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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 105 points 10 months ago

"This isn't about me, so it is literally meaningless."

  • every narcissist, daily
[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (4 children)

We should give a famous painter a show where we don't allow them to paint, just ask for their unqualified opinions on literally anything.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago

If only we could do this while they eat increasingly spicier sauces as the interview continues.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why restrict ourselves to painters? Just have random people give their view. We could call it the view. It emphasises their opinion is what matters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It could be literally anybody, the only requirement is we do not allow them to do the thing they actually are good at.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

On today's episode we have the world's greatest yo-yo champion and we're going to ask them what they think about Entanglement formation in continuous-variable random quantum networks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol, I was having a joke about the fact we already do this with shows like the view.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You know, I haven't had a TV connected to cable or antenna since I was 18, so for the last 15 years I kinda just memory holed the existence of the view.

I did not make the connection and now feel stupid haha.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Ja Rule can be the host of the show! I think you've got a hit TV idea here.

[–] AeonFelis 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Preventing painters from painting and letting these exact art-depraved artists express their opinions on things is a bad idea. That's Literally Hitler's origin story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

At the end of each episode we will allow them to paint... IF... Enough of the studio audience votes for it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He was a tough nut to crack.

"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers." - also Picasso.

But he was an artist. Technology was just a tool for him to make art, nothing more. I'm sure if you'd shown him an iPad with a modern sketching program on it hooked up to a dye-sub printer, he would have been at least a little intrigued. He might have disregarded it as a toy, but he also might have worked with a new medium to see what he could do.

[–] EdibleFriend 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What if we show him Nazi furry inflation porn tho.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That seems specific on a personal level.

[–] EdibleFriend 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

YOU SEEM SPECIFIC ON A PERSONAL LEVEL

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Becareful guys, this one is allcaps. No lowercasings.

[–] EdibleFriend 1 points 10 months ago
[–] Klear 6 points 10 months ago

"It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care. My computer was hacked."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Huh. I don't recall him... her..? It being inflated, but then again I've only seen the abridged version... eh, time for a rewatch, I guess... 🤷‍♂️

[–] scrion 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The moon landing was 1969, less than four years before Picasso would die at the age of 91.

I'm absolutely not surprised that he didn't care, I don't think the actual consequences / effects of the moon landing would have been readily available for Picasso to grasp (or many other people at the time).

Plus, at that age, nobody gives a fuck about anything anyway.

[–] garbagebagel 15 points 10 months ago

I asked my 101-year-old grandma what her favourite part about the last 100 years was, and she said "my cats". Iconic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Yeah. At the time, the moon landing was about a dick measuring contest with Russia. I imagine Picasso saw it as just that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Didn’t Picasso suffer from serious depression? This sounds pretty spot on for someone who does.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why do we care about what Picasso thinks?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't. His opinion means nothing to me

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I just wanted to make it known that I have no opinion on his non-opinion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I have no strong feelings one way or the other

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople 5 points 10 months ago

If I don't survive, tell my wife "hello."

[–] garbagebagel 2 points 10 months ago

Tough to change his perspective

[–] Diplomjodler3 10 points 10 months ago

That just shows that the guy was really full of himself.

[–] sleepmode 8 points 10 months ago

Read about his relationship with Matisse. It tells you a lot about what he was like.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what would be his opinion on his art selling for millions of dollars after his death.

[–] Anticorp 4 points 10 months ago

"That's some bullshit!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but what does Ja Rule think?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Where’s Ja?

[–] mojo_raisin 2 points 10 months ago

Makes me wonder what Diogenes would've said.