Truthfully speaking I've been going thru a tough situation these past few months. All the problems of the world lost any significance to me due to what I have to resolve within my own backyard. I use to keep up with global news, politics and current affairs. Now I'm completely wrapped up in settling the affairs of my own house. So the latest videos I've been posting are just me aimlessly filling time getting my mind off heavier issues I'm dealing with.

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Since the following videos are in the top sifts at the same time as this video, it's curious to see which un-self-reflective people will fall for the idea that professional comedians are literally incapable of thinking of anything funny to say about a huge part of global news and culture. Under normal circumstances, nobody would agree with that idea.


Yea, as my joke was only slightly funnier than yours, I can see why you totally missed the point...

...that and the fact that if Dara used that joke you link, he'd probably be labeled racist or at least a misogynist. Case in point, 90% of Chris Rock's material is over-the-top in-your-face hilarious, but a white man would be run through on a pike if he said the same thing.

Since the following videos are in the top sifts at the same time as this video, it's curious to see which un-self-reflective people will fall for the idea that professional comedians are literally incapable of thinking of anything funny to say about a huge part of global news and culture


He doesn't say he literally couldn't. He is just giving a reason why he doesn't. Imagine he had instead said "Why don't I do jokes about electricians? Because I don't know anything about being an electrician, and neither do you".

Nobody would be saying: "well, you could make lightbulb jokes" or "you know electricians work with electricity - can't you joke about that?". Barring the political charge, I think we'd all understand what he means - it's easier to make jokes about things he and the audience are both familiar with.

That doesn't mean he couldn't make jokes about Muslims or electricians, but unfamiliarity would make his life harder. It seems like a reasonable goal for him to do the funniest stuff he can think of, and it's easier to think about things you know well. Clearly the other part is true as well - people can respond better to jokes if they know the subject: I'm sure there's many electrician or Muslim or programmer jokes that just aren't going to work for a varied British audience (but that might go down great at an electrician conference, on TV in Turkey, or on TopCoder).

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Since the following videos are in the top sifts at the same time as this video, it's curious to see which un-self-reflective people will fall for the idea that professional comedians are literally incapable of thinking of anything funny to say about a huge part of global news and culture. Under normal circumstances, nobody would agree with that idea.

http://videosift.com/video/Pakistani-comedienne-in-Oslo-takes-on-Islam
http://videosift.com/video/The-Good-Muslim-Wife-Joke

Like most dietary advice, the genesis of this recommendation probably comes from two things... 1. Your friendly federal government trying to horn into your life and 2. extrapolated stupidity.

http://www.iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/~/media/442A08B899F44DF9AAD083D86164C75B.ashx

Some pool of doctors somewhere looked at the DRI tables at some point and concluded, "Most people don't drink NEAR this much water in a day..." So to them, the fact that people aren't following the government's DRI for water is a 'health crisis'.

Naturally in the face of this phantom crisis, they feel obliged to meddle. The DRI tables are too complicated, so they pick a simple target which is in the ballpark (64 oz) and start telling people "your doctor recommends that you drink 8 eight oz glasses of water a day". Bingo - you have a myth.

My doctor - who isn't an idiot - put it quite simply. "Drink when you're thisty until you're not." That's all you need to know. These 'targets' you get from the USDA, DRI, AMA, and other places are general advice - not gospel truth. Listen to your body & use common sense. Your body and brain are 100X more qualified than the nanny state and buttinsky panels.

OK, I was able to find an academic source on daily water turnover (and therefore requirements) that mentioned the 40 ml/KG/day. However, the study was done on children, with the 40 ml/KG/day relating to 15 year-olds. Still, there are plenty of authoritative sources out there (in the far reaches of the intertubes) that cite similar or identical turnover rates. A quick search for "human water requirements per day" should get you some decent information. Even the USDA suggests drinking "a lot" of water (3.7 L for men, 2.7 for women) every day. (source)

It's not magic or a made up number, it's a simple in/out calculation. Urine accounts for between 500 and 1,000 ml of water loss, sweating and evaporation of water through breathing--or insensible water loss--accounts for another 450-1900 ml, and feces counts for a couple hundred ml as well (source). So if you're losing two to three liters of water every day, shouldn't you replace it? Wouldn't that be the logical conclusion?

Also, water in the food you eat accounts for only about 20% of your daily intake. (source)

Of course, your environment, activity level, age, weight, sex and other factors can play a part in how much water your body needs. Also, I'm not a doctor, just some guy with access to a search engine, so don't take my word for it.

"Coulter to file human rights complaint"
"Conservative pundit to go to Human Rights Commission over Ottawa treatment"

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/03/25/ann-coulter-human-rights.html

Watch video from Global News (Canada) Here: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Right+wing+firebrand+Coulter+will+file+grievance+with+rights+panel/2713903/story.html

Your video, Small Penis Alert on Global News!, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I just saw this on Global News tonight... I knew someone would beat me to it!
I kind of liked it better when no one knew what kind of animal it was.
The newly discovered "Mystery Animal"

In case anyone is confused about Jimmy Carr's commentary, please watch this instructional video of his that explains exactly what he's doing here.

To go a bit further, I would say that he's also keying off another aspect common to comedy: the impertinent truth. Sure, it's ghastly to say you didn't care about Diana dying, and don't care that Michael Jackson has just died. But the truth is, anyone with even a moderate grip on sanity thinks that the attention paid to both deaths was and is ghoulishly offensive in more ways than not.

Yes, it's big news that he died. Yes, the tabloids will be going nuts as the legal questions are settled about his estate, custody of his children, ownership of his music rights, and even the "true" circumstances of his death.

But why has this been the top story on the nightly national news every night since?

His death even gets a full segment of the ostensibly politics-oriented programs on MSNBC (Hardball, Ed Show, Countdown, and Maddow, often as the top story there as well) every night, even when we've got a lot of the usual political news going on, not to mention global news like the protests in Iran, the protests in China, the coup in Honduras, and nuclear weapons talks in Russia...

So yeah, I'm sad that Michael Jackson died. I'd be lying if I didn't say that I'm sorry he's gone.

But for God's sake, it's not that big of a fucking deal.

Global news is from Calgary Canada, my local news.

Ok, edited the title, I wrote "must-see" cause I didnt really know how to describe it without actually seeing it, but in hindsight I realize the title could have been better. Sorry about that.

Also yea the dog bit is a bit .. wierd.. I think that caused some stir when it was aired the first time. Kristopher Schau, the one doing the interview is well known here for "outrageous stunts":
-Spent one week entirely inside a car, NEVER going outside,
-spent another week trying to decay as much as humanly possible (think "Supersize Me" on crack, and before that movie came out.. overeating,no washing,daytime tv, etc..) all inside a shopping street window on the busiest street of Oslo
-is in like 50 different bands, one of them "Cumshots" got global news coverage for a gig on the Quart festival, when they had "Fuck For Forest" do the very naughty thing live on stage.

So, over here, the dog bit was sort-of "You have to take into account whos doing it" I think thats why it passed

You know, this is a really good idea. As youtube gets more popular, and more people put their tivo crap up on in interwebs... This is a great opportunity. VideoNewsSift.

People could put more global news clips, etc. Though I imagine it would mostly be DailyShow clips showing news.

Interesting but it makes to many assumptions about the company's ability's or goals. Microsoft makes OS's and application company. Google is an Ad company. Both do add different things to the market that have nothing to do with there business goals. Google has tons of extra features that don't make them money but can give them a space to throw ad's into. But i doubt either has global news hegemony in mind. It also makes the assumptions that nothing new will come along and that everything tryed by them succeeds.

Oh and the user submitted news try http://www.digg.com it doesn't replace my regular news reading it just adds to it. but since this is under "geek" everyone prolly already knows about it. Netscape tryed to clone digg and lost badly. There are others like newsvine also trying a version of what digg started.