Being an Englishman living in America, man did I get funny looks from my colleagues when I used the phrase "cock up" in a training seminar. Everyone thought I'd said the rudest thing in the history of mankind, while I was all, "what?">> ^Quboid:

>> ^spoco2:
Ahh, "It'll be alright on the night", that was a great show that I remember from my childhood.
On the topic of the particular video though... how could they not have actually demonstrated to him how he was supposed to use the carton before going on tv to demonstrate? Ineptitude

This was great stuff. Especially pleasing to hear crusty old English gentlemen say "cock up". That's a phrase that needs to come back.

Let's see...

A bunch of students were invited to a seminar that described as being about "bullying". They are instead exposed to anti-religious bigotry and sexual innuendo. Rather than sit and listen to insults directed at their belief system, they decided to leave. As they leave, the speaker taunts them further and uses profanities. Oh - yeah - that's not bullying. :eyeroll: This guy is a class-A hypocrite and a jack@$$.

Let's change the parameters slightly. A bunch of journalism students are invited to a speech about Community Service, and the speaker is an Iraq War veteran who starts calling the Koran a bunch of bullcrap, and talking about how much he likes to dress up his lover in a burqa (wink wink). 100 or so Muslim students are offended and get up to leave, and the guy calls the audience's attention to them and starts calling them a bunch of pansy-@$$ cowards. Ha ha ha. Still "not bullying"?

I feel sorry for the kids, but frankly I hope this slimeball keeps doing stuff like this. It proves to everyone (except for the radical, leftist fringe lunatic crowd) just what a sleaze he is. He's a bigot just as bad as the bigots he claims to condemn. He isn't against bigotry and hate. He's just against any bigotry and hate of which he hasn't personally approved. That makes him a demagogue, and his audience is simply other bigots... Bigots like this...

"Can we just hurry up and make it a high crime to be religious already?"

Classic anti-religious hate and bigotry on parade. Savage of course is constantly going around fomenting such sad, unfortunate, hate-filled suckers. Amazing that these same zealots can mourn the difficulty of achieving a 'peaceful society', and yet fail to see that the primary reason for all this violence is staring at them every time they look in the mirror.

Thank you for your upvote on the Tairey Greene sift:

http://videosift.com/video/Tairey-Greenes-Acting-Seminar-for-Children

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Not the best TED.


That's because it's not really a TED talk. TEDx is an independently run event. She wouldn't get away with this at a real TED conference, because you aren't allowed to sell anything tangible in your talk, like a book.

People like Mel Robbins, Dr. Phil and their ilk mean well. The problem is that people rarely walk away from these self-help seminars, with anything they will able to use. You leave the talk with this fortune cookie wisdom, elevated adrenaline and a endorphin rush. However this wears off. You are then back to square one with the same problems and a wallet that is $200 lighter.

It's naive and simplistic to think that you can rid yourself of problems, with a slogan. Slogans that are ever so popular in western culture, that it's no wonder that these people have a cache of them, ready to disseminate at a seminar.

I have the impulse to down vote this video in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 .. damn I missed the 5 second rule. Sometimes practicing restraint and not acting on impulse, can be good.

Final thought: How she tried to distance herself from the other self-help charlatans (in the opening 3 minutes), was a touch of brilliance.

>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
(Not Really A) Dr. Phil is a pompous asshole.
Thanks a lot, Oprah.

He's not a Dr?? Well what the fuck is he then?


A charlatan.

He does have a PHd--so technically he can claim the Dr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_McGraw
His dissertation was titled: "Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Psychological Intervention".
Quack! North Texas University must be so proud.

From the wiki:
"In 1983, McGraw and his father joined Thelma Box, a successful Texas businesswoman, in presenting "Pathways" seminars, "an experience-based training which allows individuals to achieve and create their own results."
Quack Quack!!

Charlatan.

>> ^Trancecoach:

wow, I'm pleased to read such open minded comments.
And you (probably) didn't have to attend the extensive diversity trainings and seminars on human sexuality that are required for my profession as a psychotherapist.
Now, because Kim's appearance is so convincing natural female (and not a transexual one), I wonder if she will even tell adult boyfriends about how she was born.


I was skeptical our current level of medicine could create a convincing and functional neovagina, but it doesn't seem to be a problem.

This document shows photos of a convincing neovagina, and writes that they tend to be experienced by sexual partners as 'tighter' than the natural human vagina.

>> ^Trancecoach:
>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Trancecoach:

wow, I'm pleased to read such open minded comments.

And you (probably) didn't have to attend the extensive diversity trainings and seminars on human sexuality that are required for my profession as a psychotherapist.

Now, because Kim's appearance is so convincing natural female (and not a transexual one), I wonder if she will even tell adult boyfriends about how she was born.


Yes all very progressive and open minded comments I am pleased as well.

Hopefully she learns how to make a good sammich in that new body.

>> ^Trancecoach:

wow, I'm pleased to read such open minded comments.
And you (probably) didn't have to attend the extensive diversity trainings and seminars on human sexuality that are required for my profession as a psychotherapist.
Now, because Kim's appearance is so convincing natural female (and not a transexual one), I wonder if she will even tell adult boyfriends about how she was born.


Yes all very progressive and open minded comments I am pleased as well.

Hopefully she learns how to make a good sammich in that new body.

wow, I'm pleased to read such open minded comments.

And you (probably) didn't have to attend the extensive diversity trainings and seminars on human sexuality that are required for my profession as a psychotherapist.

Now, because Kim's appearance is so convincing natural female (and not a transexual one), I wonder if she will even tell adult boyfriends about how she was born.

@berticus yeah.. this sift does seem to fall flat on it's ass, halfway through reading that PDF. When you think of some of the workplace workgroups (communication seminars.. ect.).. which fuel the whole self help movement:

"Injunctions to ‘‘think positively’’ are pervasive in North America.
Self-help books, television shows, and loved ones advise
thinking positively when one faces a challenge or is unhappy.
Yet the present results suggest that for certain people, positive
self-statements may be not only ineffective, but actually detrimental.
When people with low self-esteem repeated the statement,
‘‘I’m a lovable person’’ (Study 2), or focused on ways in
which this statement was true of them (Study 3), neither their
feelings about themselves nor their moods improved—"

I got more reading to do
Regards,
ZDM

Banned for http://videosift.com/video/Internet-Marketing-Seminars-For-Business

>> ^dag:

Look, I wasn't personally abusive to the guy, but he's a representative of his company - and I think his potential Australian customers have a right to know that Amazon may not be a good place for their sensitive data.
>> ^campionidelmondo:
That poor guy most likely had no hand in the shutdown of the WikiLeaks servers, I don't see how he deserves to be heckled. Also, it's just a (conspiracy) theory that they shut down the WikiLeaks servers because of the US Gov't, or because of massive DDOS attacks.
Very likely Amazon told the guy to refer to their statement if any questions about WikiLeaks arise. I dunno, it's a free seminar, don't ruin it for the people who actually go there for constructive reasons.



Meanwhile, the guy will probably go back to his boss and say something to the effect of, "man, that meeting was pretty intense. These guys want way more than just tech specs, they want assurance that the service will be quality on a lot of levels. One guy even mentioned our role in wikileaks."

And here's what his boss will hear, "blah, blah, blah, you should hold a meeting about where you want to eat lunch today."

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Look, I wasn't personally abusive to the guy, but he's a representative of his company - and I think his potential Australian customers have a right to know that Amazon may not be a good place for their sensitive data.
>> ^campionidelmondo:

That poor guy most likely had no hand in the shutdown of the WikiLeaks servers, I don't see how he deserves to be heckled. Also, it's just a (conspiracy) theory that they shut down the WikiLeaks servers because of the US Gov't, or because of massive DDOS attacks.
Very likely Amazon told the guy to refer to their statement if any questions about WikiLeaks arise. I dunno, it's a free seminar, don't ruin it for the people who actually go there for constructive reasons.