ClydeUmney posted:

As much as I love this show, the fact that they tweet out some of the big jokes and cameos as they happen on Twitter is a bit annoying - I always forget they do that and ruin some of the things for me before it plays out.

FlyingCheese posted:

I agree with everything posted here, I only wish it was a little longer. If Smuggy McSmug Bill Maher can do an hour, this show can too. A week wait for a half hour show isn't enough, it's just too good.

JohnSherman posted:

I would love for you to tell me who "the right ones" are.

Astro Nut posted:

It'd be nice, and I'm saying this as a Catholic, for there to be more popular and well known atheists that weren't subsequently known to also be dicks about it.

Sakarja posted:

The segment was weak because it felt muddled and rushed.

Josh Lyman posted:

Arab is the people, Arabic is the language. Persians are Iranians.

The country is pronounced Ih-rahn, the adjective is pronounced Eye-rain-ian.

Irish Joe posted:

spending four years playing Foosball on the USS Dick Wave doesn't entitle you to cradle-to-grave care. At some point, every man has to take responsibility for his own goddamn life.

Irish Joe posted:

No one said it was lucrative, but the benefits are very generous considering both historic precedent and equivalent private sector jobs.

Irish Joe posted:

As for what I said, at no point in history were soldiers (et, al) given a better deal than they are today

Viginti posted:

I remember the other Jon doing a story about this a few years ago and being shocked by it then. Sad to see so little has changed that they can basically still tell it the exact same way now. This was a pretty consistent episode across the board, none of the usual clunkers for me, even if it didn't hit a high of outrage.

Irish Joe posted:

We're proud of our kids. Sorry your country sucks.

FlyingCheese posted:

It's also less about not wanting to pay for HBO and more about not paying for cable. HBO is finally adding a web only subscription but only for Apple devices. Ugh.

Soylentbits posted:

That's a super good story. Any way or interest in getting that out? I mean it's resolved which takes a lot of the punch out but that's a drat good story. Also you wonder what happened to the 20 people before you.

Jack Skeleton posted:

I was asleep in a parked car. I didn't want to dare a DUI and so I was sleeping it off when cops knocked on my window two hours into my slumber time. They were looking for an easy DUI, but thankfully my keys were in the trunk and that's the only thing they could come up with.

Chand0X posted:

Sunday night's episode is going to be 45 minutes long!

https://twitter.com/lastweektonight/status/584019686674698241

Grinning Goblin posted:

No, most TED talks really are stupid. It is just watching the speaker mentally masturbate on stage while everyone in the audience pretends it is insightful. He may as well just been on some radio morning talk show with shock jocks.

Orange Devil posted:

Also, as a generally informed person let me just say: most TED talks are in fact stupid.

IRQ posted:

Irish Joe posted:

Do these tests affect grades, though? I thought they were purely an exercise in data gathering.

ApexAftermath posted:

EDIT: Never mind. Wrong thread.

Irish Joe posted:

There probably isn't, but the point is that he doesn't even understand what he's arguing or why people disagree with him. His principles aren't well-reasoned. They don't have a deep philosophical basis.

Toplowtech posted:

Yes, because abortion is legal in all America states and without limits and no-one, especially some of the people against paid mother leaves, is trying to ban it even when rape is involved, right?

DoggPickle posted:

I'm sorry about your dad, but a grown man should have enough money saved to make it 0-3 weeks (depending on his leftover vacation) to go without pay. ...
let them have 2-4 weeks off paid (even though it pisses me off)...
but people are idiots- so the government takes a small percentage to make sure they don't all waste it on hookers and blow and end up penniless at 65. Probably a good plan. ...
That's not my fault. That's those stupid rednecks' fault. ...
At some point though, you gotta think "Get the hell out of that idiot state and stop voting for those idiot men, or you deserve what you get". (does not apply to minors).

DoggPickle posted:

The way our system works here, I'm completely confident that if we added more paid maternity leave, the end effect would be lesser pay for everyone else.

DoggPickle posted:

Ok f it. It's the internet, so you can choose to believe me or not, but I clicked on the Flash thread and missed (because laptop touchpad) and the entire page of yellow quotes basically destroyed my resolve never to post again.

#1) gently caress that guy who had zero reading comprehension and among other things called me a human being and couldn't even spell it right. I appreciate the reluctant stick up for me post, because he's a stupid idiot.

#2) I'm not some emotionless robot. My dad had been "dying" from when I was 18 until I was 24. I literally could not continue working when my mom called to tell me. It was the day after my birthday by the way, and I knew that he hung on just for me, so he wouldn't die on my birthday. It was also a friday, and I had to have someone come pick me up because I could not drive.

#3) I really was living month to month with a pretty heavy amount of savings, but even THAT could not save me from having to pay two extra mortgages with all the utilities and two extra cars in 5 DAYS. I had perfect credit that I worked really hard for! So you do the right thing, and be responsible. I sold my decent car, and kept the POS that my parents' had had since 1997. So if that makes me some BEEP-BORP robot, than very well. But I think it makes me a responsible human being.

#4) I'm actually quite capable of making babies and there's one out there right now that is 18 years old true story, so you can just stop all that "you can't do it, so of course you're jealous or pissed or whatever" It was a freak accident and I had TWO periods after I was pregnant and then it was illegal to do anything about it. So yeah, I've actually LIVED the nightmare scenario. I had no choice in the matter. I've had two abortions also. One was from a broken condom (and I thought NO WAY CMON, plus it was before Plan B existed) and one was with my husband when I was switching between the patch and the ring, and by all accounts, I should have been safe. SHOCKER, I'm not a disgusting couch-blob and I CAN get dudes to gently caress me, even marry me

#5) I'm not all SCREW YOU I GOT MINE. I was just asking for any legitimate reason to ask someone who doesn't intend on having kids to support any measures for more paid maternity leave. I think it makes young women even more unlikely to get chosen for jobs. I've actually had an employer tell me to cut his list of potential secretaries by any woman that was between 20-35. And we don't even have the really GOOD leave in America. I can't imagine what it would be like if you could take 18 months off for free. If I was a small business owner, I would of course make up some excuse, but gently caress THAT if I'm hiring any girl who could possibly get pregnant. It's a total waste of time and money.

#6) these glib excuses about having kids being "human nature" are just silly. Human nature is for all you guys to screw anything possible, willing or not, but you make a rational decision to do otherwise ( I HOPE!). Do we not understand science and genetics? If you KNOW that your genes are sub-par, is it not your DUTY not to procreate? I'm not talking about Nazi level eugenics, but simple things, like mental illnesses, possible Tay-Sachs, or in my case, a horrible predilection for very early cancer. There is a middle-ground between these extremes. Biological imperative also means that we should seek out the most alpha males at all opportunities and try to get their seed at all costs. I'm pretty sure we're intellectually over that as well.

#7) It's clear that I seemed a bit ranty, but like I said right away I had very little sleep and probably shouldn't have posted in the first place. It's just the pre-understood level of agreement that makes no sense to me. (and puts me in the "troll position" whether or not I was actually called that specifically.) Also troll position just made me laugh. Sorry. I like puns.

#8) I think that the more rational people are correct, and that in our current system, if everyone just generally had more leave, then taking all this time off for babies would be completely less irritating. I'm sure it's a cultural thing, but I have real trouble imagining 1/3 of my office just gone for years at a time, and then attempting to get any actual work done.. I guess it works out somehow in the end? But I can't imagine being a business owner and just choosing to accept that. :/

#9) Since everyone I have ever been related to, worked their asses off and still went and died right before retirement, I don't actually have to work anymore. At all. This was just a thought exercise exactly like I said. So in total, pretty much half the suppositions over the last couple pages were completely wrong. You're attacking a person (who you don't understand) instead of a cogent argument. Even though it was a bit ranty sounding. I got a little emotional at the dad-death bit. (and that's my bad) But I really think that calling my post some CRAZY person Rant/rave is a bit out of touch with reality.

*Why should I want to pay for other people to have babies?* <- it's still the same question. Or you can just get back to making fun of John's Mascots. And Japanese people. Or both.

DoggPickle posted:

I would like to put some kind of Toxx clause in effect, where I will never speak of this matter again, and anyone else who does is also up for getting banned.. Because I like The Weekly Show, and others do too, and I'm sorry I crapped up the thread unintentionally, and I think everyone would like an end to it. FYI there is no mod or administrator involved in this. I just think it's for the good of everyone.

Is this an agreeable thing?

njsykora posted:

Well there are very few sites who could've screamed about how John is right this week and not been massively hypocritical, plus I think this is the first time he's targeted a wide group of the media.

Doctor Reynolds posted:

Any exposure is good exposure I suppose but who doesn't already know about this?

pentyne posted:

What's the "real" alternative to Whole Foods? Besides shopping at local markets where food is better and cheaper.

ultramiraculous posted:

"Sex is like boxing: if both people didn't fully agree to participate, one of them is committing a crime." is such a fantastic quote. Consent is an infuriatingly unappreciated concept and anything to push people toward understanding is great.

Violet_Sky posted:

There wasn't much about gay sex IIRC, but that's because most students probably didn't want to be outed/mistaken for gay.

Dante80 posted:

Found out yesterday that LWT had a youtube page and then proceeded to watch all main segments published.

drat, this is a good show.

A question. Beside the main segment that gets uploaded on youtube, what other segments are there? In essence I'm asking whether it is a good idea to torrent the show or not.

Doctor Reynolds posted:

I'm posting because I don't remember my reg date.

Edit: Oh, huh. I would have guessed '06.

Hakkesshu posted:

That segment was the first time I ever heard of the Daily Show. It's depressing that the divide between left and right is even greater now than it was back then.

Apoplexy posted:

There's nothing funnier in that segment on Hollywood whitewashing than the noting that Asian man Glenn from The Walking Dead was played by a white person in the TWD porno parody.