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This video has edited the children's mouths and the teachers. This is an intentional edit when they speak. It's really trippy to watch. Because it's fairly good

This video has edited the children's mouths and the teachers. This is an intentional edit when they speak. It's really trippy to watch. Because it's fairly good in some instances but...also terrifying.

d0mine 6y ago
The grandparent comment is trolling. The video is not a documentary (there is an innocent explanation of why the English part is edited) and the comment's text is just political jokes from 80s (I've heard somewhere that CIA takes credit for many jokes of that time).
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  Trolling? The first part specifically stated it was a movie; I'm not sure what gave the idea it might have been a documentary. The joke is to explain why the other students were prompting Fima — a behaviour that was strongly discouraged in my western schools. Of course I'd recommend watching the whole thing (or even the Alisa cartoon), for good examples of non-western juvenile SF, but in this case I was deliberately trying to show an example of non-western classroom behaviour management. It may not have been entirely realistic, but judging from the nostalgic comments I've seen, it was not so unrealistic that students at the time it was aired found it ludicrous. (counterargument: Friends — has many fans, but just how did NY baristas afford apartments like those?)
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  CIA takes credit for many things. Maybe they stole jokes from State, but I think action movies[1] are more their speed. Consider: if they were any good at jokes, international english would be full of Stierlitz-style jokes. (I got most of my political jokes from VK. To be fair, most of them, especially the Brezhnev-era, can be used in the current US with only a few name changes.) [1] Humour usually involves quickly switching between possible interpretations. Action movies tend to be much less ambiguous.

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This video has edited the children's mouths and the teachers. This is an intentional edit when they speak. It's really trippy to watch. Because it's fairly good

by heimatau 6y ago

d0mine 6y ago
The grandparent comment is trolling. The video is not a documentary (there is an innocent explanation of why the English part is edited) and the comment's text is just political jokes from 80s (I've heard somewhere that CIA takes credit for many jokes of that time).
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  Trolling? The first part specifically stated it was a movie; I'm not sure what gave the idea it might have been a documentary. The joke is to explain why the other students were prompting Fima — a behaviour that was strongly discouraged in my western schools. Of course I'd recommend watching the whole thing (or even the Alisa cartoon), for good examples of non-western juvenile SF, but in this case I was deliberately trying to show an example of non-western classroom behaviour management. It may not have been entirely realistic, but judging from the nostalgic comments I've seen, it was not so unrealistic that students at the time it was aired found it ludicrous. (counterargument: Friends — has many fans, but just how did NY baristas afford apartments like those?)
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  CIA takes credit for many things. Maybe they stole jokes from State, but I think action movies[1] are more their speed. Consider: if they were any good at jokes, international english would be full of Stierlitz-style jokes. (I got most of my political jokes from VK. To be fair, most of them, especially the Brezhnev-era, can be used in the current US with only a few name changes.) [1] Humour usually involves quickly switching between possible interpretations. Action movies tend to be much less ambiguous.