You and me are the disease and the germs are spreading
use me like listerine, keeping your breath fresher
feel the stroke of your paintbrush, my blank sheet of paper
I’m your book of the month, read the fine print later

we'll invent new four letter words
You are the bitter, I am the sweet
run through the fields, sing with the birds
You are the griddle, I am the meat

I'll turn you on like the electric company
You are the bitter, I am the sweet
flick on the switch and light your pilot light
You are the griddle, I am the meat

You and me are the disease and the germs are spreading
use me like listerine, keeping your breath fresher
feel the stroke of your paintbrush, my blank sheet of paper
I’m your book of the month, read the fine print later

we'll laugh away our golden years
You are the bitter, I am the sweet
we'll line the clouds with silver tears
You are the griddle, I am the meat

You and me are the disease and the germs are spreading
use me like listerine, keeping your breath fresher
feel the stroke of your paintbrush, my blank sheet of paper
I’m your book of the month, read the fine print later

You and me are the disease and the germs are spreading
use me like listerine, keeping your breath fresher
feel the stroke of Your paintbrush, my blank sheet of paper
I’m your book of the month, read the fine print later

You are the bitter, I am the sweet
You are the griddle, I am the meat
You are the trick, I am the treat
You are the circus, I am the freak

You are the bitter, I am the sweet
You are the griddle, I am the meat
You are the trick, I am the treat
You are the circus, I am the freak

just the way I was raised to beware of crowds and any number people in tight places. Never gone to a concert that had more than 50 people, or a club. I'm not agoraphobic I am just cautious although my family says I'm healthily paranoid . Its the main reason I do not protest or picket.

Crowds do cause me to leave a place that I like to be, my grand father was an MP in Chicago during Vietnam, he would always say that crowds are like sheep to the slaughter. The mass of people do not stop for a single person, I feel the same way about transit systems. Plus I could never feel safe on a bus full of people I do not know, this could also be an effect of public school buses before they were monitored "well" by camera.

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Really? Do you know why they scare you? Is it that it is such an urban environment or maybe you are germ-phobic, or do you fear you are in danger? Just curious.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
watching this, reminds me of the fact that I have never ridden on a Public Transport system.
They scare the shit out of me.

Really? Do you know why they scare you? Is it that it is such an urban environment or maybe you are germ-phobic, or do you fear you are in danger? Just curious.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
watching this, reminds me of the fact that I have never ridden on a Public Transport system.
They scare the shit out of me.

I like it how you automatically assume that everyone who doesn't believe in evolution is an idiot.

I like how you automatically assume that everyone who accepts evolution as fact, and who cares about what is true to be elitist, arrogant, homosexual AND a socially retarded nerd, and that you use all these adjectives in ad-hominem attacks instead of coming up with actual arguments.

Everyone who doesnt believe in evolution are not necessarily an idiot, but they are certainly either ignorant, ill-informed, deluded OR an idiot. Ignorance is not a crime, nor is being a victim of lies and brainwashing, but willful ignorance, and deliberate deception of others, and the spreading of outright falsehoods aimed at undermining scientific fact is disgraceful.

And about your example of forcing quantum physics on a farmer, how about germ theory? is it ok to tell him about that? should his children be kept in blissful ignorance about washing they hands after shoveling shit? is it elitist arrogance to offer penicillin to his wife who will die from the flu? What if they have HIV, should we leave their fascinating supernatural creation story alone, because the treatment requires halting medication because the virus evolves drug-resistance, and knowledge of how evolution works is critical..

Lyrics:

Mr. President, Distinguished delegates...

[H.I.M. Haile Selassie I dialect]

[Bunny Wailer dialogue]
Since the beginning of modern civilization
Generations have witnessed and inherited the only conflicts of world wars
But behold the marriage supper of the lamb and the bridegroom onto his bride
Then shall the earth's children know the true expression of ONE LOVE
Then mother earth shall honeymoon in peace.
Forever eliminating the aspirations, lust and anguish of wars and rumors of wars...SELAH!

[Verse 1]
See it deh know the innocent going up in vapors
And propoganda spreading inna the sunday papers not even superman coulda save you with him cape cause
Red-a Judgement a blaze, blaze ya
And Babylon a gamble the youth dem life like racehorse
And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head with razors
And now the clock a strike war, don't be amazed cause
inna dem churches tryin to save...saviours

[Marcus Garvey dialogue 1]
Can we do it? We can do it, we shall do it!

[Verse 2]
Boom!
Tell dem fe uh draw mi out when the world government inna falling out
Only few men survive crawling out
Run left him collegues dem sprawling out
NEARLY DEAD!
Medic haffi haul him out
And give him two tranquilizer fi stall him out
DEH PON BASE!
Can't get no calling out when him hear from the shout last week
Him mistress find a new shoes
Wife can't get no news and lately she starting to doubt
SHE STILL SEARCHING!
And the youth dem bawling out
Working hard not to let it all come out
Well it's not safe to go walk about
A slaughterhouse from Bagdad to Waterhouse
She start to arouse sometime she want a spouse
She start go out, start beat a darker stout
GUNS COME OUT!
Working people funds run out
Keep a show last week and no one come out
BOMBS COME OUT!
Mi gas tank just run out
BOMBO CLATT!
The scotch tape just run out
WEED RUN OUT!
Yuh senses must dumb out, Mi have a pound round a back deh a gwan sun out
NAH COME OUT!
Till the chalice bun out,
NAH COME OUT!
Till the malice bun out, A WAR!

Zimbabwe to Berlin Wall
Blazin' like a burnin' ball, loose ball...dat no work...IN WAR
Sleeping...dat no work..IN WAR
Can't wear jheri curl...IN WAR
No diamond and pearl...IN WAR
Can't drink weh a serve...IN BAR
Gas wi fuck up yuh nerves...IN WAR
Shot wi blood up yuh shirt...IN WAR
Can't go lift up no skirt...IN WAR
Now disease and germs...IN WAR
Can't go release your sperms...IN WAR
Stamina must preserve...IN WAR
Fire constantly burn...IN WAR
RED...IT RED...IT RED...IT RED...IT RED!

[Marcus Garvey dialogue 2]
If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it...then you will die.
You race of cowards, you race of imbosiles, you race of good for nothings
If you cannot do what other men have done
What other nations have done, what other races have done
Then you yourself shall die.

[Repeat Verse 1]

[Verse 3]
SEE IT DEH NOW...Hey!
Now wi fore parents sacrifice enough
Dem blood sweat and tears run like syrup
Any day a revolution might erupt, and the skys over Kingston lighting up
For the new generation rising up, of youths now a days weh dem sighting up
And through reasoning dem biding up,
Searching for the sign and the sign is us,
Searching for the truth all you find is us,
Searching for the troops still behind is us,
The almighty we recruit and we come from the root
We build like roach building boot
Weh just can't done, Rastafari we design tuff
If a the fight for freedom sign me up
Cause you Tell-Lie-Vision can't blind me up
Soldiers and police dem wising up, realizing they're no more right than us
Realizing there's no use fighting us
Realizing their opening their eyes to see the same demoralizing life as us
So we nah tek talk nor smiling up
Cause the word temper tantrum boiling up,and who...
Calling the shots and nah bust none
Controlling the mind of the young, bring down...

Bear famine, no rain nah fall from London to Dadeland mall
All the son of the virgin bawl, institute of the church IN WAR
Preaching and researching WAR
Practice and rehearsing WAR
Teaching and dem learning WAR
Instigating and urging WAR
Always keep alert in WAR
Cause man will jump out a swerving car
Now bees and birds IN WAR
And the freaks and nerds IN WAR
And the straight and curves IN WAR
Forward and reverse IN WAR
RED...IT RED...IT RED...IT RED...IT RED.

[Marcus Garvey dialogue 2]

>> ^thepinky:
Didn't see it.
The thing that I find amazing is that atheists take it for granted that no one could possibly give a compelling argument that atheism is irrational. Can you tell me what happened 3 millionths of a second before the big bang?

What does being an atheist have to do with the big bang?


So...has the universe always existed and will it always exist?

Well, yes and no. The universe as we know it has not always existed, but the matter has, in some form or another, and will always exist, even after the universe as we know it ceases to exist.


Alright, then. Did it come from nothing? NO WAY! That's an uncaused event and irrational. Well, then, what is the only solution left to us? An unmoved mover is the only other possible solution. In other words, a supernatural cause. In other words, we're all searching for answers to questions that we cannot possibly answer with our infantile understandings of the cosmos.

I don't know where the matter came from, but there are scientists working on figuring that out.

Are you saying we just give up and accept that it's some supernatural force at work? There was a time when people thought that diseases were caused by supernatural forces, but thankfully there were people who didn't accept that as fact and looked for the real reasons that caused them. That led to germ theory, which led to antibiotics, then microbiology and many more medical advances.

Imagine all of the things that we wouldn't have today if people just said, well we can't possibly understand this, therefore it must be supernatural and leave it at that.

>> ^chilaxe:
Embryo potentiality? Given the right conditions, any cell in our bodies can be the germ for a new, unique person. (Cloned humans are just twins separated by time, and even twins are unique.)
Embryos do this "naturally," but the modern world is built on bending natural phenomenon to what benefits humankind, whether it's breeding wild plants and animals into the strains we know today, alloying metals, or intervening with medical treatments.


The key phrase in what you said is "given the right conditions." The embryos are already in fact growing into humans, whereas the skin cells on the end of your finger after picking your nose are not. Saying potentially, under the right conditions, those skin cells could become a human needlessly confuses the argument. In the embryos the process of new life has already begun. In the skin cells on your fingernail it has yet to begin. Like I said before, it's apples and oranges. It reminds me of the old Biblical argument against male masturbation: the idea was that you were killing off thousands of potential children every time you "spilled your seed upon the ground." But of course that view is entirely wrong since sperm in and of themselves cannot sprout new children (nevermind the fact that biologically the testes are constantly replacing old sperm all by themselves).

Your statement that cloned humans are just twins separated by time is interesting. Isn't an embryo then a fully formed human being just separated by time? That's really the big argument that's going on here.

Finally, I'm a bit chilled by how casually you threw out your last statement about "bending natural phenomenon to what benefits humankind." Certainly there must be limits to this. Are you implying that anything is ethical if it benefits humankind in some way (see below)?

>> ^drattus:
The best argument for stem cell research I can think of is that we're already destroying more than we'd ever need as medical waste from fertility treatment. The choice to me is more one of do we make use of what's already being incinerated as waste or do we try to save some lives with it instead? No need to get into the rest of it, it's a distraction.


You should read the President's Council on Bioethical Research Transcripts from 2002: http://bioethics.gov/topics/stemcells_index.html

and in particular, this transcript where a similar argument is made by Dr. Outka: http://bioethics.gov/transcripts/apr02/apr25session3.html

One of the doctors on the council astutely points out that the Nazi's used the same exact logic to experiment on Jewish prisoners. To put it bluntly, they were going to die anyway so at least they might contribute to science in some way before they did.

Again though, it all goes back to defining at what point a human being is (or ceases to be) a human being. The President's Council has pretty much stated that biology can't answer the question. It'll be up to philosophers, ethicists, lawmakers, and the citizens themselves to come up with an answer.

His statements might require some unpacking.

Flies vs. embryos? The point is that 150-cell embryos are incapable of desiring, fearing, remembering, or any degree of sentience --unlike flies, unlike anybody who's not in a brain-dead coma.

Embryo potentiality? Given the right conditions, any cell in our bodies can be the germ for a new, unique person. (Cloned humans are just twins separated by time, and even twins are unique.)

Embryos do this "naturally," but the modern world is built on bending natural phenomenon to what benefits humankind, whether it's breeding wild plants and animals into the strains we know today, alloying metals, or intervening with medical treatments.

Go for 11, dude. Try that first for a few weeks, and if that isn't good enough then bump it up to 12. I think our community has grown enough since I've been here to make 11 or even 12 a decent escape threshold.

What kind of flour are we sifting anyway? White, wholegrain, or germ? I hope it's wholegrain, because that has the bran fiber. Guys our age start to need that, buddy.

Well if there is no rebuttal from Doc_M then this concludes his roast. Seeing as he's far too depressed to respond to the slew of insults hurled his way we'll allow heir doctor to retreat to his lab so he can work on a new germ that will kill us all. G'night folks!

Okay, about the video - lol. I don't see how learning magic tricks helps you improve anything. About those steel bars - she stole some Shaolin monk tricks. That shattering arrow almost got in eye of that girl. The boards prove a lot also about karate bullshit. If you train a year and then some fat lady does it with the first try. About the moment, where she said - germs shouldn't create diseases and the cancer things, well, got to admit - theoretically it's possible. Again let's look at the kid who cured cancer with self-hypnosis. There was a Discovery channel program on this. I believe that brain is a very powerful tool by using which you can program it to make changes to your body in certain limits of course.

I have a simple advice to happiness - don't let shit influence your feelings, live in the moment. Hmm...actually I need some money right now, I need to write a book on this topic, no - I will write 1 book and split it in 5 so I get more money.

The dotdude is IN.

Mmmmmkay, I have conducted my painstaking research concerning our dear friend and sifter Doc_M . . . .

I’ll begin with the survey . . . . zzzzzzzzzz . . . yes, I nodded off a bit trying to wade my way through it. Hip boots were indeed necessary, not to mention surgical gloves and a face mask.

One thing struck me about the indecision on undergarments and hair . . . You got a kind of AC/DC thing going there . . .

As for religion . . . well I guess most likely we probably have never heard of the particular type of Christianity, you practice, since you put the generic Christian.

A couple of times you said “I’m going to get grief for this” . . . That’s like putting “pick on this” or “kick me” on your back.

Speaking of kicking, I now move on to your own comments around the Sift . . . You say that on the first day you visited the Sift there was a “high concentration (of videos) of people getting kicked in the nuts.” And yet you stayed with us? So is that what you come here for? Should we expect a Balls Kicking Channel from you?

We already have a Balls Flexin’ Channel. I guess a Balls Kickin’ Channel would balance the Sift, hunh.

And last but not least I have to ask about “I have the biggest damn vacuum cleaner in my friggin apartment in my closet damnit!” I realize you were replying to a blog post by swampgirl about her shotgun. But a large appliance whose sole purpose is to suck isn’t quite as impressive as a shotgun.

OK, we've sprayed ParodyTalk with disinfectant. You germ fearin' ninnies can come roast now.

*tosses rubber gloves in the bin*

Ladies and Germs... I present to you, the Living Dustmop!!!

This is hilarious and Bill Hicks is pretty much my favourite but I never thought the aids germ part was very good. I think it brings down the genius of that impression, which I have listened to about 200 times before seeing the video for the first time just now. Looks exactly like I imagined it, lol.

http://www.videosift.com/talk/Delicious-golden-crispy-fried-nuclear-potato-slices

In reply to this comment by fissionchips:
Earned my star today with this post:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Germs-and-You

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Whoa, how long you been a goldie for?