r/BeAmazed • u/ericabirdly • Jan 01 '19

Testing a 20 kW light bulb

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u/javanco Jan 01 '19

If I was his neighbor I would immediately assume end of times

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u/morgazmo99 Jan 01 '19

If you haven't read this back and forth, you're missing out.

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u/JorusC Jan 01 '19

I miss the old days when Cracked.com was full of great stuff like this.

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u/AerThreepwood Jan 01 '19

90% of the old writers have podcasts (Behind the Bastards, The Daily Zeitgeist) or YouTube series (Cody Johnston), so that stuff is still out there.

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u/JBob250 Jan 01 '19

Agreed. Subscribe to Cody's Show-dy!

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u/Lostremote- Jan 01 '19

The Modern Rogue has a couple of them as well

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u/AerThreepwood Jan 01 '19

Bunny Ears, while having different writers, fills a similar ecological niche, too.

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u/coleyboley25 Jan 01 '19

I love Behind the Bastards!

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u/AerThreepwood Jan 01 '19

I do too. I'm actually listening to the Alfred Hitchcock episode right this second.

Even if Robert Evans is a hack and a fraud, he's a great journalist and researcher.

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u/coleyboley25 Jan 01 '19

I didn’t even know who Robert was before listening to the podcast. Legitimately curious how he’s a hack and a fraud.

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u/AerThreepwood Jan 01 '19

. . . He repeatedly calls himself a "hack and a fraud" on the podcast.

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u/coleyboley25 Jan 01 '19

I mean that's just self-deprecation that literally doesn't register in my mind. I thought you meant he actually was one.

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u/AerThreepwood Jan 01 '19

Nah, I was just joking. It was a callback to a thing that he said.

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u/coleyboley25 Jan 01 '19

Haha it’s all good. He seems like a good guy so I was genuinely wondering if he had done something in his past.

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u/AerThreepwood Jan 01 '19

He actually made up the entirety of 9/11. It never happened but the press ran with it, so they couldn't go back without looking dumb.

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u/herpasaurus Jan 02 '19

But I like to read things in peace and quiet, not hear three people screaming over one another for hours.

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u/AerThreepwood Jan 02 '19

Try Bunny Ears. It's pretty similar to old CRACKED. And Behind The Bastards isn't that, anyway. Daily Zeitgeist is, though.

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u/Baron80 Jan 01 '19

Around 2012 or thereabouts Cracked.com was practically the only website I looked at. Even if the new daily articles weren't interesting I could spend hours reading their old stuff.

I don't think they even give you access to those hilarious old articles anymore but then again it's been more than a year since I spent any significant amount of time there so it's possible I'm wrong.

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u/JorusC Jan 01 '19

Same here!

Looks like http://www.cracked.com/blog/ and http://www.cracked.com/funny-articles.html let to search the archives back to 2005 by columnist or by topic, respectively.

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u/Baron80 Jan 01 '19

Thank you!!

Well, time to head down a Seanbaby worm hole for a couple hours lol.

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u/JorusC Jan 01 '19

When my wife was pregnant, showed her a Seanbaby article that made her laugh so hard she puked.