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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10 Dannyprecise 2015-07-07
These "burp" and "sniff" posts make me laugh like a fool every time.
3 HolyRomanEmperor 2015-07-07
Omg Opie is Robert Durst!
25 Genericscreen 2015-07-07
"Only insecure people use big words, let's face it." -Opie
40 McGowan9 2015-07-07
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.
23 BeerCanThick 2015-07-07
Opie said "What is in salt water that makes the body reject it?" and Sam brilliantly deadpanned with disgust, "Salt. Salt is in saltwater."
2 HogsBigBen 2015-07-07
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?
4 nawtfunny 2015-07-07
Yeeesh! Why don't you tell him how you really feel.
1 BeerCanThick 2015-07-07
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
-1 Genericscreen 2015-07-07
How fucking dare you get a minute detail wrong. You should be executed
1 HogsBigBen 2015-07-07
"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.
1 PanzerSmanzer 2015-07-07
How did I miss this post? Jesus Christ, it just fucking killed me.
5 breadmoccasin 2015-07-07
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.
26 McGowan9 2015-07-07
The rally cry of every illiterate idiot.
13 K1bbler 2015-07-07
Opie knows all about insecurity. He's got half the accounts on twitter blocked to protect his delicate feelings.
17 shameofyou 2015-07-07
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.
8 MoosePuncher93 2015-07-07
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.
6 shameofyou 2015-07-07
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.
5 BeerCanThick 2015-07-07
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.
6 Pat_Battle_Storage 2015-07-07
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.
3 breadmoccasin 2015-07-07
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".
1 winkleham 2015-07-07
If this was the case, I would at least respect the fact that he's into something.
13 mikestl1988 2015-07-07
A Brit? The hater agenda has gone international maaaaaaan!!!
6 MonsteRain 2015-07-07
I bet he's a Scorch fan too, I heard he's huge over there
5 packitchofsositch 2015-07-07
two countries and WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE!
7 jimcozad 2015-07-07
1980?????
9 packitchofsositch 2015-07-07
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.
6 breadmoccasin 2015-07-07
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.
2 callmesnake13 2015-07-07
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.
3 winkleham 2015-07-07
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.
2 jags85 2015-07-07
one example. just. one.
5 callmesnake13 2015-07-07
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.
4 BoardroomBimmy 2015-07-07
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.
2 callmesnake13 2015-07-07
Hahaha you just restated my initial point and used about ten times as many words in the process. Well done.
1 packitchofsositch 2015-07-07
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.
2 McGowan9 2015-07-07
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.
2 winkleham 2015-07-07
This made me chuckle.
8 BeerCanThick 2015-07-07
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.
4 KennethFresno 2015-07-07
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?
4 BeerCanThick 2015-07-07
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.
3 winkleham 2015-07-07
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.
6 Jarvismcjigglestein 2015-07-07
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.
5 Bam-Hughes 2015-07-07
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.
3 MonsteRain 2015-07-07
Both of his kids have already surpassed his reading level.
3 openhouse15 2015-07-07
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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2 Okefenokie 2015-07-07
Or "I just can't wrap my braaaain around that"
3 SAHandre 2015-07-07
"Opie needs to go back to school" sounds like the premise to a very unfunny movie
1 nguneer 2015-07-07
FTFY
3 KuukerinNelli 2015-07-07
Say sushi.
3 im_not 2015-07-07
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.
2 RacksDiciprine 2015-07-07
Read that in a very proper British voice.. I hope he is capable of reading this.
2 McGowan9 2015-07-07
Jolly good, old chap. Pip pip cheerio, hup hup huzzah, 1066 and all that.
2 opieanthonyjim 2015-07-07
At least he's "great" at math.
2 Okefenokie 2015-07-07
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?"
2 NashuaDan 2015-07-07
Welcome to Reddit, Ricky Gervais!
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1 RedOak_Candor 2015-07-07
England is a fag country.
1 hautebird 2015-07-07
He laughed at Gaffigan saying "cobbled together" today like it was titmouse.
4 BeerCanThick 2015-07-07
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.
7 jimcozad 2015-07-07
1980?????
2 Okefenokie 2015-07-07
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?"
2 callmesnake13 2015-07-07
Hahaha you just restated my initial point and used about ten times as many words in the process. Well done.
1 packitchofsositch 2015-07-07
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.