Play Nice Random Chat Thread IV

[goalieboy82]

 

[goalieboy82]

back then you could smoke on TV (and maybe drunk too)

 

[krakouers]

 

[goalieboy82]

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Snake_Baker]

This is what happens when the intellectual children are given control.

 

[rickety]

The Rebels are having their bottoms ripped apart by the ref :-(

 

[rickety]

Last kick of the game, bang the drum!!

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Ripping twitter thread.

 

[Snake_Baker]

If you have 45 minutes spare, then I would invite the reader to watch this.

You might just find out that you are a libertarian.

 

[goalieboy82]

the Late Frank Zappa (Semi NSFW)

 

[LuvtheKangas]

Frank Zappa = The Bug

 

[rickety]

We're sitting here waiting for Shaun the Sheep to come on, there is an ad with an octopus ..... my little mate asks what tentacles are. I tell him they are the funny arm things on the octopus, not to be confused with your Testicles. He asks me what they are and when I tell them they are his balls he cracks up and tells me I am off my head Farkin funny

 

[ferball]

Weeellllllll ?....... :-D

A whole bunch of us from round here ended up seeing Cheech and Chong about a decade ago.

Somehow one of us, Dave was his name, managed to drop a gram or two of top quality homemade hashish in the lead up to the show. Throughout the show we'd point at him and yell out "Dave's not here man!" then crack up laughing. He was so out of it he didn't know what was going on but a lot of the audience around him did.

I don't think he remembers it to this day.

It was the last day of the Nimbin Mardi Grass in 2009. Turns out Cheech and Chong didn't know what the Nimbin Mardi Grass was. A major disappointment was offering the guys a full pipe of absolutely primo weed I'd kept for the whole night just to have with them only to see them freak out and panic and get all "nah we can't have that here, what about the security guard etc etc". It's like one ever offered them a joint or a pipe before.

Nice guys tho. They were charging people $150 for a meet and greet with photos and donating the money to the Black Saturday recovery and someone told them me and the missus were firies so they asked to meet us. Probably weren't expecting me to rip out a pipe and light up..

The security guard didn't mind a toke afterward either.

 

[rickety]

A whole bunch of us from round here ended up seeing Cheech and Chong about a decade ago.

Somehow one of us, Dave was his name, managed to drop a gram or two of top quality homemade hashish in the lead up to the show. Throughout the show we'd point at him and yell out "Dave's not here man!" then crack up laughing. He was so out of it he didn't know what was going on but a lot of the audience around him did.

I don't think he remembers it to this day.

It was the last day of the Nimbin Mardi Grass in 2009. Turns out Cheech and Chong didn't know what the Nimbin Mardi Grass was. A major disappointment was offering the guys a full pipe of absolutely primo weed I'd kept for the whole night just to have with them only to see them freak out and panic and get all "nah we can't have that here, what about the security guard etc etc". It's like one ever offered them a joint or a pipe before.

Nice guys tho. They were charging people $150 for a meet and greet with photos and donating the money to the Black Saturday recovery and someone told them me and the missus were firies so they asked to meet us. Probably weren't expecting me to rip out a pipe and light up..

The security guard didn't mind a toke afterward either.

You might have been better off offering them a free ride through the carwash :-D I was in a pub on the Wirral near Liverpool in 96 I think, drinking with a couple of new best friends and watching the FA Cup final, Everton and whoever. Anyway, 1 of my new best mates looked like Fred West, and the more we drank, the more he looked like him. After the match and the whole pub was tanked and singing "you look like Freddie West" to this fella, he got the hump and headed off home. Much to the amusement of every single person. Lol was a funny day. We headed into Liverpool as Everton won the cup and I was chatting up this bird in this pub, when this dwarf comes over, flops his trojan horse old boy out and starts pi$$ing under the table. I'm like, feck off mate, so I go and grab a bouncer to have biggus dickus removed, the bouncer looks at me and gives it "you're not from here, we're you from?" London I tell him ;-) Anyway, him and his mate grab this truncheon packing oompa loompa by the arms and cart him off, still weeing like he drank half a brewery.

 

[ferball]

I guess you had to be there but "Dave's not here man" is a lot funnier to me after that night with Dave and the bubble hash.

Still disappointed the boys didn't want a choof but Tommy Chong had just done time for running a bong shop in the US so it's maybe understandable. A decade later and weed is outright illegal in only three US states but decriminalised in one of those and completely legal with no restrictions in over a quarter of US states.

 

[rickety]

I guess you had to be there but "Dave's not here man" is a lot funnier to me after that night with Dave and the bubble hash.

Still disappointed the boys didn't want a choof but Tommy Chong had just done time for running a bong shop in the US so it's maybe understandable. A decade later and weed is outright illegal in only three US states but decriminalised in one of those and completely legal with no restrictions in over a quarter of US states.

You'd reckon they'd have been keen as mustard. Merica is a funny place, not Cheech and Chong funny, or Black Books funny, just most peculiar type funny.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Bye, bye Joker.

 

[Snake_Baker]

It's got an A on the end!

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Bye, bye Joker.

Thats weird.

 

[Hojuman]

Korea / Japan 3rd typhoon in a week

 

[Snake_Baker]

Humanities has left the building

 

[ferball]

Humanities has left the building

Brain research appears to be doing the same thing.

It's okay to have a cheap shot at humanities, it's full of easy targets after all, but I'm willing to bet if you did a version of that image as a changing map over time you would see spikes in many fields that then integrated into the other fields and reconnected to form a more holistic or connected picture.

 

[Hojuman]

Humanities has left the building

Mrs. H. gets stuff like that from the kids at kinder. Needs more blue

 

[ferball]

Furthermore it's a three dimensional image that we area looking at from two dimensions. It's a flat circle but looks like it should be a sphere, it appears there are plenty of "straight" lines in fields that don't interact or form immediate cosilience thru many nodal points, as many as in that line of points attributed to humanities and appearing to move away from the main network.

That line of humanities "leaving the building" seems arbitrary and could be drawn into the middle of the circle implying humanities research is about to join with other fields if that is the impression the person making the image wanted to leave.

This is how propaganda works.

It presents information in a manner that leads you (you pl. or me or you specifically Tef) to make unnecessary inferences because the form the information is presented in appears to needs that particular mental structure to give the formation meaning, when in fact it doesn't.

The actual meaning, ie the propaganda "we" want to program you with is independent of the information and totally dependent on the mental structure or worldview used to present it. This is what post modern humanities attempts to understand, it's also the sort of thing people like Bernays knew instinctively or learned.

For example, using a famous example from Bernays' career, "take up smoking" is the information want to convey. Ie we want you to think smoking is good. We do that by creating a structure that presents smoking as good and presenting it to you. In this specific instance we use the novelty of Hollywood, and the glamour associated with these new fangled moving pictures or "movies" to create the structure we use to help you interpret your views of smoking.

Your life is shit, movie stars lives are great - adventurous and not mundane - they all smoke so you should too. They do it in moments we all recognise, despite their glamorous adventurous lives. If we do it in those moments maybe we share something with them as a result.

You take all this in and over the course of a year you develop a worldview that encompasses smoking because it connects to something you have been told gives you meaning.