Agreed, but here we are in a conversation about what movies should or should not be nominated... so it seems like we should be able to hammer out some kind of criteria. I'm fairly agnostic on what that criteria should be, but the question I'm asking is whether or not Gone Girl would qualify, because the people I know…

Well, we're here talking about what movies deserve to be nominated for an Oscar. If the answer is there is no significance to being nominated for or winning an Oscar, the whole conversation is kind of moot, isn't it?

REALLY? I haven't met a person yet who has a negative thing to say. I loved it.

A serious question, because I haven't seen it, was Gone Girl an Oscar caliber movie? I haven't heard great things, but I've only heard not actually seen.

These are car salesmen... what the fuck did you expect?

When my mother was in high school she worked at a restaurant and a girl she knew from school came in with all of her friends. The girl started mocking my mother and giving her a hard time, so my mother calmly dumped a tray full of blueberry pie on the girl and walked away. My mom was a badass 60 years ago.

So you only got 44 minutes of thrilling football, not 45. Better than most NFL games.

Counterpoint: No, they're not.

Hey, that whole Eagle Scout thing finally came in handy!

Ironically, yes.

Pretentiousness.

I found him vaguely menacing.

Not if you're a highly pretentious American soccer fan/writer. British television commentators incorrectly use the plural to refer to the team and the kind of American soccer fans determined to do a disservice to the sport here imitate it.

Most cars qualify as unnecessary tchotchkes. Seats that are not made of hunks plastic are unnecessary tchotchkes. Radios are unnecessary tchotchkes.

Yeah... it's a great scam all around.

Fad diet scams for wealthy people work the same way, but they're going to have a much higher entry fee, but a similar hope that you don't follow through.

So, the trick is that they're not actually planning on you buying the expensive ingredients. Rodale specializes in selling self-help bullshit like this... the formula is to sell you a book which will inspire you enough to convince you to shell out for it in the bookstore, but not be such an obvious scam that you never…

But saying that a fad diet scam pushed by a book with a suggested retail value of $26.99 fall into your view of things.

Yes, but the target demographic for fad diets like this is someone who is uneducated, lacking the ability to pursue sophisticated/involved weight loss efforts (scam or not), poorly educated and in possession of $25, or at least a credit card that can be used at Barnes & Noble to purchase the scammy fad diet book for…

I was responding to the comment that diet fads are a disease of the wealthy. Using that as a starting point, it's not absurd to say that, rather, they are a disease of the poor. I'm happy to debate, I just am a little surprised that THIS is the area of most interest. To settle this, as I said, I'm happy to stipulate…