>> ^Ryjkyj:

People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.



Thanks for reminding me why I don't read video sift comments.

This subject seems to grate on you quite a bit.>> ^Ryjkyj:

People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.


Better yet, if you're thinking about buying a cheese and the identical cheese is available right next to it in pre-grated bags...don't buy cheese at all. Just apply for government assistance and wait for your 5 pound block of government cheese. You're probably eligible for assistance based on the fact that buying real cheese is apparently too financially draining for you.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.*


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People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.

If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

Global Thermonuclear War!
M.A.D. - The Mad Doctrine is based on the principal that if both sides have the capability to annihilate the other, Neither will act!

Stephen Falken: The whole point was to find a way to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves. To get the computers to learn from mistakes we couldn't afford to make. Except, I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.
David Lightman: What's that?
Stephen Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.
Jennifer: What kind of a lesson is that?
Stephen Falken: Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?
Jennifer: Yeah, of course.
Stephen Falken: But you don't anymore.
Jennifer: No.
Stephen Falken: Why?
Jennifer: Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie.
Stephen Falken: Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless! But back at the war room, they believe you can win a nuclear war. That there can be "acceptable losses."
WAR GAMES

But she does make good points. She says the salient point, that people are not attacking Islam or their beliefs as such via this draw Mohammad day, but rather they are drawing Mohammad because some tried to stop people doing that by threatening to, and actually, killing people.

This is wrong on so many levels, and showing that the only result of using violence to stop people having freedom of expression is more people doing what you threatened against is a way of getting rid of the effectiveness of the threats. If people all over the world draw Mohammad, then these Muslims who preach violence against those will either have to go on monstrous killing rampages, or just give up knowing that they live in a more enlightened age.

And hey... so this video makes my drawing in the Thunderfoot video of Mohammad with boobs true... sweet.

I hate things like this. They take obesity and try to dress it up as self empowerment. "You don't need to slim down for society, you're beautiful the way you are"

Um... you're killing yourself being that fat. That is not sexy, that is not healthy, that is not worth 'creating a riot' over.

This really gets my goat because it's taking one thing, the media's obsession with being very skinny, which should be scorned, and killing it by trying to suggest the only other option is being obese.

Properly, healthy sized women's bodies should be praised and adored. Curves are sexy, (although some people are just naturally skinny as well, so shouldn't be 'hated' for being very skinny and a bit shapeless) and there is not enough natural body shapes and sizes being shown in the media.

BUT

THESE women are not healthy, they are not 'natural', they are not to be praised. They are fat, they are overweight, they are morbidly obese (not all of them are all of these things, but some of them certainly are). This thing of 'just be happy with what you are' thing seems, in these cases, to be a cop out and a way of not trying to be a healthy size. Which is wrong.

The western world is getting stupidly fat on average, and this needs to be halted, not praised. You don't just give up on trying to get people to be healthy by shifting the goal posts of what we're supposed to find attractive or healthy. It doesn't work like that, you can't just say 'OK, morbid obesity is not a problem anymore, as long as you feel sexy'.

BAH!

Thnaks for the uplift-I have put a lot of time in here and though some see me as only a trollish element, I have been able to percolate the collective consciousness more often that not-my impact crater is after all, visible to the naked eye from the International Space Station!! Cheers!

In reply to this comment by Playinwithfire:
Choggie,
I havent been here long, signed up in Sept I think, at the request of a friend (Enoch) primarily because a project we worked on together was on the sift, and Im fairly certain I have wore out my video posting welcome on facebook lol this was a good outlet for me. Ive been more active for the past few months for much the same reasons. I generally keep my nose in my music and try to MYOB know what I mean? lol I do watch the docs and things particularly if they are recommended to me, but as a rule prefer not to comment or get into the melee of opinions people seem compelled to share. Theres some good members here, and theres some well... Douchebags here too. Myself I prefer to ignore the douchebaggery and post what I like, sift or no (mostly no lol)
I enjoy sharing with the few who enjoy the same things I do, but stay away from the drama, lifes to short to worry about people sitting in their underwear distributing opinions. Dont let it ruin the things you enjoy about the sift. Now I dont know the things surrounding your exit and return, havent been here long enough, but I do enjoy the things you post, and have appreciated the support you've shown towards the random crap I post lol. I recognize very few names as I surf around in here, but yours is one of them, if I see "choggie" I always have a peek at it and show it some love one little vote drop in a bucket, but lol its all we got.
If you have fun here in certain respects, dont just give up and fade away. I betcha more than a few would miss ya here. Hey Im just a noob so what do I know right?


In reply to this comment by choggie:
Julie, i don;t know how long you've been here at VS but I noticed your comment on the TED talk with Temple Grandin (I saw her presentation and downloaded the film....i loved it..Claire Danes ripped her part a new one)

Part of my legacy here on the site involves a very popular user who bailed when it was voted to allow me back-I am not positive that the reason for his departure was my return, but they guy was pretty adamant about not letting me back, as were some others....he and another user's bullshit were one of the reasons for my leaving as I did (breaking all the rules in the FAQ's in about 10 minutes)-The user in question, Kronosposiden it was told me by another user after the fact, that he has Asburger's....which explained a lot as to his focus on some crap I considered inconsequential at the time-Consequentially, there is some unspoken animosity towards me for this, and my manner here, which appears trollish to the untrained eye-All this to say that after coming back, i had found that the old guard of artistic, expressive, and energetic talent of the place which used to be a tight core, has been replaced by shut-in, insect, douchebags (mostly males who have never been kissed) and I simply can;t keep up with the onslaught-a barrage of crap, foreign to my sensibilities....I am gonna slink away from the place I fear, like so many others have.....cheers and sorry that I am unable to mark this message "private"...the only power that was not returned to me after my resurrection.

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I mean no disparagement to baggers - don't put your union on me. It's just that he really looks and sounds like the guy who bags my groceries - who is a bit creepy. He doesn't seem to have the attitude that you would expect of a dedicated school professional - again, not that baggers aren't dedicated professionals ... Um I'll just give up at this point.

>> ^CaptainPlanet:
hey man, i bag groceries. bagging groceries isn't just for creeps. sure, i'm a creep, but i knew a guy who knew a guy who bagged groceries, totally normal.

I love that he just gives up swimming in the end... "Prioritize man!"

Gives new meaning to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
I think you may have missed my point a bit. =/
Of course if this somehow transforms Barack into the president I was hoping (and voted) for then awesome!
I understand that, to some, this marks an international "holding his feet to the fire".
My point is, more then likely, it won't.
In other words, awards praise and hope do not make the forces subduing real change flee.
If so:
Bush would have been impeached.
Cheney would be in jail.
We'd have begun reversing melting icecaps.
And we all would only have to work one job while driving tesla sportscars.
The second part was to acknowledge the absurdity and question the validity of awarding someone a PEACE prize when their actions obviously don't promote True PEACE.
Are those observations without merit? Am I deranged for contemplating something other then roses and sunshine?


There's a big difference between saying "It probably won't work but I can see why they tried" and saying "It's not a magic pill. It won't fix anything."

I would like to encourage those who push Obama towards peace, while your words seem to imply that we should all just give up. Or at the very least you seem to be claiming knowledge that giving him the Nobel Prize can't possibly help. Why should we not use all available resources to encourage him to make his actions suit his words?

I know that there are people pulling the president's strings, but I believe he has the ability to resist them and guide the world back to a state of peace if we keep putting pressure on him.

>> ^longde:
My god what a douche, luddite, and a hypocrite.


"Luddite" isn't an insult from my perspective, and has nothing to do with denying the results of scientific research.

It is disheartening to see Maher so off the mark in this case. Atheism isn't just giving up religion, it's giving up dogmatic thought. I'd even say that the latter is more important than the former.

>> ^TheFreak:
People like this are why I can't stand most artists. For every person who masters a medium and develops incredible skill you have a hundred people who just throw clay at a wall and let serendipity do their art for them.

>> ^MycroftHomlz:
^that's ignorant.


Although my experience is lacking in sculpture, this area of thought flows through many mediums. As a painter, and while at art school, I went through this same thing. I would separate it into three groups. Ones that can, Ones that can and have moved on and those who just can't.

Now I paint very realistically. Some like it and some don't. I've been told by some to just give up and become a photographer if I want that level of realism. I understand the opinion but don't agree. Some people get to a point and master a form and then feel the need to break it down and stray from the realism. It is hard to create good impressionism without first knowing your form.

At the same time, and I've seen up close, first hand. There were many people who were in school with me, who just couldn't draw and had no intent in learning because they just found it too hard. They spent a lot of time drawing stick figures and challenging others as to "what is art" they had the concept but no real talent or craft.

Those who can't master a skill, still enjoy and use the arena. Is it successful if no one buys it? I don't know, I just know what I like.

this has to be like a grade 7 class..

I used to play trumpet, and it's not that hard to hit those notes..

and RS, how did you possibly last 55 seconds without laughing?

I also love how at the end everybody just gives up on hitting those notes but the 2 or 3 flutes.