The Chat Thread

[ibanezmonster]

http://www.youtube.com/v/dABo_DCIdpM&feature=related
The English Language in 24 accents.

[Karl Henning]

Good fun.

[North Star]

Yeah. But I've seen it before, and it must have been on this site.

[Florestan]

I've always thought kids need a handbook on how to deal with real life.

Is there such a beast?

[Karl Henning]

Yeah. But I've seen it before, and it must have been on this site.

I must have missed it.

[Lake Swan]

Is there such a beast?

Not that I know of.

[ibanezmonster]

http://www.youtube.com/v/WibmcsEGLKo&feature=fvwrel

[Opus106]

Is anyone else here a fan of the show QI?

I just found out that I'm addicted. (Though the addition is still limited by the Golden-er Rule. )

[Mirror Image]

Is anyone else here a fan of the show QI?

I just found out that I'm addicted. (Though the addition is still limited by the Golden-er Rule. )

What is QI? Or I mean what kind of show is it?

[Opus106]

What is QI? Or I mean what kind of show is it?

QI stands for Quite Interesting. It's a quiz show on the BBC (or as I call it, YouTube) hosted by Stephen Fry. There is a set of four panelists (always including stand-up comedian Alan Davies) who answer questions on the topic of the day. But this isn't your typical quiz show: you don't necessarily get points for the right answers; the obviously incorrect answers get you negative points (along with sirens going off and the wrong answer flashing on a large screen), but interesting/funny answers will increase your score. But the whole "points" thing is just a joke. It's actually the rapport between the uber smart Fry and the guests which really makes me watch it everyday. It's like watching like-minded individuals (and sometimes very intelligent and humorous ones) sitting at a table and having an interesting conversation. At times it's a laugh riot. And what's more: you'd have learnt a few interesting things about the world at the end of it all.

[Mirror Image]

QI stands for Quite Interesting. It's a quiz show on the BBC (or as I call it, YouTube) hosted by Stephen Fry. There is a set of four panelists (always including stand-up comedian Alan Davies) who answer questions on the topic of the day. But this isn't your typical quiz show: you don't necessarily get points for the right answers; the obviously incorrect answers get you negative points (along with sirens going off and the wrong answer flashing on a large screen), but interesting/funny answers will increase your score. But the whole "points" thing is just a joke. It's actually the rapport between the uber smart Fry and the guests which really makes me watch it everyday. It's like watching like-minded individuals (and sometimes very intelligent and humorous ones) sitting at a table and having an interesting conversation. At times it's a laugh riot. And what's more: you'd have learnt a few interesting things about the world at the end of it all.

Figured it was a BBC show.

[Brian]

Is anyone else here a fan of the show QI?

I just found out that I'm addicted. (Though the addition is still limited by the Golden-er Rule. )

I'm midway through Series 2. It's very, very funny. My favorite guests are Dara O'Briain, Bill Bailey, and Jo Brand, but Rich Hall represents America well. Sort of. 

[Opus106]

I'm midway through Series 2. It's very, very funny. My favorite guests are Dara O'Briain, Bill Bailey, and Jo Brand, but Rich Hall represents America well. Sort of. 

I'm with you on the first two, but can take in the hardly smiling latter two in only small doses. I'd have David Mitchell on board instead.

Bill and Dara are very well informed, especially in matters science, which appeals to me. And Dara, who holds a degree in theoretical physics, hosts his own show called Dara O'Briain's School of Hard Sums in which he, a celebrity and a professional mathematician solve maths problems -- in front of a camera, with a live studio audience! (There's also a website with homework problems, if you're interested. )

[ibanezmonster]

Just wondering if anyone can relate to this or if I really am that weird...


how much routine daily stuff just wears on you. When I get home from work, I run straight to the computer so I can fill my mind with something interesting. If I eat immediately after arriving home, the tedium from the act of eating usually makes me start questioning what the point to me even being alive is. Finding something interesting to think about prevents that question from even popping up.

The last two days...
last night, I worked and started feeling this strange feeling- like I was split in two- one part of me functioned normally and the other was just completely numb and lifeless. However, I've been sick for the last few days, so I thought it was that. But when I got home, I watched Men in Black 3 and lost myself in it- I noticed sometime during the movie that this feeling went away.

Similarly, today I had that feeling until I had fun on my lunch break, doing something different- getting a ride in my friend's car and eating at a place I had never been. By the time I came back to work, that feeling was gone. So I arrived at the conclusion that maybe that was not from being sick, but just from extreme boredom, possibly. Somehow the blaring Christmas music I hear all day and follows me home in my mind for many extra hours each day doesn't bother me any more. WTF.

[Corey]

I'm not sure if you're asking for advice. You probably lack purpose. Or something. I'm not even sure why one needs a purpose. I feel like most pursuits are distractions. From what? The confusion of the world. Your iPad was made with minerals taken from mines where people die. But don't think about that. It would seem to be better to live like an insensitive animal, like most people I imagine do.

[Karl Henning]

Just an aside that, since is this my one day this week when I am not in anyone's hire, I am probably not going to engage in deep socio-economic questions.

[Corey]

Just an aside that, since is this my one day this week when I am not in anyone's hire, I am probably not going to engage in deep socio-economic questions.

I'd rather not as well. It doesn't make much of a difference either way.

[ibanezmonster]

I'm not sure if you're asking for advice. You probably lack purpose. Or something. I'm not even sure why one needs a purpose. I feel like most pursuits are distractions. From what? The confusion of the world. Your iPad was made with minerals taken from mines where people die. But don't think about that. It would seem to be better to live like an insensitive animal, like most people I imagine do.

I do know my purpose(s) but don't have an iPad. I always find diamond commercials funny, because when a man gives a woman a diamond ring, he could ask her to thank the African child worker.  All of our motherboards are made by Chinese slaves, as well. Free enterprise.

Not asking for advice; just wondering if that happens to anyone. Simple people are happier, I suppose, as you say. That's why they can do the same exact thing for 300 days a year and not suffer from burnout. Same thing. Again and again. And again. And again. Like machines. Does anyone just go so burnt out in general that sometimes just driving the same roads (you've driven a couple thousand times) make you tired? I wouldn't experience that if the road turned into marshmallow one day and lava the next and a giant spiral the next...

[Karl Henning]

It may be an error to presume that happier people are therefore simpler, of course.

[ibanezmonster]

It may be an error to presume that happier people are therefore simpler, of course.

Yes, it would be an error.
I think there might be a tendency in the way that I mentioned (at least in my observations), but that's about it.