>> ^Barseps:

>> ^siftbot:
Video cannot be declared a dupe of the specified video - ignoring dupeof request by Barseps.

Why not? ..............(Not that I'll get an answer to this)


Because this one was posted earlier and the other is the dupe? No.. I am confused.. yes.. this was posted 4+ hours ago, the other (dupe) 3+ hours ago..

>> ^siftbot:

Video cannot be declared a dupe of the specified video - ignoring dupeof request by Barseps.


Why not? ..............(Not that I'll get an answer to this)

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Tom-Hanks-Performs-Slam-Poem-About-Full-House-Jimmy-Fallon

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At the point where it was probably largely exaggerated or embellished by Tom Hanks

>> ^Quboid:

At what point does hitting your child with a frying pan go from child abuse to funny anecdote? After 22.3 years?

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>> ^Quboid:

>> ^Hive13:
>> ^Quboid:
At what point does hitting your child with a frying pan go from child abuse to funny anecdote? After 22.3 years?

I'm guessing you don't have kids in a dangerous, ghetto neighborhood. That frying pan to the head is infinitely more valuable to a kid in that situation than ignoring it and burying him with a bullet in his head.

That's not my point. Regardless of whether or not she was right to do this (and there are other ways to get a point across), it strikes me - no pun intended - that we now laugh at what was a really horrible situation that they were in. As it was MCD who originally told the story, evidently he was OK with it being told and no doubt grew to understand why it happened but it's still odd that a funny anecdote can be made out of a child being beaten up by a gang twice and hit by his own mother.
If someone was caught doing today what his mother did then, they'd be charged with child abuse and I very much doubt the reasons given would get them off the hook. I didn't mean to say she was necessarily wrong to do this (although I did rather imply this), just that this wouldn't be acceptable today - were we wrong then, or are we wrong now?


I think your last paragraph is what makes laughing at the shit we used to get from our parents back in the good old days so funny. Anyone over the age of 30 can relate to getting a serious butt whooping. I don't think it is wrong at all, personally, now or then. All parents have their own way of discipline and their own breaking point. I would never hit one of my kids with a frying pan, but then again I have never been confronted with one of them joining a gang either.

>> ^Hive13:

>> ^Quboid:
At what point does hitting your child with a frying pan go from child abuse to funny anecdote? After 22.3 years?

I'm guessing you don't have kids in a dangerous, ghetto neighborhood. That frying pan to the head is infinitely more valuable to a kid in that situation than ignoring it and burying him with a bullet in his head.


That's not my point. Regardless of whether or not she was right to do this (and there are other ways to get a point across), it strikes me - no pun intended - that we now laugh at what was a really horrible situation that they were in. As it was MCD who originally told the story, evidently he was OK with it being told and no doubt grew to understand why it happened but it's still odd that a funny anecdote can be made out of a child being beaten up by a gang twice and hit by his own mother.

If someone was caught doing today what his mother did then, they'd be charged with child abuse and I very much doubt the reasons given would get them off the hook. I didn't mean to say she was necessarily wrong to do this (although I did rather imply this), just that this wouldn't be acceptable today - were we wrong then, or are we wrong now?

>> ^Quboid:

At what point does hitting your child with a frying pan go from child abuse to funny anecdote? After 22.3 years?


I'm guessing you don't have kids in a dangerous, ghetto neighborhood. That frying pan to the head is infinitely more valuable to a kid in that situation than ignoring it and burying him with a bullet in his head.

Your video, Tom Hanks Tells Michael Clarke Duncan Anecdote at Clarke's F, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Tom Hanks Tells Michael Clarke Duncan Anecdote at Clarkes Funeral' to 'Tom hanks, Michael clarke duncan, funeral service, anecdote, story' - edited by BoneRemake

>> ^ReverendTed:

I'm not sure I understand the last question. Unpublished vids can be invoked dead, right?


http://videosift.com/video/Tom-Hanks-Tells-Michael-Clarke-Duncan-Anecdote-at-Clarkes-F?loadcomm=1#comment-1524895

>> ^raverman:

@siftbot but it's number 8 on the frontpage of the site. How can it not be published?


Because it hasn't reached 10 votes yet.

And also, it's not 'viral', or 'news' or worldaffairs or philosophy or wtf... man read the guidelines for channel placement!
*nochannel
*comedy

Mysterious are the ways of @siftbot.

Videos with less than 10 votes are not published, but can appear on the front page at the whim of the bot.
In reply to this comment by raverman:
@siftbot but it's number 8 on the frontpage of the site. How can it not be published?

>> ^brycewi19:

And yes, that's Tom Hanks at :34!


And ironically featuring the Adam and Eve of a Creationism "museum" at 0:33.