The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP

[Stromboli1]

 

[Cult Icon]

On 9/15/2019 at 8:24 AM, Stromboli1 said:

 

It was decent, but not great. I liked the anti SJW message.

 

Do you know the back story of his show?

 

No, I don't know the back story.

 

I've only watched the first half of the show and overall it's the most misogynistic comedy special I've ever seen.   He absolutely destroys women with the truth (female blackmail tactics, parasitic behavior, double standards, and other feminine non-consiousness/ immorality) but then quits his set at the climax and immediately switches topic- as if he's afraid that people would find it too misogynistic.   I bet he has a lot another hill to climb on that subject but he didn't take it at the ~25 minute mark.  He could have gotten even more hardcore (maybe he did as I didn't watch past 32 minutes)

 

IMHO if Trump didn't get elected this and Chappelle's special would never have been made.

 

So far 4 out of 5 stars.

[jkjk]

I don't know why I am continually surprised how easily people are fooled, and they are fooled from all sides. They are fooled by the powerful (companies, politicians, etc.) and they are fooled by the powerless (random internet guy, conspiracies, etc.)

 

At some point I need to expect this from everyone and I will be less surprised.

 

Fun side note: no one thinks they are being fooled.

 

(All of this above is vague because it didn't come from seeing anything in particular today, just a thought I had for some reason.)

 

ETA: I assume part of the reason is that it's easier. It's easier to pick a person or a number of people you believe and just always go along with what they say.

 

It's harder to question your beliefs and put in effort to find out if you are correct or not. It's also harder for most people to admit they may be wrong in the first place.

 

"Ignorance is bliss" is not only a saying, it's real. I regularly wish I was more ignorant about many things and I would probably be more blissful.  

[jkjk]

^^  Just reread that and it reads more serious than I was thinking when I posted it. So don't take it too seriously, it's just pointless random thoughts I had today.  

[Stromboli1]

5 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

No, I don't know the back story.

 

I've only watched the first half of the show and overall it's the most misogynistic comedy special I've ever seen.   He absolutely destroys women with the truth (female blackmail tactics, parasitic behavior, double standards, and other feminine non-consiousness/ immorality) but then quits his set at the climax and immediately switches topic- as if he's afraid that people would find it too misogynistic.   I bet he has a lot another hill to climb on that subject but he didn't take it at the ~25 minute mark.  He could have gotten even more hardcore (maybe he did as I didn't watch past 32 minutes)

 

IMHO if Trump didn't get elected this and Chappelle's special would never have been made.

 

So far 4 out of 5 stars.

 

Hus special is spliced together from 2 nights at the Royal Albert Hall venue.

 

Also said the director was/is a comedian and made the special more immersive the way he shot it. 

 

From his recent podcast with Rogan.

[CandleVixen]

On 9/15/2019 at 7:18 AM, Stromboli1 said:

 

The flip in the 60s?

I was referring to the flip in the mid 80’s. 

[jkjk]

12 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

Also, we have a saying in France: "we can see the straw in our neighbour's eye, but we don't notice the log in our own eye". We've all been like that at one point in our life (well, maybe more than that...). I think it's kinda logical (if we knew all our mistakes, we would correct them or at least try to).

 

I think that may be from the Bible, but I'm not sure (and I'm not looking ).

[Enrico_sw]

4 minutes ago, jkjk said:

 

I think that may be from the Bible, but I'm not sure (and I'm not looking ).

 

Oh yes, I think you're right I didn't remember that. My mother used this expression a lot when I was a kid!

[Enrico_sw]

@jkjk I love expressions when we can make them say anything. Like "Opposites Attract" and "birds of a feather really flock together" (we have more or less the same expressions here). One is the literally the exact opposite of the other and yet we use both of them

[CandleVixen]

2 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

@jkjk I love expressions when we can make them say anything. Like "Opposites Attract" and "birds of a feather really flock together" (we have more or less the same expressions here). One is the literally the exact opposite of the other and yet we use both of them

 

Like your straw/log saying brings up in my mind, ‘Can’t see the forest amongst the trees’.

[Enrico_sw]

16 minutes ago, CandleVixen said:

 

Like your straw/log saying brings up in my mind, ‘Can’t see the forest amongst the trees’.

 

I didn't know that one. I like it!

 

It reminds me of a night when we were with friends around the fireplace and we looked up for sayings all night! Some of them are really funny. We laughed a lot (maybe the alcohol helped )

[Enrico_sw]

Sometimes wish I could save time in a bottle...

 

 

[CandleVixen]

4 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

Sometimes wish I could save time in a bottle...

 

 

I love this song. 

[Stromboli1]

1 hour ago, CandleVixen said:

I was referring to the flip in the mid 80’s. 

 

Don't really remember the 80's. I just remember the Republicans being super religious to far right lunacy before they mellowed out in the 90's after going through a mini reformation.

[Stromboli1]

3 hours ago, jkjk said:

I don't know why I am continually surprised how easily people are fooled, and they are fooled from all sides. They are fooled by the powerful (companies, politicians, etc.) and they are fooled by the powerless (random internet guy, conspiracies, etc.)

 

At some point I need to expect this from everyone and I will be less surprised.

 

Fun side note: no one thinks they are being fooled.

 

(All of this above is vague because it didn't come from seeing anything in particular today, just a thought I had for some reason.)

 

ETA: I assume part of the reason is that it's easier. It's easier to pick a person or a number of people you believe and just always go along with what they say.

 

It's harder to question your beliefs and put in effort to find out if you are correct or not. It's also harder for most people to admit they may be wrong in the first place.

 

"Ignorance is bliss" is not only a saying, it's real. I regularly wish I was more ignorant about many things and I would probably be more blissful.  

 

Critical thinking skills my friend. Also intelligence plays a factor in my opinion. Guess what .... most of the world is remarkably average. 

 

That being said I do believe there different forms of intelligence, but that's another discussion for another time. 

[jkjk]

4 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said:

Critical thinking skills my friend. Also intelligence plays a factor in my opinion.

 

This is one of the odd things to me, some people who seem to have these traits in some aspects of life don't demonstrate those traits in other aspects of life.

[Stromboli1]

9 minutes ago, jkjk said:

This is one of the odd things to me, some people who seem to have these traits in some aspects of life don't demonstrate those traits in other aspects of life.

 

They must suck at sifting through bullshit and don't question anything.

 

Basically you need to be taught how to think not what to think.

 

This is the reason I could've never been in the military.

[jkjk]

10 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said:

They must suck at sifting through bullshit and don't question anything.

 

Basically you need to be taught how to think not what to think.

 

True, and I think sometimes people just have blind spots in certain areas, for many reasons.

 

10 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said:

This is the reason I could've never been in the military.

 

Same. They don't want anyone who is not an officer to think at all. To be fair, that's the only way it works, but I still couldn't do it.

[Stromboli1]

Yeah could be.

 

They need that meat shield.