Opie needs to go back to school.

43  2015-07-07 by McGowan9

Or just read some books. Am a Brit, don't know your grade system but whatever when you're 7-8 yrs old, he needs to go back there and learn how to fucking read. Even if he were a dyslexic maths/science genius or tech wiz, his inability to string a coherent sentence together would still be embarrassing. The fact that he's a lucked out radio host and can't master the basics of his native tongue is simply unacceptable/infuriating. Start from scratch Opie - I recommend Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, that's a good starting off point. Look up the words you don't know in a dictionary, or ask an adult how to pronounce them.

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These "burp" and "sniff" posts make me laugh like a fool every time.

Omg Opie is Robert Durst!

Don't get me wrong, I'm shit at complex algebra and bio-chemistry, you can't be good at everything. But if your job is to talk for 3 hours a day, you should have a fairly good grasp of your native language. And you shouldn't wonder out loud why seawater is undrinkable.

Opie said "What is in salt water that makes the body reject it?" and Sam brilliantly deadpanned with disgust, "Salt. Salt is in saltwater."

it wasn't Sam, you lying worthless piece of dogshit. It was Jim and Anthony, and nobody disgustedly deadpanned anything. It was just a simple question and response, Mr. Timestamp Archivist. Go fuck yourself. Seriously, Neckbeard, I fucking hate you. Bring your big fucking karmic reddit balls to Wackbag, you needy piece of shit. How desperate is your desire to be loved that you spend your days lying about shit to get upvotes on this cunthole of a forum?

Yeeesh! Why don't you tell him how you really feel.

I misremembered a saltwater rant. Please excuse me. here is the link with Ant and Jim immediately blurting out salt at that retard Opie at about 2:50 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3KsKnrXk04w

How fucking dare you get a minute detail wrong. You should be executed

"Minute detail"? He got who gave the response wrong. Twice. Nobody said anything in disgust. Nothing was deadpanned. Considering he found the YouTube link immediately, there's no excuse for anything to be "misremembered."

If anything, he should be executed for being everything he hates about Opie. He can't wait to come here to check his numbers. He makes up shit to sound cool around other people. He's never the funny person. And he's a member of Wackbag, so you know he's at least a B-cup.

How did I miss this post? Jesus Christ, it just fucking killed me.

He doesn't care because he did a show for so long where he didn't have to.

But now that he's the star, like he always dreamed of, he's still giving it the same mushy maw he had when Patrice was laughing at Bobo's penis. And wondering why people don't like him now.

The rally cry of every illiterate idiot.

Opie knows all about insecurity. He's got half the accounts on twitter blocked to protect his delicate feelings.

it's plain to see opie never reads and has always been fed through his televizor. he claims to like sports, if he read two bill simmons articles and cross referenced them with dictionary.com he'd be 100% smarter than where he started but as it stands he's an anthropomorphic torpid sloth.

One of the thousand things about Opie that bugs me is that he doesn't even seem to understand simple concepts in sports. When people ask him something about basketball (the sport he supposedly played) he never knows the answer, even if he did he wouldn't be able to articulate it.

Either Jimmy or Sam asked him what a pick & roll is so he confidently explained a pick & pop, he said Dennis Rodman (the undisputed best rebounder of all-time) was a "shitty rebounder", and when asked by Patrice why Wayne Gretsky was great he couldn't come up with a reason. I've never watched a full game of Hockey in my life and even I know that he has the most points and assists in history.

I was watching a Lionel video and he isn't bad outside of Opie Raqio, I do enjoy Jim putting him off balance but I digress, he discussed why sport talk is so popular and it's because nobody can lie about their knowledge, you either know or you don't. Most fans have adopted their preferred sports as religion and can easily sniff out a liar. Why Opie thinks he can bullshit on the topic is further proof he's severely mentally ill or retart'd. What life lessons can he possibly impart to that son of his.

Not only does he have the most points and assists, he did it the youngest, in the lowest amounts of games, etc. He holds or shares 60 offensive records in his sport. There has never been a more dominant firepower player than Gretzky in North American sport. There are hundreds of millions of people who know one thing and one thing only about hockey: Gretzky was a brilliant scorer.

Kind of like how you can know jack shit about basketball and know Rodman was one of the greatest rebounders ever.

Even us haterz understate how weird Opie is. The amount of information, trivia, and how-shit-works concepts a normal person incidentally picks up in a week is more than Opie knows about everything combined.

There has to be something shockingly fucked up about him that we don't know. What's he doing all the time? What's he always been doing? He's got nothing, not even real childhood stories.

I don't actually care what he's up to, but...

The only person I've ever known who was like that, not literally retarded or literally autistic but so disengaged that he didn't "catch" anything, turned out to be so preoccupied with his secret vocation that he had no brain-space left to fit anything else in.

He was a rest-home rapist.

That's creepy, man. But you're at least partially right. He is so eager when he actually does have something to share, no matter how asinine, you wonder how much stuff is knocking around in that head that doesn't go through the "filters".

If this was the case, I would at least respect the fact that he's into something.

A Brit? The hater agenda has gone international maaaaaaan!!!

I bet he's a Scorch fan too, I heard he's huge over there

two countries and WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE!

1980?????

It's got nothing to do with nationality. He is retarded. Not in the insult-oriented "I hate him he's a retard!" because you disagree with him way. He's legitimately brain addled.

I wouldn't hate him for this, if he didn't insist that he be the "captain of the ship", and if he hadn't convinced himself throughout his life that anything about him was good in any way.

I wouldn't hate him for this, if he didn't insist that he be the "captain of the ship", and if he hadn't convinced himself throughout his life that anything about him was good in any way.

I wouldn't hate him for this if he was just a guy, doing a thing.

The thing about Opie is, he always wanted to be the star of the show, but what does he have to offer? He's not good at jokes. He's not a good talker. He's an absolute shit interviewer.

And he makes how many million a year?

But that's not even why I hate him. I hate him because he always acted like he should be bigger. He always thought he was the greatest even though he was just a loud, loud voice in the room.

The loudest voice, that said the least, despite talking the most. He is a magician.

I don't even think he is that dumb, over the years he'll let slip things that suggest he's better educated than he lets on. The thing is that he's so insecure that he thinks people will like him better if he plays it dumb. Though it could be that after 20 years of playing dumb he's just deflated his stupid fucking brain.

I've suspected this too. I vaguely remember one time on air Erock broke the 4th wall by asking Opie why he acts dumb. If he is acting dumb he's doing an incredible job. To replicate the sheer level of detail and nuance to his stupidity is impossible.

over the years he'll let slip things that suggest he's better educated than he lets on

one example. just. one.

Oh he'd throw out all kinds of stuff about art history and film history that he clearly learned at SUNY, but he'd also pretend to not remember what he was talking about. One example? He referred to Picasso's rose period. I can't remember why. That's art history 101, but it's something. He's not as smart as Anthony or Jim, but he's better educated than Jim at least.

I'm sure Opie does play up his stupidity because he still sees himself as this "learning is for squares!" too cool to know stuff fratbro, but let's not act like he is not legitimately incredibly stupid. He DID go to college. I'm sure he retained at least some basic, worthless knowledge that is forced upon impressionable young college kids who have to take all of those Sumerian art studies and world music classes that get them nowhere in real life...but his capacity for learning is very, very small. Most of it went to old school radio - learning how to take calls, make stupid characters, run a sound board, etc...shit that isn't relevant today. And once he learned that, and then went on to become a millionaire, he never bothered to learn anything afterwards. Not that he could anyway, because that terrible old time radio shit is so ingrained in him that he can't get out of it. He's like 58 years old and the week after Anthony was fired he went right back to that garbage he learned in the 80s from old irrelevant DJs whose only job was to make stupid names and spin the hits, despite the fact that he spent the last 20 years as this supposed edgy shock jock who was above radio conventions of old. The only thing he learned in those 20 years was that Gen-X mentality that knowing things is for nerds and life is just like whatever man.

Hahaha you just restated my initial point and used about ten times as many words in the process. Well done.

I'm sure he retained at least some basic, worthless knowledge

The thing about cheating your way through college is that at a bare minimum, you'll at least recall a few of the answers you had to memorize after digging them out of the dumpster.

I didn't mean it had anything to do with him being American. I just meant I don't know the American school grade system but whatever it is when you're 7, he should go back and start from there.

He's legitimately brain addled

This made me chuckle.

Opie is the kind of guy to brag how long its been since he last read a book. "I haven't read a book since high school, brah! I didn't even read in college!" He thinks we're all supposed to be his frat broskis and give him high fives when he glories in his willful ignorance.

He's actually the other kind of retard that over compensates. I remember an earlier xm show talking about how he read hundreds of books during the years they were off the air. Why would anyone but an illiterate brag about that?

Nah, he doesn't finish books. He just lies about it, you're right, in an overcompensating fashion. The last 50 pages is what gets him, I guess.

It would be OK if he still sounded smart or well-read, but it's clear he's an uneducated dullard and has never made any attempt to rectify that in his 60 years on this earth.

Goldilocks & 3 Bears would be too advanced for a remedial shock jock who's accustomed to learning at his own slothish pace.

I suggest Where's Waldo.

It would be too difficult for him. All the other girls in his class would pick on him out of jealousy for how he's blossoming so much faster.

Both of his kids have already surpassed his reading level.

When Oqie says "documen-tree" and "figure it out" a lot I can't cringe enough. Everyday this half breed says it. Listen for it. I think I'm 3 years in its a everyday occurrence.

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Or "I just can't wrap my braaaain around that"

"Opie needs to go back to school" sounds like the premise to a very unfunny movie

"Opie" sounds like very unfunny

FTFY

Say sushi.

I did not watch my buddies die face down in the muck so that this fucking hack could tell us to think about water for 20 minutes.

Read that in a very proper British voice.. I hope he is capable of reading this.

Jolly good, old chap. Pip pip cheerio, hup hup huzzah, 1066 and all that.

At least he's "great" at math.

During a NY marijuana law discussion the figure of eight ounces came up which most of us know is a half pound. Opie was going on in his high pitched squeal "how much is that? Why do they make it so complicated?"

Welcome to Reddit, Ricky Gervais!

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England is a fag country.

He laughed at Gaffigan saying "cobbled together" today like it was titmouse.

Nah, he doesn't finish books. He just lies about it, you're right, in an overcompensating fashion. The last 50 pages is what gets him, I guess.

1980?????

During a NY marijuana law discussion the figure of eight ounces came up which most of us know is a half pound. Opie was going on in his high pitched squeal "how much is that? Why do they make it so complicated?"

Hahaha you just restated my initial point and used about ten times as many words in the process. Well done.

I'm sure he retained at least some basic, worthless knowledge

The thing about cheating your way through college is that at a bare minimum, you'll at least recall a few of the answers you had to memorize after digging them out of the dumpster.