John Oliver, we need to talk. You're awesome, but you need to drop the little "being fake outraged at a thing" bit.

You do it in nearly every segment and it's always the least funny bit.

Here at 5:05, you say the statistics are "so terrible it's enough to make you angry at the very concept of numbers". That's a clever line and funny.

But then you does the whole "fuck you symbols blah blah you're the worst" and it just ruins the joke. You just don't do that delivery well.

The name Rome and Greece must be changed, because those symbols (names are symbols) are offensive...so must Egypt, Russia, pretty much every country in the world. Native Americans need to get rid of their symbols as well--all that scalping and such...Lets not even talk about anything related to men--who have been nothing but rapist control freaks, especially in places like India where women are burned alive with their husbands...God, we have a lot of symbols to kill bud--nearly every symbol made by humans...

I thought the symbols looked a bit like hieroglyphs..

In reality, it's just THE BEST, most creative way to tell isis to go fuck itself

..i think. Lmao.

Can't not wait! for that correction.

Because, it would be. Like hitting the reset button.

Symbols have deep meaning like that.

Hence why this topic is so divisive.

http://videosift.com/video/White-Fragility-aka-Why-the-Right-cant-admit-their-Racism

You're fragile. You got aggrieved white man syndrome.. bad.

Your problem is.. you hate thinking.

Stop and ask yourself, why are blacks killing blacks?

Why is Genji saying i'm stirring the pot when I say that.

How does pretending like racist symbols don't bother black people, free them from all the trappings of a deeply racist society?


You think racism only exist in our minds.

You're wrong. But you're just too afraid to admit that.


Ask yourself, "why am I afraid to admit to the truth of my views"?

Why, bob? Why?

I agree completely, complaining about the flag, while I agree with wanting it taken down, seems like a ridiculously misplaced sentiment. I don't understand how that's the resolution people collectively came to in response to the deaths of innocents.
I do feel the flag is a symbol that does support an underlying system of hate, though, but in the context of the murders it probably has a laughable 0.00001% of jack-shit to do with them.
I'm sure our opinions are divided on what we should do to fix the situation as a people, but I think we both agree that there are better places to look for an appropriate solution.

Love this guy, Sixty Symbols and Brady.

Gooo, Sir Dr. Poliakoff! w00t!

Friend of mine has a few tattoos in textura and people keep asking him to explain to them the meaning of those chinese symbols on his arms...

I think the lady makes a very good point about damage being done to sex relations, and often times it seems the internet-generation feminist is actually not interested whatsoever in equality and is more accurately described a misandrist.

Very recently in my own country we had a number of famous feminists fighting to get rid of "page 3 girls" - semi nude models in tabloid newspapers. It never happened, but even as it was happening there were page 3 models complaining because it meant they'd be out of a job they enjoyed and got paid well for. No woman OR man should feel forced to take their clothes off in public for any reason, and in fact that is the case as these people are not slaves but career models by choice. What was actually happening was a prudish approach to human sexuality had been disguised as an equality thing; and the language was always of course referring to the little girls - because if you disagree with little girls having to grow up to go topless you're a certified monster and pervert.

That kind of shit really detracts from the things that are seriously unfair such as, most obviously, the pay gap. No woman should get paid less for the same job. There's no "rape culture" that i've ever heard of if your sample size includes greater than 1000 people in the west, and terms like that detract from the argument again - if you want to talk rape culture then look to India, where there is (and needs to be more) attention on changing the attitudes of the male community towards females because of horrific acts taking place.. almost commonplace. And to India's credit there was a big campaign tied into their favourite sport, with social media involvement and obviously most men proudly wearing symbols and stuff. There are parts of that society that has issues that could do with feminism.

But this is the profession of being offended. You have to drum up publicity, it has to be viral, or you don't get paid. You don't get a column in the newspaper or the mag, you don't get enough hits on your youtube to make enough money. Not if you talk about the pay gap or the gender inequality in less "civilised?" societies.. no, you do that by talking about the tits on page 3. Or espousing something unfair and incendiary; something someone will want to argue with. Nothing that fits with common sense. These people are self publicists - they will make a spelling error on a tweet to encourage others to call them stupid, correct them, essentially RETWEET AND REPLY AND FOLLOW AND LIKE!

Whether or not Sarkeesian(?) should have commented, there is a point well made in this video. I've been on the receiving end of something disguised as feminism in the past, and all it did was make me wary of anyone under 30 that calls themselves a feminist. Before i can establish whether that means misandrist, i have to establish common ground, because i'm a feminist too. What we need is more decorum and less extremism. You can't change the world without the help of both sexes, why alienate each other?

@blackfox42, I had the same reaction.

The more I watched, the more I felt this was symbolic of the modern world's destruction of the honeybees, the waste of their labor and their lives. Very disturbing.

I also thought that food fetishists are going to be buying this book in droves.

Sorry, Grimm, to be all political on an artistic statement.

The explanation I heard was thus:
They didn't want to go with red, the tradtional Labour colour, because they wanted to make a statement that they were trying to reach out to women and break from the norm. So they went with pink, which is close to red but not red (symbolic of a change or break from the mainstream), is not affliliated with any of the other major parties, and is a bright, warm colour. Clearly they are still guilty of being so out of touch they couldn't see how it might be perceived, but I can sort of believe that the thinking wasn't purely " girls like pink, lets make a pink bus".

This all came to pass because of polls showing that voter turnout for women is abysmal (frankly I can't blame them...) so here is Labour making a clumsy stab to try and engage with half of the voting public.

I think it is silly to deny that men and women care more about different things. Is it patronising to focus on education, or childcare, or care for the elderly (all things women ranked higher than men) in order to try and score votes, or is perhaps the greater sin to simply ignore any difference and continue the existing dialogue which seems to be turning women away from politics in droves?

I agree with you, but to me it would still be more interesting if the power of the one ring was manifested in some more concrete way.

I guess that in general Tolkien wasn't big on allegory, which is why he looked down on interpretations of his work where people assume that the ring is a symbol for "atomic energy", or "technology" or "industry" or whatever. So, from his point of view it is probably better to make the ring more abstract. But, I still think that personally, I get more out of viewing the one ring as sort of an allegory for "power" in general, and the corrupting influence of that power. So, even though I know that your interpretation is correct to what Tolkien had in mind, I like to read his books with my own spin on things in that way.

Older cars dont have the arrow. They show where the tank is by having the arm of the little gas symbol on the side where the tank is. So in the above movie, its on the right, where the arrow is ;-)

There are laws that prohibit displaying Nazi-symbols (like the swastika), hate speech, especially if it calls for violent action (like "Kill all Jews"), as well glorifying or defending actions of the Nazis.

But since they learned to stay clear of this in public they have the constitutional right to free speech and there is no way to forbid their stupid demonstrations.