TYT Old School February 22, 2018

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Cenk, Malcolm Fleschner, & Adam Green talk lib-off, Cenk’s hatred for pepper, PCCC, who runs the DNC, Uber tipping, and gambling with Cenk.

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  1. The pepper in those things is absolutely gross (and I usually love pepper), and the only acceptable use of the gross packaged pepper is to put it in tomato juice when you’re on a plane.

    Btw, to ruin you guys’ day, most beers are not vegetarian. So there’s that.

    Also, my soul momentarily left my body when Adam told that story about nuclear plants/waste. Are we living in the prequel of a dystopian YA novel here? I mean, that is so bad, it’s not even true anymore.

  2. “Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war.”

  3. If you’re minding your business in a diner, when Doc Brown bursts in, and announces you must get in the DeLorean and travel back to medieval Paris, would you grab the salt or the pepper from the table?

  4. It’s ok, Malcolm. I frequently think about how you could defeat security measures. I horrified a few people at work by pointing out six or seven ways you could defraud our workplace or embezzle funds without getting caught – apparently it wasn’t reassuring when I pointed out that it wasn’t worth the effort to do any of them because the return on it was so low for the effort involved to not get caught, that you may as well just do your job instead. That works out to be more than what you could easily steal without getting caught, and doesn’t run the risk of prosecution and imprisonment. I think it’s just because I really enjoy crime fiction and fun shows like Leverage – it’s just fun to work out how you could do things you can’t do. I don’t embezzle or defraud my employers, I don’t steal things – the risk isn’t worth the benefit (also, like, morals and stuff – but that varies by individual). But I can tell you how . . .

  5. I agree with Cenk, re pepper and napkin and Malcolm is right re getting rid of the pepper packet.

  8. Found a $100 bill at a gas station parking lot in rural Iowa. Returned it, giving my address if no-one claimed it. Friends and family said the gas station folks would just keep it. Got it back in the mail and donated it to a gay rights group. I hoped it restored some faith in humanity for the naysayers. One family member said she hoped the one who lost it was a bigot.

    1. Thanks for the story! Likewise, I was walking on the waterfront in Portland, OR last Sunday burning calories trying to keep up with my 9 year old on his scooter, while also scanning the crowd, for bikes, etc. to make sure child wasn’t about to get run down. Spotted a young couple, in their teens or early 20s, and spotted half of some type of bill flapping in the back pocket of the young man’s jeans. Then it flew out and landed a few steps in front of me. I called out to my 4th grade son who often finds change and once $2 on the street, before pocketing it, and pointed to the bill on the street which happened to be $10. The boy got excited and said, “10 Dollars!” I said, “Yeah, see that couple walking? Let’s catch up with them because it fell out of the young man’s pocket, so when we pass them,hand it to him and say it fell out of his back pocket.” We did that, and the guy said to my kid, “oh thanks” before I kept walking and my son continued scootering past. I’m glad my kid had that experience and didn’t protest, as we are very poor. He’s a free lunch kid at public school, but yeah, that was fun, and I felt like a detective. We did the right thing. I’m a new member. This is a nice discussion by the panel!

  10. DMor315 I think it’s a Northeast thing… everywhere in the country I’ve been is weird at cross walk… in Boston, you just walk, cross walk no cross walk don’t cross light or not lol

  11. Yooooo. I was in San Diego and people were just fucking waiting at the crosswalk for it ta turn. Like, motherfucker move. Lol. I’m from the northeast US. We get blizzards. You cross at the first available moment. Southern California is super weird with the crosswalks.

  14. Interesting that Adam Green mentioned his candidate in the CA-49th since Cenk’s Justice Democrat candidate in that same race has been on TYT a number of times. I wonder if that was an intentional name drop from Adam.

  15. I’m part of the 2%! Seriously, if I’m salting something then I’m probably peppering it too. Usually the sides are salad or fries. Salt and pepper on both those, obviously. If the fries are already salted, skip it. So I either use both or neither. The napkin in those things is usually useless anyway.

    I loved this exchange: Cenk says you should eat indoors at restaurants. Adam asks if there is a story there. Cenk says no, it’s just a rule. Cenk proceeds to tell a story. LOL.

    I love how aggrieved Malcolm looks at all the puns.

  16. I once got lost hiking for a few hours and eventually ran out of food. I at a random packet of pepper I found in my backpack. Moments later I found the road I was looking for…I did what I had to do, even though it turned out I didn’t have to do it.

  18. iBeacons and similar tools can be used to send push notifications when a phone or other device is nearby. They’re actually pretty cool! They have a lot of commercial applications for things like drawing customers into stores/restaurants. They’re just little devices like the size of a sticker that send a notification to your phone. I’m guessing they also only work if the phone has bluetooth enabled.

  20. Cenk talked about getting a message on his phone about a sale when he passes by a store. This feature has been in cell phones for a while. Technologies like NFC let stores broadcast messages to nearby phones. If you actually read the user manual when you buy a new phone you can turn these options off. People use phones for everything today, and it amazes me that they cannot take the time to look into these details.

    The same goes for apps people install. Dont blindly agree to the terms or permissions requests and then complain later about the invasion to your privacy.

    1. Ah, good old victim blaming. Your privacy is invaded regardless. Additionally it’s ridiculous to expect people to read all the terms of service. It’s intentionally onerous and obfuscated in order to take full advantage of consumers.

  21. I still feel bad about it, but my freshman year of hs I was in the cafeteria and I saw from my table that two girls found like 20 bucks and were splitting it between themselves. And my friend dared me to go up to them and ask if they found any money on the ground. Short story shorter I walking away with 20 bucks that day. I still feel bad tho.

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