This art is well and truly alive in football(soccer) pubs today, at least in the 10+ ones I frequent on occasion. No one there respects stats or facts or whatever. Everyone is always right.
The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
No offense but that doesn't sound fun at all. Imagine walking into your friend's place and he says to you, "Oh yeah, no googling. Thanks."
What, googling and stopping a fun conversation when your riffing with your friends is more fun?
In my experience there's riffing, laughter, someone thinks to check google, then more riffing and laughter.
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#43There was a comedian that talked about this a couple years ago.
The old 'Swear to God' that would prove any piece of fine BS to your friends, is no longer valid. Swear to Google is the new 'believe me'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoVxOLew_cU (towards the end).
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#44Except if you find a conspiracy website that say that they are, and your friend will tell you that's a conspiracy and THEY are sibling. That's juste what they want you to believe.
Here in france we have a lot of people that believe theses websites
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#45I'm struggling to identify what it is about this nostalgia that infuriates me so deeply. Perhaps it's just fascinating to me that so many people find it fun to be in stupid situations. I find it barbaric and twisted.
More productively, I wonder how people would respond to this after having grown up with the boundary of their 30s knowledge horizon roughly equivalent to that of humanity's experts 10yr prior. Anyone born since ~2000 perhaps is in this situation. Will they have eliminated this kind of "fun" "bullshit" from their behavior completely?
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#46I'm struggling to identify what it is about this nostalgia that infuriates me so deeply. Perhaps it's just fascinating to me that so many people find it fun to be in stupid situations. I find it barbaric and twisted. More productively, I wonder how people would respond to this after having grown up with the boundary of their 30s knowledge horizon roughly equivalent to that of humanity's experts 10yr prior. Anyone bor…
1. Provide instant answers to everyone on the planet
2. No one ever lies again
3. ???
4. Star Trek becomes real
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#47I have a rule I always follow, and have convinced many friends of too -- no Googling/Wikipedia-ing in social settings. If nobody knows something (trivia-like), it's almost always a lot more fun to continue not knowing. Sure, look it up when you get home. But a little group self-discipline goes far in keeping the fine art of bullshitting alive. (And it's not just the answer that kills the conversation, but also the fa…
My rule goes further: it's called the phone stack. I suggest you try, it's pretty awesome. Rule: all phones head down in a stack. That's it, go enjoy people a little
Sounds awful. For me social situations always tend to be boring or exhausting after a while and then my phone is my saviour until I feel like getting back into the action again. Without it I wouldn't even attend.
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#48I have a rule I always follow, and have convinced many friends of too -- no Googling/Wikipedia-ing in social settings. If nobody knows something (trivia-like), it's almost always a lot more fun to continue not knowing. Sure, look it up when you get home. But a little group self-discipline goes far in keeping the fine art of bullshitting alive. (And it's not just the answer that kills the conversation, but also the fa…
My rule goes further: it's called the phone stack. I suggest you try, it's pretty awesome. Rule: all phones head down in a stack. That's it, go enjoy people a little
The real fun begins when some phone is on vibration and someone calls.
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#49I'm struggling to identify what it is about this nostalgia that infuriates me so deeply. Perhaps it's just fascinating to me that so many people find it fun to be in stupid situations. I find it barbaric and twisted. More productively, I wonder how people would respond to this after having grown up with the boundary of their 30s knowledge horizon roughly equivalent to that of humanity's experts 10yr prior. Anyone bor…
For me it's the assumption that if since a particular circumstance triggered an interesting social interaction, that the lack of that circumstance would mean that no interesting social interaction would occur.
At the base, it's the same hollow critique of millennials: because they do things differently (e.g. interact socially online as well as in person) they must be missing out on all the great things that the Boomers experienced.
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#50Sadly google hasn't killed "the bullshit". The rise of personal/social media means that we can live in our own bubble of whatever view we choose.
This was exposed quite starkly with this story: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...
If you exclude the pro/cons comments (and the abuse) you're left with loads of "charities have the cure, they are holding them back"
they defy sense, yet are reassured by the people about them.