What Are You Doing Right Now? (118 Viewers)

[Martin]

Its just his style - long rambling/detailed rants. He was super intelligent. Few comedians take that much intelligence and awareness into their routines - Bill Hicks/Doug Stanhope are similar but more crass.

I just think it's sad that out of what 13 specials he did, okay I haven't seen them all but I have seen enough, only about the last one was actually good. Everything before that contained a lot of ideas that could have been done well, but were completely wasted and overrun by a constant stream of toilet humor.

I don't understand why people need to feel disgusted in order to laugh, what is this bizarre deficiency? I really detest this dumbing down to the lowest common denominator.

Bill Hicks/Doug Stanhope btw I find waaaay more watchable.

 

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[Ford Prefect]

I just think it's sad that out of what 13 specials he did, okay I haven't seen them all but I have seen enough, only about the last one was actually good. Everything before that contained a lot of ideas that could have been done well, but were completely wasted and overrun by a constant stream of toilet humor.

I don't understand why people need to feel disgusted in order to laugh, what is this bizarre deficiency? I really detest this dumbing down to the lowest common denominator.

Bill Hicks/Doug Stanhope btw I find waaaay more watchable.

Bill Hicks was great because he was always to the point, "a bullet in the heart of consumerism". I found his off the topic stuff - goat boy etc. boring, Doug Stanhope is crass but only to the point of pointing out how ridiculous something is, he is again always to the point and focused on what he is attacking.

Carlin spends ten minutes getting to the point and explaining what he means and mixes it up with as you say 'toilet humour'.

Bill Hicks died as an "anonymous figure" in the US and only really having a following in the UK. Doug Stanhope tours small venues around europe and even smaller in the US - his main audience again is in Europe. George Carlin has numerous TV Specials, Sell out tours in big venues and appeared often on primetime tv....Toilet humour sells, because big audiences don't have the attention span to focus on one subject in detail without distractions.

 

[swag]

Met this Bolivian chick tonight. Said she was having man trouble.

What did I tell you about hooking up with Bolivian trannies?

:d hey swag, hey ya people..posting from work...nursing hangovers is a bitch

Yeah! So Europe doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving... right!

A lot of mediterreanean woman peak in their mid twenties but start shrinking & seriously lose their look once they hit their late 30's. I've seen it happen with A LOT of Portugese women.

My wife is a few months older than me. When we were back in the Azores a year ago, we met a cousin of hers on her father's side for the first time. He's practically in his 70s, but then her dad was 29 years older than her mom (not a lot of choice on a small island and all).

Cool guy -- he was kind of like the Portuguese William Shatner. Anyway, we met his two youngest daughters, who were younger than my wife by a decade. They looked at least a decade older than her.

Something in the water or what...

Just came back from a 4 hour walk. Pretty worn out, but couldn't spend the whole day not doing anything or else my muscles would kill me.

One of these days they will introduce cars in Europe and this will be a lot easier on you.

 

[Martin]

Bill Hicks was great because he was always to the point, "a bullet in the heart of consumerism". I found his off the topic stuff - goat boy etc. boring, Doug Stanhope is crass but only to the point of pointing out how ridiculous something is, he is again always to the point and focused on what he is attacking.

Carlin spends ten minutes getting to the point and explaining what he means and mixes it up with as you say 'toilet humour'.

Bill Hicks died as an "anonymous figure" in the US and only really having a following in the UK. Doug Stanhope tours small venues around europe and even smaller in the US - his main audience again is in Europe. George Carlin has numerous TV Specials, Sell out tours in big venues and appeared often on primetime tv....Toilet humour sells, because big audiences don't have the attention span to focus on one subject in detail without distractions.

Exactly, so the product is a reflection of the consumer. Just like Macdonalds. Which is another

Anyway, not all comics do that. Seinfeld. Gaffigan. Bill Bailey. All pretty successful.

 

[Hust]

Looking to buy property in the Caribbean and/or Hawaii to own, rent all year long until I go on vacations.

Anyone have any thoughts as to where you would recommend?

 

[Martin]

Looking to buy property in the Caribbean and/or Hawaii to own, rent all year long until I go on vacations.

Anyone have any thoughts as to where you would recommend?

Hawaii is rather far. Hope you have a canoe or something.

 

[swag]

Looking to buy property in the Caribbean and/or Hawaii to own, rent all year long until I go on vacations.

Anyone have any thoughts as to where you would recommend?

I wouldn't recommend Hawaii. Know too many people who thought that and bought/sold within a year. (It's expensive too.)

And why would you want to be tied down to a single place so early in life?

 

[Ford Prefect]

Exactly, so the product is a reflection of the consumer. Just like Macdonalds. Which is another

Anyway, not all comics do that. Seinfeld. Gaffigan. Bill Bailey. All pretty successful.

I watched his latest tour dvd a few weeks back, hes so good (if we ignore tinselworm). Part Troll is also one of the best Standup shows i have ever seen.

I really enjoy Dylan Moran, going try and find his new dvd soon.

 

[Hust]

I wouldn't recommend Hawaii. Know too many people who thought that and bought/sold within a year. (It's expensive too.)

And why would you want to be tied down to a single place so early in life?

Did you read my post? haha I will own it, just not live there (yet)...I would rent the property all year long for vacationers, etc.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Looking to buy property in the Caribbean and/or Hawaii to own, rent all year long until I go on vacations.

Anyone have any thoughts as to where you would recommend?

Buy a place here and I'd look after it for free.

 

[Hust]

I know Hawaii is expensive, I'd like to live there for a year or two just to enjoy it. Own the property for a while and make some money off of it, then sell.

 

[Hust]

Buy a place here and I'd look after it for free.

T&T?

I want oceanfront, beach, or close to it. Name me some nice places there.

 

[Martin]

I watched his latest tour dvd a few weeks back, hes so good (if we ignore tinselworm). Part Troll is also one of the best Standup shows i have ever seen.

I really enjoy Dylan Moran, going try and find his new dvd soon.

Yeah, he's fantastic. I saw him live in London once, by half time I had laughed so much I had to stop myself in the second half. He was doing the Tinselworm show (although by the time the dvd came out a lot of new stuff was in there) and though the dvd isn't so good the live show really was.

Dylan Moran has a terrific attitude, but he lacks strong ideas.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

T&T?

I want oceanfront, beach, or close to it. Name me some nice places there.

Beachfront: Mayaro, Blanchiseusse are the best.
On the islands: Monos, Chacachacare, Gasparee

 

[swag]

Did you read my post? haha I will own it, just not live there (yet)...I would rent the property all year long for vacationers, etc.

Yes, I read it. My post still stands. They were doing the same thing.

Being a landlord for a vacation property thousands of miles away isn't exactly a cash machine. You get to deal with tourists who throw up on your furniture, get drunk and bust holes in your walls, children and pets taking dumps in various rooms, etc. And meanwhile, you think it's going to earn you money while you're shelling out for the mortgage as a higher-taxed non-residency dwelling?

And then when you want to live there yourself for only that week or so, you have to put up with all the crap that's been inhabiting your place in the meantime and the junk furnishings you had to set out because of all the disregard random tourists show the place.

Did you really think this through, Cam?

I know Hawaii is expensive, I'd like to live there for a year or two just to enjoy it. Own the property for a while and make some money off of it, then sell.

Rent a condo. You'd be better off.

 

[.zero]

Let's build a smarter planet

You bunch of dumb fucks

 

[Ford Prefect]

Let's build a smarter planet

You bunch of dumb fucks

Im not the only nihilist today

 

[Martin]

Let's build a smarter planet

You bunch of dumb fucks

after you

 

[Hust]

Beachfront: Mayaro, Blanchiseusse are the best.
On the islands: Monos, Chacachacare, Gasparee

I will check em out today.

Yes, I read it. My post still stands. They were doing the same thing.

Being a landlord for a vacation property thousands of miles away isn't exactly a cash machine. You get to deal with tourists who throw up on your furniture, get drunk and bust holes in your walls, children and pets taking dumps in various rooms, etc. And meanwhile, you think it's going to earn you money while you're shelling out for the mortgage as a higher-taxed non-residency dwelling?

Did you really think this through, Cam?



Rent a condo. You'd be better off.

I've been thinking about this for a long time, most in the caribbean. Hawaii though, was just a recent development. The property would be paid for up front, that wouldn't be the problem, I'd like to make some money from it in rentals throughout the year, and yes I have thought about all this stuff that you mentioned. Eventually, hopefully, with the right property I'd sell a few years later for a nice profit after I'd do some work to it. For me its about location, then I'd invest in making the home better so when I'd look to sell it it would be better in terms of earning a profit.

Hawaii was just a thought, but honestly for the last 2 years I've been looking in the Caribbean almost completely. Where would you suggest?

 

[swag]

Let's build a smarter planet

You bunch of dumb fucks

I thought the same at that slogan.

We'd have a smarter planet with fewer idiots writing catch-phrases for their commercials like that.