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[–]Kadith 18 points19 points ago

Source; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

I highly recommend this beat poem.

[–]KShults 4 points5 points ago

That was absolutely fantastic. Will watch again later. Holy hell thanks for linking that.

[–]Squeejee09 14 points15 points ago

Except when they started doing movies, and started having actual paranormal shit happen. I want to look it up and find out that they changed most of their writers, but I'm afraid that I'll find out that the whole "scooby-doo was about logic" thing is a bunch of bull.

[–]markycapone 6 points7 points ago

Tim minchin has an amazing way with words. Very clever, funny, man.

[–]Rule322 5 points6 points ago

Ah yes... "Fuck the motherfucker

And fuck you, motherfucker

If you think that motherfucker is sacred

If you cover for another motherfucker who’s a kiddy fucker,

fuck you! You’re no better then the mother fucking rapist"

Modern day Shakespeare.

[–]markycapone 2 points3 points ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

he also is a comedian.
but he does have a penchant for putting words together.

[–]Rule322 0 points1 point ago

I know he's a comedian, as well as good with words.

I posted these lyrics to try and make the two statements conflict, to comedic effect.

[–]markycapone 0 points1 point ago

ah, I think I'm autistic online. I can never tell people's purpose from text. :(

sorry :)

[–]Rule322 0 points1 point ago

It's hard to read an intention. I've found that trying to read it in different tones helps identify it.

If you're on reddit, you're probably bored, so you read comments in a bored and maybe even hostile manner, BEACUASE you feel like that yourself. Projection!

[–]markycapone 0 points1 point ago

hmm, I never thought of that. interesting take on it. sounds about right.

[–]IgrewupnearTisdale 0 points1 point ago

He looks like Lindsay Lohan with a beard. You're welcome.

[–]juiceboxrock 5 points6 points ago

"Fuck me Sam, what are the odds
that of history's endless parade of gods,
the God you just happened to be taught to believe in
is the actual one and he digs on healing,

"but not the AIDS-ridden African nations,
nor the victims of the plague or the flood-addled Asians,
but healthy, privately-insured Australians
with common and curable corneal degeneration."

[–]TheTomAtkinson 3 points4 points ago

This story of Sam's has but a single explanation; a surgical God who digs on magic operations. No it couldn't be mistaken attribution of causation, born of a coincidental temporal correlation, exacerbated by a general lack of education vis-a-vis physics in Sam's parish congregation.

And it couldn't be that all these pious people are liars. It couldn't be an artifact of confirmation bias, a product of groupthink, a mass delusion, an Emperor's New Clothes-style fear of exclusion.

[–]freelittyta 1 point2 points ago

That lady's hormones, are jumping like a disco.

[–]JimieVak 2 points3 points ago

I thought it was cool when I found out it rhymes.

[–]CAKELIE 2 points3 points ago

"Has turned out to be...Not magic" is the real quote.

[–]rfvrty 1 point2 points ago

The amount of eyeliner is too damn high

[–]mansta330 2 points3 points ago

The logic is that most of his show is done from behind a piano, so he can only really emote with his face. It just kind of became a trademark stage look for him.

[–]moshbeard 0 points1 point ago

I didn't immediately like Tim Minchin but he's slowly winning me over.

[–]Prosopagnosiape 0 points1 point ago

One time i watched an episode with some kinda lava ghoul or whatever, and i was just waiting for it to end up with them ripping the mask off, because, come on, they know every ghost is a guy in a costume. Nope. Burned it to death.

[–]jtj-H 0 points1 point ago

I LOVE THAT FUCKING BEAT POEM

[–]Splep 0 points1 point ago

Here's another one of his songs about the bible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr1I3mBojc0

[–]thecalebrogers 0 points1 point ago

My daughters would be very interested to know...about his eye makeup.

[–]morrison0880 0 points1 point ago

Tim always looks like he's about to take a shit.

[–]vadgetology 0 points1 point ago

At first I thought it was a Lindsey Lohan face swap.... -.-;

[–]DefiantDragon 0 points1 point ago

Fucking Rock God, he is.

So Fucking Rock.

[–]xanthippa 2 points3 points ago

Well, that really depends on your definition of 'magic': I have always taught my kids that 'magic' is a natural event/process the science of which we do not yet understand.

It neatly bridges 'stage magic' and other 'magic': all are natural processes/actions.

Just because we don't know how stage magicians perform their 'magic' does not mean these are somehow 'supernatural'.

If you brought an iPod to Ancient Egypt, it would be considered 'magic'.

Because people then would not understand the science behind it.

Same with the 'magic' we cannot explain.

Yet!

[–]SiS-Shadowman 2 points3 points ago

It seems to me that some people define magic as something we can't explain today and never will be able to.

However when I have kids, I will teach them the very same definition as you do.

[–]Hepcat10 1 point2 points ago

"God [magic] is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time goes on." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

[–]ibanezerscrooge 0 points1 point ago

I love this NdT quote and use it (or at least the idea, anyway) in response to "God of the gaps" arguments. A good follow-up to it is to ask the person to name one fact or "truth" that was once thought to have a scientific explanation, but was found conclusively, through study of religious texts and thought to actually be the work of the supernatural. It is indeed a one way street.

[–]Hepcat10 0 points1 point ago

ooo...i like that...thanks!

[–]Mosrhun 0 points1 point ago

I can't fap to this

[–]FUCKWIZARD -3 points-2 points ago

wise words from a man wearing eyeliner ROFL

[–]Kaddus -4 points-3 points ago

Russell Brand?