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Post by Tenjen on Sept 25, 2007 7:51:03 GMT -5
mother of christ...iam jumping from one hell to another. I thought...ah no ok i just got worse brain rot. The fellow next to me is singing without realising it [he's listening to music on his laptop; he's sorta good actually
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Post by Kristal Rose on Sept 25, 2007 17:08:35 GMT -5
You showed us that one before, like a zen serene Ren and Stimpy. Oh no, it's about the dangers of smoking.
You poor fellow. I once took an 11 hour train ride with a guy who did not sing well to his Walkman, and to make matters worse, he played the same dang song over and over, one I did not care for.
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Post by Nixie on Sept 27, 2007 15:33:28 GMT -5
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Post by Tenjen on Sept 27, 2007 15:37:50 GMT -5
youtube.com/watch?v=M5XF1tgcUWEthis should be russel peters. An Indian Stand up comic in britain. He cators to one and all. His specialities are race and orientation. Thats the 1st part of 5. [amongst others]
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Post by Kristal Rose on Sept 28, 2007 5:56:09 GMT -5
Most cheerful pretty propoganda video I've ever seen. A bit more blatant than american propoganda, but perhaps only because I'm already immersed in the local propoganda; Foreigners are amazed at how much propoganda we have here.
I like this Russel Peters guy. "You know it's out of control when we have same sex arranged marriages." I think the closest we have here is my favorite talk show host Craig Ferguson.
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Post by Nixie on Sept 28, 2007 12:59:38 GMT -5
Propaganda? What was the message, then?
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Post by Tenjen on Sept 28, 2007 13:36:59 GMT -5
i think he meant your song.
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Post by Nixie on Sept 28, 2007 13:49:26 GMT -5
I know, but I don't see any propaganda in there except for a vague message along the lines of, I dunno, KEEP TRYING!
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Post by Tenjen on Sept 28, 2007 14:12:51 GMT -5
Maybe its part of the whole employment system. We're forever told to work hard and keep trying but at the end we get old, booted and struggle to hold onto the savings and pensions/insurance we paid/worked so many years for.
Sorry i couldnt word taht better my mind is on BMW
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Post by Kristal Rose on Sept 29, 2007 21:08:46 GMT -5
That's essentially it. Especially in a country like communist China or the old communist Russia, workers need encouraged. The US economy isn't built on everyone working efficiently, so we have different sorts of propoganda: keep buying, use your credit cards, don't think too heavily, don't network with people you know, trust the major media instead, get the latest technology, don't pity the poor, do what comes easiest, don't question authority, don't wonder what really happens in other global cultures, we are the best, don't wonder what really happens in other local cultures, believe you have great uniqueness, diversity, freedom of expression, and political power even though you don't, believe anyone who bucks the system is a malcontent desperate loser who doesn't think straight and won't succeed and just wants to rain on the parades of those doing well, support the war, value and fight for your freedoms (meaning support the administration, don't actually try to restore constitutional rights).
We already live in a fairly 1984 society where the meaning of much is reversed, yet we are still supposed to endorse it as the original concept. Some propoganda is highly crafted, some is unintentional, but either way large media (all we have anymore) does nothing but support sustainment of it's own interests and sponsors. We grow up with it all our lives so have nothing else to compare it to. Half of the nations popular political thought does not make it into the public arena, and so the middle of what is in the public eye is pushed to us as the baseline for reference, and people who don't network holding a view outside of that imagine themselves to be hopelessly out of touch with society and don't attempt to change things.
If not for some sparse counter-culture media (which also uses propoganda to sustain itself), we wouldn't even hear that kids are being locked up for years for doing the sorts of things society took to be natural and harmless for kids back when I was one.
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Post by Nixie on Sept 30, 2007 0:59:58 GMT -5
... Y'know, Utada Hikaru, the girl who made that video, is from New Jersey.
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Post by Kristal Rose on Sept 30, 2007 18:59:49 GMT -5
Did you know some Iraqi war footage is shot in Hollywood?
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Post by Nixie on Oct 2, 2007 23:01:18 GMT -5
The brain rotting part is that somebody actually bothered to make a video on how to look your best naked. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD8qOmUrmPgThese folks also have a movie on how to be the best girlfriend ever; the final bit of advice was, "If you're not in the mood for sex, distract him with beer."
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Post by Tenjen on Oct 3, 2007 4:38:47 GMT -5
What do we guys do to distract girls when we dont want or are not in the mood for sex?
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Post by Nixie on Oct 3, 2007 10:32:06 GMT -5
According to them, there is never a time when guys don't want sex. XD
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