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It's always unreal seeing right wingers praising Carlin
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It is but I can kind of get it. Carlin was pretty anti government which right wingers like to pretend they are also, and since right wingers are purely about shocking and offending people to have fun, it makes sense that they'd be fans of stuff like Carlin's "rape can be funny" bit. "The liberals would cancel him for sure if he told that joke these days!"
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Oct 15, 2022 04:15
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"Every now and then that thought creeps into my head, but I quickly squash it" Every Freep brain ever
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Oct 15, 2022 04:25
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Elephant Ambush posted:"Every now and then that thought creeps into my head, but I quickly squash it" Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
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Oct 15, 2022 04:30
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Twelve by Pies posted:It is but I can kind of get it. Carlin was pretty anti government which right wingers like to pretend they are also, and since right wingers are purely about shocking and offending people to have fun, it makes sense that they'd be fans of stuff like Carlin's "rape can be funny" bit. "The liberals would cancel him for sure if he told that joke these days!" Carlin was a land of contrasts. He definitely had some conservative views especially in regards to modern language and also literally did the "racism and slurs can be funny ~iN CeRTaiN cONteXTs~" bit and followed it right up with the n word. And he absolutely would be whining about "wokeness" if he were alive today Carlin also said that all golf courses should all be turned into housing for the homeless and called out golf as an elitist and racist game. And he also had a bit where he explicitly called out baby boomers as spoiled rear end brats who had everything handed to them and still whine about everything and act persecuted
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Oct 15, 2022 04:32
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As a lifelong devotee to standup comedy and even a guy who has got on stage and done it, I'm a firm believer that stand-up comedy should be allowed to push the boundaries of good taste. This is going to make it easy pickings to go back on old routines and pick apart poo poo that wasn't right. But I think there is a difference between how Eddie Murray spoke about trans people in the 80's and George Carlin. However, this statement doesn't mean I believe stand-up comedy should be free from critique. If you go into bad places, you deserve getting smacked for it. The difference is acknowledgement of being wrong, and becoming a god awful alt-right comic who screeches about wokeism.
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Oct 15, 2022 13:05
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The true strength of a person is being able to accept their mistakes and then actually try to atone for them, whether it's a comedian who overstepped or any one else in life.
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Oct 15, 2022 20:30
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Carlin also did an interview with Larry King where he specifically called out Andrew Dice Clay for using comedy to punch down, and pointing out that a lot of Clay's comedy is marketed towards insecure young white men, appealing to their anger.
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Oct 15, 2022 23:02
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Skios posted:Carlin also did an interview with Larry King where he specifically called out Andrew Dice Clay for using comedy to punch down, and pointing out that a lot of Clay's comedy is marketed towards insecure young white men, appealing to their anger. Dice is one of those guys who was just born and had his career in the wrong era, 30-40 years too early. He would have been a natural official comedian/court jester for the Trump era.
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Oct 16, 2022 02:49
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Zwabu posted:Dice is one of those guys who was just born and had his career in the wrong era, 30-40 years too early. That is a sad commentary on the present state of affairs. Go gently caress your self  .What, no. gently caress me. Not like that. Fuuuck. What do I say now?
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Oct 16, 2022 03:29
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I don't necessarily hate a shock comic. But Jesus Christ, Dice Clay was loving awful in any generation.
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Oct 16, 2022 13:11
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kik2dagroin posted:To: knarf
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Oct 16, 2022 15:52
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Captain Log posted:I don't necessarily hate a shock comic. But Jesus Christ, Dice Clay was loving awful in any generation. Fully agreed. Was confused as Hell when I found his short lived (2 seasons) Showtime show “Dice” to be so entertaining.
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Oct 16, 2022 17:03
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Captain Log posted:I don't necessarily hate a shock comic. But Jesus Christ, Dice Clay was loving awful in any generation.  One of my older cousins had one of his recordings back in the 80s and my first thought was "this guy's just an unfunny rear end in a top hat."
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Oct 16, 2022 19:31
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Tony Phillips posted:Fully agreed. Was confused as Hell when I found his short lived (2 seasons) Showtime show “Dice” to be so entertaining. Maybe showtime forced some other writers onto him
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Oct 16, 2022 21:35
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The Day the Laughter Died is amazing. I have no other notes on Dice.
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Oct 16, 2022 22:02
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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is great for laughing at Clay. It's almost two hours of Clay trying and failing to be cool, while dealing with his unresolved issues from getting rejected by the music industry.
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Oct 17, 2022 08:40
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Like many people when I was young and foolish I started out as a Democrat then as I matured I became a die hard Conservative/Republican. In my "Liberal" years at the age of 6 years old I really wanted Jimmy Carter to win, But as he turned out to be a disaster for our country and I grew older and matured it was at the ripe old age of 10 right after the great Ronald Reagan's "We will get the hostages back from those Iranian barbarians" interview during the campaign that at that moment I decided to switch to the Conservative/Republican side and I've been here ever since.
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Oct 17, 2022 09:40
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Georgia Peach posted:Like many people when I was young and foolish I started out as a Democrat then as I matured I became a die hard Conservative/Republican. In my "Liberal" years at the age of 6 years old I really wanted Jimmy Carter to win, But as he turned out to be a disaster for our country and I grew older and matured it was at the ripe old age of 10 right after the great Ronald Reagan's "We will get the hostages back from those Iranian barbarians" interview during the campaign that at that moment I decided to switch to the Conservative/Republican side and I've been here ever since. And no new information will ever sway my views. I decided everything i will be at 10 years old and i will never rethink it. THEY ARE LETTING 10 YEAR OLDS DECIDE WHAT GENDER THEY ARE????? 
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Oct 17, 2022 13:59
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Skios posted:The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is great for laughing at Clay. It's almost two hours of Clay trying and failing to be cool, while dealing with his unresolved issues from getting rejected by the music industry. we'll always have that loving hilarious koala dummy hanging from the ceiling fan though
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Oct 18, 2022 03:10
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Skios posted:The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is great for laughing at Clay. It's almost two hours of Clay trying and failing to be cool, while dealing with his unresolved issues from getting rejected by the music industry. I have a soft spot in my heart of Brain Smasher a Love Story https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106475/
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Oct 18, 2022 14:27
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In this edition of "Furious Fox," I have taken a dive into what looks like a very mundane article. Y'all know that show American Pickers? Well, they wrote an article about Danielle from the show having an emergency hysterectomy. I'll occasionally look at articles like this to see how quick they can turn hateful. All of these screenshots are from the first page of comments, and were taken last night. The article in question - https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/american-pickers-star-danielle-colby-shares-photo-hospital-details-health-journey-fibroids As it turns out, Fox commenters REALLY HATE TATTOOS on WOMEN!!! They look like CARNIES!!!   Keep scrolling, and you'll quickly get into pro-holocaust territory! That hasn't been reported or removed! How normal!  And some folks just want you to know how much they can't wait to vote in the Midterms. During an article about a woman having hysterectomy. 
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Oct 23, 2022 13:36
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Captain Log posted:In this edition of "Furious Fox," I have taken a dive into what looks like a very mundane article. How old do you think these dipshits are, 60s/70s? I assume they just sit at work all day and leave hateful comments.
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Oct 23, 2022 15:03
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Dapper_Swindler posted:How old do you think these dipshits are, 60s/70s? I assume they just sit at work all day and leave hateful comments. While I'd believe a large section of the commenters to be in their 50's and 60's, there is enough phrasing and language that is clearly coming from younger people. I don't have any proof, but I'd bet the median age is a lot closer to 35 than 65.
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Oct 23, 2022 15:12
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Captain Log posted:While I'd believe a large section of the commenters to be in their 50's and 60's, there is enough phrasing and language that is clearly coming from younger people. yeah. id be surprised if its that young, my guess is early/late 40s to late 60s is the base. much like alot of the harder right stuff.
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Oct 23, 2022 19:49
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Captain Log posted:I don't have any proof, but I'd bet the median age is a lot closer to 35 than 65. Mean, surely? You can't be saying you think Fox News has at least one 1-year-old commenter and no commenters over 70.
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Oct 23, 2022 19:51
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Kfroog posted:Mean, surely? You can't be saying you think Fox News has at least one 1-year-old commenter and no commenters over 70. ? Wait how do you think you count medians?
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Oct 23, 2022 20:59
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Xiahou Dun posted:? Just looked it up. I'd always thought that mathematics was exempt from the maxim "all information conferred in elementary school is suspect". They told us it was simply halfway between the highest and lowest value in a range. That struck me at the time as not a very useful thing to know about a range of values, but I didn't have access to the internet, and so I just accepted it and didn't think about it since then. The smart thing to do, of course, would've been to look it up before posting.
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Oct 24, 2022 01:03
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To the contrary, posting things that are wrong gets you a swift correction and also stimulates the posting economy.
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Oct 24, 2022 01:20
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He's not wrong. That new guy in Journey, while talented, is just not Steve Perry
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Oct 24, 2022 01:23
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OwlFancier posted:To the contrary, posting things that are wrong gets you a swift correction and also stimulates the posting economy. Yep! It's called Poe's Law.
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Oct 24, 2022 01:38
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Yep! It's called Poe's Law. 
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Kfroog posted:Just looked it up. I'd always thought that mathematics was exempt from the maxim "all information conferred in elementary school is suspect". They told us it was simply halfway between the highest and lowest value in a range. That struck me at the time as not a very useful thing to know about a range of values, but I didn't have access to the internet, and so I just accepted it and didn't think about it since then. Well you can pat yourself on the back for not having doubled down and trying to act like math itself as a discipline is wrong. You know for every person as reasonable as you, there's like a solid 500 morlocks with glass-fragile egos who would lose their poo poo and throw it on the walls. And yeah, you figured it out, it's obviously for the range of values in the thing you're talking about, and not always everything. But for being such a good sport I'm gonna give you a cool math idea : so what's a median? It's the middle of a range, specifically the midpoint of the distribution of the range. And we can do this out for toy bits of data really easily by like imagining all the points in the range are marbles in a bag, so we pull out matching pairs of highest and lowest until we get the last one. Aces, dope. Great. So what's the median of infinity? Or let's be specific, there's more than one, let's just go with the the integers, so all the positives and negatives plus zero. What happens when I start pairing off the greatest and least values of the set of integers? What's the median of infinity? The median of the set of integers is the set of integers. Each infinity is the median (and mean) of themselves, so the same happens for just the wholes or the positives or the negatives or the reals. Everything is the middle and the middle is everything, that's how infinity works.
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Oct 24, 2022 04:54
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What the Christ is going on? Did I math wrong or something?
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Oct 24, 2022 05:43
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Captain Log posted:What the Christ is going on? Did I math wrong or something? You mathed up, bro.
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Oct 24, 2022 05:47
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Captain Log posted:What the Christ is going on? Did I math wrong or something? no, that was me
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Oct 24, 2022 05:47
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Elephant Ambush posted:And [George Carlin] absolutely would be whining about "wokeness" if he were alive today Carlin was brilliant in form and execution, clearly had a heart and a brain, but he was still coming at his subjects from the perspective of a technician and artisan first and a member of the human community second. Even in a best case he'd still have to hold up a moment, and it wouldn't be a best case because let's face it-- kids are loving mean. That is the most charitable read of any comedian who complains about "wokeness" too. 9 times out of a 10 it's the path of least resistance to keep getting paid and everyone knows it.
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Oct 24, 2022 06:05
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Yep! It's called Poe's Law. Also known as Poetic truth!
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Oct 24, 2022 11:18
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The American public school system strikes again. I myself learned quite a few things, such as "Columbus was the first to say the Earth is round," "cats are the opposite of dogs," and "America is a democracy."
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cat botherer posted:The American public school system strikes again. I myself learned quite a few things, such as "Columbus was the first to say the Earth is round," "cats are the opposite of dogs," and "America is a democracy." Everyone know cats are the opposite of fish, not dogs
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