Hey Thinker.

Loved the 'Drunken Hustory' Sift. I made an embeddable playlist if you want to post it, so they sift togeter (maybe) or frees up an extra slot...

me too. And I never begged that much...

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I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more votes.

"Idiot rednecks have always bothered me. These are some of the exaggerated reasons why."

Huh? Why do they bother you? Because the people in this video have a sense of humor?

I Think is just you

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Maybe it's just me, but I have a hard time finding the "power" or "metal" in this.

If we learn anything from the US version of The Office, it's that what you say isn't racist as long as it points out something considered to be colloquially flattering, such as cock-size.

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A guy decides to take his girlfriend to Jamaica in order to propose to her.

A few days before they leave, he thinks it would be a great idea to get her name, "Wendy", tattooed on his penis, as a gesture of love.

While the couple is sitting in the restaurant where he's going to propose, he tells Wendy he needs to use the restroom.

He steps up to the urinal next to a Jamaican man, and for some reason he looks down and sees the guy's penis, which has the letters W-E-N-D-Y tattooed on it.

"No way!", he says, "Your girlfriend's name is Wendy, too?"

The Jamaican looks at him and says, "No, it says, 'Welcome to Jamaica, mon, have a nice day.'"

http://comedy.videosift.com/talk/Hear-any-good-jokes-lately-Possibly-NSFW

What's a curch? http://www.videosift.com/video/Mexico-Outlaws-Satanic-Curch

Haven't really had time to think this through, so you'll have to take what I say with a grain of salt. Been trying to come up with some stuff Sweden's doing better than the US and why, and as it stands we'd both agree I think that the US is doing slightly worse in education at the moment.
This is more of a rant than a coherent argument, but let's see where it goes.

I think it could very well boil down to taxes, both when it comes to having them and the general mentality among citizens about paying them.
There seems to be a problem in the US with the second issue, where (judging from online news videos) people appear to have great difficulty connecting sociopolitical issues with each other and applying them in real life.
Taxes and welfare issues in particular, to take an example for discussion's sake. To tie back to Sweden, it's probably safe to say that nobody really enjoys paying taxes like they would enjoy going to the movies or going out for dinner, but the fundamental understanding that the quality of our social benefits, schooling, infrastructure and healthcare are directly connected to the amount of cash the government takes makes it a natural thing in the public mind. The discussion isn't whether we should have them or not, but rather what education and healthcare standards we can live with before starting to discuss lowering taxes.
To tie back even further, to a few posts back when we talked about abortion, there seems to be a similar detachment from the issues of how the government is supposed to help take care of all the babies that the people who are against abortion want to save, when many of the same people are for lower taxes and taxcuts to a system which doesn't even have national healthcare, where the vast majority of cash goes to the military and where the military is the only branch the tax cuts won't ever touch. It doesn't make any sense, but when you look at the status of some states and the policies they're pursuing, it's becoming more clear that increasing taxcuts and lower taxes are linked to the failing public school system, crumbling infrastructure and lack of public healthcare. Kind of like wanting to have the cake and eat it up too, where people don't want to pay for the state/federal service but still expect it to maintain its quality.
In that aspect I think Sweden's doing much better than the US. Even though people on a personal level probably don't feel any different towards each other in respective country, I think Swedes as a community feel more strongly connected and are more focused on helping each other out than hoarding personal fortunes.

After all, even if I didn't have any kids or intend to get any, there'd still be several good reasons for me to pay for our public education and feel great about it. I'd know people with kids, who'd get kids or who knew people with kids, and I'd also like to be able to walk the streets at night without having to fear for my life.
A friend of mine who works at an eldercare clinic said, when asked about this, "I'm only sitting at home with my comp six days a week except for saturdays when I go out and party. What am I supposed to do with all of my salary?"

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I was hoping you'd raise some issue about which I could argue, but I agree with you completely. Damnit. ha!

So what is your opinion of Sweden versus America? I always see Sweden at the top of the list when it comes to social issues, and I'm jealous. Are the lists an accurate portrayal of Swedish society?

I've started doing that as a habit because I've had a few users who refuse drop dupes because of simple idiosyncrasies and I wanted to downvote those videos for that reason. Didn't mean to offend.

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I appreciate you telling me about this, but next time just let me know instead of down voting it. I'll gladly delete any dupe.

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Dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Bellydancer-accident-and-a-funny-one
-at-that

(Second time for this one)

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I know it's wrong for an old man to hug another old man, but you don't need to take offense at that. It makes you seem...kinda homophobic. And that's not being tolerant, is it? I'm glad we had this talk.

It's not homophobia, I just thought that the waterboarding comment was poor taste/judgement. Just my opinion, nothing to get hung up about.

Yeah, but what if I enjoy sticking frozen cornish hens up my butt, and when I invite the pastor over my parrot squawks, "Yeah, that frozen cornish hen feels good in my butt! BRAWK!" I just can't risk that.

>> ^swampgirl:
alright, a parrot will out-live you.
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Who says I'm not a bucketful of cheerfulness and giddy conniptions?
And cats die, which is not something I like to deal with.
[Edit] I'm often sarcastic, because it's the only thing that keeps me from becoming a mental case. So I was being a bit over-dramatic, but not too far off from my actual thoughts on life.
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I hope that was plain satire.. if not cheer the hell up and get a cat or something.. gee wiz

alright, a parrot will out-live you.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Who says I'm not a bucketful of cheerfulness and giddy conniptions?

And cats die, which is not something I like to deal with.

[Edit] I'm often sarcastic, because it's the only thing that keeps me from becoming a mental case. So I was being a bit over-dramatic, but not too far off from my actual thoughts on life.

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I hope that was plain satire.. if not cheer the hell up and get a cat or something.. gee wiz

I hope that was plain satire.. if not cheer the hell up and get a cat or something.. gee wiz

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My name is Hebrew for "no, me first!", I live in the City of Trees in the State of Potatoes in the Nation of Idiot Consumers with Oversized Guts, Vehicles and Homes and Undersized Minds, Common Sense and Pride in Anything Outside of their Own Xenophobic Limits.

I don't own a car, I don't own a home, I don't have a girlfriend, I don't have children, and I really have no desire for any of those things anytime soon.

I work for the capitalist monster named Wal-Mart, and I try not to burn it down every time I walk through the doors.

My ideal society is communist and socialist, with no room for capitalism.

My username is a joke that overestimates my necessity for overanalyzing everything that comes through my mortal mind. I have another username that goes by thinker246, which sums up my life's philosophy quite succinctly-- everybody needs a day off.

I am an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, hidden in a riddle, and an unknown quantity, even to myself.

I have no foreseeable goals, except to find a way to ignore humanity, yet survive amidst their numbers.

I'm a college drop-out, and if I get bored enough, one day I will become a life drop-out. Suicide doesn't scare me, but eternal ennui does.

I tend to ramble on during conversations and posts about myself.

I am a huge fan of Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, TOOL, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Doug Stanhope, Bill Maher, and anybody else who uses their brain for good instead of evil.

I would love to be a stand-up comedian and a writer.

I'm currently writing three books, without any direction for any of them. Don't look for them on your bookshelf anytime soon.

I love numbers and patterns, especially when you put them together.

If you want to know anything else about me...why? I just told you everything.

END

Not only would it be strange for god to reveal himself through pi but in Second Chronicles 4:2-5 and First Kings 7:23-26 it suggest that god thinks pi = 3!

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Even if he was correct about the correlation between the diameter of the moon and number of degrees marched around the city of the moon, he is forgetting a few things. First, you can't compare the marching of a city circumference with the diameter of an object unless your God is trying to prove himself through the use of pi. But I see no mention in the Bible about infinite ratios. (That is reason enough for my atheism. After all, how could the creator of all things geek not be a geek and show his work?) Secondly, even if you could use the measurement of circumference, I highly doubt the city walls were round, so the marching was not a measurement of circumference. And lastly, the men were told to march once a day for six days, then seven times on the seventh day, so the 2160 degrees becomes 4680 degrees, which he doesn't explain as meaning anything...because it doesn't.

If I could understand your gibberish maybe I'd continue this argument with you.