OMG, Really, People?
So, okay, as you can see from the url I was trying to track down a clip from one particular stand-up routine, in which someone in the front row snapped a picture of Robin Williams in the middle of it. He stopped everything, insisted the audience member give him the camera, then pulled out the front of his pants (they had an elasticized waist, I remember, so they just went sort of woop, stretched right out) stuffed the camera in there, and took a pic. It was hilarious. He was wearing these very baggy, brightly-coloured sort of almost Hammer pants (you remember those?) and when he took the picture the flash went off, FWOOSH, lit his pants right up. "NOW you have a picture!" he said, handed the camera back, and went on with the show without missing a beat. I almost peed myself laughing.
And I wanted to find it again (I've found references to it but can't find an actual clip yet) so here I am trying to track it down on Google (Mike installed Duck Duck Go for me and made it my default search engine, which is great because it doesn't track browsing history or searches or anything like Google does, but I don't like it as much, especially for finding videos or pictures), so since most of my keyword searches are failing, I start to type something like "What was the stand-up routine where Robin Williams took a picture inside his pants" (because sometimes asking actual questions will get you the result you're after)--and Google starts making suggestions:
What was the--the Holocaust? Are you serious? No, wait-- the Cold War? You don't know what that was? Well, at least you've heard of th--you don't know about the fucking Cuban Missile Crisis? Or the Glorious Revolution?
Okay, fuck you, fuck you all, you idiots. How do you get old enough to do a Google search and not know what the fucking Holocaust was, for gods' sakes?!
Good god, people are stupid. Stupid and ignorant, and now I feel old, because when I was a kid the Cold War was a real thing we were living in, and the World War II vets were the age of your local Lions club, and the Cuban Missile Crisis was practically still on the news. And now everyone who remembers this stuff firsthand is dying of old age and pretty quick WWII and the Holocaust and the Cold War and everything that shaped the world I grew up in is gonna be misunderstood and ignored by the generation growing up now, and it's all just gonna be some boring fucking history lesson in Social Studies, and who the fuck cares what happened a hundred years ago, it's not like the Great War or the Holocaust or the Magna Carta or Charlemange or anything actually fucking matters, so why are they even teaching us this shit?
And so the world moves on, and now all they seem to care about is crap like the Kardassians and shit. Hell, I can't even make a stupid joke about Brad Pitt and whats'ername, because that's already old news too and does anyone even remember who Brad Pitt and J. Lo are anymore? Do kids even care about the Kardassians anymore or have they moved on from them, too?
Fuck this week. Fuck it right in the dick-hole. Did you know Lauren Bacall died today (well, yesterday, now; Tuesday), too? Gods damn it. Stop killing off everyone I know.
Hah, she did a movie with Nicole Kidman several years ago, and I was reading an interview with Lauren about it, and this idiot dick of a reporter (who obviously didn't do any research at all, and OMG, how do you not know who LAUREN BACALL is?!) in which he asked Lauren fucking Bacall what it was like to work with a, and I quote, a "living legend" like Nicole Kidman.
Are. You. Shitting . Me.
Lauren Bacall. Fucking LAUREN BACALL. Do the words "Bogey and Bacall" mean nothing anymo--no, of course they don't. Because times move on and new stars come and old ones go and now I'm gonna finish up today by crawling off to bed and being very depressed, too.
I need some emergency chocolate, STAT.
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And I wanted to find it again (I've found references to it but can't find an actual clip yet) so here I am trying to track it down on Google (Mike installed Duck Duck Go for me and made it my default search engine, which is great because it doesn't track browsing history or searches or anything like Google does, but I don't like it as much, especially for finding videos or pictures), so since most of my keyword searches are failing, I start to type something like "What was the stand-up routine where Robin Williams took a picture inside his pants" (because sometimes asking actual questions will get you the result you're after)--and Google starts making suggestions:
What was the--the Holocaust? Are you serious? No, wait-- the Cold War? You don't know what that was? Well, at least you've heard of th--you don't know about the fucking Cuban Missile Crisis? Or the Glorious Revolution?
Okay, fuck you, fuck you all, you idiots. How do you get old enough to do a Google search and not know what the fucking Holocaust was, for gods' sakes?!
Good god, people are stupid. Stupid and ignorant, and now I feel old, because when I was a kid the Cold War was a real thing we were living in, and the World War II vets were the age of your local Lions club, and the Cuban Missile Crisis was practically still on the news. And now everyone who remembers this stuff firsthand is dying of old age and pretty quick WWII and the Holocaust and the Cold War and everything that shaped the world I grew up in is gonna be misunderstood and ignored by the generation growing up now, and it's all just gonna be some boring fucking history lesson in Social Studies, and who the fuck cares what happened a hundred years ago, it's not like the Great War or the Holocaust or the Magna Carta or Charlemange or anything actually fucking matters, so why are they even teaching us this shit?
And so the world moves on, and now all they seem to care about is crap like the Kardassians and shit. Hell, I can't even make a stupid joke about Brad Pitt and whats'ername, because that's already old news too and does anyone even remember who Brad Pitt and J. Lo are anymore? Do kids even care about the Kardassians anymore or have they moved on from them, too?
Fuck this week. Fuck it right in the dick-hole. Did you know Lauren Bacall died today (well, yesterday, now; Tuesday), too? Gods damn it. Stop killing off everyone I know.
Hah, she did a movie with Nicole Kidman several years ago, and I was reading an interview with Lauren about it, and this idiot dick of a reporter (who obviously didn't do any research at all, and OMG, how do you not know who LAUREN BACALL is?!) in which he asked Lauren fucking Bacall what it was like to work with a, and I quote, a "living legend" like Nicole Kidman.
Are. You. Shitting . Me.
Lauren Bacall. Fucking LAUREN BACALL. Do the words "Bogey and Bacall" mean nothing anymo--no, of course they don't. Because times move on and new stars come and old ones go and now I'm gonna finish up today by crawling off to bed and being very depressed, too.
I need some emergency chocolate, STAT.
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