Homosexual activists understand the power of words.
Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which popular atheist author Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".
The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationship being discussed.
The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
If you are healthy, it's because YOU are doing your job. Eating & exercising right, etc. And your BODY is doing its job by maintaining homeostasis. If you and your body do their jobs, the doctor will do nothing, and thus deserve nothing.
I think it's different just as everything in the entire world, but it's wired for us. If we looked at it as a weird fact, it can be. But it can be also many regularity most consider it very sensible.
I've seen some comments re Derick's "keep your mouth shut" quickie. This quick talk simply re enforces what he said even though it's contrary.
So, all you hair splitters making your annoying lame opinions known, think for a second. The man is communicating not showing off. It's very clear this year a number of people have embraced certain uncertainty. This has been in the air for years and we seem to be handling this much more positively these days. I think it's linked with the way we have to
So he's saying @ 2:33 that what he's saying in the video is applicable to his presentation also. That the opposite might be true. Sounds like something Charlie said to the Family. Or something heard in the student union as a freshmen the first time someone got high. LOL. The whole universe, countless galaxies, may be contained in my fingernail, Or not!!!...LOL.....
@NaturalXY ....If the doc had something to do with it. But I'm not paying a doc because I took care of myself. Just like I'm not paying a mechanic because I took care of my car and it runs much like the day I got it.
The Japanese are on to something. But, frauds and con artists have been finding ways to take credit for doing nothing of any value since the dawn of man kind. They are on to something very old. It is the art of separating fools from thier money.
@NaturalXY The block/street naming and numbering was Japanese, as was his thank you at the end, but he clearly said "Doctors in China" not Japan.
...and yeah. I'd say that's a pretty interesting idea, though I'm sure there are problems with the execution of it. (and there is a lot of bullshit medicine in China)
@NaturalXY Chinese, but you're right they are onto something, unless of course you live in the US and don't get universal healthcare. Cause i donno about you, a visit to the doctor every month to make sure I'm healthy would be he hella expensive...
@back2back22 The idea is that you would pay them less, but you pay them to keep you healthy. Of course in america they would be complaining about this and that, and the treatment could be a lot more, but I would imagine for a general check up it would work. Imagine instead of a 500 dollar doctor visit, it was 20 bucks a month. Not sure how you would do it, or how they do it, but you pay them a little bit each month to stay healthy.
@NaturalXY This is an old way of doing healthcare in China, not Japan. Yes it makes total sense: instead of making money with too expensive drugs on people who do actually not even need those medicins, the job of the doctors (HEALTH CARE, lol?) is to prevent people from being sick. In doing that succesfully - well - isn't it only rational to pay?
Only it was the Chinese doctors, not the Japanese, and what happens in Japan actually is that there's an unwritten rule that you give your doctor extra "gift money" on top of his fee, when you have an operation for example.
Although I now see you said this a year a go.. and you must have already been told this.. but hell if I'm going to delete it. Especially after all this time I've spent typing this bit.
@NaturalXY Yes but for countries like the US to have that system, we'd have to have universal healthcare, and just look how quickly the public option was killed. We'll all die before we have free healthcare.
@radumester You dont need a doctor to know these thing. But if you want to, you could obviously pay me, since I am doctor and I will give you a health tips; do not smoke. Now? Where is may payment?
@NaturalXY maybe you can you can learn to listen before making judgements. he said in CHINA there are doctors who get paid only when patients are healthy NOT JAPAN.
@hyperseauton Indeed. Science is good. Science is how we distinguish truth from fiction. What works, from what doesn't. What exists, from what doesn't.
...but how has he said anything to promote anti/pseudo-science?
thinking on this video while it was loading, I thought to myself that it must be a very intuitive and ingeniously concise. Especially since TED is known to have an 18 min. limit, I was impressed and amused with this short journey outside the box, as it where. I especially was struck with a feeling like an epiphany (lol) upon seeing the map of the globe, only upside down. I assume most people haven't thought on what our world would be like if humans charted South as North, rather than how we DID.
Right. I would have had East as the default position. As the sunrise would be one of the most important moments in a day. If satellite photo had been invented before compasses, East would be at the top of the map, except in this video, which would show West at the top while he talked about the contrast.
I think the numbered schools is more of an East Coast thing. Here in California we usually name our schools after people or geographically related stuff.
More accurately (from someone who has spent decades here), Japanese people use named intersections to find their way around. And it IS objectively inferior, because Japanese people have a much, much harder time telling each other where to go.
His example of street naming in Japan is fine because it's just a different way of getting the same job done equally well. But the example of Chinese medicine is a nonsense. Besides traditional Chinese medicine being largely pseudoscientific bunk, the natural state of being for the overwhelming majority of people at any given time is one of relative health. Paying someone to remain in that state is absurdly illogical, as most impediments to health are unpreventable (car accidents, falls etc.).
That's funny, I'd say most impediments to health are preventable lifestyle decisions (obesity -> high blood pressure, heart disease, etc; smoking, drugs, the list goes on; obesity alone already costs US health care $147B a year in a google search).
It doesn't debunk the logic of needing to pay for fixing sickness. But it's illogical to say that most impediments to health are preventable.
And Chinese medicine has some crazy things going for it if you read the scientific analysis.
Are you putting "other" in "quotation marks" because you believe that so-called "borders" are "lies" created by the one world government to hide its existence?
Which analysis is that PAkg1? Would love to read about it, in Mainland China, western medicine has put almost 90% of Chinese practitioners out of work in the last 15 years.
I think you guys are incorrectly thinking that the two areas are substitutions. They're not, they're complements. The clearest example of that is when people use acupuncture instead of anesthesia for surgery (and before and after) because the normal anesthesia would cause complications. Chinese medicine would obviously never be able to cure cancer, do a triple bypass, or treat cystic fibrosis. So don't misunderstand me.
90% is garbage. The country integrates the 2. It's seen there everywhere.
You know what they call traditional medicine that works? They call it medicine.
Reality based empirical medicine uses loads of substances that are directly from nature or have been used in traditional medicine before the dawn of modern medicine. Take the bark of a willow tree for example, better known as aspirin.
For the last 20 years, I have been asking the question, "What is normal?" No one could tell me. Then, I finally got my answer a few weeks ago. "Normal" is the setting on a washing machine, lol.
There is no "normal" because everyone is different. One of the most "normal", stable people I know is a transgendered Australian man now living as a woman. Would that be "normal" for most people? No. But she's got a good life.
at least their at the end. not at the beginning or the middle, where you click randomly trying to home in on the real content. i still agree with you though.
As smart as the Japanese usually are, it's idiotic to number a house based on age. I'm alsot curious to know if the number of the district is marked every where you go? Otherwise you'd really have no idea how to get around...
Its called having a map or simply by walking around the block?
Just like you dont know where the house is along the street you dont know where the house is on the block. Not a difficult concept and I am sure that if it didnt work they would have changed it by now?
I understand that but even if you've never been to a certain house before (in the U.S.) you have a much better sense of where houses are since odds are on one side and evens are on the other and in chronlogical order. It would just take longer (unnecessarily) is all I'm saying.
@Tnias13 actually, having lived in Honduras where the same is true, its not that hard. What makes it so easy is the culture. It is culturally "okay" to "ask" in Honduras. Here in the states, we don't ask, we just "look and see." You don't need sign everywhere, because the PEOPLE are everywhere, and they are just as effective as signs if you talk to them.
That basically proves my point of how it's an inefficient system if you need to rely on people being around cuz I'm sure there are plenty of areas where there just isn't anyone around. It would just get a bit frustrating for those that aren't familiar with the area going from house #4 to #17 back to #6 and so on. And only a neghborhood map would help, not a map that covers city to city.
It didn't make much sense to me. If you do get sick, you'll have to pay someone else to get better. Personally, I'm not sure I could afford to pay when I'm both sick and well...
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fivequotes 5 days ago
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Homosexual activists understand the power of words.
Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which popular atheist author Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".
The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationship being discussed.
The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
lightandbeautiful 5 days ago
i just told my mom about this video and she said, yeah like japanese vaginas .__.
matholimeu 2 weeks ago
lol...very interesting...we should always be open to new ideas...
atheist382 1 month ago
ha ha ha ..this is grate and interesting video...watch it ....
andreeaweed 2 months ago
thats awesome about the doctors in japan!
cayterr 2 months ago
China doc idea would never work in america. People would just bitch if they never got sick because it was costing them too much.
fobabett187 3 months ago
The streets have no names? Don't tell bono he'll get on his high horse again...
nickrose83 4 months ago 6
What a magical guy. Seriously.
campbpar 5 months ago
Oh, I never knew about things like that! That was interesting. I wish he told more facts.
Xqul 6 months ago
hey this is in mysore india, i'm now studying here, hahaha
redzabes 6 months ago
chinese pussy
tedmosby5 6 months ago
lol Cisco, they're also selling equipment to monitor Chinese activists in China
thecheeze9001 6 months ago
Where can I get that map?
…Seriously.
TheRealAestuo 8 months ago
Its opposite day!
Typho0n86 9 months ago
Live in America when your healthy. When sick, just go to China for free healthcare. Ahhh, life is beautiful!!
TheKuroky 11 months ago
@TheKuroky or just come over to canada.
ryandrums1001 11 months ago
Cool
biofit123 11 months ago
If you are healthy, it's because YOU are doing your job. Eating & exercising right, etc. And your BODY is doing its job by maintaining homeostasis. If you and your body do their jobs, the doctor will do nothing, and thus deserve nothing.
Of course, that's just my "weird" opinion.
rmcdaniel423 11 months ago
@rmcdaniel423 You are correct, not weird.
jmasalle 7 months ago
I think it's different just as everything in the entire world, but it's wired for us. If we looked at it as a weird fact, it can be. But it can be also many regularity most consider it very sensible.
Tariena1001 1 year ago
It's not "gozaimasita", but "gozaimaSHIta". When try to you speak another language, at least make an effort to get the basics right.
MomoTheBellyDancer 1 year ago
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@MomoTheBellyDancer Do you take your own advise?
bluefootedpig 1 year ago
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"The Japanese are on to something, paying the doctor when we are healthy not sick"
Actually, he was talking about the Chinese.
MomoTheBellyDancer 1 year ago
I've seen some comments re Derick's "keep your mouth shut" quickie. This quick talk simply re enforces what he said even though it's contrary.
So, all you hair splitters making your annoying lame opinions known, think for a second. The man is communicating not showing off. It's very clear this year a number of people have embraced certain uncertainty. This has been in the air for years and we seem to be handling this much more positively these days. I think it's linked with the way we have to
multidstringtheorist 1 year ago
Ha ha! Derek has a fun way of looking at a lot of things.
dudemusicspace 1 year ago
One thing I dislike about this video is the title.
Weird OR different.
Why on earth would you treat those as mutually exclusive?
What is weird is different, and what is different is often weird.
I also feel that there is an implication that weird is negative, where it should actually be viewed as neutral.
ZarlanTheGreen 1 year ago 4
@ZarlanTheGreen I fully agree
Skedooosh 1 year ago
So he's saying @ 2:33 that what he's saying in the video is applicable to his presentation also. That the opposite might be true. Sounds like something Charlie said to the Family. Or something heard in the student union as a freshmen the first time someone got high. LOL. The whole universe, countless galaxies, may be contained in my fingernail, Or not!!!...LOL.....
Onlythefaceschange 1 year ago
Where was this held? In Japan? Tokyo?
TakumiSoldier 1 year ago
is a god of war´s clone!
LOSEGB 1 year ago
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this is really really stupid
TheEarlOfDublin 1 year ago
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look at how sweaty he is, jesus christ
TheEarlOfDublin 1 year ago
in malaysia, students don't move to different teachers for classes. the students stay in the same rooms and the teachers move to different classes.
LaughinWarheads 1 year ago 6
its the same in germany
ttimothyp16 1 year ago
so do they in ukraine and russia and some other countries of the soviet block.
Muphlon 1 year ago
the same in korea!
itzmalife 1 year ago
ye same for my friends in high school
dylanlawless1 1 year ago
The part of the map was interesting for me because last year me and a few other students painted a world map with the US on the right side.
S0u1Reaper19 1 year ago
The Japanese are on to something, paying the doctor when we are healthy not sick. It makes complete sense!!
NaturalXY 1 year ago 90
It was the Chinese pharmacists he was referring to about not paying when sick.
Thanks for paying attention.
gregormech 1 year ago 3
@NaturalXY
It really does! That's genius. I didn't ever consider that.
eatingperson 1 year ago
@NaturalXY ....If the doc had something to do with it. But I'm not paying a doc because I took care of myself. Just like I'm not paying a mechanic because I took care of my car and it runs much like the day I got it.
Onlythefaceschange 1 year ago
@NaturalXY
The Japanese are on to something. But, frauds and con artists have been finding ways to take credit for doing nothing of any value since the dawn of man kind. They are on to something very old. It is the art of separating fools from thier money.
St37One 1 year ago
@NaturalXY The block/street naming and numbering was Japanese, as was his thank you at the end, but he clearly said "Doctors in China" not Japan.
...and yeah. I'd say that's a pretty interesting idea, though I'm sure there are problems with the execution of it. (and there is a lot of bullshit medicine in China)
ZarlanTheGreen 1 year ago
@NaturalXY not japan
bonesat 1 year ago
@NaturalXY He clearly said Chinese...Japanese are the ones naming the blocks
MrWonderTube 1 year ago
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aikitochan 1 year ago
@NaturalXY Chinese, but you're right they are onto something, unless of course you live in the US and don't get universal healthcare. Cause i donno about you, a visit to the doctor every month to make sure I'm healthy would be he hella expensive...
4CrazyMexicans 1 year ago
@NaturalXY wouldnt u have to pay them alot more this way?
back2back22 1 year ago
@back2back22 The idea is that you would pay them less, but you pay them to keep you healthy. Of course in america they would be complaining about this and that, and the treatment could be a lot more, but I would imagine for a general check up it would work. Imagine instead of a 500 dollar doctor visit, it was 20 bucks a month. Not sure how you would do it, or how they do it, but you pay them a little bit each month to stay healthy.
bluefootedpig 1 year ago 2
@NaturalXY
It's the Chinese he referred to that do this, not Japanese
leisuregirl1 1 year ago 5
@NaturalXY
Chinese, but yes, it does make more sense than our system.
clandestinepig 11 months ago
@NaturalXY This is an old way of doing healthcare in China, not Japan. Yes it makes total sense: instead of making money with too expensive drugs on people who do actually not even need those medicins, the job of the doctors (HEALTH CARE, lol?) is to prevent people from being sick. In doing that succesfully - well - isn't it only rational to pay?
Thystonius 11 months ago
@NaturalXY
Only it was the Chinese doctors, not the Japanese, and what happens in Japan actually is that there's an unwritten rule that you give your doctor extra "gift money" on top of his fee, when you have an operation for example.
DontTouchMyVicodin 8 months ago
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@NaturalXY why does it bother me that you said Japanese instead of Chinese..
damahuob 7 months ago
@NaturalXY Yes. Except that was the Chinese.
Although I now see you said this a year a go.. and you must have already been told this.. but hell if I'm going to delete it. Especially after all this time I've spent typing this bit.
squishedpimp 6 months ago
@NaturalXY I don't think you or about 49 other people were even paying attention to what he was saying...
crestind 6 months ago
@NaturalXY Yes but for countries like the US to have that system, we'd have to have universal healthcare, and just look how quickly the public option was killed. We'll all die before we have free healthcare.
hihihidddd 6 months ago
@NaturalXY He said China not Japan
JayLeeKorean 4 months ago 8
@NaturalXY So if you are healty, because you eat well, train, etc., then you should pay me?
Ko252 4 months ago
@Ko252 you train and eat well beacause your doctor explained the reason why you should and he checks up on you to make sure you keep yourself healthy
radumester 3 months ago
@radumester You dont need a doctor to know these thing. But if you want to, you could obviously pay me, since I am doctor and I will give you a health tips; do not smoke. Now? Where is may payment?
Ko252 3 months ago
@NaturalXY maybe you can you can learn to listen before making judgements. he said in CHINA there are doctors who get paid only when patients are healthy NOT JAPAN.
mysticxhobo 4 months ago 2
@NaturalXY He said Chinese, not Japanese. Big difference. :)
bboygiggles 1 week ago
That block naming and building numbering method totally make sense in the ruins after WWII when buildings are poping up fast.
If you 'number' buildings on a street, when a building pop up between two of them, what do you do? Re-number the whole street? lol
JimexJimex 1 year ago 6
I don't like this postmodern, plualist relativism.
Richard Dawkins does not like it either. Science works and is not just a Western invention.
hyperseauton 1 year ago 4
I agree, but these aren't examples of postmodern, pluralist relativism.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 1 year ago
@hyperseauton Indeed. Science is good. Science is how we distinguish truth from fiction. What works, from what doesn't. What exists, from what doesn't.
...but how has he said anything to promote anti/pseudo-science?
ZarlanTheGreen 1 year ago
[repost] @[[MayasNet|dbalieiro]]
dbalieiro 2 years ago
I love Derek Sivers!
Great energy and a great thinker.
Very cool that there are still entrepreneurs in the world with this kind of gusto and humanitarian attitude.
OregonCoastGhost 2 years ago 4
In Soviet Russia, Immigrants deport YOU!
eviltube1111 2 years ago 68
@eviltube1111 Actually that happens in America.
Mossi1992 5 months ago
Interesting talk!
EasytoonGuy 2 years ago 2
Yeah :)
I had to check up on the claims of course but true enough aspirin is made of bark of a willow tree (slightly modified though).
omegavalerius 2 years ago
thinking on this video while it was loading, I thought to myself that it must be a very intuitive and ingeniously concise. Especially since TED is known to have an 18 min. limit, I was impressed and amused with this short journey outside the box, as it where. I especially was struck with a feeling like an epiphany (lol) upon seeing the map of the globe, only upside down. I assume most people haven't thought on what our world would be like if humans charted South as North, rather than how we DID.
ChariotRider 2 years ago
Right. I would have had East as the default position. As the sunrise would be one of the most important moments in a day. If satellite photo had been invented before compasses, East would be at the top of the map, except in this video, which would show West at the top while he talked about the contrast.
SpacedTime 2 years ago
man i'd be lost around Japan... : (
t0k3puff420 2 years ago
what do they call a big mac with fries in Japan?
TravellingEngineer 2 years ago
i expect TED talks to have a lot more meat on them...
it's way too short.
drorjs 2 years ago
in japan they eat the peel of the banana and throw away the inside part
planetdarwin 2 years ago
really? Prove it!
saadk88 2 years ago
In Japan they dont ride bikes, the bikes ride them
purplemonkeyelephant 2 years ago
in japan, when they kill a chicken, the body falls on the ground and the head runs around
planetdarwin 2 years ago 5
In Soviet Rus... Oh, wait.
EasytoonGuy 2 years ago 6
Chuck Norris counted to infinity.
Twice.
CardKeyOh 2 years ago
Whats that got to do with anything?
purplemonkeyelephant 2 years ago
there are all those Chuck Norris jokes which are made up like the sentence planetdarwin said earlier.
e.g.
Chuck Norris never drives a car, the car drives Chuck Norris.
OR
Chuck Norris never gets wet, the water gets Chuck Norris
OR
Jesus walked over water,
Chcuk Norris walked over Jesus
the infinity joke was a comment which was abit "around the corner" ;)
CardKeyOh 2 years ago
I thought that was a polish bike ride...
ChariotRider 2 years ago
That's interesting...
alexlynk 2 years ago 4
niice
SquirrelGott 2 years ago
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what a fag
Waranoa 2 years ago
I think the numbered schools is more of an East Coast thing. Here in California we usually name our schools after people or geographically related stuff.
Liaison 2 years ago
in some places, schools are numbered according to districts, but the majority have individual names.
ruckenfigur 2 years ago
i read in america the schools dont even have names
they just have number
like "public school #20" or something rediculous like that
sealhunta 2 years ago
Not to my knowledge...
tiffanynem 2 years ago
@sealhunta
In some large cities this is true, particularly for elementary schools. But most schools have names.
slingstone49 2 years ago
More accurately (from someone who has spent decades here), Japanese people use named intersections to find their way around. And it IS objectively inferior, because Japanese people have a much, much harder time telling each other where to go.
zachawry 2 years ago
In Japan, policeman are travel guides. Damn, this video is right.
robotpanda77 1 year ago
Short, sweet and pretty darn interesting
Harrytheguy 2 years ago 4
weird or just different - dont argue just try to get used to it - even yourself have your own set of rulez
72ve17 2 years ago
His example of street naming in Japan is fine because it's just a different way of getting the same job done equally well. But the example of Chinese medicine is a nonsense. Besides traditional Chinese medicine being largely pseudoscientific bunk, the natural state of being for the overwhelming majority of people at any given time is one of relative health. Paying someone to remain in that state is absurdly illogical, as most impediments to health are unpreventable (car accidents, falls etc.).
10mintwo 2 years ago
That's funny, I'd say most impediments to health are preventable lifestyle decisions (obesity -> high blood pressure, heart disease, etc; smoking, drugs, the list goes on; obesity alone already costs US health care $147B a year in a google search).
It doesn't debunk the logic of needing to pay for fixing sickness. But it's illogical to say that most impediments to health are preventable.
And Chinese medicine has some crazy things going for it if you read the scientific analysis.
PakG1 2 years ago
The key word being crazy, yes.
10mintwo 2 years ago
Nice way to deflect the actual criticism. I applaud you for being able to evade the argument so fluidly!
PakG1 2 years ago 2
@PakG1 well in the united states yes
but other countries dont have as many fat people
sealhunta 2 years ago
well "other" countries have better social health care system
sirhcpark 1 year ago
Are you putting "other" in "quotation marks" because you believe that so-called "borders" are "lies" created by the one world government to hide its existence?
LokiClock 1 year ago 2
Which analysis is that PAkg1? Would love to read about it, in Mainland China, western medicine has put almost 90% of Chinese practitioners out of work in the last 15 years.
mikontisott 2 years ago
I think you guys are incorrectly thinking that the two areas are substitutions. They're not, they're complements. The clearest example of that is when people use acupuncture instead of anesthesia for surgery (and before and after) because the normal anesthesia would cause complications. Chinese medicine would obviously never be able to cure cancer, do a triple bypass, or treat cystic fibrosis. So don't misunderstand me.
90% is garbage. The country integrates the 2. It's seen there everywhere.
PakG1 2 years ago
You know what they call traditional medicine that works? They call it medicine.
Reality based empirical medicine uses loads of substances that are directly from nature or have been used in traditional medicine before the dawn of modern medicine. Take the bark of a willow tree for example, better known as aspirin.
omegavalerius 2 years ago 5
lmfao. I like this guy. ^.^
1992haley26 2 years ago 3
awful
quantumcactus 2 years ago
The thing about the doctors made me laugh out loud.
EchoInfinity 2 years ago
ah.. now I understand what my address in Japan meant. I've always wondered. :D
kittykattykoo 2 years ago
I saw this guy's video on youtube some time ago, I wonder if he posted it in preparation for TED or if they found him through it.
adamredwine 2 years ago
I'm a sort-in-order kinda guy myself, but it's fascinating what systems other people work with. My guess is gps is used a lot in Japan.
P00P0STER0US 2 years ago
The Japanese postmen have quite a difficult task.
lordmetroid 2 years ago 4
When you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freakshow, when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat.
HigherPlanes 2 years ago 2
Nope.
JohnZobac 2 years ago
never be a postmen in Asia
sausage4mash 2 years ago
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god dang asians are weird.
supajive 2 years ago
@supajive
I'm living in Korea
Your answer: they're FUCKING WEIRD
ever see a guy blow dry his pubes?
funincluded 2 years ago 2
A lot of people get it Derek, many thanks.
fossilman2 2 years ago
always great to hear what Derek has to say.
jdwarrick 2 years ago
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I'd like my 3 minutes back, TED.
popaddict 2 years ago
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popaddict 2 years ago
That was lame. A kitschy anecdote about the difference of Japanese urban planning as compared to Western urban planning does not make a maxim.
Dan Dennett has a phrase that I think applies here: "Deepity".
damienl 2 years ago
@damienl
Haha, deepity.
Saktoth 2 years ago
I think you still have to pay to Chinese Doctor if you are sick or health or not.
laradana08 2 years ago
wtf that was stupid
nickstr09 2 years ago
Just some interesting tidbits.. not insightful... you didn't explore deeply into these examples.
Dayvit78 2 years ago 2
fucking hate when people try to impress with Japanese. this wasn't even in Japan... this was India. ????
TheWiseCommenter 2 years ago
3 minutes?? wow
TheWiseCommenter 2 years ago
i wish this were a longer presentation...
cheeseit126 2 years ago 3
Blocks in the US also have numbers, as do lots. But nobody uses them outside of legal documents.
Cosmoline 2 years ago 5
re-upload?
Dothackfreak11 2 years ago
wonderful video. thank you.
BinaryReader 2 years ago
nice video
bambapabbi 2 years ago
Am on iPhone and won't play this clip.
Acerthomas 2 years ago
Maybe youtube tech support will read your comment and rush over to fix it.
hwn000 2 years ago 5
worst pronunciation. ever.
LEV1ATHYN 2 years ago
This guy is adorable.
oprahlovesgail 2 years ago
slut
TheNewAlias 2 years ago
what?
oprahlovesgail 2 years ago
For the last 20 years, I have been asking the question, "What is normal?" No one could tell me. Then, I finally got my answer a few weeks ago. "Normal" is the setting on a washing machine, lol.
SSparks555 2 years ago 7
@SSparks555
Normal is average. You could have used a dictionary to find out all these years.
Nogard229 2 years ago
There is no "normal" because everyone is different. One of the most "normal", stable people I know is a transgendered Australian man now living as a woman. Would that be "normal" for most people? No. But she's got a good life.
KirneH004 2 years ago
an open plea for cultural relativism based on some nice examples. so I wonder how various "common senses" develop !?!
blackjackjesus 2 years ago
They don't.
puffaliaz 2 years ago
awesome =D
BleuBeth 2 years ago
Good use of TED.
More views of this type are needed... if conservatives will allow it.
kinsmed 2 years ago
i am a conservative. What do you mean if I allow it?
brysonz 2 years ago
It doesn't matter if conservatives would allow views like this or not. People will still post them.
KirneH004 2 years ago
good
dave597 2 years ago
That was so short. I think that could've been a good talk
whydizz 2 years ago
Short, yes. Why waste 10 minutes if you can get the point across in 4 or less? :)
KirneH004 2 years ago 2
Clip is corrupted!!!$!!!!!!!!!!
Acerthomas 2 years ago
i had heared that with the chinese doctor's before from a healing practicioner i went to. but i didn't quite believe it. this concept is genious!
1schwererziehbar1 2 years ago
File will not play. Corrupted
Acerthomas 2 years ago
The only flaw was that the talk was too short.
belliebum12 2 years ago 7
short, concise....very cool!!
workaholic888 2 years ago 2
LOL that's cute....and true.
Definitely just differences. I love differences.
oumsker 2 years ago
Hihihi... Love the ending! xD
Thymonico 2 years ago
I frown upon your built in ads
TheScienceFoundation 2 years ago 6
at least their at the end. not at the beginning or the middle, where you click randomly trying to home in on the real content. i still agree with you though.
LeadPaintSandwich 2 years ago
100% win
Humble117 2 years ago 2
so true!
ftripon 2 years ago
As smart as the Japanese usually are, it's idiotic to number a house based on age. I'm alsot curious to know if the number of the district is marked every where you go? Otherwise you'd really have no idea how to get around...
Tnias13 2 years ago
Its called having a map or simply by walking around the block?
Just like you dont know where the house is along the street you dont know where the house is on the block. Not a difficult concept and I am sure that if it didnt work they would have changed it by now?
Ollieswede 2 years ago
I understand that but even if you've never been to a certain house before (in the U.S.) you have a much better sense of where houses are since odds are on one side and evens are on the other and in chronlogical order. It would just take longer (unnecessarily) is all I'm saying.
Tnias13 2 years ago
@Tnias13 actually, having lived in Honduras where the same is true, its not that hard. What makes it so easy is the culture. It is culturally "okay" to "ask" in Honduras. Here in the states, we don't ask, we just "look and see." You don't need sign everywhere, because the PEOPLE are everywhere, and they are just as effective as signs if you talk to them.
skyemail 2 years ago
That basically proves my point of how it's an inefficient system if you need to rely on people being around cuz I'm sure there are plenty of areas where there just isn't anyone around. It would just get a bit frustrating for those that aren't familiar with the area going from house #4 to #17 back to #6 and so on. And only a neghborhood map would help, not a map that covers city to city.
Tnias13 2 years ago 3
LOL @ when he posed at the end. funnnnay!
djindox3 2 years ago
1:50 I love that. That way the doctors will always try to make sure you're healthy.
dragonofthedarknight 2 years ago 2
It didn't make much sense to me. If you do get sick, you'll have to pay someone else to get better. Personally, I'm not sure I could afford to pay when I'm both sick and well...
lleverfreell 2 years ago
lol, no.
it's the doctors job to get you healthy really fast so he get's paid again!
CardKeyOh 2 years ago
So there may be an opposite version of this presentation?...
sawilliams 2 years ago
You one that is long, accurate and meaningful ?
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