@BoneRemake, @bareboards2

Alright, I tried to be nice. The both of you can go and chill the hell out. For starters, I don't talk for Chic, but I personally read the post wrong interpreting it as "Someone with a good memory can find the post" I figured I'd help out and do that for you, not realizing I had read it wrong.

Second place, finding the dupe itself was ridiculously easy. I didn't even type anything, I clicked one of your damn tags. When you're sifting something, try actually looking for it, All I did was click Berlusconi or whatever it was, and Boom, it was on the bottom of the page. A little reasearch would've made sure this wasn't a dupe in the first place.

Finally, It's a dupe. A freaking dupe. it's supposed to be killed off by the community, otherwise there wouldn't be a siftbot command of it. Want the old one to get more votes? you're a big boy now. Quality and promote are your friends.

It was a freaking accident. Chill out. Go drink some tea or something, you're in the wrong here, not us.

@bareboards2

Chill out a tad, you're coming across overly agressive. He's just the nominator, until someone isdupes it, it's staying up. I'm curious as to his comment, aswell, but certainly not to the extent you are it seems.

Personally, I'm more curious as to why it went through for him but not me.

God: What's with all the war and violence down there? Why don't they use all that pot I created to chill out?
Angel: They think its a sin.
God: Well who gave them that stupid idea.
Satan: Yo!

jk/jk there is no god

^Dude, chill out.

I still haven't watched the video, and still won't. I hate seeing a child have the trust and love that should be there between them and their kid be violated, so I still won't.

But, I just read through the comments and I see a number of people saying 'well, what should parent's do for punishment? You're not supposed to give a smack any more.'

And this question is an interesting one, and one that results in a lot of consideration at our house.

We have four kids. 7,6,4 and 17months. The 17 month old is too young for seriously doing wrong stuff, and for understanding being told off in any real sense anyway, so let's put her out of the equation. The three boys on the other hand will do countless things every day that can really get you riled up. When you're trying to get ready for school and get out the door and they dawdle with something or other despite repeated polite calls to please get dressed and get their shoes on. When they keep fighting and hurting each other. When they get stuck in a 'whinge mode' where they want something and will.not.let.up about it... that's the one that can really drive you nuts.

All of these things can cause you, as a parent to really get angry (and yeah, when you write them down they sound lame as anything, but other parents will get how annoying things like that can be)... and you can't now say 'This is your fourth warning, if you don't get your shoes on you're getting a smack', so what can you threaten? You tend to run out of punishments... in the cases when you're trying to get to school you can't make them go to their room (which works pretty well in our house as we don't have many toys or anything in their room, just books, so it's chill out and read time if they want), because you have to leave, like, 5 minutes ago. And so, you find yourself yelling at them. And this is something I'm REALLY bloody struggling with, I'm tending to yell too much. There's no swearing, no insults, just 'WOULD YOU GET READY RIGHT NOW!' and the like... and then you start realising that you are doing that all the time. And it's really NOT a good way to interact with your kids.

But you know what I discovered a little while ago that really stops them misbehaving or stop crying and whinging about wanting something, or just in general puts a stop to the behaviour rather than the final yell or final threat of a smack?

'If you do not get ready now, I'm taking $2 from your pocket money'.

It works a treat.
a) They actually do NOT want that to happen
b) It's a threat you can go through with (and we have on occasion). (Sometimes you'll find yourself making a threat you cannot go through with 'If you don't stop playing up we're not going to the party', when you have no intention of not going, so they can call your bluff)
c) It's re-enforcing good behaviour = reward, bad behaviour = punishment, as they get the pocket money for cleaning etc.

It's not the only solution obviously, and they do get sent to their room when it's not a time critical thing, and you do give warnings to allow them to stop without any form of punishment... but it's a good 'last resort' one that works well with my kids.

And early on I did smack my kids on occasion when it got to that end point, but my god I felt bad about it afterwards and it doesn't seem to have any positive result, just seems to make them get rougher in their play later on. So, smacking is out, yelling ALL the time really needs to be out, and I'm working on it, but man kids can rile you up.

Parenting isn't an exact science, you make mistakes, you yell when you didn't mean to, you may smack them when you didn't mean to, but if you're ever starting to make your kid really fear you, really feel afraid of what you may do to them, then I think you're doing something wrong. (Which I gather is what is going on in this video).

Ahem.

That was quite the bloody novel wasn't it?

As you were.

@Ryjkyj chill out man

Here's how I look at it, I'd laugh if it happened to any one of my younger siblings (it's cool the opposite is true). She wasn't run over by a tractor and she'll certainly live, just chill out...

>> ^albrite30:

I don't care whether you are a sadistic bastard blankfist or that you have moderator priveledges or the silver tongued award given to you on a consistent basis. Your comments are atrocious. Someday you will remember this comment when your child (planned or not) smashes their perfect little face on the pavement and requires reconstructive surgery and a couple years of dental work for the replacement of cracked teeth inside her mouth. And when it does happen and you think to yourself that you had heard the sound of another child's head hitting the ground before, remember your commentary. I hope you remember this rant. For those who up-voted this video, you should be ashamed and disgusted with the apathy that has taken hold in your hearts and minds. I have to say this really makes me question the ethics of video sift letting this get on the board, as it is cruel and not representative of anyone with a moral compass.

Hmmm.,
Or maybe you might be a little too insensitive!
Think on it!>> ^quantumushroom:

Chill out, homies. You're way too sensitive about these matters.

Chill out, homies. You're way too sensitive about these matters.

I could watch this now ,

so sad how shit childrens and vast majorty of tv has got.

occasoinaly we have realy good informative stuff thats presented in a chilled out way , but its rare.

Yes you can promote your own vids as long as you have point to do so. Don't think you can quality your own sifts though. But I could be wrong.

In reply to this comment by kasinator:
>> ^Duckman33:

>> ^BoneRemake:
>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^BoneRemake:
hey thanks for that, dont let the buzz kills overwhelm you

Yeah, buzzkill... Heaven forbid I should try to be helpful to a new person to the sift....

stfu. quit your bitching. your assuming the entire phrase was about you.

I can only speak for myself, and you're the one that was bitching in a passive aggressive kinda way.
I was trying to be helpful.


Ok seriously chill out guys Thanks for your corrections. I'm glad both of you were able to help me out politely answering my dumb questions. Also can I promote my own video??? possibly use quality?

>> ^Duckman33:

>> ^BoneRemake:
>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^BoneRemake:
hey thanks for that, dont let the buzz kills overwhelm you

Yeah, buzzkill... Heaven forbid I should try to be helpful to a new person to the sift....

stfu. quit your bitching. your assuming the entire phrase was about you.

I can only speak for myself, and you're the one that was bitching in a passive aggressive kinda way.
I was trying to be helpful.


Ok seriously chill out guys Thanks for your corrections. I'm glad both of you were able to help me out politely answering my dumb questions. Also can I promote my own video??? possibly use quality?

Now this is the story all about how
To flip a burger upside down
So I'll take a minute, just sit right there
I'll tell you how to make a Wendy's Double, don't be scared

In the mid-west cattle are born and raised,
On a ranch where they spend most of their days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing staying cool
And all standing around, letting out a moo
When a couple of cowboys, who call each other 'dude'
Started wrangling up cattle to sell as food
They sent them to the slaughter to be prepared
And said, "You're going out to our franchises by truck and air!"

Now we've got our patties, come over here
The package says "Fresh" and you can dice the onions there
If anything Id say our patties are square
But one bite and you'll say, 'Nah these are better then theirs!'

Use even number of buns, not seven but eight!
And throw on some cabbage, and cheese (don't grate)
Look at the burger, put it on a plate
And serve it up at minimum wage

>> ^RhesusMonk:

>> ^fjules:
It's really not that complicated. Alright, the triple back was impressive, but again - many Olympic gymnasts can perform this. The one arm hand stand was nice but again - I've seen this trick being performed by other top world gymnasts. So yeah, all in all - good, but not THAT GOOD!
Dude, you reference world-class athletes and OLYMPIANS for Christ's sake--as in a handful of people in 6 billion. Who exactly is it that could do this better? Pilobolus? Your Chinese gymnasts? One the girls in this troupe is TWELVE. When Branford Marsalis plays the fucking saxophone, you don't stand up and walk out cuz "He's no Charlie Parker." Ridiculous.


He didn't walk out on Branford Marsalis. He said that it was good. Chill out.

You infer an issue with it based off of some of your replies to people who dont have an issue with it. When you say something like, 'you like him, i dont have an issue with this video, but you're a douchebag' people will assume you are 'gunning for him' as you put it.

The point is, is this back and forth ping pong juvenile name calling, finger pointing and see-you-at-the-flagpole-after-school nonsense is about as pointless. This isn't a proverbial kool-aid drinking video. Everyone needs to just chill out and discontinue escalating this pointless 'argument' if you even want to give it that much esteem. ^blankfist:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/reiwan" title="member since October 16th, 2008" class="profilelink">reiwan. Would you mind pointing out in my comments where I made this into a conspiracy? Also would you mind pointing out where I said what Obama was doing was wrong in the least? All I said first was that this appeared to be staged and then I asked if anyone had any idea why? Later I deduced this must have something to do with his wife's Let's Move campaign.
Would you now explain why that's such a bad thing? I understand you like Obama. That's all great and good, but it's petty to try and brow beat others into acceptance. The common ground here, I think, is that I don't care that it's staged, and I've said that multiple times, but somehow people think I'm gunning for Obama with every comment.