As to your first question, you tell me. Why have them speak at all? Because we like a few songs they wrote or admire them for playing some fictional character on our televisions? Each political party uses entertainment icons to target certain groups of voters they believe they otherwise wouldn't reach. Kid Rock for the right, Black Eyed Peas on the left. Why do the political parties do this if not to provide direction for some segment of the masses?

Second question. That is my point. The more dysfunctional society becomes, the stranger the stars. They are the mirror to our disease.

Third. HuH? Did I say that? Where?

Fourth. Since politicians started employing entertainers to shill for them. It looks like our elected officials think they need to depend on the star power for votes. At least they are depending on them. And they are depending on them because they think we depend on them. And, I think voting is a "decision on our future," don't you?

Lastly, I am making an observation about our society and this Kabuki dance we go through. Do you not see this on both sides? I think you'd have to be blind not to.





>> ^NetRunner:

Since when have entertainers been a "compass of political direction?"
Since when have entertainers been any more dysfunctional than your average person who gets rapidly launched into a position of fame and fortune?
Since when have self-styled sober, somber people actually been any smarter or wiser than people with senses of humor?
Since when has anyone been dependent on entertainers for decisions on our future?
Nothing you're saying makes any sense to me, unless of course you start by making some rather condescending assumptions about the sorts of people who're likely to vote for Obama.
>> ^silvercord:
I've wondered for a long time why our entertainers have become such a compass of political direction. With many of their own lives so steeped in dysfunction it speaks to our own sense of alignment that we have, in ways, become dependent on their voices for decisions regarding our future. Strange, that. Not difficult to understand, but strange.

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>> ^Lendl:

And I'm going to say quality because of his foundation that I was unaware of: http://iamangelfoundation.org/
"Will.i.am has handed $800,000 of his fee from appearing on Britain's "The Voice" to Prince Charles' charity.
The Black Eyed Peas star served as a mentor on the reality show earlier this year, but rather than keep his wages, he's donated the cash to The Prince's Trust to fund a technology program for young people."
Neil DeGrasse Tyson would so be down with this.


The point of this is that with the entire musical output of this planet available to us, the first thing we send to another planet is the mawkish juvenile brain vomit of someone with the lyrical and musical capabilities of a shoe.

Good man for funding good things with his millions, but in the bank of art, he's bankrupt.

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And I'm going to say *quality because of his foundation that I was unaware of: http://iamangelfoundation.org/

"Will.i.am has handed $800,000 of his fee from appearing on Britain's "The Voice" to Prince Charles' charity.

The Black Eyed Peas star served as a mentor on the reality show earlier this year, but rather than keep his wages, he's donated the cash to The Prince's Trust to fund a technology program for young people."

Neil DeGrasse Tyson would so be down with this.

How can we mark this date if we're collapsed into a pea sized object?

pea nuttier haha!

Yea, cant have the accomplishments of a bird with a pea-sized brain seem too great.


>> ^legacy0100:

I don't know if memorization directly translates to intelligence...
The parrot remembered a lot of commands, but I doubt it actually knows what the conversation is about. At least not according to the way it's being demonstrated here at least.
Smart is when we see someone or something actively solving a problem at hand, which requires assessment of situation, planning, and execution. The parrot is in this video isn't doing much planning to solve a solution. The solution was given to it a long time ago by the trainer by saying a certain phrase, and all it does is saying those exact phrases. Which in itself is very impressive, but still I don't know if that counts as being 'smart'.

This is soooo much better than crappy Black Eyed Peas. The performance and choreography is pretty good and the inclusion with a few other people are nice. Amusing that LMFAO showed up for the "Music" Party Rock Anthem.

I genuinely believe that the original of this is the worst song ever written. And I don't just mean I don't like it, or I hate it, but that, objectively, it's the worst song ever written. Every element is the nadir of its particular speciality: lyrics, production, melody, rap, form, pacing, mood, content... even the video and single sleeve art. It's all so unbelievably lazy. I despise it.>> ^soulmonarch:

I think he does a great job of illustrating how terrible this song was.

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Ditto fucking love Rollins talking about fucking anything. Bonus points for being totally right here. I remember a story someone told me about the Black Eyed Peas being completely awesome in Brazil for years before some record company said "We'll produce your records if you take this Fergie Bitch" and they agreed. One they had already been awesome for years and years, time to get paid and think about your kids and your future and your retirement. Maybe not ridiculously 5 mansions paid, but paid none the less, who wouldn't take that?

If you want some real RAGE go to any PC gamer site and read any thread about Rage.

I've got to take exception to him calling quake 3 a pile of old wank. It performed it primary task exceptionally well, which was to be an excellent multiplayer DeathMatch or CTF game. I understand he's not big into the whole multiplayer thing, but if you bought Q3 expecting a rich single player experience you failed to have any understanding of the product before you purchased it. Its like buying a golf club to open cans of peas. Yeah you can do it but you're not going to be satisfied with the results. /nerdRAGE

>> ^oritteropo:

According to an unreliable source I found while googling, prior to 1877 it was always called cottage pie no matter what leftover meat was used to make it.
If I make cottage pie though, I use beef mince and make sure it's got some carrot and peas
>> ^Seric:
Shepard's Pie - traditionally British.
Also, something I don't get with other countries, Shepard's pie is LAMB. Not beef, that's a Cottage pie. Not damn TURKEY, that's some other kind of damn pie...
Shepard - sheep.
Think about it.

....I would accept "Turkey Shepard's Pie"



Hear hear! Carrots and peas are a must :>

Interesting fact regarding historical pie nomenclature, I'd no idea. Still, people should update their culinary cognomen to post 1877 to make me happier :B