the greatest sensations of life
 

white chedder cheez-its
black coffee
fydor dostoyevsky
bowel movement
salmon bisk
jacking off in the bathroom at school
sleeping

I never jacked off in the bathroom at school. The bathroom at my first job, yes. I always had these crazy sexual fantasies that a customer would want it really bad and jump me.

Ummmm, yeah, Dostoyevsky, Sleeping, Eating, songs with eargasms, making sexy eye contact with a girl you have never talked to or met before.

Spine tingles just before coming up; Really strong Stilton; certain carpets; satin; the love of a good woman; fellatio.

Is this a spin off of Woddy Allens "What makes life worth living"?

Listening to the half of the Washing Machine song

You have to love a guy who uses the word "fellatio."

Oh dear, where to begin:
Having your hair played with
I like the term "eargasms" so I'll steal that, and echo SJIND's sentiment
Lattes
The consistency of pudding
Stopping for a piss on a roadtrip
Backscratches
Endorphins
Getting immersed in a book
Asiago cheese
Someone idly stroking your face

Wait, are we talking actual physical sensations, or things we simply dig? This list could go on for ages.

I just went through this a couple of days ago at school.
As for the jackin' part I think I did that once.

The smell of new carpet for sure
Friends in general
Watching a realy good movie with a really good ending

So we can separate everyones favourites so far into: Bodily functions, sexual pleasures and carpet? Does that not strike anyone else as a bit weird?

Carpet is omnipresent in your everyday existence. You probably have more bodily contact with carpet than you do with any other object. Its quality is intrinsic to the human state of mind.

There is no carpet in my home.
Carpet free zone here.
I loves the wood.

Nah...that's just too easy.

"Most of the world is carpeted. & one day we will do the cleaning."
-Sienfeld

Easy to clean, yes.

And I need no carpet-cult to do the cleaning either!


(thanks for not taking the obvious set-up)

Seinfeld really is a definitive life manual.

Ooh your name reminds me - I LOVE plunging my hands into the cold guts of a pumpkin and tearing them out. It's so cathartic.

Carpet-cult? Is that like a group of rug-munchers?

HA ha ha

Oh god, someone kill me

I'm on juvenile-joke-overload

Give me a lobotomy

Re: your edit -

It'll happen eventually. I am unable to control these childish impulses.

----By "pumpkin," she actually means "baby," and by "cold guts" she really means "vital organs."

As a side-line, does anyone apart from Americans actually get Seinfeld? It really doesn't make any sense to me. I know a fair few people (Jews, largely) who go farther and find it actively quite offensive and rubbish. Can anyone non-American explain it to me?

I know what you're talking about truncated. There's nothing like that feeling of holding pimpkin innards in your hand, & thinking there some foriegn substance. LIke calves brains. Fuck Yeah!

Jews offended by the popular Jewish comedian?
OK then.

Well, it's the stereotypical neurotic NY-Jew bit that pisses them off. They don't really need to celebrate every Jew in showbusiness, do they?

I find him to be un-stereotypical, but that's me.
And no, I don't think that Jewish people need to celebrate every Jewish person in show business. I mean, that is a lot of celebrating.

Yeah, no one should get to over analytical over this show. It's just 4 friends who sit in an apartment whining about the silly little minutiae that happens in everyday life.

"'Cuz all you see on TV now a days are 4 morons sitting around an apartment whining about their dates."
-George Costanza

I think you mean 'analytical' and 'minutiae'.

Otherwise, a fair point, I just don't get the humour at all. It is quite striking how it is so very, very popular in the States but I don't know anyone who likes it from anywhere else.

That is an odd one. I don't know why that is either

(I'll go edit right now, Thanks Glice)

I'm not non-American, but I'll throw my two cents in anyhow.

You have to find Seinfeld appealing because it throws into relief every minute facet of human interrelation. Even if you hadn't realized it before, you watch the seemingly obsessive, neurotic dilemmas of the characters in Seinfeld, and can completely identify. Their fixation on everyday etiquette and character traits is amusing because they're so banal and trivial. Who can't sympathize with Jerry's irritation with people who stand too close to you while talking, or his inner turmoil over toothbrush hygiene?

I don't know why Jews would be offended - while there are certainly Jewish references in the show, it's never a focal point. These neuroses are totally universal.

And, at least with the people I know, Seinfeld has quite a few UK fans. We used to watch it on Sky over there practically religiously.

Glice, I think you might just be weird.

*Edit: I shouldn't say "over there" - I mean specifically, Ireland. But I think Sky has the same programming there as well, does it not?

Yeah, it's not smart and sophisticated like Benny Hill, but we have to do what we can!

A lot of Americans don't get the humor of Black Adder, but they're just morons.

Which is not to say you are a moron, Glice. I'm just drawing a half-assed comparison that, upon reflection, even I don't entirely get.

I think the Jews are offended because Jerry hardly ever show's his religious background. & we all know how seriously the Jewish people take their religion.

Oh, come on, you can't just pick Benny Hill out of a hat and expect that to be a decent riposte. That's just being deliberately shit. FACT: both America and the UK have produced a tonne of shit - for every Simpsons/ Father Ted there's a million shit, made-to-order cable comedies. I'm just saying that Seinfeld doesn't make any sense to me. Perhaps I'm being awkward, but I have honestly never met another person, other than Americans, who wasn't entirely perplexed by its State-side success. And I would like to withdraw my Jewish comments, they're not really what I'm talking about.

I was only ribbing you about Benny Hill. Easy target, like about a million USA shows.
99% of all TV comedy from everywhere is godawful.

Withdrawal.....Granted.

I love Seinfeld.

I had to say that.

So, TheDom, Hows Del Boka Vista treating you these days? You like the people your around? 'Cuz Jerry sure doesn't.

i side somewhere between glice & the jews on the sinefield issue, i find that program to be offensively rubbish. i even have an american housemate who loves the program and she has been unable to sway my distaste for the abberation of comedy that is J. Sinefield.

I think there are two passions that unite all Americans
1. a love hanging the Stars and Stripes from your porch
2. a love of J. Sinefield

I have a porch, and have never owned or flown the flag off it in my whole damn life.

Can't say the same for some of my neighbors though.

I never thought Seinfeld was funny, the characters are so obnoxious. And I'm an American Jew, despite living in Ireland right now. Maybe it's because I didn't go to the northeast coast at all until I was 18, so I just couldn't relate to the lifestyle. So if any non-american doesn't think it's funny--you're not alone. That being said: late-nights in diners, hiking, reading, concerts, and roadtrips.

Ahd how do you find the old country, sher?

that doesn't mean you wouldn't love to fly the stars and stripes off it though, it just means you're lazy.