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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Todd kind of backpedaled from his statement that he hates JarJar.
Huh?
> I don't think he should have! I hate JarJar too.
Maybe this makes my opinion of JJB more clear: I would not hate JJB at all
if he were in some cheezeball B-movie sci-fi flick. If he were, I could
ignore him -- and I wouldn't have to hate him. It's the fact that he
appeared in a _Star Wars_ movie -- and nearly ruined it for me -- that
bothers me.
I do hate JJB, but like anything else I hate, hating it simply means I want
as little as possible of it in my life. It doesn't mean I don't want other
people to enjoy it, and I still respect them if they do. Similarly, I hate
seafood. It smells bad. Even in good seafood restaurants in a port city
like Boston or San Francisco, it smells like rotting dead animals to me.
I want as little as possible of it in my life. I hate buggy closed-source
software. It makes my life miserable. I want as little as possible of it
in my life.
There are plenty of delicious and nutritious alternatives to seafood that are
still food. So I can ignore seafood. There are plenty of alternatives to
buggy closed-source software that are still software. So I can ignore (most)
buggy closed-source software. But there's no alternative to JJB that is still
a Star Wars movie (except the original trilogy, of course). So I don't have
the option to ignore JJB if I want to watch all the Star Wars films or buy all
the LEGO sets. At least with the LEGO sets, the JJB character doesn't talk,
and I don't have to build things with the JJB elements if I don't want to.
Now, I don't hate JJB enough to go out and try to influence George Lucas not
to put JJB in the next two movies (not that that could sway him anyway), but
I do hate JJB enough that I would, if one were available, take a publicly
downloadable "patch file" and apply it to a personal digital copy of SW:TPM
to remove JJB's annoying voice and as much as possible of the rest of him
from SW:TPM.
If you like buggy closed-source software, fine. More power to you. If you
like seafood, fine. More power to you. If you like JJB, fine. More power
to you. But I hate all of the above and I want as little as possible of
these in my life. That's what I mean when I say that I hate Jar-Jar Binks.
So when someone makes a comic strip that features JJB getting tortured or
maimed or whatever (assuming it's "cartoon" violence and not so real), then,
in a fantasy sort of way, it's a pleasant thing, because it's pretending for
the moment that there is less JJB in the world. :-)
--Todd
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| OK, now we get to the heart of the matter that I was trying to put my finger on when I started this... but before I comment on Josh's post let me say this... Todd kind of backpedaled from his statement that he hates JarJar. I don't think he should (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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