From: epwise@yahoo.com   
      
   The 'Brightness' control still doesn't help    
   wrote in news:bin2b95mqdgh4knfobjcjb1e15e5rep4rr@4ax.com:   
      
   > On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:51:10 GMT, Wiseguy  wrote:   
   >   
   >>The 'Brightness' control still doesn't help    
   >>wrote in news:akpta91almoqeqc5iifsv2qpiepdhrrahd@4ax.com:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> ...that ceasing production a couple decades ago wouldn't have fixed.   
   >>>   
   >>> Each episode gets more vapid, disjointed, and utterly full of   
   itself.   
   >>> Most likely a reflection of its genetically humorless liberal   
   >>> producers.   
   >>>   
   >>> Producer Sam Simon has now dedicated himself to financing high seas   
   >>> piracy.  He would do well to study the fates of the Somali pirates   
   >>> that hijacked the 'Maersk Alabama'...   
   >>   
   >>If you really didn't like it you wouldn't watch it (Masochistic   
   >>tendencies?)   
   >   
   > Nothing better to do on a Sunday evening.   
   >   
      
   So you watch something you don't like?  Stupid.   
      
   >>If you really didn't watch it you wouldn't know its contents (Psychic   
   >>tendencies?)   
   >   
   > I watch it, in vain hopes of a return to humor.   
   >   
      
   You have said it's beyond that point.  So you're too stupid to follow   
   your own opinion?  Stupid.   
      
      
   >>If you didn't know its contents you wouldn't post your drivel in   
   >>newsgroups as if anyone cared what you think.   
   >   
   > I do watch it, and post my observations.  Several people cared enough   
   > to respond.  If you have a problem with that, go the coward's route   
   > and threaten to plonk me.   
      
   I wouldn't waste my time.  Besides it's stupid idiots like you who   
   provide the most entertainment.   
      
      
   >>   
   >>The important thing is not a comparison to past episodes but a   
   >>comparison to other so-called comedies (live action or animated).  The   
   >>Simpsons still comes out near the top.   
   >   
   > Even if that were somehow true, it would merely be a harsh   
   > condemnation of the competition.   
   >   
   >>If you disagree, fine. Don't watch it.   
   >>But all these gripes about the quality compared to earlier episodes is   
   >>pointless and tiresome. Very few long-running series can maintain the   
   >>quality that the Simpsons has.   
   >   
   > Including the Simpsons, obviously.   
   >   
   >>Deal with it.   
   >   
   > I have.  Why are you having so much trouble doing the same?   
   >   
   >   
      
   You're the one who's complaining.   
   I'm the one telling you how childish you are.   
      
   Understand now?  No, didn't think so.   
      
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