Can you point me towards a comparable situation? I can't recall a situation where he was making an emotional plea about an important topic and was ripped for his usual stutter. People like Jon Stewart pick their spots. Comedy is about timing.

I'm not saying you can't get your digs in. I'm saying there's a time and place. Shannon Sharpe's speech impediments and questionable word choice are widely joked about:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cbs-producers-ask-shannon-sharpe-to-use-at-least-3,7044/

That doesn't bother me. He's plenty self deprecating about his "book smahts." My issue is with context. 99 percent of the time you could crack these jokes in his face and he'd laugh right along with you. If you did it here, he'd rip you in half. The guy grew up dirt ass poor in rural georgia. He made himself a millionaire. What does he need to do for the peanut gallery to shut the fuck up for 2 minutes while he talks about something important? If he was being granted a shred of respect, they would.

Perhaps related to the phenomena where people with debilitating stutters can nonetheless sing perfectly. In the first part, it almost sounds as though he's rapping a little bit. It's damn impressive.

Perhaps there is a whole new field of therapy for people who suffer with stuttering through practicing freestyle rap. Can't say as I could possibly truly understand it, but I suspect it has a lot to do with establishing a rhythm. I'd be interested to know what he's listening to. Does it even need to have lyrics?

It seems like he has extreme stutter, but listening to music while speaking suppresses it.

did more research, this guy doesn't have OCD, he's just a slam poetry performer and actor. Watched several of his other poems and he uses a different persona for each poem's theme. From sitting smoking a pipe to dressing in drag for a comedy one, to stuttering performing a King "speech" poem to this OCD act he put on.

decent actor I guess. But after seeing his website and learning he didn't have ocd, it sorta changes it.

He's walking on the eggshells of perception speaking on race, thought he stuttered through an explanation well..

What he mentioned about the Brits schooling the freed slaves in Jamaica? This would explain perhaps the reason reggae is superior to rap and hip-hop in so many ways? Much more political, insightful, hopeful and tuneful. Oh, and kinder, gentler rage...

Who's tripping down the streets of the city
Stuttering just like Anthony Blanche
Who's reaching-out to piss-off Bill Pullman
Everyone knows it's Windy

Ok this is a professionally made Gameplay Trailer and you don't think that was voice acting? Seriously?!

This was voice acting and BAD voice acting at that. No one stuttered, or clarified an incomplete thought. No one even made a joke or varied their rate of speech, cadence, or pitch of their voice.

If this isn't voice acting, these people are robots and are actually not having any fun. I've played online MMOs at a very high level, there's always jokes and changes in peoples voices at world first kills, or daily boring ones.

Also NO ONE In the History of Gaming has ever said "Whoa whoa whoa it's another group of players, Brace for PVP." And even if someone had it wasn't in the most boring monotone voice EVER!

My god I'm usually talking like Zapp Brannigan when I lead raids, I wouldn't ever play with such boring people, and I wouldn't want to buy a game that was advertised to be played by these utter wastes of time! I want to play a game with INTERESTING Funny people!

Morris Minor and the Majors - Another Boring 'B' Side



http://youtu.be/YqnxDJk08vw

The B-side to Stutter Rap, and I think we're close to the youngest people who still know what a 'B' side is!!!

So basically Instagram? I really wanted to like this, but two things bugged me: first, the editing with all that stuttering and shit. Second, the fact that in the end it is just another picture that looks old but really isn't. This whole instagram trend to make pictures look shitty on-purpose needs to die. Purposely making a picture look bad misses the point entirely IMO. I know, I know, it's art and people can do what they feel, but I'm just saying that it feels pretentious like 100,000 douchey hipsters with iPhones taking pictures of powerlines through crappy filters to make them look washed out... just saying.

A 4 minute live performance played back in 4 minutes is not timeshift, this was more like an hour of recording crammed into 4 minutes or so, and even if you don't count the loops I would consider that the the rather obvious and deliberate stuttering jump cuts count as altered time perception too, by design.

I'm not going to be the one to put it back into the channel though.

*sigh, watching the VP of the United States stutter half-drunk about "just get a shotgun" makes me feel like someone is playing a foul joke on the entire planet allowing this to be broadcast. How about challenging yourself to think outside of the insular bubble of your own construct?

Does not this interview insult your intelligence and leave you with a sense that your mind has been raped before it's even over?

Seek professional help if it does not would be my, unsolicited suggestion for you.

Oh and there IS a way to ignore your own feelings of mental superiority as well as my comments.

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You know what bothers me more than the vertical aspect ratio? Videos that stutter with a slow frame rate. My brain has been trained to think there is some buffering going on with my poor broadband connection. Even when I'm at a cinema - I feel the same.

Gah... Ira Glass writes in that same, stuttering, talking-down-to-the-audience voice that he narrates with. I hate that guy.
What's worse, ever since he became popular, more and more NPR hosts are popping up that have adopted his ridiculous pattern of speech.
God I hate that guy.

watch Romney stutter, fluster, and stumble.

>> ^braschlosan:

>> ^Jinx:
but colour is an invention of our brains anyway? Is yellow a specific wavelength or is yellow what our brain says is yellow whether its red+green together, or "true" yellow.

Either way the light output by your monitor is not 580nm like your brain is telling you but rather an even mix of 650nm and 510nm.
If our eyes didn't "fudge" colors in this way we most likely wouldn't have color television (or monitors)


I didn't read his post like that, maybe he's asking for a definition of yellow because as our cones are basically wavelength filters for photons whilst our brain interprets a message of "hey i caught something of this intensity" from each of them, what is this "yellow" that we all use and think we know what it means? It will eventually come down to the resolution of the eye; each photon from each source will be coming in from a different angle into our eye, by extremely small amounts - the smallest thing we can resolve is where our brain says "ok, i think that's coming from the same place; it's not red and blue separately but yellow."

It'd be the same if you have a green and red patterned circular board and spun it really fast. Our eyes effectively have a "framerate", a point where we see something as motion. Play a game and limit to 1 fps, then increase in say 5's and before 30 you should start to feel motion rather than stuttering frames, then as you keep going you can't see stuttering anymore, it's just all motion. Our eyes have something similar, we used to do it in science. My dad was head of physics and he stuck a ROYGBIV patterned board on a black and decker drill and when it was up to speed it looked white.

So if something registers as yellow to our brains, is that not yellow? We have no direct access to our cones, we just interpret the signals. If all we had were light sensitive cells everything would be one colour and no colour at the same time.

That's what the post meant to me and it's a great point really even if it's just an excuse for sciencey discussion! If yellow is defined as a range of wavelengths of light, he's right to say it isn't yellow, but i doubt many people think of yellow in that sense. Having said all that, the video was actually interesting and informative and i enjoyed watching it, and this is probably a philosophical question for others to bother with.

PS.
Bert and Ernie, Simpsons, Smurfs, South Park, Turtles? Not sure about B&E though.