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Madurai posted:I'm not gonna lie, I want to watch Gogglebox now. And I'm afraid someone will try to do a US equivalent. I watched one episode of the Australian version because my parents and sisters all watch it, and it's loving terrible. Just a bunch of people watching TV shows they don't like and complaining about them.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I still remember "Drumpf". That, and the people who picked it up online, annoyed me so much. How is "Drumpf", which just looks kind of German I guess, a dumber-sounding name than "Trump", which literally means "elephant noise", "trumpet noise", and "fart"? And the whole "that's his real name" thing when he was born a Trump and it was his grandfather who changed the family name.
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Apr 7, 2019 17:48
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Phenotype posted:I'm not sure if this is a joke or what, but "trump" has been used for basically hundreds of years to mean the high-ranking suit in card games. Or as a verb, to beat someone by pulling those high cards out. I mean, I don't like the guy any more than you do, but the word's a pretty good pick for a name over "drumpf" for positive meanings associated with it.
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Apr 7, 2019 19:28
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Dumb Lowtax posted:As far as I know "the audience" in shows like this is almost entirely a fake concept; they are a group of people being ordered to do things on cue. If the signal says applause they applaud, if it says laugh they laugh. With GNW we were watching the actual performers on stage but MaH uses a lot of pre-recorded stuff and even the bits that were done in front of us were also shown on a screen, and we were told to always be looking at the screen so that shots of the audience would be consistent and not have us looking in different directions at different times. But we were never told we did it wrong or anything once the show actually started. It's not really a worthwhile experience though, in my opinion, since I always feel like I'm basically an unpaid extra. It's very much the case that the show is for the TV audience and you are (a very small) part of the show, and if you happen to get some entertainment out of it as well then that's just a bonus. My sister really likes it though (which is why I've been to more than one of them), so obviously not everyone feels that way.
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Apr 18, 2019 08:34
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LividLiquid posted:The richest company on earth can afford to pay a living wage, and any argument against that is an appeal to authority. I can't actually tell what you mean by the term "appeal to authority" here but I think you're using it wrong?
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Jul 5, 2019 04:24
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Craptacular! posted:Like when it comes to nationalizing AT&T or some poo poo, I’m not opposed to the government running a telecom, as long as there’s still private carriers because only a loving fool would use the nationalized carrier to set up a weed sale or whatever. Why would there be any more chance of them monitoring you if they owned the network? Either way all they need is authorisation (or lack of oversight). Private ownership doesn't make it physically any harder.
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Jul 11, 2019 11:25
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webmeister posted:And in a poorly-thought-out response, Guinness is of course .. doubling down: quote:We were disappointed to see the false and unfair allegations about Guinness World Records in Sunday’s episode of ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.’
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Aug 12, 2019 13:21
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Alhazred posted:Diva cups are actually a real thing
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Oct 7, 2019 18:57
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Orange Devil posted:The solution is to get rid of voting machines. Does any other country use voting machines or is it just a weird American thing?
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Nov 5, 2019 14:11
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On the plus side, I'm curious to see if, as I've always suspected, this show would be better without a live audience.
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Jamesman posted:The dead silence and John speaking to us from a white void is deeply unsettling.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Turns out you were wrong
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SlothfulCobra posted:Does this not-news station air its dicksucking "questions" on its own programs, or is their purpose just to give an ego boost to the one man that needs it the least? My guess is, they're primarily there as advertising. Clips of their reporters asking the president questions get shown by other media and some fraction of the people watching will like what they see. Or dislike it enough to want to hate-watch. Either way, they get more viewers.
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Apr 7, 2020 13:26
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Stare-Out posted:I'm bugs me more and more that John insists this is a comedy show and not a news show when this is pretty much the most important news show on in America right now.
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Apr 14, 2020 17:08
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Literally every topical weekly comedy show is better without an audience now that they've had a chance to adjust to it. It's going to be a real disappointment when they switch back.
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Apr 20, 2020 11:23
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Im sorry as a dallas... person 'Dallas's' hit me weird. It should be Dallas' , should it not? Dalla's.
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May 14, 2020 05:32
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Just ban rental. If the landlords can't manage to sell their now worthless properties, the state can buy them and give them to homeless people (or the current occupants where applicable).
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Jul 1, 2020 10:56
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Baronash posted:Sure, housing prices may decrease slightly, but many folks who currently live (or would like to live) in these areas still wouldn't have the tens of thousands of dollars necessary to convince a bank to offer them a mortgage. Baronash posted:You still need temporary housing options, and those options are still going to be limited in some way by the desirability of the area. 
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Jul 2, 2020 07:27
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SlothfulCobra posted:another reason you can't get rid of rental is that you can't get rid of hotels, and every landowner is going to try fixing up a lovely hotel scheme instead. Zachack posted:And that's without getting into democratic action where the populace, upon being notified of fraud (real or imagined), starts hamstringing or imposing weird requirements on the property.
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Jul 4, 2020 08:10
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Azhais posted:So what's the proper square footage required for dignity At least enough that your bedroom is not also your living room.
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Jul 4, 2020 11:51
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SlothfulCobra posted:That's kinda the point. You can't just maintain a simple black and white rule like "no renting", because you'll still end up having to do a complex analysis of every landowner to find the ones breaking the system. No shortcuts around that. I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Yes, there are many things wrong with the current system and all of them should/would have to change.
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Jul 4, 2020 14:25
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Azhais posted:I would be somewhat curious who would be president in that scenario, no election and the term ending. I suppose it would fall down the line of succession to somebody that still had time left on their elected term, like the speaker of the house or something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQLbNekBU1A
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Aug 4, 2020 07:16
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So, the thing about matching signatures; is there some way to see what your signature is supposed to look like or do you just have to guess and hope?
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Oct 5, 2020 14:01
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tarlibone posted:I know why you're bringing this up, and I totally get it. But, take a step back, and just think about how suspicious it would be to any reasonable election official if a would-be mail-in voter came up and said, "Hey, I forgot what my signature looks like. Can I see an example of it so my ballot gets counted?" Well, yeah, but expecting people to remember how they signed their name some random time however long ago is also utterly insane, so...
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Oct 5, 2020 17:01
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Like, checking whether people's signatures match is transparently an excuse to deny literally any ballot you want to. If they can do that then the whole thing is a farce and Trump is correct; voting by mail in America is subject to massive fraud and shouldn't be trusted.
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Oct 5, 2020 17:06
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Remora posted:Does... does your signature change? It's not really supposed to.
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Oct 6, 2020 03:12
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Raxivace posted:So does this all mean that the dude on Pawn Stars they bring in to "authenticate" celebrity signatures and the like is basically a fraud then?
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Oct 6, 2020 07:37
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Orange Devil posted:The fact that it is theoretically possible should disqualify the entire system in the mind of any reasonable person. In any election it's theoretically possible that only one person votes and so their pick automatically wins. A reasonable person can tell the difference between what's technically possible and what's actually plausible or likely.
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Oct 7, 2020 11:26
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tarlibone posted:Covid didn't really the direct result of what was done in previous years. Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Wait a second... All this talk this year about a featureless white void-- what if John is a Janet in disguise?
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Nov 17, 2020 12:36
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Djarum posted:In the next few years lab grown meat is going to economically viable Has there actually been some progress on this or is it the same Betteridge's law "will we all be eating lab-grown meat in ten years?" bullshit that's been repeated every time there's been a slow news week for the past twenty years?
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Feb 15, 2021 14:34
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Zaroff posted:I’ve got to wonder - would anyone be upset if the show never left the void, even after the COVID situation permits it?
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May 3, 2021 15:56
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:With a audience, getting a mascot is silly and amusing.
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May 28, 2021 17:17
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What does "families make good go round" even mean? 
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It seems like American political parties are way more nebulous than in normal countries. Like, you can just say you're in a party and they can't stop you or kick you out? And if you want to run for a particular office as that party's candidate, you can just have a bunch of people (who may or may not also have to say they're members of that party) vote for you to be the candidate, and if the rest of the party doesn't like it that's too bad for them? And if you manage to get elected then you can do whatever the gently caress you like and no one can kick you out of the party or make you toe the line? Am I wrong about this?
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May 12, 2022 13:45
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pwn posted:New web exclusive This is just a segment from the show, not a new video.
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I just got around to watching last week's episode, and I had to replay that first "catch phrase" six times and then give up and google it to understand what Mickey was saying. Am I the weird one for not instantly knowing who Shelly Miscavige is? And what's the connection to Disney?
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Apr 9, 2023 15:38
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:She's the wife of the Scientology leader David Miscavige and she disappeared back in 2007 with no explanation ever given Yeah, I know that now. I googled it. But, without context, I couldn't understand what the mouse was saying because that name meant nothing to me. And that still doesn't explain the connection to Disney?
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cant cook creole bream posted:What you're supposed to do is to say something like "There are x_1 people in China. A pig gives x_2 usable servings. The average Chinese person would eat x_3 servings a weak so roughly 50*x_3 servings a year. We can assume that all pigs are eventually eaten, so there is a stable amount of pigs around. A pig will take x_4 years to mature to slaughtering age. Given all these factors a reasonable number would be x_1*x_2*50*x_3*x_4."
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sure okay posted:You wouldn't tell BP to just "Google it" when they come to you with organizational problems. You tell them you'll save them billions with strategic realignments based on fact-checked data algorithms (aka layoffs and C-suite bonuses). cant cook creole bream posted:Yeah, I had one those kind of Fermi questions in basically every application process.
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