Letterkenny Progress

[lydy]

I can now report that the two hockey dudes are named Reilly and Jonesey.  I am unclear as to whether they have first names.  I have also been sufficiently acculturated that when Reilly and Jonesey decided that the way to win back Katy was to beat up her big brother Wayne, my second response was, "Could work."  I continue to be impressed that most of the people in this show are kind, that there is very little contempt, and very little embarrassment humor.  

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[lydy]

Sorry about the spoiler!

I think that there is a very big difference between contempt and disgust. Contempt has a component of "I am better than you" that disgust does not necessarily have. (And Ginger only allegedly fucked an ostrich. Which may have been sick.)

The insults are mean, yes, but they aren't...cruel? Like the fighting, they are a way of establishing social standing. The point isn't to injure or hurt, it's to sort out one's standing. For the most part. I mean, sometimes its just for fun, I guess? And even there, there's a lack of sadism, I think. I sincerely desire to never live in an social milieu where insult and fist fights are the way one maintains one's status, but I have to admit that the social milieu I am in has some pretty brutal ways of establishing primacy, also.