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El Gallinero Gros posted:ahahahaha quote:“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver is a parody show, known for getting a laugh through exaggeration and presenting partial views in the name of humor,” said Philip Morris, which is known for presenting partial views in the name of protecting its profits.  Just god drat
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one sexy loser posted:Can anyone explain why exactly Florida has such a population of loons? Is it the humidity? It doesn't compared to any other state, they just have an open records law that let news outlets know about crazy poo poo that happens. Zythrst fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:ahahahaha
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one sexy loser posted:Can anyone explain why exactly Florida has such a population of loons? Is it the humidity? You should watch this: https://vimeo.com/118532076
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Popelmon posted:You should watch this: Seconded. Florida Man is amazing.
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They sound ridiculous but "to be fair" the same could be said about a lot of different products. Alcohol is the easiest example that's marketed in a similar way. Unhealthy food is another example: providing short term pleasure at the expense of long term negative health effects, and it's hard to imagine a successful political or social movement that would curtail advertising or sales of either in the same way that tobacco is here.
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one sexy loser posted:Can anyone explain why exactly Florida has such a population of loons? Is it the humidity? Imagine a giant trailer park thousands of miles from any other form of civilization all of a sudden found a geyser of money which never runs out.
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messagemode1 posted:They sound ridiculous but "to be fair" the same could be said about a lot of different products. Alcohol is the easiest example that's marketed in a similar way. Unhealthy food is another example: providing short term pleasure at the expense of long term negative health effects, and it's hard to imagine a successful political or social movement that would curtail advertising or sales of either in the same way that tobacco is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss0jLHvMO20 God do I love this movie.
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comes along bort posted:Imagine a giant trailer park thousands of miles from any other form of civilization all of a sudden found a geyser of money which never runs out. What's this geyser of money? The economy of Florida is not particularly strong by any metric.
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Pryor on Fire posted:What's this geyser of money? The economy of Florida is not particularly strong by any metric. I think Jackshitville is only there because of the military. Maybe he meant that?
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John Oliver was on Jimmy Fallon last nite and great as usual. Couldn't tell what his pin was, football team? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYaps7obsAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUfx6Wgc49Q
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one sexy loser posted:Can anyone explain why exactly Florida has such a population of loons? Is it the humidity? Because Florida's sunshine law makes basically all police documents public. The same stuff is going on in every state, it's just that we actually hear about it in Florida. edit: loving beaten.
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Pryor on Fire posted:What's this geyser of money? The economy of Florida is not particularly strong by any metric. Shouldn't Florida have a large amount of out-of-state cash constantly flowing into it's state economy from tourism and northern retirees?
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And the Oxy drug trade, since Florida is, or at least was, one of the last states to be so loving ignorant and incompetent that they won't track prescription drug purchases.
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Paper Kaiju posted:Shouldn't Florida have a large amount of out-of-state cash constantly flowing into it's state economy from tourism and northern retirees? That, real estate, drugs for a while though not as much these days, and federal spending. Also the weather makes it a draw for the homeless and drifters (and sex offender colonies), and that combined with nonexistent social services, plus the sunshine law means every arrest gets in the paper. Apoplexy posted:And the Oxy drug trade, since Florida is, or at least was, one of the last states to be so loving ignorant and incompetent that they won't track prescription drug purchases. The pill mills are mostly over and done with now. Purdue Pharma reformulated oxy so it can't be crushed and snorted as easily, and the DEA had a bunch of raids, then the FL government actually did their own crackdown on clinics. Which is why heroin is huge in rural communities like it's the early 90s all over again. It's becoming a huge problem- heroin deaths have nearly tripled since 2010 while other opioid ODs (i.e. from prescription pain pills) have stayed flat. Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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spronk posted:John Oliver was on Jimmy Fallon last nite and great as usual. Couldn't tell what his pin was, football team? It's the 1st Cavalry Division insignia. His wife served in the 1st Cavalry as a combat medic in Iraq.
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Paper Kaiju posted:Shouldn't Florida have a large amount of out-of-state cash constantly flowing into it's state economy from tourism and northern retirees? Tourism, like every other service sector, provides very little in terms of value added. Which means that even if a large amount of money flows into Florida because of tourism, a large amount of that money will also flow out. So, say, Disney World may be raking in a ton of money. But the majority of the employees there make something between 9 and 14 dollars an hour. So a lot of that money is flowing out either in expenses (buses, parts, machinery, etc) or in dividends.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Mexico is another country where cigarette boxes have disgusting poo poo plastered all over them, so I wonder if they're getting sued as well. No, because Philip Morris is secretly investing with the drug lords, which is much more profitable.
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geeves posted:No, because Philip Morris is secretly investing with the drug lords, which is much more profitable. The real revelation would be if the reason the legal grow ops in the states with legalization were unable to use the banking system not just because of the laws prohibiting it, but because it would expose whether or not Big Tobacco is betting long on the day when you'll be able to buy a pack of Marlboro 420s at 7-11.
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spronk posted:John Oliver was on Jimmy Fallon last nite and great as usual. Couldn't tell what his pin was, football team? Youtube took down the falion interview, is there another link out there?
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Wow, the first ten minutes of tonight's show was beat for beat identical to The Weekly Wipe that came out a few days ago. I understand that there is always going to be crossover in these things, but boy this surely goes beyond coincidence given how off the beaten track the stories were.
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Viginti posted:Wow, the first ten minutes of tonight's show was beat for beat identical to The Weekly Wipe that came out a few days ago. I understand that there is always going to be crossover in these things, but boy this surely goes beyond coincidence given how off the beaten track the stories were. What's the Weekly Wipe?
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Viginti posted:Wow, the first ten minutes of tonight's show was beat for beat identical to The Weekly Wipe that came out a few days ago. I understand that there is always going to be crossover in these things, but boy this surely goes beyond coincidence given how off the beaten track the stories were.
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richardfun posted:What's the Weekly Wipe? Now you need to go watch everything Charlie Brooker has ever done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brooker%27s_Weekly_Wipe
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I typically don't follow Greek or European politics, but I was following the recent Greek election sort of just because it was fascinating how it splintered towards the more "extreme" parties partly because of the backlash against austerity. I won't defend the dude's fashion sense, but there was some political theatre with it. The ruling party "Coalition of the Radical Left" won out, and they've been trying to posture themselves as not the typical pro-austerity center-leftists of recent years or the old-timey Cold War-era communists. They've been trying to play up the political angle of the resurgence of the populist left that lines up with the politics of the "young freshmen political science major" douchebags you knew from college. So it's not surprising that many of the government officials are dressing like they're 20 or 30 years younger than their actual age. Or maybe I'm just bullshitting that explanation because I really don't know anything about Greek politics.
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thehustler posted:Now you need to go watch everything Charlie Brooker has ever done. I only know Brooker from his columns in The Guardian, so thanks for the tip!
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I can't decide on if the Chad Myers segment was hilarious or deeply depressing. 
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Incidentally for those who missed it. Elected Judges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poL7l-Uk3I8
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thehustler posted:Now you need to go watch everything Charlie Brooker has ever done. "Weekly" wipe, airing a total of 18 episodes once this series is done. Goddamn British people how do you deal with that?
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I thought it was odd how he opened the show by attacking the Greek finance minister on the way he dresses rather than his skills and experience (which I'm sure is what he'd argue was much more important), especially since the guy being an actual economics professor makes him more qualified than the people he was shown meeting (Osborne) E: Now he's doing a pink bus bit this really is just like weekly wipe. Focusing on the boardroom line is especially bizarre since there are almost no women in boardrooms (which he knows and believes is a bad thing) E: judge bit is better, feels like theyve done more research. First bit felt like they'd read some "also in the news" article Phoon fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Cerepol posted:"Weekly" wipe, airing a total of 18 episodes once this series is done. Goddamn British people how do you deal with that? Watch Black Mirror and stop asking questions! e: then dead set.
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Total Meatlove posted:Watch Black Mirror and stop asking questions! InequalityGodzilla fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Phoon posted:I thought it was odd how he opened the show by attacking the Greek finance minister on the way he dresses rather than his skills and experience (which I'm sure is what he'd argue was much more important), especially since the guy being an actual economics professor makes him more qualified than the people he was shown meeting (Osborne) Yeah, this is probably more my problem with that open. It's not that they covered the same topics, it's that in comparison the treatment was so shallow and given that WW moves at a ridiculously rapid pace that's pretty damning. It's strange that he bought into the hype with the Pink bus bit too, because to me the better joke was how ridiculous it is that people were offended by a colour and how much it distracted from the issue. Saying, 'Choosing pink was silly. Pony! Pony!' is exactly what the conventional media did, minus a pony or two. A jab or two at the guy's attitude is fine, but not backing it up with much real talk is disappointing, unless it was all connected in some sort of mega meta bit about how focused we are on the way women politicians dress and how we should either stop that or throw shade equally. It isn't that though. This season has really cemented my opinion that LWT isn't funny, most of John's jokes fall as flat as NPH's but the research is great and benefits from having that relaxed tone. I think i'd probably prefer it if they either dropped the 'comedy' tag outright, or dropped the intro and became a one issue half-hour article show. But i'll keep watching either way.
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Viginti posted:It's strange that he bought into the hype with the Pink bus bit too, because to me the better joke was how ridiculous it is that people were offended by a colour and how much it distracted from the issue. Saying, 'Choosing pink was silly. Pony! Pony!' is exactly what the conventional media did, minus a pony or two. Yeah. Oliver almost always takes the easy stance, even if its not the most well-thought out one. Women like pink. They wear pink. The willingly associate themselves with pink, and pink often operates as a short-hand for "Women Only." Using a pink bus to get women's attention makes sense, and is no more offensive than using pink ribbons to raise breast cancer awareness. Oliver's just flat out wrong on this one.
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Zythrst posted:It doesn't compared to any other state, they just have an open records law that let news outlets know about crazy poo poo that happens. Florida does have a genuinely very high crime rate, they had the 4th highest rate of violent crime per capita according to the census, for example. According to these guys, it's got more cities on the "top 100 most dangerous cities in America" than any other state (11). http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/neighborhoods/crime-rates/top100dangerous/ Periodiko fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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So no words on the actual meat of the show this week? As non-US person that scared the everliving poo poo out of me. I understand he was being a bit tongue in cheek when he did the "well i shouldn't have urinated in October during an election year" but the implications of that are frightening. Maybe I need to go and check out the US Politics series that John and Hank Green's channel is doing at the moment, because it is loving bizarre to me that judges run around running campaigns like that to be "elected".
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xcore posted:So no words on the actual meat of the show this week? As non-US person that scared the everliving poo poo out of me. I understand he was being a bit tongue in cheek when he did the "well i shouldn't have urinated in October during an election year" but the implications of that are frightening.
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xcore posted:So no words on the actual meat of the show this week? As non-US person that scared the everliving poo poo out of me. I understand he was being a bit tongue in cheek when he did the "well i shouldn't have urinated in October during an election year" but the implications of that are frightening. If you ever wanna get freaked out read the US Politics thread in D&D. There's a really good reason half the time it descends into hard liquor-chat.
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