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druu222 t1_ja5yxn8 wrote
Reply to comment by CondescendingShitbag in Instagram users are being served gory videos of killing and torture by hugeplateofketchup8
Remember the "blogosphere", where one's contribution had to be intellectually sound and factually backed, or you'd get called on your bullshit by someone else who was? (paging Dan Rather...)
Halcyon indeed.
druu222 t1_j6e3y0o wrote
Eric Idle was being interviewed about the time Monty Python created an episode for German television entirely in spoken German.
He said that a couple executives from German television came to the Python crew at BBC, and said, "We'd like to make a proposal. You see, we don't have a sense of humor.... but we're led to understand that you do."
druu222 t1_j5vj2hq wrote
Allriiighhhht! Math humor.
Q: What does the B in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?
A: Benoit B. Mandelbrot.
druu222 t1_j2224zr wrote
War in the Middle East? Meh. Sorry chief, you're the Paris Hilton of conflicts. Way passe. We got other shit that we're into now. Try to keep up....
druu222 t1_iyf9naq wrote
Reply to comment by secretmadscientist in The Decline of British Blue Collar Stories On Screen: 25 years since NIL BY MOUTH first hit screens, Gary Oldman’s film has become a relic of a time when working-class stories were major cinematic events. What happened? by Bullingdon1973
Over Thanksgiving, I saw the classic turkey drop scene from WKRP in Cincinnati... not New York City, not Los Angeles. Are there any sitcom out there now that take place outside of NY-LA?
druu222 t1_iydaqb6 wrote
Five Card Stud? With Robert Mitchum and Dean Martin? That's a great Western!
druu222 t1_ja5zpdh wrote
Reply to comment by gullydowny in Instagram users are being served gory videos of killing and torture by hugeplateofketchup8
Christ, we are fucking doomed.