Meta: Has no one seen Taken?
So Brian's front page post on the B-School kid trying to "actualize" concepting song-like objects got a whole lots of posts calling it a threat on ruining careers. I'll explain the damn joke. There was a movie in 2009 called "Taken". Liam Neeson delivers a speech then [SPOILER ALERT] kills bad guys who kidnapped his daughter (see, she was Taken). Brian's post was an OBVIOUS parody of this speech. My question is... how did you miss this?
Taken was such a big hit they made a sequel. Then a THIRD!
Family guy parodied it!
it was in a superbowl commercial two weeks ago! Lighten up folks.
February 11th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^
You missed the best one!
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/xwnjlx/key-and-peele-liam-neesons
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February 11th, 2015 at 3:22 PM ^
Is it just me or is Peele 100x funnier than Key in pretty much every sketch?
February 11th, 2015 at 3:53 PM ^
Nice try, Peele.
February 11th, 2015 at 4:05 PM ^
February 11th, 2015 at 5:09 PM ^
I think Keegan-Michael Key is the funnier one, by a landslide.
Just so we're clear, Key is the taller, bald one, right?
February 11th, 2015 at 2:37 PM ^
I haven't seen it. The memes are all that are useful to me from that movie anyways.
Daughter gets kidnapped. Badass dad kills kidnappers. There are sequels.
Did I get the gist?
February 11th, 2015 at 2:52 PM ^
He trained Batman before his daughter was kidnapped.
February 11th, 2015 at 3:01 PM ^
Like when he discovered Anakin before meeting his death at the hands of Darth Maul. Folks who don't know that will totally miss the joke.
February 11th, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
I didn't want to give the whole damn movie away.
February 11th, 2015 at 4:08 PM ^
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February 11th, 2015 at 4:30 PM ^
OMIGOD HOW DO THEY KILL DARTH MAUL IN THAT MOVIE HOW WHY WTF GYAH GEORGE YOU ARE SO BAD WE WERE HAPPY WHEN YOU SOLD OUT TO DISNEY THAT BAD.
February 11th, 2015 at 3:46 PM ^
Fought for Irish freedom, lead the A Team, loved actually, started a gang in New York, beat the crap out of wolves with his hands and trained Obi-Wan Kenobi. He does write the book on bad parenting though.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
You miss the point completely
February 11th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
February 11th, 2015 at 2:40 PM ^
Everyone got the joke.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^
Even those claiming Brian cyberbullied a poor sophomore?
February 11th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
He did cyberbully, and also made a Taken reference. We got the joke.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:46 PM ^
He did not cyberbully. He re-posted a picture the kid posted himself on Twitter with no further comment on said picture.
EDIT: And we should stop calling him a kid. He is a 19-year old adult. Sure, he's a young adult, but it's not like he needs to be coddled and treated like he's 10.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
You can vote, fight, and die for your country at 19. That's not a child.
sjw's out in force today
February 11th, 2015 at 3:44 PM ^
February 11th, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
Cyber bullying, Brian tweeted out this kids username with the full intention of getting his followes to attack. Brian took the low road, and it looks very bad on him.
February 11th, 2015 at 3:21 PM ^
You're kind of a baby.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:08 AM ^
If that is bullying, then shows such as SNL, The Daily Show, the Colbert Report, as well as just about any political show on TV, are all just bullying as well.
This kid put himself in the public eye to some extent by proposing a real idea to a real organization that could have real consequences that affect thousands, possibly millions of fans. He opens himself up to criticism by doing this.
If someone writes critically in the editorial column of a newspaper about someone or something, and includes a picture of the person, is that bullying? Brian posted a picture of the kid that was already posted to twitter. He didn't comment on it, or caption it, or ridicule him directly. He reposted a public picture, and let people react to it as they saw fit.
Brian may have went a little over the top with his jsarcastic response, but iyou are overreacting by acting as though this is some sort of reprehensible act of bullying. Calm down
February 12th, 2015 at 1:45 AM ^
Did Brian write critically? I missed that.
Ace did, and it was a fine piece. All I saw from Brian were some boxed quotes from the Daily, some slightly altered quotes from a movie, and an unboxed two-word quote from the Daily piece that was meaningless without context. And the picture, whose intent wasn't hard to figure.
And the headline, addressing the kid as if he were a dog.
There wasn't any content at all, just a sarcastic nudge to put the mob into motion. Comment or caption would have been an improvement. Hell, for that matter, it's not at all what I'm hoping for but even straight-up ridicule would have been better than this.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^
Furthermore, the #expelAdamWeiss hashtag should be further evidence that this post should not be taken as seriously as it is.
There's a level of sarcasm in Brian's post that is being underappreciated.
February 11th, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
February 11th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^
if you take consider at all that Brian meant what he said intentionally sabotaging the guy's (and anyone else's on that committee) job prospects by exploiting Google's search algorithms to give that guy an extra bad impression to anyone looking him up, then yes that is cyber-bullying plain and simple.
It just depends on whether you thought he was totally joking or not.
February 11th, 2015 at 4:16 PM ^
All that was directed toward the Central Student Govt. not any particular person. Seeing as it would be difficult to know how each person voted, it was pretty obvious that it was just one big joke.
February 12th, 2015 at 1:24 AM ^
February 11th, 2015 at 2:51 PM ^
I actually originally missed the joke, thought Brian was being over the top and inappropriate, and then changed my view once I realized the whole rant was just a Taken paraphrase.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^
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February 11th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
February 11th, 2015 at 3:46 PM ^
February 11th, 2015 at 4:07 PM ^
Yes. Everyone recognized that the quote was taken from Taken. (heh, taken from taken).
That he was quoting a movie doesn't change the fact that he also identified the student in question and put him on blast. No need to expose a 19 year old to public humiliation just because he had a shitty idea with absolutely zero chance of succeeding.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:40 PM ^
self righteously is so much more gratifying than getting a joke.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:51 PM ^
Now this is someone who understands the Interwebz.
February 11th, 2015 at 10:07 PM ^
Why can't I get the joke, but still blather self-righteously? Still a bit too far, imo, joke or not.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
February 11th, 2015 at 2:45 PM ^
How dare you... Points may have been awarded for Star Wars Episode I, but this... for shame
February 11th, 2015 at 2:45 PM ^
if by "first" you mean Episode 1... yes. He wasn't in the original trilogy.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
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February 11th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
if he or she hasn't watched Taken and should be beaten accordingly.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:50 PM ^
UH HOW ABOUT [SPOILER] IN THE THREAD TITLE?!?
February 11th, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
I think Brian went a little far... got the joke but it's a bit far (for me.)
That said, this "kid" or "19 year old man" has a really really bad idea... also my opinion.
Honestly, i just wonder what would have happened if he hadn't taken down his own twitter page.
Finally, i just realize i post in note form. I should work on that.
February 11th, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
February 11th, 2015 at 2:57 PM ^
Liam Neesons is...my....SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
February 11th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
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