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Cole posted:if you're going to rip someone's quote, at least give them credit. It's from True Detective as part of a pretty well known monologue. Unless you're calling out the writer of the show as being somewhat of a plagiarist, which has been happening.
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Phenotype posted:I'm at work, or right now I'd be posting that Ctrl-Alt-Del comic (you know which one) only with the last panel showing his girlfriend with a big grin and a triumphant fist pump. I'm at a loss for what it could be.
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Freaquency posted:"Guys I really just wish everyone would drop it!" The main story isn't always something that happened recently (i.e: America has had lovely labour laws forever) so it's pretty hard to guess what he'll cover. I'd like it if he did something with an international angle. The last few episodes have tended to focus on mainly US issues.
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May 15, 2015 16:11
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Well there's the earthquake (but hopefully no humor in that), the UK elections, the end of Ebola (at least in Liberia) and possibly some UN/WHO stuff to go with that... What else has been happening in the world?
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May 15, 2015 16:18
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muscles like this? posted:I'd really like it for them to cover the whole Jeb Bush thing where he was trying to cheat FEC rules by running for President but not actually announcing and using that as a loophole to raise more money than he is legally allowed to. Jeb is not cheating at all. He's perfectly within the rules, at least until he accidentally announced to reporters he was running, though that's probably not official. As long as he is not officially running for office he's free to coordinate and run a PAC that will obviously cut all ties with him as soon as he announces and totally independently work toward electing Jeb Bush. Thanks to the Supreme Court this is all above board and fine. Any candidate can do it.
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May 15, 2015 16:34
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Xoidanor posted:I'm at a loss for what it could be.
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muscles like this? posted:I'd really like it for them to cover the whole Jeb Bush thing where he was trying to cheat FEC rules by running for President but not actually announcing and using that as a loophole to raise more money than he is legally allowed to. I've heard Scott Walker is doing this, too. I suspect it may be the New Normal for people who are serious about running. ItalicSquirrels posted:Well there's the earthquake (but hopefully no humor in that), the UK elections, the end of Ebola (at least in Liberia) and possibly some UN/WHO stuff to go with that... What else has been happening in the world? There is a lot going on in the world if you dive in below the top-level headlines. It's hard to predict what captures his attention. One admittedly less important story I'd kind of like to hear him cover is the jihadi kids who are fleeing ISIS and trying to go home. It seems like an interesting problem going forward: how to handle teens who ran off to join the fight/marry the fighters and then noped out of there.
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Pinky Artichoke posted:One admittedly less important story I'd kind of like to hear him cover is the jihadi kids who are fleeing ISIS and trying to go home. It seems like an interesting problem going forward: how to handle teens who ran off to join the fight/marry the fighters and then noped out of there. The strategy of the Dutch PM as stated during an election debate is: "hope they die".
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Orange Devil posted:The strategy of the Dutch PM as stated during an election debate is: "hope they die". See, in America they could just fake a conversion to Christianity and people would by calling their congressman to demand their safe return.
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I was here a few pages ago. I left because ignoring an obvious troll was not enough, as the bulk of discussion was in response to his trolling. I didn't report because something inside me felt like that was snitching. Thank you for getting Joe to back off a bit Deadpool. I honestly thought the 300+ responses, were due to trolling. I'm glad I was wrong. I wanted to say that I'd be happy to give you a big hug DogPickle, you sound like you've held a lot inside for a while. Do you think maybe that if you had better options when you became pregnant as a minor, you might feel differently about this subject that is now, very obviously, personal to you? Being someone with a Y chromosome, I dont have the same first person view of the issue, but I was in a similar position in my early 20's. My girlfriend did have a miscarriage though, it was bloody and horrible, and almost killed her. The stress of the situation, IMO was enough, and led to the end of a five year relationship a couple months later. It was stressful because we didn't have many options, and abortion was NOT an option for a number of irrelevant reasons. Years later, I have used my experience to find more empathy, and it has been hard work. I'd like to quote a beautiful post from a few pages back, and I look forward to discussing the next episode with you all. e: I'm super late, sorry. I blame Joe. time is a wastin posted:Here I hope this poem helps you
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Gyges posted:See, in America they could just fake a conversion to Christianity and people would by calling their congressman to demand their safe return. And start go find me's for them.....so long as they looked white enough.
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One of my best friends that I have known since high school made a documentary on chicken farming a couple years ago. It was basically a hobby of his, making documentaries. Anyways, he told me today that it is going to be on John Oliver's show this week. I have no clue if it will be 5 seconds, or if they will even mention his name. Either way, its pretty cool to see his efforts make it big so to speak. The documentary in question is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2erLkMuVqt4 Can't wait to see it!
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swickles posted:One of my best friends that I have known since high school made a documentary on chicken farming a couple years ago. It was basically a hobby of his, making documentaries. Anyways, he told me today that it is going to be on John Oliver's show this week. I have no clue if it will be 5 seconds, or if they will even mention his name. Either way, its pretty cool to see his efforts make it big so to speak. The documentary in question is here: I almost commented a couple of days ago that I could see him doing a segment on the chicken holocaust now underway in the midwest due to avian flu. This is an excellent (and tragic) angle.
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May 17, 2015 15:48
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Thurm posted:On more positive news, John's interview with Pepe Julian Onziema just won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Talk Show Episode. 4 pages of poo poo posting and no one comments on this. It's really cool to hear that Pepe's interview had such a positive impact on the discussion of LGBQT rights in Uganda and Pepe's own personal life.
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May 17, 2015 17:40
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I don't usually remember to watch this live, hey edit: holy hell what an rear end edit 2: oh here's the segment with the documentary that goon's friend made edit 3: #TheBoysAreBack  I thoroughly enjoy when John geeks out about stuff
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May 18, 2015 04:05
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swickles posted:One of my best friends that I have known since high school made a documentary on chicken farming a couple years ago. It was basically a hobby of his, making documentaries. Anyways, he told me today that it is going to be on John Oliver's show this week. I have no clue if it will be 5 seconds, or if they will even mention his name. Either way, its pretty cool to see his efforts make it big so to speak. The documentary in question is here: Hey swickles your friend made a really good documentary about something I think most of America has no idea about, so good on him. Really shocked about how bad poo poo is for the farmers, it seems like they're in a no-win situation. Not a whole lot of industry in the Deep South apart from agriculture and when Big Ag fucks you like this, what are you supposed to do? Is it just me or do all the issues over the last few weeks boil down to "large corporations need to be shackled because they're out of control." Because that seems like the overriding thesis to me. If only any politicians actually gave a poo poo...
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Politicians would probably give a poo poo if they're campaigns weren't financed by the very companies they're supposed to regulate. 
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Xoidanor posted:Politicians would probably give a poo poo if they're campaigns weren't financed by the very companies they're supposed to regulate. If you want to have Senators Not on the take, Then give them free air time, They won't have to fake!
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In defense of that bit about Depp's dogs, Australia the continent/country has no rabies. It currently does not exist anywhere, so they are understandably crazy strict in order to keep it that way. Depp basically gave the government a massive middle finger. That Australian government dude was hilariously unprofessional but he was definitely right.axeil posted:Hey swickles your friend made a really good documentary about something I think most of America has no idea about, so good on him. Really shocked about how bad poo poo is for the farmers, it seems like they're in a no-win situation. Not a whole lot of industry in the Deep South apart from agriculture and when Big Ag fucks you like this, what are you supposed to do? That Ohio congresswoman effectively summed up the American labor market pretty succinctly. The businesses have all the power and the workers almost none. Giving some power back to the workers is the obvious and effective solution.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:In defense of that bit about Depp's dogs, Australia the continent/country has no rabies. It currently does not exist anywhere, so they are understandably crazy strict in order to keep it that way. Depp basically gave the government a massive middle finger. That Australian government dude was hilariously unprofessional but he was definitely right. I thought rabies was a non-factor in most of the developed world on the account of us having killed off most predators.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:In defense of that bit about Depp's dogs, Australia the continent/country has no rabies. It currently does not exist anywhere, so they are understandably crazy strict in order to keep it that way. Depp basically gave the government a massive middle finger. That Australian government dude was hilariously unprofessional but he was definitely right.
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Xoidanor posted:I thought rabies was a non-factor in most of the developed world on the account of us having killed off most predators. It still very much exists in the wild. That's what I'm saying. Random wild life does not have rabies in Australia. JT Jag posted:Pets owned by movie stars have no rabies either, they do not exist anywhere. It's very easy for a dog to contract rabies in the US thanks to possums, raccoons, and other wildlife. Hopefully they've had their shots and everything but that's the entire reason the Australian gov't checks.
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It's not just rabies, it's lots of other things. Biosecurity is incredibly heavily regulated here, for good reason; our ecosystem is distinct from the rest of the world and we have a whole different set of pests. New ones getting in could be disastrous. You know how you have drug dogs in airports? Here they're fruit dogs, because compromising that could cost billions. Now obviously Depp's dogs are healthy as hell, but when your government spends millions of dollars a year on advertising how serious quarantine regulation is, to have a celebrity say 'gently caress it' to that and let him get away with it would be a disaster. The threat to kill was basically them trying to impress on the public how seriously they take this poo poo. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 11:15 on May 18, 2015 |
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MikeJF posted:It's not just rabies, it's lots of other things. Biosecurity is incredibly heavily regulated here, for good reason; our ecosystem is distinct from the rest of the world and we have a whole different set of pests. New ones getting in could be disastrous. You know how you have drug dogs in airports? Here they're fruit dogs. Yeah, I agree. There are even quarantines within Australia. My girlfriend is planning to bring her cat from the US to Australia next year, there are ~6 months worth of vet visits beforehand for vaccinations, test, etc, then the animal has to be boarded in quarantine for 10 days (~$1500 or something). It's a tonne of money for her but not having a private jet to smuggle the cat in on it's not like she has a choice 
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Yeah, I agree. There are even quarantines within Australia. Yeah, don't run afoul of the fruit police. No, seriously, they're patrolling the highways, they'll pull you over to check for fruit smuggling while you're driving through a quarantine strip. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 11:29 on May 18, 2015 |
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Relentlessboredomm posted:It's very easy for a dog to contract rabies in the US thanks to possums, raccoons, and other wildlife. Hopefully they've had their shots and everything but that's the entire reason the Australian gov't checks. Which would have been wholly justified if Depp kept matching Dobermans or something. These are teacup dogs that probably have never been exposed to sunlight other than that being filtered through a polarized window pane. A law's a law, though, and he was perfectly within his right to demand the dogs be submitted for quarantine or sent back to the US, but there are assholes on both sides of this: 1) Depp for thinking he could skirt the law so long as he kept his dogs indoors presumably because 'he is who he is,' and 2) the Minister for dickishly exerting his authority over an American movie star. I still remember people bitching and moaning about their pets being forcibly quarantined living on a foreign US military base both when they arrived and when they moved back. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 11:40 on May 18, 2015 |
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MikeJF posted:Yeah, don't run afoul of the fruit police. What fruits are banned?
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axeil posted:What fruits are banned? Pick a state
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At least there are legitimate reasons for it. Keeping the areas fruit fly free is a bitch and a half.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Yeah, I agree. There are even quarantines within Australia. My sister brought a dog over from the Solomon islands. 6 months quarantine. I don't know how much it cost her, but it was a lot. This was after she had just been volunteering there for a year so didn't exactly have a lot of money, but a pets a pet, and you do what you do I guess.
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dr_rat posted:My sister brought a dog over from the Solomon islands. 6 months quarantine. Something must've been found, Solomons is meant to be a few weeks.
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I don't blame Australia at all for being strict after the whole rabbit debacle. Not that I expect tea cup dogs to ravage the environment, but still.
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Yeah I feel like they've started putting more thought and effort into the 20-minute segments. I mean those are why I actually watch the show so I'm happy to see them happen that way.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Which would have been wholly justified if Depp kept matching Dobermans or something. These are teacup dogs that probably have never been exposed to sunlight other than that being filtered through a polarized window pane. Laws like this absolutely have to be stupidly rigid though, since exactly 0.000% of pet owners will think that their precious little fluffy companion could possibly carry some nasty disease. If you leave any amount of "common sense" based wiggle room where it is up to the owner to make a judgement call on weather their pet needs to be quarantined or not, then you might as well not bother with the laws in the first place. Guy was still an rear end in a top hat, of course, but I can really see where he felt that he had to come down hard on this. If he had just asked politely if Mr. Depp would please quarantine his pets, he'd risk opening up a national debate over weather these particular pets, belonging to this particular guy, really posed a serious risk or not. What if Depp had pinky promised that they had all their shots, or that they would leave in a couple of weeks anyway, so what's the big deal, etc etc. All of a sudden you'd have a bunch of idiots thinking about weather they should just try to bring their pets in on the sly the next time, because why bother paying for a bunch of shots and weeks of quarantine and poo poo when you know in your heart of hearts that your pampered little purse-dweller can't possibly be contaminated with anything?
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Baron Bifford posted:This show started off strong but has lately gone to poo poo. I can't believe he dedicated a sketch to broken polar bear penises. Except I've seen that sketch 3 times now, and it's still funny. I know it's shocking, but most people watch comedy shows to laugh.
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I think a lot of Oliver's bits lately are missing the "mic drop moment" that justify the preachy tone. We get anger, sympathetic figures, and jokes but we don't get a strong release of emotions by the end of a lot of the bits. I kind of need a bit of a stronger home run moment at the end of the extended bits if I want to share the story on Facebook or have water cooler talk about it at work. The show obviously doesn't want to retread The Daily Show, but it's a bit more obvious now where the advantages are in Stewart's format. Having correspondents and field pieces still grounds the comedy as "fake news". A weekly format that's less bound to the news cycle will obviously want to be less like that, but it's missing a lot of the meta-narrative stuff that helps keep it engaging. I don't want to overstate the issues with the show, because it still makes me laugh. But the show could use some very slight retooling because the issues covered will usually be important but the emotional impact, comedic or serious, has reached a ceiling.
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