Nice choice! Thank you kindly for the promote, Sir Rasch.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
*doublepromote

and here's a translation of what she sings (second aria by the Queen Of The Night in The Magic Flute):

Hell's vengeance boils in my heart;
Death and despair, blaze around me!
If Sarastro does not feel death pains because of you,
Then you will be my daughter nevermore.
Disowned be forever,
Forsaken be forever,
Shattered be forever
All the bonds of nature
If Sarastro is not bleached because of you!
Hear, gods of vengeance, hear the mother's oath!

Thanks eh!

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
oh *canada

*promote

Cheers, that was quite a surprise!

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
*something *something *doublepromote

the song currently playing in my head.
i just wanted to share my insanity.
http://videosift.com/video/a-perfect-circle-the-outsider-renholder-mix

Thanks for the DOUBLEpromote, rasch!

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
*doublepromote

Sounds like a fair and valid criticism. I share your concern, but little that doesn't fit that mold exists, and even less of it sifts.

I try to use comment discussions to raise the bar on dialogue, and I really do make an effort to try and attract disagreement with my proclamations. What I crave more than anything is a debate with someone who disagrees with me who can hold serve with me.

None of that affected how choggie chose to respond to me. I made it clear that I agreed infotainment is a problem, but I don't think censoring it is the answer. I think bringing it up, and hashing through it with discussion is a far better medicine.

For whatever reason, that just went in one of his ears, and out the other, and he decided to respond to what I'm doing by attacking me personally, impugning my character, intelligence, and on more than a few occasions my parentage and sexual prowess.

Someone doing that infrequently doesn't really bother me. Sometimes people get mad and say stuff they probably shouldn't, but he made it a persistent mission to try to either make me mad, hurt my feelings, or just discredit me amongst other sifters. I made it clear that he'd crossed a line and that I wanted him to just fuck off and leave me alone, and he persisted.

I'm glad he's gone, and I think people who're in a rush to defend his behavior need to understand what he was really doing, namely that he was trying to bully people like me into silence, not raise some criticism people were too scared to bring up.

He was no victim of persecution, he was a perpetrator of it.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Personally I like it when people express an opinion I can, in principle, agree with. And choggie was, like me, very opposed to the extreme number of 'infotainment' vids concerning just about everything under the sun. While he chose to blame you (and others possibly, I'm not sure), I see it more as a problem for this website in general. Not because I necessarily disagree with the political viewpoints these people convey but because I find it repetitive and boring to always see these videos around, and more importantly, because I think they define what kind of opinions are accepted and expected from new members.

I don't like all these vids, but blaming individuals for what they believe and how they express it has never been high on my agenda. I don't feel any need to attack you personally, even though I don't necessarily agree with or like what you (and others) do in that regard.

holy shit - necromancer lvl 15?
that's like 2d20 + 4000.

we're all screwed now.

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I salute thee. *wipes tear*

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
"Music is a gift." So is this *quality and *promote

I know! Seriously! It is common knowledge here that Rasch is SuperDuper Necromancer of the Sift. Everyone knows this!!!

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
I find it a travesty that I'm not already a SuperDuper Necromancer, but *quality all the same

Roger Waters is opening his Wall tour here in Toronto. Tickets start at $165. If you were me, would you go?

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Congrats on the first Necromancer badge.

You are amazing! You found a working embed for my 'newschopper' vid, and I was afraid it'd be gone forever! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

BOC fan?
http://videosift.com/video/BOC-blue-oyster-cult-VETERAN-OF-THE-PSYCHIC-WARS

LOL nvm..you already voted for it.good taste bud.

nice doublepromote! good taste!

Ditto RS... thank you so much, Sir Rasch. You are the Vid-fixer Extraordinaire/ VS Gentleman!