Who here likes going to museums?

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  • The sadness will last forever.

    I do too!

  • edited 2012-05-09 15:21:27
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  • I like art museums.
  • Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    I like going to museums from time to time. My favorites are natural history museums. If you know where to look, they are indeed more than just dioramas of prehistoric times. Though to be perfectly honest, I don't mind those too much either.

    I'm not quite as fascinated with art and history museums, but they can still be pretty interesting.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I haven't been to a museum in a while, but I'd like to go more often.  I always enjoyed them when I was younger.

    Maybe I'll get the opportunity to visit Avoncroft over the holidays, that'd be cool.
    Let's be honest, nobody loves going to museums. What people do love, though, is anything that makes them seem a little bit more cultured and educated than the rest of us lunkheads who just waste away our free time ogling boobs and betting on cockfights. People don't go to museums because they get off on looking at a collection of fossils -- they do it because it gives them an excuse to shake their head in pity while muttering "You just don't get it" under their breath. Anyone who claims otherwise is either the most easily stimulated tourist of all time or a straight-up liar. Sorry, museum fans, there is simply no middle ground to be had there.
    This is obviously a joke, but it's still obnoxious.
  • edited 2012-05-09 17:27:27
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    Yeah, the whole "bored hipster who's trying to pull a fast one on the mass media by passive-aggressively glorifying it" thing is so old now.

    And even just the "dioramas of olden times" ones can be pretty interesting, if it's about a place you don't know much about.
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    I don't really like art museums, but history can be pretty fun.

    And science museums are awesome.
  • I don't go to them very often, but I like them.

    Yeah, one of those articles it seems.

  • I don't really like art museums


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  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    The last time I went to an art museum...well, honestly, I didn't enjoy it that much, but that was because the place was under renovation and they had all but a few exhibits temporarily walled off. It was an underwhelming experience, and I probably would have been pissed off if I'd paid full price for it.

    Art museums in general are fun, though.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Oh, and history and science museums are the best thing.
  • edited 2012-05-09 17:44:13
    Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Hands on science museums are 10 different kinds of fun.

    Each one more fun than the last!
  • I haven't been to many art museums, but I spent a good third of my childhood at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
  • edited 2012-05-09 18:05:37
    Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    Oh jeez yes! That is a huge reason why science museums are my favorite.
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    I like going to museums.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    THIS IS THE TOWER OF LONDON:

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    THESE ARE THE THINGS IN THE TOWER OF LONDON:

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    LET'S LOOK INSIDE THE TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM

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    YOUR MOVE, CRACKED!
  • edited 2012-05-09 19:00:57

    ^^^^ Indeed. I started going with my mother because they had the dinosaur exhibits, but all the other stuff they had there kept me coming back for years. If I'm still in Georgia by the time I have kids, I'm definitely taking them to Fernbank.

    ^ I love the collection of Polearms at The Tower of LOndon.
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    I've been inside the Tower of London before.

    It was cool!
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I'd like to go there some time.  I hardly ever go to London, though, so the opportunity has never really come up.
  • Living tissue over endoskeleton.
    I was gonna make a post but Justice topped my point. Museums have GUNS AND SEA MONSTERS!
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Depends on the museum, but some are fun. And almost any museum would be preferable to reading Cracked.
  • Cracked: It's like Mad, but free, and it is occasionally funny.
  • It's 4:20 somewhere.
    Museums are usually cool and all, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't often get bored of them after a while. But I figure being entertained is ancillary to the point of a museum.

    Also, I've been to the Tokyo National Museum.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    I'm not sure most people could spend hours and hours at them, but it's not much of a stretch to suggest a decent museum could hold one's interest for about an hour.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Also, everything else on that list might more or less be true.
  • Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."

    Yeah, they'd probably get at least a little boring if you went to them every day, but they're kind of meant for more infrequent visits anyway.

    On an irrelevant note, the newspaper that came to my house this week says that the Fernbank Museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. I could've sworn that the museum was older than I was, but apparently we're about the same age.

  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    It helps that can always just leave a museum if it looses your interests. There's no "end of the game" or your not trapped on a boat.

    Granted, you might not have seen everything, but you could always rush through the rest in the interest of completing it and be on your merry way,

    Monopoly could get boring pretty easily. The game takes, like four hours, if you're lucky... 
  • edited 2012-05-10 12:23:02
    Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."

    Watching a live hockey game seems like it would depend on how much you enjoy the sport. I'm not that much into sports in general, so I probably wouldn't enjoy it too much. But that doesn't necessarily mean everyone else wouldn't.

    Someone in the comments section mentioned that cruises vary in quality. That sounds like a decent point.

  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    THIS ARTICLE IS BAD AND THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT SHOULD FEEL BAD!

    Or perhaps just a little too subject to personal opinion.

    Cracked seems to have less and less good articles, these days.

    Maybe a lot of the good topic have been taken.
  • It's 4:20 somewhere.
    I feel kind of weird when I see people bitching about Cracked. I don't read much of it, but I think I've yet to see an article that was entirely awful, and some of them are really cool. Everyone I meet in real life who's heard of it only has good things to say about the site.

    Of course I didn't read this one and don't especially care to.

    Do they fuck up on factual errors that often?
  • The lists are a lot better than the columns, generally speaking. Which depend heavily on who's writing them.

    The lists will generally be at least mildly interesting.

    Do they fuck up on factual errors that often?

    It's more like they're prone to oversimplification. But really, that's not hard to uncover. People give them a lot of shit for it for (IMO) no reason.
  • edited 2012-05-10 19:40:53
    Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    Gelzo: To be perfectly honest, I don't know, especially since I'm not an expert on most of the topics they cover. But I think errors don't really pop up that often. It just stands out a lot when they do and you realize it.

    From what I've seen, there seem to be more factual errors in guest-written articles than in articles written by the regular authors, but it's probably not a significant difference.

    ^Lazuli also makes a good point.
  • The thing is that Cracked writers are willing to bend the truth for the sake of a joke.

    Also, I went to a museum last summer (partially because it was the art museum at Princeton (which is awesome) and partially because the alternative was leaving the afternoon to my parents (and who knows what they would have done)).

    They had an entire section on rundown urban areas, and I taunted Anonymous Avenue about all the cool road signs I saw.

    Ah, the memories.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    I actually enjoy the lists most of the time, but things like this just seem like they're not trying very hard.
  • It's 4:20 somewhere.
    I generally only read the lists. Opinion pieces are a dime a dozen and I don't care for most of them.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Yeah, opinions are like assholes: everyone's got one, and most of them stink. :P
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    I really hate that saying.

    It was probably really witty the first time anyone said it.
  • I don't like it either.

    It has about the same level of wit as that deliberately horrible pickup line I came up with the other day ("your body is a wonderland and I'm Alice").

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  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Yeah, it's pretty much a cliché now, but still, it kind of fits. :/
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  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Cracked has A LOT of entertaining articles, there just seems to be less and less entertaining one's coming down the pipe.

    As I mentioned, I think a great deal of this has to do with people already picking a a lot of good topics, already.
  • "10 anime shows that are weird, even for Japan"

    granted, only I would read that, but hey.

  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    There sounds like a great deal of entertainment in that. Though, it'd be pretty disturbing. 
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Betting that half that list is Gainax, right now. PSG, Eva, FLCL, hell, let's throw in Abenobashi and Ebichu while we're at it. XD
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Well those aren't so bad, I was thinking more animes that would make people's skin crawl. 
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Ah. I got nothing, then. Just that when people think "anime that makes my brain hurt", those are some of the usual suspects.
  • ~*tasteless*~
    大學的年同性戀毛皮

    aaaaa
    I like 3/5 of those.
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