Interesting Reddit Stuff

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:06

TheVision wrote:

I lost a lot of respect for Eddie Izzard when he didn't recognise the theme tune to Police Squad on Radio 2 the once.

Scandalous!

Da da da, da da. Da da da, da da da da da.

Etc.

Have recently rewatched his early standup shows on DVD. He is/was bloody funny.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14520

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ ... have_been/

Reddit's wife leaves him doodles of tiny vulgar unicorns

http://imgur.com/a/MbP2h (NSFW sorta since they are vulgar unicorns)

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22405

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2 ... eddit_ama/

Terry Crews AMA, he is brilliantly enthusiastic about everything

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

Man, he so loves yoghurt.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2015 15:13

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2015 15:33

OMFG I didn't know he did Old Spice commercials!

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4365

He did a rather special music video for Old Spice a while ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ15vCGuvH0

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2015 17:12

For the hell of it, I had a go at the Reddit Secret Santa. Didn't get anything myself, but I'm pleased I made a random stranger happy (link). Just as well he didn't turn out to be a Man City fan.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22405

Just what do you buy someone called Milf_grinder

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22405

Grim... wrote:

OMFG I didn't know he did Old Spice commercials!

Gloriously insane.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38697

Just ran across this on Reddit

From GTAV

Edit: Fuck me, that's big.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 9:13

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comm ... one_in_an/

Finding people in a theme park.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 9:31

That was a question in the What-If book (although it was on a planetary scale).

TIL (well, YIL) that because of his various cameos Stan Lee is the third highest grossing actor of all time (and has, by far, the best film average). http://www.the-numbers.com/people/records/

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

So nothing to do with his earnings, but the total gross take of all the films he's been in is the third highest? Makes sense. Weirdly worded though.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

The chart of actors who've been in the most grossing films in a supporting role is fun. Check out number 2 - he's only done voices for animated stuff and things like Transformers. Who is he? No fucking idea!

1 Samuel L. Jackson 51 $4,823,853,782 $94,585,368
2 Frank Welker 29 $4,086,206,421 $140,903,670
3 Hugo Weaving 18 $3,834,951,387 $213,052,855
4 Gary Oldman 17 $3,513,567,164 $206,680,421
5 Warwick Davis 14 $3,506,957,852 $250,496,989
6 Jack Angel 18 $3,436,121,459 $190,895,637
7 Mickie McGowan 16 $2,989,300,678 $186,831,292
8 Stanley Tucci 31 $2,915,128,512 $94,036,404
9 Elizabeth Banks 19 $2,878,433,120 $151,496,480
10 Robbie Coltrane 18 $2,845,890,272 $158,105,015

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

In fact yeah, #s 2, 6, and 7 are all animated voice actors. Wow.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 9:56

*Takes notes for the next Cottage quiz*

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 10:27

Cras wrote:

Who is he? No fucking idea!

He's Scooby Doo!

(And also "the animal noise guy". He "voiced" Nibbler in Futurama, for example. He was a number 1 for quite a while.)

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 10:29

Watch the man, he's a bit of a genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnF5gpn8k5Y

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Yes, I knew Frank Welker was Nibbler right away. He's on some of the Futurama DVD commentaries and he's incredibly prolific.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 10:31

Also Uni from the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon - which is the same noise, come to think of it.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 10:55

Speaking of voice actors, Harry Shearer might well leave The Simpsons.

He voices (among others) Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Mr Burns, Waylon Smithers, Lenny, Jasper, Otto, Kent Brockman, Reverend Lovejoy, and Julius Hibbert.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/05/14/h ... e-simpsons

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2015 14:43

Reddit is currently self-destructing due to DRAMAH.

This is a good subreddit for info: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38697

It'll turn out that the woman who was fired was stealing or something else that warrants firing. Mark my words

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2015 14:48

DavPaz wrote:

It'll turn out that the woman who was fired was stealing or something else that warrants firing. Mark my words

3/10

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38697

Curiosity wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

It'll turn out that the woman who was fired was stealing or something else that warrants firing. Mark my words

3/10

Improvement!

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Ugh, Christ, there's some properly hysterical stuff on there; not least a poll of how many people want the fired person to replace the CEO (why? what's the point of even asking that question?) and a thread hilariously entitled "They're probably just going to try to wait it out. KEEP THE PRESSURE ON UNTIL IT'S RECTIFIED. Downvote everything on the frontpage that isn't about this (and upvote everything that is). We can basically ruin their website: BECAUSE WE ARE THEIR FUCKING WEBSITE."

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2015 20:35

They're quite right, of course. The list of blacked-out subreddits is pretty enormous.

Happy 4th July, Reddit execs!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Reddit is an unusable, unreadable nightmare. How the fuck can you follow anything on that link?

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14422

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Reddit is an unusable, unreadable nightmare. How the fuck can you follow anything on that link?

This is so true. The mobile version of the site is much MUCH better.

(And not the shitty Beta version either)

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2015 22:03

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Reddit is an unusable, unreadable nightmare. How the fuck can you follow anything on that link?

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. I can't see the attraction of Reddit at all.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2015 22:13

Saturnalian wrote:

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Reddit is an unusable, unreadable nightmare. How the fuck can you follow anything on that link?

This is so true. The mobile version of the site is much MUCH better.

(And not the shitty Beta version either)

I like the beta mobile version.

Obviously I use RES to view the main site, as I'm not insane.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38697

Linked from a Reddit thread

http://english.bouletcorp.com/2013/10/0 ... fantastic/

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2015 8:06

Bamba wrote:

Ugh, Christ, there's some properly hysterical stuff on there; not least a poll of how many people want the fired person to replace the CEO (why? what's the point of even asking that question?) and a thread hilariously entitled "They're probably just going to try to wait it out. KEEP THE PRESSURE ON UNTIL IT'S RECTIFIED. Downvote everything on the frontpage that isn't about this (and upvote everything that is). We can basically ruin their website: BECAUSE WE ARE THEIR FUCKING WEBSITE."

Pao (the CEO) has resigned, so they're half way there.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Grim... wrote:

Bamba wrote:

Ugh, Christ, there's some properly hysterical stuff on there; not least a poll of how many people want the fired person to replace the CEO (why? what's the point of even asking that question?) and a thread hilariously entitled "They're probably just going to try to wait it out. KEEP THE PRESSURE ON UNTIL IT'S RECTIFIED. Downvote everything on the frontpage that isn't about this (and upvote everything that is). We can basically ruin their website: BECAUSE WE ARE THEIR FUCKING WEBSITE."

Pao (the CEO) has resigned, so they're half way there.

The other half was always going to be the difficult one.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:16

Bwa-ha-ha-haa take that pitchfork mob!

"Wong posted the particularly illuminating missive in response to today’s official announcement that the site isn’t supposed to be a “bastion of free speech.” With the overarching message of the post being—way to get rid of the only person actually fighting for you, idiots."

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/ ... pm/ct3n7hc

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:22

Best reaction so far has been

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Depends if you consider hundreds of thousands of users to be a 'pitchfork mob', and those were the ones who could be bothered to sign the petition. It didn't seem that Pao was a good CEO at all, what with her history of spurious sexual-discrimination lawsuits (that she lost) and using her newfound reddit power to prevent salary negotiations (because women aren't as good at it).

I'm been watching the drama unfold. yishan is revelling in his ex-ceo ability to declare his superior knowledge a bit too much. More than once he's said something that's been directly contradicted by people that actually work there (like saying a board member was Pao's boss where it's actually the other way around), and other such chuffing nonsense.

The fact that voat.co is pretty much an identical reddit clone just demonstrates that in terms of the technical platform provided, there isn't much novelty about anything the management does. I'd say the site's success, beyond it's self-feeding notoriety, is just the ability to stay up under load for the majority of the time. Everything else is pretty much built by users.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:

(like saying a board member was Pao's boss where it's actually the other way around)

Not really. The board appoints the CEO, and the CEO is responsible to the board.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Don't argue with me, argue with the ex-ceo disagreeing with the incumbent staff. I haven't made a single post on reddit about the ongoing guff. It's mostly just a content and link aggregator with comments and dank memes.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:35

ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:

The fact that voat.co is pretty much an identical reddit clone just demonstrates that in terms of the technical platform provided, there isn't much novelty about anything the management does.

Reddit's open-source - I strongly suspect there's more than a little of Voat that is entirely cloned from Reddit (although Voat's written in a different language).

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14520

https://np.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments ... euro_2016/

Depending on the result with France , the game between Greece and Iceland gets weird

If its a 0-0 draw or either side wins , they *both* go out
If its a score draw , they go to penalties for one of them to go through

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2016 10:03

zaphod79 wrote:

https://np.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/4d5ki3/theres_a_bizarre_situation_in_u17_euro_2016/

Depending on the result with France , the game between Greece and Iceland gets weird

If its a 0-0 draw or either side wins , they *both* go out
If its a score draw , they go to penalties for one of them to go through

Own goals a plenty!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14520

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ ... ector_and/

Title

Quote:

I am Matt McMullen, CEO, creative director, and founder of RealDoll. Ask me anything!

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2016 13:36

zaphod79 wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4y0uyn/i_am_matt_mcmullen_ceo_creative_director_and/

Title

Quote:

I am Matt McMullen, CEO, creative director, and founder of RealDoll. Ask me anything!

4 breasts and yeti fur :DD

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:08

I find the daily 'commute observation' threads on /r/London strangely compelling. It's a bit like the creepy 'I saw my one true love on the Tube yesterday' column in 'Metro', but covering a wider range of glimpses of contemporary life. I don't even live in London.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:30

I sometimes post in those.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jun 21, 2017 9:31

http://uk.businessinsider.com/oss-manua ... ?r=US&IR=T

How to sabotage a business.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:11

MaliA wrote:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/oss-manual-sabotage-productivity-2015-11?r=US&IR=T

How to sabotage a business.

That looks like an interesting read but I can't go any further as I'm using Adblock. Pah.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:16

Adblock is the crappy choice nowadays - uBlock Origin is where it's at.

Anyway, here's the original file they link to:

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/fe ... age_sm.pdf

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