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What narcolepsy really looks like
I also have narcolepsy, but out of the different "versions" you can find, I think mine may be the easiest to handle (though it may depend on person to person). I do get tired, but strangely I also suffer from extreme chronic headaches, which are powerful enough to keep me awake (bad however, as taking naps are almost always out of the question).
My issues revolve around the fact that when I go to sleep I stay in REM, or phase 2 sleep, almost all night long. I will have very vivid dreams that occur all night long (usually I'll sleep for two hours, get woken up by the dream, rinse and repeat). With this comes the more terrible aspects. I have constant bouts of sleep paralysis every night, and on top of this I suffer from hypnagogic hallucinations like crazy (even when I "think" I'm fully awake).
Very rarely the narcolepsy causes sleeping fits, but it is rare. It may be possible that cataplexy is involved, but I doubt it--it simply happens to rarely (although it does mimic it fairly closely).
Anyway, hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis are NOT for everyone (as I had a hypnagogic hallucination so strong it felt like someone was yanking me through my bed, sound familiar?). This is where the origins of succubi, demons, angels, and aliens taking you away in the night come from. So, if you do not have a healthy intellect and open mind, you may just end up being, literally, scared of sleeping (unless you are on something akin to Xyrem).
My father has it as well, his symptoms are a little more classical, much like the poster above.
Colbert responds to #CancelColbert
Eh. Ultimately, satire can offend, but its goal is to enlighten people. If it's good satire, there should be a net positive societal gain.
I'm arguing that if you end up offending more than you enlighten, there's no net positive societal gain there. Especially if you offend a subset of the very group (targets of racism in this case) than you're trying to uplift with the satire.
It's got to be case-by-case, and it's often a very tough call. As I mentioned above, Dave Chappelle himself, by most accounts a comedic genius, struggled with it immensely in his material. And figuring all of this out is a tricky, ongoing process of discovery and dialog which requires a more nuanced viewpoint and empathy than you're showing a willingness to take on. Honestly it's a lot to process and I often wonder and question my own ability to navigate these issues.
Ultimately, I feel like you and many others just want win an argument and not really have to think about things like this anymore in the future. You want your racial satire and you want your rape jokes without talking about or thinking about any boundaries or grey areas for the purveyors of that comedy, and that's that. Black and white.
If something like this comes up again, welp, you already have an answer for that. You can just pull out your rubber stamp that says:
"It's satire people! Those offended don't get the context of the joke."
Colbert's character is a satire of just that kind of black and white way of thinking, so it's highly ironic for his viewership to mimic it.
I view it as similar to "rape jokes". It's the target of the joke that matters, not the content as such.
Buts let's say the cotton picking version did air. I wouldn't be telling the black community to "lighten up" anymore than I'm telling the Asian community to lighten up now. It's not about taking a joke, it's about understanding the context of a joke, and realising that you are not the target.
The Call Of Ktulu ☻ Warsaw Guitar Orchestra
I think I upvoted the idea more than the execution.
It was a fairly straight cover that didn't really explore the possibilities of a "guitar orchestra".
I suppose I was hoping for something clever using guitars to mimic the drums and bass, and maybe some kind of dual harmonic lead.
Thought the solo was kinna cheesed as well. Also would add that there are more than a few of the ensemble lacking that spark of soul to render the passion and depth of the piece, there could be a future Hetfield in the mix and if you check it, it's probably the one or two who have their feet planted firmly in some real blues.
What Systema looks like once you've reached a certain level
It's kind of an unfortunate paradox that the more you practice these things, the more compliant you become to the actual movements. So, in a way, you become less resistant to protect yourself from injury and also to allow your partner to focus on their movements...but in the end, you become more susceptible to the techniques than an unpracticed person.
It's like dance partners. Being the best dancer in the world may allow you to move an unskilled partner in a manner that mimics skill but you're not going to pull off any complex movements.
I have all the respect in the world for what these guys do but I think they'd agree that they're just messing around and showing off some stuff that doesn't work so elegantly in real life.
Back to Eden Documentary
Good documentary but holy hell too much preaching...
But sad thing is the lessons on creating the garden are pure gold if you ignore the bible verses and such.
I've used wood chip cover and have also never had to water or fertilize the garden or rotate drops. If you copycat how nature works with covered ground then you can mimic nature in your garden and never have to water or fertilize it.
The proselytizing is a bit over the top, leave that out and this could have been award winning
Dave Chappelle - Sunny D (i want that purple stuff...)
They gave us the purple stuff in after school child care. Nothing about it is natural and it's what I would imagine the machines would create for the remainder of humanity in their zoo to try and mimic the last days of our civilization.
Spidey-Sense Saves Russian From Out Of Control Car
Ugh, if that were me today, I'd probably mimic the motion of pressing my W-key + Sprint, and die wondering why my guy wouldn't move.
Gorilla Pranks Zoo Workers
I was at a private animal park in Oregon as a kid, and there was a sign on the chimpanzee cage that urged visitors not to mimic or taunt the animals. One Dad with family in tow ignored it, and did the "ooh ooh ooh" sounds with his hands up at his armpits. An adult female calmly walked over, picked up a pile of shit and flung it underhand at him with great precision. The kids began to shriek and run away, and the female chimp laughed her ass off.
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Dude that's a huge stretch.
Edit: A parody mimics/mocks content that already exist in literature, film, music ect. It's not just making fun of things in general life.
Adults parodying kids'/children's behaviors.
Living Plant
This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by zombieater.
Living Plant
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This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by eric3579. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.
Living Plant
Aparently a duplicate_of=http://videosift.com/video/Sea-Cucumber-Mimics-Plant
I think I've seen this clip even earlier than the dupe linked above, but I can't be sure. Nor has my avatar evolved sufficiently to officially declare this a dupe.
Jim Carrey takes on Gun Control, as only he can
Two comments:
1. I wanna see Jim Carrey in a Western, preferably as the villain.
2. I forget what a great mimic Carrey was.
The Situation Room: L.A. gun buyback yields rocket launchers
Yea there are both 9 and 20mm versions for target practice, the 20mm adds more realism in the form of a large bang,
I have used both, and i have to say that the 9mm is definitely one of the weirdest weapons to shoot.
First its basically a gun barrel in a drainpipe which effectively makes it a suppressed weapon, it doesn't go plonk as the wikipedia article states but more of a suppressed pong as the whole tube resonates with the bang.
Secondly it's surprisingly accurate (possibly due to the size of the weapon), but the barrel is designed to mimic the flightpath of the real ones which makes the bullet behave strangely once it hits something, it has a tendency to bounce, deflect or just move irraticly, multiple times at that.
On several occasions during training we saw those tracer rounds basically jump and skip up the cliff face behind the firing range.
Oh I almost forgot that there are reloadable AT4s as well but they have been modified to fire 9mm pistol tracer rounds for target practice... cheaper and safer than the real deal...