So one of the brothers lost his voice. Their 'dad' Billy Connolly did the DVD commentary track and shared his special lost voice remedy: Take apple cider vinegar, 3 teaspoonsful, mix with 1 teaspoonful of runny/clear honey.

Then boil the water and pour in 3 or 4 tablespoons of boiling water, gargle as much as possible as hot as bearable. Gargle at least 3 times.

Speak as little as possible - start humming later to ease throat in.

This remedy allowed the scene to be filmed without delay.

That sucks. What about internet radio and pod casting? That's how I get by. Deepmix.ru and Bluemars are my foundation of internet radio.

At least you have good radio to listen to. In Kuwait we have AFN, VOA, Marina, RKFM, EasyFM and a shit load of Arabic radio stations that are essentially interchangeable as Arabic music is in a huge creative sink (90% of the songs start with HABIBI, which means my darling and is always orchestrated the same goddamn way).

AFN and VOA are really standard American corporate music fare, though its hilarious to hear a 40 plus announcer try to show enthusiasm for Soulja Boy's Superman song.

RKFM is the worst, its state owned so they really don't need to try at all. They had this woman announcer for donkeys years now that loves playing shitty country music all the goddamn time and keeps replaying songs that were considered new when I was learning to walk. They have the worst music selection and the worst announcers in every time slot. Oh and someone really fucking loves Sugar Ray over there because I know the entire lyrics to Every morning... argh.

Marina FM is okay but it tries to hard to be hip and comes off totally square. The over enthusiastic announcers talk to their audience wayyyy too much.

EasyFM is the most bearable as they simply play classical music, but sometimes someone fucks up and they play what sounds like Elevator muzak.

These videos would be more bearable if MacFarlane had the decency to stop voice-acting forever. Every time I hear him I instinctively cringe.

None of us really know wtf it is, but it was a very relaxing day, much needed! Got a little bit wasted with some friends

Thank you for remembering, hope your Xmas was bearable too, yay for meals in restaurants!

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Hey lady! Happy Boxing Day (belated), whatevah the hellz that is.

Even sex with your mom becomes bearable when you toss a lightsaber into the mix^.

1. om nom nom
2. defeating my adversaries
3. star points!
4. memory lane sifts
5. making work time bearable

>> ^dotdude:
Say you have someone on your ignore list. And say this person leaves a message about one of your videos not playing correctly. So this means you won't see that person's message?


You can always read a particular comment if you like. If someone posts on my profile, I suspect I will read it. But maybe not--if there is a real problem, siftbot will tell me--or if I've committed an infraction, a dev will.

Don't look for rare problems--or even common ones--until you see they happen I suspect there will be no broken threads or disfunctional profiles. This feature will discomode very few. And will make the place bearable for others.

(For the curious, while this feature isn't crucial for me, there is one person I plan on ignoring. But it is no one who posted or was mentioned in this thread, I am sure he won't care, and he never responds to any communication, so there will be no broken threads.)

for those who don't know, i go bananas over E6.

from wikipedia:
The controversial music video shows lead singer Dick Valentine as the ghost of Queen's flamboyant lead singer Freddie Mercury and a backing band of poodles. Queen drummer Roger Taylor, who wrote the song, said that he was "unimpressed" with the video; however, Queen guitarist Brian May reportedly liked it.
According to Dick Valentine:
“ Though some have claimed this video portrays me dancing on Freddie Mercury's grave, actually it's more like we are resurrecting Mr. Mercury for the duration of the song and his grave is the logical starting point. Anyhow, everyone knows we disliked the fact that we had to put this song on our record, so this ridiculous video took a little bit of the sting out of it for us and made it somewhat bearable. It was also very rewarding to work with dogs.

and, just to preempt some of you, who might mistakenly take umbrage with his parting words? i'm sure it was just as in jest, as the rest of the encounter.

give it up, y'all, for the best way to make the insanity there, bearable.
guaranteed, those 2 iraqis were laughing just as hard, driving away.

This man is too scary. Too bad this (and not to mention the stunt he pulled with the phone call he was pretending was God telling him that he picks Huckabee for president) will actually make him horrifyingly successful in the race. Because of this, and only because of this, is he even standing a chance in the primaries.

Thankfully, Stephen Colbert is doing a good job turning him into a joke in a lot of people's eyes. Trust me, Huckabee as president will make Bush seem bearable.

I find him more bearable with the beard. Strange.

Not that I ever would, but if I was shooting that video, I would make some fake poo out of chocolate and graham cracker crumbs, throw in the odd corn kernel for realism, and have at it. That would be far more bearable. Whether that was what they actually did or not, I have no idea, but I find the thought comforting.

Mitch does a great job making the questions bearable, though... A great interview, even though the kid could have done some better research beforehand...

Ah, CS. Along with BF, the great online games. With those two series sucking in most of the lamers, some other online game communities can occasionally be bearable. Occasionally.

Yeah, well done all. Including lurkers. Fascinating creatures.

Well done Videosift, it's been a while since there was a communal pat on the back. You make my days at work far more bearable and far less productive. If it wasn't for you lot I'd be a couple of rungs further up the career ladder but would know a lot less about Matt Groening, sloths, basic html and the phenomenon we call Westy.

Hip Hip Hooray

P.s. This deserves a pinch of *quality for recognising Lurkers.