The Big Picture: Conspiracy Weary
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Yeeeah, I'm not really sure what dictionary or language these words are coming from. Half the time I get a perfectly cromulent word, then all the rest of the time it's a jumble of letters assembled into vaguely word-like groupings.magnuslion said:
There's a typo there - I believe it is actually spelled 'libruls' or alternatively 'Satan's little helpers' depending on which part of the internet you're from.arbane said:
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While I liked this video and share it's primary sentiment, I would have liked it more if it didn't blatantly go against the established conservative right.
Now, I'm not saying that the examples provided are wrong, but by only focusing on one side of the spectrum, you demonstrate a clear bias as well. It's not like the other side doesn't have it's own idiots, nutcases and fearmongers, and I'm pretty sure you can remember a few.
A little balance would be nice.
Now, I'm not saying that the examples provided are wrong, but by only focusing on one side of the spectrum, you demonstrate a clear bias as well. It's not like the other side doesn't have it's own idiots, nutcases and fearmongers, and I'm pretty sure you can remember a few.
A little balance would be nice.
Great video yet again Bob. The only thing I disagreed with at all was the global warming thing. I completely support going green and I think that one of the biggest priority's of our generation should be to help clean up all the pollution we're making. However as far as global warming goes, it just doesn't add up. Also, I have seen An Inconvenient Truth and while it makes some points it also makes some very false statements. Everyone is allowed their own opinion on this subject but they need to understand that global warming is not considered a fact in the scientific community. It is not a consensus as much Al Gore would wants you to think that. Watch the Global Warming Swindle. It was made by actual scientists, not a politician.
Totally agreed. Though I am surprised he didn't get into one of the biggest conspiracies theories of all times. THE JEWS. Seriously, every news article with open comments has some nut saying how all of everything is the Jews. The Arizona shooting. Jews. 9/11. Jews. Iraq. Jews. WWII. Jews. Holocaust. Jews.
Another good video, Bob. For me though the best part was the Dino Riders picture. I loved that show!
We've actually done some things that have set the whole thing back... a bit. On the whole, the whole hydrocarbon-based energy economy is fucking shit up though.wasalp said:
On another note, our need to search for order is one of the things that has made our species so successful. It doesn't work in all cases. Presented with true randomness, we continue to search for patterns that just aren't there.
You're a guy that reviews movies and gets paid to do so.
I'm not saying your job is easy, but given that my future occupation is taking care of up to 150 High School kids in one day, preparing 5 different class plans each day, and to get paid a civil servant's wage when you need 4/5 years of university education to do so ....
What the fuck do you have to complain about Bob? I get you're trying to connect to the average person ... but it feels so empty and meaningless to someone who knows that what's in store for them is 40 years of thankless and underpaid adolescent/young adult daycare. I mean you begin tearing hair out simply because you start questioning whether deep down you're a masochist for wanting to be a teacher in the first place given how utterly shite the job is, yet you want to do it anyways.
Whether because you're on some sort of crusade of enlightening the world with knowledge, or because ultimately the world would be a whole lot more shit without us. Much in the same way i'm sure to people from upper class families decide to not do higher education and instead decide to fulfill their lifedream as a cop or firefighter.
Regardless ... getting paid to critique movies ain't a bad way to make some money, and I'm pretty sure you'd be getting paid more or less what a first year prac teacher is getting.
Anyways, just letting you know ... it's getting a bit whiny the whole 'world sucks' mentality in half your vids. I don't feel that way and I have to work my butt off to follow my goals and dreams, of which ultimately will lead me down a path of thankless poverty with qualifications that outstrip 90% of so-called 'educated' professionals.
Apart from that, decent vid. But I would remark that I doubt life would be better if there were dinosaurs ... and I'm certain if dinosaurs didn't go extinct and somehow persisted as we developed unchanged despite their presence, I think we wouldn't have treated them as 'awesome' and 'majestic', but rather 'things we need to obliterate so that Man can live free of the fear they produce'.
In the end you could have cut down your video to 'grass is always greener on the other side of the fence'.
Or You could have thrown in Orwellian message from 1984 that 'Whilst the present isn't that great, I'll take it' vibe that nobody seems to pick up on when they talk about 1984 that the book is ultimately about adaptability and hope rather than just being all angsty gloom and hopelessness.
Kafka would have been more suitable, but i'm still surprised to meet people who haven't even heard of him ... which makes me a sad panda.
I'm not saying your job is easy, but given that my future occupation is taking care of up to 150 High School kids in one day, preparing 5 different class plans each day, and to get paid a civil servant's wage when you need 4/5 years of university education to do so ....
What the fuck do you have to complain about Bob? I get you're trying to connect to the average person ... but it feels so empty and meaningless to someone who knows that what's in store for them is 40 years of thankless and underpaid adolescent/young adult daycare. I mean you begin tearing hair out simply because you start questioning whether deep down you're a masochist for wanting to be a teacher in the first place given how utterly shite the job is, yet you want to do it anyways.
Whether because you're on some sort of crusade of enlightening the world with knowledge, or because ultimately the world would be a whole lot more shit without us. Much in the same way i'm sure to people from upper class families decide to not do higher education and instead decide to fulfill their lifedream as a cop or firefighter.
Regardless ... getting paid to critique movies ain't a bad way to make some money, and I'm pretty sure you'd be getting paid more or less what a first year prac teacher is getting.
Anyways, just letting you know ... it's getting a bit whiny the whole 'world sucks' mentality in half your vids. I don't feel that way and I have to work my butt off to follow my goals and dreams, of which ultimately will lead me down a path of thankless poverty with qualifications that outstrip 90% of so-called 'educated' professionals.
Apart from that, decent vid. But I would remark that I doubt life would be better if there were dinosaurs ... and I'm certain if dinosaurs didn't go extinct and somehow persisted as we developed unchanged despite their presence, I think we wouldn't have treated them as 'awesome' and 'majestic', but rather 'things we need to obliterate so that Man can live free of the fear they produce'.
In the end you could have cut down your video to 'grass is always greener on the other side of the fence'.
Or You could have thrown in Orwellian message from 1984 that 'Whilst the present isn't that great, I'll take it' vibe that nobody seems to pick up on when they talk about 1984 that the book is ultimately about adaptability and hope rather than just being all angsty gloom and hopelessness.
Kafka would have been more suitable, but i'm still surprised to meet people who haven't even heard of him ... which makes me a sad panda.
It's a shortened form of the sequence of noises an adolescent boy makes when discovering the internet for the first time. In full;magnuslion said:
"Hmm...what shall I google? Let's just try my name! Wait, what is this, I don't even - pr0n! Titties! Yeeeeeeeah!"
You work around kids all day and you're surprised that they've never heard of Kafka? ;-)PaulH said:
Hell, most people on this website are much, much older than that and I bet the majority think he was the villain from FFVI...
He's got a point. Without delving into details or trivialities such as evidence, "a big dude in the sky did it" is a much simpler explanation than anything else we've got to explain the origin of lifeExort said:
