Enlighten Me, Please
January 16th, 2006 at 9:18 pm by CrankyAs I sit here in my basement office, my significant other is upstairs watching a show where people congratulate themselves for doing movies that she hasn’t seen and ogling the women’s outfits in a way that would get me permanently relocated to the couch.
My questions are dismissed with a harsh look and a “shoosh”, so it remains a mystery what she gets out of the Golden Globes.
So I appeal to you dear readers, especially the ladies to explain to me what the fascination is with awards shows.
This is only the beginning, soon she will inflict the Oscars, Emmys and the Country Music Awards on me. For crying out loud, she doesn’t even listen to Country Music.
January 16th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Sorry Cranky, I couldn’t tell you as I don’t watch those shows. Hollyweird is so twisted that I only watch a couple of movies a year and that’s usually on DVD.
Although, she could be watching them to have a good laugh?!
January 16th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
The only reason I will watch the Globes tonight is in hope of seeing Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal Gedder up or is that Giddy up
January 16th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
I’d rather watch paint dry. Award shows are full of people that need constant justification of their existance.
I chose to watch hour three and four of “24″ tonight. Jack Bauer, being politically incorrect, shoots and blows up terrorists. Why does he do this? As they like to say in the south, “They needed killin’”
January 17th, 2006 at 12:30 am
I can’t believe anybody takes them seriously. Has everybody forgotten how Pia Zadora “won” one of those awards after her then-hubby made a sizable “donation” to them?
January 17th, 2006 at 8:09 am
Thanks all. I did press the issue last night and got a bit of clarification. “They’re funny” and “I don’t know, the outfits.”
J Rob, she knows it’s a put on. That’s what makes it all the more exasperating.
BTW, we taped 24. Will see tonight.
January 17th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Cranky, how can someone answer this without insulting your wife? I assume that since she’s married to you, she’s not the average glam-addict.
Perhaps with females, who spent so much evolutionary time watching the young and flames flickering from the fire while waiting for important things to happen…dead animals being dragged back and sutff like that, it has some Darwinian time-passing meaning.
This is also why they shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
January 17th, 2006 at 9:50 am
Cranky,
I feel for you man, I do I do. I am fortunate that I am married to a woman that watched 24 with me last night. We have not watched a award show in years, so I am a blessed man.
Stay strong, be couragous, serve God in all things, and keep up the fight to change viewing habits world wide.
January 17th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Cranky,
I used to be one of those women like your wife. I would waste many hours watching. I had no good reason to watch, but I did. (I still sometimes get sucked in) When asked why I would watch I gave the same mumbled excuse,”I dunno, the outifts.” It’s was, and sometimes still is, a guilty pleasure watching. Seeing what those people will wear and being able to talk about it gives us something to do, I suppose. See, no real good reason.
Anyway, there is hope. My husband pretty much shamed it out of me -in a polite way, of course, but that is how he got me to pretty much quit watching. Now I just wait for Joan and Melissa for the replay and only have to waste an hour instead of three.
January 17th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Cranky, you know I share your opinion of these self-congratulatory televised circle-jerks.
I’m fortunate that Mrs. Holmes doesn’t care much for this vapid claptrap – though she has watched the Oscars from time-to-time. I try to ignore that.
I figure I owe her that given all the stuff I do that she ignores.
January 17th, 2006 at 10:33 am
I only watched 15 minutes in which my husband came in and berated me for the same.
Honestly, I HATE awards shows, I really dislike movies nowadays and I refuse to give one penny to those godless star fuckers.
But, I was checking it out to see how bad it was. Also to see that they have really stopping talking politics from the podium.
HAR! I bet it killed them not being able to spout out a bunch of lunacy about Middle America. But, the toll has already been taken as shown by the miserable failure of so called “movie blockbusters” the past two years.
January 17th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Babycranks, Mrs. Cranky probably just wanted some time to herself since she knew that you wouldn’t want to watch any of those award shows. That’s the only way to explain the CMAs.
January 17th, 2006 at 10:53 am
Worst Birthday Present, Ever.
Geez, Tom, if you really want to get out of the doghouse, try getting her an iron, or maybe a vacuum next year. Or suffer the fate of getting relegated to the basement while your wife watches award shows where…
January 17th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
You should take a positve view. We endured it for about 15 minutes while the kids got ready for bed.
I, personally, admired the many golden globes in the outfits.
Then we put the kids in bed and watched all four episodes of 24 on the DVR.
January 17th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
What the??? I do NOT watch the Oscars. Cranky, I cannot explain this phenomenon. Some of the most intelligent and well-informed women I know eagerly await the arrival of their People magazine. I just don’t get it.
January 17th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
Thanks all! BTW, Feisty touched on an angle I suspected – Put something on the tube that would drive the annoying hubby downstairs.
January 18th, 2006 at 4:25 am
Well, I don’t watch these shows, but my husband gave me a Golden Award for my Globes.