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Hello meme thread I am beseeching you, someone linked an image of the Duke from RE8 holding a glass jar and asking if it was Rainbow Dash, and I need to inflict this terror on my friends. Anyone have it? e: gently caress this is my first page snipe? gently caress me
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May 28, 2021 02:48
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Boba Pearl posted:Ah man, really? I loved his books. You're thinking Terry Pratchett
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May 28, 2021 02:53
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Somfin posted:Notably missing from both this and the show: hey maybe grading "sins" and "good deeds" on a linear scale like a person's life is simply the sum of their atomised actions is the real problem and we should question that The show only meaningfully addressed the concerns of a handful of philosophers. Asking it to question and then compose a thesis of "what does it mean to live a good life?" is asking to expand the scope of the show a hundredfold, and even then, it more directly invites the question of "what is good?" which even grazing against would expand the scope a hundredfold again. I think that's why they repeatedly emphasized that the system is based on infallable accounting of the effects of earth and the life on it, because if you start to question the accounting (and you absolutely should) or the basis of said accounting (maximizing quality of life on earth, which again, you absolutely should) you immediately expand well beyond the attention span of a sitcom viewer, at which point the show loses the audience and stops being produced. What we got moved the ball a lot and started a lot of important conversations. I'd love to see the show you want, but I don't think enough people would watch it for it to get even four seasons, and even if they did, what conclusions can you draw? "Man, morality is complex" is not a satisfying conclusion, but it's basically the best one we have as a species so far for either of those questions. With any luck this will pave the way for more media that directly interfaces with and explores philosophy, which would be really cool. I read Sophie's World as a teenager and really, really loved it, but the teacher that assigned it as reading admitted that most people bounced off it hard, even in her classes. This is just a much more marketable approach to that content.
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May 28, 2021 03:12
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ranbo das posted:Hello meme thread I am beseeching you, someone linked an image of the Duke from RE8 holding a glass jar and asking if it was Rainbow Dash, and I need to inflict this terror on my friends. Anyone have it? 
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May 28, 2021 03:12
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Plastik posted:I think that's why they repeatedly emphasized that the system is based on infallable accounting of the effects of earth and the life on it, because if you start to question the accounting (and you absolutely should) or the basis of said accounting (maximizing quality of life on earth, which again, you absolutely should) you immediately expand well beyond the attention span of a sitcom viewer, at which point the show loses the audience and stops being produced. Except they did introduce us to the divine accounting department, which was staffed by bored immortal morons, who assigned values arbitrarily whenever humanity did a "new thing," and then they were like "yup and that's how it works, the math checks out, we just know the relative values of supporting the Cubs versus whatever the pony jar dude did, moving on." You are right that the show did a lot to introduce people to the fact that there are frameworks outside of the rules utilitarianism that people inherit from modern education systems but fuckin' hell they got so close to actually bringing up the fact that there are deeper questions in that one episode and they just... didn't. I feel like the show should just not have told us where the numbers come from, and that could have fixed a bunch of problems. Somfin has a new favorite as of 03:22 on May 28, 2021 |
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May 28, 2021 03:20
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Somfin posted:Notably missing from both this and the show: hey maybe grading "sins" and "good deeds" on a linear scale like a person's life is simply the sum of their atomised actions is the real problem and we should question that Uh-oh someone is gonna have to release a video apologizing in Chinese soon.
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May 28, 2021 03:23
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Section 9 posted:You're thinking Terry Pratchett Are you sure? I thought that guy was voted wrestler of the year 1998?
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May 28, 2021 03:29
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No love for Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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May 28, 2021 03:33
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Somfin posted:Except they did introduce us to the divine accounting department, which was staffed by bored immortal morons, who assigned values arbitrarily whenever humanity did a "new thing," and then they were like "yup and that's how it works, the math checks out, we just know the relative values of supporting the Cubs versus whatever the pony jar dude did, moving on." They did tell you where the numbers came from. The Accountants looked at every effect of the action on every living thing on Earth and the relative moral values of those outcomes and get their numbers that way. They undermined it with throwaway jokes about certain actions being remarkably bad even though they'd have seemingly no effect on anyone (like hollowing out an eggplant and filling it with hot sauce and nickels, -9,900 points) but that's the system and the nature of a sitcom, respectively. Again, if you question the accounting you explode the show. You'd need something ten times longer than Seinfeld to meaningfully explore all the moral philosophers up to 100 years ago, and ten times more to cover the following 50 years, and ten times more still to get up to the time the show was written, and an unknowable number of additional seasons to cover the timeline from then to a thousand years from now when they'd be done with all that. And then what? No conclusion they draw will be satisfying to basically anyone, there is no answer to that question, that's why it's still being worked in real life. So you get a 2000 season show that ends with a prolonged wet fart that becomes apparent around the 3rd or 4th season and takes well into the thousands to peter out. And you'd still have people outraged that their favorite pocket philosopher wasn't addressed or addressed correctly or thoroughly enough. That's Philosophy! Also, I'd like to point out that Chidi repeatedly debases the system, pointing out by comparison that the system, while it is objectively The System, is completely arbitrary. His inability to make a decision is clearly a metaphor for the field of philosophy's non-convergent nature, where further study raises questions far, far faster than it produces answers, if it produces any answers at all. The conclusions that show reached were unsatisfying, but that was always inevitable because they were conclusions to philosphical questions. I'd argue that they did a good job bringing the conversation to some audiences who'd never consider it otherwise and the longer the show went and the more it covered, the fewer viewers would ultimately be satisfied by it and the less satisfied they'd be, but if you want to do that, let's go make a Good Place thread in TVIV rather than derailing a perfectly good Mmrnmhrm thread.
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May 28, 2021 03:58
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The Dead parrot skit is timeless and will always be funny to everyone who watches it no one doesn't like it
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May 28, 2021 04:03
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CainFortea posted:The Dead parrot skit is timeless and will always be funny to everyone who watches it no one doesn't like it Theory I have nowhere else to post but might as well: SNL has done a million skits and there's probably 30 that still land. Monty Python did like 400 skits and there's a good 10 that still land. In Living Color, The State, and Kids in the Hall are all probably hitting about 10% that still work. MadTV had Kenny Rogers Jackass and I'm pretty sure that's it.
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May 28, 2021 04:11
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Nah MadTV has "Sopranos syndicated for Television" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqE7ZxH7BJE and before you old-rear end fuckers try to @ me with  "it's just a rehash of Mr. Show's 'Pallies' where they do the same joke but it's Goodfellas" like yeah you're right... but aside from editing the middle finger to be a thumbs up what do you remember really about that one?The editing in this one is tighter, Wil Sasso and Debra Wilson do scary good impressions of Gandolfini and Bracco, and it even features the guy who played Big Pussy doing this thing because this was right after his character got whacked on the show and he knew he had to milk every second of those 15 minutes. It's great.
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May 28, 2021 04:21
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The Oprah visits George Lucas at the Skywalker Ranch skit gets me everytime.
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May 28, 2021 04:32
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I occasionally have the MadTV "Lowered Expectations" jingle pop into my head, so I'll vote for that one having some legs, at least as an earworm ~lowered expectaaaaaations~
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May 28, 2021 04:37
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Sagebrush posted:I think it's just old as hell now. The Flying Circus stuff is from literally half a century ago. Nerdy teenagers watching it on PBS reruns in the 80s and quoting it on Usenet were only ten or fifteen years out from its original airing, and the films were still in theaters (Meaning Of Life was 1983). Fifty years is a much bigger cultural gap to span. There is a thriving Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis shipping fandom on Tumblr, primarily Gen Z. Erotic fan fiction and all. There will always be extra-extra-vintage nerds.
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May 28, 2021 04:50
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Boba Pearl posted:Ah man, really? I loved his books. naw, he lives and he finally finished his don quixote film
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May 28, 2021 04:55
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mind the walrus posted:Nah MadTV has "Sopranos syndicated for Television" I can quote the whole thing from memory so kiss my aunt you piece of shoe
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May 28, 2021 05:00
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Theory I have nowhere else to post but might as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4TdoHAUy4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNuj8UkyC4
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May 28, 2021 05:11
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mind the walrus posted:Nah MadTV has "Sopranos syndicated for Television" This made me go and look up what "gabagool" actually is, and I found https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-capicola-became-gabagool-the-italian-new-jersey-accent-explained , which was pretty fascinating. I wonder if there's anything similar going on with the Australian-Italian community, since a cursory Wikipedia suggests they came here mostly around the time that they went to the USA, or before.
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May 28, 2021 05:24
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Hyperlynx posted:This made me go and look up what "gabagool" actually is, and I found https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-capicola-became-gabagool-the-italian-new-jersey-accent-explained , which was pretty fascinating. is there an australian-italian mafia?
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May 28, 2021 05:50
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RFC2324 posted:is there an australian-italian mafia?
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May 28, 2021 05:53
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Hyperlynx posted:This made me go and look up what "gabagool" actually is, and I found https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-capicola-became-gabagool-the-italian-new-jersey-accent-explained , which was pretty fascinating. There’s actually a dialect called Australitaliano, or Italo-Australian, where Italian phonology and orthography is applied to English words, so you get an Italian-looking/sounding term that’s much different than the actual Italian term. There is a definite divergence in language practices between Italian Americans and Italian Australians. A leading theory is that Italian Americans became part of the “fabric of American culture”, where they found a new land of opportunity and therefore tended more toward linguistic assimilation, adapting Italian toward English and not wanting to maintain their Italian or teach it to their kids (apart from a few choice phrases) because it was The Old World now. Italian Australians (many of whom were placed in internment camps during WWII) reacted by holding tighter to that ancestry by Ital-ifying the Australian English they had to learn, and a larger population of Italian Australians still speak or write an Italian or Sicilian language as well. … Can I get that with Mardi Gras Mustard and a large sweet tea, please?        
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May 28, 2021 06:00
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 the Confederate Stars & Bars flag in the background.
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May 28, 2021 06:12
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Android Apocalypse posted:
this was on right after dukes of hazzard. the flag was basically synonymous with everything south of mason dixie, and johnny cash was a country singer
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May 28, 2021 06:16
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So this one has more levels than I initially thought Beverly Cleary passed on the 25th at 104. Was thinking "butterfree" sounds pretty similar to "beverly". Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) passed on the 23rd at 91. [Roald Dahl would also be 104 if he was still alive]
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May 28, 2021 06:16
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Agents are GO! posted:No love for Whose Line Is It Anyway? Clive will always be my host.
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May 28, 2021 06:32
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RFC2324 posted:is there an australian-italian mafia? Dunno. I only half-watched one episode of Underbelly, but there was one guy called The Black Prince of Lygon st, and Lygon St is Melbourne's Little Italy.
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May 28, 2021 06:45
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Hyperlynx posted:Dunno. I only half-watched one episode of Underbelly, but there was one guy called The Black Prince of Lygon st, and Lygon St is Melbourne's Little Italy. I mean, his name has Gang right there in it! What more can we ask for!?
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May 28, 2021 06:50
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FFT posted:So this one has more levels than I initially thought also 1st gen pokemon #104 is cubone, the one that wears the skull of its mother
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May 28, 2021 06:59
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FFT posted:So this one has more levels than I initially thought FFT posted:also 1st gen pokemon #104 is cubone, the one that wears the skull of its mother Hahaha holy poo poo, that explains your 104 remark from earlier. I made this meme about Carle, with the pokemon scene being a well-known sad scene, and about a caterpillar. I just picked Roald Dahl as another well-known children's book author without thinking it through too much. I had no idea about Beverly Cleary, her books aren't very well known over here (and I didn't consider Cubone either).
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May 28, 2021 07:25
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All these British shows and no one seems to have mentioned peep show!
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May 28, 2021 07:26
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garth marenghi's darkplace, people.
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May 28, 2021 07:27
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Mega Comrade posted:All these British shows and no one seems to have mentioned peep show! Peep Show and Mitchell and Webb Look are good enough to be honorary american shows.
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May 28, 2021 07:29
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Hyperlynx posted:This made me go and look up what "gabagool" actually is, and I found https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-capicola-became-gabagool-the-italian-new-jersey-accent-explained , which was pretty fascinating. Seems to me the Aussie Italians are much more traditional than their American cousins, here they still hold the customs of their Nonnas and Nonnos in high regard, and the young ones go out of their way to pronounce old words correctly. There isn't the same kind of mangling of language as in the US.
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May 28, 2021 07:37
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OwlFancier posted:Lady Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome. 
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May 28, 2021 08:18
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ranbo das posted:Hello meme thread I am beseeching you, someone linked an image of the Duke from RE8 holding a glass jar and asking if it was Rainbow Dash, and I need to inflict this terror on my friends. Anyone have it? why do people react like this if their post is on the top of the page
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May 28, 2021 08:36
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Thread, need some help. I have two car batteries that I need to throw out but I'm 240km from the ocean and my forklift can't drive that much. Any ideas?
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May 28, 2021 08:42
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Guillermus posted:Thread, need some help. I have two car batteries that I need to throw out but I'm 240km from the ocean and my forklift can't drive that much. Any ideas? A very precisely engineered line of 801 trebuchets should be able to handle it.
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May 28, 2021 09:02
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mind the walrus posted:Nah MadTV has "Sopranos syndicated for Television" That Gandolfini is absolutely uncanny
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May 28, 2021 09:33
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some plague rats posted:That Gandolfini is absolutely uncanny yeah
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