Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch/Quotes

"Because guess what? You might not know everything about a genre you refuse to listen to." —sisabet, Hate the Song, Like the Vid?

"Oh, thank you for those insightful reviews of books you haven't read.'" —Linda Flynn, Phineas and Ferb

"I love going on messages boards and complaining about games I never played! TRUE/FALSE" —Super Paper Mario

That's sick. Is it my imagination or has the pedophile market now expanded to anime? This cartoon sex and gorefest is not fit to be shown either to children or to adults. Filth is still filth no matter how much Hollywood tries to wrap it in deceptive marketing. —Commenter on review of Watchmen, thus effectively proving the non-existence of countless anime.

No wonder my screening was so sparsely attended. Or perhaps it was the fact that the advance word on "Pluto Nash" is so bad that the cowardly studio declined to provide an advance screening of any kind in my area, meaning that I had to stare at a blank screen for two hours and make stuff up. The above is probably close enough. It might even be better than the movie. —"Mr. Cranky" justifies himself.

"Bitch about games you've never played here" —Former description of the Youchew gaming forum.

"How can they respect my culture if they haven't seen it?" —Pocahontas in Pocahontas II.

"The biggest critics of things are those that haven't ever experienced it." —A forum post on this phenomena.

Sakura: I thought you said you were excited for this game? Naruto: Of course I am! I am a video game fan! Video game fans all love to complain about video games they never actually played! It is how I maintain my erection! —Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show, It's Coming Out!

"Well, I’m an English professor. Every time I reference low forms of literature, I always use Twilight as the example. Today a student asked if I’ve actually read them, and I had to say no. They demanded that I do." (hangs his head in shame) —notalwaysright.com

"Gayle Slossberg has a problem: She wants confirmation of the rumored rape scene in Grand Theft Auto IV — but she can't reach that level of the game. The Milford state senator's never played GTA, but she fears it's corrupting the youth and thinks a law requiring better warning labels might be the fix. She told the Nose as much at a Capitol press conference last week." —New Haven Advocate article.

First off, the media reports about this fanedit are extremely misleading. They didn’t edit the women out of The Last Jedi, they edited feminism out of The Last Jedi. I know for a fact that everyone who wrote an article in the media about this edit didn’t watch it because this is a major driving point for the outrage over this but that is not what happened. —Star Wars The Last Jedi: De-Feminized Fanedit Review on Society Reviews

COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. And it's often the case that people making the jokes have never actually written any COBOL. —John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, quoted here

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