Pretty good video. Some of it was over the top, but the majority of it was accurate.

Crickets chirping on the 'news' channels these days.

>> ^schmawy:
So, should I discard this poll then?


^I say don't, since we do need a place to discuss this. At the very least don't do so until the admin who unbanned the account has chirped in.

[crickets chirping]

Either the FAQ gets changed or this gets discarded.
Sorry MrFisk. As I said when I discarded it the first time you posted it, it's nothing personal. The faces of death series, including this particular one, DO include actual deaths and they are promoted and sold as an entertainment franchise. If dag and company want to change the FAQ, then fine. Until then, this clearly meets the definition of snuff at VS.
>> ^EDD:
Felt obliged to chirp in....
I'd like for MrFisk to give me the green light to discard this one and promote the old one (which got 4 votes until burdy discarded it).

I'd like to point out it was 4 votes over almost 4 weeks. It's not like I killed some sift on it's way to top 15.

Felt obliged to chirp in.

I've seen I dunno, approx. a third of this film and I think it's actually somewhat educational (the slaughterhouses, etc. - for example, since it made me come to a decision about commercial meat production and now I only buy my produce from natural farms). I honestly didn't feel like it was snuff per se while watching it. It's difficult for me to formulate my opinion in writing on this (it would take at least half a page, I really have a problem with being brief), but I feel bad that burdy took it down the first time. And, I'd like to hear how many of you folks that are declaring this snuff have actually watched it.

I'd like for MrFisk to give me the green light to discard this one and promote the old one (which got 4 votes until burdy discarded it).

P.S. We wouldn't be having this problem if the lot of you hadn't quit your jobs as Sifters: if you don't like something - downvote it so that the system discards it.

>> ^vairetube:
sad face. humans shouldnt play with... other animals' food. puts kind of a sick twist to it by making it entertainment rather than educational or informative...

I don't think it was made for purely entertainment purposes. The person just recorded a fairly normal activity for a snake in captivity. I feel bad for the chick, but you can't exactly feed snakes corn flakes.

If anyone cares, the full video is also available on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxTACr-lAIA

Is birdy who went "chirp chirp chirp" then got bited by snake died?

A better title: "Chirp, Chirp, Chirp, Slurp."

Grinter is right, EDD is not.

F1 cars are capable of going straight slowly without spinning; otherwise this would happen to everyone at the start of every race, when they first start.

Most likely he mis-timed the shift. It's like when you are driving a normal car aggressively, and you dump the clutch at an RPM that's slightly too high, the tires will chirp. This can happen even if you're already moving, and just shifting to 2nd or 3rd gear. In a normal car it's not too bad, but when you have that high a power to weight ratio the rear end just snaps loose from the road and goes where it wants to.

Ever since they took traction control off the F1 cars, even the pros do this sometimes. Usually they're exiting a corner when they do it, but it's happened on a straight too.

According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_di_Lammermoor#Trivia, it's been used in;

The "Lucia Sextet" (Chi mi frena in tal momento?) was recorded in 1908 by Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Antonio Scotti, Marcel Journet, Barbara Severina, and Francesco Daddi, (Victor single-sided 70036) and released at the price of $7.00, earning it the title of "The Seven-Dollar Sextet". The film The Great Caruso incorporates a scene featuring a performance of this sextet.

The "Lucia Sextet" melody is best known to some from its use by the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges in their short films Micro-Phonies and Squareheads of the Round Table, sung in the latter with the lyrics "Oh, Elaine, can you come out tonight...." But the melody is used most dramatically in Howard Hawks' gangster classic "Scarface": Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) whistles "Chi mi frena?" in the film's opening sequence, as he guns down a ganglord boss he has been assigned to protect.

It has also been used in Warner Brothers cartoons: Long-Haired Hare, sung by the opera singer (Bugs Bunny's antagonist); Book Revue, sung by the wolf antagonist; and in Back Alley Oproar, sung by a choir full of Sylvesters, the cat.

The "Lucia Sextet" melody also figures in two scenes from the 2006 film The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese. In one scene, Jack Nicholson's character is shown at a performance of "Lucia di Lammermoor", and the music on the soundtrack is from the sextet. Later in the film, Nicholson's cell phone ringtone is the sextet melody.

The Sextet is also featured during a scene from the 1986 comedy film, The Money Pit.

In the children's book "The Cricket in Times Square," Chester Cricket chirps the tenor part to the "Lucia Sextet" as the encore to his farewell concert, literally stopping traffic in the process.

An aria from the "mad scene," "Il dolce suono" (from the 3rd Act), was re-popularized when it was featured in the film The Fifth Element in a performance by the alien diva Plavalaguna (voiced by Albanian soprano Inva Mula-Tchako and played onscreen by French actress Maïwenn Le Besco). A loose remake of this film version of the song was covered by Russian pop singer Vitas.

The "mad scene" was also used in the first episode of the anime series Gankutsuou (in place of L'Italiana in Algeri which was the opera used in that scene in The Count of Monte Cristo).

The "mad scene" aria, as sung by Inva Mula-Tchako, was used in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent involving the murder of a young violinist by her opera singer mother (who performs the song right after the murder).

The "mad scene" was released as a music video by Russian male soprano Vitas in 2006.

Among other selections from the opera, the "mad scene", "Verranno a te sull'aure", and "Che facesti?" feature prominently in the 1983 Paul Cox film Man of Flowers, especially "Verranno a te sull'aure," which accompanies a striptease in the film's opening scene.

The opera is mentioned in the novels The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame Bovary and Where Angels Fear to Tread and was reputedly one of Tolstoy's favorites.

"Regnava nel silenzio" accompanies the scene in Beetlejuice in which Lydia (Winona Ryder) composes a suicide note.

A portion of the opera is also used in a key scene of the film The Fifth Element, written and directed by Luc Besson.

Fletch looks around uncomfortably, hoping to avoid Dag's gaze of doom. He thinks he hears a cricket chirping in the distance. The others were looking down, not wanting to acknowledge the carnage they had witnessed. It was now or never, and he slowly backed out of the room.

Maybe someone should make it a condition of thepinky's further user status that she contributes back to the ridiculously long thread that she started? No? Can we not say 'if you don't make SOME sort of reasonable response to those who ACTUALLY answered your post rather than just ignoring the shitstorm you created, then, well, 2 weeks ban... ner ner?

No?

Abuse of power perhaps?

Anyone?

*chirp chirp chirp*

Right then... I'm off.

My friend told me this was the best movie he's ever seen - and we're two peas in a pod when it comes to just about everything. The only thing I've disagreed with him on was "300" ( I hated it.)

So when he told me this was a great movie - I believe him.
But then I read your post, saying that little voice was chirping up every 30 seconds.

Of course, my voice doesn't doesn't just chirp. It likes to make itself known. Hell, when I was playing Psychonauts - the part at the insane asylum? I kept thinking "How do they eat?"
- so thank you for the warning. Now I know to just wait to see it on a Red Box for $1.

>> ^Biminim:
So, lemme get this 'here straight: two mares cain't make a stallion, but
Birds + Bees = what?? Are birds doing it with bees? A whole bunch of birds with a whole bunch of bees??


That's how you get those birds with bees in their mouth and when they chirp they shoot bees at you.

we looooooove the Cocteau Twins-Ms. Fraiser's lyrical play reminds me of a cat chirping at birds or flying insects....If you go and try to find lyrics, there are about 10 interpretations per song!!