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HOW DARE YOU SAY I TAKE MONEY This was a great first episode, it's like The Daily Show and The Bugle had a baby with all their strengths and none of their weaknesses. I wish it were an hour long though.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:It was a good joke, though. Russia is a, uh... nation with a gas station? What the gently caress was that even supposed to mean? I guess the real joke there is "McCain is senile as gently caress and lol you people wanted him to be president."
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Apr 28, 2014 19:59
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Still Fluxing posted:I think, in the end, Palin proved to be more of a liability than an asset for McCain. And I might be wrong, but before the election, didn't he have a reputation as a straight-shootin' maverick? On paper he was a pretty good Republican candidate. McCain was only ever a "straight shootin' maverick" as far as that he claimed he was one a lot so I guess people just eventually started believing him. He was always full of poo poo and always toed the party line, though.
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Apr 28, 2014 20:27
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EL BROMANCE posted:I'm guessing the post was based on an old joke segment they had called The Cenac Attack. I hope all the correspondents have equally awesome names for their fictional spinoffs. I thought it was The Cenac Agenda. Was that ever a thing someone said on the show or am I making that up wholesale? edit: Went to the site to search for that episode and they don't have the full archive up anymore? When did this happen? 
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May 2, 2014 06:21
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Relentlessboredomm posted:I couldn't stop laughing at the picture of him at the G20. He just came by because why the gently caress not. I wish I had oil and money so I could be a gigantic loving rear end in a top hat and the world's most powerful leaders would be afraid to touch me. IRQ posted:Are you guys gunning for the worst thread honor or something? Seriously, you'd think there was some demand for some loving sissy slapfight over who knows more about how online streaming hypothetically works.
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May 6, 2014 20:54
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VagueRant posted:"Sure we can make jokes about Indian massacres in our first week. They're brown and far away. But the American death penalty? Woah, too dark!" Yes, that about sums up your average American's thought process.
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May 7, 2014 15:44
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Yeah, I agree about that. I wish scientists in general stopped showing up on Fox. They must know by now they're just going to be lined up in front of a firing squad. They might get more traction if a bunch of prolific scientists boycotted the network; none of the diehard conservatives would care but maybe they could leverage it in order to tell everyone else how to make a difference or at least how we can start to cope with the way the climate's heading. That won't really change much either because the foundation of Fox News is putting itself on the cross of the LIEBERAL MEDIA and being the "one true news source" to the millions and millions of persecution-complex-affected retards who believe that poo poo and watch the channel. By the law of averages they'll be able to get some unscrupulous shitlord in a lab coat to tell them that global warming is actually good for life on this planet, and the echo chamber will be intact and tightly sealed. Don't take this to mean I think scientists or anyone with a grain of sense or a moral compass should go on a Fox channel, at best it would be a complete waste of time for them.
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May 14, 2014 21:11
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Drifter posted:Digging the show. TDS did a segment about that a few months back, basically the gist of it was that they hired their new CAR GIRL CEO to take the fall for all their hosed up defects. Relentlessboredomm posted:John Oliver is just killing it. Also holy poo poo at the list of words GM banned. Kevorkianesque made me guffaw. I mean god drat. Loved the commercial they made with it. That list was incredible. Someone had way too much fun compiling that list for what is ostensibly a serious document.
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May 20, 2014 14:22
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They're both funny shows, so who cares? TDS and LWT I mean. Real Time is a pile of poo poo.
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May 21, 2014 14:26
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FlyingCheese posted:I thought everyone knew Bowser trying to marry Peach was just a power play. The king of the Koopas marrying the princess of the Mushroom kingdom was all about unification of the land under Bowser's power. How would a 18 ft tall dinosaur even have sex with a woman anyway? Well you tell me where the Koopa Kids came from then.
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May 26, 2014 13:00
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ClydeUmney posted:Any parent will agree: gently caress you, Caillou! There are a LOT of lovely kids' shows but god dammit if Caillou isn't the loving worst by a mile.
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Jun 2, 2014 04:13
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:(I also wish we had more outspoken atheists like Maher, just not like Maher with his ugly anti-Islam. Better to be anti-religion, you'll either ruffle fewer feathers or more of the right ones.) Bill Maher is the last person anyone should emulate, for any reason.
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Jun 18, 2014 21:25
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It kinda surprises me that with all the heat the Redskins are (rightfully) getting for their name, you never hear anyone talk about the absolutely-racist-as-poo poo Cleveland Indians logo.
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Jun 19, 2014 01:56
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MikeJF posted:I wish he'd take him up on that offer. On the one hand, that guy clearly has no idea what he's in for. On the other, not only is he not worth the time or attention but I doubt he would actually go on the show if invited since that reply sounds like the usual right-wing bloviating that whoever is his voting base will eat up unquestionably like so much poopoo. It's pretty loving  that this guy of all loving people is crying about being dehumanized through misleading information, though.
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Jul 2, 2014 13:01
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Soylentbits posted:Lively is an awful human being but Uganda almost had the death penalty for its LGBT citizens and I can believe that Lively didn't support that because that's insane even by normal bigot standards. He was hardly the only one that went over there and encouraged that poo poo, IIRC quite a few congressmen that are part of that creepy "C Street" mini-cult played a part too. It's not that insane at all, it's a regular right-wing tactic. Go all extreme and spout out a bunch of crazy poo poo to get your audience all riled up and scared, then when one of them is inspired by you to commit murder you wring your hands and go all "oh no, that isn't what I meant at all, I have no part in this tragic event." See also: that piece of poo poo Bill O'Reilly and his "Tiller the Baby Killer" meme. Wikipedia posted:Tiller was also discussed in 28 episodes of the Fox News talk show The O'Reilly Factor before his death in May 2009, focusing national attention on his practice. Although he later denied it, show host Bill O'Reilly sometimes described him as "Tiller the Baby Killer," a nickname that Congressman Robert K. Dornan had used on the floor of the US House of Representatives. O'Reilly said he would not want to be Tiller, Kathleen Sebelius, and other pro-choice Kansas politicians "if there is a judgment day."[8] On November 3, 2006, O'Reilly featured an exclusive segment on The O'Reilly Factor, saying that he had an "inside source" with official clinic documentation indicating that Tiller performed late-term abortions to alleviate "temporary depression" in pregnant woman.[9] He characterized the doctor as "a savage on the loose, killing babies willy-nilly," and accused him of "operating a death mill," and of protecting the rapists of children. He suggested that Tiller performed abortions for women who had "a bit of a headache or anxiety" or who felt "a bit blue."[10] Don't defend these vile loving wastes of humanity.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:This loving episode. It was so good, and it touched on one of my more Sisyphean causes, prison reform. I punched my monitor like Bobby Moynihan reacting to a jumpscare when I heard that bit about advertising recidivism to investors. And I already knew about poo poo like that. The part where Al Franken was asking the guy what the size of a solitary cell is and couldn't get an answer just had me going  the whole time..e: Jesus Christ it gets worse. raditts fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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Jul 21, 2014 14:55
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Periodiko posted:It's a "cop out" to avoid having their jokes scrutinized as news reporting, or their interviews held to journalistic standards. It's unfair to hold them to those standards because they have the obligation to be funny - if they aren't funny enough to draw an audience, they will be fired, eventually. They are absolutely not "100% political commentators before anything else" because if they ever decided to be 100% political commentary, they wouldn't have a show. They use humor to get their point across, but they are comedians first, if only by contract and social role. They are political commentators, in a very general sense, but they're not journalists, and they are beholden to a different set of standards. It also says something that they're expected to be "100% political commentators" that should be held to journalistic standards by default, simply by virtue of the fact that actual news outlets and cable news stations are such information-free garbage.
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Jul 21, 2014 16:59
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Cool Cherry Cream posted:I've always wondered how those benign Pay Day Loan commercials worked and how they were probably scams. And now I know thanks John! I'm surprised they talked about payday loans and NA tribe affiliations and didn't mention Western Sky, aka the guys whose commercials basically say "Yeah, if you use us we're gonna gently caress you and gently caress you hard, but you probably need us so what're you gonna do."
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Aug 13, 2014 22:07
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Krinkle posted:At the bottom where it's like peculiar instutition that's where I realized this was a bad stone and not a good stone but I"m still not 100% on what is up TL;DR of that message: "Here is a rock dedicated to the loyalty of the Good Niggers."
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Jun 25, 2015 06:34
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Call of Juarez Gunslinger is probably the best edutainment title on Wild West history I've ever played.
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Jun 26, 2015 05:02
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njsykora posted:The line I always use for this is one I saw used a few years ago. Rapists generally aren't too concerned about whether they're allowed to be somewhere. Yeah, that sounds like one of those things that only works if you don't think about it at all. As if there was anything to stop rapists from going into the ladies' bathroom before if they were that motivated, do they think these laws would legalize rape or something?
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Jul 2, 2015 05:32
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Pinky Artichoke posted:My introduction to the anti-circumcision movement was a guy who used to come into the library where I worked 20 years ago and write long emotional newsletters about his wounded penis, so I've always assumed that most of them were from the small minority of circumcised men who have some sort of penis problems, legitimately related or otherwise. My introduction was that one episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit and it convinced me to never care about or listen to anything anyone had to say on the subject.
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swickles posted:Am I the only one who thought the Q was for "questioning"? No, that's what I always thought it stood for as well.
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Jul 4, 2015 07:21
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IRQ posted:I want to say I've seen it be that before but definitely also queer; the whole alphabet soup thing going on with that movement is honestly kind of counterproductive when you have to take a minute and think about what it even stands for. A big tent is absolutely needed, but the branding is a bit hosed. Isn't Luntz the kind of piece of poo poo that will work for whoever pays him enough?
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xcore posted:Yeah, it's clearly apparant that things are done a lot differently in the US. I don't think it's an accident that we pulled all of those events to our city though, we worked very hard to accomplish that. It kinda seems like a Walmart-like situation in the US, where cities are willing to sign a deal that absolutely fucks them for a chance to get a lot of revenue as a result of being noticed by the big guys. Then, if it turns out that a poo poo deal is in fact a poo poo deal and they make little / no / negative money on it, they don't want to let it go, because what will happen to the city if this big presence that brings in tourism and provides jobs were to galt itself away? After all, there are limitless nowheresvilles they could relocate to that will gladly throw money at them, and things will be worse for us than they were before! It doesn't really make sense to me, but the way it ends up is 1) rich people get richer and 2) gently caress you. IRQ posted:Does much time really need to be spent shaming the cursed denizens of Jackshitville? They all know the overwhelmingly crushing shame and despair of living there already, on top of living in Florida, which is already worse than anything but living in New Jersey. Hey, you gotta give Arizona some credit, that's a pretty impressive shithole in its own right. raditts fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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Irish Joe posted:You seem to perfectly capable of understanding how Wal-Mart brings jobs, traffic and economic development to communities. The only thing you can't seem to grasp is Not when Walmart moves out and leave a giant, empty shell of a building that is useless to everyone else because the location is no longer economically viable to them and they've destroyed every other business in the area. Which it just so happens is also the case when sports teams peace out and leave the stadium they leeched millions to buy that nobody else has any use for. Case in point: http://www.viralforest.com/abandoned-pontiac-silverdome-detroit/ I know this could very well be you being you but I figured I'd give a legitimate response since you just left it out there like that.
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Toxxupation posted:thirty for thirty....*tents fingers*....owns Counterpoint: The city of Philadelphia
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Jul 14, 2015 18:39
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CAN I INTEREST YOU IN A SERIES OF SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES THAT ARE ENGINEERED TO BE AS EMOTIONAL AS IS POSSIBLE
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Jul 14, 2015 20:29
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Zero One posted:Orange County, where Larry Thompson was jailed, has just eliminated the practice of jailing people who can't pay fines. They were the last county in Florida still issuing arrest warrants for that. I have to wonder how it went on so long with nobody saying "hey guys, isn't this basically like having debtors' prisons?"
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Sep 18, 2015 01:40
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TurboFlamingChicken posted:It seems like I am becoming more and more the minority of people that like the direction the show is going and enjoy the long bits which do come off a bit preachy. But this is some very important poo poo that no other show is really touching on. The whole issue with mental illness in the US has been a massive clusterfuck for the past 50 years; including the stigma involved with people being mentally ill. I know a shitload about how hosed up our mental health care in this country is, but it is nice that the point is driven home by a show like this; especially at the end when he yells at politicians to actually do something about it, in a very, very serious way. This show doesn't have to be funny 100% of the time to be poignant and meaningful. Still the best loving news show on TV. You'll get a contingent of people in any given TVIV thread that eventually turn on the show in question, that doesn't necessarily mean that their opinions hold any merit.
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Oct 7, 2015 14:23
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:The chicken fucker episode was cited by the lawmakers involved as a big source of their constituents outcry to support the farmers on the vote. "Debacle"? Unless there's something I missed that was about as much of a "debacle" as Colbert's superpac was a "debacle".
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speshl guy posted:I'm having trouble understanding why a repairman cum PM candidate would risk getting caught peeing into someone's dishes when realistically in a home like that there is probably a bathroom or two within his line of sight. Turns out politicians / wannabe politicians are sociopaths no matter where in the world you go. xcore posted:Hopefully this episode appeased the haters. Only one random reference to "Jenny from Accounts" and from memory, no random shouting to the invisible nobody as the punchline to a joke. That wasn't a random reference, it was a callback to a similar joke from a previous episode. raditts fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 02:56
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We need a new episode if for no other reason than this thread is loving terrible between episodes.
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Baloogan posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/660597552023228416 Well, he does know a thing or two about hosting boring and low-rated shows. But at least John Oliver still has one. raditts fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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Nov 1, 2015 06:56
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IRQ posted:It was clear to everyone what he was doing and that he didn't actually think Obama was in the chair, it just came off as a crazy old man ranting at a chair because he really sold it well, being someone with real dramatic acting chops. The general collective insanity of the GOP helps too. I think it was less because of his "real dramatic acting chops" and more because it was a hilariously terrible idea both in concept and execution. IRQ posted:Turns out all the "make something appear human" processor time was needed for Romney himself. The technology required to make that work won't be around for at least another couple of decades. raditts fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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Nov 5, 2015 18:54
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coyo7e posted:Adam Corolla, Joe Rogan... A LOT of others actually. It's not surprising that Carolla or Rogan are conservatives if you've ever listened to them speak for a couple minutes.
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Nov 7, 2015 17:21
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Echo Chamber posted:I typically find liberal comedians with a massive hateboner for the PC Police to be way more grating than right wing comedians who feel the same way. Taste is subjective and all, but man, claiming Parker and Stone as being "often funny"... woof. I'd definitely put them in the same camp as Seth MacFarlane, they certainly attempt the same "humor." I mean, maybe 15 years ago or so, but I also liked Family Guy back then so I'm not sure if they were actually funny or if it was just that I was 19 and their off-color brand was still shocking and edgy to me, rather than moldy and played-out.
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DivisionPost posted:Ultra PC people do exist, though. They're not in as high a number as White Supremacists would have you believe, but I know of at least two incidents where people had their lives ruined because they said/did something unquestionably stupid and got pilloried beyond what could be considered a proportional response. There was the woman who made that dumbass Africa tweet just before she boarded a plane; some guy at Gawker dedicated his life to ruining hers and succeeded, right up to the moment where HE made a lovely tweet of his own and got his poo poo pushed in. Then there was that fan-artist who ended up trying to kill herself because cyberbullies wouldn't leave her alone; she was constantly drawing a fat character from Steven Universe as thin, which apparently makes you an irredeemable piece of poo poo. There was key staff on the show trying to step in and say "Hey, this is really terrible," and even THEY got loving roasted for it. Neither of these examples have anything to do with "ultra PC people" or "liberals" or whatever, these are just cases of psychopaths on the internet, which have been a thing as long as there has been an internet.
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Austrian mook posted:So the ultra radical strawmen on one side are indicative of their group but the same people on your side are just psychopaths on the internet. gently caress you, go troll somewhere else. Hahaha what
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