this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2024
780 points (96.7% liked)
Movies and TV Shows
2020 readers
37 users here now
A community for entertainment industry news and general discussion about movies and TV shows.
Rules:
- Be civil.
- Please do not link to pirated content.
- No spoilers in the title of submissions. And please use spoiler MarkDown in the body of discussions. This is a courtesy to other users.
- Comments solely criticizing headlines and/or journalism will be removed for being off-topic.
founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Offerman is becoming more and more a chad in my eyes and that love story was really really good and its coming from someone who really hates comedy and romance genre but gotta say it was really good.
Read his books, but only if you're a lefty. I showed my boomer parents and they hated it.
Which books ?
I've listened to Paddle Your Own Canoe on audiobook (he narrates). Dunno about the rest, but I'd agree based on that one. He makes it clear pretty quickly that Ron Swanson was just a character and his views are different and more nuanced.
The only similarities between Nick Offerman and Ron Swanson are his giggle and his faithfulness to his friends.
Wood working and a very erotically charged relationship with Megan Mulally too
And he really does play the saxophone.
I know he's liberal in real life, but the way he plays Ron in parks and rec is how I wish conservatives actually were in real life.
He's not a "conservative" in Parks and Rec, he's an actual libertarian.
The greatest trick neocons ever pulled was tricking right libertarians into thinking they were small government.
Nick Offerman has always been Cool and Good
Also good and cool
When did "a Chad" become a positive term? From my experince growing up it was a mid-west term for rich city kids, and then later on the internet it became a red piller/incel term for "Alpha male".
Is this one of those "taking it back" and owning it things to take power away from red pillers & incels?
Nick Offerman:
I've enjoyed the hell out of his content. I loved it when ~~Adam Savage~~ This Old House did a shop tour with him. I've also listened to his Twain's Feast audiobook and enjoyed the hell out of that. The historical journey through American regional cuisine was amazing. And how much we've actually lost is even more amazing.
I think it's just more ironic than "taking it back". I don't think anyone worth respecting would call themselves "a Chad".
So in context for this, a dude doubling down on his gay love story is certainly not what an incel would attribute to "a Chad", but the rest of us could look at Nick Offerman and say "damn, I respect the hell out of that guy, what a Chad".
The definition and history for the word.
In my extended friend group we use Chad as a comedyish thing to call someone when they do something cool/good or perceived as cool/good but we mean it. While someone calling themselves a Chad in a non self deprecating way is usually a dbag.
Nick Offerman is better than any any "Chad". He's an Offerman. The Chad's wish they could be as dope as him.