Meet the parents on demand
Nov. 19th, 2010 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack1. The listing description says "contains adult humour". No, it really, really doesn't.
2. There was one bit that was funny.
"I would like us to say grace, if that's all right? I think you Lord for blessing us with this food. We pray to you that this food may nourish our minds as well as our bodies... That James can us the square root of 2116?"
"Thirty-six. Amen."
All: praise be to God.
"That Jessica can tell us the population of India."
"[figure to the nearest one Indian]"
"That [boyfriend] can tell us the five inert gases are"
".... uh ...."
This is because it was actually, you know, absurd, rather than just mean.
It did make me think (a) what if I have a problem with saying grace AT ALL? (b) I have friends who really can take integer square roots in their heads in a few seconds, which I had previously underrated as a dating technique. (c) I don't know if God would, or would not, appreciate a length treatise that I think He is looking for Helium, Neon, Argon, Xenon, Krypton, and not Radon, but "inert" is misleading, as there are inert non-atomic gases (d) it would be funny if the guy DID answer pat, though.
(3) The guy is judged solely on whether he is willing to put up with stuff, supposedly for the sake of his girlfriend, for a set number of hours, rather than whether that's actually the right thing to do. I said
(4) To be fair, it seems like the couple value each other more than intellectual rigour, so it might not be AS bad for them. (They did agree to let it air.)
(5) They did some ridiculous things, but mostly he just had to watch. They didn't, for instance, have a sister flirt with him, inviting disaster from both sides of the relationship.
(6) It would be hilarious to turn the tables on them and have the boyfriend act more and more ridiculous and see if they notice. I wonder if that's happened?
(7) At the end, the guy just says something like "whatever" and is as monosyllabic as he has been all the way through.
2. There was one bit that was funny.
"I would like us to say grace, if that's all right? I think you Lord for blessing us with this food. We pray to you that this food may nourish our minds as well as our bodies... That James can us the square root of 2116?"
"Thirty-six. Amen."
All: praise be to God.
"That Jessica can tell us the population of India."
"[figure to the nearest one Indian]"
"That [boyfriend] can tell us the five inert gases are"
".... uh ...."
This is because it was actually, you know, absurd, rather than just mean.
It did make me think (a) what if I have a problem with saying grace AT ALL? (b) I have friends who really can take integer square roots in their heads in a few seconds, which I had previously underrated as a dating technique. (c) I don't know if God would, or would not, appreciate a length treatise that I think He is looking for Helium, Neon, Argon, Xenon, Krypton, and not Radon, but "inert" is misleading, as there are inert non-atomic gases (d) it would be funny if the guy DID answer pat, though.
(3) The guy is judged solely on whether he is willing to put up with stuff, supposedly for the sake of his girlfriend, for a set number of hours, rather than whether that's actually the right thing to do. I said
(4) To be fair, it seems like the couple value each other more than intellectual rigour, so it might not be AS bad for them. (They did agree to let it air.)
(5) They did some ridiculous things, but mostly he just had to watch. They didn't, for instance, have a sister flirt with him, inviting disaster from both sides of the relationship.
(6) It would be hilarious to turn the tables on them and have the boyfriend act more and more ridiculous and see if they notice. I wonder if that's happened?
(7) At the end, the guy just says something like "whatever" and is as monosyllabic as he has been all the way through.