Have a hammer around as long as there's a nail to be driven in or pulled out.
Keep a shovel around until mastery over matter manipulation affords the effortless ease of moving earth from a to b points with a word or wave...

Have a gun, legally or illegally, until they don't exist any longer.....a tool is a tool, do what you will, the all of the law, with a brain that works and a heart that beats, yer fine. Fuck a constitution, fuck a congress, and , do as you please protect yourself from stupidity and dumb-ass motherfuckers is all....what was the point of this foray into fora anyhoo??....You want flowers in gun barels farhads?? -

I just love this. It's so effortless.

Ive trained for some time, and I can say that the two schools that I mentioned with (combat) is that there are schools that teach watered down pussyfooting versions of them.

So what it has to do with combat is the same thing as this video. There are schools that teach flim flam and schools that teach quality stuff.

I dislike this MMA fad that has sprung up in the united states, because it harbors rules and set situations.

Sure you can take some one to the ground and choke them out, but can you still deal with his friends that are coming to his aid?

MMA fighting is a fallacy just like the rest of these styles.

What is taught at the school I attend is how to dispatch an enemy as quickly and effortlessly as possible, and to be ready for his Allies.
But that is what Aikido was designed for, before the founder was older. When he became older he began to do hocus pocus.

Much like Krav Maga and their multiple attacker drills.

awesome thanks! To celebrate I'll keep my cheese hat on for an extra day.

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Hey, you came third in the fest! I owe you a promote, but i'll do it later when more people are around. Thanks for being involved, your effortless submitting frenzy was quite something! Back later to find something promotable

Hey, you came third in the fest! I owe you a promote, but i'll do it later when more people are around. Thanks for being involved, your effortless submitting frenzy was quite something! Back later to find something promotable

To me the amazing thing isn't really how realistic it looks, but how there is still definitely something uncanny about it. Its truly weird and fascinating to be able to notice every single minuscule discrepancy in the cg so effortlessly.

It reminds of a video about neurological phenomena, specifically a disorder in which the ability to recognise faces is impaired. Sufferers are incapable of recognising their own mother, but more than that they are often repulsed and distrustful of them because the brain thinks the face it sees is an imposter. (I think sufferers can still recognise faces, but the link pairing facial recognition to memory is damaged, so they see a familiar face, but don't recognise it as their mother.)

Anyway, I suppose our ability to recognise an imposter isn't as bizarre as our repulsion to the imposter. Why have we evolved to be quite so wary of things trying to be human?

Boy, am I late to the punch here. Still, I think I might be able to add something deconstructive here (uh, sure) so batter up...

1. Porn cultivates good relationships.

As was mentioned somewhere above in this giant mass of thread, it can be a nice addition to an existing relationship, to get the old mind-juices flowing and liven up the old sex life. Sort of like eating vanilla cake, but then eating the same vanilla cake for years, and then realizing you can put strawberries on it, and all of a sudden vanilla cake with strawberries is the best thing you've ever eaten.

2. Porn is for men who sincerely appreciate the beauty of the female body.

I'd agree that this is a myth, except that I don't know anyone who thinks this, and it misses the point. Porn is for getting yourself excited in that special way that makes you feel all warm inside when you don't have a person to get you all warm on the outside too. Among other things. Of course, sex is mainly mental to begin with, so appreciation of beautiful bodies helps.

3. Porn is harmless and it has no negative effect on the person using it.

I also drink alcohol and curse.

4. Strippers and porn stars lead glamorous lives, and men respect them.

Glamorous? Maybe on screen, but there's effort involved -- Porn is hard work, you know. I don't know any strippers or porn stars personally, so I can't say I respect or disrespect any of them. I'm trying to be funny here, but this "myth" is so far off base I'm having trouble linking it back to reality. Come on, throw me a bone here!

5. Men like variety in women so porn use helps a man stay faithful to his woman.

You know, I think you're getting your information from a questionable source. This list isn't "Common myths about porn," it's "lame excuses men tell their wives to justify watching porn in a sitcom." Though as a man, I do like variety, so I recommend roleplay. You know what I'm talking about; I've already explained that strawberry thing.

6. Women who get involved in the porn industry choose to do so, and they have valuable careers.

"Everybody needs money! That's why they call it money!"
Too bad I've only seen the first hour of The Heist. This one I can't really argue with, but only because it's true about every career. This has been pointed out above, but just like anything else, there's people who have a career and there's people who just have a job. Then there's people without a job, and without a career, and there's people who have tons of money and just drive around all day looking for things to throw money at, and now I'm completely off track.

7. Porn is an outlet or safety valve for men who would otherwise do Bad Things.

This is patently false. Everyone knows the safety valve for men who would otherwise do Bad Things is video games. Except it always goes HORRIBLY WRONG. And then students end up getting hurt because other students were playing those MURDER SIMULATORS all day. Won't anyone think of the children? Why does no-one listen to Jack Thompson!? Oh wait I'm off topic again.

8. Women who work in porn are empowered and sexually liberated.

Damn I'm having trouble making this stuff funny. You know what, I'm going to pass on this one.

9. Porn is just a fantasy and people do not apply it to real life.

Completely false. I watched a porn once where a guy has sex with three women in the span of fifteen minutes, but then the guy turns into a girl and the three women turn into a tiger, a monsterous tentacle beast, and a plant. Then the girl has to run away from the tiger, but she's trying to make out with the plant, and the tentacle beast is just busy eating popcorn. I know this is not fantasy because it happened to me when I was 19.

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So there you have it. As a bonus, since this thread is about porn myths, I feel it only appropriate to add a few of my own myths about porn that are harmful to people.

10. Sexual partners always climax at the same time, even if they've just met.

11. Sex is always satisfying, and everyone feels loads of sexual pleasure effortlessly.

12. Sex is always accompanied by an appropriate soundtrack.

13. The quality of any sexual act is directly proportional to the amount of noise both sexual partners make.

14. The only appropriate things to say during sex are "Give it to me," "Oh yeah baby," and "Yes, yes, yes." Moaning is also appropriate.

15. The best way to get a woman to sleep with you is to be a domineering asshole. Wait a minute...

So despite the fact that nobody will mistake me for a professional comedian, I've hopefully made you laugh just a bit. Because one of the best things to do when confronted with an emotionally charged topic (oh crap he's getting serious, why don't I have a dental appointment lined up) is to laugh at it a bit and take the edge off. Judging from previous replies to this thread, I think a bunch of Sifters already get it.

Bloody people looking for quick and effortless solutions to things.

Yeah, let's take something that makes you crap your pants and leak liquid poo rather than... oh, I don't know... eating better and exercising.

People who take this sort of deserve what they get really. (which apparently is really dirty underpants)


And reading their website it does indeed have those quotes:

I understand that if I take alli with a meal containing too much fat, I may get bowel changes known as treatment effects. The effects may include gas with oily spotting, loose stools, and more frequent stools that may be hard to control. Why? Because alli prevents absorption of some of the fat, and undigested fat passes through the body

Auto upvote for this amazing film, which I only saw recently. This is such a beautiful scene. I agree too on the harmony between comedy and realism, it throws you from one extreme emotion to another effortlessly. God, just thinking about the rest of this film is making me a bit sad...

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It's always looks so effortless for Tommy E. Like he could be playing the song and washing dishes at the same time.

Ain't that the sick part. His hands are hardly moving and there's all this music coming from everywhere.

It's always looks so effortless for Tommy E. Like he could be playing the song and washing dishes at the same time.

wow, it sounds totally effortless,
as in - no effort was put into it..

Thanks for the response, uhohzombies, like I said, you're my new VS role-model!

While I've definitely learned to not underestimate my own ego, the reason why I decided to create this Talk post wasn't exactly because I'd be experiencing difficulties moving 'up the ladder'. It's seeing some rather good videos in PQueues or even discarded (if I'm not mistaken-I'll admit I sometimes tend to exaggerate things such as plane landings and sniper fire). No, my progress on VS, although slow-mostly due to my own laziness, has been even and almost effortless, at least losing the P was; while I haven't scored higher than 30 votes (yet), both of my videos from last year went out the queue on the day of submitting, and it's actually from seeing comments by other members such as-"I submitted this exact video some time ago and had to discard it after a while, but now I see it in the top15, what a bummer " that I decided to write this.

Certainly, a lot of it comes down to finding a nifty title/tags/description, but there's also been talk on how the actual time of day in the different (OK, two-US and European) time zones affect the results-both that of when you submit a video and when it's published. My theory is that the majority of those unique hits you were referring to come from people that visit the Sift just for a quick glance - and if they don't notice anything interesting (I'll wager interesting=funny for the general public) in a minute or two, they leave. So that's a potential downside of having a lot of music videos on the Sifted list (first page) if we're looking at it from a business-like perspective...

Which I know we aren't. Doh!

But I really like how you made your points in the third fifth paragraph, I agree with those whole-heartedly. For example, I would also suggest that the default sorting method for the Unsifted (sounds like a potential horror title, The Unsifted doesn't it? ) be switched to by newest in queue.

Regarding music videos as such - I admit I would actually prefer if there were no music videos (as seen straight from MTV or whatever) on the Sift. Leave musical parodies, leave videos with random content and full songs in soundtrack, leave amateur group talents and live covers, and eveything else musical, I'm only against the 1:1 music videos from 1sttube.

Yes, even though I've upvoted a number of them quite recently and even though I do have my very own (rather broad) musical preferences, AND even though they actually coincide with what most users are submitting (namely, jazz, rock, indie - sorry for the blasphemous generalizations, everyone), I would still opt for VS as the source of humor rather than a copy of YT music video library, sorry for the harsh words. Why not both? I really think that the latter takes away from the former, I really do. But anyone's welcome to disagree-not that I think any capital reforms should be made-I was just asking whether the more shiny members also think the numbers might be a tad too high and if they ought to slow down with the music!
Just a little bit.

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I actually read on some other webernet board that Colbert was singing off-key, but I think he's pretty on-key and even manages a tricky key change. I'm impressed. Especially to hold his own with John legend - who to my ears is a very talented musician - and plays piano in that effortless, beautiful way.

They should win an Emmy for this one.

Ummm... there is a huge exclusion on your 10 coolest guys list. Steve McQueen? The king of cool? Come on! There is no one on the planet -- alive or dead -- who is/was as effortlessly cool as Steve McQueen. I'd take Willem Dafoe off the list (he's an awesome actor, but "cool" isn't a word I'd use to describe him), and shove McQueen all the way to the top.