"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
Friend of mine once drew a comic about a little bear and his dad that went somewhat like this:
"Daaaaddy, I'm hungry!!!!"
...
"Daaaadddy!!!"
"What's up?"
"I have to go to the toilet."
"Then go."
"Nooooooooo!"
And at that point the younger bear ripped off his dad's head, dropped it on the floor and then peed on it. Pretty awesome, huh?
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"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
Joined: 2/20/2010
Posts: 209
Location: I'm in space
I think this may be particularly applicable to discouraged TASers:
Link to video** I just watched it again and noticed what happens to that poor guy's bike at the end (in the woods), and spat my food on my monitor
Oh, play it cool. Play it cool. Here come the space cops.
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Maybe I'm just weird, but I can't stop laughing at this. The song itself is hilarious; I'm going to start using "Bill Clinton stuff" in my own lexicon!
No, you just haven't realized yet that guys like him get paid to do stuff like this. They aren't completely nuts, they're just pretending to be for your entertainment. The makers of the show hope you don't notice and keep watching it. Makes you feel good because it makes you feel superior. In this special case they might not have known that he was going to show off his d (or whatever it actually was that he has shown), but I'm not too sure about that either.
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goldfish wrote:
I think this may be particularly applicable to discouraged TASers:
bike kid video
I like this one
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"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
No, you just haven't realized yet that guys like him get paid to do stuff like this. They aren't completely nuts, they're just pretending to be for your entertainment. The makers of the show hope you don't notice and keep watching it.
Yeah dude; I used to live in LA and had friends that were casting directors and producers. I know how this shit works.
That being said, most of the crazies you see on reality shows are NOT being paid. Reality shows are notably stingy with their budgets; no one wants to pay someone when you can get a suitably entertaining replacement for free.
Regardless, I don't know what it has to do with the video being funny or not.
You sound like an 8 year old who just discovered Santa is fake and goes around telling every adult this. Believe it or not, most of us are aware that reality shows are largely scripted.
Kuwaga wrote:
Makes you feel good because it makes you feel superior.
No, it makes me feel good because it's freaking funny, especially coupled with the goofy lyrics and horrified crowd reaction.
Anyways,
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Oh, I wasn't trying to imply they're always getting paid by the makers of the show. Main message was that it's mostly an act by them and I know for a fact that some of them are privatly making money for pretending to be the idiots they seem to be. For others it's just the attention. Let's see if you'll still find it as funny when another guy turns up and does basically the same thing but in a leopard suit on the next show. ;p At some point, it just gets lame.
As I couldn't come up with anything good, here's some random K-Pop instead:
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Oh, I wasn't trying to imply they're always getting paid by the makers of the show. Main message was that it's mostly an act by them and I know for a fact that some of them are privatly making money for pretending to be the idiots they seem to be. For others it's just the attention. Let's see if you'll still find it as funny when another guy turns up and does basically the same thing but in a leopard suit on the next show. ;p At some point, it just gets lame.
For someone who links to crappy K-pop and boring lip-sync videos, you sure talk a lot of shit about other peoples' links, huh?
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