2023 Time Person of the Year

[Neutral Corner]

I've not heard of Ms. Coolidge so didn't know this is apparently a famous actor.

"Famous actor" might be stretching it. She got famous playing the mom of one of the guys in "American Pie", 1999.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Blame Taylor for the war. Rao is the woman who throws $5,000 dinner parties for white women to yell at them about how racist they are so this isn't a totally surprising tweet, though it is entertaining.

Does she know what the definition of genocide is?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

"Famous actor" might be stretching it. She got famous playing the mom of one of the guys in "American Pie", 1999.

American Pie, the Legally Blonde movies, the Christopher Guest movies, White Lotus, just won an Emmy and a Golden Globe...

"Famous actor" isn't much of a stretch.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Those stories made me laugh.

The billions people spent on her wasn't all new spending. It was mostly spending that was being drawn from forms of entertainment that people would have spent on instead -- a substitution effect. People can't measure the unseen dollars that would have been spent elsewhere if Taylor Swift hadn't come to town to do a concert, and you got a lot of misguided stories falsely giving the impression that she was adding money to the economy. Yes, her fans were spending a lot of money. But spending money is not the same as adding money to the economy. You need to not only look at what you can see (her fans spending money), you need to also be able to account for the unseen (that limited money her fans have not getting spent elsewhere because they decided to see her concert instead) to understand the true economic effect. Bastiat, a French guy from the 1800s, explored this, writing about "that which is seen and that which is not seen."

Good lord. You're alive?

 

[Neutral Corner]

Yeah, pick this fight. Please.

 

[Hermes]

If you don't laugh at Jennifer Coolidge in "Best In Show" we don't have the same sense of humor.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Prefacing with the fact I don't much care:

There is a lot of general anger, frustration, fear and weariness among the population at this point. To the vast majority of non conspiracy theorists, Taylor Swift is the opposite of all of those things. Millions of big fans and casual fans. Even non fans probably have a pleasant impression or no opinion.

I think it was an easy choice for this particular moment in time.

Also, I like Jennifer Coolidge.

 

[Junkie]

If you don't laugh at Jennifer Coolidge in "Best In Show" we don't have the same sense of humor.

"A Mighty Wind" as well.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

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She's not even that hot. I've banged much hotter girls. They all live in Niagara Falls. You wouldn't know any of them.

 

[Neutral Corner]

If you don't laugh at Jennifer Coolidge in "Best In Show" we don't have the same sense of humor.

It's more that I basically have not seen her in much other than the American Pie movies. The Christopher Guests are the ones that I really should have gotten around to by now, but for one reason or another I've missed all of that list. This one really hit a pop culture gap and kept rolling.

I saw Best in Show many years ago but it didn't stick with me much.

 

[Hermes]

It's more that I basically have not seen her in much other than the American Pie movies. The Christopher Guests are the ones that I really should have gotten around to by now, but for one reason or another I've missed all of that list. This one really hit a pop culture gap and kept rolling.

I saw Best in Show many years ago but it didn't stick with me much.

There is no in between with Guest movies. People either think they are the funniest things they've ever seen or sit stonefaced for 90 minutes. My wife does not find it funny as I name off 12 different kind of nuts in a North Carolina accent every time I step into my parents' motorhome.

 

[swingline]

It's more that I basically have not seen her in much other than the American Pie movies. The Christopher Guests are the ones that I really should have gotten around to by now, but for one reason or another I've missed all of that list. This one really hit a pop culture gap and kept rolling.

I saw Best in Show many years ago but it didn't stick with me much.

Yeah, I didn't think you could bench much.

Me: 300