[Lorelei]

Everyone has different strengths or intelligences. Some people learn better by reading, others by listening. Some by physically doing or making something. Some remember music and rhythms better than written words. I'm the latter and I recall making Broadway showstopper to remember how our juries are impanelled, the legal history of my country, the different Houses etc. for my Legal Studies class (that I was borderline failing). In the end I passed in the top six of the class after the final exam. I just took parts of the text book and hummed them to music.

It's all about finding out how you learn best and identifying a means by which you can maniplulate the material into the form of your strengths.

[Danukem]

Lorelei, on 07 October 2011 - 09:33 PM, said:

Everyone has different strengths or intelligences. Some people learn better by reading, others by listening. Some by physically doing or making something. Some remember music and rhythms better than written words. I'm the latter and I recall making Broadway showstopper to remember how our juries are impanelled, the legal history of my country, the different Houses etc. for my Legal Studies class (that I was borderline failing). In the end I passed in the top six of the class after the final exam. I just took parts of the text book and hummed them to music.

It's all about finding out how you learn best and identifying a means by which you can maniplulate the material into the form of your strengths.

That's an inspiring story.

Although it sounds like success in that class depended mostly on memorization...I hate courses like that.

[Micky C]

Well each of my subjects has its own weaknesses.

The easier maths isn't really challenging but I tend to rush through it and make careless errors (finished last year's exam in 2 hours when it was a 3 hour paper, got 88% without rechecking .)
The harder maths for the most part isn't too bad, except for the freakishly hard questions that require you to 110% know your stuff and get very lucky.
Physics and chemistry require very precisely written answers. You cannot imply, you cannot assume something is obvious, and you must include all the right key words in definitions or no marks.
In addition, all the chemistry overlaps with itself, which is kind of good if you know everything, but bad if you don't.

I believe I would know how to answer 95% of the exam questions after looking at my notes, but in order to not make mistakes, answer the remaining 5%, and to make sure I'm fast enough, I'm doing lots and lots of practice questions to get my brain into gear.

And right now, I'm taking a big-ass break.

[Jeff]

I was more of a english/social studies guy in school. Math makes my brain hurt. As for science, I liked it, but I probably preferred english/social instead.

[Master Fibbles]

Micky, you should check your work after finishing...

It is a little hypocritical to say it, but checking work after finishing a test or something is kind of important. I had a prof last year who actually wouldn't let me leave the exam until I looked over it again and corrected a mistake she found when she looked over it. I mean, I finished the 2 hour exam in like 1 hour or less but she wouldn't let me leave until it was perfect. I needed an I in that class anyway, so I'm appreciative, but, come on, I had everything except that one thing right...

[CruX]

...So apparently the hood latch on my car is busted. The release rod had snapped about a month ago, but I didn't think much of it, since the hood still seemed to fasten down just fine (or so I thought). Got to find out the "fun" way last night that it wasn't actually securing when the damn thing sprung up while I was en-route to work. Fortunately there aren't many people on that particular road at ten o'clock, so I managed to pull over and get it (mostly) down without much incident. Unfortunately it looks like the wind resistance must've messed up the hood's alignment when it popped up ( I was going about 60 at the time), because it won't sit evenly now. Until I can get it into a shop (Tuesday at the earliest) I have to drive it around with friggen' bungie cords. Can't really say I'm stressing over it, since I've got a pretty comprehensive extended warranty on the car that should cover this kinda thing, but still...pain in the ass...

[Mikko]

So The Simpsons didn't get canceled. Too bad, as it's been downright horrible for the past decade or so.

[Master Fibbles]

The Simpsons are still funny. Maybe you just lost your sense of humor over the last decade.

[Jeff]

I only have up to season 9 of the Simpsons. I think it was either season 9 or 10 when the writers went to work on Futurama.

[Master Fibbles]

Maybe it is just a different type of humor then. I can't keep track of how long I've been watching on a semi-regular basis. I do know I saw the Halloween Horror one where the aliens take over Dole and Clinton. Then there was the episode where Homer ended up owning the Broncos.

The show still has its humor. I enjoy the random name dropping of things (like instant replay in Baseball) and they continue to push Maggie up. The "rattle code" of the season premiere was funny.

[Mikko]

Mr.Flibble, on 08 October 2011 - 09:04 AM, said:

The Simpsons are still funny. Maybe you just lost your sense of humor over the last decade.

South Park is still good as ever. I can still watch old The Simpsons episodes and appreciate them. It's just a different show these days. It tries to imitate South Park's absurdity while it should've sticked with the old, more realistic storylines. I also hate how it constantly rewrites its own history (a sign of the writers running out of ideas), how it's so full of itself, how it tries to be clever and how it's so blatantly left-wing. I also hate how inbred Springfield is. When was the last time the show introduced a noteworthy new character? Meanwhile South Park has come up with Butters, Jimmy, Timmy, Towelie etc.

[Hank]

I think sense of humour is a term invented by bad joke writers excusing their lack of funny.

[Jimmy]

South Park is great because the writing has only gotten better over time.

[Master Fibbles]

Mikko_Sandt, on 08 October 2011 - 10:10 AM, said:

how it's so blatantly left-wing.

What? Haha...hardly. Family Guy, yeah...that show is just annoying.

I don't find The Simpsons so ridiculous. The show has lost many characters but does it need new characters? I don't think so. The characters you mentioned from South Park aren't so much new as they are newly made "friends" that have been there as minor characters. I still love the show and I think Stone and Parker are great writers.
What is an example of The Simpsons rewriting their history? They often reference things from previous episodes. They don't need to introduce new major characters, it isn't called "Springfield" it is called "The Simpsons" so it is about the Simpson family and their adventures. The running joke of Maggie not speaking may get old to some people but I find the way they address it to be entertaining. They have been going on for something like 600 episodes and only Lisa has had a birthday (Michael Jackson episode). How can you say the show was realistic?

[Mark]

Rejoice. I just saw a commercial. Beavis and Butthead are back with new episodes later this month. WOO HOO.

[ReaperMan]

Marked, on 08 October 2011 - 04:28 PM, said:

Rejoice. I just saw a commercial. Beavis and Butthead are back with new episodes later this month. WOO HOO.

They got a sneak peak too.

[Micky C]

Mr.Flibble, on 08 October 2011 - 07:20 AM, said:

Micky, you should check your work after finishing...

I'll do it this round, but last year I simply could not be bothered, and the exams hardly counted for anything back then.

Mikko_Sandt, on 08 October 2011 - 10:10 AM, said:

South Park is still good as ever. I can still watch old The Simpsons episodes and appreciate them. It's just a different show these days. It tries to imitate South Park's absurdity while it should've sticked with the old, more realistic storylines. I also hate how it constantly rewrites its own history (a sign of the writers running out of ideas), how it's so full of itself, how it tries to be clever and how it's so blatantly left-wing. I also hate how inbred Springfield is. When was the last time the show introduced a noteworthy new character? Meanwhile South Park has come up with Butters, Jimmy, Timmy, Towelie etc.

For me it's the other way around, I think the Simpsons these days are funnier than the original episodes, or at least the jokes are more frequent. On the other hand, apart from the occasional episode, I prefer the earlier episodes of south park, which seemed more original. These days the episodes are made in such a short time span, that the the writers have taken it upon themselves to make most of their new episodes parodies of contemporary events. This means that if you're not aware of the events going on, then it won't be as funny. Another downside is that several years later when you watch the episodes on DVD, the jokes will have far less significance and again won't be as funny.

[Danukem]

I have to agree with Mikko and Captain awesome regarding The Simpsons vs. Southpark. I stopped watching the Simpsons many years ago when it became too blatently left-wing, self-satisfied and just generally less interesting than it had been. To be fair, it may have gotten better since then, but I'm not really interested in finding out. South Park, on the other hand, has maintained its quality and actually has gotten better in some ways over the years. Sometimes it can be preachy, which I don't like, but since I am much closer ideologically to Stone and Parker than I am to Groening's crowd, it doesn't bother me as much.

@Micky: South Park episodes are indeed made very rapidly, but that has been the case for a long time. Moreover, it's a deliberate creative decision to make them that way and I think it works well for the most part. Sure some of the humor becomes dated, but a lot of it doesn't. And even dated humor --if it is good-- retains some value over time. It's like a record of putting stupid trends in their place.

[Jeff]

My birthday is on Thursday. Whoo. I'll be 28.

[Micky C]

DeeperThought, on 08 October 2011 - 09:16 PM, said:

@Micky: South Park episodes are indeed made very rapidly, but that has been the case for a long time. Moreover, it's a deliberate creative decision to make them that way and I think it works well for the most part. Sure some of the humor becomes dated, but a lot of it doesn't. And even dated humor --if it is good-- retains some value over time. It's like a record of putting stupid trends in their place.

Don't get me wrong I definitely enjoy South Park, I guess when I was writing that post, I was thinking of an episode in particular, which I found one of the unfunniest South Park episodes ever made, it was about these young twins or quintuplets or something. It was an oldish episode, and I figured it was a parody of something so I actually had to research it, and apparently the quintuplets were involved in something idk, but it was news worthy in America but not so much the rest of the world. As a result, I hadn't heard anything about it, so the jokes for that particular episode went right over my head.

Jeff, on 08 October 2011 - 09:32 PM, said:

My birthday is on Thursday. Whoo. I'll be 28.

They say 28 is the new 27

I heard they're also making new Arrested Development episodes

[Master Fibbles]

Micky C, on 08 October 2011 - 11:14 PM, said:

I heard they're also making new Arrested Development episodes

You're full of shit and lying shit! You can't go around making claims like that without links and documented evidence, including signed and notarized documents verifying the claim. We don't take hearsay about Arrested Development lightly.

Spoiler

I did a Google...but, you, sir, need to post the links.

And another thing, how is The Simpsons "left-wing"? I'm a social and religious conservative and I find the show funny. South Park is also funny but over the top and at times offensive for the sake of being offensive (Family Guy, on the other hand, is offensive because they think they are funny). The Simpsons take stereotypes and slightly exaggerates them to a point where it is funny when placed in the situation of the "average" American family. There are no homosexual couples, no liberal family situations, no outward mockery of religion or religious beliefs (when they went to Israel, they played on stereotypes rather than just mocking the whole thing), hell, there are practically no politics involved in the show whatsoever. How is it left wing. You can't just say "the show is blatantly left-wing" without citing some examples.

That guy is not this guy:

[Jeff]

I never got into Family Guy. Or South Park. I mean I watched some of the earlier episodes of South Park where Kenny got killed every episode (well most of them), but I didn't watch any of the new ones. I guess I'm more of a Simpsons/Futurama guy.

[Master Fibbles]

There was a time when I thought Family Guy was funny...then it was just offensive and sometimes humorous. South Park I was never really sure, but now I enjoy the humor and only sometimes do I think "Yeah, you took that too far there" but most of the time it is "Ha, that was clever"

[Jimmy]

I can't think of a time I've ever been offended. But about South Park, well, often it's based off of something current but that merely provides the impetus for whatever is going on. You don't really need to know anything about whatever they're parodying. I know I've come along plenty of times and found out later that something was a reference and I didn't even know.

[Danukem]

Mr.Flibble, on 09 October 2011 - 05:31 AM, said:

And another thing, how is The Simpsons "left-wing"? I'm a social and religious conservative and I find the show funny. South Park is also funny but over the top and at times offensive for the sake of being offensive (Family Guy, on the other hand, is offensive because they think they are funny). The Simpsons take stereotypes and slightly exaggerates them to a point where it is funny when placed in the situation of the "average" American family. There are no homosexual couples, no liberal family situations, no outward mockery of religion or religious beliefs (when they went to Israel, they played on stereotypes rather than just mocking the whole thing), hell, there are practically no politics involved in the show whatsoever. How is it left wing. You can't just say "the show is blatantly left-wing" without citing some examples.

Well at least you are right about Family Guy. It's been a long time, but the examples I remember from the Simpsons mostly related to left-wing environmentalism. That was only one reason I stopped watching it, though -- overall I got tired of it and felt it had nothing more to offer me. If I had started a debate about this I would feel obliged to offer examples, but since this is only the post thread and since I was agreeing with Mikko who said it first, I am content to leave it at that. I never said the Simpsons was a bad show...not like Family Guy, now that show sucks.

[Mark]

I like Family Guy because of the come out of nowhere "flashbacks" and cameo appearances of other cartoon characters.

[Jimmy]

That's precisely why it's a shitty show, and I really don't understand it. Seth McFarlane is actually a pretty funny guy, so I don't get why he has like three shitty contrived unfunny clone shows.

[Danukem]

Everyone who hasn't seen it should watch the Family Guy episode of South Park: http://www.southpark...oon-wars-part-i

[Jeff]

Because I work Monday, which is Thanksgiving, I get double time.

[Danukem]

Jeff, on 09 October 2011 - 10:09 AM, said:

Because I work Monday, which is Thanksgiving, I get double time.

Canadian.