This video made me wonder about technological nostalgia. The creator acknowledges that his job is an anachronism, which some might see as a bad thing, but to me just seems like the way technology constantly moves forward. I bet when the wheel first came around several thousand years ago some people sat around saying things like “Don’t get me wrong, the wheel is great and everything. But I miss the days when we had to drag stuff everywhere. There was something pure about that, and this wheel thing just seems like cheating.”
This is impressive in an inane way, and is shot well to show the artist at work. However, what a waste of good Cheetos! I also would have liked to know how many towels were used up to get rid of the cheesy residue, which is definitely the worst thing about Cheetos (besides the horrendous nutritional value, natch).
After the Office brought this joke back into the mainstream, my friends and I would respond to everything said by saying “That’s what she said” even though it usually didn’t make sense. It was definitely like trying to kill a fly with a shotgun, most of the time you miss, but when you succeed, the results are spectacular.
This dog appears to smile. It is probably some other physiological response that we interpret as a smile because we humans are arrogant like that. Personally I think it is a demon dog using a smile to lure people in and then it clamps down and sucks out their souls.
I thoroughly enjoyed the enthusiasm which the host leads off this segment. It is exactly the way the Food Network hosts act. If I ever end up in a kitchen with someone that enthusiastic he or she might end up missing a body part.
No way for me to come off looking cool here, but I always preferred Star Trek to Star Wars. Maybe it is because the writers of Star Trek seemed to be adults who tried to tackle complex problems while George Lucas appears to be a giant 5 year old who just wanted to play with dolls.
Even though this is a commentary on the BBC, it is appropriate for the US as well. At some point TV journalists went from being reporters to just being reporting-by-the-numbers puppets. It might be for the best though, we wouldn’t want the news to alarm us in any way after all.
This video is a bit dark, and I am sure many people will find it offensive. It does raise an interesting point about people’s mixed motivations. For example, none of us want fires to happen, but I bet Fire Fighters get excited when the alarm goes off in the station. Similarly when a Highway Patrol Officer gets in a high speed chase it probably makes his month.
There is still a lot of work to be done to solve the AIDS crisis but hopefully when it is resolved all the organizations and government support will be channeled into something new in a similar manner something similar to what happened with March of Dimes. That organization was founded to cure Polio, they did that, and then re-focused on the broader issue of prenatal and newborn health.
