Both Opie and Jimmy come across as misinformed assholes in this. Jim with the "isn't it about socializing?" No you fuckwits, it's about taking years to get a kid to think abstractly about numbers and languages and high-level concepts they wouldn't just stumble across on Wikipedia. It's very telling that Opie thinks it was just about memorizing facts, it really shows that he didn't internalize anything and it explains why he doesn't know how to think like a normal adult.
I understand jimmy not getting it because he didn't even finish high school. But the Opester graduated college.
opie belongs to that crowd that think knowledge is for SQUARES MAAAN. Him and florentine and jim and the rest all think that knowing stuff is for losers. The cool guys are dumb. And the dumber that you can be, the cooler you are.
Let me guess, Florentine's view on school is he hates it & its fucking stupid? Maybe it's just me but I've honestly never laughed at anything Florentine had to say & I really tried to like him. It's gotta be hard trying to always keep up the persona of to cool for the room & the "I rebel against everything that society as a whole considers cool because that's how ant establishment I am MAAAN!"
I know there's been bits and pieces where I thought Florentine was conversationally funny, like during the Piscipo saga. But mostly the only thing that ever stands out from him is how much he hates things and how everything that isn't feathered hair and a Def Lep tee is for children.
norton doesn't. he has a genuine curiosity about things but he just can't understand them, so he just tries to learn what he can. kind of how he loves reading pop physics books and can only repeat a small portion back.
A filthy rich scion of a Harvard educated aristocrat who only managed a C average was the president during the majority of their careers in media. It's cool to be stupid.
Come on, they have a point. Analysis, syntax, critical thinking...who needs that shit when you can just look something up on a google page from an unchecked source.
Maybe Jimmy made that stupid "socializing" comment because he didn't want to walk on Greggshells. Imagine if, say, Vos made a comment like that in front of Jimmy, Anthony, Bobby, etc... He would have been ripped to shreds.
It could also be because of the more friendly / zoo vibe they're shooting for too
If Vos stresses a single consonant too hard they rip on him for 5 minutes and write it on the wall. If Opie struggles for 7 minutes to think of a David Bowie song and settles on "Major Tom" everyone nods solemnly "yeah... that's a rough one to remember."
You gotta cut Jimmy some slack! Imagine being in his position. His options were stay with the paycheck & be miserable, or go with his friend & have fun & its now apparent that he made the smart choice.
But the right choice comes with a grown spoiled out of touch man child who so wants to be the smartest person in the room but isnt even the smartest person in the bathroom when pissing next to the janitor. And on top of that, you had a blowout with the man child & you legally can't walk out so you bite your tongue until October.
A minute or two earlier, tits and Florentine were bitching that they pay a ridiculous amount of money for their kids pre-school and kindergarten and that it's basically just babysitting. They (tried to) joke that you might as well hire a sitter and tell them to have the kid color all day. I think Jimmy's timing was just a little bit off because socializing would be a good counter-argument to that.
Why does he keep trying to make this argument like he figured out how to evolve education? Someone close to him needs to sit him down and explain that you need school to learn how to solve problems. Whatever career you end up in, you need a base of knowledge to draw from in order to solve a problem on the spot. The information on the internet is just quicker to access; it's not quicker to learn. It's like going to the library and being told exactly what page in a book explains a concept you need to know. You got to the information quicker, but you still have to take the same amount of time to read and comprehend the new concept.
In Opie's fairy tale world people go to work and need to only look up what words mean.
Well... look at what Opie has accomplished in his life. He's a fucking halfwit that made it in radio by riding the coattails of funnier people; with his only contribution to the show being to destroy shit. Of course he's anti-education. He won the lottery and never needed it.
ME: i feel like writing my own computer program. All i got to do is google this shit and i'll have my program in no time. Okay i can't even read this mumbo jumbo. hmmm, good thing i can just google every one of these terms! Fuck school!
Wow, Did Opie just say that kids today have it easier in school than we did? What a Visionary! Next thing you know he's gonna think of a prophetic thought about how mtv doesn't even play music anymore.
What groundbreaking shit, he really earns that raise more & more everyday!
ME: It's the nineties for christ's sake, we have all these encyclopedias in libraries everywhere in the country which are free to take home and read, do we really need that much schooling?
Better question is why is he spending 50k a year on kindergarten for his kids, besides the fact that he wants to fit in with the upper west side crowd?
I hate when fucking communications/art majors talk about college like they earned a real degree. For a lot of people, college is not totally necessary, but it not just about learning facts. People like this don't add anything to the progression of knowledge, they just learn the shit thats already out there. thats not helpful for anyone else
I wish every high schooler out there who's considering broadcast school would just listen to at least one hour of an average o&a show & look at the vast difference between wasting a few more years in school & be buried in student loans hoping to get a $16K/yr shit job in Indiana, or having simply having talent.
A caller must have brought up their children because Opie always said he only talked about his kids if they were doing a story about kids or a caller brought up their kids in a discussion?
His sibling do their kids' homework and Opie thinks that is the norm? If I didn't do my homework, I'd get bad grades, my parents wouldn't do it for me. Never ever. So if I wanted good grades, I had to do it. Why are these parents doing their kids' homework? Bc they don't want their kids to get bad grades so they'd rather do it themselves than nothing? Jesus christ, that's bad parenting not what Opie should be planning on.
Listening to thise literary giants Opie & Jim debating the educational system is like listening to those 2 give the college football halftime report. Remember the bit "Coach Jimmy?" Osu coach mike gundy went off on a reporter for trashing the qb. The problem was both of those dumb fucks were trying to figure out if OSU is a high school!
You know, because school intitials that end with U are usually a high school, not HS like I thought.
If Vos stresses a single consonant too hard they rip on him for 5 minutes and write it on the wall. If Opie struggles for 7 minutes to think of a David Bowie song and settles on "Major Tom" everyone nods solemnly "yeah... that's a rough one to remember."
47 comments
42 Jarvismcjigglestein 2016-01-12
Amazing that the least intellectually curious man alive would advocate for self education.
If anyone needs to be locked in a room with an extremely patient teacher & a bottle of Ritalin & then dismissed & shot to death anyway, it's Tits.
17 TriangleDimes 2016-01-12
Both Opie and Jimmy come across as misinformed assholes in this. Jim with the "isn't it about socializing?" No you fuckwits, it's about taking years to get a kid to think abstractly about numbers and languages and high-level concepts they wouldn't just stumble across on Wikipedia. It's very telling that Opie thinks it was just about memorizing facts, it really shows that he didn't internalize anything and it explains why he doesn't know how to think like a normal adult.
10 QuantumTabby 2016-01-12
I understand jimmy not getting it because he didn't even finish high school. But the Opester graduated college.
opie belongs to that crowd that think knowledge is for SQUARES MAAAN. Him and florentine and jim and the rest all think that knowing stuff is for losers. The cool guys are dumb. And the dumber that you can be, the cooler you are.
6 Moxson4 2016-01-12
Let me guess, Florentine's view on school is he hates it & its fucking stupid? Maybe it's just me but I've honestly never laughed at anything Florentine had to say & I really tried to like him. It's gotta be hard trying to always keep up the persona of to cool for the room & the "I rebel against everything that society as a whole considers cool because that's how ant establishment I am MAAAN!"
7 BoardroomBimmy 2016-01-12
I know there's been bits and pieces where I thought Florentine was conversationally funny, like during the Piscipo saga. But mostly the only thing that ever stands out from him is how much he hates things and how everything that isn't feathered hair and a Def Lep tee is for children.
3 Moxson4 2016-01-12
i hate phony comics & you just know that Florentine's really doing a character with that hate shit.
3 blackirishlad 2016-01-12
norton doesn't. he has a genuine curiosity about things but he just can't understand them, so he just tries to learn what he can. kind of how he loves reading pop physics books and can only repeat a small portion back.
he's a dropout with a heart of gold.
1 MushtashWax 2016-01-12
A filthy rich scion of a Harvard educated aristocrat who only managed a C average was the president during the majority of their careers in media. It's cool to be stupid.
1 OpiesMobileGuy 2016-01-12
whats hilarious is those 2 are some of 'squarest' cunts you'll ever meet both trapped in fucking 1989
7 McGowan9 2016-01-12
Come on, they have a point. Analysis, syntax, critical thinking...who needs that shit when you can just look something up on a google page from an unchecked source.
5 silks322 2016-01-12
Maybe Jimmy made that stupid "socializing" comment because he didn't want to walk on Greggshells. Imagine if, say, Vos made a comment like that in front of Jimmy, Anthony, Bobby, etc... He would have been ripped to shreds.
It could also be because of the more friendly / zoo vibe they're shooting for too
5 TriangleDimes 2016-01-12
If Vos stresses a single consonant too hard they rip on him for 5 minutes and write it on the wall. If Opie struggles for 7 minutes to think of a David Bowie song and settles on "Major Tom" everyone nods solemnly "yeah... that's a rough one to remember."
4 DickensCoffee 2016-01-12
Never underestimate the power that is Greggshells.
3 Moxson4 2016-01-12
You gotta cut Jimmy some slack! Imagine being in his position. His options were stay with the paycheck & be miserable, or go with his friend & have fun & its now apparent that he made the smart choice. But the right choice comes with a grown spoiled out of touch man child who so wants to be the smartest person in the room but isnt even the smartest person in the bathroom when pissing next to the janitor. And on top of that, you had a blowout with the man child & you legally can't walk out so you bite your tongue until October.
2 packitchofsositch 2016-01-12
A minute or two earlier, tits and Florentine were bitching that they pay a ridiculous amount of money for their kids pre-school and kindergarten and that it's basically just babysitting. They (tried to) joke that you might as well hire a sitter and tell them to have the kid color all day. I think Jimmy's timing was just a little bit off because socializing would be a good counter-argument to that.
15 HowsThatFeelFucker 2016-01-12
What an insight. Somebody give this guy a Noble Prize.
-6 Conmanx360 2016-01-12
The Opster doesn't deserve a Nobel prize, let alone a prize for being noble.
5 HowsThatFeelFucker 2016-01-12
HOMERUN COCKSUCKA
10 RchrdJ28 2016-01-12
Why does he keep trying to make this argument like he figured out how to evolve education? Someone close to him needs to sit him down and explain that you need school to learn how to solve problems. Whatever career you end up in, you need a base of knowledge to draw from in order to solve a problem on the spot. The information on the internet is just quicker to access; it's not quicker to learn. It's like going to the library and being told exactly what page in a book explains a concept you need to know. You got to the information quicker, but you still have to take the same amount of time to read and comprehend the new concept.
In Opie's fairy tale world people go to work and need to only look up what words mean.
11 dooogie 2016-01-12
Well... look at what Opie has accomplished in his life. He's a fucking halfwit that made it in radio by riding the coattails of funnier people; with his only contribution to the show being to destroy shit. Of course he's anti-education. He won the lottery and never needed it.
6 regularope 2016-01-12
You're talking about a grown man who hired an ape to wake him up, feed him breakfast, and drive him to work in the mornings.
9 QuantumTabby 2016-01-12
ME: i feel like writing my own computer program. All i got to do is google this shit and i'll have my program in no time. Okay i can't even read this mumbo jumbo. hmmm, good thing i can just google every one of these terms! Fuck school!
7 thrillated 2016-01-12
ME: what's a Java function? Is it like when they do the small plays inside coffee shops?
2 Lasagna_Hat 2016-01-12
FAWWKKK YEAHHHH DVV DVVVVV DVVVV
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8 Moxson4 2016-01-12
Wow, Did Opie just say that kids today have it easier in school than we did? What a Visionary! Next thing you know he's gonna think of a prophetic thought about how mtv doesn't even play music anymore. What groundbreaking shit, he really earns that raise more & more everyday!
3 Cletus_From_Brooklyn 2016-01-12
Could be, but kids back then were not in the hole over $100K after they were done with school. He really is dumb...
1 regularope 2016-01-12
The moment his dullard kids go to school and start lagging behind he'll be complaining about how school is too difficult for the average child.
6 molestedasayounggirl 2016-01-12
ME: It's the nineties for christ's sake, we have all these encyclopedias in libraries everywhere in the country which are free to take home and read, do we really need that much schooling?
4 turn-up-the-good 2016-01-12
Ignorant drivel from a man of lower stock.
2 chicken-named-mike 2016-01-12
sHeddD EhhPp.
4 JeremyACrosby 2016-01-12
I really want my doctor Googling 'how to remove brain tumor' 10 minutes before he cracks me open
3 kevin121312 2016-01-12
Better question is why is he spending 50k a year on kindergarten for his kids, besides the fact that he wants to fit in with the upper west side crowd?
4 BoardroomBimmy 2016-01-12
So they don't have to go to school with blacks
1 opieanthonyjim 2016-01-12
15k Florentine said.
1 kevin121312 2016-01-12
opie said something like 50, a year or so ago
2 chicken-named-mike 2016-01-12
Yeah, Opie is also a fucking liar.
1 kevin121312 2016-01-12
good point
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1 CCRed95 2016-01-12
I hate when fucking communications/art majors talk about college like they earned a real degree. For a lot of people, college is not totally necessary, but it not just about learning facts. People like this don't add anything to the progression of knowledge, they just learn the shit thats already out there. thats not helpful for anyone else
3 Moxson4 2016-01-12
I wish every high schooler out there who's considering broadcast school would just listen to at least one hour of an average o&a show & look at the vast difference between wasting a few more years in school & be buried in student loans hoping to get a $16K/yr shit job in Indiana, or having simply having talent.
1 JunkerHQ 2016-01-12
Are you sure you should be weighing in on this?
EDIT: sorry, I confused you with someone else. I'm heating up.
1 CCRed95 2016-01-12
haha whod you confuse me with?
1 RSC-Tuff 2016-01-12
can someone explain "ME:"?
3 DH_ 2016-01-12
Opie used to quote/respond to twitter comments by leading his reply with ME:
1 QuantumTabby 2016-01-12
It's like this:
Today Opie said, "school is for losers."
ME: school is for losers.
Anytime you quote Opie just start with "ME:" then do the quote. It really adds opie's voice to the quote and makes it more irritating.
1 Moxson4 2016-01-12
A caller must have brought up their children because Opie always said he only talked about his kids if they were doing a story about kids or a caller brought up their kids in a discussion?
1 opieanthonyjim 2016-01-12
His sibling do their kids' homework and Opie thinks that is the norm? If I didn't do my homework, I'd get bad grades, my parents wouldn't do it for me. Never ever. So if I wanted good grades, I had to do it. Why are these parents doing their kids' homework? Bc they don't want their kids to get bad grades so they'd rather do it themselves than nothing? Jesus christ, that's bad parenting not what Opie should be planning on.
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1 Moxson4 2016-01-12
Listening to thise literary giants Opie & Jim debating the educational system is like listening to those 2 give the college football halftime report. Remember the bit "Coach Jimmy?" Osu coach mike gundy went off on a reporter for trashing the qb. The problem was both of those dumb fucks were trying to figure out if OSU is a high school! You know, because school intitials that end with U are usually a high school, not HS like I thought.
I think they start trying to figure it out right around the beginning. http://youtu.be/C4N68g1pvek
5 TriangleDimes 2016-01-12
If Vos stresses a single consonant too hard they rip on him for 5 minutes and write it on the wall. If Opie struggles for 7 minutes to think of a David Bowie song and settles on "Major Tom" everyone nods solemnly "yeah... that's a rough one to remember."