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I really don't know what I was doing instead of watching Jeopardy in this era, but I really don't remember this set at all.
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I remember it because the guy who looked weirdly like Adam West answers a question about Adam West.
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Dec 26, 2020 02:02
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Do people who go on Jeopardy practice roman numeral math? I just could not come up with those answers that fast.
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Dec 30, 2020 06:29
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I liked the one that was just adding all the letters together, but yeah, the rest were ooooof
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Dec 30, 2020 07:19
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The square root one was more intuitive imo. You see the ending IV and you know there's pretty much only one sq root they'd realistically give you that would end in 4. I didn't see the rest of the category, but there might have been other stuff like that?
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Dec 30, 2020 08:41
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Dec 30, 2020 22:11
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Somebody's been hired
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Dec 30, 2020 23:14
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He researched, wrote, and published a book on Internet comedy without realizing some of his old tweets were tone-deaf, okay. (it’s overdue and a good move but I don’t see why he’s dressing it up, just admit you want to clean up to host jeopardy it’s not a big deal)
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Dec 30, 2020 23:27
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If he’s been hired he may have been asked to give a PR-vetted apology
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Spokes posted:He researched, wrote, and published a book on Internet comedy without realizing some of his old tweets were tone-deaf, okay. Yeah, I'd bet it's the PR approved one to get people to stop talking about it. Plus from reading the replies apparently some Trump supporters are pissed at him for making fun of Republicans with incredibly mild jokes so it's probably meant to be a general clean sweep for a wide audience. I'm not going to be able to dig it up quickly, but last time this came up he basically said the same thing more plainly with regard to the bad wheelchair tweet. That it sounded funnier in his head, he realizes that it sucks and was offensive and mean-spirited, but he felt it was dishonest to just delete it and pretend he didn't screw up.  It could also be his appearance on The Chase or general rising profile caused somebody to tell him that unless he wants it tweeted at him daily he needs to make a clean break.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Yeah, I'd bet it's the PR approved one to get people to stop talking about it. Plus from reading the replies apparently some Trump supporters are pissed at him for making fun of Republicans with incredibly mild jokes so it's probably meant to be a general clean sweep for a wide audience. He made a tweet mocking the people lying that Barron thought Kathy Griffin had really decapitated his dad when he "saw" the picture (something like Barron saw a pile of ham with a tie on TV and thought it was his dad) and Twitter reactionaries threw a fit and acted like he was mocking Barron. It's the closest I've seen him come to being ratioed.
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Dec 31, 2020 15:28
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i honestly doubt it's really worth it to appeal to the kind of people who complain of a perceived liberal bias in a skinner box that gives out money, but corporate decisions aren't always logical decisions.
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lol I just remembered this tweet: https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/1024033621143838720 I was hoping this would be a good sign that he got the gig, because I don't think they would have made him do this for a temporary hosting slot (since the deletion is bringing more attention than if he had ignored them). However, I forgot The Chase was starting soon as well. So who knows.
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He's been one of the contestants for MasterMinds for a year already. I don't think The Chase people would care too much. I think it's a J! thing for sure. I like the apology, but then I do like Ken.
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Dec 31, 2020 18:50
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Alex was pretty spot on with his timing in that article from 2018.
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Back to back true daily doubles in the finals of a tournament of champions. Roger Craig is amazing.
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Well I am ready to cry this week https://twitter.com/Jeopardy/status/1345761844250591232?s=19
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Hearing him reading off "we love you Alex" always makes the room dusty.
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Ken seriously needs to just delete his Twitter account holy poo poo. And then he needs to delete the idea that defending his podcast co-host's racist and anti-Semetic tweets is a good idea. HookShot fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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For those who need a TLDR: https://twitter.com/samoyedcore/status/1345880702240264194?s=21
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LeVar Burton about to get paid.
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Yeah thanks for that, sorry for vagueposting. Also I read about the beans thing and the Ken thing separately and boy was I not ready for those to be the same story.
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https://twitter.com/BondJohnBond/status/1345877549243658247?s=19 This was how I found out, and gee loving golly what a start to the new year.
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Worth noting that Jeopardy hasn't said anything, Ken was never announced as a permanent new host, and so on. That said, this can't be good for his chances of getting the permanent gig. beans
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Zero One posted:For those who need a TLDR: Hey google, translate this into English.
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davecrazy posted:Hey google, translate this into English. Ken Jennings’ podcast cohost apparently all but starved his daughter because she didn’t know how to use a can opener to open a can of beans and he didn’t help her in order to teach her how can openers work. People dug his Twitter history and he apparently had some anti-Semitic stuff in it. Ken defended him as the usual irreverent humor, which needless to say is a bad look. Beans dad deleted his Twitter soon after.
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His kid was hungry and wanted a can of beans and he refused to make them until she figured out to open the can herself six hours later. It’s really lovely and I don’t think food should ever be used as an incentive like that but I do think the phrasing of “all but starved” conjures something worse than that
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christmas boots posted:His kid was hungry and wanted a can of beans and he refused to make them until she figured out to open the can herself six hours later. Fair, I was caught up in the Internet hyperbole.
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While I'm willing to let the whole bean dad story slide as a joke and that he didn't actually spend six hours not feeding his child, he literally has dozens of "joke" tweets were the punchline is just "Jews are bad" or "rape is funny" or "black people are criminals". It's obviously stupid poo poo made by a bigot who deleted his Twitter because it's indefensible, but then Ken just tweets "actually he's a good guy and you guys are over-reacting" which is the obviously wrong thing to do, which is pretty embarrassing given that he just had his "I'm sorry for making bad jokes on Twitter" that is rather obviously not genuine.
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my kids go without food for 6 hours every goddamn day. it's like lunch to dinner
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mennoknight posted:my kids go without food for 6 hours every goddamn day. it's like lunch to dinner Well yeah, but in this case she didn't get the lunch.
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What is the hell is going on for 200
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Jesus, and here I thought of the podcast hosts I listened to John Roderick would've been on the bottom of the 'likely cancelled' list. I mean, WAY below Dave Anthony on the Dollop.
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got some chores tonight posted:While I'm willing to let the whole bean dad story slide as a joke and that he didn't actually spend six hours not feeding his child, he literally has dozens of "joke" tweets were the punchline is just "Jews are bad" or "rape is funny" or "black people are criminals". It's obviously stupid poo poo made by a bigot who deleted his Twitter because it's indefensible, but then Ken just tweets "actually he's a good guy and you guys are over-reacting" which is the obviously wrong thing to do, which is pretty embarrassing given that he just had his "I'm sorry for making bad jokes on Twitter" that is rather obviously not genuine. 1000% this. Like, some of the tweets in question by John Roderick are so loving reprehensible and vile. Even if you consider them as "jokes" they are so offensive. HE TYPED THE loving N WORD. Like not "the N word", HE TYPED THE N WORD. And somehow that's not even the most offensive of the tweets. I wanted Ken to be the next host but after this? Not a loving chance.
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I don't think, or at least I hope so, that Ken was aware of everything that's coming up. When he was confronted/replied, all that had come out was a couple of lovely unfunny Jewish jokes, it was before the dad's post history had been thoroughly mined for stuff like the n-word and the rape jokes. Fwiw this is what Ken's actually tweeted about it so far https://twitter.com/kenjennings/status/1345844518415814657 https://twitter.com/kenjennings/status/1345875043767578629 needless to say not great but imo not really the same as "he's great you're being hysterical." He accepted the correction well but obv I hope he comes out with something better, especially given the quantity and variety of absolute garbage that's been revealed since. Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Reading all of this just further reinforces my bewilderment over what the gently caress people get out of using Twitter.
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Cyril Sneer posted:Reading all of this just further reinforces my bewilderment over what the gently caress people get out of using Twitter. bluecheck clout is a hell of a drug
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Cyril Sneer posted:Reading all of this just further reinforces my bewilderment over what the gently caress people get out of using Twitter. 
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zakharov posted:Worth noting that Jeopardy hasn't said anything, Ken was never announced as a permanent new host, and so on. That said, this can't be good for his chances of getting the permanent gig. It was my understanding that for a while there would be different hosts every week or two until they figured out what to do. Cyril Sneer posted:Reading all of this just further reinforces my bewilderment over what the gently caress people get out of using Twitter. Same with Facebook TBH. I haven't used twitter in over a decade and Facebook in about 6 years now, and I couldn't be happier about it. Social media is brain poison
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