Every week, TCM chooses its favorite comment from all the comments over the previous week. These people’s names will be put into a hopper and every few months or so we’ll be giving away some prizes. Cool, huh?
This week’s comment of the week comes from tahrey, who commented on this post about the Earth from Mars photo. It made me laugh. Let ‘er rip:
Solar Google Maps
Directions from:
* Mars, to:
* Earth.
1. Aim spacecraft at point of light circled on above diagram (click here to overlay on HUD)
2. Fire engines and keep this dot centred on your scope (55,000,000 to 400,000,000km) (6-12 months)
3. Commence re-entry procedures and choose a landing spaceport of your choice (100 to 40,000km, 5 to 90 minutes)
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Congrats, tahrey, and thanks for your comments. We appreciate it!
This guy is apparently the symbol for everything that’s wrong with the world. Everyone hates the Reds.
"This gun only shoots the blood of puppies."--Mr. Redlegs, in a 2003 Esquire interview.
As if to prove once again that computers can fuck everything up if you let them, the fine folks at Nielsen tell us that the Cincinnati Reds are the third most hated team in all of baseball. Worse than the Yankees.
Only the Indians and Red Sox fared worse on Nielsen’s rankings. So if the Reds are like Pol Pot, then the Red Sox are like Stalin and the Indians are like Hitler. And I guess the Yankees are a bit like, uhhh, Ronald Reagan? You either love them or you hate them.
On behalf of the entire city, nay, all of Reds nation (which stretches well into Springdale) The Cincinnati Man calls bullshit on these rankings. They make for excellent headlines, but once you read into the backstory it’s much less eye-popping.
Nielsen does this for a lot of brands and companies–Nielsen crawls the internet looking for conversations about things, and then ranks those conversations as either positive or negative. So if you said, “I love the way Aaron Harang looks a bit like Count Chocula,” Nielsen would count that as a positive.
You can score as low as a -5 or as high as 5. The Reds got a 1.5. So to say the Reds are the third most hated team in baseball probably has as much to do with the relative lack of Reds talk happening online as anything else. The Red Sox and Yankees are a different matter. Are they annoying, or what?
Not that Nielsen always gets this stuff right, anyway. Walker, Texas Ranger aired eight seasons based on its Nielsen ratings success. So the rest of the world can go back to watching those re-runs on the CW as soon as they kiss our Red asses.
If you’re a person and this video doesn’t rekindle your interest in things–no matter what those things might be–you should probably sit down and take stock of your life. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have an enthusiasm that’s contagious, and if you aren’t already way into them, you’ve been living under a rock.
