Chappelle's Show - If the Internet Were a Real Place

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[–]hajamieli 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

That's retarded. Internet is a real place. That's why it's so mind-boggingly stupid to claim things like "in the real world" as some kind of contrast to what you actually experience in the real world using one of the best inventions humans have made so far.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Are you suggesting that there is a place called the internet, and that you could go there?

[–]hajamieli 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Do you suggest there is a place called the mail or the telephone, and you could go there? Don't be a retard. Whatever you do using the internet happens for real the same way whatever you say on the telephone is said for real and whatever you send by mail gets sent for real.

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    [–]hajamieli 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Oh, but you consider "the telephone" to be a place?

    [–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    /U/x0x7 gets my point.

    Do you consider "the mail" a place that you can go to?

    Have you ever been to "the telephone"?

    [–]hajamieli 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    That is the point. They're means of communication. Mail in the fully analog era before electricity, then with electricity and analog devices, the telephone and in the computer era, we have the internet.

    [–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That is the point.

    Actually, your original point was that the internet is a real place.

    The internet is intangible. It is not a destination.

    It exists as a conceptual constructs with information that you can access (for various purposes), but it is not a place that you can go to.