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The Cheshire Cat posted:That seems like it should fall under a more general law about voter intimidation, though (since a domestic company doing the same thing would be just as shady). A domestic Canadian company would be far too polite to do such a thing.
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Gyges posted:A domestic Canadian company would be far too polite to do such a thing. Funny story, I was recently at a technical seminar hosted, here in Canada. The organizer/guy running it was American. Held in a hotel/conference center like thing. Lunch time rolls around. He says there's a spread out in the little deli in the lobby, and follow him. We all troop out. We then all proceed to stand around, while he repeatedly gestures for us to 'go ahead, dig in! Line starts right there!' Nobody makes a move for the food. Finally I say, 'We're Canadian. We're all too polite to go first.'
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Oct 21, 2015 14:45
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Gyges posted:A domestic Canadian company would be far too polite to do such a thing. Yeah, most of them, Canadian mining companies are PRETTY terrible though. Like movie villain terrible
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TheCenturion posted:Funny story, I was recently at a technical seminar hosted, here in Canada. The organizer/guy running it was American. Held in a hotel/conference center like thing. My first read of this anecdote I genuinely thought he had lead you all out into an empty lobby and stood there gesturing at thin air whilst shouting " Go ahead! Dig in!" out of some weird Patriotic Spite.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:29
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reignofevil posted:My first read of this anecdote I genuinely thought he had lead you all out into an empty lobby and stood there gesturing at thin air whilst shouting " Go ahead! Dig in!" out of some weird Patriotic Spite. Maybe he was just waiting for you to believe in the food.
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TheCenturion posted:Funny story, I was recently at a technical seminar hosted, here in Canada. The organizer/guy running it was American. Held in a hotel/conference center like thing.
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apatheticman posted:Yeah, most of them, Canadian mining companies are PRETTY terrible though. Isn't there one that is basically a communist asbestos mine where it's illegal to sell asbestos in Canada but they ship it out to south america because gently caress you that's why? Like some kind of bizarre purely capitalist amoral endeavor but collectively owned.
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IRQ posted:Isn't there one that is basically a communist asbestos mine where it's illegal to sell asbestos in Canada but they ship it out to south america because gently caress you that's why? Yes, and its the least evil of all the mining companies in Canada.
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Oct 25, 2015 23:54
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See, the way it works is that Canada has, on average, just as much malice and hate as any other country, but it's almost exclusively funneled into our mining companies and our geese. That's why geese are dicks.
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YggiDee posted:See, the way it works is that Canada has, on average, just as much malice and hate as any other country, but it's almost exclusively funneled into our mining companies and our geese. That's why geese are dicks. True, and we also have far fewer people per square mile compared to the states, so any anger we might have towards someone else usually fizzles out before we see them, eh?
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Oct 26, 2015 02:36
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Did John take this week off? I didn't see an episode in my on-demand, but sometimes Crapcast is late getting them up.
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FrakkinCylon posted:Did John take this week off? I didn't see an episode in my on-demand, but sometimes Crapcast is late getting them up. Yeah. Nothing on the Youtube channel either.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Yeah. Nothing on the Youtube channel either. There was no episode this week, back next week.
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Oct 27, 2015 05:16
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Nothing on the Youtube channel either. Everyone involved in the show is probably so tired at this point in the season I don't really blame them.
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Oct 27, 2015 06:08
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No doubt Canada has arrested John Oliver. No doubt.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:No doubt Canada has arrested John Oliver. No doubt. He's probably in Canadian prison 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Everyone involved in the show is probably so tired at this point in the season I don't really blame them. What do they actually do to be so tired? I don't want to be too dismissive but there isn't that much more going into the show than there was with the Daily Show, and that one was, well, daily.
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mobby_6kl posted:What do they actually do to be so tired? I don't want to be too dismissive but there isn't that much more going into the show than there was with the Daily Show, and that one was, well, daily. The research, the writings, the fact checking. The Daily Show also had more writers.
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Oct 27, 2015 15:22
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LWT has more in depth stories so, I would assume, this requires a lot more research. Plus I don't think it's as if they're not working this week they're probably just working on news stories for the next. Or maybe John himself was busy. Or maybe they received a bunch of "distractions" by way of Our Church of Perpetual Exemption donations.
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Or maybe they put out 34 shows a year and take time off every few weeks because otherwise they'd burn out or take an entire chunk of the year off.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Or maybe they put out 34 shows a year and take time off every few weeks because otherwise they'd burn out or take an entire chunk of the year off. Yeah, this. And not that I don't love the Daily Show, but half of it is an interview, the other half is mainly laughing at stupid poo poo that happened the day before, or pointing out something dumb fox news did, or a prepared, topical segment involving one of the correspondents. LWT hasn't really gone after many of the super-easy targets like Fox, have they?
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I got mad once when John Oliver took a week off and then a week later I found out he was sitting on a stool on that same weekend that I was mad and he was about to lose his poo poo at an empty chair representing Edward Snowden. And then things got even funnier. So I just let him do his thing these days.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Everyone involved in the show is probably so tired at this point in the season I don't really blame them. They're so tired of making a semi-weekly(more not than it is at this point) that has roughly the same amount of effort as dozens of other shows that update daily? Grow up. The only reason that Last week Tonight doesn't update weekly is that they simply don't give a gently caress.
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Or because HBO only wants to pay to produce X number of episodes per year and wants them spaced out in a way that makes sense to them. edit: looks like this point has already been covered.
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Austrian mook posted:They're so tired of making a semi-weekly(more not than it is at this point) that has roughly the same amount of effort as dozens of other shows that update daily? Grow up. Well That escalated quickly.
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I wouldn't resort to insults just yet, but I really don't buy the "research" justification either. I used to do more research by myself the night before my term papers were due, and they supposedly have a paid crew for this stuff. The only other time intensive thing might be filming those fake ads, but even then it's usually just the same dude narrating over some stock footage. If they can't/won't make a "guy talks about current events" show stick to its already generous weekly scheduling, I'll probably just lose interest and stop waiting for it at all, eventually.
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ya ive already stopped watching and giving a poo poo. he was waaaay better on the daily show.
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If you get home and see it on your DVR Monday night after work then that's a nice surprise and half an hour is not exactly a huge commitment, but yeah it's not worth staying up on a Sunday night to maybe catch considering it's not consistently on. Otherwise his jokes probably land about 10% of the time for me. His shtick of coming up with random names to say repeatedly and berate while looking at stock images in the upper left hang corner of the screen was probably still funny in season 1 episode 2.
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Jeez, lot of people pissed about a show taking a week off. It's almost like they're paid to do X shows per year and have the loving gall to only do X shows per year! I mean I'm not sure how people manage to post that opinion since they should obviously be at their jobs instead working unpaid overtime for the love of working.
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How many shows did they do the first year 24? So we're already way ahead. People are actual complaining about only getting 2/3rd of the year with new shows? gently caress you. The show is still fantastic. gently caress the haters. Oh and if you are asking "did the show air on Sunday?" In 2015 there's a guy that's coming to your door to take your internet badge from you.
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Fragmented posted:How many shows did they do the first year 24? So we're already way ahead. People are actual complaining about only getting 2/3rd of the year with new shows? gently caress you. Lmao. This guy is so fuckin pissed
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Austrian mook posted:Lmao. This guy is so fuckin pissed Yup I cursed therefore I am so fuckin pissed. But seriously if a show doesn't air that people usually talk about when it does? It skipped a week or two. There's a big internet out there people, you can find these things out pretty fast.
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There really aren't that many random weeks off. 35 episodes a year. It didn't air the first 5 weeks this year. Assuming the last 4 episodes air in a row, it won't air the final 5 weeks this year. That leaves 7 weeks off in-between its first and last episodes of the year.
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Fragmented posted:Yup I cursed therefore I am so fuckin pissed. But seriously if a show doesn't air that people usually talk about when it does? It skipped a week or two. There's a big internet out there people, you can find these things out pretty fast. Yeah you do seem kind of pissed
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Oct 31, 2015 00:52
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Just imagine my posts in a bewildered UK accent. Oh and I have spider fingers.
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Fragmented posted:Just imagine my posts in a bewildered UK accent. Oh and I have spider fingers. You should take a week off.
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Oct 31, 2015 00:58
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Ya...there are a bunch of mascot costumes to gently caress...SEE YOU NEXT WEEK GUYS!
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Austrian mook posted:Lmao. This guy is so fuckin pissed Says the guy who told someone to "grow up" after that someone rationally posited how exhausted the staff must be at this point in the season. "BUHBUHBUH THE DAILY SHOW" Must be exhausting too, but that schedule being potentially more exhausting is not proof that the LWT grind is not exhausting in and of itself, which is something people usually learn after they turn 14. Or is this too much of a care post for you?
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