>>>>What amazes me most Peter is the fact that you find the time to watch stupid games like those (yes i looked up what it was all about)
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>>>Be careful on that pedestal. Oxygen levels can be pretty low at your rarified height of intellectual snobbery.
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>>Disdaining a show with a skill and suspense level right up there with coin flipping is 'intellectual snobbery'?
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>Nope......But insulting somebody for watching that show meets my definition of intellectual snobbery.
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>>Man, you really set the bar high <bg>
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>I see the grin but I want to make a serious point. I actually don't set a bar at all.
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>I don't understand why but there are actually some people in this world who actually like to watch ballet (and pay lots of money for the privelege).
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>I don't understand why but there are actually some people in this world who think a 10-8 baseball game is more exciting than a 1-0 game.
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>I don't understand why but there are actually some people in this world who enjoy things that I think are silly, inane, etc.
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>But I won't insult anybody for having tastes that don't match my own.

Of course your point is a good one. We all have 'guilty pleasure' low-brow tastes. I have season tickets for the ballet and never miss an episode of "Family Guy" My wife, whom I love dearly and has her masters from Smith can zone out in front of QVC or watch pretty much any Goldie Hawn movie for the 300th time. I find baseball and soccer completely unwatchable ( and am admittedly ignorant of the subtleties of both ) but consider the NFL and NBA holy.

And ok, I really do care who becomes the new Pussycat Doll, America's Next Top Model and especially who wins Project Runway.

Had the discussion been just about Deal or No Deal I would have completely stayed out of it. But an attempt at somehow establishing cultural superiority based on the perceived state of the audience of that kind of show just seems so completely brain-dead I wonder if maybe the show isn't just over his head <g>