I don't think it's so much an actual increase in statistical probability of being robbed as it is a shift in the attitude towards strangers in general. The perception of someone unknown has turned into a source of potential danger, so regardless if the roadside has become either more safe or less, the social paradigm tells us to not trust in strangers

This video has been (un)sifted before at: http://videosift.com/video/The-Three-Passions-of-Bertrand-Russell

I would never allow a stranger into my car, and while it's terrible that a situation can arise where you can't lend a helping hand to a stranger in need in fear for your own safety, that's the reality for most of us. If someone had their car break down and asked me for help, the least (and incidentally the most) I would do is help arrange for a tow truck. If you did stop, offer a lift and get robbed, everyone would say that you have nobody to blame but yourself, that it's common sense not to pick up strangers on the road at night. Hitchhiker criminals have ruined it for everyone.

Since we have the "dead pool" choice under the "front" tab, why not add "dupes" there aswell? That would make it much easier to sift through potential dupes, provided that videos where the dupeof command has been called can easily be added to the sub-tab, of course. It would also be neat if that sub-tab could become invisible when there are no more videos which have been marked as dupes, which would clean up the bar at the top of the page somewhat.

Wouldn't this idea foster a mentality of just going through the unsifted tab, upvoting otherwise questionable videos as a game of stat improving? The entire point of having an "unsifted" tab is to sort out the quality videos from the sea of mediocrity, no? I see little point in instituting a mechanism of rewarding voting for its own sake.

It's been sifted before, at: http://videosift.com/video/Peanut-Butter-The-Atheists-Nightmare

I feel bad for the mayor. To me he comes off as someone who's not racist, but hasn't verbalized his thoughts and opinions in his head and as such puts his foot in his mouth when confronted on the issue. Getting flustered and frantically digging himself deeper in his hole after the initial stupid comment just makes him look dumber. But if you try to understand what he's trying to say, he's trying to make the point that he thinks his community is more tolerant than what the media portrays it to be, that while this incident sets a horrible example, it's not indicative of the community as a whole.

I think that people get outraged way too easily and that the word racism is thrown around much too liberally. Personally, I try to separate what a person thinks, what the person tries to say and what actually comes out of the mouth. Poorly verbalized thoughts are a more common occurrence where I work, perhaps, but to me a ridiculously ethnically insensitive sentence doesn't make someone a racist. To me it only makes them a racist when the sentence is the correctly formed verbalization of that persons thoughts and opinions.

That is so cool! It would be amazing to see people's reactions to something like that if it was displayed in public, like on a sidewalk or at a mall.

Doesn't "nostalgia" imply knowledge of as well as familiarity with the film? Did he run out of nostalgic things to "review"? This is just annoying high-pitched screaming and nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking. Or am I missing something here?

Cats fighting looks and sounds way worse than it usually is, especially when it's domesticated animals involved in the fighting. You'll rarely see a fight lead to one of them actually getting mortally wounded. Or if it did lead to the black cat killing the yellow, you'd probably see the black cat more bloodied and with an enormously puffed up tail, definately not as calm as it was when going up the stairs. However, domesticated cats don't fight to the death over territory. This could have been mating season, and the black cat got his way in the stairs, then promptly sauntered off afterwards. Having been a cat owner for over 20 years, I can attest to the ferocity they exhibit during their copulation periods.

I've found that the meanest, most selfish, jealous and small minded people I've come across are the small town, working class joes who've nothing better to do and who've no other interesting things going on in their lives than causing intrigue and gossiping about each other.

Could have been any one of atleast 773 people.

I'd prefer "niche audience" to "ahead of its time". That's neither a good nor a bad thing, it's not a value judgment. Lots of movies, like this one, are well made and acted but fail to get mainstream recognition. Occasionally that changes with the passage of time, but I'd say that belongs to the more exceptional cases.

>> ^bareboards2:

I walked up to a theater in a town I didn't know, just looking to kill some time. Had never heard of it before, but it was Tom Hanks, so what the heck.
Only one other person in the theater. First run movie.
I LOVED IT. And I knew it would fail -- it was too ahead of its time, I think.
My favorite moment? Right before they jump in the volcano and he asks her to marry him.
What follows next is the perfect statement of modern neurotic life....
Thanks for posting this. I may have to watch it again, just to revel in it.

>> ^budzos:
Underrated movie that I'm glad I saw when it was new in theatres 20 (jesus FUCK) years ago.

Honestly, it's more "Total Recall" than "The Matrix".

After about an hour, when the video starts moving from actual examples of real-life schools and educators to downright slandering school as an institution, is when it loses me. They're starting making stuff up off the top of their heads, working themselves up into a fervor of just hateful misinformation and taking very real problems to an absurd extreme, which only works against the point they're trying to make. I mean, comparing schools to concentration camps? Really?

The thing that one guy said about Shakespeare also made me facepalm hard. If you're comparing the level of education back then with today, there's no question that children learn infinitely more now, that the level of general knowledge in every area has increased dramatically. Shakespeare might have been an outlier in english writing to which an average to below average student of today can't measure up, but I would wager he would come up short in just about every other area of expertise against that same student. I'm also sure there are not just the same percentile of people living today who're as naturally gifted with writing prose as Shakespeare, but a much higher number of those gifted people who're better able to manifest that gift into something tangible thanks to the better schooling system of today.