There was a recent thread here where people listed their favorite “lightbulb” jokes. These are my favorite.
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? It’s actually a pretty obscure number, you’ve probably never heard of it.
How many software engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? None. It’s a hardware problem.
How many Rolling Stones fans does it take to screw in a light bulb? Wouldn’t happen, It could be completely burned out for decades and they wouldn’t notice.
How many members of a minority group does it take to screw in a light bulb? Enough to reinforce my negative opinions of them.
How many flies does it take to screw in a lighbulb? Only two, but how did they get in there?
I’ve been cleaning up my subreddit subscriptions. As with any social news aggregator, Reddit started out as a shining beacon in the world of geek/tech news, but since it has grown, attracting the masses, the quality has only gone downhill.
First off of the list: I unsubscribed from /r/pics. /r/pics happens to be the #1 most popular subreddit, even more than reddit.com, which is either a cause or result of it sucking. Either way, it sucks. Once in a while you’ll see a real gem, but otherwise it’s just a bunch of recycled shit and images that really aren’t that entertaining to be worth it. I’m better off without this stupid subreddit. See ya, pics.
Second to be removed from my subscriptions: /r/atheism. The atheism subreddit used to be a very thoughtful forum filled with intelligent people, and I learned a lot from it while coming to terms with my belief in rationality. While some intelligent discussions still exist within, it has mostly de-evolved into a massive atheist circlejerk. I got tired of seeing the same sensationalist, atheist, circlejerk headlines making it to my front page. I finally decided to unsubscribe, and in it’s place, I subscribed to both /r/skeptic and /r/freethought. By now the quality of my front page has shot up by 300%.
Third of all, I unsubscribed from /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu. When rage comics originally developed as a meme on 4chan a few years ago, they were simple 4-panel illustrations with everyday anecdotes and pitfalls that everyone could relate to. It wasn’t until just in the past year when the subreddit dedicated to these comics decided to whore them out into these huge elaborate graphic novels detailing people’s life-stories, and it was then that they lost their charm. Also, as with any other popular subreddit, the almost total lack of intellectualism put me off. I finally said goodbye to /r/f7u12. Of course there are sometimes still a few gems in there, just as with /r/pics, but the bad outweighs the good. I don’t need to look there for humor anymore.
I think those are the three main ones. There might have been one or two others, but I can’t remember. I know I unsubscribed from /r/music, not because of quality, but simply because none of the articles interested me. Now I am subscribed to /r/electronicmusic and /r/trance which are both much more specific and relevant to my interests.
It’s hard to believe CNN would send some rookie college newspaper reporter out to interview the founder of Wikileaks. What were they thinking? The reporter was warned, repeatedly. In her defense, it looks like she has a pre-established line of questioning that she’s being forced to stick to, but a decent journalist would stop prying and at least get some material, rather than just ruining the interview. She’s probably in much bigger trouble now than she would’ve been if she had just gone off script.
The interview is supposed to be about the ~100,000 unreported deaths in Iraq revealed by the documents that Wikileaks posted on Friday, not about Assange’s own issues.
Also, fuck terrible lighting. The reporter has a bright white aura around her, and Julian Assange is put into a garish red hue like they’re trying to make him look like the devil. This whole interview stinks.
I’m talking about the guy who shows up at a party with his guitar and starts playing without being prompted, thinking that this will make him appear deep and talented and probably get him laid. He’s wrong. Everyone hates that guy and they all wish he’d just shut the hell up and go home because, seriously dude, are you completely oblivious to the fact that a bootleg of the new album by the Faint, which won’t be released for six months, is on the stereo, and also that the redhead you’ve been hitting on all night came with Frank, who makes way more money than you and is an accomplished marine biologist? … Anyway, the point is that you don’t need to be the most awesome thing in the room, and trying to be will generally result in the opposite reaction.