War Room Lounge v70: You have to give it a new name...

[Falsedawn]

How content are y'all with your level of knowledge?

Like, as a percentage of what you wish to know (and could reasonably know given your life/mind/circumstances), how much do you know?

Hard to pin down, but for me it's definitely under 30%. Maybe around 25%.

2-3% tops, if I'm being truthful. I have a good understanding of what I don't understand, so that gulf might as well be the universe in scope.

 

[Higus]

Really sorry to hear that, man.

Yes, it sure is. Worse yet, it's a horribly persistent bitch. Speaking for myself, I refuse top give that bitch a win even though we're in a no time limit match like the early UFC days.



Yeah, Greg Giraldo was another very disheartening loss although I'm not saying he ate a bullet.
@AgonyandIrony speaking of people who cope with drugs, did you ever know him at all? He seemed like your type of guy.


Speaking of not tagging people when you talk about them.... oh, wait. Maybe I should change my nic again.

But seriously, if there's one thing that I would really like for everyone to understand about depression--and other forms of mental illness, but depression especially--no matter how successful, rich, personable, popular, surrounded by loved ones, a person may be you can still fall victim to depression. My brother said to me a little while back, "Seems like your life is great, what have you got to be depressed about?" The thing is there doesn't need to be "something to be depressed about". You're just depressed. That's what makes it an illness and not just melancholia.

If there is a reason, like your cat died, or your best friend whom you've known all your life moved to the other side of the world and you miss him so you're bummed out, for example, that's situational, mostly just requires time, and while you might say you're depressed, you don't have depression and you sure as fuck don't need medication. It's like the difference between a migraine headache and a brain tumor. They both suck, but at least if you stick it out, the migraine will pass.

Fucking 10 years goes fast doesn't it? My life has changed so completely in that time (yet not at all in key aspects, oddly enough) it seems like it should feel like a long time, but it actually feels like it was at warp speed.

Reminds me of a quote from Euphoria:
The absolute worst part of depression is that even though you know you're depressed, you're unable to stop yourself from getting worse.

 

[Falsedawn]

Yeah, it's been a while for some the them... Charles/Charlie Brown and Kansas have passed a while ago. HC and EJAXX more recently. Another poster, can't remember his username right off hand, passed away in a diving accident. Conrad was only 33 years old. Who can forgot Braz, he was only 37.

I remember when CB died, that one fucked me up. He was right up the road and we were going to link up and crack a beer. I had asked him about freemasonry and he was gonna sponsor me into his lodge.



When I die, I'm gonna put it in my will to come to Sherdog and porn blast from the great beyond. Nobody should go out without a porn blast.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

It's probably because so many self-professed comedians aren't actually funny so they're just depressed people babbling about bullshit.

Lmao. You could describe any art form that way tard.

Unless you're talking about open micers then I agree. But like any artist they're developing their craft. The entire thing is sticking with it, taking your lumps, and slowly putting it all together.

There's levels to being a comedian.
Open micers are annoying, have hella strong opinions on comedy, complain nonstop about SJW shit for why their rape jokes don't get a laugh.
Paid show comics start putting everything together, have learned the trade.
Touring comics are taking tried and tested material on the road, eat shit in weird cities, probably get Chlamydia from a waitress at a small comedy club in Missouri.

Then taped recordings, specials, so on so forth.

There are plenty of hilarious comedians who have taken their own life or overdosed. RIP Mitch.

 

[Andy Capp]

RIP Mitch Hedberg

and yes, ten years flies by. I think about the time I made my first account here, the different cliques of posters that have come and gone.. especially in the OT, the offshoots I was involved in and all of the non-sherdog communication I've had with people over the years. People that had newborns when I first started posting here in 06 that are now grown kids.

That one flew right under my radar. How long ago?

 

[Trotsky]

That one flew right under my radar. How long ago?

Last month

 

[Fawlty]

I remember when CB died, that one fucked me up. He was right up the road and we were going to link up and crack a beer. I had asked him about freemasonry and he was gonna sponsor me into his lodge.

That was so fucked. The guy was obviously in serious distress and he detailed his problems & delusions in the days before, but didn't get help. I know lots of us had long-running PMs with him and beneath the craziness he was trying to live with, a really good dude.

 

[Higus]

That one flew right under my radar. How long ago?

Hedberg? Dude died almost 15 years ago.
I can't imagine his shtick holding up for all these years. Not to say that he couldn't have evolved into a different comedy style or did something else with his life, but he's sort of been elevated to a higher esteem because he died so young.

 

[waiguoren]

You can't help but assume it about you, given your history of tapping out after losing bets.

That never happened, Mr. Balls.

 

[Falsedawn]

Hedberg? Dude died almost 15 years ago.
I can't imagine his shtick holding up for all these years. Not to say that he couldn't have evolved into a different comedy style or did something else with his life, but he's sort of been elevated to a higher esteem because he died so young.

I dunno man, Hedberg would have SMASHED it on TV imo. He was the blueprint for surreal comedy, and look how big Tim and Eric and Eric Andre got doing that bit. Hell, look at Adult Swim in general.

Mitch was 15 years too early, he would have destroyed in 2019.

 

[Darkballs]

That never happened, Mr. Balls.

The entire War Room Lounge would disagree.

 

[Higus]

I dunno man, Hedberg would have SMASHED it on TV imo. He was the blueprint for surreal comedy, and look how big Tim and Eric and Eric Andre got doing that bit. Hell, look at Adult Swim in general.

Mitch was 15 years too early, he would have destroyed in 2019.

Fair enough. I could see him in a medium like that. It would be hard to imagine him still doing his brand of stand up for the last 15 years.

 

[Fawlty]

Hedberg? Dude died almost 15 years ago.
I can't imagine his shtick holding up for all these years. Not to say that he couldn't have evolved into a different comedy style or did something else with his life, but he's sort of been elevated to a higher esteem because he died so young.

I think what he could have done and would have done are different, for sure. The straight Steven Wright-style one liners were excellent but he was definitely holding something back. And he was good enough with just those jokes to go mainstream.

 

[Rational Poster]

The entire War Room Lounge would disagree.

Speaking of this..


Why doesn't @waiguoren have his pink belt yet @Lead @Ruprecht??


The community demands justice.

 

[Trotsky]

The entire War Room Lounge would disagree.

Yeesh, @waiguoren you just got slapped down by a guy named Mr. Balls.

 

[Gregolian]

That never happened, Mr. Balls.

Please... go away.... and never come back.

Go find some like 8chan board to keep pulling this shtick while clutching your waifu Kasumi DoA body pillow you cut a hole in.

 

[Fawlty]

@Prokofievian wellness check

 

[Fawlty]

How come nobody ever just fucked with people on $25,000 Pyramid?

'Things On a Horse'

"the electric slide...menstrual blood...a referee's whistle......the electric slide...Mein Kampf...(lots of subtle nodding)"
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[sickc0d3r]

How content are y'all with your level of knowledge?

Like, as a percentage of what you wish to know (and could reasonably know given your life/mind/circumstances), how much do you know?

Hard to pin down, but for me it's definitely under 30%. Maybe around 25%.

5%? Maybe?

It’s too bad we can’t all grow up like Julius from Twins, being spoon fed knowledge 24/7, trained in combat by a team of experts, every Friday, having our prostates milked by pretty Caribbean nurses every Saturday.

Ok, I made up that last part, but it sounds pretty cool. Alas, we are all much more like Vincent.

 

[Gregolian]

being spoon fed knowledge 24/7

trained in combat by a team of experts

having our prostates milked by pretty Caribbean nurses every Saturday.

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