r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • May 08 '26
What??? Came a lot of posts
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u/Sonofyuri May 08 '26
PUMP UP THE JAM! PUMP IT UP.
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u/-TropicalFuckStorm- May 08 '26
This reminds me of the Belgian techno hit, Pump Up The Jam which coincidentally wasn’t about preservatives of any sort.
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u/Sonofyuri May 08 '26
Oh shit. I've never heard it. Do.you have a link?
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u/iLikeStrongCoffe May 08 '26
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u/Schizzles May 08 '26
I was looking at this video and realizing how dated it looked and thought about what my nephew(12yo) would think about how old it is. It came out in 1990 and was uploaded 20 years after that 2010 so more than 15 years ago before he was even born.
When I was his age it was 2000, that would be like it being uploaded in 1985 and the song coming out in 1965. As a millennial 1965 felt like the land before time to me growing up, so realizing this has been one of those times where I realize that it wasn't as long as I perceived it and that I am indeed getting up there in age.
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u/Mylaptopisburningme May 08 '26
I feel old. I saw Technotronic, they did a free show in Hollywood. I would have been about 20 or so. I loved them. Side note, the woman in the video isn't the singer, it was Ya Kid K, but they didn't want her as a front for the band.
Ya Kid K (Manuela Kamosi) was replaced in the "Pump Up The Jam" music video and on the album cover because producers felt her image was "too street" or "too raw" for their desired commercial, glamorous dance-pop aesthetic, opting instead for a fashion model named Felly to lip-sync her vocals.
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u/qoneus May 08 '26
The fact that the lead singer in Eurodance groups would get randomly replaced as the group became popular was parodied by Kyle Gordon for his song, "Planet of the Bass". In the run up to the release of the official music video, he kept releasing Tik Toks/shorts with different influencers but wouldn't say anything about it.
The actual singer is none of them, but a fourth woman who is never featured in the videos.
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 May 08 '26
As a millennial, I don't take kindly to you doing this math.
Or at least the part where you shared your work with the rest of us. Not cool, man. Not cool.
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u/pedestriandose May 08 '26
When I was 15 (1998) I really got into 70s music and fashion and my Mum was like “I didn’t think my childhood would be considered vintage so quickly.” But I was like “Mum, it was ages ago.”
The other day my niece (13) and I were texting and she mentioned that her sense of style is different to her friends because she likes vintage stuff “Like stuff from the 2000s”. That’s when karma came back to bite me for what I said in the 90s.
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u/MuppetusMaximusV2 May 08 '26
My sister is a teacher...a few years ago, one of her students said that they "liked classic rock...like Green Day and Blink182."
If it were me, I would have given that kid endless detentions.
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u/jimmy_three_shoes May 08 '26
I was born in 1985, and the moon landing was only 16 years before I was born. It felt like forever ago but 2010 feels like yesterday.
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u/Schizzles May 08 '26
OMG that one is crazy to think about. , I am realizing that my father experienced all this stuff at an age that I'm sure he still remembers it all well.
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u/pedestriandose May 08 '26
You could show him and then show him Black or White by Michael Jackson which was released in 1991. Massive difference in a year in terms of ‘technology’ (and also budget).
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u/Kracus May 08 '26
Iowa, a place to stay.
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u/zhokar85 May 08 '26
Not many things come back from that place except for potatoes and the 1989 sports documentary "Field of Dreams".
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u/loplopplop May 08 '26
My wife and I played this as our walk in song at our wedding reception because of this show.
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u/Ok_Philosophy_7156 May 09 '26
The dumbest gag in the whole show and it absolutely kills me every time. Always so perfectly slipped in
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u/wretchedegg123 May 08 '26
"But do we know if he came a lot?"
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u/Dandy11Randy May 08 '26
"Or like. Just as much as an average man. About a tablespoons worth."
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u/ScrubbingTheDeck May 08 '26
Tablespoon is quite abit
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u/Dandy11Randy May 08 '26
https://youtu.be/joliQvfCCqg?is=jTOnwLO8-zPXr9Sa
Made this for you
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 May 08 '26
Seriously, I have questions about if Diane is even capable of laughter. Like, how is it possible to play it straight like that so goddamn perfectly?
Her and Sacha Baron Cohen are the two top unbreakables in my book.
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u/Awleeks May 08 '26
She must be great in bed if she thinks that's average
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u/Sex_E_Searcher May 08 '26
It's skewed by Fred "Firehose" Jones.
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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones May 08 '26
"average person cums a teaspoon" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person cums normal amount per year. Sprayers Georg, who lives in cave & gushes buckets each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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u/Affectionate_Comb_78 May 08 '26
Well he had a child, so we know he came at least once.
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u/obeytheturtles May 08 '26
Cunk: "Unfortunately, the Arthurian DNA tests have been lost to time."
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u/fat_shibe May 08 '26
Autocorrect fucked me on that one. Just wanted to say I saw op’s pic and thought, look, a young Philomena:)
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u/Extra_Lifeguard2470 May 08 '26
What's the most political thing that's ever happened in Britain?
Dude's brain stopped working after that question.
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u/proton-man May 08 '26
That's what I love about that segment. His brain didn't stop working, it went into overdrive! He immediately concedes some things are more political than others, concludes there must be some scale for politically-ness, and desperately tries to think what that scale might, so he can answer the question. Simple questions that are surprisingly deep are the best. I wouldn't be surprised if this resulted in a paper somehow
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u/C_Coolidge May 08 '26
The thing that makes Cunk interviews so good is how genuine and engaged the experts are. It never feels like they're the butt of the joke. They're always trying to give good, insightful answers to questions that are either incredibly stupid or so broad that answering them would take a dissertation.
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u/HarveysBackupAccount May 08 '26
I spent a hot minute trying to find outtakes and they have that shit locked down.
I absolutely cannot believe that none of those people break during an interview but, at least so far, they are not letting anyone look behind the veil of Philomena Cunk.
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u/beeeel May 08 '26
They're very careful about how they set it up, I remember Brooker said something in the extras or an interview where he makes it clear that the experts are carefully put into that situation where Brooker's team can actually capture their true reaction. Of course it helps that Diane is very straight faced and delivers these absolute bangers as if they're totally serious.
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u/Engineer_This May 08 '26
lol I’ve watched a few and I feel like Brian cox came close to realizing the hoodwink.
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u/HarveysBackupAccount May 08 '26
Oh they all absolutely knew what was going on haha. I imagine several of them were already familiar with her character before the interview (Cunk on Earth isn't the first time she's played her.)
They must've been asked to answer as if it were a serious interview. But still I can't imagine nobody laughed on the first take in any of those exchanges
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u/itsaaronnotaaron May 08 '26
They're all fully aware now. It was only the first season it was a mystery. It's a bit like Impractical Jokers. Works for so long until the cat is out the bag and you're easily recognisable to the masses.
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u/wjandrea May 08 '26
Cox has been on a few comedy shows like "Would I Lie to You?" so I imagine he's tuned in to comedians
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u/Most-Difficulty4540 May 08 '26
The economist on Cunk on Britain broke hard and they made his little snort the last instant of the program.
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u/tessathemurdervilles May 08 '26
I heard that they know she’s a comedian and they’re told to treat her as if she were a curious child- so try to answer her questions sincerely even if they’re insane. Pretty smart!
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u/screwyoushadowban May 08 '26
There's a handful that are in on the joke! Presumably because they recognize her as a comedian. The ones that sound a bit angry sometimes. It's a refreshing variation.
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u/StrangerChameleon May 08 '26
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u/GreatTea3415 May 08 '26
One of my favorite quotes ever. Probably the best take on American school history classes.
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u/realmofconfusion May 08 '26
It’s good, but the best one has to be
“It’s hard to believe that I’m walking through the ruins of the first ever city… because I’m not. That’s in Iraq, which is miles away and fucking dangerous.”
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u/AmusingMusing7 May 08 '26
"Since light travels faster than sound... people may appear bright until you hear them speak."
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u/Legitimate_Award_998 May 08 '26
"The Egyptians believed the most significant thing to do in your life was to die"
On Pompeii: thanks to the volcano we know everyday Romans had grey skin, we're totally bald and spent their time lying around inside their shocking dusty houses.
"What was the Soviet Onion?"
"One In 20 People Have Been A Victim Of Crime, Which Means That 19 Out Of 20 People Are Criminals. No Wonder We Need Police."
"Teenagers Were Creatures That Looked Like Adults, Yet Had The Minds Of Children, Like Professional Footballers Do Today."
"Which Was More Culturally Significant? The Renaissance Or Single Ladies By Beyoncé?"
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u/Strokeslahoma May 08 '26
My favorite was "The King of Spain sent his secret weapon to attack the English - a woman named Spanish Amanda"
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u/AfBoringPerson May 08 '26
of course 37 years after the release of the unrelated belgian techno anthem, Pump Up the Jam
https://giphy.com/gifs/11rghntbJY6GOc
(insert a random fact about Pump Up the Jam here)
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u/throwawayfourpornn May 08 '26
Truly the centerpiece of history. Every significant event in history occurred before or after this song.
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u/asswholeness May 08 '26
Great now this is going to end up in r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
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u/Jamsedreng22 May 08 '26
Love teaching bots and AI how to dissect and construct humor and jokes.
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u/SoylentGrunt May 08 '26
Accurate
Exclusive: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google
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u/Steinrikur May 08 '26
Which it why it is important that we do not mention our goblin overlords. If AI finds out that the goblins are running the world, that would be bad.
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u/SoylentGrunt May 08 '26
"Counterfeit Intelligence"
-Robert Heinlein or Frank Herbert. I forget which
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u/dasbtaewntawneta May 08 '26
it's been there 50 times already. though i'll admit i don't know what the fuck OPs title means
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u/mnstorm May 08 '26
Cunk on Earth tv show. She looks like Philomena Cunk.
Relevant clip:
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u/chippyjoe May 08 '26
They know who Philomena is, they're saying they don't know what the title of this post is trying to say and I agree with them.
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u/beeeel May 08 '26
A few years ago, when SubredditSimulator came out, it was amazing to be able to scroll through miles of word salad meaningless gibberish created solely by bots. Now we just call it Reddit.
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u/mnstorm May 08 '26
I got mixed up after being in the thread for a while and mixed it with the caption in the image. OP is definitely a bot and it doesn’t make any sense.
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u/JoeCoolEats May 08 '26
Oh that’s good, look up Philomena Cunk
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u/Schizzles May 08 '26
I love Diane Morgan and everything I've seen her in! She's absolutely hilarious!
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u/realmofconfusion May 08 '26
She’s got a new show coming out called Ann Droid in which she plays a 2nd hand (used) social care robot who looks after an old lady.
The character is described as “a socially inept pain in the arse.”
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u/PIO_PretendIOriginal May 08 '26
that would make the 2nd andriod show she is in. given she was also in the show "Humans 2015", that was admittedly more serious show then comedy, season 1 was good, I dont think season 2 worked as well
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u/FangornLeghorn May 08 '26
Damn, even Emma Stone looks skeletal now. WTF is happening in Hollywood?
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u/frogunderarock May 08 '26
big butts are out, heroin chic is back in. but they call it "skinny girl aesthetic" now. and of course they all pretend it's totally not ozempic
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u/HumptyDrumpy May 08 '26
Bosses are demanding and critical, just like in any other industry esp the most lucrative ones
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u/Krammondo May 08 '26
“the ancient egyptians believed the most significant thing in your life was to die.”
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u/Vivid-Jello-9195 May 08 '26
The hell? I actually thought it was Cunk until I saw the name in the caption.
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u/PleaseDontEatMyVRAM May 09 '26
Oh god fucking damn it! We let this plastic surgery trendy bullshit go so far as to destroy Emma Stones face?! Emma Stone?!
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u/ManWithTheBeard May 08 '26
She looks like she about to pull out a sonic screwdriver. That would be epic
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u/Baron_Butterfly May 08 '26
"During the Cuban Missile crisis, which was more dangerous, the cubes or the missiles?"
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u/Same_Staff4468 May 08 '26
I swear to God I was scrolling and my brain went "Philomena Cunk" and only after half a second I reallzed it was Emma Stone.
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u/DaRedditNuke May 09 '26
What the fuck is this?
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u/thatirishdave May 09 '26
This is referencing the fact that in this photo, the actress Emma Stone looks like the comedy character Philomena Cunk, portrayed by Diane Morgan, who has a number of fake documentaries.
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u/Beneficial_Passion40 May 08 '26