Schmawy:

You can discuss mine, start a siftquisition if you like. The tags and channels right now are the way I made them. I'm glad you agree they're the way they should be. It was only by "abusing" my privileges that they are that way.

You can try to make this about whatever you like, but the fact is, this was sent for discussion because of the Islam tag. I think you're projecting.

It's really strange watching you come to his defense here. I mean here on this specific post (because you do it everywhere). This is exactly the same crap he pulled on you. Changing things after the fact. I get you want to be the guy that's above it all, but really, do you recognize that this is a problem for the site?

Lets say someone puts up a video of the Dalai Lama meeting with some foreign leader. They give it the title "Man of Peace". It has the channels humanitarian, world affairs. Tags are dalai,lama,diplomacy. You vote for it.

It hits top 15 and then the title is changed to "Dalai Lama - Biggest Scumbag On Earth". Tags and channels are similarly changed to things that have nothing to do with the video. Do you want to have your vote on that video? I personally think this is abusive to the site, abusive of the privileges afforded to it's members, and abusive to the people who vote on videos here.

Bottom line, tags and channels need to reflect the content of the video for the site to function properly. That's why this was discussed.

Well I found that trailer revolting, and on reading many reviews of the film, it would seem it's an absolute snorefest up until that end bit where the woman is disfigured in ridiculously graphic detail.

I love a good horror film, but showing horrendous disfigurement like this does absolutely nothing at all for me, and I wonder about the people who enjoy such extreme and prolonged graphic violence towards another.

I just went to the website of the production company and they seem to make cheap, terribly made ripoff film after ripoff film:
SUNDAY SCHOOL MUSICAL - High School Musical
18 YEAR OLD VIRGIN - American Pie et al
AVH: ALIEN VS HUNTER - Alien vs Predator
UNIVERSAL SOLDIERS - Universal Soldier (My GOD, how close can you get?)
ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE TEMPLE OF SKULLS - Do I even need to say?
THE DAY THE EARTH STOPPED - The day the earth stood still
DA VINCI TREASURE - The Da Vinci Code
100 MILLION BC - Godzilla
PIRATES OF TREASURE ISLAND - Oh come on!
SNAKES ON A TRAIN - Puuuhlease!
TRANSMORPHERS - MAKE IT STOP NOW!!!!!

Their covers are usually a direct ripoff, they get B/C grade actors (Lorenzo Lamas anyone?)

Truly a studio to avoid. Who the hell actually hires/buys this dross?

Yeah, so I sifted it and everything

http://www.videosift.com/video/Damn-Yankees-High-Enough-The-80s-never-looked-so-bad

Not ONLY does it have a bullet deflecting guitar solo, but it has Lorenzo Lamas.

Now that is a QUALITY 80s music video.

Personally, I like the Dalai Lama. I'll be back when I have more power points.

Seeing the Dalai Lama as a moral authority and the his world view is close to perfect in its openness seems well pretty uninformed. The Buddhist faith is terribly fatalistic and the Tibetan social structure is very conservative and quite fascist.

And to celebrate moral relativism seems rather naive. That is best left for drum circles and the dead.

Upvote without even watching it.

Of course...it's a dupe.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Caddyshacks-Carl-Spackler-on-the-Dali-Lama

You probies better start searching for these yourselves.

woot! DRAMA LAMA SAVES THE DAY.

I ignore people all the time.. until they forget about me

"Tibet was an independant empire from the 7th to 11th centuries.

Later it was ruled by the Dalai Lamas, with increasing Chinese influence, but it seems that historians are not clear when China effectively took control."
Yahoo answers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tibet

Tibet was indeed a province that was free, before the Qin Dynasty united china.

>> ^syncron:
Tibet has never been an independent state, and there is little practical reason for it to become one. international media is. News agencies like to sully the reputations of rival nations, only because their own governments support such actions.


Also, prove that Tibet supports international terrorists, because I would like to know. (No troll intended.)

They SHOULD apologize for wearing masks, just like the Tibetans who try to see the Dalai Lama should apologize for being shot by Chinese soldiers.

Instant Karma indeed.

I disagree with what? and who?
If you are talking about why I down voted the video, it's because junk like like that doesn't deserve to be sifted. It's nothing but rich celebrities with a dead cockroach for brains thinking that by jumping on any social/global issue bandwagons makes them some how superior... without knowing the full details. Now there are exceptions to that. But here we just have a typical case of bandwagon moron. Just listening to her talk makes me cringe. "being mean to 'the Dalai Lama', that's not nice, he is my friend!"? I mean come the fuck on! How the fuck is that "KARMA"! If you are going to speak out about an important issue, do it with some substance! How about saying that CCP and the Chinese goverment shouldn't impose social and religious restrictions on the citizens of China so on, one can go on and on about it. We don't live in a perfect world.

And back to Karma? How is it that saying chinese not being nice have brought this on themselves? Are you kidding me? What did those ppl that lived in the mountains most of their lives working in the fields, working in small factories have no saying in what ever thats going on in Tibet or anyother areas where imjustice has happened deserved it? Not to mention that the area where the earthquake happened actually have a very large Tibetan population and the worst areas of the quake near the epicenter in the mountains have buddhist temples there. KAR-FUCKING-MA?

At the end of the video that animation short is terrible as well, worthless. This whole boycott this boycott that about the Olympics is rather stupid. What do the people that boycotted the event or the trochrelay can accomplish? Sure the events will profit the "evil chinese goverment" at the same time it is prvoiding opportunities for average Chinese with jobs, commerce etc. That the world has become a smaller place, they are able to see how far a long they have come, creating incentives for them to change whats around them and reaching out. And at the very least providing some entertainment to those who are less fortunate. Boycotting is like saying we know theres a problem and we are no pleased so we are not going to be part of it there! and then does nothing.

As for the comment, I don't know where to start. It is even worse than the video. I personally hate anyone and anything that pushs an agenda by using events such as this earth quake as a power base. I better stop here before I start my long rant and offends more ppl...


>> ^choggie:
by the way, comment voting sucks-wish we could get rid of it-hey JTZ, what of it man, you disagree or what????

OMG. I finally brought myself to watch this video, which wasn't easy. That horrible deformity made me so squeamish. That poor guy. Why did they wait so long to to do this procedure? Oh wait; it's China. They had higher priorities. Like promoting the Olympics and shooting Tibetan pilgrims just trying to see the Dalai Lama.

To Omelet :
by "The difference is that the majority of people in Tibet would like to be independent from China", you are surely wrong. Most western people don't belive it but the truth is majority of people in tibet would like to have Dalai Lama return to Tibet but they don't care about gaining independence at all. Come to Tibet please, and you know the truth. There are 3 million tibetan in Tibet and less than 0.2 million tibetan are overseas. It is the oversea tibetan( they were slave owners before 1959 and lost their power that year) and some ruling class (monks) in Tibet who want to gain independence. The ordinary tibetan people are mainly concerned with the economic change that Han and Muslim Chinese have brought to Lhasa. Of course I am not saying the human rights in Tibet is good. Not at all. Chinese government have a lot of room to improve in human right, though the current cituation is much much much better than it was when Dalai Lama was in power before 1959 (remember he was the biggest slave owners and more than 90% of Tibetan population was slaves at that time). Tibetan people have every right to fight for more freedom against the goverment (so do the Han Chinese people) but it doesn not mandate the independence. Their ordinary people simply don't want it at all, though you western guys are crying for it. Come and talk to ORDINARY tibetan people in TIBET( not only oversea, not only monks... these guys are previous slave owners!), you will find the truth!!

Watched this right after Charlie's interview with the Dalai Lama. great juxtaposition. Stoll reminds me of a friend long gone. HPA

I'm still confused. Are you saying we should boycott the olympics because China is occupying Tibet? If so, then should we also boycott any future olympic games being held in the US, in Russia, Australia, Turkey, Spain and Israel (just the countries I can think of at the top of my head)?
I'm not saying the situation is anything but grim in Tibet, but as I understand it the Chinese consider Tibet a part of China which would make the Tibetan nationalists rebels. What I'm trying to get at is that there's always (atleast) two sides to an issue, and from what I've gathered the west has chosen to highlight and support the Dalai Lama's plight with strong propaganda against China. Apparently, the situation before the Chinese invasion wasn't any better than today, and while it in no stretch justifies murder like what we witness in the video, I think boycotting the olympics because they're held in China makes little sense.
First of all, it's not like they chose to hold the games there because the Chinese (in our perspective) occupy Tibet nor because they've commited human rights violations. Instead, they chose that particular country because it proved it was able to successfully hold the event, properly set up the various arenas and make sure the games were covered adequately.
Second of all, and this will be my last point, if we should decide on boycotting the games for above mentioned reasons then I'm afraid we'll quickly run out of countries to hold them in. I guess we could hold them on Iceland, but that's kind of self-defeating since the whole idea (as I understand it) is that every country that participates should have a chance of holding the games, and that should be the only thing relevant to the people watching the olympics in my mind. It's completely detached from any of its participating countries' internal policies, and it should stay that way.

Ho my God, he's crazy like Van Damne!

Note to Buddhist Lamas: Do not reincarnate into Western kickboxing actors, they short-fuse.