Perhaps they realize that the end of their earlier relationship was "tacky and pretentious". Maybe here they are saying "let's drop this bullshit"?
You don't have to be on the same trip they are on. If you don't dig it, that's cool... - don't need to knock 'em for it though.

When an artist uses themselves, and their own emotions in their work, it usually comes off as contrived and egocentric... because it is. Sure, if they focused on others we would be less likely to judge them for it. That said, life is subjective. The only authority with which they could imbue art focused on others stems from their own personal experience. That's just one step removed from the egocentric work that draws our distrust.
Perhaps love is sacred, and should not be examined or put on display. They obviously don't think so. I'm not going to tell them that they are wrong, and in the meantime I'm going to learn what I can from what they are doing.

I'm all for art and all for love, but I'm with Stormsinger on this one. I have to question the authenticity and meaningfulness of a love that they decided to end with a final performance that seems a grand and eloquant publicity stunt. You are right that we cannot understand what it is to be them but I cannot help but be scornful of such a love that can so easily be discarded in such a way. To never see each other again? For the sake of an art performance?
The feelings they show for each other are moving, but the story of how they ended their prior relationship I find to be tacky and pretentious.

Pretentious shite

I watched the video because I heard good things about Joe's podcast. The Bro-Speak was more then any reasonably intelligent person can tolerate. But I will say that I know people with his personality, and people generaly hang onto their every word. I get why people find him entertaining, i refer to those people as unfiltered sieves but anyway.

TED talks are about the hour long talk not all the bullshit the speaker has to deal with in order to associate with their very high quality product; which is making himself available for promotion for 8 days, pretty reasonable considering the boost he would recieve by participating. If he dosen't like it then don't be apart of it. My feeling is that he really thought it would be a good move to be associated with the TED brand and got bitter after he broke the pre-arranged agreement. It has nothing to do with "how societies were created" or any other pretentious crap, the guy failed at an attempt to further his career and handled it like a fat spoiled child. Or if I was to describe it like Joe:
....fuckin ....fuckin ....fuckin..... bro
P.S.
VICE is the most poorly produced, amateur hour, broadcast. The topics are extremly myopic and serves special interests groups. in 100 years the entire world will laugh at the ridiculous nature of their product. Like watching a Dio video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkysjcs5vFU

(All wet cat facial expressions are funny)
Bitch-slap the owner of the cat maybe and chastise the news anchor for laughing at what? I know poor kitty hates life in her floaty but her cat-loving, orally-imprinted and likely obese OWNER is the asshole here....

*edit Oh my GAWWWWD and using the word clearly in writ or statement sounds so FUCKING sophomorically smug and pretentious....

What is "clear" anyhow, hmm?? Cleeeearly you have a clue! (See how fucking inane that shit sounds??)

If you can't watch it, let me fill you in... pretentious British game reviewer, and Australian resident, waxes snarky about said games in Powerpointesque internet videos that, for some reason, many viewers find entertaining, even though they all contain the same recycled shtick over and over. Apparently, fans are so enraptured by his worldly accent and monotone, comma-bereft delivery that they don't care that they can't even tell whether he liked the game or not.

Pretentious self important windbags. Even when I am in agreement with them on particular issues I want nothing to do with these two.

Morgan deserves Jones as a guest,Piers is a pretentious, muckraking douchenozzle, an anti-journalist, anti-information and meaning-A classic shill.

Typical Vimeo, artsy pretentious nonsense

Eh, there's truth to what he's saying and truth to what you're saying.

I think the main takeaway is that being schooled doesn't mean you're educated and being unschooled doesn't mean your uneducated. In my experience, the only people who harbor the delusion that having a degree means you are educated are generally people with degrees who don't actually have a great education. It's those people that I feel are the pretentious ones.

That being said - you're right. Stay in school, kids. I sure as hell would want my kids to go to college.

I dont know if he's pretentious. I've never heard about him until this. Maybe he preaches in his own circles.
You can't deny the results, assuming the photos shown and the ages he said he was at the time, the guy doesn't look a day older than 28. Maybe he dyes his hair?
Either way, probably everyones first reaction to things like this is "how stupid can one person be?", but you can't deny that human beings have the intelligence (even when dropping out of highschool, apparently) to explore fatal circumstances and learn from them. I could see a well-educated scientist studying venom all his life, and dying from the first attempted injection, so who really knows.
Either way, it's interesting, and I'll certainly be keeping my ear to the ground for news of his death.

Mystery solved at 9:48.

Pretentious idiot does a lot of sports.

@chingalera

I was reflecting on your response in the car, when I had a small epiphany. You state in your comment that you believe racism isn't real, but rather "pretentious, insincere, or empty verbiage" designed to evoke a 'gut reaction' in 'easily distracted peeps'. I imagine Colin Powell would disagree, yet you see his words as part of some large conspiracy. Then, unsurprisingly, you go on to call Colin Powell a 'nigger' in your next paragraph.

You are not able to experience racism as Colin Powell experiences racism (at least not on the receiving end); therefore your can't comprehend it; therefore, in your eyes, it must not be real. It would seem that you, like many conservatives, are unable to understand anything that you can't experience first hand.

So, I did a google search for 'empathy' and 'racism' and found an article that confirms my hypothesis.

Check it out: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7771834/We-are-less-likely-to-feel-the-pain-of-people-from-other-races-a-study-suggests.html

No sir, empathy and tolerance go hand-in-hand, I'm not a fucking out-of-touch dinosaur- I ALSO recognize that racism is an issue that garners that gut-reaction simply from seeing the word typed or written on a page with certain types of peeps too distracted by ancillary clap-trap (pretentious, insincere, or empty verbiage) to have any effect whatsoever on the world of the "real", whatever one perceives that to be.

I see Colin Powell's talk of racism in the republican party as a complete non-issue as in, "Why should I give a fuck about this Uncle Tom, proverbial, "house-nigger" who acted anything like a general or statesman when he addressed the U.N. in a rambling justification for bankrupting the country into the Gulf War(s)-He should regret his actions under Bush and go fuck himself into obscurity and stay the fuck out of politics forever, kinna like Nixon when he bellied-up and bailed-out before impeachment, and was subsequently pardoned by that OTHER ineffectual tool, Gerald Ford.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/13/colin-powell-regrets-u-n-speech-justifying-the-iraq-invasion/

The fantasy world I speak of you refuse to consider though under your nose where it rests and obfuscates world view.

The New World Order is happening, it's the mechanism of disinformation, obfuscation, world economic manipulation, etc, that has you right where you don't want to be, a willing slave, complicit in the breakdown of human societies worldwide. Welcome to the Matrix Wendy, enjoy your preoccupation with guns, racism, and voting booths


Oh, and for the record once again, I am apolitical and believe the parties democrat and republican interchangeable, and the equally meaningless terminology of political discourse in light of the fistfuck being perpetrated on all nations of the world, a complete and pathetic distraction.
The goddamn whore of Babylon wants your mind, money, and muscle and you're standing in line to be first on the train, in my , "fantastic" world of illusion.

While the science behind it is exciting and definitely legit, those presentations really get on my nerves.
They go from overpromising and pretentious ("I thought the world changed at that point") to downright negligent and dangerous ("It's carbon, therefore harmless - you can even compost it!") Yeah, sure. Nanotoxicity, schmanotoxicity...what is this, Duck and Cover?
IMO, "compulsory positive" presentations like these hurt scientific reputation in the long run.