Heffaloo: Dammit. Aimed two threads off.

Jackass.

/this thread is about Jackass.

This is why america is doomed.
/well, this and jersey shore
//and sending idiots to college

Welcome to the funny of Christmas past.

I almost had to do a wiki search to refresh my memory on who these people are.

I think your fifteen minutes are up, Mr. Knoxville.

SomeoneDumb: I think your fifteen minutes are up, Mr. Knoxville.



So does he.

BigDamn: This is why america is doomed.
/well, this and jersey shore
//and sending idiots to college

Interesting, as I was talking to friends who had been to Asia about college. They were saying how in China and other Asian countries, it is incredibly hard to get into college but easy to graduate. In America, it is easy to get in but you aren't guaranteed to graduate.

/Is this on topic? Probably not.
//Am I drunk? Significantly!

Dumb people were around before, they just have more efficient means of communicating their idiocy today.

Flying Jester: BigDamn: This is why america is doomed.
/well, this and jersey shore
//and sending idiots to college

Interesting, as I was talking to friends who had been to Asia about college. They were saying how in China and other Asian countries, it is incredibly hard to get into college but easy to graduate. In America, it is easy to get in but you aren't guaranteed to graduate.

/Is this on topic? Probably not.
//Am I drunk? Significantly!

I just think it's a bad idea to send everyone and their dog to college. It doesn't mean anything anymore - it is what a high school education used to be. And people are spending way to much because they are told it is an "investment"
and the colleges keep hiking tuition because the gov't makes it so everyone can get loans, regardless of whether it is really a good idea.
rambling...
my kids are gonna pay their own way through college
ROTC ftw
/my lawn, off it. NOW.

Stupid sells tickets. I have this great idea, where everyone who buys a ticket to this movie touches it and slowly DIES of an irreversible poison. And everyone they touch dies.

Slowly, the entire world is poisoned the world over. As people writhe in their spasms of uncontrollable vomiting and sobbing, they all cry out "WE CURSE JOHNNY KNOXVILLE!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I thought of a death ray, but that didn't match this thread. Have to stay current on my mad scientist ramblings!

Ed Willy: Dumb people were around before, they just have more efficient means of communicating their idiocy today.

Eh, critical thinking had a brief surge in popularity after the printing press, but it's waned in the last century.

SurahAhriman: Ed Willy: Dumb people were around before, they just have more efficient means of communicating their idiocy today.

Eh, critical thinking rabid religious sectarianism and bad attempts at "literature" had a brief surge in popularity after the printing press, but it's waned in the last century.

/FTFY

Ed Willy: Dumb people were around before, they just have more efficient means of communicating their idiocy today.

Of course, selective breeding only works with food animals and plants! It would never work with humans.

Ed Willy: Dumb people were around before, they just have more efficient means of communicating their idiocy today.

Dumb people used to be content in living out lives as simple as they were. The problem was when we started making them believe they had the intellect to participate in critical decisions, such as deciding on a presidential candidate or owning a TV show. That's why we have people like Bush Jr. and Palin.

@I Like Bread: have you ever bothered to listen to the shiat that comes out of Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, or Maxine Waters? Or is it just your opposition that miraculously has a monopoly on stupid?

/fark career politicians

Jaws_Victim: Stupid sells tickets. I have this great idea, where everyone who buys a ticket to this movie touches it and slowly DIES of an irreversible poison. And everyone they touch dies.

Slowly, the entire world is poisoned the world over. As people writhe in their spasms of uncontrollable vomiting and sobbing, they all cry out "WE CURSE JOHNNY KNOXVILLE!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I thought of a death ray, but that didn't match this thread. Have to stay current on my mad scientist ramblings!

I very much like the way you think. My first experience with Jackass was the second movie. Never saw the show or the first movie, and when I watched the sequel, I felt like I was missing something. I laughed one time throughout the entire movie and I was high as a kite. I don't see what's funny about any of it. I did think it was all incredibly homosexual though, probably the gayest movie I've ever seen.

What's truly sad is that this is gonna be one of the better movies of the year.

/It's gonna be a stupid movie, but at least Knoxville et al aren't gonna pretend otherwise

you guys are so boring. jackass can be pretty hilarious. it's funny to watch other peoples extreme stupidity on screen.

will probably be more original and interesting than Avatar's script

Anodos: @I Like Bread: have you ever bothered to listen to the shiat that comes out of Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, or Maxine Waters? Or is it just your opposition that miraculously has a monopoly on stupid?

/fark career politicians

I'm going out on a limb here to say you don't know shiat about Carter's presidency. In fact, it's a safe bet you weren't even alive then and can't even name one of his accomplishments without loading up Wikipedia.

hmm, *without loading wikipedia* not standing up to OPEC/oil companies, bribing Israel and Egypt with the largest and second-largest "aid" packages we've paid to stop going at each others' throats and calling it an exercise in shrewd diplomacy, and accusing Americans of being in a "malaise" that surely had nothing to do with poor federal-level handling of economic problems (without offering or attempting to offer real solutions) during stagflation, and bending over for Iran/ordering a half-assed military mission that made us a laughingstock.

/wasn't alive then, is one of those pesky minorities of "young folks" who reads.
//without using wikipedia, what were some of Carter's "accomplishments?"

and before someone else swings by to biatch, ILB brought up the politics with the swipe at Republicans in what was supposed to be a thread making fun of generically stupid people and Jackass.

/stupid is as stupid does, regardless of party
//Jackass is funny, if you can get back into adolescent mode
///thinks that the series was just a modern manifestation of the court jesters of old, who also did stupid, self-abusing shiat for laughs
////slashes, all around!

Katie Couric approves.

I am glad they are making another. Jackass are mind numbingly stupid, but damn if I don't laugh from beginning to end. I actually was sore the day after I saw Jackass 2 from laughing so hard.

One of my personal favorites (new window)

galactus5000: Bill Frist: will probably be more original and interesting than Avatar's script

OK, we get it, you didn't like Avatar. You can go away now.

What's this, a thread that mentions Avatar, Cameron, or 3D technology? It is of utmost importance that I express my dislike for it so when internet archaeologists read this 500 years from now they'll be able to document exactly how I felt.

BigDamn: //and sending idiots to college

Ever since the first sports scholarship, baby.

And you've just kept on digging ever since,

Especially pertinent:


/As long as it makes you care about whose ass it is and why it's farting

This thread must be full of Gallagher and Carlos Mencia fans.

Lighten up.

Also, for Anodos, don't put words in quotations if they are not quotations (re: malaise). By doing so, it shows that you don't read very much, and also what light your information comes from.

If we aren't already there we sure are on the way.

Liking Jackass doesn't make you a moron. You're allowed to enjoy high-brow and low-brow comedy. It's okay to laugh at Annie Hall and Animal House. You don't have to take sides on farking everything. Christ.

As a fan of finer cinema, from Schindler's List to Blade Runner, a snoot, a snob, a person who will inform you of how little TV she watches and why The DaVinci Code is bad and you should feel bad...

I'll be there day one.

I'll readily admit I liked both the Jackass series and the movie. In some ways they're like the Mythbusters episodes we all wish Discovery channel would sanction. I mean...who, as a kid, didn't wonder what would happen if you rigged a bunch of bottle rickets to a pair of roller skates? Or wondered how a rental car agency clerk would react if you brought one of their cars back totaled?

/but then I also liked "Beavis and Butthead"

npt: This thread must be full of Gallagher and Carlos Mencia fans.

Lighten up.

Also, for Anodos, don't put words in quotations if they are not quotations (re: malaise). By doing so, it shows that you don't read very much, and also what light your information comes from.

No, it just means that I hadn't memorized the text of the speech (remember, I didn't use references when responding, granted you have to take that on faith, but FWIW I didn't.) To the second point, yes, it does; I didn't claim to be a perfect moderate bipartisan here. The speech is commonly referred to as the "Malaise Speech" when under discussion, not just in center-right, or right-wing circles. I just bristle when someone leaves an offhand comment against Republicans as somehow the only party with politicians who are dumber than a box of rocks. There are more than enough examples of borderline retardation in the Democratic Party to provide counterpoint to the Republicans, and I'm especially sick of hearing the simultaneous "you all should embrace Obama, be bipartisan and accept his changes for this country" while the anti-Bush wharrrrgarbl continues unabated in every single facet of discourse.

I'm glad you chose to use the ad hominem to imply I "don't read very much;" I would challenge even the well-read to recall without references handy the exact wording, rather than the titles, of things like Presidential speeches or exact dates of things like legislation, etc.

/Welcome to Fark, I know

This is why we can't have nice things.

One of the best parts of the Jackass movies, the entire vibe from the Jackass crew really, is that they are completely unpretentious. They know what they are doing is really gross, really stupid, and really, really gay, but they do it anyways. They also laugh at themselves.

Juxtapose that to fark, which is filled to the brim with annoying pretentiousness, people who claim intellectual superiority in between photos of smiling pears, and guys who will never laugh at themselves.

Who would you rather watch shove a match box car up their ass?

BilltheThrill: One of the best parts of the Jackass movies, the entire vibe from the Jackass crew really, is that they are completely unpretentious. They know what they are doing is really gross, really stupid, and really, really gay, but they do it anyways. They also laugh at themselves.

Juxtapose that to fark, which is filled to the brim with annoying pretentiousness, people who claim intellectual superiority in between photos of smiling pears, and guys who will never laugh at themselves.

Who would you rather watch shove a match box car up their ass?

Paging Zamboro to let you know how he's right and you are wrong...

Hibno: You're allowed to enjoy high-brow and low-brow comedy. It's okay to laugh at Annie Hall and Animal House.

Fascinating. But does this leniency also extend to films whose initials are not A.H.?

Jackass is hilarious to watch in theaters. You farkers are a sad bunch...