Author: Goldpanner

kokiron:

slipstreamborne:

phemiec:

kitherin:

Even to this day I can hear them sing in my head….. 

this was a real commercial. it aired on tv. often.

i want everyone to understand this.

It’s commonplace now for advertisers to pull directly from internet subcultures and memes in various attempts to appeal to younger demographics, so while this commercial is undeniably weird, I’d like to invite the younger tumblr set to imagine that it’s early 2004.  YouTube does not exist yet.  It is a much simpler time for internet memes and most humor videos are short, flash based things that feature this jerky clipart-esque animation because a huge swath of the market is still on dial-up and that’s about all their connections can handle.  You log onto a website, wait a couple of minutes (if your connection is good! god help you if you’ve got to download a full Quicktime video that fucker might take you 15-20 minutes or more) for everything to load, and watch “Badgers Badgers Badgers” loop for as long as you can stand it because that shit is only a few months old at this point, that’s how far back in internet meme history we are talking about.  

And then one day you’re sitting around watching the Super Bowl with your family in your normal American living room and these abominations pop up on the screen.

I lived through it, man, and I cannot even begin to explain to you the sheer levels of WTF-ery it induced.

Back in these days, as already said, we internet folk didn’t have youtube so we relied on places like Newgrounds, Albinoblacksheep, and YTMND for entertainment. This style of thing was called Animutation and they were ridiculously popular. I watched this commercial waiting for a picture of Colin Mochrie to pop up tbh.

If you want to see the kind of abominations we watched before youtube came around then here ya go:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/animutation/

this is one of my favorites:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/sandman

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

what’s a ‘macca’s run’?

radicallyvisible:

spoon-party:

a macca’s run is a sacred ritual performed by all p-plate license holding kids in australia, its a trip to a mcdonalds restaurant at a late hour with one faithful mate to carry all the orders that only half your fucking useless friends have paid for and if you’re the only fucker sober at the party its your arse asking for 40 fucking oreo mcflurry’s at 1:30 in the morning 

I am so glad they brought back Oreo McFlurries.  Also I am constantly amazed that NOBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD calls it “Macca’s.”

The mistake people make when they talk about not being able to trust Wikipedia is in the implicit assumption that we could trust encyclopedias as infallible sources before Wikipedia.

I like Wikipedia because I know it could be wrong. Regular encyclopedias can be wrong, too, but my guard was never up in the same way with them as it is with Wikipedia. I like Internet media specifically for the reason that Aaron Sorkin doesn’t like it: because it makes it that much more difficult for me to have any illusions about the fact that the burden of critical thought is on me.

I don’t automatically trust bloggers because a group of people I’ve never met decided to give them a badge that says “reporter” on it. I don’t turn off my critical thinking because they’ve gotten to be some sort of “professional”. I have to judge them on the merits of their writing and history of thoughtfulness or thoughtlessness alone. That is a feature, not a bug, because we should never trust any news media outlet implicitly.

On the Internet Everyone Knows You Could Be a Dog, or Why I Think Aaron Sorkin Is Wrong About the Value of Established Media Outlets (via thebreakfastbaron)

The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a papercut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it.

The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)