 2015 17:10:28 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Virgil Showlion do you do this on all the threads you post on or am I special?

Someone does not understand the irony of starting a thread including Trump in it, and saying enough is enough, and keeps banging their head against their keyboard in the irony they are creating through their response on the now banned subject........

See my previous post. What I hate is the media frenzy that focusses on ridiculous topics and dumbs us down as a society and our casual acceptance of said dumming down. What I am hoping people will be made aware of in this thread is the bit of power they could exercise in changing this trend.

[Virgil Showlion]

We could talk about why the board has gone berserk.

It's not me.

[Deleted]

LOL I did consider you were getting cranky and....

[TheOtherMe]

Dec 22, 2015 21:24:36 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

LOL I did consider you were getting cranky and....

As did I!

Later, if Trump is elected will you foster me?

[chiver78]

Dec 22, 2015 21:38:37 GMT -5 TheOtherMe said:

Dec 22, 2015 21:24:36 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

LOL I did consider you were getting cranky and....

As did I!

Later, if Trump is elected will you foster me?

if she doesn't, I will.   

I explored employment options in the Great White North back in 2004 around the time of Bush's first win (as opposed to his gift from the SCOTUS) and ultimately decided to stay here. if Trump is ever elected, oy. I'm finally where I want to be, but I would rent this house and find a job up north in a heartbeat.

I'm a dual citizen, so I have this luxury. I fear for the rest of you in this country who don't. I know this is from NBC and all, but I can't imagine it's all that far off - half of voters say they would be embarrassed by a Trump win

[Deleted]

Just so you guys know, I'm not falling for it! I'm not clicking on any of those Trump links!

[TheOtherMe]

Dec 22, 2015 21:45:27 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

Dec 22, 2015 21:38:37 GMT -5 TheOtherMe said:

As did I!

Later, if Trump is elected will you foster me?

if she doesn't, I will.   

I explored employment options in the Great White North back in 2004 around the time of Bush's first win (as opposed to his gift from the SCOTUS) and ultimately decided to stay here. if Trump is ever elected, oy. I'm finally where I want to be, but I would rent this house and find a job up north in a heartbeat.

I'm a dual citizen, so I have this luxury. I fear for the rest of you in this country who don't. I know this is from NBC and all, but I can't imagine it's all that far off - half of voters say they would be embarrassed by a Trump win

Thank you.  I tried to move north in 2004 and was a few points short on their test to even be considered.  My age was against me then and would be even worse now.  It doesn't matter that I live on a pension and would not be taking away a job.