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I like Macs. I have good friends who love their PCs. The reason the OS wars still rage is the same reason Korea and Japan generally don't get along.

Except any blood that comes out is good blood and hasn't coagulated yet. Oops!>> ^KnivesOut:

You've got to get a good friend to suck that venom out!>> ^Yogi:
Oh my god...that's...how does the body fight that?!??!

You've got to get a good friend to suck that venom out!>> ^Yogi:

Oh my god...that's...how does the body fight that?!??!

>> ^Payback:

BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!


Good friend of mine was roommates with the "boom goes the dynamite kid" when it happened while I attended Ball State. Makes me grin every time someone mentions it (except the retard they got for my commencement speech who was obviously reaching for things to say).

Very Nice--threatening him with their good friend the sheriff.

A good friend of mine summarized what's going to happen best when he said, "well, I hope you have your affairs in order before the 15th..."

>> ^my15minutes:

i just read it recently and it's a good chronicle of his long journey around the world with his very good friend Charley Boorman, son of the director John Boorman.


You want this: http://videosift.com/video/Long-Way-Round-trailer

since the clip starts with a motorcycle stunt, and his discussing his love of motorcycles, i thought i'd add his book as an amazon link here.

i just read it recently and it's a good chronicle of his long journey around the world with his very good friend Charley Boorman, son of the director John Boorman.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^silverpoint16:
I am still of two minds about whether I want to anything to do with this site any more. We have been harassed and our characters assaulted. Most of you appear to now believe we are who we say we are. Some of you do not. That's fine. You are entitled to your opinion; however, the harassment and personal character assaults need to stop.
Thank you to all of you who looked at the evidence and drew their own conclusions.

I've been pretty level headed about this entire thread until I read this. For some reason, the way you worded that just set something off in me.
Let me make something clear to you from the start:
You're going to take some flak.
Videosift is a fantastic place full of MANY different opinions on many different things. We come from all over the world and generally are considered a community rather than an outright forum. Since there's less people than youtube, we can basically actually talk TO one another. You'll see the same names leaving comments and upvoting on many different videos, joking around, etc. And as such, you're eventually going to do or say something someone doesn't like.
We have Winstonfield_pennypacker and Quantummushroom as die-hard republicans that on basically any political video you'll see them say something (at least I consider to be) stupid and that'll spark an argument, and then two videos later you'll see QM say something that'll actually make you laugh out loud.
On religious videos we have many heated debates, the sift as a whole is generally considered Atheist, and will argue til they're blue in the face about certain topics.
On police videos there's a few of us (myself included) that don't instantly hop on the "COP IS IN THE WRONG, FUCK DA PO PO" bandwagon, and will generally be caught in a debate or argument about it.
Essentially what i'm trying to say is.. We're not youtube. You're not going to be a blank face in the crowd, you have a personality, you have ideals, you have your own mindset, and here you'll get to express it amongst others. But be prepared to have others not always agree with them.
So, if you want to just blend in, say what you want, and make sure your feelings don't get hurt, go ahead and leave.
If you want to be a part of something that with the bad, also comes a world of good, then stay. Enjoy our little community. Just be prepared for what that entails if you do.


I like much of what you posted here. If I read correctly, you and I seem to have many things in common: Not a Republican? [check] Atheist? [check] Maligning Cops? [my Mom was the very first female police radio dispatcher in this major metropolitan area and my Dad was the booking sergeant in the city jail ... let's just say I agree that *they* aren't all bad and leave it at that] Couldn't wait to move out of the house when I turned 18? [check] though your mileage may vary, I just had to toss that in there.

Regarding your generalized description of YouTube I can only relay to you MY experience with it. I joined in July 2006. It was the only social network I belonged to up until this past year. In January 2011 I submitted two videos for a contest and to my delight, one was selected for the project. It was then that I discovered how much I enjoyed the experience of making videos so started from scratch with a little Kodak PlaySport camera. I eventually bought some software and began to teach myself editing. I may not be one of the big players on the tube, but I did find out that there are some truly wonderful, REAL people there. I was steadily attracting viewers and subscribers worldwide and that morphed into an actual online community for me. I've experienced many gratifying interactions through collaborations, comments and banter and have found a good number of folks that I've come to admire and respect. Some have become very good friends. I never once felt like a blank face in the crowd and found great joy in supporting and encouraging those that impressed me. My goal was and is to tailor my comments to relate to the subject matter at hand and, more often than not, attempt to infuse a bit of humor as well. Rarely will you see anything generic from me [unless I'm really, really tired]. That being said, I certainly would never expect ANYONE to BE like me ... I fully appreciate and embrace diversity. However, I don't engage in bullying, deliberate rudeness or intimidation because, like most folks, I have a lot of stress in my life and the time I get to spend away from it on the interwebs is my coveted escape.

All of the above came crashing down for me personally when Google took over YT and changed everything to the dreaded NewTube. Seemingly overnight my progression of new subscribers simply ceased. Views diminished and everything has basically ground to a halt. I still have and treasure most of my core supporters but much of the community aspect has diminished to the point where Ive found myself searching for something more rewarding on the side. VS was recommended to me and in the first couple of days after signing up I was duly impressed. It is by far the best community site I've experienced yet.

Is it a double standard for me to support the friends who have also joined and are currently the only people I know here? I sure hope not. My goal was and is to earn the respect of others already established in this community through my participation and conduct. Not a one of us intended to take over what you have here ... at first blush it appeared to be an exceptional place to be. Time will tell. I have hope.

Ahh. A good friend in a cruel world.

Great to see this in the top 15. This was made by my good friends Becky Kilabuk and Anguti Johnston. If you liked this, you may enjoy Qanurli (what now?) which is a series of videos similar to this. This one is my favourite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCWLwhgOrfQ

A good friend of mine recently got all of her credit cards and ID stolen in Beijing. She had her windows open and her purse on the passenger seat.
While one guy asked for directions on the driver's side, another guy snatched the purse on the passenger side.

I am still friends with many of my exes.

With one, we started as classmates, became friends, hooked up, came close to getting engaged, broke up, didn't talk for a while, and are now good friends.

None of my relationships with guy friends involve a fraction of that emotional complexity.

I think these interviews were well done, and uncovered the delusions of the women.

In college, I had many female friends that were good looking, which I was not in secret pursuit of. I mean, with a campus full of women, I think it would have been exhausting and frustrating to lust after every coed. So, there was a group of ladies i was actively campaigning to flip the status from friend to FwB or GF. I think "friend with benefits" is a nice concept, separating the emotion from the sex; I'm not sure if it's achievable. I've never achieved it.>> ^kceaton1:

I should add that I do have quite a few girl...friends, but I think it's the nature of the origin of the relationships that made them turn out this way. I ended up becoming friends with them when I was a little kid, like 6-8 years old. I'm around them enough that they are more like sisters than friends--and perhaps that IS the difference--the fact that they aren't necessarily friends, but almost family.
Of course, then I have to ask them the same question: What do they feel about me? The guy could still be right, but I doubt it. I think he's mostly right.
I do notice some girls like to keep their ex-ii as friends. I'll go on the record as stating that is a HORRIFIC idea. That would literally drive me nuts to date anyone doing that. I mean, I'd like to be "the bigger person" and let it slide, but that is just too much in your face and disrespectful--I think...

That's actually pretty fantastic. A good friend of mine is a fire performer so I've seen most of these tricks before, but the camera work is really well done.

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Fire Technicians - 2011 Group Promo (HD) from Brandon Sloan on Vimeo.

Again, any problems that I do have, will not be solved with the addition of more religion. Less religion? Might help things on a global scale, but on a personal level, I have removed it's (negative) influence from my life.

I agree, you don't need religion. You need to be born again and have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

I much more interested in living a good life. I wish to lead an ethical life, be happy and be a good friend and husband.

Admirable, but when you say good, you're talking about relative terms. Are you good in comparison to Hitler? Sure. In comparison to God? No, not at all. If you only sin 5 times a day, by the time you're 70 you'll have committed over 100k sins. Is that good? Rejecting God and sinning every day is not good, it is evil.

Also I support that which is good and oppose that which is evil. Kinda like Jesus, or more awesomely, Batman.

If you supported what was good then you wouldn't resist God, but by opposing Him you support what is evil. So you have them backwards. You're also borrowing from His moral standards when you're using the terms "good" and "evil". Under darwinism, there isn't really any such thing.

If I had a friend who had a serious problem, but wouldn't acknowledge it, I wouldn't wait for them to come to me. I'd try to help. I think most people would. So that leaves the following possibilities in order of probability (starting at the most likely)

And if you're like this person, you would keep refusing help over and over again:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/30/health/conditions/crystal-hiv-aids-atlanta/index.html?iref=allsearch

1. Jesus (the man) is dead, if he ever really existed in the first place. Jesus (the "son of god") is a fairy tale.

2. Jesus/God/Allah/Buddah is perfectly happy with the way I'm living my life, and chooses to let me get on with it.

3. Jesus knows I'm screwing my life up(!?), but is such a collossal dick that he can't even be bothered to intervene. And again, don't give me that bullshit of "he has intervened, through the church. blah blah blah". Back to my hypothetical friend with a problem. Let's say he's a heroin addict for the sake of argument. Would I be morally ok with just sending an email to the local addiction centre suggesting they look into this?

4. Jesus knows you're screwing your life up, but is allowing you to explore the consequences of your choice to walk away. He will keep reminding you that you are headed for a fall, but until that happens, you will probably be too proud to turn to him.

Take it from me. If I had taken the opportunity when it was offered instead of when I had no choice to admit it, I could have saved myself 2 years worth of calamity. You should do the same and put down your stubborn pride.

>> ^ChaosEngine:
>> ^shinyblurry:
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