Episode 21: “Dog Problems”
On this episode of Hypothetical Help, we talk about dog troubles, dealing with philosophy, helping friends want to recycle.
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August 30th, 2010 at 7:23 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Baccalaureate [back-a-lore-ee-at]. If you are studying for a qualification, you probably should be able to pronounce it (especially if you are making a pretentious call to a podcast).
August 30th, 2010 at 7:48 am
It made me laugh when Scott said unobtanium when discussing the ‘i’ in aluminium (not unobtainum). Its really just a convention – america doesn’t include the ‘i’, and the rest of the world does. Think about calcium, magnesium, titanium, barium, sodium, etc many many examples of elements ending ‘ium’. Why does aluminium ending with ‘ium’ confuse americans so much?
Buoy is another word americans treat strangely by pronouncing it ‘boo-ee’ not ‘boy’ like other english speaking countries, but pronouncing buoyant ‘boy-ant’ not ‘boo-ee-ant’.
August 30th, 2010 at 11:01 am
The naming of “aluminium” / “aluminum” is all down to http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A1140166
I used to the sell the stuff, but that was in another life
RECYCLE !!!
August 30th, 2010 at 11:52 am
The Aluminium story I prefer (apocryphal I’m sure) is that dear old Sir Humphrey was so wacked out of his gourd on Nitrous Oxide that he was inconsistent in his spelling.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
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August 30th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
About the massage portion, I recently received a massage…from a man! I was apprehensive and uncomfortable with the thought. Throughout the entire ‘session’, we were talking about ultimate fighting as he was a fighter himself (strong hands haha). it didn’t take long to not be weird. Kinda wondered why it was weird in the first place. It must be some cultural risqué or abnormal connection to men touching men…kinda funny as thinking of women giving each-other rubs seems much more acceptable
Btw, Turpster said, “Check out your region” lol!
August 30th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Scott’s problem is that he’s a normal heterosexual man.
August 31st, 2010 at 12:43 am
Luckily for you, ShadowTiger has graced your presence with a response to your question… in record time!
http://www.shadowtiger.com/files/helping_episode_1.zip has an ogg file with your name on it!
there is also an mp3 file available but the compression makes it sound bad, http://www.shadowtiger.com/files/helpingtheunhelpable_1.mp3
I just started listening 2 weeks ago but I love your show. I saw the Turpster on TWiT and followed him here!
August 31st, 2010 at 2:18 am
You say potat-o, I say po-ta-to, you say to-ma-to I say to-maaa-to, you say alu-min-ium, I say al-um-in-um…
LET”S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF!
August 31st, 2010 at 5:52 am
As Turpster says often…..No-one ever says Po-ta-to.
August 31st, 2010 at 7:31 am
To the guy who is overwhelmed with philosophical woes:
I was in a very similar position about a year and a half ago. I am currently a psychology major, and at my school, psych majors are expected to go through a rigorous philosophy program, something I had never had before. At first, I was very resistant, due to my religious family background/upbringing. Gradually, I came to accept what I was reading along side what I had believed in the past. If you are familiar with the book 1984, it discusses a concept called “doublethink”, in which the participant believes two contradictory things simultaniously,relieving the burden of having to decide between two unverifiable ideas. If you are having trouble meshing your past beliefs and your new ones, remember also that the philosophical theories that you are learning aren’t written in stone. They may or may not be true, or may be true only in part, and it is often not necessary to exchange one belief for another (almost any two theories will have something in common).
If, however, you have discarded your old beliefs and ways of understanding the world, and you feel that you have found the truth, then you should be excited, not mortified. So much of the world is superficial or untrue that a clear, succinct, and usable philosophy may be just what one needs to live in a meaningful way. To quote Enrico Fermi, “It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
August 31st, 2010 at 7:31 am
In response to why people who push recycling are treated like fanatics, I think it’s like anything else, religion, eating habits, etc. Anyone who pushes their ideas on another can easily be considered a fanatic. Believing in recycling or religion is not at all odd, but trying to push people into your religion or recycling habits is fanatical. I got stopped at the gas station once and some woman just randomly asked, “have you accepted Jesus as your lord and savior?” and that made me a bit uncomfortable. I am a Christian, and that’s ok and I’m glad to tell any one who asks, but going out and trying to force someone else to believe the same is a little fanatical. Same thing, I believe in recycling, but if someone asked me to start recycling it’d instantly put my back to the wall. Responding to questions about your beliefs and providing them when they aren’t asked for is completely different and viewed differently. I know even some people on the right side of the political spectrum recycle and believe in conservation, so it isn’t just a hippie leftist thing. However, that in your face, do as I do, what I am doing is always right, mentality is obnoxious and fanatical. Love the show.
August 31st, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Hey guys
Regarding the International Bacholerette, it’s a new type of qualification similar to A levels, but it’s really new which is probably why both of you didn’t know about it.
love the show and others by both of you
Just wanted to let you know
August 31st, 2010 at 5:19 pm
In response to Fred: I came here to post the exact same thing.
In response to Praveen: Baccalaureate.
Love the show. Please do another season.
August 31st, 2010 at 10:01 pm
I laughed my balls off when I heard International Bachelorette. Had to pause the show for a good 30 minutes to laugh/cry about it. Great response to that call, too.
September 1st, 2010 at 11:27 am
….well as a licensed/insured massage therapist:
scott, if you ever find yourself in Ireland with a sore back, i’d totally give you a massage! also, you were right, farting is NOT ok.
keep doin what y’allz are doin, love all the shows.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:13 pm
The reason why you guys are chill with the idea of a gay man massaging you is because you are well informed and therefore immune to ignorant hate mongering. Its the fat, old teabaggers that have a problem with the gays, though their title suggests otherwise.
S’ok though. Their average age is what, 88? Give it a few more years and homophobia will die out along with organized religion and partisanship.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Lol paused at 32:30 to write that comment and after playin again realized that I totally missed the question.
Scott doesnt want a straight guy touching him for the same reason that one caller’s dog doesnt like other dogs. It doesnt get more territorial than your own body! Girls and gay guys just dont draw a straight man’s aggro through physical contact. I wonder if thats learned or biological…
September 2nd, 2010 at 8:14 am
The difference between religion and recycling fans, is that you can directly see the physical results of NOT recycling. Show someone the pool of plastic in the Pacific Ocean or landfills and the life of plastic. I have recycled for a long time and when at a friends I ask them if they recycle, and razz them a little if they don’t. I generally give them a line about their kids having bottles in their backyard and so on. If they don’t have kids it is a little more difficult to get them thinking about the future, but it is an important thing.
September 2nd, 2010 at 9:44 am
I will be completely honest with you and say, if I am going to pay money for a haircut, massage, dental exam, doctor’s appointment, or any other thing that involves someone touching me, it’s going to be a woman! Only one woman is, by social custom, allowed to touch me (and I’m a good boy)–that’s my girlfriend. So if the opportunity arises where a stranger will fiddle with my body, I prefer that its that forbidden fruit (so I’m a dirty good boy). It feels like such a waste of money when you are going for that haircut, and it’s some dude, gay or not, it’s just not value for money. As a guy, I can easily find men that will touch me!! Women–not as easy!! So I’m getting extra value out of my money at the masseuse or barber when it’s a woman!
I had one experience at the barber where the hairdresser was a woman and she kept knocking her breasts into my head. And my I was like “yeah this is cool!” and then so I went back and the next time it was only guys available and I was like “Aww. I only get my haircut done once every 4 months maybe and this is disappointing.” But I couldn’t come up with some excuse to leave so I got my haircut and it was the most unfun haircut experience ever.
Maybe I’m a dirty pig — but the first step to hypothetically helping is to be honest! So there ya go.
September 2nd, 2010 at 9:52 am
Also, see Penn and Tellers’ Bulls%&t episode on recycling! Their view is that recycling is make-busy work that does next to nothing beneficial for the environment (with some small exception) and is big waste of your tax dollars, and recycling companies are taking advantage of the subsidies but not providing benefit: The process to recycle things causes more pollution than the original process of manufacturing the materials aaaaaaaand the earth is huuuuuuge and there are tons and tons of landfill space on Earth for eons!! Anyway, we will die to some other cataclysmic event long before Earth is filled with trash — that’s science-fiction.
September 3rd, 2010 at 10:08 am
The problem with how massage is though of in America and more specifically in Utah where you live is that it is thought of as a sexual thing. Real true massage is not sexual, GET OVER YOURSELF. I myself am a massage therapist and better than 90% of the female massage therapists out there. For me and the way I practice it massage is more of a medical procedure with specific goals in mind of helping the clients from pain relief of tight muscles or other injuries.
September 6th, 2010 at 7:09 am
Thank you for a wonderful funny podcast that makes people look at me like I’m crazy as I walk through the halls at school.
As to the difference between American English and British English, since I”m from Canada we have a wonderful mish mash of the 2 but Scott – if you want a great example of the differences between the 2 tell Turpster that you are going to go (or have bought) yourself a pair of suspenders and see his reaction.
I learned this one the hard way when I was talking to some Brits about a pair I bought for my father.
June 2nd, 2011 at 6:41 am
This is International Baccalaureate inforation: http://www.ibo.org/.
Definitely different then being a bachelor.