Next Door: No.
Doesn't anybody remember Albert Einstein as Alfred Einstein? He was a black man with a big afro who rapped about numbers in Medieval Europe?
I was bored writing my dissertation and this is the result. Didn't include fictional rappers because those could get pretty ridiculous, but I might someday. Included last words because I find them interesting, but keep in mind that last words, especially those before the modern era, are famously bullshit, so take most of this with a lot of salt.
I was expecting there to be a lot more battle references than there actually were.
John Lennon
Death: Shot four times in the torso by obsessed fan Mark David Chapman in the archway of his New York residence, age 40 (Dec 8, 1980 β New York, USA)
Last Words: βIβm shot, Iβm shot!β
Battle Reference: None
Adolf Hitler
Death: Suicide by self-inflicted gunshot as his bunker was close to being taken by Soviet forces, age 56 (April 30, 1945 β Berlin, Germany)
Last Words: βAbove all, I charge the leadership of the nation and their followers with the strict observance of the racial laws and with merciless resistance against the universal poisoners of all peoples, international Jewry.β (last will)
Battle Reference: βBut when your bunker started getting fired up, you put a gun in your mouth and fired upβ (Note: Hitler actually shot himself in the temple)
Abraham Lincoln
Death: Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while watching a play, age 56 (April 14 1865 βWashington D.C., USA)
Last Words: When asked by his wife Mary whether their friend would mind them holding hands: βShe wonβt think anything about itβ
Battle Reference: βMy raps will blow your mind like a verbal John Wilkes Boothβ, βYou stop bullets with your tears? I catch them with my skullβ, βI fought for what was on my brain until a bullet went through it.β
Macho Man Randy Savage
Death: Sudden heart attack while driving with his wife. Found to have an enlarged heart and advanced coronary artery disease. Age 58 (May 20, 2011 β Largo, USA)
Last Words: βI donβt feel too goodβ
Battle Reference: None, happened after battle
Kim Jong-Il
Death: Massive heart attack while traveling by train, according to state of media, although some contest this story. Age 70 (Dec 17, 2011 β Pyongyang, North Korea)
Last Words: Unknown
Battle Reference: None, happened after the battle
**Ludwig van Beeth
... keep reading on reddit β‘Since the dislike button was recently removed from YouTube, I tried checking the likes and dislikes for each of the ERBs as well as the ratio relative to their views. Luckily, I could get this information on an account that still had it before it became unavailable, and the account coincidentally lost it the day after I checked. I am ordering it from the most popular to least popular videos.
The only flaws for this would be that the views had to be rounded up to the nearest 100,000 views, and the likes/dislikes came directly from how they appeared on the video, and they did not round up or show it to the closest hundreds if they were above 10k.
And on one more note, 4 videos already have over a million likes, so I would not be able to see them past the nearest 100,000 likes. As a result, the range of this has to be calculated assuming it's between either 1 million and the 100,000 shown or a few thousands below the next highest 100,000.
Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney:
Like to dislike ratio: 97.56-97.74% / 2.44-2.26%
About 1 out of 120-130 views came with a like
About 1 out of 5187 views came with a dislike
Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates:
Like to dislike ratio: 98.21-98.36% / 1.79-1.64%
About 1 out of 125-136 views came with a like
About 1 out of 7505 views came with a dislike
Albert Einstein vs Stephen Hawking:
Like to dislike ratio: 98.1% / 1.9%
About 1 out of 156 views came with a like
About 1 out of 8075 views came with a dislike
Rasputin vs Stalin:
Like to dislike ratio: 97.3-97.6% / 2.7-2.4%
About 1 out of 114-125 views came with a like
About 1 out of 4619 views came with a dislike
Master Chief vs Leonidas:
Like to dislike ratio: 98.07% / 1.93%
About 1 out of 161 views came with a like
About 1 out of 8208 views came with a dislike
Darth Vader vs Hitler:
Like to dislike ratio: 97.78% / 2.22%
About 1 out of 184 views came with a like
About 1 out of 8092 views came with a dislike
Mozart vs Skrillex:
Like to dislike ratio: 97.87% / 2.13%
About 1 out of 119 views came with a like
About 1 out of 5479 views came with a dislike
Mario Bros vs Wright Bros:
Like to dislike ratio: 97.83% / 2.17%
About 1 out of 173 views came with a like
About 1 out of 7762 views came with a dislike
Justin Bieber vs Beethoven:
Like to dislike ratio: 97.88% / 2.12%
About 1 out of 181 views came with a like
About 1 out of 8325 views came with a dislike
Dr. Seuss vs Shakespeare:
Like to dislike ratio: 97.67% / 2.33
... keep reading on reddit β‘Before you take the title too seriously: Admittedly stopping some movies I don't like is VERY LOW on the priority list for me. More likely my first priority would be bringing some sort of DVR device back in time, finding an area with good reception (or getting satellite), and making high-quality recordings of every episode of Mighty Max and Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates WAY before I ever think of stopping some bad movies from existing.
EDIT: Apologies for not supplying a TL;DR section... it was hard enough for me to reduce this post to its current length. I think my brain would've exploded in lovecraftian insanity if I had compressed any further.
So... what makes the LOTR movies so worthy of erasure? Honestly, that's a complicated subject. So much sucks about the movies that I've never found a good way to say it in bite-sized chunks. They suffer from all sorts of problems:
--they're horrible adaptations for a gazillion reasons
--Even if you ignore the source material, they're not very good films in their own right and I don't understand how people enjoy them
--their existence causes people to forget the original source material, which is really infuriating not just for fanboy reasons, but for "respect for art" reasons. To put it in perspective, imagine if the famous "E=MC Squared" formula was associated with a hot anime girl instead of with Albert Einstein, just because she quoted him and people wanted to bang her.
--their existence also creates this weird sort of corporatism over the original work which would never have been a thing otherwise, from an author who was specifically against this kind of thing (for comparison, imagine an anti-racist writing a book that was later turned into a white supremacist screed by a more well-known movie... that's the kind of situation we have here).
One thing that particularly irritates me is the "books are not like movies, changes are to be expected" get out of jail free card that defenders of the film like to use.
In fact, if you use the "books are different from movies, change should be expected" excuse without adding anything of substance, I will block you.
It's got some grain of truth, but
A) its used regardless of what your actual complaints are (I've even seen it used on people who admitted to never liking the book, but still hating the films).
B) it doesn't change the legitimacy of said complaints.
C) I've noticed I never hear the same defense in favor of, say, the Silent Hi
... keep reading on reddit β‘Do your worst!
Reddit, What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about?
Week of 10-8-21
New link to future updates, less formatting required from the source doc:
https://merman314.blogspot.com/p/useful-links-useful-links-reddit.html
Publications
Project Gutenberg: a library of over 60,000 free eBooks
Collections of Project Gutenberg books
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/brri5r/100_free_ebooks_here_is_a_list_of_books/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/bcy1ir/200_free_ebooks_about_cooking_food_prep/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/9tvcyj/here_is_a_list_of_200_free_scifi_ebooks_ive/
Z-Library project. The world's largest ebook library
https :// z-lib. org/ (some assembly required)
Librivox: free public domain audiobooks
Open Library: Borrowing Books for free
Libraries Near you
https://www.overdrive.com/libraries
Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/
Library Genesis: access to Scientific Articles, Magazines, etc.
https://libgen.is/scimag/?q=tetrachromacy
https://libgen.is/scimag/?q=memory%2Bchunking
Sci-hub get (almost) any research paper for free, just copy the link/DOI of the document and it'll show you the pdf
12 foot ladder: News sites access
Word Count Tools has a bunch of statistics about the text you input into their editor, like reading time and grade level
Media, βSportsβ, Education, and Internet
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
[https://archive.org/](https://
... keep reading on reddit β‘For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
Theyβre on standbi
It really does, I swear!
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
Itβs pronounced βNoel.β
After all his first name is No-vac
Yes. All 84 of them. I have the privilege of listening to music at work, so I have been listening to the ERB playlist on Spotify on repeat for the last two months.
I have ranked them 1-84. The ranks were based on 3 criteria: Lyrics, Music, and Matchup. That third one is basically whether I thought it was a good/creative matchup or not. Please understand that this list is solely my opinion and that it was extremely hard to rank these as I love almost every Epic Rap Battle, so just because one is lower in rank does not mean I thought it was a bad battle by any means. Would love to hear y'all's thoughts in the comments!
- Harry Potter vs Luke Skywalker (9.33/10)
- The Joker vs Pennywise (9/10)
- Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters (8.67/10)
- James Bond vs Austin Powers (8.43/10)
- Mozart vs Skrillex (8.67/10)
- Gordon Ramsay vs Julia Child (8.65/10)
- Michael Jackson vs Elvis Presley (8.33/10)
- Jim Henson vs Stan Lee (8.13/10)
- Jacques Cousteau vs Steve Irwin (8.12/10)
- Ash Ketchum vs Charles Darwin (8.09/10)
- Terminator vs Robocop (8.05/10)
- Jack The Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter (8.04/10)
- Philosophers East vs Philosophers West (8/10)
- Frank Sinatra vs Freddie Mercury (7.98/10)
- Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates (7.92/10)
- Tony Hawk vs Wayne Gretzky (7.90/10)
- Theodore Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill (7.89/10)
- J.R.R. Tolkien vs George R.R. Martin (7.84/10)
- Stephen King vs Edgar Allen Poe (7.80/10)
- Deadpool vs Boba Fett (7.68/10)
- Michael Jordan vs Mohammad Ali (7.67/10)
- Ronald Mc Donald vs Burger King (7.66/10)
- Blackbeard vs Al Capone (7.65/10)
- Bob Ross vs Pablo Picasso (7.61/10)
- David Copperfield vs Harry Houdini (7.50/10)
- Albert Einstein vs Stephen Hawking (7.47/10)
- Sir Isaac Newton vs Billy Nye (7.45/10)
- Alexander The Great vs Ivan The Terrible (7.33/10)
- Wonder Woman vs Stevie Wonder (7.16/10)
- Napoleon vs Napoleon (7.09/10)
- Lewis and Clark vs Bill and Ted (7.08/10)
- Doc Brown vs Doctor Who (7/10)
- Martin Luther King vs Gandhi (6.99/10)
- Thanos vs Robert Oppenheimer (6.91/10)
- Mario Bros. vs Wright Bros. (6.90/10)
- Zeus vs Thor (6.85/10)
- Bruce Lee vs Clint Eastwood (6.80/10)
- Artists vs Turtles (6.68/10)
- Dr. Seuss vs William Shakespeare (6.67/10)
- Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg (6.50/10)
- Guy Fawkes vs Che Guevara (6.49/10)
- Shaka Zulu vs Julius Caesar (6.44/10)
- Gandalf vs Dumbledore (6.33/10)
- Babe Ruth vs Lance Armstrong (6.31/10)
- Rasput
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
