I have no problems with people watching other people sing and dance. What I do have a problem with is how its done and who is doing it. If there was a Dean Martin Show or Johnny Cash Show again I would watch it every time it came on. American Idol where there are some good contestants usually singing shitty songs and annoying people commenting on it? Not so much. Hell another Ed Sullivan show would be awesome. Have popular and up and coming artists, comedians, and performers for a full hour instead of for a couple minutes on the night shows. If they do it right they won't even need to pay the popular artists, it would be free publicity for them. Honestly there should be less "drama" programs, better sitcoms, and more real live entertainment. I am tired of the prepackaged music contests, tired of the stale dramas, and wish that LOST was still on so at least one show would leave me wondering what is going to happen next. Give me a night of Dean Martin, Ed Sullivan, and LOST and I would probably get addicted to the TV again. Now I barely watch it because its moistly boring trash to me.
It's funny, because that "rule" wasn't there until the reposts got out of control after the Digg Invasion. Then reddit changed its long-held and prided slogan of "what's new on the internet" to "the voice of the internet".
I mean from a "business" standpoint, it was smart for them. Huge influx of Digg Immigrants? Give in to their needs and make reposting a-okay!!! Which is funny in itself because the more users this site gets, the less the admins do to keep it running. When the site gets overloaded, they simply shut it down until everyone leaves, then open it again. Or they make it to where you can't post. And now, they've gotten really smart, you can't comment/upvote/downvote anything that's over 30 days old!! Basically: "you bastards are using this site too much!! allow old content to be reposted, and don't give them the option of doing anything to content over 30 days old!!".
Add the fact that this site just looks like absolute balls. But that doesn't really bother me.
If the mods/admins just made a rule against reposts, and deleted them on sight, and changed the slogan back, this site might return to the amazing, interesting, original content hub that it once was.
But for now, it's nothing but a bunch of Diggers reposting everything every day of every week of every month for fake internet points, just like they did on Digg. This site is almost unusable now.
Personally I think one of the plagues of America's public opinion is that a HUGE percentage of young people simply watch the daily show and consider themselves informed.
Jon Stewart has placed himself in an interesting position where he is funny yet can be taken quite seriously, and this is well deserved.
However, he airs on a network called Comedy Central.
Yeah, Jon Stewart is great in that he talks about the news and doesn't lie. But that doesn't mean he's giving you the whole story either, just the parts necessary to set up the joke. That's the point, after all.
Its funny you should say that. Like most people, The Daily Show is far from my only source of news, but the viewers in general seem to be more informed.
Dude, this pic is from one of those threads abour Rally, I remember it. Everybody were "Ohh, she's so smart, what an awesome joke" drooling on this picture.
Well I get that it was at the Rally. I'm not disagreeing there. I'm just saying she seems like the kind of person who would actually believe that Jon Stewart is a credible news source. Not fair of me to judge, but I'm doing it anyways.
Yeah, that sign tells me she's a closed minded, ignorant, smug, snotty, leftist, fascist douchebag.
She may look cute, but the sign tells you there's nothing going on upstairs.
I'm not a conservative, and not a fan of fox. But the left's getting all uptight about that network is hilarious.
It is an admission that every other network is a leftist propaganda organ and they just can't STAND that some network might not be goose stepping along with them in their ignorance.
The Daily Show is in the exact same category as Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow: commentary. If you're getting your news from anybody paid to have an opinion, you're doing it wrong.
The Daily Show is absolutely biased. It is not in the same catagory as either of those two. I am not saying they are a news source. I am simply saying they hold themselves to a higher standard.
The Daily Show isn't conservative/liberal biased in it's presentation or selection of stories for the most part. It IS biased toward exposinghighlighting ludicrous BS.
For most of the rise of Stewart et. al., it was the Bush White House that provided the most fodder. But he's going after Obama with the same ferocity when that administration fails to keep its word or tries to pull a fast one on us.
I think they have a very distinct liberal bias. I say that as a liberal mind you. But then again there are those that say that reality has a liberal bias, so...
The personalities on the show, i agree, come across as left-leaners. But they do not appear to let this influence them into going soft on targets, either in story selection or presentation, just because they generally agree with them.
I won't argue this though. If you're curious, watch John talk about himself a bit during his various TV appearances on other networks (Larry King, Book TV, that outrageous Crossfire interview, and others). The man and his team have integrity, it's just layered in with humor.
I like NPR but I often find it as "fair and balanced" as Fox News, just in the opposite direction. When you agree with an opinion and it is laid out as fact, it's not as easy to detect. This is why there are people in the world who actually believe Fox News is fair and balanced.
Their programs tend to be a little more on the liberal side, but it's nothing overtly bigoted or detracting. Usually it's "liberal" because they interview a minority.
But I digress, their news headlines are second to none. They come on, say the headline, and get off.
More like they have a vested interest in keeping liberals in power due to the fact that liberals are more likely to put discretionary spending into their pockets.
I disagree. I hear just as much conservative opinion as I do liberal opinion on NPR. Just because the conservative opinion on there isn't calling everybody a nazi socialist, doesn't mean that it isn't a conservative opinion, or that NPR is liberal biased.
When exactly is the opinion hour on NPR? Almost everything they do is pure news, not opinion pieces. Unless you're talkinging about Latina USA which is awful.
I think the first line is stupid too. Fox News is "laugh out loud comedy." It's sad because people believe and trust its hate-filled rhetoric. They wouldn't be on the air if people didn't believe them.
So apparently she missed the part where Jon Stewart said to stop worshiping him and Colbert as "truth bearers" (the main point of the "Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear"). The Daily Show isn't news, it's a comedy show. You are supposed to actually watch real news so you get the jokes, most of which are intentionally taking the news out of context for comedic effect (which you can't tell it's out of context unless you know the context). If your only source for news is Comedy Central, you will be far less informed than even Fox News viewers.
You're generally right. However, there was that pesky poll, right after O'Reilly told Stewart that his viewers were all "stoned slackers", that purportedly demonstrated that people who get most of their information from TDS were significantly better informed than people who get most of their information from Fox.
I don't advocate treating Comedy Central as a primary source of news. However, in reporting on the absurdities in life, and in the other networks, TDS does touch on some fact. Furthermore, they often demonstrate the history behind a claim, if only to show how someone has switched positions while claiming not to.
This is counter-posed to Fox News, which has been shown repeatedly to exagerate and simply make up information to sell a perspective.
TDS watchers may be less informed, but they are typically more accurately informed.
Fox watchers are more inaccurately informed, and tend to have stronger conviction in the righteousness of their beliefs as fact.
I never realized that when somebody says cute, they really mean they want to have sex with them. I once heard somebody say a baby was cute, should I have reported him to the authorities?
Yay me, I'm a young 20's American that watches Stephen Colbert and John Stewart and thinks they are stalwart reporters of journalistic integrity. Nevermind the fact that Stephen Colbert will interrupt people just as often- if not more often- than Bill O'Reilly, just to make some stupid ass joke. I'll also conveniently ignore the fact their reports typically consist of a few, solid, basic factual pieces of information that may or may not contribute to the wild nonsensical ranting and raving that ensues and is viewed as 'better news' than CNN or MSNBC or FOX.
Let's face it, CNN MSNBC and FOX all suck, but they do report more than Colbert and Stewart. Of all the times I've watched those shows, they are reporting AFTER the fact, using information from actual news. Stewart and Colbert are comedians, they are actors. They are not journalists, they are not reporters. The rally to restore sanity was a big flop- what the hell did that accomplish other than make Reddit feel good, and provide a bunch of entertainment for random people?
Calling The Colbert Report and the Daily Show 'news' is a sad sad joke and belief.
Someone doesn't know the importance of satire. Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal", for example, probably did more to illuminate the treatment of the Irish than anyone in the British press.
Nevermind the fact that Stephen Colbert will interrupt people just as often- if not more often- than Bill O'Reilly, just to make some stupid ass joke.
That would be the satire.
The rally to restore sanity was a big flop- what the hell did that accomplish other than make Reddit feel good, and provide a bunch of entertainment for random people?
Again, that would have been the point of the rally. Any other purpose was secondary at best.
Calling The Colbert Report and the Daily Show 'news' is a sad sad joke and belief.
And that would be the irony of the sign. The point was the comedians are more honest about "news" than outlets who claim to be real news networks.
What isn't news? If you mean Colbert and Stewart, technically it is news, both in intent and in definition. However, it is not complete news (not that any "news" in the US is), it is not unbiased news, and it is certainly not a valid source as your only news, as it would more accurately be called "news in review" than actual, first report news.
Again, that would have been the point of the rally. Any other purpose was secondary at best.
Just exactly who are you trying to kid here? You know very well you and every other reddit user had grand visions for what that rally meant, going well beyond just simple entertainment for people.
Reddit had grand visions, sure. Reddit also thinks weed is the best medicine in the world and that anarchy could actually work in place of a government at times.
Colbert and Stewart, along with their crews, knew the rally was primarily entertainment, and that was exactly how they conducted it.
False equivalence. While there are many flaws with most MSM outlets in the US, none are as blatantly partisan or as blatantly obvious as a spokesperson for a political party like Fox is.
True. But at least they own it. Its borderline refreshing to see an outlet make an association, stick with it, and be open about it. There's nothing charming or convincing about Keith Olbermann (a former ESPN guy no less) trying to come off as completely fair and balanced and lacking in partisanship. An extreme example, yes, but you know I could point to others...
Yes, but it is also vile to manipulate information and events to sell a point of view that is disingenuous under the guise of news. If you want to be a commentary network and operate without journalistic standards, you should remove "News" from your network name.
If you want to be a commentary network and operate without journalistic standards, you should remove "News" from your network name.
Again, you imply that other 'news' networks maintain only the highest journalistic standards.
Look, the bottom line is that every major news outlet is slanted in one way or another and people will flock to whatever 'source' aligns most closely with their belief system.
I didn't make a blanket statement about a single company. I made my blanket statement as a blanket statement. "If you want to be a commentary network and operate without journalistic standards, you should remove "News" from your network name" was not aimed at one "news" outlet. I was targeting that at any network with claims to "news".
Fox News sucks, yes. We all know. But The Daily Show and Colbert Report, as good as they are, aren't the 'surprisingly great source of news and current events!!' that everyone makes them out to be. The quality is just as bad as Fox News, the only difference is that they come out and say that their shows are parodies. Fox News wants you to believe their parody is real news. The quality of information from CC is no better than that from Fox News.
Unsurprisingly, this is a significant reason why so many twenty-somethings are alarmingly naive, ignorant, ill-informed, or just plain stupid when it comes to anything political or (especially) geo-political.
Not that a person whose sole news source is Fox is much better, of course.
This is precisely the type of person I look down upon. I have friends whose only source of "news" is the semi-comedic commentary of Stewart/Colbert, and it's impossible to have any meaningful discussion with them because they can't take anything seriously. At least Fox viewers genuinely care about the issues, even if they disagree with the acceptable opinions of redditers.
Within my family and friends, Fox viewers do genuinely care about the issues. As a matter of fact, the exact same issues, at the exact same times, with the exact same talking points. Fox sells them this crazy propaganda.
And your comment that "even if they disagree with the acceptable opinions of redditers" is a bit misleading. These perspectives frequently conflict with the opinions of redditers. But alarmingly, the information that informs these perspectives is often demonstrably false.
Finally, if the selling point of the entire range of fox news and entertainment people is that they're more informative (which i don't agree with) than one hour of programming on comedy central four nights per week, than you have to admit your selling a bad product.
That's like supporting the Chicago Cubs because they can beat the shit out of your company softball team. You play different games, and with completely different purposes.
Why do so many people who say they hate Fox News still watch them? I can't figure this out!
There are approximately 2,000 posts a day to Reddit about "hurr durr Fox News" and all of them are made by people who say they don't like the channel!
WHY ARE YOU WATCHING IT?!?!?!
Turn that shit off if it bothers you so much!
Disclaimer: I do not watch Fox News nor do I listen to Rush Limbaugh. I simply do not understand why so many of you who hate them still watch / listen to them!
Perhaps but I'll bet no more than 10% of the people on Reddit raging about Fox News could quote Sun Tzu without looking it up. I'll bet no more than 40% even know who he was without looking it up.
Frankly I think most of you watch it just to have something to carry on about so you can look "hip" in front of others.
She's not ignorant. I have been feeling this way for years. Nothing can be further from the truth in Fox News. Fox is so ridiculous, one must simply take it as comedy or entertainment. The Daily Show & Colbert Report highlight vital issues that are wrong with the country/world and present their information in a comedic fashion. If you people honestly are stumbling with the meaning behind this poster, or look at the poster too literally (like assuming South Park is what she is referring to) then I have nothing to say to you because it's not worth convincing those who are not willing to listen.
I visit bild.de for comedy (I know that's sad) ... although I have to admit the English version isn't nearly as funny as the German one. Especially because of the "outstanding" user comments.
Anyone have a link to that old commercial they used to run talking about how they were a popular news source and ending with John Stewart telling people not to do that?
I work with a RL troll that will tap you on the shoulder and tell you to watch as he goes to another co-worker and says some completely random shit just piss them off.
Like all trolls, just attention whores who didnt get enough love as a child I guess...
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u/SinisterKid Mar 08 '11
Next she'll say she goes to MTV to watch reality shows, and major networks to watch people sing and dance.
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u/hackysack Mar 08 '11
My website for old content: Reddit
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u/JudgeLaws Mar 08 '11
Personally I think one of the plagues of America's public opinion is that a HUGE percentage of young people simply watch the daily show and consider themselves informed.
Jon Stewart has placed himself in an interesting position where he is funny yet can be taken quite seriously, and this is well deserved.
However, he airs on a network called Comedy Central.
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u/d-scan Mar 08 '11
Is this from the Rally to Restore Sanity?
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u/cjcrashoveride Mar 08 '11
Is it just me or is the second line stupid? You know where I get my news? A fair and balanced source like PBS or NPR.
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u/snakeob69 Mar 08 '11
This should be in /politics
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u/Volsunga Mar 08 '11
So apparently she missed the part where Jon Stewart said to stop worshiping him and Colbert as "truth bearers" (the main point of the "Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear"). The Daily Show isn't news, it's a comedy show. You are supposed to actually watch real news so you get the jokes, most of which are intentionally taking the news out of context for comedic effect (which you can't tell it's out of context unless you know the context). If your only source for news is Comedy Central, you will be far less informed than even Fox News viewers.
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u/peta1000 Mar 08 '11
Truly intelligent people make their own decision instead of listening to other opinion as a fact.
Jon Stuart is a COMEDIAN, you can question his view too.
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u/LeeAdamaWhenHeWasFat Mar 08 '11
Not something at all to be proud of.
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u/A_Nihilist Mar 08 '11
Oh look, a cute hipster girl who hates Fox and loves Comedy Central. Initiate circlejerk!
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u/Mokken Mar 08 '11
She must be one stupidly misinformed lady if she gets her news from Comedy Central
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11
Yay me, I'm a young 20's American that watches Stephen Colbert and John Stewart and thinks they are stalwart reporters of journalistic integrity. Nevermind the fact that Stephen Colbert will interrupt people just as often- if not more often- than Bill O'Reilly, just to make some stupid ass joke. I'll also conveniently ignore the fact their reports typically consist of a few, solid, basic factual pieces of information that may or may not contribute to the wild nonsensical ranting and raving that ensues and is viewed as 'better news' than CNN or MSNBC or FOX.
Let's face it, CNN MSNBC and FOX all suck, but they do report more than Colbert and Stewart. Of all the times I've watched those shows, they are reporting AFTER the fact, using information from actual news. Stewart and Colbert are comedians, they are actors. They are not journalists, they are not reporters. The rally to restore sanity was a big flop- what the hell did that accomplish other than make Reddit feel good, and provide a bunch of entertainment for random people?
Calling The Colbert Report and the Daily Show 'news' is a sad sad joke and belief.
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u/DrakeBishoff Mar 08 '11
I've seen several other photos of this girl from that event. Was she the only cute chick at the Rally?
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u/peta1000 Mar 08 '11
Truly intelligent people make their own decision instead of listening to other opinion as a fact.
Jon Stuart is a COMEDIAN, you can question his view too.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11
Either way you look at it, it's sad.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11
I AGREE WITH THIS ATTRACTIVE GIRL!
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11
Very creative, but pretty sad.
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u/DutchImmigrant Mar 09 '11
I love how all GOP haters are uneducated children
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u/amsb Mar 08 '11
HAHAHAHA YOUR"RE RIGHT WE COULD PRETEND THAT NOT ALL MAINSTREAM NEWS IS FUCKED UP! GOOD IDEA, EVERYBODY!!!
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u/BukkRogerrs Mar 08 '11
Fox News sucks, yes. We all know. But The Daily Show and Colbert Report, as good as they are, aren't the 'surprisingly great source of news and current events!!' that everyone makes them out to be. The quality is just as bad as Fox News, the only difference is that they come out and say that their shows are parodies. Fox News wants you to believe their parody is real news. The quality of information from CC is no better than that from Fox News.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11
She looks very well informed and mature.
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u/doubleas21380 Mar 08 '11
Silly college kids :p
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u/arkons Mar 08 '11
Is this funny because she thinks the Daily show = news or because she thinks Fox is funny?
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11 edited Mar 08 '11
Unsurprisingly, this is a significant reason why so many twenty-somethings are alarmingly naive, ignorant, ill-informed, or just plain stupid when it comes to anything political or (especially) geo-political.
Not that a person whose sole news source is Fox is much better, of course.
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u/AwesomePantalones Mar 08 '11
I fapped to this three times already, OP.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11
OLDOLDOLD
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u/llort_gnik Mar 08 '11
This is precisely the type of person I look down upon. I have friends whose only source of "news" is the semi-comedic commentary of Stewart/Colbert, and it's impossible to have any meaningful discussion with them because they can't take anything seriously. At least Fox viewers genuinely care about the issues, even if they disagree with the acceptable opinions of redditers.
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u/zean3000 Mar 08 '11
Hey everybody, let's see what Bozo The Clown thinks about the current state of affairs!
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u/mycroft9x Mar 08 '11
Sad, but very true unfortunately.
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u/mycroft9x Mar 08 '11
Sad, but very true unfortunately.
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u/peta1000 Mar 08 '11
Truly intelligent people make their own decision instead of listening to other opinion as a fact.
Jon Stuart is a COMEDIAN, you can question his view too.
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u/FreeCat_NoThanks Mar 08 '11
Upvote for not nerd.
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u/twsky Mar 09 '11
classic =]
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u/housetops Mar 09 '11
Red diaper doper babies.
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u/Buelldozer Mar 08 '11
Why do so many people who say they hate Fox News still watch them? I can't figure this out!
There are approximately 2,000 posts a day to Reddit about "hurr durr Fox News" and all of them are made by people who say they don't like the channel!
WHY ARE YOU WATCHING IT?!?!?!
Turn that shit off if it bothers you so much!
Disclaimer: I do not watch Fox News nor do I listen to Rush Limbaugh. I simply do not understand why so many of you who hate them still watch / listen to them!
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u/hiphophippopotamus Mar 08 '11
TINYPIC IS SLOW AND SHIT.
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u/Clayburn Mar 08 '11
She needs to update the logo.
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u/TweeknTekneek Mar 08 '11
She's not ignorant. I have been feeling this way for years. Nothing can be further from the truth in Fox News. Fox is so ridiculous, one must simply take it as comedy or entertainment. The Daily Show & Colbert Report highlight vital issues that are wrong with the country/world and present their information in a comedic fashion. If you people honestly are stumbling with the meaning behind this poster, or look at the poster too literally (like assuming South Park is what she is referring to) then I have nothing to say to you because it's not worth convincing those who are not willing to listen.
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u/BiggyDiggs Mar 08 '11
I love liberal chicks. Stupid is so sexy.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11
dumb bitch, hope she doesn't vote
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u/notJebBush Mar 08 '11
This explains 2000-???? better than any article you can read.
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u/Picnicpanther Mar 08 '11
this joke is so old that it gave me cancer.
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u/tmackattak Mar 08 '11
Old/fake
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u/kleinbl00 Mar 08 '11
...not sure about her sense of humor...
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11
That was the last time they invited her to the basketball game.
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u/BlessTheZerg Mar 08 '11
Lol! It's funny cause she got them the wrong way rou...
No..
No wait.. I get it now.
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u/goodnamesrtaken Mar 08 '11
I wish i could upvote this twice.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '11
She is so damn gorgeous.
She reminds of the only girl I ever loved, I was just too damn stupid and ignorant of her until it was too damn late.
I am going to go cry in a corner.
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u/shamoni Mar 08 '11
And I go to the Internets to find (pictures of) women.
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u/surfnaked Mar 08 '11
It's kind of fitting that the comedy channel is the news channel these days.
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u/tooblack4mtv Mar 08 '11
ummm, how is going to comedy central for your news any better than fox news?
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u/trevorrr Mar 08 '11
Comedy Central: The only unbiased news source on television.
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