Ahhh, that explains it, mine aren't old enough to like anything but "Elmo's song" yet. Doubt that would get many votes.

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
We might not quite be on the same page, but I think we're in the same chapter. I agree with everything you said here, except the part about changes being required to get there

I can confirm that children are no impediment to success here. In my case, I've had more success with ones my children like (or that I looked up for them) than the ones that I posted just because I liked them. They are usually only demanding until they're asleep

I'm quite surprised that BT and FA followed us here for this conversation too, even though I hang out in their corner of the sift. Perhaps they read the recent comment stream?
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Sounds good. At the end of the day I don't think video quality voting should be based on personal loyalty. You must have made quite an impression already to have a couple really great guys (BT, FA) on the sift upvoting your personal comment to some random dude.

If you're willing to take the time to make yourself an integral part of this community the perspective of favoring loyalty votes and disallowing self promotion will work well for you. On the other hand, I'm in favor of measures to empower those who don't devote much time to the site but enjoy it and the people just as much. (i.e. me; my kids are demanding) I would also argue that it would be healthier for the site and the community as a whole to welcome such measures since the attitude of person-to-person loyalty will endure regardless of the obstacles placed in front of it. The last thing I think you really want here is an echo chamber despite how appealing it may seem at face value.

Barney is such an imitator... He's got nothing on Elmo!

http://videosift.com/video/Elmo-Dancing-on-the-moon-Survivor

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"Elmo Needs Lemonade" got me...

>> ^westy:

bit retarded having a book for this ,
would much rather have a proper 50-80 min documentry with the sfx and footage stuck together rather than some shitty clunky book with crap speakers.
I mean even if it was like this clip but just 60min of it that would be fine , or a book that comes with a DVD "sound of star wars" , containg 60 min documtry , and full music score for star wars that would be a far more appealing gift or perchise for people from 10-60 than this retarded book.


I cannot express how much disappointment I have that this might as well be a childs book with the silly voice module on the side rather than a proper DVD documentary. They even have the gall to say they are doing something new when you could find talking Elmo books for what, at least a decade now?

>> ^rottenseed:

Yea of course Christmas was fun and relaxing when you were a kid...you were a KID! Everything is fun and relaxing. While you were kicking your feet up and playing tee-ball, your parents were busting their asses to get you whatever the tickle-me-elmo of that time was.>> ^Hive13:
I absolutely hate people and I absolutely hate Christmas because of people like this. It is fucking disgusting.
I remember when I was a kid Christmas was actually fun, relaxing and exciting. Now we have christmas decorations out in stores in August, people getting trampled for a discount and people acting like selfish, hardheaded assholes. It completely ruins the holidays for me.
I bought televisions for my kids. I could have camped out at 2AM in front of Target, potentially gotten trampled and saved $14. Instead, I ordered them online, in my underwear, and it cost me $14 extra over Target's "super bad-ass trample worthy" price. Free shipping, too.


Black Friday has always been bad, but it steadily has gotten worse over the years. On Black Fridays in my childhood days, stores weren't opening up at 4:00 am and people weren't lined up half way around the mall to get in. There was no news footage of people being trampled because there were no people being trampled. Back when I was I kid, people only got trampled at The Who concerts.


I don't know why it's gotten worse, but it has. I could throw out some half-assed conjectures about people being more desperate to save money these days, or that modern marketing has become so sophisticated and manipulative that we are even bigger mindless consumerists than we ever have been, but I'm sure there's more to it than that. Maybe more perverts have realized that more crowding = more groping. Not that I would know.

>> ^rottenseed:

Yea of course Christmas was fun and relaxing when you were a kid...you were a KID! Everything is fun and relaxing. While you were kicking your feet up and playing tee-ball, your parents were busting their asses to get you whatever the tickle-me-elmo of that time was.

HAHA good point, but I was talking more about my parent's experiences. My mom never waited outside a store all night to get nearly trampled to death for any Christmas present. She maybe had to drive a few miles out of the way to pick up a Cabbage Patch Doll for my little sister, and even that was a bit silly back then.

I blame the 80s.

Yea of course Christmas was fun and relaxing when you were a kid...you were a KID! Everything is fun and relaxing. While you were kicking your feet up and playing tee-ball, your parents were busting their asses to get you whatever the tickle-me-elmo of that time was.>> ^Hive13:

I absolutely hate people and I absolutely hate Christmas because of people like this. It is fucking disgusting.
I remember when I was a kid Christmas was actually fun, relaxing and exciting. Now we have christmas decorations out in stores in August, people getting trampled for a discount and people acting like selfish, hardheaded assholes. It completely ruins the holidays for me.
I bought televisions for my kids. I could have camped out at 2AM in front of Target, potentially gotten trampled and saved $14. Instead, I ordered them online, in my underwear, and it cost me $14 extra over Target's "super bad-ass trample worthy" price. Free shipping, too.

>> ^VoodooV:

I'm all for the deconstruction of Christmas. Christ isn't the center of Christmas. Money is the center of Christmas...retail sales, profits from traveling, stampeding other consumers for tickle me elmo, etc.
I thought the founders were christian..it's just that being christian back then didn't mean the same thing it means now. There was actually this ability to separate common sense and reason from faith, an ability we apparently lack now.
But all that said. Speaking for myself as an agnostic. This idea that apparently we are so fragile now that we can't tolerate saying "Merry Christmas" and now have to say "Seasons Greetings" or some other PC nonsense is absolute baloney IMO. I am not offended when someone is overtly Christian around me. I don't recall ever being traumatized by saying "under God" when reciting the pledge of allegiance as a kid.
PC faux sensitivity is a load of bull. Let people say Merry Christmas.


It's not non-Christians whinging when they go into a store and the clerk says merry christmas to them, it's Christians whining when they go into a store and the clerk says happy holidays. No-one is being forced to say happy holidays, it's the christians trying to force people to say merry christmas.

I'm all for the deconstruction of Christmas. Christ isn't the center of Christmas. Money is the center of Christmas...retail sales, profits from traveling, stampeding other consumers for tickle me elmo, etc.

I thought the founders were christian..it's just that being christian back then didn't mean the same thing it means now. There was actually this ability to separate common sense and reason from faith, an ability we apparently lack now.

But all that said. Speaking for myself as an agnostic. This idea that apparently we are so fragile now that we can't tolerate saying "Merry Christmas" and now have to say "Seasons Greetings" or some other PC nonsense is absolute baloney IMO. I am not offended when someone is overtly Christian around me. I don't recall ever being traumatized by saying "under God" when reciting the pledge of allegiance as a kid.

PC faux sensitivity is a load of bull. Let people say Merry Christmas.

I'm guessing Bert and Ernie - yellow muppets / monsters are white.

If blue monsters are black does the mean Oscar the grouch is also black? and portayed living in a trashcan?
What's a red monster with bad english like Elmo. Hispanic?

Jim Henson was such a huge racist...

I love Grover. He's so much cooler than Elmo. Elmo's a bitch sell out.

I'd like to propose a combination of this video with the Katy 'Elmo' Perry video.

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yet. yeeet... 50 upvotes.

Majority rule fails once again =/


>> ^harry:


There's no point to the sound. I think the writers themselves never got past "it's about her boobs". The other two literally do not say ANYTHING that makes any sense. It's not very clever, really.