James
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Beautiful.
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I approve of this thread.
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You seem to be confused: those other people are un-American.Seriously, though, it's a depressing reality that on the whole people just don't feel as strongly about the plight of people from far-away places. There can be a horrendous disaster abroad, and the news will tell us how many Brits are believed to be involved, even when it's a tiny portion. I don't know, I suppose it's relevant information, but it always strikes me as a bit tasteless. Anyway, the point is that people can be aware of and pretty much comfortable with all sorts of heinous shit going on globally, but once it's happening on home turf and to their people, suddenly it's a world-ending outrage. In other words, people have double standards, which is obvious and everyone is well aware of. This post is pointless.
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You should also check out User 927. For reference, it starts with "human mold", and goes downhill from there (punctuated only occasionally by flowers). DISCLAIMER: This person searches for some genuinely severely unpleasant things. If you don't want to feel bad about the world, probably don't click.
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That's the complete opposite of the point. It's a satirical piece about people who doubt the gender bias in language; by substituting "white" for "man", Hofstadter intends to illustrate the absurdity of the claim that English isn't sexist. The argument is supposed to be unconvincing, in that it's a mockery of people who make the same arguments about sexism in language. If you really can't manage the first section, though, hop down to the section "Post Scriptum". It starts thus: Completely tangentially, Douglas Hofstadter wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach, a fascinating book exploring the nature of self by way of neuroscience, Zen Buddhism, number theory, and myriad other subjects. Crazy stuff, but not much to do with feminism (although he does explain in an author's foreword that he regrets his use of gendered language). EDIT: Oops, too slow by not one but two posts. How embarrassing.
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User 927!
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Haha, that letter's great. Just make sure it arrives after the other stuff.
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When I see this thread title there is roughly a 33% chance that I will think of MOM DON'T READ.
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Hey, it's Dusk! I Internet-know that guy! Hi Dusk! Yeah, some sort of hidden "Congrats Nick" would be pretty great. Perhaps something like that anamorphic skull in The Ambassadors, but more subtle. If possible. Witnessing the first stage of the Weird Thing coming to fruition has been a pure delight. I know this project is already more than ridiculous enough, but could it be arranged that the Uncles arrive and are opened first, such that it seems like we did exactly what Jake said in the cast? I guess that doesn't really fit with the letter, though (which is an outstanding touch, incidentally).
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That's more hilarious than it should be. I really like this idea. Or how about this for an idea that would obviously be far too awkward/impossible to do, but amuses me: a normal picture but with "Congrats Nick" scrawled over it in giant angry letters in glow-in-the-dark paint, so it only shows up when they turn the lights off to leave the office. Wait, does such a thing even exist, or am I just thinking of UV paint? It's a dumb idea anyway. Shut up, James. I can only imagine. I think people need to remember that someone's actually having to pull all this stuff together before they start throwing stupid glow-in-the-dark ideas around. The project as it stands now is incredible, anyway.
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I don't know; he's still referring to the Irish as "people".
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Christ, this is amazing stuff all round. Spectacular!
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I personally feel that that joke would be more elegantly told if you left off the last line. The audience can fill that in for themselves. Humour analysis. JOKE COPS
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A Dishonored decade? Ha!
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I just happened to check Brad Shoemaker's profile page on Giant Bomb (which is not something I do with any frequency whatsoever) right after he guested on episode 6 ("Explode Mode"). I checked the podcast out on a whim and was instantly hooked. I guess I would have encountered the Thumbs at some point through their appearances on GB and Tested, but it was a total fluke that I happened on the podcast relatively early in its run. It's also weird that I've apparently had an account on the forums for about half the history of Idle Thumbs; I still feel like a bit of a newcomer, somehow.
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Here's one from Christmas:
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Hey, Congrats Nick Breckon. Nick Becon, on the other hand, deserves a break.
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On the plus side, the last time it broke it was pretty late so everyone just left, avoiding all the awkwardness there is when there's only two people left and one of them is me.
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Hey, that establishing shot (and presumably the venue of the awkwardness) is of Oceana, the shitty club that used to be next to the cinema I go to in Kingston! It got replaced by a different shitty club after someone got stabbed there. (Disclaimer: I might think that all clubs are shitty.) (Second disclaimer: This post might have nothing to do with the topic at hand.)
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Looks to me like she's wondering the same thing.
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Those are some pretty good videos Mr Muerte. They were subject to enjoyment by me.
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Nice try, but I'm not quite that proud.
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I also resolve not to get involved in this bloody nonsense.
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I resolve to save the world a few times.
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It's sad that he had to, but it's pretty gratifying that he did. Hopefully his site is a venue that people who need to hear that message will actually read – it can be all too easy to avoid the voices you don't want to hear. Then again, in doing a little extra reading on the whole affair, I saw someone describing Smith as "pussywhipped", so perhaps that's how misogynists reconcile their feelings on women with an explicitly contradictory appeal from a person they otherwise respect. It's almost like a conspiracy theory: "women are bad, and any man who says otherwise must be under the influence of a woman".
