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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Rip Taylor owns Rip's never killed a single jew!
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Jun 1, 2015 09:12
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Turning the bad geography gag on the US itself was great. I actually knew the time he did it before but gently caress me if I knew where Nebraska is.
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Jun 1, 2015 09:25
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I'm trying so hard right now to picture John drinking a bud light lime and not immediately grimacing in contempt. I don't think he has the acting chops to pull it off, nor do I think he's even biologically capable of doing it.Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Turning the bad geography gag on the US itself was great. I actually knew the time he did it before but gently caress me if I knew where Nebraska is. When it popped up this time, I knew something was off, but I'll be hosed if I could remember where Nebraska was supposed to go. As soon as it landed in the right spot, I was like, "Oh, yeah... I guess there are two Dakotas."
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Jun 1, 2015 09:36
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I took a journalism 101 class in college that was really old school "do yer research or gently caress off" ethos that has largely died away. We had a surprise quiz on day one - a blank map of the middle east that we had to fill in the country's names. The results were so dismal that we re-took the test a second time a week later, and even in advance we still did terribly. Our professor had us take the quiz a third time a month later, and this time provided a list of the countries. I know kids from that program who STILL bitch about that quiz.
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Jun 1, 2015 09:45
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bobkatt013 posted:He is even willing to drink bud light lime! 
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Jun 1, 2015 09:48
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Great episode, as usual. The fascination of some Asian countries with Hitler is surreal.
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Jun 1, 2015 17:39
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bobkatt013 posted:He is even willing to drink bud light lime! He must really hate Blatter to be willing to subject himself to that. I'd rather drink maybe Dr. Pepper compared to Bud Light lime, maybe.
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Jun 1, 2015 18:03
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Also the scientology joke. This show is so so great.
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Jun 1, 2015 19:05
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I could see the pope slam getting a lot of people mad.
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Jun 1, 2015 20:06
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I hope the "NP: Not suitable for popes" warning is before LWT for the rest of all time.
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Jun 1, 2015 20:09
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bull3964 posted:I could see the pope slam getting a lot of people mad. gently caress em, to be honest.
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Jun 1, 2015 20:44
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Pope Francis is alright and nobody should be surprised the church is not a loving bastion of progressive thought. seems like a stupid goddamn target especially when Francis has been cleaning house and modernizing the church so aggressively.
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Jun 1, 2015 20:50
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Narcissus1916 posted:I took a journalism 101 class in college that was really old school "do yer research or gently caress off" ethos that has largely died away. that's pretty pathetic considering how the middle east only has like 7 countries in it
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Jun 1, 2015 20:51
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hemophilia posted:Pope Francis is alright and nobody should be surprised the church is not a loving bastion of progressive thought. seems like a stupid goddamn target especially when Francis has been cleaning house and modernizing the church so aggressively. Except when it comes to gay rights
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Jun 1, 2015 21:05
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bobkatt013 posted:Except when it comes to gay rights it's your fault for expecting a perfect progressive icon to rule the church not his for failing to meet that standard lol
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Jun 1, 2015 21:07
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bobkatt013 posted:Except when it comes to gay rights He hasn't been responsible for any real changes but he's still better than the last guy: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/13/pope-francis-lgbt-issues-rights quote:This all changed on 13 March 2013, when [Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio] was selected as pope. I made my way to the cathedral that day, photographing jubilant worshippers flocking to the building, even if their now famous leader was in Rome, waving from a balcony. I myself was struck by the fact that I now knew the man in the Holy See, something I could never have dreamed possible. I assumed that Pope Francis would be the same as Bergoglio, backwards on LGBT and other progressive issues, his church sliding ever more into irrelevance. But was I wrong. Bergoglio as Francis fooled me. Indeed I believe, he fooled us all. To be fair there's plenty of skepticism, validated by The Vatican's reaction to the Ireland vote, but his gestures are progress all the same.
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Jun 1, 2015 21:20
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hemophilia posted:it's your fault for expecting a perfect progressive icon to rule the church not his for failing to meet that standard lol Actually it's the pope's fault for still being a homophobic old poo poo, and it's a perfectly valid criticism Gay civil rights isn't exactly the cutting edge of progression
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Jun 1, 2015 21:27
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Krowley posted:Actually it's the pope's fault for still being a homophobic old poo poo, and it's a perfectly valid criticism i'm not going to try to divine his intentions but even if he felt a different way, pushing an institution as old and famously conservative and reactionary as the church would necessarily be a loving slow thing and homosexuality is probably a step too far for a huge chunk of the church and its parishioners. They'd have his head or create a schism over something like that, probably.
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Jun 1, 2015 21:35
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hemophilia posted:it's your fault for expecting a perfect progressive icon to rule the church not his for failing to meet that standard lol If you're saying that it's silly to expect anything else, you have a point. But predictable reprehensible behavior is still reprehensible behavior. And it's worth pointing out, as there are plenty of people who have been confused by Francis's easygoing public image.
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Jun 1, 2015 21:36
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I was hoping he would go into the RICO portions of the FIFA cases but oh well. That seems to be the most interesting tidbit on what is to come with the trials.
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Jun 1, 2015 23:24
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I'm honestly surprised it was the main story of the night, I figured they'd have something planned from before for the long story.
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Jun 1, 2015 23:26
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Krowley posted:Gay civil rights isn't exactly the cutting edge of progression Considering that the Defense of Marriage Act was passed less than 20 years ago, gay civil rights really are on the cutting edge.
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Jun 1, 2015 23:31
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I hope the Bernie bit continues it was pretty great.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:01
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It appears Thai people are a bit upset about the Hitler segment, judging by the comments here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWNbekZVyKk
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Jun 2, 2015 02:43
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Timett posted:I hope the "NP: Not suitable for popes" warning is before LWT for the rest of all time. Hah, was it actually on the start of this one?
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Jun 2, 2015 02:43
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El Gallinero Gros posted:It appears Thai people are a bit upset about the Hitler segment, judging by the comments here Apparently it's all just some real hipster irony, a totally funny joke, but what about Buddha, I don't do it so why are you picking on me, never happened. 555
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Jun 2, 2015 02:59
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El Gallinero Gros posted:It appears Thai people are a bit upset about the Hitler segment, judging by the comments here quote:John, you know what we all know who the gently caress was he and we dont even give a gently caress with the history or what he did. they picked Hitler because it was kinda fun to us. ohh and we are not that stupid like you bitch your show is so boring. YOU KNOW NOTHING JOHN OLIVER! Hahaha.
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Jun 2, 2015 03:03
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Thailand fought on the opposite side of the war from Hitler, although they were fighting mainly against Japan, so I could understand them not really knowing what Hitler's deal was. I don't know, maybe Hitler registers as a pop culture figure to them because of his prominence as a villain in media produced in the west?
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Jun 2, 2015 04:18
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IRQ posted:Salt Lake City made money, if that's a metric to go by. I believe a bunch of their facilities are used for training a lot by the US teams still. Thanks Mitt Romney (Not really)? SLC generally did a pretty good job with facilities. For example they built some of the the ski jumps a something like a decade in advance and were already using them for training, and the opening/closing ceremony venue and the Olympic Village were upgraded replacements for University of Utah facilities that already had uses (football stadium/dorms).
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Jun 2, 2015 04:19
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SlothfulCobra posted:Thailand fought on the opposite side of the war from Hitler, although they were fighting mainly against Japan, so I could understand them not really knowing what Hitler's deal was. Actually Thailand pretty much cooperated with the Japanese and declared war on the Allies. This happened under threat of invasion by Japan and a guerilla resistance movement formed with government support, but still, Thailands WW2 history isn't exactly clean. Why Hitler and "Nazi Chique" are such a thing in East Asia I couldn't tell you, but if we're generous and say it's because they are ignorant as gently caress about this then that still doesn't make them look good.
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Jun 2, 2015 08:12
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Orange Devil posted:but if we're generous and say it's because they are ignorant as gently caress about this then that still doesn't make them look good. Then we're right there in the poo poo with them, most westerners are ignorant as gently caress about Japan's actions during WW2 (with the exception of Pearl Harbour). We don't care about their side of WW2 and they don't give a poo poo about ours, it's perfectly fair.
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Jun 2, 2015 10:34
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I don't know how far under a rock you have to be buried to be ignorant of what Japan was doing to china and southeast asia, since WW2 is one of the areas Americans get fairly well schooled in, pacific and european fronts. Japanese internment camps get glossed over but the parts where our enemies were horrible shitheads does not ever get skimmed. That doesn't mean we [the royal we, i personally do] give a poo poo. But even the dumbest redneck will acknowledge hearing that stuff as far back as middle school.
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Jun 2, 2015 11:07
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Let me give you the Scandinavian version of that middle school lecture. Something something oil -> pearl harbour -> the US forced into the war -> Hiroshima  Gloss over doesn't even begin to describe sheer amount of information and context that is left out simply because we didn't participate in that part of the war.
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Jun 2, 2015 11:21
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Xoidanor posted:Then we're right there in the poo poo with them, most westerners are ignorant as gently caress about Japan's actions during WW2 (with the exception of Pearl Harbour). We don't care about their side of WW2 and they don't give a poo poo about ours, it's perfectly fair. If true (I wouldn't know, Dutch history covers the theatre in at least some detail for obvious reasons) then it's still not comparable unless we start using Hirohito in our marketing or start wearing Unit 731 inspired fashion.
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Jun 2, 2015 11:32
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This episode was probably one of the funniest this season. Loved all the segments. I love his passion for foootball and his hate for FIFA. I am liking Thailand less and less. First the news about them refusing to take in any Rohingya migrants even when Indonesia and Malaysia already agreed to. And then this Hitler thing. Oh, let's not forget this insane worship of their king. You're off the my bucket list Thailand.
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Jun 2, 2015 11:39
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Orange Devil posted:If true (I wouldn't know, Dutch history covers the theatre in at least some detail for obvious reasons) then it's still not comparable unless we start using Hirohito in our marketing or start wearing Unit 731 inspired fashion. None of that is nearly as stylish as Nazis. Which is probably one of the biggest reasons they're so popular. If we didn't have gently caress Nazis deeply embedded in our cultures, and didn't have a vast supply of grandpas with war stories about fighting Hitler or grandpas/grandmas with Holocaust stories, I could maybe see Nazis having a chance at culturally being more than evil incarnate.
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Jun 2, 2015 12:41
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MikeJF posted:Hah, was it actually on the start of this one? I dunno. I doubt it. Would have been pretty awesome though. I imagine they wouldn't actually start messing with that stuff because then it cheapens the ratings as a useful tool.
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Jun 2, 2015 14:33
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Gyges posted:None of that is nearly as stylish as Nazis. Which is probably one of the biggest reasons they're so popular. If we didn't have gently caress Nazis deeply embedded in our cultures, and didn't have a vast supply of grandpas with war stories about fighting Hitler or grandpas/grandmas with Holocaust stories, I could maybe see Nazis having a chance at culturally being more than evil incarnate. Pretty much. Especially in Europe, which of course got the direct end of Hitler's ambition stick, there is very much the cultural recognition of how horrible that was and why you can't touch it without very clearly intending to vilify or belittle the Nazis as a result. But in South East Asia its more of an academic understanding than a personal, cultural one. Especially when you also consider that most of their media is produced by and for themselves, the people who would be particularly offended aren't in Thailand. To an increasingly globalised west that's a massive oversight, but not necessarily the case outside of that.
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Astro Nut posted:Pretty much. Especially in Europe, which of course got the direct end of Hitler's ambition stick, there is very much the cultural recognition of how horrible that was and why you can't touch it without very clearly intending to vilify or belittle the Nazis as a result. I guess as a point of comparison you could look at how they talk about Pol Pot. He might not have gone around conquering people like Hitler but he was still horrible and much more local to SE Asia. I don't actually know how he's treated there but that might be a good barometer on their attitudes towards genocide in general. Also see how he's talked about in the west (or rather, see how he's basically just "a dictator" to us and that's about it).
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