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Pluto wrote:Okay, but if the joke teller explains the joke it isn't a joke anymore.

If I don't understand a joke, it is obviously not funny to me, but if you explain it, then it is funny because I now understand it. Take a course in logic, my friend.

"...last year, as millions of westerners found themselves transfixed by South Korean pop video Gangnam Style, a film entitled Propaganda was uploaded to YouTube. Purporting to have been made by North Korean apparatchiks, but subsequently revealed to be a New Zealand-produced mockumentary, it makes the compelling case that in the west today there is no distinction between propaganda, advertising and mass consumerism. A political system that protects elites and provides a mere illusion of democratic choice relies on a population enthralled by the latest iPhone."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... cial-media

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-25HOVRtaMk

I'm sorry, but that's the biggest load of horseshit I've heard in some time.

It isn't your cnn, abc, fox, news, for sure.

Pluto wrote:It isn't your cnn, abc, fox, news, for sure.

Right, all of the American news media are in a fucking conspiracy against the entire world. I wish I knew how they have been able to get away with it for so long.

Right, all of the American news media are in a fucking conspiracy against the entire world...

You said this not me.

I wish I knew how they have been able to get away with it for so long.

It's something to do with only allowing a handful to know all. The others just do their job.

So says the ouzo prophet.

Pluto wrote:So says the ouzo prophet.

That's me, Bob the Baptist, the new guru, the modern messiah, the Wizard of Ouzo.