The Cracked Thread

http://www.cracked.com/blog/steven-seagal-man-myth-lunatic/

Just as good as reading it is imagining and seeing what Seagal did and claiming he did.

Segal is one of those guys who runs on the Streisand Effect.

I am guessing that's Soren Bowie's last After Hours?

Or Daniel's, seeing as how he is a ghost now.

I was more referring to Soren having announced he was leaving Cracked. But I guess that too?

I've been reading Cracked again lately, as they tend to have some neat articles around Halloween. I read one a couple days ago that was kind of foolish. It was about them becoming a bit political, saying not being political was a political statement. In the Army we had a saying "stay in your lane". I don't think anyone would fault them for sticking to comedy, no more than anyone would fault the Weather Channel's website for not having literary analysis of the works of Edgar Allen Poe.

Random rambling.

One of the Running Gag I'm so sick of in this site is the constant association of Taco Bell (and sometimes Chipotle) with diarrhea and other forms of nasty pooping.

I mean, is there any reliable research/experiment that does prove that those kinds of food cause more poop problem than other fast foods? And no, anecdotes don't count (because if so, I never gotten any such problem).

It's spicy food in general, I think. Never happened to me, but I got a Latino stomach.

I don't know about the accuracy of the claim, but I'm pretty sure it's not something unique to Cracked; here's John Oliver using them as an comparison to for-profit dialysis companies:

It's long been an association Tacos Bell has been privy too. Cracked neither invented nor popularized it. Tacos Bell has long made a point of their low cost items especially compared to other fast food joints which sort of also makes them obvious target (and because, well lets not kid ourselves, those low costs affect what's in the food - see the infamous beef suit). Combined that with how some people's digestion are known to react poorly to spicy stuff (especially if you're not used to it) and well, yeah....

It's the entire reason the joke in Demolition Man works - that Tacos Bell of all restaurants are the one fancy restaurant in the future is funnier because the associated reputation.

edited 30th Oct '17 6:57:22 PM by Ghilz

I've had to stop eating at Taco Bell because it made me ill. Well, that and I hate the food. Absolutely rancid stuff, truthfully, it ain't worth it even if it's cheap.

I'm a huge Taco Bell fan and I'v never had stomach problems from their food.

I have gotten stomach poisoning from Taco Bell tacos many times.

In a more pleasant topic, lesser known things about celebrities that passed away.

I'm rather surprised by how sweet and cool most of the entries are. I braced myself for disturbing infos and thank God it was in vain.

So their last video about how PETA is evil got them a letter from PETA threatening to sue them (Not that PETA ever follows though).

So they took it down and then made a new one doubling down.

Hehe.

I had to laugh at the arrogance of the letter that PETA's lawyer sent Cracked.

That was an ID 10 T error.

http://www.cracked.com/article_25250_somehow-plantation-weddings-are-still-thing.html

A dime for your thoughts ?

My thought: "Oh god why".

My DLC thought for a nickel: "Oh god why fucking damn it south why".

It's especially morbid that they insist on black wedding planners to do this, but of course they refuse to admit it's because they want it to look like slavery. Racist, awful, snide, and collossal amounts of denial. I mean, there are other ways to carry an explicit Southern identity to your wedding. These kinds of people who specifically choose it to be on a plantation and then fucking request black wedding planners to go with it are seriously unaware of their own see-through intentions?

To me, it's specifically the act of trying to solicit black wedding planners for this that's the absolute worst about it. It's like asking Jewish wedding planners to do a Nazi wedding. Indulging in your seriously morbid fetishes is one thing - demanding the assistance of people who have directly suffered as the result of the things you invoke... is quote another.

P.S. "Link-discuss" posts are against the rules, last I heard. Describe the content somewhat please for others.

edited 18th Nov '17 11:26:13 AM by Luminosity

So there was this comment on that article:

...I'm honestly not sure what I should answer to a question like that. I mean, my first instinct is to say "yeah, sure, go for it", but then I wonder if just keeping the fantasy alive is a bad thing to do.

Hmmm, though I suppose, if it's just a building in the style of the time, except without all the slave graveyards or servants' quarters or history or whatever, it should be okay, right?

You don't need to approve of what a piece of architecture was used to do to appreciate it as a piece of architecture. People enjoy the Roman Colosseum without any ethical hangups, despite it being built using slave labor to serve as a site for public executions and bloodsports.

But, yeah, having your wedding at a plantation building and hiring an all black staff? That's fucked up.

Yep it's the good ol' Values Dissonance trope in action. Certain things that may have been cool back in the day generally don't go down as well as they used to. One of those is having black people act as servants at a Southern plantation for your wedding. Now unless maybe you and your significant other to be hopped out of a time machine from 1859 or it somehow actually is 1859 most people will see you as being horrifically racist. Paula Deen found out about this one the hard way a few years ago.

Also as a rule of thumb, if someone can be alive and have memory of people who lived through an event, and said event was incredibly traumatic and an act of sheer cruelty it can be reliably considered Too Soon.

New After Hours.

So the last OG After Hours video ended by revealing DOB was dead. This one ended implying that Swaim is in Hell. Does anyone else think that they'll reveal each of them to be dead as a send-off to the original crew since Soren is leaving?

edited 20th Nov '17 11:47:35 AM by Larkmarn

shit.... if twitter is anything to go by, most of the old guard of Cracked are leaving....

They got laid off. Apparently a good deal of the old guard got laid off except for David Wong. That includes Swaim, DOB, Sargent, John Cheese, Cody Johnston, Katie Willert, Tom Reimann, Abe Epperson, and David C. Bell.

https://twitter.com/jack_obrien/status/937902929326903301?s=17

Jack O'Brien (who'd left in May) is apparently not happy with this.

edited 4th Dec '17 9:47:27 PM by AdricDePsycho