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Favourites

1) Season - Autumn
2) Place in the world - Livingstone, Zambia.
3) Children's book - Guards! Guards! Guards! by Terry Prachett
4) TV Series - The wire, BSG, mad men and the x files.
5) Word - Clover Gs (don't ask)
6) Film - Bladerunner and there is alot more...
7) Curse - fuck
Creature - chameleon
9) Past time - gaming and ill informed political banter
10)Person - my buddy.

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - cats
12) Sweet or savoury - savory
13) Cereal or Toast - toast?
14) Tan or pale - both in equal measure
15) Shoes or barefoot - shoes?
16) Desktop or laptop - desktop
17) Drive or walk - walk
18) Drama or comedy - sci fi
19) Sex or food - yes
20) Futurama or Simpsons - both jumped the shark.

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - all my videos are favourite submissions, but my Luna playlist has my fav muscial picks.
22) A great comment on one of your vids - The whole Andres Segovia comment thread! DOWN WITH JAKE SIKAKAKBURORMO!
23) Most off the wall member - choggie
24) Favourite user name - plastiquemonkey
25) Your most used channel - music and obscure
26) Personal dumbass moment - sifting and commenting drunk, then waking up reading what I wrote.
27) Best avatar - Rickegee and Ravenika.
28) Partner in crime - Mink and Kulpims. The Eastern European Mafia.
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - Not really. I kinda dropped the habit.
30) Idea for the site - The LONG FUCKING CHANNEL ironically we waited a LONG time for it too.

About you

31) Where do you live - Kuwait
32) Smoker/non-smoker - occasionally
33) Left or right handed - right
34) Hair colour - black?
35) Relationship status - single
36) How tall - 5 '4
37) Children - no
38) Ever had an operation - Yes, I enjoyed the drugs alot.
39) Best feature - I guess it's interesting to talk to me?
40) Use four words to describe yourself - nomad, aware, misanthrope

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Martin Luther King
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - Amensty International
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Everyone...
44) Relive a moment in your life - My trip to Turkey.
45) Have a superpower - cloaking
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know -
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - crazy irrational emotionally unstable women.
48) Be president for one hour - Dissolve the Fed. open all state secret archives from 2000 down.
49) Delete a period in history - Bush's presidency.
50) Achieve one thing - Learn to fly a helicopter.

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This video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by rickegee.

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter rickegee.

Discarding this post - discard requested by original submitter rickegee.

Seriously joe, aren't you too young a man to be nostalgic about the 'good old days?' Listen to yourself:

"They were different times back then...better times with better people."

What does that have to do with the price of tomatoes? You don't like the new crop of members, so you mock cat videos that you would have posted yourself only a year and a half ago? Again, please explain your algorithm.

I've been here slightly over a year now, so here is a list of things I COULD complain about, if they really bothered me:

When I joined you could:

1. Crack the Top 15 if your video had a vote tally in the high 20's
2. Requeue videos for as long as you wanted
3. Give *quality points for Sift Talk posts, and they cost you nothing
4. ALWAYS edit your comments
5. And Dailymotion, MySpace, Yahoo, and VideoJug all had thumbnail images.

I could complain about those things every day if I wanted, but I don't care enough to even think about them. Plus many new, cool features have been introduced.

However there is something I will complain about, but there ain't a damn thing any of us can do about it: Members who have left. I miss (in no particular order):

CaptWillard
raven
rickegee
critttter
mlx
thesnipe
snoozedoctor
uhohzombies
intangiblemeg
persephone

And the list goes on. Some may have left because they didn't like the direction the place was headed, but most left for other reasons. If you miss some of your old friends, I'm sorry. Obviously I miss a few people too, and the place isn't the same without them. However there have been many cool new people who have joined after I came on board, and here's a few of them, in no particular order:

ornthoron
alien_concept
Zonbie
evil_disco_man
burdturglar
rasch187
gourmetemu
Sarzy

And so on. Life goes on, so it's time to move on.

One more thing about "can we have behavior rules" talks: They happen because someone crosses a line. Take choggie, for example. We didn't have any hard and fast rules about indiscriminately discarding videos because it just never happened. Then choggie decided he could play God with other people's videos, and he kept on pushing it by doing it over and over until we HAD to do something. The Secret Order of Unnecessary Rules had nothing to do with the clarification and enforcement of the discard rules. HE did.

Just like many new laws, many new rules often have to be introduced to close loopholes and prevent willful, destructive behavior to the site. This isn't a perfect place; of course there are flaws. But any time we try to fix them someone complains that "We didn't need such-and-such back in MY day." Well they didn't have stoplights back when the first cars hit the roads either, but then there was growing number of traffic accidents at intersections, so something had to be done.

God, I can't believe I spent my time writing all that when I could have been drinking.

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