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How ‘Tiger King’ Made Me That ‘Game of Thrones’ Guy
If you dare speak to me about that stupid dragon show again I will eat you.
But there was a flaw not uncommon with GoT fans. They could not understand that I did not want to talk about “Game of Thrones.” This is a typical conversation with GoT fans when the show was still on air:
GoT: Oh man. Last nights episode was so bizarre. I think the giants will side with wizards and the sorcerer lady is going to marry the dwarf and-
Me: Uh. That’s great and all. But I don’t watch GoT.
Well: I think that ice zombie King is going to…
They weren’t bad people. They are quite similar to autistic people who can’t understand how other people aren’t interested in what they are interested in.
Autistic people are sometimes thought of as being jerks but that is not usually the case. They genuinely cannot empathize that other people aren’t interested in their favorite topic. When autistic people talk ceaselessly about what fascinates them, they are treating other people the way that they would want to be treated. It’s very difficult for them to understand that other people have different tastes.
But after watching “Tiger King” on Netflix, I now understand how GoT people feel.
I would be completely content if Ricochet for the next week did nothing but talk about “Tiger King” with periodic updates about Coronavirus from the competent data geeks who do all the math.
Boss Mongo, Charlie Kirk, and Kevin D. Williamson are like this with the topic of guns. Richard Epstein can be like this when it comes to Roman Law. I also notice that people who are into astrology have to let you know about how they are interested in astrology.
What’s your interest that you used to bore people with? Or if you are comfortable sharing this, what’s your interest that you still bore people with? I promise to be respectful because in episode 2 of “Tiger King” there was this lady that lost an arm but was still part of that tiger zoo and she was such a sympathetic…
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This is why I don’t talk to people. And also why I dropped a lot of things people thought were boring. So now, I’m boring and dull. Don’t be that.
But I do think there’s a problem when we can’t listen to other’s interests for the sake of relationship. Not everything about other people needs to be for your own amusement.
Here’s your chance! Why the interest in Tiger King? The Netflix synopsis makes it sound like a redneck soap opera.
Granted, I used to watch Swamp People. I would have preferred the show only followed the undramatic old hunter, Landry. But the Gulf Coast is home, so the setting was a selling point.
So it’s a TV show. I’ve been wondering what this Tiger King thing is that people keep referencing. Even stuck inside on house arrest I still couldn’t figure it out.
I am sure I never bore anyone but…..my younger brother has little imitations of each of our siblings, and his imitation of me consists of squealing “I could talk about chickens all day!”
I am that way about octopi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st8-EY71K84
It’s a complete mystery why they are so intelligent. They also have a gajillion cool abilities.
I’m that annoying guy who talks about all the audio dramas he’s listening to.
Though I haven’t posted any reviews recently. Sorry. I really need to get back to The Prisoner, but in the meantime I’ve listened to all of Series 1 of The Robots (interesting, but not ground-breaking yet), Series 1 and 2 of Cyberman (dark and tragic and very good), and I’m almost through the final episode of Donna Noble: Kidnapped (featuring Catherine Tate and Niki Wardley hopping around through time and space sans David Tennant).
If you listen to the GLOP podcast there is a great gag where Jonah and John Podhoretz talk about some show and Rob Long snores loudly into his microphone.
I want to hear about the chickens. I would talk at length about cats, dogs and cows I have known if I didn’t mind boring everyone.
I’m interested in a lot of things , so I bore everyone all the time. 🙂
Your comic there reminds me of the joke:
A vegan, a cross-fitter, and an atheist walk into a bar. How do we know? Because they each told everybody within two minutes.
I can’t comment on Tiger King because I haven’t seen it, and I’m sure I won’t. Something about it makes me feel icky, and I change the screen as quickly as possible when it pops out as Netflix opens.
I watched part of the trailer, but every scene triggered something in me, all bad. Worse reaction than making Rob Long watch GoT, Dragonheart, and The Never-ending Story over and over while strapped in a Clockwork Orange chair with the eyelid clamps.
But I’m glad you guys are enjoying it; we’ve all got to get through this thing somehow.
That’s very funny.
I hate dumb extroverts. They have to say stuff and they are always boring. Adam Connover doesn’t strike me as someone who has really thought about anything as his live interviews attest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwAGdZKLMCc
I am also pro-octopus, but I suspect I would zone out sometime before the gajillionth cool ability.
Regarding “Tiger King,” I, too, was intrigued by the woman who lost an arm.
You might find this story intriguing too. There was a man in Galway who lost both arms to a tiger. It was back when circuses still had animals and he broke in one night.
When @arahant was running his series on vexillology, he tried to goad me into doing one on heraldry.
I resisted.
You’re welcome.
Interest in heraldry is rampant…sorry.
I wrote an essay about Chinese flags awhile ago…
In Oklahoma, the escapades of the Tiger King have been reported in the papers for years. It’s quite a sordid tale, and checks a lot of weird boxes. Ultimately, I think it’s a good chance for coastal folks to laugh at fly-over country weirdos. The joke’s on them – Joe Exotic is considered a lunatic, yes, even by Oklahoma standards…and we gave you Dennis Rodman, Gary Busey et al…….
Sometimes rampant. Sometimes passant. Sometimes sejant …
Pennies!
Sinister harpy pissant.
I spurned Game of Thrones for years but I started it in early February and was hooked and binging from the start. I finished it a few weeks ago, and now I’m watching favourite episodes for the second time. It’s the greatest show I ever saw. Fantastic escapism: unlike reality shows of all colours, which bore me to tears. Sorry.
I spurned Game of Thrones for years but I started it in early February, and I was hooked and binging from the start. I finished it a few weeks ago, and now I’m watching favourite episodes for the second time. It’s the greatest show I ever saw. Fantastic escapism: unlike reality shows of all colours, which bore me to tears. Sorry.
During the original run, I got free HBO for a week and watched two episodes. In the first one I saw Boromir, but Sean lost his Bean. I don’t really remember the second.
Tiger Kings is a show about rival cult leaders, that happen to own tigers.
Its great!
Amazon is all out of tigers and now I feel silly for not getting one before it was cool.