Did you just unironically submit an ICP video? Major internet faux pas, qm.

>> ^dag:

The Dude abides man, the Dude abides. Now make me a caucasian. >> ^NordlichReiter:
>> ^dag:
Great idea. I would appreciate this - as I'm often making the faux pas of assuming gender.
BTW ... I'm a dude, man.

The dude?



http://imgur.com/zuTYs

I made that today.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

The Dude abides man, the Dude abides. Now make me a caucasian. >> ^NordlichReiter:

>> ^dag:
Great idea. I would appreciate this - as I'm often making the faux pas of assuming gender.
BTW ... I'm a dude, man.

The dude?

>> ^dag:

Great idea. I would appreciate this - as I'm often making the faux pas of assuming gender.
BTW ... I'm a dude, man.


The dude?

Haha I love his little faux pas at the end telling his two friends who's work he liked more

No offense taken. It's part of maintaining the site.

'Just thought you would want to see the video since I found a new embed.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
Damn, I am sorry. I will never declare a video dead again without first attempting to fix it. Thank you for your good humor about my faux pas.(euphemistic)

Again, I am sorry.
In reply to this comment by dotdude:
Dead video replaced.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
*dead

Damn, I am sorry. I will never declare a video dead again without first attempting to fix it. Thank you for your good humor about my faux pas.(euphemistic)

Again, I am sorry.
In reply to this comment by dotdude:
Dead video replaced.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
*dead

Never seen this guy before, but the whole time i was watching it i was thinking of the futurama episode with all the water-based life-forms. They had a water-based standup comic on there, and i just couldn't stop thinking that this guy was the template for that. Then i started thinking of other send-ups of what you'd consider stereotypical standup comedy;

"Ever done <this>? What's <THAT> all about!?!?!?!?!"
"When you <x> in the morning, do you ever <y>? And then you have to <z> just to <x> again?"

Is that a common american style, or is it an old-school style, or what is it? It's the first time i've seen the stuff that i always see parodied, not being parodied. Observational comedy or something is it?

And my final question is, is it a social faux pas to say you don't find this funny? People seem to revere this guy, it's the first time i've seen him and i was expecting him to be amazing from all that i've heard.

>> ^chicchorea:

Tymbrwulf, don't care for your timbre. You could learn some grace, particularly if endeavoring to teach some to others, if I may say.
Or, perhaps, you just forgot.
http://videosift.com/video/Complimenting-Strangers
<From YT: Just having fun being friendly to strangers, hoping to brighten their day! >
Otherwise, my apologies to all and the Sift for my faux pas. I will seek to amend.
Thank you.
Done and done, the amendment I mean.


Just giving a crash course in posting guidelines. I find it easier to inform using belittlement and sarcasm because it garners more attention than simple suggestion. Not to mention it had the exact effect that I said it wouldn't. Hypocritical, yes, but ineffective? Not for my purposes

>> ^Tymbrwulf:

WERE THE CAPITAL LETTERS IN YOUR TITLE REALLY NECESSARY?
DO YOU THINK CAPITAL LETTERS WILL GARNER MORE VOTES FOR YOUR VIDEO BECAUSE IT'S MORE VISIBLE?


WERE YOURS?! AND DO YOU?!

Tymbrwulf, don't care for your timbre. You could learn some grace, particularly if endeavoring to teach some to others, if I may say.

Or, perhaps, you just forgot.

http://videosift.com/video/Complimenting-Strangers
<From YT: Just having fun being friendly to strangers, hoping to brighten their day! >

Otherwise, my apologies to all and the Sift for my faux pas. I will seek to amend.

Thank you.

Done and done, the amendment I mean.

That wasn't really a faux pas...

>> ^bareboards2:
Holy crap!!!
I just clicked thru to You Tube and watched Part II of the interview.
Therein lies the legendary painful stuff.
My god, Parkinson was a complete invasive twit. He didn't ask questions -- he laid out his psychoanalysis of her in an incredibly invasive manner and got huffy when she didn't say "oh yes, oh my god, you are completely correct about me."
Watch the body language -- he leans into her more and more as he (mildly) attacks her, she leans back more and more, then he says -- well, you are certainly uncomfortable being interviewed.
I also read the article linked above. Parky says "she was so rude, she turned her back on the rest of the guests."
What a jerk. He never asked the other guests any questions, he never included the other guests, and somehow this is her fault?
What a twit.


I disagree with your analasys. Parkinson - the show - is about often 'invasive' questions, it's a show to get to the heart of the interviewee, and presumably they know this or they wouldn't attend. Parkinson is an old pro, and i seriously doubt that he would have asked ryan on the show under false pretences 'No invasive questions' and end up probing her invasively. I can't see that happening, i may be wrong, but at least my comments on the matter involve more thought than yours, and if you are right then it is by coincidence.

The body language of meg ryan reminds me 100% of how my step sister used to act towards my dad when she returned from HER dad's house. Her dad would feed her lines and lines of bullshit to turn her against my dad, so when she drove in a car in the front seat with me dad, she squeezed herself against the opposite door, legs crossed away from him, leaning away, and meg ryan looks exactly like that. What does that mean? Really, not a lot, she could just be comfortable in that position, but from my point of view it looks like she's trying very hard to get away from him at times in this interview. I believe parkinson leaned towards her and sat forward in his seat to close the distance and try to give a decent showing for people in the audience and at home - if he had sat back or god forbid mimicked her body language, sitting stance then the controversy would have raged even harder, and that's undeniable.

As for parkinson's comment about her being uncomfortable in the interview - well, you've missed a trick there. He is not sitting aggressively forward, waving his hands erratically to make her shy away from him and then saying "LOOK AT YOUR POSTURE YOU ARE CLEARLY UNCOMFORTABLE." For this you must strain your intellect and look past the literary meaning - the discomfort comes in the way of her brief answers whenever he asks her anything other than cosmetic. She reams off a speech when talking about her character in the film or the director of her latest film, but when asked about herself, she replies "no, not really" and other such briefeties.

Parky did actually ask her guests for interaction in the 2nd half of this interview, when he asked trinny and susanna (a vacuous british pairing who comment on other people's appearances with regard to style) about her shoes. She was complimented and basically said "uh thanks" and no more was said on the matter. No insight into shoes, no returned compliment (from my point of view this was a blessing). For some people this is a social faux pas, at least return the compliment. People see it as arrogant.

Anyway, this video is something that provides nothing other than potentially a desire to make you go and look for the 2nd half, it's a crap video if you ask me, but this appears to be the growing standard on the sift. Include a link or a message to the 2nd half and i'll retract these comments, but please put SOME thought into your sifts at least? I mean, you could at least watch them to make sure they contain the content which you summarise in the summary.

I don't think it's right to alienate audience members who made a faux pas, whether scripted or unscripted because then the rest of the audience gets the red in the face feeling of "will he make fun of me if I sneeze?"

He should speak to the audience and complain/joke about it, not directly at the one audience member who made the mistake because that makes everyone in the audience uncomfortable.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'moss, roy, jen, drunk, stories, wrong story' to 'moss, roy, jen, drunk, stories, wrong story, faux pas' - edited by rasch187

Faux pas! Crucify the bastard!