Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

My rule with videos and articles is that I won't watch/read anything where the first word is a number and the second word isn't "dead", "killed", or "injured". That filters out all the "8 ways peas are killing you" and "6 hairstyles Donald Trump should have" articles while letting through newsworthy stories about tragedies and natural disasters.

I don't watch videos that are negative about things that don't really matter like top ten worse vampire movies or why I hate game of thrones.

Higgledy wrote:
dejanzie wrote:

I refuse to watch any Youtube video that's titled "X DESTROOOOOOYS Y", I don't care which direction the apparent destruction is done.

I refuse to watch any Youtube video with a title that starts '10 things you never noticed about....' How do you know I didn't notice them? I'm an observant chap I might well have noticed some or all of whatever it is you seem adamant that I didn't. I might have spotted them and thought to myself, "Hmmm that's interesting but not really worthy of comment." I feel you are crediting yourself with superior analytical powers that you, likely as not, do not possess!

I also refuse to watch any YT content by anyone whose username has the word "Angry" in it. Because it's always just garbage ranting for clicks.

That said, I click on EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE I see about the special tricks THEY don't want you to know! How could I not? They're special tricks, and THEY don't want me t know them!

*Watches video by/about ThingX on Youtube.*

Youtube: Here's more videos by/about ThingX.

Thanks Youtube!

Youtube: Here's a video that's just memes about ThingX.

Uh...

Youtube: Here's nitpicky video about why everything about ThingX is wrong.

Wait, stop...

Youtube: Here's a video "Why I HATE ThingX and you should too!"

Ugh, no.

Youtube: That video is going to stay in your recommended videos until you watch it, or until the end of time, whichever comes first.

Just select "Not interested" from the vertical ellipsis next to the title, click "TELL US WHY" and "THIS VIDEO'S CHANNEL IS PURE sh*t" or whatever that option is called.

That feels like the YouTube equivalent of answering robocalls.

Jonman wrote:

That feels like the YouTube equivalent of answering robocalls.

Nah, I use it all the time and it has been very effective for me. The channel vanishes from all my recommendations, be they front page, related videos list, or the overlay after a video ends.

You aren't messaging the content creator, just the recommendation engine, as far as I can tell.

BadKen wrote:
Jonman wrote:

That feels like the YouTube equivalent of answering robocalls.

Nah, I use it all the time and it has been very effective for me. The channel vanishes from all my recommendations, be they front page, related videos list, or the overlay after a video ends.

You aren't messaging the content creator, just the recommendation engine, as far as I can tell.

I feel like you are both entirely right in this case. You are essentially having a conversation about what you like with an AI. It is useful and horrifying in equal measure to me.

Beuks33 wrote:

It is useful and horrifying in equal measure to me.

Hey, how'd you find out what YouTube's new slogan is?

Perfect

BadKen wrote:

Just select "Not interested" from the vertical ellipsis next to the title, click "TELL US WHY" and "THIS VIDEO'S CHANNEL IS PURE sh*t" or whatever that option is called.

I've been using the Video Blocker extension for a few years, and it's fast and easy. Simply right-click a video and choose "block videos from this channel".

Except you can't block videos from trending channels which would be nice from time to time

So obviously, it's hilarious and ridiculous that Justin Bieber challenged Tom Cruise, a man 31 years his senior to a MMA match.

However, in honor of that, I decided to look and see which famous people are 31 years older than me, and the realization here is that there's a number of these fights I don't think I would win. If it were me and Mr. T in a MMA match, or me and Floyd Mayweather Sr. in a boxing match....

....I mean, i'll try, but I'm also putting a sneaky $50 on them before the fight.

I bought a new bike helmet yesterday, and wore it for the first time when I biked to work this morning. Walked over to a nearby coffee shop to grab breakfast, seemed like people on the street were giving me odd looks, but hey maybe it's just my imagination.

Just as I was getting back to the office, a passerby stopped and informed me that there was a sticker from inside the bike helmet stuck to the top of my head.

I can top that. After using the bathroom at work once, I then walked several aisles to the the office. As I opened the door, another manager was coming out, his jaw dropped, and he pointed at my pants, laughing his ass off.

Not only did I fail to zip my pants up, the tail of my shirt was sticking out of my fly by about 8 inches. It was completely ridiculous.

Prederick wrote:

So obviously, it's hilarious and ridiculous that Justin Bieber challenged Tom Cruise, a man 31 years his senior to a MMA match.

However, in honor of that, I decided to look and see which famous people are 31 years older than me, and the realization here is that there's a number of these fights I don't think I would win. If it were me and Mr. T in a MMA match, or me and Floyd Mayweather Sr. in a boxing match....

....I mean, i'll try, but I'm also putting a sneaky $50 on them before the fight.

Morgan Freeman has been put on notice. Voice of God or not, I’m taking him down.

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All the celebs 31 years older than me could easily kick my ass.

Meryl Streep
Jessica Lange
Bruce Springsteen
Jeff Bridges
Pam Grier
Sigourney Weaver
Richard Gere

well ok, I can take Gere.

Prederick wrote:

So obviously, it's hilarious and ridiculous that Justin Bieber challenged Tom Cruise, a man 31 years his senior to a MMA match.

However, in honor of that, I decided to look and see which famous people are 31 years older than me, and the realization here is that there's a number of these fights I don't think I would win. If it were me and Mr. T in a MMA match, or me and Floyd Mayweather Sr. in a boxing match....

....I mean, i'll try, but I'm also putting a sneaky $50 on them before the fight.

Oh sh*t! I’ve got quite a list...
The Penguin
Hank Pym
Yoda
The Emperor
Danny Trejo (legit scary)
Gary Busey (also scary)
Chewbacca (RIP Peter Mayhew) - let the Wookiee win
James Bond
Joe Frazier
and I have no idea how many thrown chairs Jerry Springer has already survived...

Prederick wrote:

So obviously, it's hilarious and ridiculous that Justin Bieber challenged Tom Cruise, a man 31 years his senior to a MMA match.

I guess, but I'd put my money on Tom.

Hell, the list of people born 31 years before me doesn't include a lot of living people.

That said, my list includes some with whom I do not want to tangle:
Jim Brown
Brian Blessed
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Kris Kristofferson

Some of the others, however:
Pope Francis
Sepp Blatter
Alan Alda
Silvio Berlusconi

I'm getting served ads for commercial fishing vessels on my phone.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I'm getting served ads for commercial fishing vessels on my phone.

Tempted yet?

bnpederson wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I'm getting served ads for commercial fishing vessels on my phone.

Tempted yet?

Oh hell naw. Sport fishing is effed and I'm kinda surprised commercial fishing is still a thing on the west coast outside of a bit of Alaska quota.

Spoiler:

Yes, I wish it was viable and okay for the environment/populations in which case I would 100% strive for a career as a fisher man.

Hrdina wrote:

Hell, the list of people born 31 years before me doesn't include a lot of living people.

That said, my list includes some with whom I do not want to tangle:
Brian Blessed BRIAN BLESSED

FTFY

Tanglebones wrote:
Hrdina wrote:

Hell, the list of people born 31 years before me doesn't include a lot of living people.

That said, my list includes some with whom I do not want to tangle:
Brian Blessed BRIAN BLESSED

FTFY

Thanks for that.

I beg forgiveness.

My wife and I recently watched the series of Doctor Who that featured BRIAN BLESSED as a quasi-Samurai king

Spoiler:

It was no surprise that at the end of the series, the Doctor's companion left him to stay with BRIAN BLESSED.

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tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I'm getting served ads for commercial fishing vessels on my phone.

That's weird. I've met you, and you are most definitely not a commercial fishing vessel.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I'm getting served ads for commercial fishing vessels on my phone.

That's weird. I've met you, and you are most definitely not a commercial fishing vessel.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I'm getting served ads for commercial fishing vessels on my phone.

That's weird. I've met you, and you are most definitely not a commercial fishing vessel.

:)

I'll withhold judgement until we see the birth certificate. LONG FORM, please.

I'd like a new feature for the forums that if the majority of the posts on the most recent page of a thread are from the same two or three people that they get locked out of the thread until a certain threshold of new posters has contributed.