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Comment by codetrotter | Hacker News Reader

That podcast episode explains something from the 11:20 minutes mark to 11:45 that I did not get from TFA. Namely, who is this Barney that he hated? In the featured article they only wrote:

> But occasionally there were things that elicited thoughts he could not ignore.

> Like Barney.

> "I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney," Martin says.

> Since all the world thought Martin was a vegetable, at the special care center where he spent his days he was often in front of the TV watching reruns of the children's cartoon hour after hour, day after day.

But in the podcast they use the melody from the Barney & Friends kids TV show and now it makes sense. Before listening to to the podcast, after reading the article I was like "but who is Barney?"

Oh. My. God. I am OLD.

Hating Barney was like a rite of passage for our generation. He coagulated out of the primordial sludge about the time our kids were getting old enough to want to see a purple dinosaur sing "I Love You".

Over

and over

and over again.

I liked the Barney mod for Doom though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsvdMzfFNdQ

> I liked the Barney mod for Doom though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsvdMzfFNdQ

Barney Splat[1] was a door game for BBSs back in the day.

[1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/barneysplat

The Barney song ("I love you") was used by the CIA as an interrogation technique. Here's an article about the practice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_psychological_opera...

It's quite telling that the same things the CIA thinks are good torture material are inflicted on people who have no control over their lives in medical institutions.

If you would not like to be submitted to something yourself maybe you shouldn't do it to people who are in no position to protest?

Barney is fairly widely hated, even by kids who previously watched it. For me it brought an element of humor to this mans terrible experience when I think - He hated Barney so much he was able to escape a coma-like lock-in just to not have to watch the show!

To understand the full horror of Barney, text alone won't do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VcHbf8Kz0c

I thought he meant Barney from The Flintstones for some reason.

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