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January 13, 2012 5:33 AM

Every Presentation Ever [SLYT]
posted by blue_beetle (62 comments total)

[[Witty first comment about post that garners too many favorites]]
posted by troll at 5:44 AM on January 13 [23 favorites]

Needs more Comic Sans.
posted by punkfloyd at 5:44 AM on January 13

Obligatory self-referential gazelle.
posted by swift at 5:46 AM on January 13

Kind of disappointed in poster that they like this piece of shit and vaguely disgusted by the stench of marketing.
posted by fullerine at 5:46 AM on January 13 [5 favorites]

suddenly oddly proud that the presentations at my company are less boring than that (where "that" is both the presentations the video mocks as well as the video itself)
posted by DU at 5:47 AM on January 13

Seeing what you did, there.
posted by mippy at 5:49 AM on January 13 [2 favorites]

Reference to the color Blue, with less-clever-than-I-think tie into post's subject matter.
posted by Frayed Knot at 5:55 AM on January 13

Reference to the 100 or so other videos and text thingys that have made this joke far far better, faster and earlier that this one. Observation that this was literally like no business presentation I have ever been to, which are actually a million times worse and more hilarious.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 5:55 AM on January 13

[link to another video that does something meta]
posted by randomkeystrike at 5:56 AM on January 13 [9 favorites]

MeMeFi: tedious repetition of offhanded quip
posted by seanmpuckett at 5:58 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

[Not flagging, not moving on.]
posted by starman at 6:00 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

Inside joke.
posted by NMcCoy at 6:00 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

Seeing what you did, there.

Threadsitting with an unfunny comeback to overworked meme
posted by randomkeystrike at 6:05 AM on January 13

Uh, no. Misses the mark by quite a bit, for the most part.
posted by Bovine Love at 6:08 AM on January 13

Eye-rolling comment incorporating phrase 'best of the web', posted just a little too quickly for poster to have actually watched SLYT in question.

tbh, though, I sort of loved this. All those conference presentations where the speaker's unfortunate choice desktop wallpaper was the only interesting moment...
posted by Catseye at 6:15 AM on January 13

I see what they've done there, but not why they would do it.
posted by Wolfdog at 6:16 AM on January 13

The word "rick" repeated indefintely.
posted by griphus at 6:20 AM on January 13 [6 favorites]

Misuse of tl;dr in a SLYT thread.
posted by xingcat at 6:20 AM on January 13

Haha, I'm making my comment sound like the video, guys! Right? Did that work?
posted by orme at 6:22 AM on January 13 [3 favorites]

Posting on twitter.
posted by Fizz at 6:27 AM on January 13

Posting on Facebook before everyone else does.
posted by Ron Thanagar at 6:28 AM on January 13

God dammit this was an ad!?
posted by azarbayejani at 6:34 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

Soderbergh had you all beat years ago.
posted by gcbv at 6:37 AM on January 13 [3 favorites]

Is that Seth MacFarlane?
posted by Foci for Analysis at 6:38 AM on January 13

Dang I watched it all hoping there would be door prizes.
posted by Stoatfarm at 6:42 AM on January 13

Powerpoint meltdown.
posted by The White Hat at 6:45 AM on January 13 [5 favorites]

They are making fun of presentations that are all the same but they are using this technique of describing the dialogue... which is not new and has been done many times! Or is this a parody of a parody of a meta. I'm not smart enough to know.
posted by solmyjuice at 6:46 AM on January 13

I'm not sure what is more depressing, the complete eye-gouching pope-felching suckitude that is that video, or the realization it may be an accurate portrayal of what some people actually do for a living.
posted by timsteil at 6:47 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

They're trying to sell a book with the word "habitudes" in it. I'm surprised that they managed to remove the lens cap.
posted by The White Hat at 6:49 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

[[Wondering if this thread wouldn't be better off on MetaTalk]]
posted by fistynuts at 6:49 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

I kept hoping for Pizza Boomerang to make an appearance in the last 20 seconds and cut off everyone's heads/arms/genitalia. Oh well.
posted by naju at 6:53 AM on January 13 [3 favorites]

I will admit to being a tad weary of the stating-meta-description-of-activity-and-thus-parodying-the-ubiquity-of-said-activity form of online video.
posted by shakespeherian at 6:54 AM on January 13 [2 favorites]

It's humour, but also dead inside.
posted by mippy at 6:56 AM on January 13 [2 favorites]

Short link to a discussion on meta analysis
posted by elpapacito at 7:01 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

Words of praise for fishfood.
posted by griphus at 7:09 AM on January 13

Fart
posted by ReeMonster at 7:30 AM on January 13

Threadshitting sarcastic comment!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:34 AM on January 13

Complaining about Republicans.
posted by Kabanos at 7:34 AM on January 13 [2 favorites]

Some people do make bad presentations! It's true!
posted by Mister_A at 7:37 AM on January 13

What hath Schizopolis wrought.
posted by fungible at 7:37 AM on January 13

And Schizopolis rocks! Throbbing dust generation!
posted by Mister_A at 7:40 AM on January 13

Haunting derail about misunderstood early atmospheric signs of imminent alien invasion that will be quoted by historians centuries from now.
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:49 AM on January 13

Self indulgent combo breaker.
posted by Xoebe at 7:51 AM on January 13

Wandering and aimless story about the old days, with anecdotes about viewgraphs, alcohol marker smudges on presenters noses and trays of upsidedown slides.
posted by bonehead at 7:54 AM on January 13

Sarcastic question regarding what piece of equipment/state of employment/other thing I would need to understand this, with obvious disparaging undertone towards everyone else in the thread.
posted by never used baby shoes at 8:10 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

Comment about 'throwing CEOs in jail' that obviously belongs in previous thread.
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:22 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

Clicking out of video half way through and dropping a witless comment in its associated MeFi thread.
posted by flabdablet at 8:36 AM on January 13

Poignant quote from unknown philosopher

That's often my whole presentation.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 8:45 AM on January 13

MetaFilter InJoke
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:33 AM on January 13

"eye-gouching"?
I sort of love that. I'm assuming it rhymes with "douching".

I'm gouching your eye! I'm gooouching your eyyyyyye!
posted by Mister Moofoo at 10:08 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

Fell a bit flat for me; there are better takes on this out there. At least this other guy has Chicken.
posted by hackwolf at 10:28 AM on January 13

Did not see the gorilla that walked by.
posted by iamkimiam at 11:10 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

Needs to be rickrolled.
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 11:39 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

eye-gauching
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 11:40 AM on January 13 [1 favorite]

I saw this sort of presentation recently; it was about working with people who use AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication). I think it's more common among academics who are inexperienced at conference-style presentation, maybe?

No one has yet brought it up, but the book's title made me retch. Habitudes? Really?
posted by wingsandfins at 11:56 AM on January 13

This thread reminds me of when you and two other people come up with separate jokes at once to impress one other person, and as as a result, none of the three jokes can be understood.
posted by herbplarfegan at 11:58 AM on January 13

Chicken chicken chicken?
posted by erniepan at 12:23 PM on January 13

Hey, at least it's not 'Shit People Say to People In Presentations'.
posted by Happy Dave at 12:32 PM on January 13

feckless comparison to Nazi Germany
posted by randomkeystrike at 7:01 PM on January 13

Just throwing 'niggardly' out there to see who bites.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 8:08 PM on January 13 [1 favorite]

comment that comes too late in the thread to garner any attention
posted by Rinku at 8:16 PM on January 13 [2 favorites]

9/11 was an inside job.
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 7:00 AM on January 17