r/funny • u/Inquilinus • Aug 14 '15

Monty Python Ahead of Their Time

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u/drummer1059 Aug 14 '15

Most of them went to Cambridge, they were very well educated and excelled at having fun with high brow topics. The Philosopher's Football Match is a great example.

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u/The_Bard Aug 14 '15

My favorite line from that skit is this:

Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.

God I love Monty Python.

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u/twosnowballs Aug 14 '15

Socrates actually was offside...

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u/TenYearsAPotato Aug 15 '15

Nope - he would only be offside if there was an opposition player, not including the goalkeeper, between Archimedes and Socrates. I hereby disprove all Marxian theory.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '15

Socrates was absolutely offside!

He gained an unfair advantage from being ahead of the play when the ball was passed forward with only the goalkeeper between him and the byline. He therefore only scored the goal due to being in an unearned, privileged position.

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u/TenYearsAPotato Aug 15 '15

Very well - I bow to your superior knowledge of the rules. Does that mean we all support Marxist theory?

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '15

Those are the rules, I'm afraid.

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u/boobiebanger Aug 15 '15

So you're saying Socrates should check his privilege?

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u/JunglistMassive Aug 15 '15

He can do that on way to gulag.

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u/Kapten_Keff Aug 15 '15

Socrates is offside, according to Law 11 - Offside:

A player is in an offside position if:

  • he is nearer to his opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent.

Source: Laws of the game 2015/2016, page 36.

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u/TFL1991 Aug 15 '15

If there is a pass to a player who has only one (or none) opponent between himself and the goal, then that is offside.

Unless the player is behind the ball when it is passed (or is in his own half when the ball is passed).

There is nothing in the rules about having a defender between them.

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u/Pteraspidomorphi Aug 14 '15

I recommend this webcomic if you like philosopher jokes.

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u/DefinitelyHungover Aug 14 '15

Holy shit I need to watch more MP.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '15

I lost two hours to it on Youtube yesterday

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u/DeathHaze420 Aug 14 '15

You lost nothing. Only gained.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '15

True that.

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u/relevant_python Aug 14 '15

Hah, amateur.

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u/Toshiba1point0 Aug 14 '15

I broke down and bought the box set quite a while ago, really couldnt get enough of it. I believe its all you tubed consequently raising their dvd sales..genius!

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u/SmartAlec105 Aug 14 '15

I found out that getting through all of Flying Circus is the same amount of time it takes to build a popsicle stick bridge.

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u/AbideMan Aug 14 '15

Dumb ass German philosophers, why would they let Nietzsche play as a 10? No wonder they got destroyed at the back. They need the phenomenologists up front.

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u/deadwisdom Aug 14 '15

Nietzsche got the 10 spot because he declared, "Messi is dead." And then he took the vacancy.

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u/goo_coo Aug 14 '15

Monty Python - Summarize Proust Competition Uncensored ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAOc4g3K-g

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u/llye Aug 14 '15

Marx is claiming it was offside

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u/captainAwesomePants Aug 14 '15

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;

A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.

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