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After the jump, the five Highest Rated comments, as voted on by you, the Lowest Rated comment, the winner of the Gerard Butler Charity Soccer Match Butt Photo Caption Contest, and the Editor’s and Associate Editor’s Choice.
This Week’s Highest Rated Comments
| #5 | Kelly Laughton | May 29th | Score:60 | |
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Surprise! There’s a horribly degrading situation here to see you! |
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| Posted in: Mad Men: This Is A Good Show | |||
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topknot | May 29th | Score:60 |
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I thought Don kissing Peggy’s hand was a pretty amazing moment. |
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| Posted in: Mad Men: This Is A Good Show | |||
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facetaco | May 30th | Score:63 |
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5. Never made it as a wise man. |
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| Posted in: A Friendly Chat With Gabe And Kelly: Dominic Monaghan Accuses Matthew Fox Of Beating Women On Twitter | |||
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king curtis | May 29th | Score:64 |
| Posted in: Game Of Thrones Open Thread | |||
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Bookworm | May 29th | Score:71 |
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“We need to talk about the bonuses.” – Lane’s headstone |
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| Posted in: Mad Men: This Is A Good Show | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: BOOKWORM! Great job. Good joke. Everybody else great job good joke, too, but especially Bookworm. And about the Don kissing Peggy's hand moment -- was that moment REALLY so great? People keep talking about how that moment was so great, and certainly the GIF of that moment is so great, but within the moment it seemed like an empty gesture from a shithead who was just being a huge jerk two seconds before. Maybe I just hate Don too much? I kind of hate Don. Maybe you have to not hate Don to really "get" Mad Men. I liked Peggy's reaction to it, though. ANYWAY. Good jobs! Good weekends!]
This Week’s Lowest Rated Comment
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eldave | May 30th | Score:-15 |
| Because that’s how v-gum rolls. Calling a child childish. Let’s review: This poster is a sixteen year old girl on YouTube. “Childish hate-monger” is a good description of 9 out of 10 sixteen year old girls. She’s just decided to move on from “hate mongering” toward her parents. Haters be hatin’. That what they do. And yes, this sixteen year old blond white girl from the suburbs is sooooo scary. What violence, what unrepentant hatred! Let’s all freak out! Or just insult her. Yeah, that’s better. Let’s insult how childish children are. | |||
| Posted in: Let’s Help This Sad Childish Hate-Monger Get The Word Out About Her Bigotry | |||
[Ed. Note: I don't know why this comment is the lowest rated comment, because it's a pretty good comment! I mean, I do know why, but it actually does make some pretty fair points. It's always a tricky subject when you get into teasing and/or calling out young people, and as a general rule it's probably to be avoided. That being said, this wasn't an instance of a young person being exploited. She chose to record herself and chose to post it on the Internet in the hopes of getting attention. So, we talked about it. And mostly it was an entry point to talk about the points she was raising. Was that fair? I honestly do not know. Part of me says yes, part of me agrees with El Dave. Although, the counter-argument that this isn't worth discussing because all teenagers are just grouchy and whether it's their parents they're bitching about or an online public discussion of institutionalized, legalized bigotry is nonsense. Those are not the same thing. Just as it's not an actual insult to call a child "childish," even though that's not actually what anyone was doing. It's her terrible opinions that are childish. Goodnight!]
This Week’s Caption Contest Winner
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catweazle | May 29th | Score:46 | |
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Let’s just get the obvious out of the way: Gerard Buttler |
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| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: Gerard Butler Charity Soccer Match Butt Photo | |||
[Ed. Note: Congratulations, catweazle! You earned it.]
This Week’s Associate Editor’s Choice
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Frank Lloyd Wrong | May 31st | Score:50 | |
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They stole some money and then they stole Samoa. |
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| Posted in: Just A Pretty Good Interview With Two Girls Who Robbed A Child | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: Also all of the Girl Scout cookie jokes that followed this one, but this one especially for setting it all off.]
This Week’s Editor’s Choice
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Steve Winwood | 11:42am | Score:13 | |
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Green Lantern is also fake. |
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| Posted in: Duh Aficionado Magazine: The Green Lantern Is Gay | |||
[Ed. Note: THIS GUY!]
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Ooh-ooooooooooohhhh, ooh-ooooooooooooooohh-WHEEEEE!!!
That was for Chi-town…
Ha ha, we get it everytime
You got me on? Ohh
Shout out to all of my crew, Austin, NY
Listen.. people be askin me all the time,
“Yo Trash, what’s gettin ready to happen with Monsters’ Ball?”
(Where do you think Monsters’ ball is goin?)
I tell em, “You know what’s gonna happen with Monsters’ Ball?
Whatever’s happening with us”
If we smoked out, Monsters’ Ball is gonna be smoked out
If we doin alright, Monsters’ Ball is gonna be doin alright
People talk about Monsters’ Ball like it’s some giant living in the hillside
comin down to visit the townspeople
We (are) Monsters’ Ball
Me, you, everybody, we are Monsters’ Ball
So Monsters’ Ball is goin where we goin
So the next time you ask yourself where Monsters’ Ball is goin
ask yourself.. where am I goin? How am I doin?
Til you get a clear idea
So.. if Monsters’ Ball is about the monsters
and the.. Monsters’ Ball won’t get better until the monsters get better
then how do monsters get better? (Hmmmm…)
Well, from my understanding monsters get better
when they start to understand that, they are valuable
And they not valuable because they got a whole lot of upvotes
or cause somebody, think they avatar sexy
but they valuable caause they been created by God
And God, makes you valuable
And whether or not you… recognize that value is one thing
You got a lot of Websites and social networks
tryin to be God, wishin that they were God
They wanna create backtracks and Facebook connects everywhere
and make you think they got the all-seein eye
Eh.. I guess The Last Poets wasn’t, too far off
when they said that certain people got a God Complex
I believe it’s true
I don’t get phased out by none of that, none of that
TMZs, 4chans, Fox Nations, the..
Yahoo Answers.. they just, wishin
When they tell me to fear they law
When they tell me to try to
have some fear in my heart behind the things that they do
This is what I think in my mind
And this is what I say to them
And this is what I’m sayin to you, check it
All over the world keyboards pound with the rhythm
Fear not of trolls because trolls must die
Mindgrapes over matter and soul before flesh
Angels for the pain keep a record in time
which is passin and runnin like a caravan freighter
The world is overrun with the Danzigs and Matthew Foxes
But God is sufficient in disposin of affairs
Kool-Aid Gunmen and Cookie thieves try to merit my fear
But God is sufficient over plans they prepared
Chris Trash in the flesh, where you at, right here
on this place called Videogum, holdin down my square
Bout to represent in your whole atmosphere
Bout to represent in your whole atmosphere
to your atmosphere, to your atmosphere
Oh-ooooooohhhhhhhhhh!
That was for you – and Winwood too!
Mos Trash.
I most definitely love this.
True story: a friend of mine recounted a story to me where in his English high school class another acquaintance of mine tried to pass of a Mos Def song as a poem he wrote fort he class. After he read the poem, the class applauded and the teacher opened it up to questions, and my friend raised his hand and all he said was “I don’t have a question. I just want to say that that was MOS DEFINITELY the best poem I’ve ever heard.” Only him and the plagiarist knew, at the time but I’ve always loved that story even though it’s only a peripheral story. That’s all.
I’ve had 3 scotches so far tonight. GOOD START.
Did I fall off?
Got you in your room ripping every Steve Winwood poster on the wall off?
Just cause I told Gabe to turn LOST off?
Now got you sitting back with a smirk and your arms crossed?
Questionin’ Steve’s credibility (whaaat?)
Axin’ if its still in me to make worst comment
Yall be killing me
As if I need your downvote
I got an EGOT after six weeks of worst comment in a row
MOTHA FUCKAAAAAA
It’s Friday, let’s dance
Done and Done
Dammit. That was supposed to be a dancing dog. Sorry, Rob dot Nu.
SALSA DOG!!!
Yay, monsters! It’s the weekend! Have a great one!
it’s the weekend y’all , so excited, so scared
My favorite part of this repeating scene is when the poster on the back wall comes into view to read “Back by Popular Demand”. over and over and over…
Have a howlingly good weekend everyone!
Can I rage for a minute on here? Just one minute. I’ll time it. My roommate is moving out, has his own place as of today, and I am SO PSYCHED to have the place all to myself like a proper adult, but he hasn’t even started to pack yet. Like, not even one single sock. He hasn’t even gone to get boxes to put his stuff in yet. Worse things have happened to better people, but man oh man I was going to spend the whole weekend cleaning and baking and having suuuuuper long baths with bottles of wine, and probably be naked for most of it. I was soooooooooo excited to be living on my own! No stinky boys with their stinky cats lousing up the joint! My apartment would finally look and smell like a GIRL’S APARTMENT! Oh well. Can’t be more than a week longer, right??
I definitely read that as you want to live in Lena Dunham’s apartment, also good luck
Just do everything you were looking forward to and he’ll be gone soon enough.
Wait, nevermind. Someone running around the house naked, cleaning and baking yummies with a bottle of wine would probably make anyone want to stay, regardless of sexual orientation or gender. Just start peeing on the floor, I guess?
Actually with all the storms, protesters, and cannibalized dismembered bodies in Montreal at the minute I’m probably better off having someone else around the apartment for a bit longer. He’s tall and has muscles, I can forego a bit of cleaning and bubble bathing for security’s sake I suppose.
Is there a high frequency noise boy deterrent you could plug in like I’ve seen for mice?
I’m guessing the answer is some kind of terrible girl band or band designed to appeal to girls? Or maybe a super gross super girly Glade plug-in? That and a_band (my brain is too fried to remember a bad band that boys really hate that girls love) might work.
Or cry a lot? Then say it’s NOTHING.
I DON’T KNOW BUT GOOD LUCK GODSPEED. LIVING ALONE IS THE BEST.
YES IT IS. After a ridiculous 2 months of moving and traveling and constant work/rehearsing, this is actually the first night (after post work drinks) I’ve come home to my own apartment and had nothing planned, nothing to do but some scotch, some cooking and some chilling out. Living alone is a beautiful dream finally realized. I feel you Fatima, you are going to enjoy the hell out it.
YES YES YES YES YES to living alone. Although I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am a little afraid that I am going feral.
Aw, thanks gang! It’s going to be my first time ever living 100% completely alone (I have a big family and always had roomies once I moved out) and I’m a little nervous! I have a beautiful Victorian apartment that I love very very much, but it’s old and makes funny noises at night! And when there is another human being and a cat around, rational Fatima rules my brain, but when I am all alone without so much as a cat to blame the strange night-time noises on scaredy-pants Fatima is going to come out and what if I never sleep again??
Is there a high frequency noise boy deterrent you could plug in like I’ve seen for mice?
I’m guessing the answer is some kind of terrible girl band or band designed to appeal to girls? Or maybe a super gross super girly Glade plug-in? That and _______ (my brain is too fried to remember a bad band that boys really hate that girls love) might work.
Or cry a lot? Then say it’s NOTHING.
I DON’T KNOW BUT GOOD LUCK GODSPEED. LIVING ALONE IS THE BEST.
My weekend is one long Graduation Celebration for the blue frosting avatar! Woohoo!
Tell him all the Monsters say Congratulations!
Also, make sure to tell him that we all know what he looked like as a child, because we saw a picture on the internet.
lol if he knew he’d kill me dead!
I’m working all weekend. Again. I have become the most boring person alive because I work all the time and never do anything else and I don’t even have any real money to show for all the working, just a slightly smaller credit card bill. #grumpygum
Everyone else, go do fun things and have interesting lives and great weekends!
I’m right there with you. In hell.
tornado and flash flood watch party!
13 always was my lucky number
This morning, I spent 5 and a half hours in a lineup.
Sounds terrible, but the line was to get tickets to the Edmonton folk fest(a 4-day live music extravaganza in a natural amphitheatre, the best festival of all in a city that has branded itself on its excellent festivals). There is literally nothing else I would ever wait in line that long for. And it was outside in the sunshine, and I brought books and snacks, so it was actually pretty fun!
I am so excited!
Nice! I just had a conversation with a friend of mine who goes to the folk fest every year (though not this year) and he had nothing but good things to say. Very excited for you!
Did I miss the Downton Abbey recap this week?
here it is:
We didn’t get one. Unless I fell and hit my head and missed it.
It’s getting hard for me to keep up. Lots of awesome comments this week.
And Kelly, stop blanket-hating Don! He has many layers!
at least three blanket layers.
Is anybody else getting a banner ad for a retrospective of Kim Kardashian Bikini Moments? Kim Kardashian herself probably doesn’t care as much about this as Celebuzz apparently does.
Certainly didn’t expect to win the caption contest with that one! Was more expecting a Robert Downer Jr. type situation.
I appologize to Top Knot for the failed emergency response in regards to the caption contest on the other side of the wall at Stereogum. You’re right. It’s probably better to be thrown well clear of that burning train wreck. If it’s any consolation, you have a deluxe vinyl version of Dirty Projectors new album being mailed to you in my heart.
Did he lose to that jerky jerk? Boooooo! Sorry Topknot! We fought a good fight.
I’m late to the Ball, but happy weekend, Monsters! I just had a fabulous time with girlfriends and have wonderful plans to sleep in and watch some kind of Diamond Jubilee business tomorrow! Have fun and be safe, everyone!
The girls and I are all dolled up in our reds, whites and blues* with our “diamond” earrings and giant silly hats and we are celebrating the SHIT out of Liz’s jubilee starting in about 2 hours!
*As in UK colours, although I’m sure many people will confuse us with latenik Memorial Day partiers.
That sounds amaaazing! I am so jealous! (Although my girlfriends and I got all dressed up for a big fancy dinner and wine tasting last night, but it had nothing to do with the Jubilee, alas!) I think I slept TOO late today to see any coverage of the Epsom Derby, but I DID in fact watch that Katie Couric special with all the interviews with the Princes and Princesses Bea and Eug (who were not wearing silly hats much to my disappointment.)
Hoping to catch the flotilla pageant because that sounds KIND OF AMAZING.
I saw this yesterday but didn’t get a chance to comment. This week has been shite, but this really made it better. Thanks Monsters.
Congrats!!!
I’m honored that the lowest rated comment was a reply to mine. Thats like knowing someone that won a Grammy for like, best production or something.
To the editor: Touche, and thank you for your thoughtful response. I was kind of just riffing on HKT’s query. I am proud of the lowest-rated comment this week. Thanks to all the downvoters. However, I am a bit dismayed because I have made much worse (offensive, trollish, stupid) comments that have gleaned far more downvotes. Maybe that means that this was a good, positive week.
Anyways, I hate talking about me, and maybe this is old news (I’m sure this dropped on V-gum like two years ago and I missed it), but I just saw a tailer for a movie with Abraham Lincoln fighting vampires. It was during the NBA playoffs, which told me that this was either a real movie or I was having an acid flashback. Anyway, can a monster give me a link?