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Absolutely despise Ricky Gervais. I don't like animal cruelty but I especially don't like pictures of people dying in my newsfeed on facebook. plus his character on the office is the only funny thing about him. Mayve another case of a comedian woth a face that just screams 'punch me!'
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Rembrandt" data-cid="570093" data-time="1459916732"><p>Absolutely despise Ricky Gervais. I don't like animal cruelty but I especially don't like pictures of people dying in my newsfeed on facebook. plus his character on the office is the only funny thing about him. Mayve another case of a comedian woth a face that just screams 'punch me!'</p></blockquote>
First Micheal McIntyre and now Ricky Gervais? I would hate to do stand up in front of you - tough crowd!!
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<p>First Micheal McIntyre and now Ricky Gervais? I would hate to do stand up in front of you - tough crowd!! :)</p>
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<p>Next he's gonna claim the Topp Twins aren't funny. </p>
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<p>I always found The Extras a lot better than The Office. He's brilliant in that series.</p> -
<p>I've struggled to find most of Gervais' stuff funny.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><p><strong><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel">The Voyeurâ€
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By Gay Talese<br><br>
I know a married man and father of two who bought a twenty-one-room motel near Denver many years ago in order to become its resident voyeur. With the assistance of his wife, he cut rectangular holes measuring six by fourteen inches in the ceilings of more than a dozen rooms. Then he covered the openings with louvred aluminum screens that looked like ventilation grilles but were actually observation vents that allowed him, while he knelt in the attic, to see his guests in the rooms below. He watched them for decades, while keeping an exhaustive written record of what he saw and heard. Never once, during all those years, was he caught.<br><br>
I first became aware of this man after receiving a handwritten special-delivery letter, without a signature, dated January 7, 1980, at my house in New York. It began:<br><br><em>Dear Mr. Talese:<br><br>
Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America, which will be included in your soon to be published book, “Thy Neighborâ€s Wife,†I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.</em><br><br>
He then described the motel he had owned for more than ten years.<br><br><em>The reason for purchasing this motel was to satisfy my voyeuristic tendencies and compelling interest in all phases of how people conduct their lives, both socially and sexually. . . . I did this purely out of my unlimited curiosity about people and not as just a deranged voyeur.</em><br><br>
He explained that he had “logged an accurate record of the majority of the individuals that I watchedâ€<br><br><em>and compiled interesting statistics on each, i.e., what was done; what was said; their individual characteristics; age & body type; part of the country from where they came; and their sexual behavior. These individuals were from every walk of life. The businessman who takes his secretary to a motel during the noon hour, which is generally classified as “hot sheet†trade in the motel business. Married couples traveling from state to state, either on business or vacation. Couples who arenâ€t married, but live together. Wives who cheat on their husbands and visa versa. Lesbianism, of which I made a particular study. . . . Homosexuality, of which I had little interest, but still watched to determine motivation and procedure. The Seventies, later part, brought another sexual deviation forward, namely, group sex, which I took great interest in watching . . . .<br><br>
I have seen most human emotions in all their humor and tragedy carried to completion. Sexually, I have witnessed, observed and studied the best first hand, unrehearsed, non-laboratory sex between couples, and most other conceivable sex deviations during these past 15 years.<br><br>
My main objective in wanting to provide you with this confidential information is the belief that it could be valuable to people in general and sex researchers in particular.</em><br><br>
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<p>First Micheal McIntyre and now Ricky Gervais? I would hate to do stand up in front of you - tough crowd!! :)</p>
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<div>Easily my favourite Gervais. Ricky - a professional stand up, has to ad-lib for 5 minutes. Its the most cringe worthy shitshow I've ever seen. A beautiful window on his raw talent.</div> -
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<p><strong><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel">The Voyeurâ€s Motel</a></strong><br><br>
By Gay Talese<br><br>
I know a married man and father of two who bought a twenty-one-room motel near Denver many years ago in order to become its resident voyeur. With the assistance of his wife, he cut rectangular holes measuring six by fourteen inches in the ceilings of more than a dozen rooms. Then he covered the openings with louvred aluminum screens that looked like ventilation grilles but were actually observation vents that allowed him, while he knelt in the attic, to see his guests in the rooms below. He watched them for decades, while keeping an exhaustive written record of what he saw and heard. Never once, during all those years, was he caught.<br><br>
I first became aware of this man after receiving a handwritten special-delivery letter, without a signature, dated January 7, 1980, at my house in New York. It began:<br><br><em>Dear Mr. Talese:<br><br>
Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America, which will be included in your soon to be published book, “Thy Neighborâ€s Wife,†I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.</em><br><br>
He then described the motel he had owned for more than ten years.<br><br><em>The reason for purchasing this motel was to satisfy my voyeuristic tendencies and compelling interest in all phases of how people conduct their lives, both socially and sexually. . . . I did this purely out of my unlimited curiosity about people and not as just a deranged voyeur.</em><br><br>
He explained that he had “logged an accurate record of the majority of the individuals that I watchedâ€<br><br><em>and compiled interesting statistics on each, i.e., what was done; what was said; their individual characteristics; age & body type; part of the country from where they came; and their sexual behavior. These individuals were from every walk of life. The businessman who takes his secretary to a motel during the noon hour, which is generally classified as “hot sheet†trade in the motel business. Married couples traveling from state to state, either on business or vacation. Couples who arenâ€t married, but live together. Wives who cheat on their husbands and visa versa. Lesbianism, of which I made a particular study. . . . Homosexuality, of which I had little interest, but still watched to determine motivation and procedure. The Seventies, later part, brought another sexual deviation forward, namely, group sex, which I took great interest in watching . . . .<br><br>
I have seen most human emotions in all their humor and tragedy carried to completion. Sexually, I have witnessed, observed and studied the best first hand, unrehearsed, non-laboratory sex between couples, and most other conceivable sex deviations during these past 15 years.<br><br>
My main objective in wanting to provide you with this confidential information is the belief that it could be valuable to people in general and sex researchers in particular.</em><br><br>
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<p>You probably wouldn't want to take a bluelight up in that ceiling, no matter how much he argues it was for "research purposes". Interesting article though. I'm surprised no lawsuits have come out of it.</p> -
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<p>First Micheal McIntyre and now Ricky Gervais? I would hate to do stand up in front of you - tough crowd!! :)</p>
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<p>Yeah I know it's not particularly popular to say, give me Jimmy Carr, John Oliver, Demetri Martin or David Mitchell anyday over those two</p> -
I used to like Jimmy Carr, but his act is a collection of jokes and if you've seen one show of his, you've seen them all.
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<p>Yeah I know it's not particularly popular to say, give me Jimmy Carr, John Oliver, Demetri Martin or David Mitchell anyday over those two</p>
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<p>Jimmy Carr is great. I could watch him deal with hecklers all day...</p>
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<div>Easily my favourite Gervais. Ricky - a professional stand up, has to ad-lib for 5 minutes. Its the most cringe worthy shitshow I've ever seen. A beautiful window on his raw talent.</div>
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<p>Just awesome. I initially read your post and thought the link was actually a great Gervais clip that would change my mind. So being the fair person i am I waited until my lunch break, coffee and sandwich in hand, clicked on the link and was fully prepared to have my anti-Gervais world completely destroyed.</p>
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<p>Of course then I actually watched the thing and had it prove everything I thought about him, then I re-read your post and realised that was your point. Youtube has now rolled over into more of his performance at that gig and that 5 minutes is totally representative of the entire gig and from my point of view his career!</p>
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<div>SpaceX Onboard view of landing in high winds </div>
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<p>Looks a lot safer than the time I landed with Spicejet budget airlines in India in high winds. Never again. I swear the pilot was the work experience kid...</p> -
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<p>The Yacht Rock guys have a podcast now, Beyond Yacht Rock.<br><br>
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.feralaudio.com/show/beyond-yacht-rock/?show=all'>http://www.feralaudio.com/show/beyond-yacht-rock/?show=all</a><br><br>
First episode is a look at "sultry rock hits". Quality laffs. Quality cheese.<br><br>
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.feralaudio.com/1-sultry-hits/'>http://www.feralaudio.com/1-sultry-hits/</a></p> -
<p>Get down with the sickness.</p>
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