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John Cleese on Stupidity

Babymech says...

What? That's not stupidity, that's delusion. I've known some people who are really stupid, but they're still not gonna go "Japanese? Yeah, I guess I could speak that... Calculus? Probably something I know how to do." There are some really dumb, incompetent, humble people out there, who assume they can't do much of anything, and some smart, overconfident people who think that whatever other people are good at, is probably easy. It's not related to their level of competence, but to whatever bullshit the world has told them about their own relative ability.

newtboy said:

In order to know exactly how incompetent you are as a surgeon, you need to have some level of competency. If you were completely ignorant of the body, you might think you could just cut out an organ and glue someone back together. You must have some level of understanding to know you don't know enough.

Botched marriage proposal

newtboy says...

If you look really closely, you can see her hand on the can/cooler for a frame at :33, the label is barely 1/2 towards the camera. At :36 you can see her rotate it slightly so it's readable (still not 100% towards the camera, but readable) and remove her hand from the can carefully. It sure looked intentional to me, but not for certain.
All that said, the "fuck" at :28 makes me second guess that assumption, but the speed at which all the guys, without explanation what happened, are already in the lake searching for the ring seemed to say they were in on it from the start. In less than 13 seconds there are 7 guys already in the lake 'searching'. I feel like it's a badly planned 'viral' attempt...if so, terribly planned, as it seems to say 'drink bud light and you too can do some really stupid shit!'.

eric3579 said:

I have to respectfully disagree. The way her hand moves and putting down the can I think has more to do with being on a floating device that is moving. Her hand completely looks like someone trying to keep balance while getting up on a moving platform. If you notice she never completely stands up as she keeps her hand on the cooler for balance. Also if its a Budweiser viral they picked a product i personally couldn't easily identify as Budweiser. Didn't notice the can or what it was until you mentioned it. Of all their products they picked, they picked the most difficult one to recognize. Also very few will notice the product when you put it in frame with a women dressed like that. Just my opinion

Ray Rice Elevator Knock Out of his Fiance

Yogi says...

Yeah but in a really stupid way I feel. As far as I've heard he got off with a slap on the wrist when it comes to the law. This business with the NFL and his team had to be basically forced to occur. Everyone was pissed and even then they were going to do anything until the whole movie came out.

However the actual Law, that which should've handled this much much better let him off with practically nothing. He was going to go back to work 3 weeks into the season, how does that make any sense.

I normally don't like a sports organization acting as judge jury and executioner especially when the Court decides nothing happened, innocent until proven guilty. In this case though I'm dead wrong, our courts are only for the rich.

Trancecoach said:

his life is over.

TSA: please verify that your used cane is not a sword

dannym3141 (Member Profile)

mintbbb says...

I did think about that originally, but I usually just end up copying either the original title, or the title from where I found it.. English is not my first language, so I suck at trying to come up with a title on my own.. Or if I do, it just sounds really stupid My brain refuses to be clever in English!

So, I normally just copy and paste!

Thanks for the comment, I do agree with you! I will try to pay attention to titles more, hope my brain co-operates

dannym3141 said:

Hey just FYI you might be missing out on votes here:
http://videosift.com/video/Gettin-Lucky-with-a-Bassoon-and-Theremin

Because although everything else says "Get Lucky" once you're on the page, before then it says "Gettin' Lucky" - i've skipped it a few times because i didn't know the song, thought it might be some kinda blues i didn't want to hear

shagen454 (Member Profile)

bareboards2 says...

Yes and no.

I'm glad you got safely through Crazy Druggy Woman with body and soul intact. But I don't see you ... exploring that experience... as a "big concern."

I was a young person in the late 70s, post birth control, pre-AIDS. I did some really stupid stuff, too. A lot of us did.

The internet just lets you do it faster and hook up without going to a bar.

So there is the agreement -- it really is just a construct of organic existence!

shagen454 said:

I mean now that I think about it jotting it down and reliving the past a bit - it raises a big concern.

The things that you do in anonymity on the Internet actually do affect the lives and everything around you. You may have thought that you found this secret black hole but it's not true. It will still affect other's and people that you know. It's a metaphor for how life works and the Internet is just a construct of organic existence.

7 Myths About The Brain You Thought Were True

JustSaying says...

I don't mind if a certain amount of suspension of disbelief is required to enjoy a movie but when your writing is shitty or your basic premise is too silly that won't help. Some things just make people cringe, some tropes and clichees just become too stupid. Especially if you take yourself too seriously.
I don't have to watch "The Happening" to know it's a ridiculous movie that'll make me roll my eyes 'till I'm dizzy. Or make me laugh hysterically about it.
It's the same here. A really stupid and completely wrong pseudo-fact about brain is exploited to tell a superhero story. If the very first response you get is "Brains don't work this way. Good night!" you have a problem. And that's coming from someone who's perfectly willing to accept that gamma rays make you a green ragemonster.

Drachen_Jager said:

Can't people watch fictional movies and accept that they're fiction?

Mind you, I suppose there are people out there who believe in The Force, Alien Abudction, and Ayn Rand's philosophies.

Neymar "My dream is not over"

Yogi says...

You think Neymar built everything up for himself...by being good at a sport? Are you fucking high?! He's paid an amount of money that's absolutely criminal. In no way is any human worth that much, Doctors and Teachers aren't paid 1% of the money he makes. The fact that we as a society have decided to elevate certain people to the status of god because they're skilled at a sport is really stupid.

But the MOST stupid thing is believing that somehow he did something great and has EARNED his paycheck. No he hasn't, he is simply at the right place at the right time in history to be paid a ridiculous amount of money for something useless. It was GIVEN to him what he makes, it isn't something that he has earned. This is like dangling promises to inner city black youths if only they work really hard at basketball then they won't end up living in a giant open air prison in Harlem.

Football is not destroying the world, it's wonderful and I love it. FIFA, Governments, and Money are destroying peoples lives. That's plain to see and if you don't get that then you're fucking stupid.

billpayer said:

Hey Psycho, dial it down a notch.

Neymar is from the street and built everything he has by himself at AGE 21 !!!!
A Hero

ie. not using the internet to vent hate against the world.

Oh yeah, football is destroying the world....blah blah, yeah right

Neil deGrasse Tyson vs. Conservative Media

gwiz665 says...

This seems to be a semantic argument, much like the argument that evolution is "just a theory", you're saying it's "just a consensus".

And yes, a consensus for layman is just a majority agreement, and this does not make it reality. Lots of majorities believe really stupid shit.

A scientific consensus, however, is not just an agreement or a majority opinion. It is what the evidence points to. If there is no conflicting evidence, you will get a scientific consensus that it means a certain thing. Evidence is largely not up for much interpretation, unlike opinions.

It used to be that the consensus was that the earth was flat, because the only evidence we had was "it looks pretty flat", but more evidence invalidates that and so that hypothesis fails the evidence.

So far the evidence seems to indicate that that globe is warming and that people are at least partially causing it. There hasn't been solid evidence presented to counter it, save for flimsy opinions ("I think the sun is doing it!" etc.)

lantern53 said:

A consensus is not reality, as I've already stated.

I don't care what people believe about global warming. My problem is that when govt's believe we can do something about it, they begin to take my private property i.e. money, to fight it, when gov'ts do little but waste huge amounts of money and increase our debt.

Do whatever you want about global whatever, just don't ask me to believe that what you do will accomplish anything.

Tracey Spicer on society's expectations of women

bareboards2 says...

I tried to read the article -- I'll try again later.

Seems like same old, same old to me.

Look, I agree with you that it is pretty stupid that women are held up as being better than men. It is really stupid that men are insulted by being defined by their lowest common denominator or by some superficial stereotype.

When I was in my 20s, which was a long time ago, I would hear things like -- if women were in charge of the world, we wouldn't have wars. Bullshit. Women are just as capable of being territorial and selfish as any man. And men being stupid about their emotions, and walled off? It was clear to me that they were victims of emotional terrorism from men, boys, women and girls, who put enormous pressure on them to "be men." Whatever the fuck that means.

But to constantly throw everything into the pot and expect every single video about women to include the pressures on men is not helping. I'm glad to hear that you acknowledge being "triggered" -- which to me is an emotional response out of scale with the current situation. I'm glad you know that.

Maybe if you could channel that energy into specifics, instead of broadsides. Instead of challenging women's right to talk about themselves and their experiences, why not challenge the part of the videos that do the denigration towards men? I try very hard not to denigrate men, and I fall into it way way way too easy. (A source of shame for me.) A woman makes a crack about men being stupid? Jump on it! Say it is bullshit. Say you don't like it when we do it to you. OPEN OUR EYES TO OUR OWN BULLSHIT.

But that isn't going to happen when a woman is talking about her own experience and you jump in and muddle things by bringing up men and their challenges. That is where the "make your own video" comes from. Men aren't the topic right now. Women are the topic. And fuck yeah, we are victims. And we need to learn how not to be. Which is what this (flawed) video was trying to do.

The thing is, men are victims too. They just never talk about it. Why is that?

I absolutely agree with you that men have enormous pressures on them. I have two male friends who have talked at length about the experience of growing up male and not fitting the stereotype (and it is a stereotype), and what they suffered as they tried to make their own lives despite those pressures. Both of them were perceived as "weak". And now they are some of the best people on the planet because they had the courage to stay true to themselves.

I just beg of you to keep these topics separate.

Let women talk about their issues.

If you can find videos where men talk about their issues, post them.

If you find something in a video where men are denigrated, speak up about that specific piece of it.

It godawful tiring trying to change the world, isn't it?

(And maybe as you stick up for men in specific instances, you might grow some insight into the challenges faced by women. Maybe gain some sympathy as you attempt to help women have some sympathy towards men.)

Trancecoach said:

I don't have a lot of time at the moment to get into this in depth, but this article might help to clarify my thoughts on the issue.

This is not a "competition," by any means, but I am sensitized to the issue, having been indoctrinated throughout my schooling and my upbringing by what feels like a social inequity which purports that, implicitly, men are "bad" and need to be "checked" at every turn, while women are "good," and must be protected and acquiesced at all times. As I get older, however, this attitude turns sour as I continuously find myself faced with a stark dichotomy between either heeding the social, professional, and political needs, wants, and desires of "all women," and those of protecting my own social, professional, and political needs, wants, and desires "as a man." These shouldn't be dichotomous, but for some reason, it has become such.

I am willing to look at and manage my own triggers and/or issues around this, as a personal effort (and I do on almost a daily basis), but in the meantime (and in the hopes of supporting such an effort), I feel there needs to be a lot more recognition and dialogue around what constitutes "equality" (be it gender, or financial, or otherwise) within a society that is either politically regulated and thereby "rigged," by definition on behalf of some people, at the expense of others; or it is socially imposed, whereby (for example) a man is simply expected to be the breadwinner, by virtue of his gender, and reactively judged if he is or can not be that.

I have no interest in "making a video" about this, since my energies are better placed elsewhere, at present, but I can and do make comments on videos like this one, in an effort to meet and respond to the messages with which we're inculcated, with the personal albeit opposing view that things "are as they are" for a reason, and if we're to do anything about it, it requires a fuller examination of the entire picture, and not simply a one-sided, biased and therefore "unequal," perspective which posts blame (and/or guilt) upon one side of the equation without any (or with little) insight as to what role one plays in the issue, oneself.

I am not saying that the inequities aren't there. In fact, I'd go so far as to say
that people need to come to terms with the fact that some people will always "have more" than others and, in a leveled playing field, that is the only fair situation that can exist. In other words, any forced or imposed "equality" is implicitly incompatible with both liberty and freedom, and can not (and should not) be abided as a matter of course.

I encourage you to take a look at the article posted at the top of this comment for another perspective on the same (or "similar") issue.

Father Arrested for Picking Up His Children on Foot

bmacs27 says...

Are all Brits really stupid enough to think this video in any way reflects the American status quo?

robbersdog49 said:

Jesus fucking christ, this is just unbelievable! How they kept their cool in the fact of that fucking idiot. Wow.

How does a country get this fucked up? This guy was there to walk his kids home, simple as that. And they arrested him for it?

There's so much about this that I can't understand. How does a system get so broken

Traffic Stop Nearly Turns Deadly

lucky760 says...

She is a really stupid woman and a horrible mother for endangering her 5 children like that.

Moreover, it's a great way to raise 5 more people to disrespect authority and the law.

The cop is also a total dipshit for apparently trying to shoot out the tires, but the mother is an absolute imbecile.

Cat Thugs

Quboid says...

There are some really stupid humans about. Lady-in-thumbnail, a minute in, for example. Unless that cat's been declawed (which is evil), she could lose an eye.

Iron Man 3: the spolier

VoodooV says...

yes and no, yeah I completely agree that Iron Man's rogues gallery is dated, but as I said in Honest Trailers, Mandarin deserved better. While I understand why they did it, to avoid the obvious racial stereotype. It was just stupid. Kingsley was so annoying. The whole Mandarin thing should have been scrapped.

You really aught to read the Extremis comic, they even made a motion comic of it. At one point, it was on Netflix.(sadly looks like it was removed, boo).

It posed some serious questions about where technology (and biotechnology) is heading. But that's probably why it was bastardized in the movie. No one cares about serious shit in a summer blockbuster, they just want pew pew pew. Which again, yeah, I understand.

You're right though, @ChaosEngine my foreknowledge of Extremis and my fandom of Iron Man since I was...13?? definitely colors my opinions. Had I not known about those stories, I probably would have enjoyed it more.

Still, even despite all that, movie still was grasping hard by putting in the kid sidekick and yeah, as the Honest Trailers pointed out, for some reason, the Iron Man suits were particularly crappy this time around among other really stupid choices the movie made.

Story of pata negra

jeannot3 says...

What the hell ? Why would you ban me ? Who are you, miss Usesprozac to ban me ?
Just go back home and take some pills, you'd better !!!
How can a video about spanish ham be considered as spam ?? What for ? This is really stupid !



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