Bizarre. But once we saw his painted trees turning into insects I started laughing, and continued laughing through to the end.
Can you imagine a 3D VR version of this?
How about an Odorama version? 
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I always thought there was something deeply disturbing about Bob Rossā¦
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(quick Googleā¦)
Possibly?
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Reminds me a lot of this.
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Iāve never liked him, even though thatās always been kind of an unpopular opinion
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Thread. Just goes to show how diverse families can be.
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I was swayed by his apparent academic rigor (look at all those footnotes! and the bibliography!) in his first books, but then he wrote a foreword to a book on a subject I know a lot about, and that exposed how good he is at pontificating as an expert when in fact he hasnāt done any actual research on the subject at all. Once the wool was gone from my eyes, I could never not see the poseur in anything he wrote after that.
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Can confirm: Germany takes this stuff very seriously. And most of the people in the EU are close enough (themselves or their parents) to the horrors of WWII that they know why itās better to work together.
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I worked with a guy like that. He produced an incredible amount of output, meticulously detailed and footnoted, but none of it seemed especially novel or even all that relevant to the task at hand. It turned out he was just doing a Google search for something relevant-ish, grabbing the first hit on Scholar, and copypasting the Related Work section verbatim 
Iāve worked with people who werenāt quite up to snuff, or whose skills have deteriorated, but he was the only person Iāve ever worked with who was a complete fraud.
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This is problem with people who are in one field believing that it makes them good in all fieldsā¦
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Physician researchers are notorious for this.
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polari makes an appearance in the doctor who serial ācarnival of monstersā.
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