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raditts posted:Seriously, you'd think there was some demand for some loving sissy slapfight over who knows more about how online streaming hypothetically works. I initially though I had missed an episode judging from the amount of new posts and the argument is pretty dumb, but to be perfectly honest, when I don't understand jacksquat about a topic (and, as in this case, I don't), I usually don't kick off an argument about it by saying how stuff should totally work and how dumb xyz is because piratesyaddayadda etc. I'm really enjoying Last Week Tonight so far, I wouldn't go as far as saying this week's episode blew me out of the water more than the first one did, but there are just such a healthy share of one liners Oliver delivers ever so well. Concerning the McRib, "This feels ethically wrong" and "Should this be allowed in a civilized society?" slayed me.
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What in the actual everloving gently caress?!? I want to believe that this happened in some place with recurring racist violence from police-known racist groups and not in your average australian place where otherwise completely normal people turned racist lynchmob because brown people were somehow stealing their beaches. 
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Yeah, I cringed pretty hard as well, but then again, I always cringe pretty hard when you have lip-synching groups with fake instruments doing the circuit. What kinda redeemed it was the fact that they did, in fact, sing a comedy-rendition of their own song with some pretty hilarious lyrics and the whole background images. Great idea, the delivery was just...kinda off. At least by Last Week Tonight standards so far. To be fair, those standards are pretty far up.
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Jesus Christ, this episode absolutely slayed me. I learned to play the recorder, though.
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Apoplexy posted:Hey does anyone else recognize the voice from the Commonwealth Games commercial they played last night? I'm pretty sure it was Richard Madden (Robb Stark) doing the VO, but can't confirm. You mean the "Welcome...to the friendly games" bit? I honestly don't see how that sounds very much like Robb Stark.
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Christ, I love this episode and John isn't even through with this Ferguson bit. How would I got about watching that weird, over-the-top Crimea celebration online? Can't find anything outside of celebrations about the referendum on YouTube.
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One significant detail he did point out is that you only get these military vehicles if you use them within a certain timeframe. I get that one would want to have applicants actually prove that they have necessity for the equipment they're looking to acquire, but not tying that proof of necessity to anything outside of "did you use it at all?" is pretty stupid. /ninjaedit: To clarify, as an unwashed hipster from the socialist hellscape that is europe, I don't see any necessity in general for the type of hardware sold off to police forces at all, but not even checking what they might need it for is exuberantly stupid as opposed to giving it to them to execute search warrants and such, which is "just stupid". Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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So Donald Trump is a clown made of mummified foreskin and cotton candy, huh?
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John Oliver is absolutely loving amazing and living proof that good writers ain't poo poo without amazing delivery. I guess that also somehow works for Larry Wilmore in a way.
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Hakkesshu posted:I'll have subtitles on literally anything that isn't animated. When you're not a native speaker it becomes really apparent how bad audio mixing is in most media. People are complaining about this stuff in the True Detective thread for instance. If you're used to subtitles you'll never even notice their presence and they arguably allow me to focus more on the movie because otherwise I'd be too preoccupied trying to hear what people are saying. I'm a non-native english speaker and tried The Wire with german subtitles for shits 'n giggles. You laugh your rear end off at the first "Neger, bitte.", but it goes right back to cringe-inducing awful.
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Also, holy poo poo, i thought I was the only one with trouble understanding True Detective this season. Thank god it's not me.
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Politics is weird.
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tarlibone posted:I think this could be a major theme of an upcoming show. Your metaphor doesn't really work, but okay.
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thehustler posted:PS also people say the word liberal but don't really know what liberal means. Most people who identify as liberal probably mean socialist democrat. It's social democrat 
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Paper Kaiju posted:Yeah, that's not how denominations work. By that logic, the quarter isn't a real denomination, since it is also a fraction of a denomination (that denomination being a dollar). Like, I get that this is SA and we need to argue for the argument's sake, but you do know that he means the penny as the smallest denomination of the currency (or unit) that makes up larger denominations like the quarter and the dollar? A quarter is 25 units of 'penny', a dollar is 100 units of 'penny', like the number 1 is the smallest non-fractional number, of which 1,000,000 units make up a million etc. On the other hand, do people not get that the elimination of the penny requires a complete revamp of pricing? As in "buying poo poo at a retailer may not result in an amount due that cannot be paid without single cents". Unless you want to argue the complete removal of cash, of course.  Nevermind, didn't see this: TheCenturion posted:Canada recently started phasing out the penny. If you pay cash, it gets rounded to the nearest five cents. If you pay electronically, it's the exact amount. But lol at anyone lobbying for the removal of the Penny getting anywhere in US politics by exemplifying Canada. You know what, that actually sounds pretty nifty. Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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Paper Kaiju posted:Apparently what you don't get is that someone may be arguing with you because you're a loving idiot with making half-formed arguments from baseless assumptions, and not out of boredom. If I wanted to be pointless adversarial, I just tell you to go gently caress yourself with a cheese grater. Like I was the one originally arguing with you with some opinion and not pointing out what I think he was trying to tell you. Solid edge, too. In show-related things, what was the last season's final end, did he recap the season as well in medley form?
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Josh Lyman posted:This isn't true though? 
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My honest to god first reaction was "Uh, well this is going to be a waste of a segment, they're not still a thing."
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Josh Lyman posted:Have you seen Donald Trump? My American friends introduced me to Jersey Shore, so that has to be a spray tan.
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Not liking Moore's documentaries is perfectly fine. As is liking them. But pretending that he doesn't mix in a healthy helping of bullshit or non-facts to solidify the movie's framework, or that this is perfectly fine just because the core issue is something most people agree with, is bullshit. Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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So how about Last Week Tonight, huh?
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Inferior Third Season posted:People need to stop saying and thinking this. Europe has far right wing parties that are gaining strength, and they already have tons of seats in the individual countries' legislatures/parliaments, and lots of members in the European Parliament. They are joining governing coalitions and getting real concessions on things like immigration bans and nationalist policies and just generally making any non-white person's life miserable, so their influence and power is not negligible. And the other "mainstream" parties are falling over themselves to jump on the anti-immigrant and pro-racism train so that they don't get left behind. Oh, word?
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I hate the piano+obnoxious laughing from the band guy after every joke on that show. I get that it's always been a "thing" for the late show but it always comes across to me as forced. I hate that as well, but in Jon Batiste is actually genuine about it. Not that it makes me dislike off-camera-pianoman-laughing any less, but if there's one thing about Jon, it's that he's a pretty genuine fellow. And i've rarely ever seen a group of people that seem to enjoy music so drat much, it's almost nauseating.
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TXT BOOTY7 2 47474 posted:This. Martin god drat O'Malley would have performed better, and had the republicans put up someone normal like Rubio this would have been a blowout loss for the Dems,  WampaLord posted:This attitude is why she lost, by the way. Also
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Bobby Baccalieri aged well.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It might also have something to do with the Night of Too Many Stars event coming up. Oliver and Stewart are heavily involved in that, and I can't imagine it's an easy event to get done. Now try to imagine how hard it is when a healthy amount of your guests and presenters turn out to be facing sexual assault allegations during your preparations. /edit: After writing that sentence, I thought about it a little more, and as soul crushing as it is, I can't help but think that people are now sitting in the planning stage and either thinking about, or straight up vetting the pivotal participants of their huge media events these days. Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Nov 14, 2017 |
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I have no idea what CRISPR is, but in the year of our lord 2018, it seems to make perfect sense that humanity is loving with their genes through garage-sold kits called CRISPR
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Two weeks ago, a really chill Brazilian friend of mine from school in the US asked me out of knowhere whether the NSDAP was classified as right wing or left wing, which blew my mind. Turns out a professor of his was basically using memes to point out they were basically socialists (get it, it's in their name), and the conversation shifted to how socialism destroyed Brazil up until now, and they have an election coming up. At this point I could easily guess where the conversation was going. So he introduced me to Balsonaro, who he felt really good about. I knew nothing of the guy, but quick googling yielded that he was pretty drat right wing, which surprised me, knowing my friend, who wasn't right wing at all. He linked me some more videos about who Balsonaro "really" was, and it had a massive cult-of-personality feel to it that reminded me of the huge wave of support Bernie Sanders got from young folks. Some other poo poo was straight-up PragerU-links. I was perplexed bit told him I'd look into the dude some more and then left it at that. This last episode really cleared up how this dude got a fuckton of support by young folks that declare every negative piece about him as fake news. It's so loving mind boggling.
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Haven't seen the episode yet, now I'm curious as gently caress
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webmeister posted:Have you never lurked TVIV before? Like, that seems to be the whole point of the sub Sons of anarchy was funny as hell to poo poo on, to be fair
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MegaZeroX posted:My understanding is that the Japanese economy stagnated for a combination of reasons, and the debt not being one of them. AFAIK, this is the gist of what happened with Japan To be fair, your account of the situation is more on point than the one of that other poster, but at the end of the day, you're still two guys arguing monetary policy in a fake news comedy show thread 
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