Color me ultramaroon...good thing too...not a dupe! (skulks away)
>> ^siftbot:

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>> ^Lodurr:

There's no social commentary in their racist jokes. Cartman calling people "jew" is social commentary because it reflects more on Cartman than on actual jews. Gabriel Iglesias' racist gift basket (see link in comment above) is social commentary. Even Michael Richards' "he's a nigger" episode had more social commentary than calling one race lazy and worthless. There isn't even a hint of truth in it. Latinos, as a group, are the hardest working people I've ever known, and most of them hardly sleep because they have multiple jobs.
A big part of the problem is that they're picking on a country with serious economic problems. It's easy for the French not to take offense at French jokes because they've been doing pretty well for the past thousand years. It was only a few hundred years ago that most Mexicans lived and worked as a systematically oppressed lower class, and they still have far to go to have a modern standard of living for the majority of their population.
Poking fun at a disadvantaged group when you're part of an advantaged one is always tasteless. Fuck these lazy talentless hacks and fuck the BBC for funding them.


South Park as social commentary... Right up there with Twain, Orwell and Oscar Wilde, isn't it?

Top Gear's characters routinely make fun of everyone and everything, it's the entire set-up of their characters and is meant to be as much of a 'commentary' as is Southpark. To suggest that of every group in the world they've already made fun of, the Mexicans should be off limits because they can't take it strikes me as more racist than Top Gear's even handed assaults on everything. And I shouldn't need to point out that SoutPark's assaults on everything go at least 5 steps further past 'good taste' than Top Gear ever does.

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>> ^kymbos:

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Aww a dupe, gutted mate. I'll tell notarobot shall I?

>> ^notarobot:

Is the rest of the interview on here somewhere?


I'm in the process of looking for it, will keep you updated

my parents are the most disappointed.>> ^kymbos:

...but you ended up a spaceman.

>> ^jimnms:

I like Stephen Fry, but I'm sorry, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I knew as a kid that I wanted to to be a pilot. It took a while but I eventually managed to go to college, get a degree in aviation and my licenses to fly. My flying career was cut short by a car accident, but those few years were the best times of my life. Now I don't know what I want to do. I live this "dynamic" life that he calls a reward, but I call it a goddamn miserable curse.


"if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know, you will never become anything, and that is your reward."

I think Wilde is talking about the dynamic self discovery and personal growth of a life of artistic pursuits, vs the more structured and predictable development within a more rigid profession. The quote does NOT mention not having passion or not knowing what you want to do.

Plenty of cave in Southern Indiana and Kentucky... limestone... I know a guy who knows a guy who could get ya a good deal.>> ^Fusionaut:

I wanted to be a caveman.

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Wow, way to totally miss the point.
>> ^jimnms:

I like Stephen Fry, but I'm sorry, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I knew as a kid that I wanted to to be a pilot. It took a while but I eventually managed to go to college, get a degree in aviation and my licenses to fly. My flying career was cut short by a car accident, but those few years were the best times of my life. Now I don't know what I want to do. I live this "dynamic" life that he calls a reward, but I call it a goddamn miserable curse.

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Cheers a lot man, very kind

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