Dots & Slashes

What ARE "Dots" and "Slashes"...?

In the TV world there's "cheers and jeers." In the movie world there's "thumbs up" and "thumbs down." Well, here in cyberspace, there are  (...) dots and (/) slashes. Such are the icons for this web site's own quickie "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" list, which is added to whenever the latest entertainment news requires it.  What news bytes hit their mark, and which should be slashed? Here are the latest of them.

 

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Slash : To that inane GAP commercial for the "boyfriend pants." The idea is that a girl can go buy boy's pants if they want to. Well yeah, no duh there Sherlock. Go into the Men's department and buy a freaking pair of men's slacks if you like the color "beige" so much. Oh no, see; these pants are "different"...! How different? Well, you see, GAP was overstocked with beige slacks, so they changed....the name. We are almost tempted to give kudos to a brilliant sales strategy. If only we weren't so annoyed with the Ethyl-Merman song playing during the insipidly inane idiocy of an advertisement for these stupid beige pants. Oh; and no, dear, you don't wear the pants "better" than the man. Don't buy men's pants because you think it's "liberating" to wear men's pants. That's just stupid. Buy clothes you want to wear. That's "liberation," girl.

DOT :  To Lost learning from past mistakes. It is said that the "long hiatus" plan was a stupid idea, the producers and ABC know it, and that won't happen again. Yet what a return to the series it was, with the first glimpse at the back story of one of the so-called "Others," one of the Others shooting "another" other, as it were, and Kate and Sawyer well on their way back to the beach we've spent way too much time away from by now. As for new locations; who needs them? Sure the hatch is gone, but hey; that new hatch they found looked pretty cool. So did that hatch that has since been long abandoned by the Others. Either location could be made into the new "base" for our favorite Losties. Make it so!

Slash : To Heroes not learning from Lost's mistakes. Which is to say; it's about to go on hiatus, from March 5th all the way until mid April. That just sucks. "Slash," indeed. It's enough for us to slash the series upon its return straight to our Tivo, when we'll watch it...."whenever." Okay, yeah; we'll probably watch it live anyway, just because we're so hooked. The idea of a hiatus still sucks though. Who first came up with this idiotic idea?

Slash : To that stupid Super Bowl commercial about the two Snicker bar guys "kissing." So many people began pointing fingers that the reason for everyone hating this ad was "homophobia." Surprise! It was a gay and lesbian group that protested the ad, and requested the ad be removed. Good for them. What was this ad trying to say? That two guys were so ready to eat a Snickers that they almost kissed while eating the same Snickers...only to want to self mutilate one another in order to overcome this "horrible" moment in their lives? Let us be candid; the small, pittance of spin doctors who tried to defend this ad online were commercial company plants, probably, from the very commercial company responsible for this tripe. Now its gone...and good riddance.

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