Much obliged.
>> ^chingalera:

I feel yer beggin', mate! Can't stand this tune, but'll buy you a pint because you dig it!

*beg

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^bareboards2:
@VoodooV, I don't think QM should be "kicked out of here." He says profoundly stupid and deliberately antagonizing stuff, but all you have to do is ignore him.
I don't remember him ever getting personal towards another Sifter. But then, I stopped reading all his posts a long time ago.
People are allowed to be assholes, according to Sift tradition. They aren't allowed to personally attack another Sifter.
Ignore him. I know it is hard -- it took me awhile to learn how to do it -- but if you fully embrace the utter ignoring the ignoramus, it is oddly empowering.

I presume you said much the same of Hitlers Rise To Power! "Oh just ignore him he's harmless." Nice going!

I've got a bad feeling about this.

It sure is.

http://videosift.com/video/Tut-Barking


>> ^jonny:

Pretty sure this is a dupe, but I'm having trouble finding it among the 50000 other cat videos.

It is the legend!

>> ^dag:

Reminds me of the sand worms of Arakkis, only, you know, wetter.

I'm Black and I don't have much interest in where my ancestors came from. My brother & sisters don't either (& I mean my actual brother & sisters). I can't think of any of my black friends who have any interest in a pilgrimage to their homeland. Some of them pop back to see the relatives sometimes, but that's about it.

However if I go to any big city over here in Europe it's brimming with, mainly American, people who've come to the old country to trace their roots. And I've met people of many shades and nationalities who've arrived here to do that. It's not the bastion of any one race. Don't take a common human impulse you've observed in people who by coincidence are black and tag it to them alone to form part of a 'but black people is weird innit' narrative. This kind of thing makes me sleepy.


>> ^wraith:

A question that always bothered me and that has almost nothing to do with this video: Why do so many African Americans think they have to go to Africa to find their roots? In Europe, in all countries except France, 99% of African people are really first or second generation immigrants from one of the dozens of Nations in Africa.
They have relatives living there.
I understand that.
African Americans have their roots as much in "Africa", as I have my roots in....I don't even know...Germany? France? Russia? Hungary?
I don't even know where my ancestors lived three hundred years ago.
And I don't care.
I don't get it.

In reply to this comment by wraith:
A question that always bothered me and that has almost nothing to do with this video: Why do so many African Americans think they have to go to Africa to find their roots? In Europe, in all countries except France, 99% of African people are really first or second generation immigrants from one of the dozens of Nations in Africa.

They have relatives living there.

I understand that.

African Americans have their roots as much in "Africa", as I have my roots in....I don't even know...Germany? France? Russia? Hungary?

I don't even know where my ancestors lived three hundred years ago.

And I don't care.

I don't get it.


I live in England and we are full of Americans & others who's ancestors came from here returning to trace their roots. Same in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and everywhere. It's not a black phenomenon. I as an official negro have no desire to return to my 'homeland'. But it's a pretty common unremarkable and universal human desire.

Oh come on, I am not going to succumb to another cute animal vote grabbing video. There's way too much of this kind of...... SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Don't watch this while eating porridge like I just did. I'm skipping breakfast now.

*beg

Great, this is reminding me how much I hate my job.

I'll be back... with a couple of lovely pork chops for you madam.

Snake infested psychedelic trainwreck is my new band name.



>> ^shagen454:

I think salvia should be legal but it's quite humorous that salvia is legal and mushrooms aren't. It's like they want kids to buy salvia just to have a snake infested psychedelic trainwreck go flying through their mind to scare them off from the good earthloving medicines.
Oh, just drink your Budweiser, go to work, eat at Subway, shop at Costco, vote some pigs into office and STFU. You have it so good, right? RIGHT ?!

I'm liking it very much.