The Miracle of Air Travel, Part II
Our member Pootergeek just sent this to me. It's so great and I want to post it so much, but tragically, at the very last moment of the video, a vulgar utterance occurs. Such utterances are, of course, prohibited by our Code of Conduct. After vigorously debating with myself for a few minutes, I decided to post it so long as you abide by these rules: You may watch it, but you have to stop the video at 4:03. You're not missing anything, because the last line isn't even funny. Also, you have to put your fingers in your ears for about a second at 1:35, because we strongly discourage the use of that adjective on Ricochet.
You're on the honor code. If you violate the rules, you will not only be exposed to a vulgarity that Ricochet finds unacceptable, you will be participating in the debasing of our language and our culture and you will be letting me down, personally.
If you do follow the rules, though--and I'm sure you will, because you are all responsible adults and I trust you--you'll have good, clean fun.
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May '10
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prohibited by our Code of Conduct.
It's too late now, but I wish we had called it our Dress Code.
Sep '10
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Have a good laugh with this routine by comedian Louis C. K.: Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
Sep '10
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Talk about the miracle of technology! I just added the link in my comment, only to go back and see that you've embedded the actually YouTube clip! All of this in less than ten minutes! Go Ricochet!
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outstripp: prohibited by our Code of Conduct.
It's too late now, but I wish we had called it our Dress Code. · Dec 9 at 5:27am
I really like that, and why is it too late?
Jul '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
outstripp: prohibited by our Code of Conduct.
It's too late now, but I wish we had called it our Dress Code. · Dec 9 at 5:27am
I really like that, and why is it too late? · Dec 9 at 5:41am
Yeah, right. I once made a Dress Code comment to Someone and it was erased like Lenin removing Trotsky from pictures.
Dec '11
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This is my second guru theorum: Happiness is a positive change vector.
My first Guru Theorum is : The reason democracy doesnt work is because I am not the dicatator. Being 12 I didnt know that Plato already beat me too it when he wrote the Republic.
Edited on Dec 9, 2011 at 6:34amSep '10
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Comedians, regardless of how they vote, tend to be conservative in their outlook. I listen to three comedy podcasts and they often interview other comedians. Louis C.K. is revered by nearly everyone in the business.
Comedy is pointing out absurdities we are ordinarily unconscious to. The things that we are told not to think, say, or believe are called into question.As well, comedians point out the things we forget as in this rant by Louis C.K
Because of the dominance of distortions of "reality" by the left, there is plenty of material out there for stand-ups to mine comedy gold.
When a human being is made to"see" reality or otherwise reminded of reality, it will laugh.
Apr '11
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Heh. Your instructions remind of China Miéville's The City & The City.
The comedian is right, of course. But...(inevitable, yes?)...we value goods in a strictly ordinal way. There is no cardinal value, so price is not value.
People compare exchange values. Capitalism lifted all boats on a rising sea of prosperous goods production. People rearranged their strictly ordinal values. That spurred entrepreneurs to create even better goods.
On the short view, that's annoying. Their's lots of change and seeming ungratefulness. On the long view, entrepreneurs create new goods to satisfy new values. That's even more wonderful and more good than high speed internet in a jet aircraft.
May '11
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Jeff Younger: Heh. Your instructions remind of China Miéville's The City & The City.
The comedian is right, of course. But...(inevitable, yes?)...we value goods in a strictly ordinal way. There is no cardinal value, so price is not value.
People compare exchange values. Capitalism lifted all boats on a rising sea of prosperous goods production. People rearranged their strictly ordinal values. That spurred entrepreneurs to create even better goods.
On the short view, that's annoying. Their's lots of change and seeming ungratefulness. On the long view, entrepreneurs create new goods to satisfy new values. That's even more wonderful and more good than high speed internet in a jet aircraft. · Dec 9 at 8:30am
So, does this mean we are or aren't getting high speed rail?
May '10
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Claire, your post immediately made me think of one of your previous posts, "What if This is the Best it Gets?" I wrote this comment that I think is also relevant here:
Edited on Dec 16, 2011 at 4:52pmApr '11
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Pilli
So, does this mean we are or aren't getting high speed rail? · Dec 9 at 9:10am
Don't ask me, ask Watt!
May '10
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Posted this on FB a while ago. Classic.
Apr '11
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Thanks for posting this, Claire. Right and very very funny. Louis' show (on FX I think) is profane, sacreligious, filthy and also very very funny. And every once in a while you get a glimpse of conservative values that make you sit up and take notice.