"I'm just gonna stick this here because I can't really think of a better place to stick it. ...uh... please don't use that out of context for YouTube Poops."
"What?! I didn't say that! I mean, I did, but... that's out of context!"
—Fred Jones, Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed
Fred Jones: Hey, you're doing that thing again where you take everything I say out of context. You're trying to make it look like I think Coolsville sucks! (beat) No! Don't record that!
[later]
Heather Jasper Howe: All Fred Jones had to say was:
Fred Jones: (from earlier) I think Coolsville sucks!
[later]
Heather Jasper Howe: All Fred Jones had to say was:
Fred Jones: (from earlier) I think Coolsville sucks!
"The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
"Sometimes filmmakers, in an attempt to avoid an NC-17 rating for violence, they use some tricks that I've never thought to apply to video games. For example, there's a scene in Evil Dead 2 where a deadite gets hacked to bits with an axe. And so they use green blood instead of red blood... Hatred has a strange color palate, right, where most of the stuff is in black and white... From the perspective of having Katie change the red blood to green blood in editing, it's terrific!... Katie, you don't have a problem with this right?
I'm a- hack- that sucks- at- Blood!
I'm a- hack- that sucks- at- Blood!
"A great example here is the UK Apprentice, a particularly mean-spirited production that does everything it can to make the contestants who take part look like utter imbeciles. And to this end, two insufferable minions are dispatched to follow the contestants around, providing sneer footage whenever a mistake is made. That's their job. They sneer to make other people look stupid on TV. And musically speaking, the show basically has one trick: 'Pizzicato = Stupid'. [...] Here's [a] clip of a contestant haggling with a shop owner. It's actually a fairly playful, good-natured little interaction. But if we turn on the sound, observe how the music is encouraging us to look down on the contestant's performance, and how we're rewarded a moment later with a confirmation sneer edit from mommy."
— Tantacrul, "Music on Reality TV is Insanely Deceptive
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""So on September 17th, Paul and Jim and Amanda go and do this group interview thing. From what Amanda told me later, they had to keep acting out meeting scenes and that it was kind of a drag.
When my wife finally MADE me watch the thing, I was in hysterics watching [host Aamer Haleem] pensively watching the gate... 'Where's Kurt? Where's Kurt? Oooooh!' EVERYONE knew days in advance that I was not coming. The FIRST person to know was Paul. Then the Viacom Inc. people. Then Jim and Amanda. EVERYONE knew. Paul, Jim and Amanda will back me up on that, and I have written documentation from Viacom telling me that they knew.
So [Haleem] is watching the gate, Paul Amanda and Jim are acting out little vignettes about meeting, even though they actually all traveled to the location TOGETHER. Damn right it would have been painful. The most embarrassing (for them) part of all of this was that he then walked in and TOLD Paul, Jim and Amanda that I had decided not to come. (Which, of course, they had heard about before he had) If he KNEW that I wasn't coming, then WHY was he staring at the gate like I just stood him up for a date?? For shame, Voice-Talent Guy. Think of George Washington. 'Still hasn't arrived' indeed. For shame, anonymous Voice-Over Guy. I stood up no one. I have a paper trail that shows that you all knew I wasn't coming, no later than the 9th of September, eight days before the taping."
When my wife finally MADE me watch the thing, I was in hysterics watching [host Aamer Haleem] pensively watching the gate... 'Where's Kurt? Where's Kurt? Oooooh!' EVERYONE knew days in advance that I was not coming. The FIRST person to know was Paul. Then the Viacom Inc. people. Then Jim and Amanda. EVERYONE knew. Paul, Jim and Amanda will back me up on that, and I have written documentation from Viacom telling me that they knew.
So [Haleem] is watching the gate, Paul Amanda and Jim are acting out little vignettes about meeting, even though they actually all traveled to the location TOGETHER. Damn right it would have been painful. The most embarrassing (for them) part of all of this was that he then walked in and TOLD Paul, Jim and Amanda that I had decided not to come. (Which, of course, they had heard about before he had) If he KNEW that I wasn't coming, then WHY was he staring at the gate like I just stood him up for a date?? For shame, Voice-Talent Guy. Think of George Washington. 'Still hasn't arrived' indeed. For shame, anonymous Voice-Over Guy. I stood up no one. I have a paper trail that shows that you all knew I wasn't coming, no later than the 9th of September, eight days before the taping."
— Kurt Harland of Information Society about VH1's Bands Reunited
Sir Humphrey: Bernard, the minutes do not record everything that is said in a meeting do they?
Bernard: Well, no, of course not.
Sir Humphrey: And people change their minds during a meeting, don't they?
Bernard: Well yes.
Sir Humphrey: So the actual meeting is a mass of ingredients for you to choose from.
Bernard: Oh, like cooking.
Sir Humphrey: Lik- No not like cooking Bernard. Better not to use that work in connection with books or minutes. You choose, from a jumble of ill-digested ideas, a version which represents the prime minister's views as he would, on reflection, have liked them to emerge.
Bernard: But if it's not a true record...
Sir Humphrey: The purpose of minutes is not to record events, it is to protect people. You do not take notes if the prime minister says something he did not mean to say, particularly if it contradicts something he has said publicly. You try to improve on what has been said, put it in a better order. You are tactful.
Bernard: Well, no, of course not.
Sir Humphrey: And people change their minds during a meeting, don't they?
Bernard: Well yes.
Sir Humphrey: So the actual meeting is a mass of ingredients for you to choose from.
Bernard: Oh, like cooking.
Sir Humphrey: Lik- No not like cooking Bernard. Better not to use that work in connection with books or minutes. You choose, from a jumble of ill-digested ideas, a version which represents the prime minister's views as he would, on reflection, have liked them to emerge.
Bernard: But if it's not a true record...
Sir Humphrey: The purpose of minutes is not to record events, it is to protect people. You do not take notes if the prime minister says something he did not mean to say, particularly if it contradicts something he has said publicly. You try to improve on what has been said, put it in a better order. You are tactful.
