snookin for love
July 25, 2010 8:55 AM Subscribe
Snooki, of Jersey Shore fame, has been profiled in the New York Times. Is it any wonder that it is less than positive? Previously on MetaFilter.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Ugh, I don't think anybody doesn't think Jersey Shore is kind of a horrible media artifact in the first place and one long bumpy post about it this year was probably enough. -- cortex
I've never watched Jersey Shore, nor do I have any plans to, and I don't know much about this Snooki chick, but I'd like to counter the avalanche of greaseball/guido/Jersey jokes by mentioning that I've know plenty of people who've looked like these folks who were actually really great people. YMMV.
posted by jonmc at 9:01 AM on July 25, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by jonmc at 9:01 AM on July 25, 2010 [3 favorites]
Shit Sandwich, served on the Jersey shore, eat up, there's more where that came from.
posted by dbiedny at 9:08 AM on July 25, 2010
posted by dbiedny at 9:08 AM on July 25, 2010
I don't know...I think I am in the "less-than-positive profile or no, why give these assholes more exposure?" camp.
posted by m0nm0n at 9:21 AM on July 25, 2010
posted by m0nm0n at 9:21 AM on July 25, 2010
Those truffle fries will get you every time.
posted by box at 9:25 AM on July 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by box at 9:25 AM on July 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
I find that opinion to be a little hypocritical, although not of you personally, m0nm0n. We all love to pile on the NYT being behind the times and a dinosaur, but they get backlash when they try to cover cultural phenomena. And Jersey Shore is a bona-fide cultural phenomenon. Why give them more exposure? Because it's cultural news.
posted by griphus at 9:26 AM on July 25, 2010
posted by griphus at 9:26 AM on July 25, 2010
What's the point of this post? Not being specious, I really can't figure it out.
posted by signal at 9:31 AM on July 25, 2010
posted by signal at 9:31 AM on July 25, 2010
I've never watched the show, but this horrible excuse for a story seems to have as its only purpose, to tear down and insult this woman. We have enough of that kind of thing going on in the world.
And this FPP, by extension, seems made for us for the sole reason to point and laugh.
posted by cmgonzalez at 9:34 AM on July 25, 2010
And this FPP, by extension, seems made for us for the sole reason to point and laugh.
posted by cmgonzalez at 9:34 AM on July 25, 2010
"[Slitscan's audience] is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."posted by codacorolla at 9:35 AM on July 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
I can hardly imagine what it must be like to be an Italian-American and have Jersey Shore be the popular culture representation of my ethnic group. Maybe if MTV did a reality show called Southie where Irish-Americans were represented by a group of brawling drunks.
As for Snooki herself, she seems to have been spoiled for almost all her life and her handlers probably already have the ten-years-past what-ever-happened-to special already planned.
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:36 AM on July 25, 2010
As for Snooki herself, she seems to have been spoiled for almost all her life and her handlers probably already have the ten-years-past what-ever-happened-to special already planned.
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:36 AM on July 25, 2010
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