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    Image of SharonTaint SharonTaint
    05:54 PM

    In reply to High Glitz: Exploring Child Pageants Through A Feminist Lens
    Number 4 could be a Zoloft ad, I'm sorry to report. But these are the facts.

    That little girl is sad beyond her years.
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    05:45 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    I love spoilers. I can't do things like watch live sports because I get all tense and nervous. I like being emotionally prepared for what's going to happen and, like someone else said, seeing the leadup and the cause and effect of the facts that I know. I don't like not knowing what's going to happen in any aspect, really-- I'm a big planner and scheduler and as-far-in-advance-as-possible-er..., and I find being spoiled for a movie or show really... comforting. I'm comfortable being unspoiled for novels, though, and I can't really figure out why I feel differently about that than other stuff. #spoilers
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    05:39 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    There is a difference between spoilers and SPOILERS.
    Knowing that Betty and Don split isn't the same as knowing Verbal Kint is Kaiser Soze.
    As someone who is extremely gifted at prediction (it's a gift and a curse), movies rarely surprise me. It is awesome when one does and I will cut a bitch for ruining it for me. #spoilers
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    05:44 PM

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: Also, I fucking love that movie so much it's unreal. I should have known something was up when I found out the lawyers name was "Kobayashi". Capt. Kirk would have figured it out. #spoilers
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    Image of keldo keldo
    05:46 PM

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: My son shares your talent - he susses out the whole movie in 5 minutes. The one movie that blindsided him was The Usual Suspects. He loved it.

    I see nothing coming.... #spoilers
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    06:00 PM

    @keldo: Same here. I have been known to predict an entire film, including the identity of the secret bad guy, after viewing the movie trailer. #spoilers
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    05:36 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    I'm trying to get caught up on S3 of Mad Men so I am dealing with this right now. The way I see it, once the episodes aired, the onus was on me to avoid spoiling the show for myself. That means no comment threads, no recaps, no stories on CNN, no nothing. That is my responsibility, not anyone else's.

    It's unfortunate when something is spoiled before I have a chance to see it, but...well, I'll just refer to the tag #firstworldproblem for my ultimate opinion on the matter. #spoilers
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    05:33 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    I'm still pissy that the results of the '08 election were spoiled for me. I mean, hello! Some of us have to be at work at 5 am and can't stay up late to watch live coverage!

    Assholes. #spoilers
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    Image of RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee) RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
    05:31 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    My favorite will always be the coworker from a former company who became really pissy after she overheard one of my coworkers say the boat sinks in "Titanic." Um, it's /the Titanic/. #spoilers
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    05:23 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    I figure after 1 year, movie plot twists are fair game. I'm sorry, but if you're not aware that Bruce Willis is dead, Snape killed Dumbledore, Vader was Luke's father, or the Little Mermaid gets the prince in the end, you're SOL. It's probably already out on DVD so at this point you're dragging your feet. TV shows are a little trickier, but generally I think the onus is on the person who is avoiding spoilers to avoid them. If you're still on season 2 of Mad Men, it would behoove you not to click on a link that has a picture of a character from the show on it because even if the story doesn't spoil you, the comments might.

    Obviously, it's polite not to spoil lesser known movies (ie. yes, Bruce Willis is dead and everyone knows it but I'm not going to tell you the ending of The Others because that movie is less scary if you know the end or tell you the reason the girl in Stir of Echoes was haunting the house without a spoiler warning because not everyone saw that) but there are some things that are just part of the damn cultural lexicon now and you can't complain because I ruined The Little Mermaid by telling you that she gets legs and marries Eric. #spoilers
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    Image of BeckyIva BeckyIva
    05:33 PM

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: I agree with you with the 1 year limit on movies, but the Snape/Dumbledore example is questionable b/c that is actually from a BOOK. And I think spoiling a book is the eighth deadly sin. #spoilers
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    05:38 PM

    @BeckyIva: But it's a book that everyone who wants to read it will have read by now. It's not like Harry Potter is some awesome little YA series I found randomly on the shelf at Borders and want to recommend to friends. #spoilers
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    Image of hughman hughman
    05:40 PM

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: wait, BRUCE WILLIS WAS DEAD?!? man, i'm never watching another Die Hard movie. #spoilers
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    05:43 PM

    @hughman: Well played. #spoilers
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    Image of BeckyIva BeckyIva
    05:49 PM

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: True, but I am pretty adamant about my book spoiling rule. I get it from my mother. She raised us to have a religious respect for books. #spoilers
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    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    05:21 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    I always, always see things months, even years after everybody else, so I've stopped caring about spoilers (for example, the majority of the spoilers above I heard before I saw the movies/shows in question). I really have no one to blame but myself and if the movie/show/book is good, it really doesn't spoil anything. If a story is so dependent on a twist that a spoiler would completely ruin it, I probably wouldn't like it anyway. #spoilers
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    05:19 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    Whenever I'm talking to someone about some book or movie or TV show, and they say, "Oh no! Don't tell me any more! I want to watch it myself!," I kick into Extra Obnoxious mode and just start saying random shit that is absolutely not true, mixed with some things that may be true, and some things that actually are true.

    You haven't read the seventh Harry Potter book? Harry dies! And he's resurrected and turns into a unicorn, and then he and Hermione get married, but the law forbids it and so they basically spend the rest of the book challenging the illegality of their marriage in the magical court system. Overall, a letdown. Except for that gay sex scene between Draco and that random Muggle he meets at the train station. #spoilers
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    Image of futuremouse futuremouse
    05:33 PM

    @morninggloria: I would not be opposed to this version of events replacing the epilogue to book 7. #spoilers
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    Image of Cimorene Cimorene
    05:18 PM

    In reply to Why Men Should Learn To Like Period Sex
    I'm generally cool with period sex, though now that I live with my partner I'm like--we can have sex whenever we want, and I don't like having bloody sheets, so let's not do it for a couple days.

    But when I started dating my now boyfriend, he was a graduate student and had slightly different standards of living than me. Like, one time we had period sex, and at some point he put his hand on the wall to steady himself. There was a bloody handprint on the wall until he moved out like 6 months later, and he washed it off after he moved all his shit out.

    It was both hilariously disgusting, because it was fucking blood on the wall for god's sake, which is gross. But it was also kind of satisfying that he was like, "So? It's not like I eat off of my wall, nobody touches that wall except me when we're boning, and it's just a little blood. Who cares?" because such matter-of-factness about period blood was unexpected. Also every time I looked at it I was like, "Ah. Sex. Yes."

    But now that we've been together a while and he moved into my beautiful apartment, we maintain a far more clean sexytime-space. #periodsex
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    Image of EkaterinaBallerina EkaterinaBallerina
    05:16 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    For some things, it's ridiculous to be asked not to be spoiled. Nothing bothers me more than when someone asks not to be spoiled about a historical film, especially when it's something they should already know. For example, US Weekly wrote a somewhat negative review of Veronica Guerin because they felt the movie shouldn't have given away what happens to her in the beginning of the film. Really? Because I thought that was the entire point of the film. #spoilers
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    Image of eclare09 eclare09
    05:15 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    I was on a road trip when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came out and was reading it aloud to my brother in the car while he was driving. A car next to us on the highway honked and when I looked up the driver was holding up a handwritten sign that said "Don't Trust Snape!" #spoilers
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    Image of Penny Penny
    05:15 PM

    @eclare09: That's hilarious. And kind of weird and fucked up. #spoilers
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    05:25 PM

    @eclare09: Right after that book came out, I was reading a blog that was having an unusual lag between posts. Someone posited in the comments that it was because of the new Harry Potter book. Somebody ELSE took that as an opening to reveal that Snape kills Dumbledore.

    All holy hell broke loose. #spoilers
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    Image of Kali Mama Kali Mama
    05:13 PM

    In reply to Why Men Should Learn To Like Period Sex
    A real captain also sails the Red Sea! #periodsex
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    Image of vulcanized vulcanized
    05:12 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    This happens on io9 all the time - the writer will post a spoiler alert and there will inevitably be some whiner in the comments bitching about how there was no spoiler warning. Often times on movies or shows that have been out at least a year. Sometimes, you just get spoiled. That's the risk of the internet. I did, accidentally, on the identities of the Final Five (well, four of the Final Five) in Battlestar Galactica, but I knew that was the risk I took by watching the show almost a year after Crossroads II had aired. Thems the breaks. #spoilers
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    05:12 PM

    In reply to Spoiler Alert: To Tell Or Not To Tell?
    Spoiler alert: we are all going to die. #spoilers
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    05:22 PM

    @morninggloria: Thanks a lot. Well, at least I can erase "My Life" from TIVO-- I need the room. #spoilers
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