in theory, it parades as a masterful, sensible insurancer of fairness: in reality, it's just a hot mess. not a fan. never a fan.

w and eric's dad are two examples of why it is a catalyst for disaster.

in history: the EC killed Reconstruction. hastened the '08 crash. '20: led to the Turd Reich and the beer belly Putsch.

easy enough to see.

'tho tomorrow when Kamala wins* over the next GOP [won't be 'landslide' lard-doh] Gallo in the EC - the right will suddenly become aware of its perils - and had always warned us against it.

*a woman, black, and Asian. might just get US healthcare reform. 'specially after all the apoplectic fits on the right, they'll want someone else to foot their bills.

Star Trek did have beer bellied Klingons as I recall.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bill, burr, kids, toddler, beer belly' to 'bill burr, kids, toddler, beer belly' - edited by xxovercastxx

lol

>> ^gwiz665:

I know. It's like, some women think I'm only a penis, and it hurts, you know..?
>> ^bareboards2:
Has anyone heard the story about the SNL skit from the Dan Akroyd/Gilda Radner days where they reversed the roles? The women played the construction workers and Dan played a man walking by the construction site wearing shorts.
It was just a skit, but he ended up deeply upset by it.
All you guys who think this is nothing, just imagine... just imagine... if all you EVER saw of male images was young, taut muscled, and passive. No fighter jocks. No big funny guys with beer bellies. No firemen. Just... pretty body parts.
After you have spent ten minutes thinking about that, really thinking about it, then you can talk.
Until then, just shut the fuck up already. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

I am seriously enjoying your embrace of the Penis-dom in some of your posts.

I need a good laugh.

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
I know. It's like, some women think I'm only a penis, and it hurts, you know..?

>> ^bareboards2:

Has anyone heard the story about the SNL skit from the Dan Akroyd/Gilda Radner days where they reversed the roles? The women played the construction workers and Dan played a man walking by the construction site wearing shorts.
It was just a skit, but he ended up deeply upset by it.
All you guys who think this is nothing, just imagine... just imagine... if all you EVER saw of male images was young, taut muscled, and passive. No fighter jocks. No big funny guys with beer bellies. No firemen. Just... pretty body parts.
After you have spent ten minutes thinking about that, really thinking about it, then you can talk.
Until then, just shut the fuck up already. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

I know. It's like, some women think I'm only a penis, and it hurts, you know..?

>> ^bareboards2:

Has anyone heard the story about the SNL skit from the Dan Akroyd/Gilda Radner days where they reversed the roles? The women played the construction workers and Dan played a man walking by the construction site wearing shorts.
It was just a skit, but he ended up deeply upset by it.
All you guys who think this is nothing, just imagine... just imagine... if all you EVER saw of male images was young, taut muscled, and passive. No fighter jocks. No big funny guys with beer bellies. No firemen. Just... pretty body parts.
After you have spent ten minutes thinking about that, really thinking about it, then you can talk.
Until then, just shut the fuck up already. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

Has anyone heard the story about the SNL skit from the Dan Akroyd/Gilda Radner days where they reversed the roles? The women played the construction workers and Dan played a man walking by the construction site wearing shorts.

It was just a skit, but he ended up deeply upset by it.

All you guys who think this is nothing, just imagine... just imagine... if all you EVER saw of male images was young, taut muscled, and passive. No fighter jocks. No big funny guys with beer bellies. No firemen. Just... pretty body parts.

After you have spent ten minutes thinking about that, really thinking about it, then you can talk.

Until then, just shut the fuck up already. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

I took such a big bong hoot I decided to dedicate it to you ! hahhahahaah wouldnt that be awesome if paratrupers in wwII or whatever.. hell paratroopers from last week, before they jump out they have to take a bong hoot. hhahhahhahaa.. " HERE SON, TAKE YOUR HOOT, MAKE A MAN OUTTA YA " PUT SOME HAIR ON YOUR MAN TITS.


Its only a set time until the united states/Canadian armies loosen regulations on fitness, how many police/rcmp officers do you see who have big bloated beer bellies and cannot run a quarter mile. its only time before our armies will accept mediocrity and the Asians will paddle over with their silent boats and influence us from thus forth.

I think I'm pregnant too.. or my beer-belly is coming to life... either way is fine.

Mr. Beer Belly noted that these turbines do not rotate as quickly at maximum speed (2.5 times the speed of wind was his quote), and thus are still visible to birds/bats when its dark and windy, indicating that the problem is the propeller turbines actually spin so fast that birds don't see to avoid the blades.

>> ^dannym3141:
But anyway.. how is that new style friendlier to birds? It probably has more area in which to hit a bird, and if the bird goes through one side of the turbine it then has to go through the other side.

That was evil, I had to upvote that AND it is stuck to my head! Thank god for not having any beer bellies there!

>> ^Eklek:
Please check this Eurovision entry
http://www.videosift.com/video/Yva-Barbie-Lithuanian-Eurovision-per
formance
I just promoted it as it's an unforgettable performance.
And I have seen a lot of videos.

>> ^raven:
>> ^lucky760:
As I asked in your profile, would it insult you for someone to insult a guy with a big beer belly by telling him he looks like he's carrying a baby? Would that translate to you as a sexist person insulting all pregnant women?
I take serious offense to being called a sexist jerk. I've edited my comment to not offend the gender sensitive and will say no more than that I think you are being quite a bit over-sensitive with regard to my comment.
One could be insulted by anything if one were to try hard enough.

Fine, take offense, I'm sorry it came across as sounding mean or something but I was really annoyed at the time I wrote that. I do, however, resent being called 'overly sensitive', or 'upset', because both characterizations of my reaction are, in reality a little harsh, which was more along the lines of 'annoyed', 'mildly disturbed', or 'highly disappointed'. Rest assured, once I figure out which emoticons most accurately capture those feelings, I will in the future use them extensively.
But I don't think you can say that describing a beer gut as 'looking pregnant' is in anyway as nearly sexist or misogynistic as linking intentionally malicious behavior with the female condition of menstruation... the one case is a physical observation (composed with all the tact and insight of a 3 year old perhaps, but it is still just that, a comparative observation). Your comment, however, is a direct character assault on all women because it implies that once a month we become completely irrational harpies... and while you may say that you leveled this insult at the male portion of the audience (yes, I do understand testosterone levels and the possible implications of levying the charge of 'femininity' at a male of the species), it still is an attack on women to use a physical condition that is unique to our gender (not to mention beyond our control) and the negative assumptions surrounding it, as the ammo of that insult... I suppose in some ways I can see your correlation of the fat dude looking like a pregnant woman as going along with this, but the big difference is that being fat with a beer gut is generally pretty harmless to others, as is being pregnant, however, being a completely irrational downvote fiend working out a vendetta, is not... so the implication that the cause for that is somehow a woman's period, stings quite a bit more. Do you see the difference?
I guess I was so disappointed because I had up until this point never really felt on this site that women were treated differently than men, that gross assumptions about our gender would not be used as insults, or our decisions derided as 'girly'. I suppose I was wrong, and I also supposed I should not be surprised, more and more lately I have begun to regret ever mentioning that Raven was girl, because, obviously, many of you (and I don't mean you in particular, lucky) have a hard time dealing with her as such... androgynous, unassigned Raven seemed to get a little bit more respect.



Oh now Raven, I still love you even if no one else does. Girls r teh roxxors on teh sift.

>> ^lucky760:
As I asked in your profile, would it insult you for someone to insult a guy with a big beer belly by telling him he looks like he's carrying a baby? Would that translate to you as a sexist person insulting all pregnant women?
I take serious offense to being called a sexist jerk. I've edited my comment to not offend the gender sensitive and will say no more than that I think you are being quite a bit over-sensitive with regard to my comment.
One could be insulted by anything if one were to try hard enough.


Fine, take offense, I'm sorry it came across as sounding mean or something but I was really annoyed at the time I wrote that. I do, however, resent being called 'overly sensitive', or 'upset', because both characterizations of my reaction are, in reality a little harsh, which was more along the lines of 'annoyed', 'mildly disturbed', or 'highly disappointed'. Rest assured, once I figure out which emoticons most accurately capture those feelings, I will in the future use them extensively.

But I don't think you can say that describing a beer gut as 'looking pregnant' is in anyway as nearly sexist or misogynistic as linking intentionally malicious behavior with the female condition of menstruation... the one case is a physical observation (composed with all the tact and insight of a 3 year old perhaps, but it is still just that, a comparative observation). Your comment, however, is a direct character assault on all women because it implies that once a month we become completely irrational harpies... and while you may say that you leveled this insult at the male portion of the audience (yes, I do understand testosterone levels and the possible implications of levying the charge of 'femininity' at a male of the species), it still is an attack on women to use a physical condition that is unique to our gender (not to mention beyond our control) and the negative assumptions surrounding it, as the ammo of that insult... I suppose in some ways I can see your correlation of the fat dude looking like a pregnant woman as going along with this, but the big difference is that being fat with a beer gut is generally pretty harmless to others, as is being pregnant, however, being a completely irrational downvote fiend working out a vendetta, is not... so the implication that the cause for that is somehow a woman's period, stings quite a bit more. Do you see the difference?

I guess I was so disappointed because I had up until this point never really felt on this site that women were treated differently than men, that gross assumptions about our gender would not be used as insults, or our decisions derided as 'girly'. I suppose I was wrong, and I also supposed I should not be surprised, more and more lately I have begun to regret ever mentioning that Raven was girl, because, obviously, many of you (and I don't mean you in particular, lucky) have a hard time dealing with her as such... androgynous, unassigned Raven seemed to get a little bit more respect.

As I asked in your profile, would it insult you for someone to insult a guy with a big beer belly by telling him he looks like he's carrying a baby? Would that translate to you as a sexist person insulting all pregnant women?

I take serious offense to being called a sexist jerk. I've edited my comment to not offend the gender sensitive and will say no more than that I think you are being quite a bit over-sensitive with regard to my comment.

One could be insulted by anything if one were to try hard enough.

I'm really very sorry to have upset you. Admittedly, when I wrote it I was only thinking about insulting a male who would abuse the site, but really, you are very off base to think I consider having a uterus (being born female) a negative thing. I am one of the least sexist people you might ever meet, and you are completely misinterpreting my comment.

It is a fact that the vast majority of males in the world take pride in their masculinity/manliness. It is also a fact that the vast majority of females in the world are much less masculine than men (due to the balances of estrogen and testosterone that naturally occur at different levels in every individual as per the instructions in our DNA).

Given those simple facts of nature, it is not wrong to observe that most males are very insulted when implying they lack their ever-cherished masculinity. Therefore, my statement is not and should not be construed as a strike against having a uterus.

Of course, if you contend with what I've stated as facts that most males are born with significantly more testosterone and less estrogen than most females or that most men inherently feel insulted when painted as lacking masculinity, then there's nothing more I can say.

The bottom line is that I was not nor would I insult females or consider them as having anything but equal value in life as males. The only ways males could possibly, validly be considered not equal to females are those which are defined by biology.

Out of sheer curiosity as I'm wondering how you truly feel about such issues, would it insult you for someone to insult a guy with a big beer belly by telling him he looks like he's carrying a baby? Would that translate to you as a sexist person insulting all pregnant women?

(As we all know, typing doesn't translate emotion well, but I'm being completely sincere here.)


In reply to this comment by raven:
Either way though, you see that it is an insult, so you understand why I am upset because in order to create that insult you chose to equate a negative action with the ownership of a uterus... whichever way you cut it lucky, and whatever your intent in its application, that is pretty damn sexist, and I am shocked to see it coming from an admin.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
I wasn't speaking about any person or gender, just in general about whyever a member would decide to intentionally cast empty votes in an attempt to undermine the system.

My negativity was intended to lean heavily toward insulting a male because claiming a guy is suffering from his PMS is a big insult as it attacks his masculinity.

And if my comment was applied to a woman, it'd simply be implying PMS is a possible reason behind her madness. Of course in the latter case it could still be an insult (depending on the feelings of the insultee), but nowhere near as insulting as the former.

In reply to this comment by raven:
So, just who were you referring to? That 15% of us who frequent this site despite the fact that it sometimes appears to operate as a boys' club?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
That's a very good point. This is supposed to be a site for online video quality control where member votes determine the quality of a video. When there are meaningless votes cast, it does affect the tally and thus the quality.

All votes should mean something and that something shouldn't be that the voter was having a fit of cramps with no Midol in sight and wanted to take it out on the world at large. (Not referring to QM, btw.)