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Glad Oliver actually clarified "Yo seriously, gently caress Mountain Dew. It's disgusting." because the advertisers don't mind tongue-in-cheek product placement that gives its stupid wink wink, nod nod.
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vote_no posted:Then what about Diet Coke? Pretty sure they had to use a viable product for that joke.
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Bown posted:Sort of a shame they've pussied out on Gaza at least twice now though. I mean I'm sure there are reasons and I don't let it bother me but it deserves more than just a small bit at the top of every episode. John Oliver isn't going to talk about Israel, ever. In addition to being a businessman, Levin [the president of HBO] is a philanthropist; he is a supporter of Jewish causes and engages in other charitable and philanthropic work as well. He is a trustee and supporter of the Museum of Jewish Heritage,[8] among other charitable organizations. That's not to say this automatically makes Levin a Zionist. But who knows what Levin's views are? I doubt John Oliver wants to find out by starting to weigh in on the Israel/Palestine conflict. Kelfeftaf fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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If only someone talked about the Gaza conflict.
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It'd be funny, though, if he did a scathing analysis of Israel, claimed they weren't a legitimate country, and did a deconstruction of the media bias surrounding the conflict.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:I don't even know what to say about people trying to claim that native advertising isn't a form of deception. It's completely bizarre. Say "Describe what a native advertisement looks like to me." If it looks like a duck.
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Powershift posted:The USS constitution is still technically a comissioned warship in the US navy. The Greek navy has a trireme as a commissioned ship, too.
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I think Oliver's forté is in finding stories most people don't cover, and while the coverage of Israel-Palestine is very biased, it's not exactly a story flying under our radar, especially when you consider how social media are drowning out MSM coverage.
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John Oliver pulls out the British card a lot, and the fact remains that the creation of Israel was Britain's fault. That probably hurts.
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He frequently has said on the Bugle that the British were cartoon supervillains.
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Propaganda Machine posted:John Oliver pulls out the British card a lot, and the fact remains that the creation of Israel was Britain's fault. That probably hurts. He's said in a previous episode that being British when discussing world history is like being a person who was black out drunk last night. You don't remember what you did but you accept that it was probably your fault.
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He also had that great bit on the Daily Show last year where he was a 19th century explorer drawing arbitrary borders for the Middle East.
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Grand Fromage posted:The Greek navy has a trireme as a commissioned ship, too.
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VagueRant posted:I loving hate that Katy Perry song. Me too. Dark Horse is a lot better. 
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Cacator posted:Me too. Dark Horse is a lot better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU_9yi6xvRs
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jojoinnit posted:He also had that great bit on the Daily Show last year where he was a 19th century explorer drawing arbitrary borders for the Middle East. Bahahaha. Is there a link?!
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Propaganda Machine posted:Bahahaha. Is there a link?! http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/kovgs5/sir-archibald-mapsalot-iii
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"Calling me racist implies that I care enough to have bothered to learn things about these people in order to dislike them!" 
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Pablo Bluth posted:The Royal Navy has the oldest commissioned ship, the HMS Victory. This was Nelson's flagship in the battle of Trafalgar and she remains the flagship for the First Sea Lord. However it's in dry dock so having a fancy pants title doesn't translate in to the First Sea Lord being able to sail anywhere. Aside of such traditions, many navies use sailing ships to train officers. Germany's Gorch Fock, Italy's Amerigo Vespucci, Norway's Christian Radich, Japan's Kaiwo Maru...
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Argentina should just go gun boat on his rear end and kidnap him or stalk his yacht with there real navy just because they should.Grand Fromage posted:He frequently has said on the Bugle that the British were cartoon supervillains. The British aren't cartoon supervillains, they are real life supervillains as they where very good at world conquest.
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The British Empire was a very mixed bag when it came to carving out its Empire. Sometimes, we'd be clever, and support local lords favourable to our cause, and then using both financial and military support, make them reliant on us to a point wherein we would simply wield de facto control before taking over (see: the Carnatic Wars, followed by the effective subjugation of the Mughal Lords). Sometimes, we'd, to paraphrase Blackadder, simply make sure that the enemy didn't have guns before going in. And sometimes, we'd still gently caress it up anyway because nobody had enough foresight (or enough care to have foresight) to double check where we drew country borders or how we had balanced economic systems (see again: India, specifically how we bled Bengal dry from the richest of India's provinces to one of its poorest, though time has healed some of the damage). So yes, cartoon supervillains - starting out each episode's scheme somewhat conniving and tricky, before finding some way to stupidly screw it up in the most obviously avoidable fashion by the twenty minute mark so we could ultimately be thwarted. On the episode itself, having just watched it (catching up from a week's holiday), I'm officially glad that we have a news organisation actually paid out of the TV license. Means we don't have to worry about advertising issues like these.
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Quite. We instead have to worry about the Tory party scaring them into being biased to the right.
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I, for one, am glad that the #PittsburghOlympics2024 campaign is finally underway
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Since I accidently posted in The Daily Show thread, here is what I posted. Isn't there a PC version of Diplomacy? Oh, THAT'S what Money Mutual is.
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Full list of suggested passwords: freeblagojevich johnmayer_egot lazenbybestbond mrlobsterbrownies teamheigl michaelbaymodernfellini veganandinevermentionit johnoliver=christiangrey mrschrisbrown kimye4ever vassarfootball moonitselfisfaked 1000fishbutts rieslingdelicious
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DivisionPost posted:Full list of suggested passwords: Oh my god thank you. Some of these are really brilliant. Like I'm a huge fan of Vassar football and John Mayer's valiant effort for the EGOT (if that rear end in a top hat from Maroon 5 can get a movie role, then anyone can, and from there, anything's possible)
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I call Dingo!
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This episode seemed less funny than usual. A Twilight joke? Really?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I call Dingo! If that becomes a new recurring joke on this show, I approve.
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DivisionPost posted:Full list of suggested passwords: These would all make great usernames. I liked the piece on payday loan companies too - though it's depressing to see how stacked the Texas state legislature is.
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Bown posted:This episode seemed less funny than usual. A Twilight joke? Really? Part of me suspects he actually just read them.
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Propaganda Machine posted:John Oliver pulls out the British card a lot, and the fact remains that the creation of Israel was Britain's fault. That probably hurts. On the Bugle he called the British Museum "the world's largest active crime scene."
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DivisionPost posted:Full list of suggested passwords: Unfortunately there plenty of women out there who still want to be Mrs. Chris Brown.
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I've always wondered how those benign Pay Day Loan commercials worked and how they were probably scams. And now I know thanks John! Bown posted:This episode seemed less funny than usual. A Twilight joke? Really?
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BigRed0427 posted:Since I accidently posted in The Daily Show thread, here is what I posted. There is literally a game series called Diplomacy, which mostly deals with internal politics rather than international relations, and is basically winnable if you throw on a carbon emissions tax from the get go, since you'll eventually generate enough money to budget anything. I may have also poked John's official twitter about checking it out, though I will admit to doubting if he'll see it.
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