The Cracked Thread

yeah, in his first point, after jennifer aniston photo he goes to tangant that never goes anywhere only to return in the most douchebag matter.

Really craked have become a textboot example of "pseudo SJW who is more concern with being a douchebag" is a damn chore to read now

After that stupid Macklemore video Felix Clay wrote and defended in the comments, I think he can go fuck himself. He's lost all my respect and he's lost all his talent.

Here's my attempt at paraphrasing Clay's point on "Hello" by Adele:

This poster suggests Adele is a stalker. This is challenging the idea that men can't be sexually harassed, which is honestly bullshit, except it isn't because it's kinda funny. But if you're going to apply a double standard to "Hello" by Adele, you also need to apply it to songs like "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. And one of the best ways to make a song look bad is to read too much into its lyrics. So Adele's song clearly isn't creepy. And neither is The Police's. Maybe.

Fuck me sideways.

edited 21st Feb '16 8:29:42 PM by Watchtower

Every Step You Take is creepy as balls, but I accept it as satire.

I wonder how people would react if China banned "Social Justice" activities. I'd be willing to forgive the Chinese for their wrongdoings if they did just that.

I for one don't associate that phrase with The Police but with Funker Vogt instead.

But The Police's Every Breath You Take is Stalker with a Crush the song by the viewpoint of the stalker. Had it been played with a much somber tone it would be outright creepy.

Eh, I wouldn't call it satire. The song is just creepy, but intentionally so.

Yeah it's meant to be creepy, to the point where it's been licenced out for Internet privacy campaigns/organisations that sell you a 'secure' place to keep you data.

I am... honestly, deeply confused by the article as a whole. Title Guy didn't help. "Unfocused" really is the right word.

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1960_20-r-rated-jokes-hiding-in-pop-culture_p4/

Okay, some of these are decent, some are stretches, and some are just... explaining the joke. Seriously, was Q saying Bond was "attempting reentry" veiled at all?!?

And, I hadn't mentioned it in a while but it hasn't become any less true... please stop crediting "Cracked Readers" when it's an Auntie Meme photoplasty. That's bullshit and you know it.

Isn't that satire or am I getting satire wrong?

Satire is often heavily associate with humor and sarcasm, but Google's full translation refers to it as "the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices".

Sting isn't being funny or ironic or over-the-top. He wrote a creepy song. The whole point is that it's a creepy song. That people try to attribute it as a love song with creepy undertones says more of how few people made that connection than anything on Sting's part.

I just thought exaggeration could count as satire.

The song isn't exaggerated. If anything, it's maybe a little too subtle (given how many people don't get it).

I heard that he's disturbed by how many people think Every Breath You Take is romantic.

edited 22nd Feb '16 9:14:39 PM by Psychobabble6

I always thought the song was satire, that it's done to mock the thin line between Stalking is Love and Stalker with a Crush that is completely pervasive in music.

Stalker songs being mistaken for romantic happens a lot. Partly because lonely people can't always tell the difference between stalking and courtship. It's not hard to mistake creepy behavior for endearing when you're desperate for affection.

I had an argument with a female MRA years back who opposed feminism because she wished men would catcall her and follow her home and hit her up with pick-up lines all the time, and thinks the feminists are ruining this wonderful experience for her.

edited 23rd Feb '16 7:42:46 AM by TobiasDrake

Genuine (and awful) question: Was she attractive?

I've seen similar things of women talking about how no matter where they go, they get stalked.

And someone else will kind of express wish they could catch the attention of men that way.

The same question crossed my mind, but I didn't ask because it's kind of an insulting insinuation, especially when whether she is or is not is beside the point. The point is that people who desperately crave attention have trouble making the distinction between positive and negative attention.

edited 23rd Feb '16 8:07:43 AM by TobiasDrake

Well more often than not I see women post against feminism because they like being pampered by men with drinks and compliments or because they don't want to pull their own weight on a relationship and let the man pay for every expenses.

So despise of being harmful to women in general there are some women who are very content with the status quo.

Reminds me of the Dobler-Dahmer thing from How I Met Your Mother.

I actually understand that feeling, irrational as it is. Not that I oppose feminism, mind you - harassment should never be the norm. But I was lonely enough for long enough that any affection, however uncouth, started to look attractive, even if I knew that was an insane thing to think.

Then a stranger groped me at a party and suddenly I stopped feeling that way.

I think if something changed in those women's lives and they became the stalkee they wanted to be, they'd realize very quickly how foolish they were before (at least, for most of them). The desire to be wanted, powerful as it may be, is weaker than the slimy feeling of being harassed or the fear of being stalked.

http://www.cracked.com/article_23642_6-crazy-sci-fi-scenes-that-mirrored-actual-events.html

Having a good giggle with this one.

I guess it is another by Sergei Korolev, his articles so far have been good.

edited 25th Feb '16 6:26:35 AM by AngelusNox

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1958_15-famous-movie-scenes-that-are-perfect-when-sped-up/

Title guy. Ohhhh... title guy. Half of these are sped up. Not slowed down.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-underrated-movies-last-decade/

ATB saying you're wrong for disliking awful things. And he's doing it wrong, too. The Hugh Jackman sketch in Movie 43 was bad. But Victory's Glory was genuinely hilarious.

Goon looks worth a watch, though. I do think Stifler can be pretty funny (The Rundown is one of my favorite flicks).

edited 25th Feb '16 8:56:06 AM by Larkmarn

I watched Goon a couple of Weeks ago, if you like cheap comedy with dick, sex and drinking jokes, knock yourself out.

About the whole sting song: is not that is subtle, is just it suffer a musical version of the poe law, since he just describe what the guy in question does, also the beat is very sweet and calm.

Also in many love song, very intentse emotion and "owing" someone is comon place, but even them the writer just decide that is enought to said Adele and her song are totally free of any guilt, ughhhh.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/trump-will-be-nominee-5-inside-reasons-it-happened/

"#1. Trump Isn't Fooling People Into Voting For Him"... "But what if Trump's supporters aren't dumb idiots, conned into supporting an obvious charlatan? What if they're actually voting for the one guy they don't think is a sleazy con-artist?" Errrr... those two sentences are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they're pretty much mutually inclusive.