I got into a fight with an
idiot the other day.
I said, “I won’t watch Big Bang Theory anymore because those
actors are a bunch of greedy jerks.”
His response: “They deserve that money. No one can play those characters as well.”
I countered, “At a million
per episode, anyone could play those
characters. Computerized images would be
better than Hollywood blowhards who hold out for that kind of cash. It’s disgusting.”
As he continued to berate
my stupidity for not knowing that apparently only a handful of people can act
(fallacy) and that a cool mil per week is not an insane amount of overpayment
(yes, it actually is), I got up and walked away from the lunch table where we
were sitting. He continued to yell,
louder and louder, unaware that he had lost the battle simply because he had an
invalid argument and not because his voice wasn’t quite loud enough. (I could still hear him out in the crowded
hall past the closed door.)
This same idiot today
insulted all of us and called us stupid for watching the royal wedding on
television. Then he insulted all of England
by saying they publish too many rags like the National Inquirer and it’s because people in England believe this
is the real news.
So I said, “So, we can’t
watch the royal wedding of two real people, but it’s okay to watch actors make
a million per episode for a made-up television show?”
I happen to know many
Brits (and descended from quite a few), and they don’t believe that aliens live
in Dolly Parton’s cleavage, or that Bruce Jenner and Kim Kardashian are secretly
the same person. They even have some
great actors across the pond who could probably kick Jim Parson’s lazy,
million-dollar ass.
I have to consider the
source, though. I mean, the guy with
whom I was arguing? Yeah. This is the same guy who wanted to know the
plural for nuclei. Um … that is
the plural. But what do I know? I have an English degree and he has a science
degree.
One of us, like the cast
of Big Bang Theory, is obviously
overpaid.
