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Maybe an analogy in poor taste, but the premise of BBT is basically “look how many negative stereotypes of scientists and engineers we can get our audience to point and laugh at, if we take our lazy awkward mean-spirited writing and put a laugh track over the top”. Try searching for versions with laugh track removed to get a better sense of the writing per se without the extra emotional manipulation. Compare with Sil…

I find this sentiment interesting. I find BBT hilarious and identify with the characters. I often drag my wife to watch a specific BBT episode to get her to understand the way I think or understand the way I was in the past before I met her. I don't find it demeaning at all. I often find it hilarious and say, "yeah, that's me right there!" I see myself in Sheldon, Leonard, and Howard all of them. Raj, not so much. I…

I like IT Crowd, but I agree, it is just some funny, derpy IT guys that nothing every goes right for. But BBT guys have a lot of the stereotypes but generally come out triumphant over the bullies and thugs of the world. If anything, BBT celebrates "nerds" more than any other show in recent memory.

Re: Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

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YouTube ads don’t tell you what to buy? Or, they aren’t displayed on something box shaped? If you mean the ads are better quality, then that’s even worse. Better ads mean you’re being told what to buy... more effectively.

> If you mean the ads are better quality, then that’s even worse. Better ads mean you’re being told what to buy... more effectively. I suppose it depends what you mean by "better quality". I have seen ads which were effective in making me think something was a good product only to discover that it's not upon further research. On the other hand, I have seen ads which were really good in the sense that they showed me s…

Out of curiosity, how many of your co-workers use adblocking plugins/extensions? Also do you use it at work and do you whitelist Google?
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