From the Moscow based expat Exile magazine, one of their more provocative pieces:
http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=17534&IBLOCK_ID=35
Interesting, to say the least.
Vlad’s Daily Gloat is a hoot!
Ok…help me out. Is this a magazine run by Americans in Russia…along with Russians who hate Americans?? What a bad joke. Interesting and humorous hateful bias.(edit)…lol…and I like it.
Mildly amusing rantings with little real or substantive criticism.
As if Russia hadn’t any problems. That whole magazine is ludicrous, by which I mean a waste of time. I mean garbage.
I’m sure it HAS to be for humor only. Right?
Like most whiny ass rants it gave me a headache.
He should give up his U.S. passport.
On the other hand, the bank calendar girls are nice.
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
As if Russia hadn’t any problems. That whole magazine is ludicrous, by which I mean a waste of time. I mean garbage.[/quote]
Actually, despite the frequent insulting commentaries and occasional frat boy humor, they seem to have a certain reputation:
The “War Nerd” column is a very interesting read. One may not agree with what the write, but it is quite entertaining.
Amusing, but hardly revelatory. I used to read Russian newspapers a while back. The general tone of them is roughly on par with the US “National Enquirerer” i.e., they are sensationalistic rags. Hell, go look at today’s Pravda:
Aside from the usual xenophobic harangues, the Science section has articles on a boy who thinks he’s from Mars and levitation.
… And this is a huge step up in credibility from when it was run by the Soviets!
– jj
Who can argue with the Ellen rant, though?
Hell, I read that and I was ready to pack my bags.
[quote]loppar wrote:
Schwarzfahrer wrote:
As if Russia hadn’t any problems. That whole magazine is ludicrous, by which I mean a waste of time. I mean garbage.
Actually, despite the frequent insulting commentaries and occasional frat boy humor, they seem to have a certain reputation:
The “War Nerd” column is a very interesting read. One may not agree with what the write, but it is quite entertaining.[/quote]
War Nerd is definitely the best part of The Exile.
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
Amusing, but hardly revelatory. I used to read Russian newspapers a while back. The general tone of them is roughly on par with the US “National Enquirerer” i.e., they are sensationalistic rags. Hell, go look at today’s Pravda:
Aside from the usual xenophobic harangues, the Science section has articles on a boy who thinks he’s from Mars and levitation.
… And this is a huge step up in credibility from when it was run by the Soviets!
– jj[/quote]
That’s even funnier than Vlad’s gloats.
I thought “pravda” meant “truth”, I see now it means “news from the fox.”
The exile is political satire, like the onion with a little more basis.
You should read some of their stuff on Latin American politics, it’s really funny.
I wouldn’t be so offended, they’ve torn Russia’s ass open too.
As well as Paraguays…Argentina…Uruguay.
They are heinous towards every race of the world’s people.
It’s a good magazine.
It like the Onion but more international and intellectual.
I want to work for the eXile man, I wonder how I could get an internship there or something. I love their paper.
[quote]Sikkario wrote:
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It like the Onion but more international and intellectual.[/quote]
And much more poorly done.
When one of America’s most painful issues, its racist history, is allegedly solved because white people vote for a moderate-conservative Wall Street black guy with male-magazine looks and a CNN voice which utters words carefully steering away from anything about the whole race issue that might upset people–in other words, every white American’s Dream Negro–then all we can say is, like the midget lady in Poltergeist, “This house is clean.” CUT TO: thunder, lightening, and suddenly the earth shakes as hundreds of millions of ghosts rise from the Red States, shocking pollsters, who were sure Obama was going to win!
huh . . . . what? I can’t tell if that’s so sarcastic that it comes across as stupid, or the other way around. The whole thing comes across as yet another enlightened magazine that devotes it’s time to announcing “Everyone everywhere is stupid and wortless but us!”
I’ll pass. I can find enough mindless America hatred by accident without going out looking for it.
[quote]loppar wrote:
Schwarzfahrer wrote:
As if Russia hadn’t any problems. That whole magazine is ludicrous, by which I mean a waste of time. I mean garbage.
Actually, despite the frequent insulting commentaries and occasional frat boy humor, they seem to have a certain reputation:
The “War Nerd” column is a very interesting read. One may not agree with what the write, but it is quite entertaining.[/quote]
Okok , I have to agree, “warnerd” is fine.
NUMBER 8
Seth McFarlane. It isn’t just that McFarlane’s Family Guy shamelessly plagiarizes from The Simpsons, nor is it just the endless cheap references to bad pop culture icons. Family Guy is much worse and much more evil than that: an anti-Simpsons antidote for zombies who want to get rid of the annoying buzz of vestigial decency in their rotting heads. They want that decency removed, and Family Guy does it non-stop, scene by scene, undoing the unwanted education all those Simpson episodes forced down their throats with a spoonful of sugar. McFarlane’s show reinforces their meanest, dumbest instincts. And it’s a huge hit.
Nicholas Berg Factor: We would seriously consider converting to Islam if someone would slowly saw McFarlane’s head off while forcing him to sing the theme song to “Three’s Company,” complete with laugh track.
Apparently these morons are unable to realize that comedy isn’t always meant to be serious. While there is a good amount of satire in Family Guy, not all of it is mean to be taken seriously (like the jokes made on racial or religious stereotypes).
I do not really know why they call Family Guy an anti-Simpsons show, especially when the two shows have completely different purposes and style of humor. Also the fact that Seth McFarlane and Matt Groenig are friends would lead one to think there isn’t plagiarism, because who would want to befriend someone that steals your ideas?
[quote]Bona wrote:
I do not really know why they call Family Guy an anti-Simpsons show, [/quote]
Because Family Guy is for attention-span challenged idiots.