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NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011
"Let's talk about FIFA"

"Haha, about time someone roasted those clowns"

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ROFLburger
Jan 12, 2006

My Q-Face posted:

His bit on the $10 vs. the $20 was lame, But then that whole "controversy" was stupid. Why is the $20 more "Prestigious" than the $10? Because that's what ATMs give you, so the argument is about whether a woman should be on the $10 or the $20. Except that in Europe ATMs give out all denominations of paper currency, 5s, 10s, 20s, 50s, and even 100s, so why is "It's what ATMs give you" more of a focus than "What woman should be on it"?

Then his AOL skit was like 5 minutes of repeating a joke he just loving told. Then the credits were the bloopers from his lame 5 minute sketch. :downs:

yeah, I've struggled to give a poo poo about about the last couple of main topics, but I still get a few good laughs out of them. The AOL episode was definitely pretty slow.

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


I think a lot of latte liberals are just mad that my man Andrew Jackson is gonna stay on the 20 and it has little to do with prestige

cram me sideways
Apr 26, 2015
"I am VERY informed about current events AND I have the correct opinion about them. How do I know?" *winks @ u and slyly taps a tiny John Oliver down into chest pocket*

Locker Room Zubaz
Aug 8, 2006

:horse:
~*~THE SECRET OF THE MAGICAL CRYSTALS IS THAT I'M FUCKING TERRIBLE~*~

:horse:
he's an ok guy

Amarcarts
Feb 21, 2007

This looks a lot like suffering.
Why don't we just spend 0 money and leave the money the way it is? It's not like because there are no women on money that means we don't value women it's just a historical thing.

NotWearingPants
Jan 3, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo
Nap Ghost
I like watching clips of shows like these because usually people post clips of the better stuff. If I watched every show I'd probably hate him too.

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

cram me sideways posted:

"I am VERY informed about current events AND I have the correct opinion about them. How do I know?" *winks @ u and slyly taps a tiny John Oliver down into chest pocket*

Antifa Spacemarine
Jan 11, 2011

Tzeentch can suck it.
I remember once he was talking about revenge porn and got salty that lawyers wouldn't pick up peoples civil cases regarding them pro bono or something for ??? reason.

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

Pick posted:

In 2014, the Federal Reserve calculated that there are 1.9 billion $10 notes in circulation, and 8.1 billion $20 notes. A fact that takes all of like 5 seconds to look up and would have made the segment a lot clearer. For another comparison, there are approximately 1.1 billion $2 notes in circulation, a bill that a lot of people don't realize exists.

I mean, I run across $2 bills every once in a blue moon, but how are there more than half as many of them as $10 bills? Do people just tend to horde $2 ones for novelty purposes? I find it impossible to believe that 1.1 billion number unless they're overly concentrated in one area to the exclusion of others

That said when I was a kid I used to help deliver pepperidge farm cookies with my grandpa on his route, and one guy who owned a little market we'd stock once a month or less always had massive amounts of $2 he would trade out to anyone who wanted them for some reason. My grandpa would always trade a bunch of $20s and come home with like 50 $2 bills cause he thought it was neat to give them out to people for whatever reason

Aesop Poprock fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Jul 1, 2015

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Don't people give $2 bills as kind of a novelty gift?

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


$2 bills are the perfect counterfeit currency and i would estimate most in circulation are fakes because people handling money get so confused by the presence of a $2 being used to buy something they won't even notice it's been printed on a piece of an old shoe.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

i hope he banged the blonde from the bud light torture scene

kazr
Jan 28, 2005

Amarcarts posted:

Why don't we just spend 0 money and leave the money the way it is? It's not like because there are no women on money that means we don't value women it's just a historical thing.

you know the old adage, gotta spend money to make money

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

John oliver is a good mix of comedy and education

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Happy Bear Suit posted:

John oliver is a good mix of comedy and education

he also wisely worships the USA instead of his home country.

My Q-Face
Jul 8, 2002

A dumb racist who need to kill themselves

My Q-Face posted:

Having the U.S. President most renowned for his hatred of paper money and fiat currency and federal reserve banking be on the most ubiquitous bill in existence is the most America :rock: gently caress Yeah :rock: thing ever. John Oliver does not understand America.

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



Happy Bear Suit posted:

John oliver is a good mix of comedy and education

Aye

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Aesop Poprock posted:

I mean, I run across $2 bills every once in a blue moon, but how are there more than half as many of them as $10 bills? Do people just tend to horde $2 ones for novelty purposes? I find it impossible to believe that 1.1 billion number unless they're overly concentrated in one area to the exclusion of others

I am not going to pretend I have an algorithm superior to that used by the Federal Reserve.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

That's a pretty legit guzzle, especially considering that fake lime poo poo.

fuck the ROW
Aug 29, 2008

by zen death robot

Pick posted:

I am not going to pretend I have an algorithm superior to that used by the Federal Reserve.

Personally I'm not sure "counting" is actually an algorithm but not a math scientist

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

The Sphinxster posted:

That's a pretty legit guzzle, especially considering that fake lime poo poo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjN2BFf-AXs

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

gently caress the ROW posted:

Personally I'm not sure "counting" is actually an algorithm but not a math scientist

"In circulation" doesn't mean "Oh yeah, how many did we print again?"

One of the reasons they made those gimmicky state quarters was to produce money that people would hoard as opposed to spend, a very clever plan to influence seigniorage.

Pick fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Jul 1, 2015

RonMexicosPitbull
Feb 28, 2012

by Ralp
I'm not actually human I'm actually the uncomfortable tepid applause when Stewart felt edgy and made a joke about Obama.

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

gently caress the ROW posted:

I wonder what the name of the man he has sex with is... does anyone know?

Jon Stewart

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

RonMexicosPitbull posted:

I'm not actually human I'm actually the uncomfortable tepid applause when Stewart felt edgy and made a joke about Obama.

Stewart's dumb studio audience would applaud him stomping a rabbit to death on TV.

Matey
Mar 28, 2008

eat food

How many dicks has John Oliver shown on HBO? It better be a lot, because Jon Stewart showed one on Comedy Central where that ain't allowed!

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

RonMexicosPitbull posted:

I'm not actually human I'm actually the uncomfortable tepid applause when Stewart felt edgy and made a joke about Obama.

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
i like he hold his fist out to nobody then his fingers splay out in slomo. but theres nobodyone yhere!

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

The Sphinxster posted:

That's a pretty legit guzzle, especially considering that fake lime poo poo.

It helps that it's watered-down apple juice or some poo poo.

By the way does anyone else wish that real journalists could "tell it like it is?" I bet if John Oliver was given a real news platform and abandoned jokes he'd be great at it.

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

I want to believe! But yeah, I had my doubts the more I watched it.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Aesop Poprock posted:

I mean, I run across $2 bills every once in a blue moon, but how are there more than half as many of them as $10 bills? Do people just tend to horde $2 ones for novelty purposes? I find it impossible to believe that 1.1 billion number unless they're overly concentrated in one area to the exclusion of others

That said when I was a kid I used to help deliver pepperidge farm cookies with my grandpa on his route, and one guy who owned a little market we'd stock once a month or less always had massive amounts of $2 he would trade out to anyone who wanted them for some reason. My grandpa would always trade a bunch of $20s and come home with like 50 $2 bills cause he thought it was neat to give them out to people for whatever reason

$2 bills are the cornerstone of the strip club economy. They pretty much insure that a patron is going to continue spending their money at the club because of the stigma attached to the $2 bill makes for a difficult conversation with the missus when they get back home.

blainestereo
Jan 16, 2013

Never seen him but at least reddit screenshots of his show are marginally funnier than reddit screenshots of that other guy from Community's show.

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 8 days!)

tetsuo posted:

That's like <thing> doing <something thing isn't supposed to do>. No <thing>! You can't do that.

But the real problem is ...

I cannot watch him because of this. It drives me loving insane, he does it EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. and the crowd laughs during every single one.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

The Sphinxster posted:

I want to believe! But yeah, I had my doubts the more I watched it.

Even Hunter S. Thompson did that kind-of poo poo.

blainestereo posted:

Never seen him but at least reddit screenshots of his show are marginally funnier than reddit screenshots of that other guy from Community's show.

The autistic audience stand-in? That dude suuuuuuuuuucks.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
I enjoy his show but I don't usually laugh. I like that he mentions stuff like the chicken farmers though, stuff you don't hear about normally, and I appreciated him talking about FIFA (before it became news in the US).

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

mind the walrus posted:

tell it like it is?

lol

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Pick posted:

I enjoy his show but I don't usually laugh. I like that he mentions stuff like the chicken farmers though, stuff you don't hear about normally, and I appreciated him talking about FIFA (before it became news in the US).

A show so funny it caused Phillip Morris to go after him with attack ads.

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Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005





Need to caption "Republican Pisstears" over this.

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