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Posted on 12/31/2011 4:01:57 AM PST by Dallas59
Who wants to watch a video of people crying?
:p
Sheesh, I'm so out of touch with the culture, I never even heard of this show.
What culture?
You know, TV “culture”, like the stuff grown in petri dishes. :P
LOL
Look, I haven’t even had a TV since Gulf War I with Daddy Bush. I find most pop culture less appetizing than a petri dish of Staph culture - however . . .
This video clip is priceless and dead-on, stone-cold, righteous truth, brother. Watch it and see if you don’t thank the Almighty that these particular RAT’s don’t live next door to you (unfortunately, they are everywhere else).
I didn’t mean to dump on the show in the clip, I was just making a general comment. I will watch the clip when I’m at a computer with working sound.
Nice to meet a fellow TV-avoidant. I stopped watching in 1997, and have been undergoing an enormous cultural shock this week, as I am temporarily staying with someone who has the tube on all the time. Holy cow, does TV suck even more than I thought. It’s just loud, dumb, and boring. The news is even worse than I thought—it seems like most of it is ‘soft’ people-interest stuff and Youtube clips.
Good one! I liked the line about the dishwashers. Is this a show on IFC or something?
You walk over and punch him in the mouth and warn her she gets the same if she don’t shut up. Lack of civility, assualt/battery? BS. It’s called having more than enough of liberals.
Even when I had TV, movies and news were 99% of what I found worth watching. Now I'm hanging out on a sailboat with only a smartphone, I download movies and news, and if I'm missing anything, it's intentional.
Did you watch the clip to the end?
True, true and true.
When I travel, I always turn on the set in the rooms I stay in mostly to see what shape our propaganda system is in. I always end up on the home/garden/cooking shows or the ones like junk yard wars (or whatever it’s called) where people scrounge junk and make cool cannons and the like. Thing is, out of an hour of flipping channels and watching (being nauseated is closer to the truth) I find maybe 15 minutes of continuous entertainment (AKA: brain floss) without commericials (another subject in themselves).
Without the tube, life is far more exciting and rewarding because you simply have more time to do cool stuff on your own. TV is, in fact, a drug. Without it, you have a chance to live life; good, bad, boring, but still your own. The noble savage . . .
With the tube, in the vast majority of cases, IMO, people live vicarious experiences and think they understand the world and its events. What’s most disturbing and eeriest to me is the uniformity of our culture and it’s thinking. The majority of people you meet daily a mere clones of one permutation or another of the images popularized on the tube. Their language, topics of choice and personal tastes are at least 60-70% uniform within the sphere of current popular fads. Eating habits are corporate (fast food) and life goals are in synch with pop-culture ideals. This seems to be true whether they are alpha, beta, delta or epsilons.
The biggest joke, and a source of never ending consternation/amusement, is the popular notion of ‘rage against the machine.’ Can the clay be greater than the potter?
Gee, maybe there should be a Freeper TV avoidance ping list! I gave it up after AlGore conceded. Finally.
Punch a Hippie
One day when I was but a young boy, I was walking down the street with my dad to the hardware store. He suddenly stopped, crossed the street and punched a man. When he returned, I ask, "Father, why did you punch that man?" He turned to me and said, "That's a stupid question." Then he punched me. "After punching a hippie, do you take the time to explain to those around you why you punched the hippie?"
It was a stupid question, because who my dad punched was a hippie. Back then, everyone knew that you punched hippies, but I've noticed that this knowledge may not be being passed on to the next generation. If there's one thing I've realized over the past few years is that hippies are not being punched quite enough, and I think the recent incident with Berkeley and the Marines shows the problem of not enough hippie punching. If hippies aren't punched on a consistent basis, they get cocky and will try all sorts of crazy thing. I mean, really, hippies insulting Marines and not expecting a punching? That's a major breakdown in our societal structure.
So what has led to this dearth in hippie punching? Breakdown in family structure? Loss of prayer in school? Increasing childhood obesity? Prevalence of non-violent videogames? Whatever the reason, I think we need to spend more time telling the next generation the importance of striking hippies in the face with a fist. No functional society has survived hippies running around unpunched, and America will be similarly doomed if we don't change our ways.
You may say, "Well I punch hippies; I'm doing my part." But after punching a hippie, do you take the time to explain to those around you why you punched the hippie? This may seem like a lot to do for someone who has a job and personal responsibilities -- which you have since you're not a hippie -- but if even just one man hears your words of inspiration and then punches some filthy hippie, wasn't it time well spent?
We have a war right now. Our military is overseas killing terrorists -- the violent form of the hippie -- so they can't be here punching hippies for us. We have to do that ourselves. To keep this a country safe for soldiers to kill evil foreigners without hearing whiny protests, we have to make it unsafe for hippies.
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Hippie Punching FAQ
Unfortunately, American society has gotten lax on hippie punching to the point I thought I should write an FAQ to better explain the issue to those who don’t currently engage in the punching of hippies. Hopefully one day this will all become so natural again that a hippie punching FAQ will be about as necessary as a flipping people off in traffic FAQ.
HIPPIE PUNCHING FAQ
Q. Where is best to punch a hippie?
A. About the face. That’s where the hippie is most annoying.
Q. What is a hippie?
A. Generally, a hippie is an annoying, useless. Actually, less than useless, as they are not happy until they prevent other people from being useful as well. In fact, Scientists have determined that the only evolutionary purpose of a hippie is for punching as a stress release for productive members of society.
Q. Are there any other uses for hippies than punching them?
A. No, there are no other uses.
Q. Couldn’t they be ground up and used as chum?
A. They’re too gummy.
Q. Where do hippies come from?
A. There’s basically waste products of a productive society, as they only come from middle class to upper middle class families. Thus its important for parents to make sure they tell children the importance of not being a hippie while also making them cut the lawn and do other non-hippie, productive activities.
Q. Where can hippies be found?
A. Their main habitat is the college campus and can be found in the vicinity thereof. Occasionally they have mass migrations to city areas to work as a large group (a group of hippies is known as a “protest”) to make loud noises and annoy people. In this way, they are like geese, except with more excrement. Also, they have large puppets.
Q. What are the benefits of punching hippies?
A. What aren’t? It gives you exercise, increases your intelligence and sexual prowess, helps the economy, defeats terrorism, and helps orphans find families. Also, scientists say that each time you punch a hippie, they get one step closer to curing cancer.
Q. Hippies smell. Do I have to worry about getting that smell on my fist?
A. Always carry around hand sanitizer in case you punch a hippie. Make sure to put it on your knuckles.
Q. Is it okay to punch a hippie on a Sunday?
A. Check local laws. Some counties have blue laws preventing striking hippies on a Sunday. Other think that’s the best day for punching hippies.
Q. Just to be clear, are you talking about physically striking hippies or are you talking metaphorically about “punching” hippies through rhetorical means or through your actions against narcissistic hippie ideals?
A. Can’t it be both?
Q. Well, one of those is a valid point and the other I’m pretty sure is assault.
A. Maybe you’re a hippie.
Q. Where does the term “hippie” come from? A. It’s derived from the word hipster.
From “The Beverley Hillbillies’’(1966) News Reporter: Madame, on your sign ‘’ What does GAHAB mean? Granny: “Give A Hippie A Bath’’.
*PING* to everyone, *highly recommended* if not compulsory.
Cheers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBfCMV7-A1g&list=LL6J5ThQ_82LfmlpT8lRo6Ng&index=1&feature=plpp_video
American tv sucks
ain't that the truth...
Hubby and I watched this to night ago.
It really is very funny and sadly true.
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