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>> ^Sagemind:

yes @mintbb - try this embed - this one doesn't seem to be blocked - plus your vote count will go up.
>> ^nanrod:
Region blocked. Try this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX-xToQI34I



Thanks guys. I swapped the embed. I hope Comedy Central doesn't get the YT clip fremoved. In case they do, the Comedy Central clip is here:

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/43sq4x/night-of-too-many-stars-preview---katy-perry-and-jodi-dipiazza-on--night-of-too-many-stars-

I'd appreciate if anybody could set that as a backup - I can never for the life of me remember how to it.. at least it used to include some weird brackets or something, and it usually takes an embarrassing number of tries before I get it right!

yes @mintbb - try this embed - this one doesn't seem to be blocked - plus your vote count will go up.
>> ^nanrod:

Region blocked. Try this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX-xToQI34I

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I've really liked Katy ever since she was on How I met your mother. I'll never know the real Katy Perry obviously, but she seems like a sweet, hard working girl.

>> ^spoco2:

Huh, who'd have thunk Katy Perry would be involved in something that'd make me feel anything but revulsion.
Something new every day.


We should elect her as President...probably just as good as those other guys.

Huh, who'd have thunk Katy Perry would be involved in something that'd make me feel anything but revulsion.

Something new every day.

It's always awesome to see artists in an environment where you can really see how talented they are. It was obviously very hard for Katy to sing that slow and to try and harmonize with the little girl, but together they made the song sound pretty great for what it was.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'michael swaim, dan obrien, soren bowie, katie willert, terrible at his job, professor' to 'michael swaim, dan obrien, soren bowie, katie willert, indiana jones, after hours' - edited by xxovercastxx

I liked the overall look and feel of the unaired pilot. The apartment that Lenard and Sheldon share is an academic's dream in my opinion; dark, cluttered with books and papers, a compact and sparsely furnished social area, a fireplace that adds character to the room and walls adorned with numerous thought structuring white boards. The apartment in the ongoing show struck me as very bright and open; I generally don’t like bright and open, though it does provide more room for physical comedy. The character development was touch and go but in the end I believe Lenard needs no improvement in either the unaired pilot or the ongoing show. I believe that Sheldon's character would benefit from a combination of traits from both the unaired pilot and the current show, most notably the social openness balanced by his high levels of humorous narcissism. I don't believe there is a way to improve on the lead female role, I don't particularly care for either Katie or Penny and find the presence of a female character that is so overly ditzy insulting. What is needed is a smart (PhD level) female character that possesses a keen knowledge of both her field (possibly Anthropology, History or Psychology) and popular culture. This would serve to distinguish her from both the Katie/Penny character and also Amy and Bernadette; both characters that have seemingly no knowledge or an air of condescension concerning popular culture.

Failing that I would live in Georgia (or another of 19 states total) within DAYS and my daughter would qualify for TEFRA insurance. (Katie Beckett insurance.)

Failing that, with this story on national news, I bet those people who bought a $650,000 vacation for the bus monitor would help out... and Wells Fargo would look like the biggest asses in the world.

>> ^NetRunner:

a battle to stop a group of committed fanatics without a shred of human empathy from pushing out the last vestiges of the flawed, inept, but well-meaning opposition standing in their way.


I steadfastly hold the view that those who are most suited to power are least suited to attaining power, and those who are least suited to power are most suited to attaining it. Those who feel no remorse are able to lie, cheat and steal their way to any goal whilst those who have the empathy we need in a leader would never dream of doing such a thing in return. The kind of leader we need now would never accept money from huge businesses in exchange for favours when they're in power. So they're never gonna get in power, and we're left to be led by those who are most capable of tricking us.

Think about it. If an extremely intelligent person decides (or is already decided) that they want something, it's very hard to stop them. It's simple to manipulate and trick people less intelligent than you are, we all know that, we've all surely experienced it at some point (perhaps through accident). The only thing that stops you is your conscience.

There are people in this world with immense intellect and empathy, people who are held accountable to their own conscience more than they could ever be held accountable in law. Yet we live in a world where we (on average at least) PREFER to listen to people who sound and look convincing.

There are people who spend their entire lives thoroughly investigating things to satisfy their own desire to understand the world - and we show skepticism towards THEIR opinion.

When a government drug expert reports upon scientific and statistical findings that show how marijuana and ecstasy are less harmful than alcohol (amongst other things), he was instantly sacked and replaced by someone who said something different.

We have government ministers in britain stealing from our pockets, getting caught in the act, and then later having the gumption to say "If you pay someone cash in hand, you are allowing them to dodge tax, therefore YOU are immoral." Do these idiots even understand the word "hypocrite"?

We actively shun and show disdain to intelligent people. We've become fixated on celebrity. When a huge news item comes along, we cut to katy perry's twitter feed to find out what she thinks, or a person on the street who knows nothing more than i do about the situation to hear what their opinion is. This is Idiocracy.

I could definitely tell the difference between Zooey and Katy.

Guarantee Katy Perry's was tweeted by Russel Brand.