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Comment count is 14
bopeton - 2016-02-20

Lying is awesome.


poorwill - 2016-02-20

unless you're infinite zest. then it's boring and weird.


Hooker - 2016-02-20

There's a lot of people Chocolate Jesusing this video.


Chocolate Jesus - 2016-02-20

ikr


That guy - 2016-02-20

I think an explanation is in order.
I'll just counterstar for now.


Hooker - 2016-02-20

I don't have any opinion on it. I'm very indifferent to this video. I'm just wondering what inspires this when stuff like "The universe on political correctness" gets universal fives.


Anaxagoras - 2016-02-20

I'll go ahead and give my reason: TED talks are almost always self-satisfied preachy sermons, where they try to find REVOLUTIONARY NEW IDEAS (that fit into 20 minute talks) but they're often banal or obvious ideas that have been given a new packaging. The Onion TED talks are perfect summaries of why these things tend to be shit.

I gotta admit: I don't know if this particular talk is crap. I couldn't make it past the 1 minute mark. She had the standard TED talk intro: supposedly clever, but not actually clever in the slightest, all with a self-congratulatory "aren't we all insightful truth-seekers" undertone.

tl:dr Fuck TED talks. Thank you and good night.


EvilHomer - 2016-02-20

That's an interesting theory, Mr Anaxgoras. You should do a TED Talk about that.


That guy - 2016-02-20

yes, they suck

this particular one was better than most

I was going to 3 or 4 star it, but it got a bunch of 1's.


Oscar Wildcat - 2016-02-20

Yes, a TED talk about the many ways TED talks can be smug, self congratulatory horseshit. #MetaTED2016


Bort - 2016-02-20

This video was something like an average cracked.com article. By TED Talks standards that makes it a masterpiece.

Five stars because this video might be all right.


ZackKnight - 2016-02-21

Oh my God, thank you all. I thought I was alone in the belief that TED talks were pompous and self-congratulatory. It's the most annoying thing in the world to see them treated like a scientific or academic outlet. Kinda like citing wikipedia.


Bort - 2016-02-21

If you hate TED Talks then you'll like the "Onion Talks" tag; start here:

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=114026


chumbucket - 2016-02-21

Boring.


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