How im also raising my little guy
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Life of Brian is arguably better for a ensmuggening Python based education.
Nah, Life of Brian was just decent commentary. Holy Grail was silly in a pointless way that resonated with Nerd Boys in the 2000s.
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I rewatched Mythbusters recently. It's pretty disturbing, especially in the early seasons, how often they use actual human remains for what is essentially light entertainment. Like, they'll destroy an actual human skull for shits and giggles. They had disproved the myth on setting off an airbag with a slim jim and firing it into the head of a would be car jacker, but still had to replicate the results, so just shot a slim jim into an actual human skull, cheering and laughing as it's decimated. That was an actual person's skull. How they sourced it, and where the source acquired it, who knows. I'm fairly certain there is a family somewhere though that would be mortified.
Jamie personally sourced it. That's all you need to know.
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Lotr is overrated, there i said it
Doesn't matter, it's not on the list for quality. It's an important piece.
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Do they say they're actual human remains? They make realistic facsimiles specifically for testing things like they test.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]They do. They even go to a specific shop in one of the episodes: The Bone Room.
The Bone Room was famous - within its niche - around the world. Featured on Mythbusters, as well as having several appearances on local news magazines, written up in articles in local and nationwide publications, and listed in guidebooks, The Bone Room was a destination for travelers and one of the must-see places for locals to bring their visiting friends and relatives.
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Cosmos (the original)
Connections with James Burke
Secret Life of Machines
All of David MacAulay’s books
Connections 1 and 2. Maybe not 3.
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Yeah but fewer people get the references
If they don't get the references, they're just casuals.
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They do. They even go to a specific shop in one of the episodes: The Bone Room.
The Bone Room was famous - within its niche - around the world. Featured on Mythbusters, as well as having several appearances on local news magazines, written up in articles in local and nationwide publications, and listed in guidebooks, The Bone Room was a destination for travelers and one of the must-see places for locals to bring their visiting friends and relatives.
"Meemaw, I'm so glad you came to see me! ...wanna go see some human remains?"
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Cool. Like Ed Kemper.
Nice. Very cool.
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Nah, Life of Brian was just decent commentary. Holy Grail was silly in a pointless way that resonated with Nerd Boys in the 2000s.
Does Holy Grail not resonate with Nerd Boys now?
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Does Holy Grail not resonate with Nerd Boys now?
I'm a Nerd Man now, I can't say.
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I'm a Nerd Man now, I can't say.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah me too. I'm just thinking it over when I can introduce it to my boy. He's still too young, but probably a couple of years. I think I was like 11
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Youre very welcome to hold your incorrect opinion but please do not try to ruin other peoples fun. You could also tell us why you have your still very wrong opinion
Perhaps they also fell asleep during the movies. I certainly know I did.
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Lotr is overrated, there i said it
Even if you dislike the story, its impact on the fantasy genre is hard to argue against. I personally dislike the series too, but I refuse to call it overrated because it influences basically every aspect of modern fantasy writing.
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Yeah me too. I'm just thinking it over when I can introduce it to my boy. He's still too young, but probably a couple of years. I think I was like 11
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I kinda feel like kids these days are exposed to weird shit earlier than we were. I'd worry less about him being too young and more worried about the psychic damage you're gonna take when he thinks it's boring.
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I kinda feel like kids these days are exposed to weird shit earlier than we were. I'd worry less about him being too young and more worried about the psychic damage you're gonna take when he thinks it's boring.
I was worried he was going to be like that with Harry Potter. When I started reading it to him he fell in love with it almost right away. I have to cut off the time I spend on it because he'll just beg me to keep reading all night if I could.
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Don't forget futurama and star trek
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Connections 1 and 2. Maybe not 3.
Yeah, that one wasn’t nearly as good
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I would add Kids in the Hall.
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I rewatched Mythbusters recently. It's pretty disturbing, especially in the early seasons, how often they use actual human remains for what is essentially light entertainment. Like, they'll destroy an actual human skull for shits and giggles. They had disproved the myth on setting off an airbag with a slim jim and firing it into the head of a would be car jacker, but still had to replicate the results, so just shot a slim jim into an actual human skull, cheering and laughing as it's decimated. That was an actual person's skull. How they sourced it, and where the source acquired it, who knows. I'm fairly certain there is a family somewhere though that would be mortified.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I would be psyched as hell for my remains to be used on one of the most influential educational science shows of the era (plus like, that is a metal AF use for my skull). IDK, I know I'm not one of those people that venerates remains but even if I was, this seems like a grander memorial and contribution to science than having your remains parted out to then sit for years in a box in a closet, waiting for the physical anthro undergrads to do the "reassemble the original hands from this mixed up pile of phalanges" exercise for the umpteenth time.
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I would be psyched as hell for my remains to be used on one of the most influential educational science shows of the era (plus like, that is a metal AF use for my skull). IDK, I know I'm not one of those people that venerates remains but even if I was, this seems like a grander memorial and contribution to science than having your remains parted out to then sit for years in a box in a closet, waiting for the physical anthro undergrads to do the "reassemble the original hands from this mixed up pile of phalanges" exercise for the umpteenth time.
The key distinction here is your will. The will of these people is unkown. Their consent is unkown. If you're looking at the skulls for sale on the bone room for example, they don't even know the specific age of most of the skulls and are forced to guess within a range. If they don't even know how old they are how can they know with any certainty the circumstances of their death? Where in the world can you just find an unclaimed skull to sell? What are the chances that these skulls aren't the skulls of poor people, or otherwise disenfranchised people? It doesn't take much imagination to draw the conclusion that the ethics surrounding the buying and selling of human skulls, and then destroying them for no other reason than the momentary entertainment of of the global 1% is at the very best a grey area.
