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The one that you're supposed to make a big fuss over celebrating or participating in, but you really couldn't care less about or would rather put a bullet in your head than deal with the people who are into it.
I can only think of a few right now, so write in whatever votes you want.
Emmies and Grammies are much worse than the Oscars.
I don't disagree, but they are not huge events that people have parties for and that kind of thing.Quote:
Originally posted by What Exit?
Yeah, but no one makes a big deal out of the former two, while some persons -- including our resident genocidal maniac -- have been known to throw EPIC Oscar Night parties. Like the one from last night. You know, the one over which he will KILL the first mocker.Quote:
Originally posted by What Exit?
:D
Oh, OK. Nevermind.Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahfeena
Perhaps the Seinfeld or M*A*S*H finale parties could be added. I never had an Oscar party.
Chinese New Year.
I'm going to have to go with the Super Bowl. Now being a casual football fan is all fine and dandy, it's the ones that refer to their favored team as "our team". People get way to emotionally invested in a game or team that doesn't have anything to do with them,other than wanting their sweet,sweet money. The closest that people who actually think the Super Bowl is important get to the game is watching it on TV. Or maybe if they save their pennies they can get a few seats in the nosebleed section.
March Madness, the time when people who have never watched a college basketball game from start to finish in their life, try to push bracket sheets at me for the office pool.
People who root for college teams are a sad bunch. Most of them didn't even go to college(at least a lot of the hardcore fans I encounter didn't), and even if they did, calm down. So you spent 4 years in a particular place in your early 20s, nobody gives a fuck 10 or 15 years down the road.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
See, I disagree with that. I figure, I've got more claim to my college team than I do to the pro sports teams I'm a fan of. I mean, I chose the college I went to, you know? But I'm a Cubs and a Bears fan due to an accident of birth (kind of a major accident in the case of the Cubs).Quote:
Originally posted by Revs
But, but, Yankees (and Giants) are my birthright. This is what my parents gave me and they are treasured.Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahfeena
Granted, I sometimes (half-jokingly) compare being a Cubs fan to being Catholic...it's something my parents made me into. And in that way, I do cherish my fandom. I'm just saying that I think my allegiance to my college is on a different level...something that I earned, so to speak.Quote:
Originally posted by What Exit?
I think the poll results are skewed. This is like asking people what holiday they're most sick of...on December 27th. :D
I have a healthy disgust for what I consider the "Drunk College Students in Park Ave Again" holidays. So Hallowe'en annoys me, while the Oscars, or Grammies, or even March Madness, can't create the same level of "OMG won't those drunk assholes stop with the mosh pit, yet?!?!?" in me. I do have a certain disgust for March Madness, but that's more because I was at UMass while the Minutemen were a winning team (Gosh, Coach Cal sure stayed so well with that ten year contract...) and saw more than enough sports riots to make me utterly disgusted with the whole thing. But it's at one remove - it doesn't directly affect me.
The "Drunk" holidays, do.
I went with the Oscars. I think all the award shows are inherently eyeroll-worthy, and making such a fuss over any one in particular kind of irritates me.
Same for me and the Red Sox.Quote:
Originally posted by What Exit?
Revs, in some parts of the country and with certain teams feeling the way you describe is part of a shared cultural heritage.
I say Amateur Night for two reasons. First, every dickhead in a 200 mile radius packs into the bar and makes it impossible for a guy to get a drink. There's always some fuck named Chad or Brian wearing an Ed Hardy or Affliction shirt who has 50 strands of beads around his neck and some stupid hat on who's swilling down the Coors Light like his stomach is on fire, who then wants to start fights while his makeup be-caked dick holster shreiks at him while inhaling Jaegerbombs and trying to dance. Maybe this is appropriate behavior at Club Douche where you normally hang out, but this is a quiet little pub where we regulars like to come in and kill a few pints, maybe a couple of fingers of whiskey and have a good time. I will stab you both and leave you for dead next to the dumpster if you don't fuck off.
You forgot dick holster's name. Her name is always Amber.Quote:
Originally posted by Cluricaun
I find March Madness unbelievably obnoxious, but not as obnoxious as St. Patrick's Day. I have a lot of :RAEG: in March.
I thought it was Brandy (ie,ee, pick your spelling)Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Spring break.
MTV and BET make a really big deal of these.
Don't even get me started. I used to live in one of those spring break vacation towns.Quote:
Originally posted by jali
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Originally posted by Revs
Thanks be to all that's holy that no one in their right mind comes to Rochester for Spring Break.