So the inimitable Hbomberguy has a new video taking on the pickup artists we here at We Hunted the Mammoth have grown to know and loathe, focusing on two of the most loathesome, Roosh V and Matt Forney.
Watch it! This is one of those very rare 30 minute YouTube videos that’s worth watching (that doesn’t involve cats, Russian drivers, or pimple popping).
Well that was creepy yet enjoyable.
Go is alright. Some of the humor is a eh but it has a lot of winks and nudges from the comic. I think a lot of people don’t like it because it wasn’t a reboot or continuation (plus apparently the dudes working on it never saw the original show) but its own thing. They wanted the Muppets but got the Muppet Babies.
They’re alright. I mean, the only version of them I’ve seen are the terrible remastered version with all these weird and unneeded scenes added back in but they were still alright.
BioWare game, people. BioWare.
@Jack
Stealing that! 🙂
@ Star Wars
I watched the movies for the first time a year ago. Found the original trilogy quite entertaining! I mean, not my favourite thing in the world, but I liked it a lot and I can see why people love It and consider It a masterpiece. The prequels are… There? I find them ok. Not good, but OK. I would be mad if i eagerly waited years for them to come out if I was a fan, but as I didnt and am not, I didnt care. What made me really jump into the Star Wars bandwagon though was The Force Awakens (I bought expensive licensed products and everything!) and Rogue One. Maybe because I saw them at the cinema, but dammit, I finally actually understood what people liked about it. Yes, I enjoyed It more than the prequels. SUE ME.
@Axe
You like Teen Titans GO? YOU LIKE TEEN TITANS GO?! David, Ive had enough, block him.
http://img.memecdn.com/reposters—get-out_o_405779.gif
Nah, kidding, I think its ok. I wish CN wouldnt invest SO MUCH time and money on it, but compared to Uncle Grandpa and Mighty Magiswords its a goddamn masterpiece of animation and humor. If you like those, THEN I will feel offended. Sorry, I just will, its too awful, there are so many wonderful shows waiting to be funded 🙁
OK, I wont get offended or dislike you but youre still everything wrong with the world.
@Scolar
Oh, my sweet summer child…
http://www1.pictures.livingly.com/it/Spring+2015+Attendees+r7fOBIxQquKl.jpg
Shorter Nick:
“HBomberguy did not treat my hate-boner for the prequels with the respect it deserves! RRARH!”
Seconding Chiomara, but me without the tact.
@Chio
Agreed on 2 points: Uncle Grandpa is distilled ass, and Force Awakens is the best SW movie. Not close. Also, Cary Grant is always welcome. In a double breast no less? *swoons*
Finally, I have something worth stealing.
IDK about Mighty Magiswords but the few episodes of Uncle Grandpa I’ve seen have been, you know, alright, like I’ve been saying about everything today.
It felt…nice, having a cheerful dude go around and helping kids and friends with their problems. Yeah, the random and even surrealist humor isn’t for everyone but it isn’t, like, complete trash. And Giant Realistic Flying Tiger was great.
But you know what cartoons are really ass, though? Those CGI Mickey Mouse cartoons on Disney Junior. Ugh. Kids deserve better than that shit.
@Jack
Meh, Regular Show did surrealism right. Uncle Grandpa seems to rely too much on the random for my taste
Diminishing returns IMO. And not enough to carry the whole show on her back
…
And, uhm, I hate you, and you’re wrong and stuff. Angry Disagreement!!1!!
WORD. I am a huge fan of “random” or surrealist humor. I REALLY am, to a level not even I know what im laughing at or why. But its like, erm… Say you tell someone you like bananas, so they draw bananas in everything you own and make It smell like bananas too.
They grabbed something you said you like, completely misunderstood It, then saturated everything with it.
So, they grabbed Gumball, Adventure Time, Regular Show, completely misunderstood what people liked about it, then made a show so saturated of what they assumed It was that its unwatchable. Its so freaking forced and hamfisted. Ugh. I really dont like that thing.
By the way, DID YOU EVER WATCH JOREL’S BROTHER?! You haver to, please do, especially in a way where you can support the writer. Its a brazilian show, its nonsense, its hilarious, It has a ton of pop culture references, it is also reeeeally brazilian (like, the place they live, they school, the… Everything is very middle-class brazilian, they dont try to mimick the american lifestyle), its based on the life of the author, its on CN and I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows the creator and says hes a reeeeally sweet and awesome guy, so please support him. Brazilian animation industry needs and deserves your support. Way more than *focus on my angry face on a scary lighting* Uncle Grandpa.
@NickNameNick
It sounds as though hbomberguy can be patronizing. I hate being patronized. Unfortunately, being talked down to seems to come with the territory of being female.
And the only Star Wars movie I’ve really liked was the first one, which was amazing. I saw it in LA before the reviews came out, so I feel like I visited a strange land before the other tourists showed up.
But I’m going to separate out hbomberguy’s character from this video, which I thought was pretty funny. I love to laugh at PUAs. IMO, their defining characteristic is an inability to laugh at themselves. Someone’s gotta laugh at them, and I’m happy to step up to the plate.
‘Is that just the way they talk or are there places in England with an accent like that?’
Well I wouldn’t recommend Swindon as a tourist destination. Though it is near this amazing thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ridgeway
I’ve been out on the Ridgeway a couple of times, but not nearly enough given how close I am to it–maybe this year will be the year I pack up and go for a week or so. I’ve told people I want to spend a solstice here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland%27s_Smithy
but last December I was too afraid to.
Waylands Smithy is awesome. I can only imagine what it looks like at the solstice.
It’s easy to see how Iron Age immigrants would have thought that it was built by deities, especially if they themselves didn’t build with stone.
@Guest
So… The disgusting way they talk IS due to an especific accent?
Those places are gorgeous. I love England :’)
@Chiomara I can’t bring myself to be subjected to listening to any more of these people than I have, but I’ve been informed Sargon is from/lives in Swindon (where I happen to work), and I know what they sound like….
Here are the best accents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8qgW8rGbw
http://www.wimp.com/patrick-stewart-recites-a-poem-in-his-native-yorkshire-dialect/
Go to Newcastle! Go to Yorkshire!
@EJ The story is that if you leave your horse overnight at Wayland’s Smithy it will have new shoes in the morning. A friend from the area, who raises horses, said her family was so hard up at one point they were considering doing it. But, as a native, she does warn that the place is very powerful, and if I want to spend a night there I should be fully prepared and not take it lightly; I think she’s right.
@guest:
While I don’t believe in the supernatural, I’m not going to disrespect those who do; because of that, I’ll avoid staying overnight there.
The thing that absolutely blows my mind about it is that it feels like it’s not anchored in time. With the trees around it hiding everything modern, it gave me the sense that it looked exactly like this two thousand years ago and would look exactly like this in another two thousand years. If I stepped out of that circle of trees, would I return to my own time period?
@EJ That’s exactly the experience I’m after when I pick a place for my yearly late-summer walk. If I’m lucky I can go a whole day not knowing when in history I actually am.
…I may have ordered one off of Amazon just recently.
If it helps any, it’s because my yardwork pants don’t have any pockets in them, and I want my phone/music and keys with me while I’m doing yardwork, and I feel no confusion as to how much of a dweeb I’ll look like. :S
@ guest
I have a bit of a thing for spending the night at neolithic and bronze age spots. It is an amazing feeling. Of course I may just be hyping myself up for that; but I do think there is objectively ‘something’ about such places. Maybe it’s in the land itself and that’s why they built there?
At my.favourite circle, Boscowan-Un, one of the stones is a solid block of quartz, and when a full moon shines on that it seems otherworldly in every sense.
@ EJ
You ever read any of the stuff on archeo-astronomy? Some of it is highly speculative woo; but there’s a lot of serious and plausible theories out there.
The new research on Stonehenge throws up a fascinating detail. What were previously thought to be artificial ditches along the avenue are now known to be natural ridges from the ice age. So our ancestors found a spot where not only did the landscape naturally align with the solar solstices; it’s also at a latitude where all the major lunar events occur at exactly 90′ to the solar events. No wonder they thought it was special.
@Alan That looks like a lovely spot. I’ll mention it to my megalith-hunting partner; maybe we’ll go visit. My personal favourite is the principal site at Callanish, just because to me it’s the most aesthetically pleasing. I also love Castlerigg, because you can really see how the shapes of the stones replicate the shapes of the mountains surrounding them.
@ guest
It is so weird you said that because my standard comment on Callanish is “It’s definitely the most aesthetically pleasing”! Spooky. But if it was the only example we had I bet the prominent theory for why it was built would be the neolithic populations just had a thing for public art. It really is beautiful. Some trendy architect could just plonk it down in the middle of a city centre today and we’d all be admiring it.
I think it’s the elegance of the stones. There’s good evidence that Callanish was the prototype ‘circle’ but that very flat pavement granite just isn’t readily available elsewhere. I have a soft spot for Callanish IV. That’s the one where originally it was thought half of it had fallen due to cliff erosion but we now know it was built ‘as is’. I’m just intrigued by the mindset of someone going “I don’t want a whole one, just half will do”. I’d like to think that was just some oronary bugger being contrarian.
@Scolar Visari
I used to think that “spinning in one’s grave” was exclusively reserved for actions that the deceased would disagree with. Would Thatcher, the Milk Snatcher, really have an objection to cutting meal subsidies to poor schoolchildren?
@Alan I bought the guidebook when I was there because of a hilarious picture in it, of something someone did for the Fringe in the ’70s–a set of life-sized (presumably) papier-mache replicas of the stones, with their little feet sticking out underneath, dancing down the street behind a piper. I just went on Google to see if that pic might be online; it doesn’t appear to be, but I can’t resist posting these:
The place we stayed was down the hill from a circle that had been recently discovered, the stones of which had been deliberately toppled–people conjecture that the circles were supposed to be for protection, and when the thing they were supposed to be protecting the community from actually happened anyway people pushed the stones down.
@axecalibur
Hieronymus makes powertools and washing machines and electric motors and stuff. Dunno about Barney though, I’d have to google him.
When people think Hieronymus Bosch they think ‘butt music from hell’:
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/a_little_ass_music_hieronymus_boschs_500_year_old_butt_song_from_hell