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Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
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I don’t see even a single funny thing about this picture. Am I missing some sort of movie/television reference?
Yes.
Yes you are.
You really should run now.
Best advice I’ve heard all day. That question would be analogous to asking a bunch of Star Wars fans, “What do you really think about George Lucas?”
Sorry, who is he again?
Troublemaker. (^_^)
Bloody peasant!
Go to the movie store and rent some Monty Python DVDs.
Good Harry, I’m an American woman and I got the reference.
I’m an American woman, I haven’t actually seen any Monty Python, and yet I still got the reference.
Jane… watch. Nnnnnow?
Pretty please? You’re missing so much wonderful-ness
It’s on my to-do list but not today for today is my birthday and I am making people who have never had sushi before go to my favorite sushi place with me. And getting presents. *has a happeh*
Happy Birthday! Enjoy your sushi and schwag!
Thank you!
Birthday? Perhaps now is the time where I admit that your present is in Hangar of Doom #12?
*sniffles* But Max, you’ve been gone so long that I became PK President Nexus’ Press secretary and moved out of the Fortress of Doom into the Fuchsia House. At least until DWN was forced to step down from his office and now we haven’t decided who will take his place.
*sniff sniff* Do I smell a Pundit Kitchen election!
Oh please dear god let their be mud slinging! Let their baseless lies held up by heresay! And please for the love of god lets get a japanese commentary on our exciting “erection!”
The question is, do we elect the new president on the basis of his/her…’positions’. Ahem. Or should the deciding points be the quality of his/her closed-door meetings with members of the cabinet? Inquiring minds want to know!
My personal position is Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the lead pipe.
I DARE ANY OF YOUR TO PROVE ME WRONG!
Well, his final wishes were that the members of his cabinet have a mudfight battle to determine his successor, but it’s the weekend and we haven’t got around to it.
My word, Im gone for a few months and everything’s just gone to pot… Havent… “got around” to a mudfight? My dear Jane… where are our priorities if not on mudfighting? In the dirt! Thats where!
Well I’m totally down with it, but the rest of the cabinet seems to have taken the weekend off.
Does the light stay on in the cabinet room when the door is closed?
jane… this member of the cabinet was in canada being drunk and causing debauchery. had i known there was a mudfight i would have been right in!
Mr. Silverhammer, you probably knew this, but: the word is spelled “hearsay,” not “heresay.” The correct spelling goes along with its definition: “something one has heard but does not know to be true; rumor; gossip.” (http://www.yourdictionary.com/hearsay/)
>.>
:D:D
HAPPPYYYYY BIRTHDAY!!!
-Gives more happehs-
*accepts happehs* Thank you!
Happy birthday Jane!
Oh and: Search for the Holy Grail and Life of Brian will make your life better. It’s science!
Thanks, will do!
My advice (And HAPPY BIRTHDAY) is to skip The Meaning of Life. The boys used all their energy on teh big show stopper “Every Sperm is Sacred” (which you can find on YouTube) and the rest of the flick was phoned in. I think they were getting tired at that point.
I have already seen Every Sperm is Sacred, I think Uncle Fester linked it up awhile back.
Happeh Birfday loverly Jane from all the Torture Minions. Can I spank you now? *breathing heavily*
I dunno… I’m not sure it’s the same without DWN.
On the other hand, birthday spankings are something of a tradition… hmmmmm.
….. Can I watch if he can spank, Jane?
I’ll supervise the spankings, and we will have Dr. Tinycat on call if need be!
A spanking! A spanking! There’s going to be a spanking tonight!
We should call Jane Zoot!
Happy Birthday!
Thank you, it was very nice! We had sushi, saw the new movie Hangover, and I got the first season of True Blood on DVD.
Happy (belated) Birthday!
Hope you enjoyed the sushi!
Thanks!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail – google the quote. Interwebs skillz fail.
I got the reference, but I still don’t find it funny at all. Even though Monty Python is a nearly universally accepted epic win, adding even the best Python quote to a picture of a heinous act does not make it funny. An image of a police officer trampling a civilian, even if shopped (which this isn’t) is not funny. Epic Fail. Now let’s return to the other content on this site, which is normally wonderful.
“An image of a police officer trampling a civilian, even if shopped (which this isn’t) is not funny. Epic Fail. ”
Horses will not willingly step on people. To me, it looks like dude was knocked down and trying to harass the horse and horse is trying to get away without stepping on him. You can tell this from the way the horse’s back legs are positioned … they are in a get out of here motion. I have seen mounted patrol in Tempe, AZ move crowds and people harass the horses to no end … jumping out of doorways at them, throwing things, yelling, etc. The horses are adept at knocking people down on purpose and I even knew of one on mounted patrol who would do it whenever his rider wasn’t paying attention.
Hmm… 1 black guy on the floor, 1 horse, 1 person in police outfit, and 3 visible cameraman. Any guesses?
Thank you. (^_^) I was pretty sure I was the only one.
THE PHOTO IS MISLEADING. A HORSE WILL NEVER STEP ON A PERSON ON THE GROUND. THE HORSE IS CLEARLY TRYING TO LEAP OVER AND/OR AVOID THE PERSON.
Well, SOME horses will trample people. I can has battle horse, pls?
Oh, and btw, you’ll find your capslock key located on the left of your keyboard. Please deactivate it.
WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?
LOUD NOISES!!!
SHINY OBJECTS!!!!!
SQUIRRELS!!!!!!
SWEATY FAT MEN
Sorry, bad Tyler?
BRAINBLEACH!
I’LL JUST STAIN YOUR BRAIN MORE?!!
bECAUSE WE ALL LIVE VERY FAR AWAY FROM EACH-OTHER, AND WE HAVE TO BE LOUD FOR TEH INTERNETS TO HEAR US ALL THAT WAY
EH, WHAT’S THAT, DEARIE? BLESSED ARE THE CHEESEMAKERS?
OI!! Don’t call me Big Nose, Big Nose!!
I-26? BINGO!!!!
And that’s Wangernum!!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Watch it before you come back here! (Although to be fair this is the first reference to it i’ve seen on here!) It’a funny you’ll love it
Dear god, you need to get some good old British humour in you.
First!
but WTF??
This is neither funny, nor does it have a Message!
Jonathan
idiot.
Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons[2][3]) is a group of six comedians who created Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on October 5, 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical, and launching the members to individual stardom. The group’s influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles’ influence on music.[4][5]
The television series, broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Loosely structured as a sketch show but with an innovative stream-of-consciousness approach (aided by Gilliam’s animations), it pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content.
Ordinal Post Rule relevance WIN!
I am ashamed (hiding head) I MISSED the reference Completely!
Maybe its old age, or drugs, or both. Or maybe I just need MORE drugs
Where is my hullicinogens?
Jonathan
The old age and drugs sure haven’t inhibited your vindictive pugancity
But they’ve played havoc with your spelling abilities. One should have to spell “Hallucinogens” correctly to use them.
In the interests of full disclosure I’m on my 4th G&T in the past 65 minutes.
I post from work, and the only drugs they let me do here are coffee and ibuprofen!
You fail at life, sir.
I agree not funny, but very definitely has a message. “The violence inherent in the system” references the threat of force necessary to secure compliance from the most rebellious members of society and the quantity of violence those members are willing to undertake in resisting that compliance. When the level of force used by the ruling government reaches a critical level, the general populace is spurred to action in defense of their own rights and—
—Who am I kidding. Nobody’s gonna take this seriously here.
*sigh*
Violence is goddamn funny. Just ask Larry, Moe, and Curly.
I actually thought horses wouldn’t do that!
They pretty much don’t–it is the camera angle.
Viking gal, may I respectfully say, bull hockey. Horses can and will trample people, particularly if trained to do so. Most police horses are trained as war horses once were, i.e. to be calm around gunfire and startling situations, and to kick or trample if needed. There’s a reason why they still use horses instead of bicycles in certain areas, it’s because a horse is more than just transportation. Also, the camera angle is easier to see when you hit “recaption this,” the man on the ground is clearly rolling out of the way of the horse.
…and horse is clearly trying to not step on the guy. Look at the angle of his haunches and you will see that he is trying to jump out of the situation. Mounted patrol horses are not trained like war horses. They are trained to deal with a lot of BS. As far as aggressiveness goes, they are taught to pin a bad guy against something else or encircle them quickly if they try to get away. Horses are mainly used as sight deterrents. When there are crowds of people it is very easy to see police high up which reminds them to do what is right.
The reason I said ‘pretty much don’t', is that I am aware that some horses ARE trained to trample people. But police horses are not trained for this activity. And ladyluck obviously knows her equine science, much more than I do!
Looks to me like the horse is trying to jump over the guy on the ground, he does not want to step on him. What concerns me is that the rider looks like he’s trying to MAKE the horse step on him. If you look at the horse’s form, his head is straight up in the air, his ears are back, and his front legs are stretching out in an effort to miss the guy on the ground while his hind legs are bunched and angled for a jump. But the rider isn’t giving any slack with his reins, they’re very tight (hence why the horse’s head is straight up and not stretched out in their normal jumping form) and if you take a close look at the bit, the bottom of it is pulled back, telling me that the rider is hauling on the reins. Poor horse is not happy about it at all.
I kind of wish I could see this from the other camera angles (seriously, three cameramen?), it’d give me a better idea of just what the rider is doing.
But I thought we were an autonomous collective.
We’re living in a dictatorship!
Bloody peasant!
How can you tell he’s the king?
He ain’t got sh!t all over ‘im.
oh what a give away!
Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That’s what I’m on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, didn’t you?
Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government!
… just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
(Note to self: re-watch this movie tonight!)
*clops coconuts together in the background*
where did you get a coconut? Did a sparrow drop it?
It was brought by an African sparrow.
Ah!! But at what speed??
Even am African swallow could not maintain airspeed velocity; fundamentally a 7oz bird can not carry a 2lb coconut!!
Supreme exectutive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
Now for all thowe who didn’t get the reference…
This sounds like PK.
Heh.
OK, I know what I’m watching this weekend….all the MP DVDs my son gave me. What a good kid.
Good job raising a funny person!
I got the full DVD set for my dad for Christmas, loads of fun. His favorites are the pet store and spam skits, and I’m very fond of the ‘Confuse a Cat’ Services.
Now I have to go on a quest to get them from the DVD cabinet and watch them… Who will aid me in my quest?
Thank you! He was raised on old Smothers Brothers records (yes, actual records) too, so he has an eclectic sense of teh funneh.
I loved the Smothers Brothers on tv when I was a kid (in the 80’s, not the 60’s)
Pure Comedy GOLD. Good work SteelSkin!
A great way to start out the day
Major geek points for remembering that it’s “I’m being repressed” and not “oppressed”.
Cindy? Is that you? Howdy. Long time since I’ve been around AFU (my oldest is now 14).
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I remember setting up a reel-to-reel black-and-white copy of this movie (yes, there were reel-to-reel video tapes) in the college library (I worked there) for my friends and I to watch…
Loved this thread!!! You guys are great! Yes, I got the reference immediately, but enjoyed the clip. Carry on.
Right! Stop that! This is too silly!
I just feel like… singing…
Stop that, stop that! Now, you’re marryin’ Princess Lucky, whether you want to or not….
She’s got HUGE… tracts of land.
But, I don’t want to, father!
I want the woman I marry to have a certain, special, something….
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is epic win.
Best quote of that whole skit, IMO: “This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let’s not bicker and argue over (eyeroll) ‘Who killed who‘…”
Epic dark humor AND epic social commentary, in a nice neat little package. (^_^)
Hehehe yes…
GG to that dude trying to marry Lancelot off to that girl.
Listen, lad. I’ve built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show ‘em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. An’ that’s what your gonna get, lad — the strongest castle in these islands.
Your mother smelled of elderberries and your father was a hampster. Now, go away or I will taunt you a second time.
I fart in your general direction!
Eh, am I the only one who immediately got the reference but didn’t think it was funny?
…
Oh well. =/
Personally, this would be my idea of a funny ripoff of that reference, though it runs too long:
“Eh, am I the only one who immediately got the reference but didn’t think it was funny?”
Yes.
“Rhetorical question: a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply. The speaker may make this more obvious by immediately supplying the answer.”
I.e, by saying “… Oh well. =/” to indicate affirmation.
Gosh, you’re so clever. *eyeroll*
Not as much as the guy who cuts out part of a quote to change its meaning, then cleverly answers a question that wasn’t being seriously asked.
May I ask what grudge you have against me, or would that be too plainspoken and cause you to deny it?
Nope, no grudge against you, just the comment. I’m an equal opportunity offender.
And really, how could I “cut out a quote to change it’s meaning” when I copied the ENTIRE QUOTE? You can’t change context if there is nothing else WITH the quote. And I was merely answering the question. I didn’t know it was rhetorical. It looked just like a simple question to me. There was no snottiness involved until you took it upon yourself to “school” me on the definition of rhetorical. Do you see how it escalated?
To be exact, you did cut out the part of the quote that showed that it was rhetorical – the ellipsis and “Oh well” were meant to indicate that I conceded that I was probably the only one. But I should have taken it on faith that your reply wasn’t sarcastic or derogatory. It’s usually better to assume the best of people, because assuming the worst is too often self-fulfilling.
And I’ll likewise concede that I escalated it – but please note that was no more intentional than your leaving out the “… Oh well.” I was going on the logic that either 1) you didn’t understand that it was a rhetorical question, in which case I’d be clarifying a misunderstanding, or 2) you did understand that it was a rhetorical question and chose to sarcastically answer it anyway, in which case I would have been patronizing you.
I didn’t consider the possibility that both could be true, i.e. that you didn’t understand that it was a rhetorical question but would consider it patronizing for me to point out that you misunderstood what I said.
Thank you for your kindness elsewhere, btw. But please don’t let yourself get buried in offal for my sake; it absolutely wouldn’t be worth it. I’ve pretty much cut my losses on that front, and I would hate to see you (or anyone else of good will) be troubled by my continuing to engage long past the point of futility.
If there’s any doubt whatsoever, talking with you is nowhere near the point of futility. Intelligent disagreement is productive, even when it’s rough around the edges.
I saw the ellipsis (…) as a break, and the “oh well” as the beginning of another thought. It’s where you put it, is all. Carry on. (^_^)
To anyone brave enough to watch the vid: Once you start getting bored with the repetitive bad lip-sync, jump to the last twenty seconds. Or just jump there from the get-go. (^_^)
But we still have no ID for the event we see. Seems NOT Asian (as we now think of Tienanmen) — anyone else recognize the photo?
The guy on the ground IS probably guilty of something illegal….
Is that like, if he got arrested he must be guilty?
Of course! He’s guilty of being arrested, silly. That’s a serious crime.
….or “he was running…”?
(wtf)
Then again, you’re crazy…
Well, the guy on the horse looks like he is in full riot gear, meaning that guy on the ground was probably caught making trouble at a protest or something. And no member of any defence system in the world would attack any body thats innocent, these days everyone has a camera and if they attack an innocent bloke they will be caught.
(The following is on the assumption that you’re serious – it’s hard to tell these days, so my apologies if you were being sarcastic.)
You mean like Paul Schene, the guy who kicked and beat the crap out of a 15-year-old girl in a King County jail because she was “lippy”? (Link.) On camera, with the help of his partner? They both filed blatantly false reports, knowing it was on camera, because they know it’s rare that anyone will ever be allowed to see the footage. Yet only Schene got charged with 4th-degree assault, a slap on the wrist.
Schmucks like the one in the vid I linked in an earlier post… have no idea what real police brutality would be like to experience. The real thing is almost always buried, and on the few occasions when it surfaces it’s quickly shushed aside. Or even worse, people dismiss the victims as “troublemakers” because they don’t want to believe they could just as easily be the next victim.
In what rational world should a police officer be allowed to trample someone with a horse, whether or not they were “making trouble” by daring to protest something?
Well, arimareiji, the part about “in what rational world should a police officer be allowed to trample someone” would be the part where the irrational world does whatever it damn well pleases. Even if it’s on camera. You make good points, but the irrational world and irrational people could give a rip.’
Once upon a time my husband was in media relations for King County Police (Seattle, WA) and he used to tell other officers to behave as if there was a video camera on them at all times, and not to do or say ANYTHING that they would be uncomfortable repeating in court in front of their mother and grandmother. Deputy Schene apparently missed that lesson.
“he used to tell other officers to behave as if there was a video camera on them at all times, and not to do or say ANYTHING that they would be uncomfortable repeating in court in front of their mother and grandmother.”
These are words we should all live by. Heck, that’s almost better than Kant’s Categorical Imperative!
Oddly, very few cops have probably heard of Kant’s Categorical Imperative (as a liberal arts major, I had but had to google it to remind myself what the heck it was). Anyway, planting the visual in his fellow officers’ brains of imagining themselves explaining some monumentally inappropriate thing they had said or done, to their mom or gramma, or watching it on the 6 p.m. news somehow had more import than “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Unless the “others” have better weaponry than you do, then f*ck ‘em.
Liberal arts major, eh? Can I have curly fries instead of regular ones?;-)
Totally! And my diploma came from an artsy-fartsy school that didn’t give specific degrees so it actually says “liberal arts”! Somehow I have managed to support myself these many years since graduation. For the last 8 years now I have had my dream job, doing home repair loans, with federal funds, for low income homeowners.
Yay. ^_^ Good for you, it’s always nice (and surprising) to hear when someone’s not getting buttsurfed by the system.
Bloody peasant…
Well, I am king…
I was not looking to offend anyone, not was I serious. This is afterall suppse to be some comic relief. Just know that not everyone is innocent, I do know that people get attacked even thoug they did not do anything wrong, but in the country I live in “protestors” and “Rioters” are pretty much the same thing, as much as a$$hole cops get away with beating up innocents, there are people out there that are true “troublemakers”…. just saying. Anyway just shows from how many angles this can be seen…. so please learn to lighten up and not attack a person that doesn’t share your same views
I’m confused – you seem to be saying that 1) you meant what you said, but that at the same time 2) you were not serious.
As I already said, if you were being sarcastic then you have my apologies for not realizing that you didn’t actually mean what you said. But if that was your own viewpoint you were expressing, please note that other people are likewise allowed to express theirs. Contradicting a person is not the same as “attack”ing them.
and that doesn’t look like the guy is getting trampled
I really do hope so. Horse hooves can do a LOT of damage.
Yeah, really! He should hoove known.
If read the link you posted. That is quite different, there is proof that the officer was wrong. But in this pic it is unsure what the intentions and actions of either of these individuals are. And I never said I meant what I said. Even though I wasn’t being serious it could have been offensive, and clearly it was offensive to you.
Nice one centurion!
Terrific race, the Romans.
What did they ever do for us?!?
The Roads??
Ok then, apart from the roads, what have the Romans ever done for us?
(this could take all day).
Public Safety. Before the Romans came you couldn’t leave your house at night.
(Yes it probably will take all day
)
You definitely have my apologies, then. These days, it often seems hard to tell when someone’s being serious and when someone’s being sarcastic.
Thank you for reading the article I linked. I hope it helps to understand why I failed to recognize that you were being sarcastic about police never beating up innocent people? As you saw, there are actually people who would say that girl “deserved” it, with a straight face. Hard to believe, but true.
It was bloody horrific, and the police officer will get away with a slap on the wrist, it even says he has killed some one before and people are still defending him
My brother, who was one of the few good cops in my hometown before he retired, said that most policemen never even have to fire their weapon “in anger.” It’s possible that Schene really did have justification both times, but it seems a lot more dubious in light of his present actions.
For whatever it’s worth, <a href="http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa=home.casesummary&crt_itl_nu=S17&casenumber=09-1-00958-5&searchtype=sName&token=2FDCDAC9C7DEE3DBA7A2D852CDDCADF8&dt=1F55770EC6CFDEADF397D6EC5343010F"the court case is still active. I was half-expecting that it would have been dismissed, but it hasn’t (yet).
Interestingly, he was also a defendant three times near the end of 2006 to late 2007. At around the same time he was also a petitioner in KC Superior Court. If I had a nasty suspicious mind, I might think you could connect the dots to a divorce filing and two-three charges of domestic abuse. That’s not good.
But it scares me how easy it was to find that out.
Rargh. My bad on futzing the HTML, that should have been:
For whatever it’s worth, the court case is still active. I was half-expecting that it would have been dismissed, but it hasn’t (yet).
Adds up, actually. Stephanie Schene was the respondent to his petition, and was the plaintiff on one of those occasions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it wound up dismissed.
He may have been provoked, but she’s 15 for heavens sake, what he did was uncalled for….
Sorry, “both times” was with respect to his having shot two people. One of them 11 times, after he claimed he saw the man reach for a weapon. Seems a little more likely he was pissed off because the guy bit him. Jeez, I hope I never run into this @55hole – I live in Seattle.
oh god, you live here? No wonder you’re such a…..um, nice guy, yeah. Nice…
To be more specific, in Ren’n. That might explain even better.
I live in South Africa, sadly this kind of thing is not uncommon, doesn’t matter where you live. But over here it gets covered up
Most of the time it gets covered up here, too.
Like you said, it doesn’t matter where you live, although I’m sure there are plenty of places that are worse.
Both officers knew the incident would be on camera, and still filed blatantly false reports. To me, that says that they felt safe that it would never get out. And if the local newspaper hadn’t taken legal action to make them release it, King County would have never released the video.
“Come and see the violence inherent in the system!”
Be Quiet! I ORDER you to be quiet!!!
Order? Who do you think you are?!
I am your king.
I didn’t know we had a king…
THIS PICTURE IS MISLEADING. THE HORSE IS TRYING TO LEAP OVER THE PERSON. A HORSE WILL NEVER STEP ON A PERSON. A HORSE WILL GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO AVOID SOMEONE ON THE GROUND.
Again: the capslock is on the left of your keyboard.
With capslock enabled, we all think you look like this:
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the man in the picture was obviously being beat down for protesting the recent tax on anybody standing in water.
THIS PICTURE IS MISLEADING, HORSES BELONG ON SANDWICHES.
LOL!
HUH!! All the horses I’ve bet on all belong in the Glue Factory
(I’ve lost so often that the old joke “I bet on a horse at 10 to one. It came in at quarter past two” is just not funny any more.)
MONTY PYTHON REFERENCE WIN!!!!!!!!!!
This is a reference to monthy pyton and the holy grail
So I guess since Ive left, people still repost the same thought about 5 times without reading that their “epiphany” has already been stated?
Hey, you know what? I think a whole bunch of people have reposted that this is a Monty Python reference, did anyone notice? (^_~)
similar to a concert crowd yelling ‘Rush rocks’, as if they have no idea that 50,000 others are saying the same thing, and millions before them have said it as well.
anyone that has ever said ‘rush rocks’ out loud suffered severe brain hemorrhaging right afterward…
Oops, Mr. Silverhammer, it’s me the spelling-noticer again. In this post and in one above, you forgot an apostrophe. This time it’s in “I’ve”; I think above you left it out of “I’m.”
(Am too bored by all the repetitions of Hooray-for-me-I-noticed-it’s-a-Monty-Python-reference to scroll back up & check. Wouldn’t one think, in a savvy site like this, that another reader might have aleady thought of your brilliant idea? Sheesh. )
I used to spend time at Fark.com occasionally, where one of the common interjections was RFTA (read the frickin’ article). Funny how many people needed reminding to actually understand the subject before they started talking about it. =/
In this case, I think it would be RTFC.
But I can certainly empathize; it’s tough to make yourself read an hour’s worth of comments to make sure someone hasn’t already posted your great idea.
Well, when I do that I preface it with, “I’m sorry if someone has said this before but…” and then I post. Also, if there are over a hundred comments and all you want to do is tell the world what the caption is referencing chances are it’s already been discussed. At length.
I know so little about using computers — can’t do a thing with images — but on most computer screens & website pages, finding what’s been written earlier in the document is EASY! It’s a Windows command (I don’t know Mac or Linux): “Ctrl-F” opens a box where you can type a word or phrase. In this case “Python” would be perfect. Ctrl-F finds the first use of that word, then the next, etc. “Grail” would be perfect if “Python” didn’t show — just to double check.
Have you ever noticed how people repost the same thing, as if no one has ever posted it before? Weird, it’s like they don’t even read the comments they are replying to.
You know, that’s a very interesting point. Sometimes I feel like I’m reading the same thing over and over. Do you think it’s because people repost the same things other people have already posted?
That’s so true, Jane! But you know what gets on my nerves? When people post something that’s been repeated about 15 times already in the thread like they’d just had an original thought! I think maybe they aren’t reading the comments before posting.
That doesn’t bother me as much as when people post comments that have already been made tons of times. It’s like they didn’t bother to read the rest of the page before posting their “original” thought. Sheesh.
Well, when I do that I preface it with, “I’m sorry if someone has said this before but…” and then I post. Also, if there are over a hundred comments and all you want to do is tell the world what the caption is referencing chances are it’s already been discussed. At length.
That’s a good idea, ubr!
I’m sorry if someone has said this before, but did anyone know this caption is referencing Monty Python?
I am happy to have started this little deluge of repetitious babbling.
And I approve even more if said flood gave someone a brain hemorrhage.
“Ctrl-F” opens a box where you can type a word or phrase. In this case “babbling” would be perfect. Ctrl-F finds the first use of that word, then the next, etc. “Hemorrhage” would be perfect if “babbling” didn’t show — just to double check.
Still, what was going on here?
And incidentally, all you horse loving folk, a police horse will trample people, even if they don’t want to. I saw one break someone’s foot once, and we were lucky it was just her foot. Although I shouldn’t have to say this, she was on public property, protesting without violence. I have no idea why the cop charged at her.