If you read quotes from Steven Wright and Emo Philips, it is amazing how similar their humor is, and yet their delivery is so exact opposite.

American and British culture mix so much it is easy to find examples of braggart and self deprecating humor in both. I think Frye is mostly right though. If you want to compare apples to apples, compare The Big Bang Theory and The IT Crowd. The Nerds in the former manage to achieve some success in life and love, because they learn and grow, while the nerds in the latter never learn and grow and the humor is in their constant failure.

Ironically these differences go back a long time. British Charlie Chaplain's "Tramp" bathed in self deprecating humor, while American Buster Keaton's humor came from his ability to calmly cause a lot of mayhem. Personally I love both British and American humor.

There's a stereotype that the drummers are kind of the boneheads of the band, which is why they have to tape the set list to hi-hat so they don't forget what song comes nest.

This would definitely fall into the category of fair use anyways.

Glad I am not the only one who hated this movie. All good "dystopian" stories must be either DARK or SATIRICAL or both. Even mediocre dystopia like Starship Troopers manages to achieve both.

The Hunger Games manages to do neither. It couldn't be dark because they needed a PG-13 rating, and any satire was undermined by all the bad parts pointed out in this fake trailer.

"The illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship" ... And this is bad because?

"We turn to technology to help us feel connected in ways we can comfortably control" ... You say it like its a bad thing.

"Being alone feels like a problem that needs to be solved" ... Actually no, I'm fine with alone. It is other people that need stuff that feels like a problem that needs to be solved.

"Constant connection is changing the way people think of themselves" ... Yep that's the way it has always been. I bet there was someone like her when the telephone was invented, and when the radio was invented, and when the TV was invented. The world is changing, and I am cool with it.

And then she ends the talk, talking about learning to be alone with ourselves. Hmm, as someone who never texts, never bring a cellphone anywhere, only talks to people at work because that is what I am paid to do, and does not even have a twitter account, I guess she wasn't talking to me.

They sound like Nibbler from Futurama.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^EMPIRE:
now that house is over, I would love to see Hugh Laurie back in comedy for a bit.... (of fry and laurie)...

I was hoping first for a Travel Documentary in the vein of Fry in America. Just have them traveling about for a bit and chatting about their lives and meeting new people. Wouldn't it be funny watching to giant Englishman stomp around East Asia or somewhere cool? I think so, and it would be a nice little trip for Laurie after House, which had a decent enough ending in my view.
After that I demand some comedy though.


I don't know, it seems Michael Palin has already pretty much covered the world already.

Did Fukushima not teach you shills for the nuclear industry anything? Nuclear energy is far from clean or cheap. The cost of a nuclear power plant exceeds the cost of electricity it will produce which is why there has never been a privately financed nuclear plant EVER!

>> ^thumpa28:

I dont follow the argument hes making. Religion is bad, just look at North Korea? Seems a bit of a stretch.


I don't think that is the argument he is making. The point he is making is that some look at North Korea as a non-religious country, and an Atheist country, and try to blame the problems in that country to its lack of religion. His point is that North Korea is not a non-religious country, but in fact behaves like a theocracy.

So in this video he is not saying that Religion is bad (though Hitchens has occasionally made that point too), but rather Theocracy is bad.

>> ^TheFreak:

There's no mention in this video of why the penny hasn't been abolished. There must be some lobby or special interest that benefits from this and prevents the mint from doing anything about it. It can't be as simple as merely doing away with the coin.

Actually there is a mention, when he said that pennies today are produced with 95% Zinc.

You guessed it. The Zinc producers of America are the principle force lobbying congress to continue to produce pennies. They even have a website: http://www.pennies.org/

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
And here began my crush on Christina Ricci, I would still let her touch me.

Man, same. I was crazy into her after this film. Though i find her slightly creepy now.
Which is odd; found her nice when she acted creepy and creepy when she acted nice!


Which ultimately explains why Pan Am has done so poorly.

I don't know what it is about plastic bags, but cats love them. They love playing with them, they love chewing on them, and they love sleeping on them. Every cat loves them!

Plastic bags have only been around maybe 70 years, there is no way this is learned or evolved behavior. It is just one of those mysteries of biology I guess.

>> ^shagen454:

No one has anything to say about this? I disagree with some of the things said in this video...


The only thing I would disagree with is that the "conservative movement" part. Classic conservatives like Barry Goldwater or William Buckley would have supported OWS, but today's "mainstream" conservatives are more likely to back corporatism.

OWS is an anti-corporatism movement, and it is a position that many liberals and conservatives can get behind.

Pilkington is right. It would never happen. Lets just reduce this whole idea to mathematics. The complete works of Shakespeare can be translated to a number, by converting every character to ASCII, and ASCII to binary, so you end up with a really large binary number, which you can convert to decimal if you are so inclined.

So we have one number representing the complete works of Shakespeare. Then instead on Monkeys with typewriters, we have a random number generator, that can spit out any number from 1 to infinity. What are the odds that the random number generator would spit out the Shakespeare number? About 1 in infinity. Or for you calculus geeks, the limit of 1/x as x approaches infinity = 0.

So what happens if you ran the number generator an infinite number of times. Turns out infinity x infinity = infinity. Or again to be more exact aleph-naught times aleph-naught equals aleph-naught. So we are still at 0. What if we had an infinite number of number generators. That would be aleph-naught cubed, which is still equal to aleph-naught. Therefore, the odds are still zero.