P.S. I couldn't believe it took so long to occur to me, but my least favorite sift is definitely this one:

Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trailer

Interview with the guys. Most Australian dudes ever http://mirror.ninja/grly

whats a plugga?

I could forgive some stylistic changes, but this is just too much. It's so tropey it looks like they put no effort into it. I can just hear the Fast and Furious idiot: "Yeah it needs ninjas, lasers, motorcycles, a guy hanging on a cliff, and lots and lots of space ships yeah!"

Oh jesus. Why does doomsday look like a fucking ninja turtle? And not even the good ones.. .the shit ones!

Well at least they fairly clearly put paid to the daft "Ben Affleck = Deathstroke" theory straight away.

I cannot for the life of me see how this will be good.

Up-vote for running his arms held out behind him!! - Like a true Ninja!

Here I am wondering how a ninja grappling hook has something to do with contraception. TIL

That's not pizza rat.

It was footage captured by April O'Neal of Splinter bringing pizza to his teenage mutant ninja turtles.

Common sense is probably the wrong phrase.

But how else does the system work? If you are going to invest a group with the responsibility to enforce laws (by violence if necessary), then almost by definition, any kind of active* resistance against them has to be a crime.

Otherwise, what? You're a ninja/the hulk/Ronda Rousey and if you can fight off the cops, you go free?

*passive resistance, as at a demonstration, is a different scenario.

I finally just finished watching the 3 hour finale on my DVR (kept trying to avoid this spoiler post) and was thoroughly happy with the results.

I'm way on board with your sentiments, but must add my 2 cents.

First, I think it's important to realize it's not the way ANW runs the show that causes the competitors to behave the way they do; it's the American competitors themselves who share that undesirable selfish, braggadocious attitude/philosophy. Even when you watch the Japanese Sasuke competitions, when there's an American competing surrounded by Japanese competitors inside Japan, you still feel that same air of arrogance.

I've been watching the Sasuke for many years and started watching ANW before it was ANW (even in the first "seasons" on Attack of the Show where the competitors had bounce on a trampoline and swing on some monkey bars to earn their way to Japan). The American attitude always been something that bothers me and takes a huge chunk out of my interest.

I always find it disconcerting the way they don't explain any details, such as why Geoff got to climb first (which is why he gets to claim he's the first person to ever reach the top).

The other thing I've been crying "foul" on is that they seemed to lighten it up on the obstacles. This year there were 38 people to go to round 2. That's ridiculous. But what's worse is that round 2 had way too long a time limit. Normally competitors who succeed on stage 2 have about a second left when they hit the button, but many of those who went through to stage 3 had around 30 seconds on the clock.

I had to rewind a couple of times, but I confirmed Isaac said "share the moment" not the money.

My wife and I were both displeased that Geoff announced he gets to say he's the first to beat stage 4. That's such a poor attitude, and I liked Popeye a lot more until then. And regardless how they decided who got to go first, I think they both have to be considered as equally the first to finish stage 4. (Side note: I was really bummed they didn't use the loud "bang! bang!" sounds to start stage 4 like they do in Japan.)

I myself don't have a problem with the very redesigned courses each season.

The USA versus the World bullshit is some serious bullshit that's hard to swallow. Not only is the whole "our country is better than you" concept horrible, but the actual competition is shit. It's not the same beating the course one rested person at a time. But also last year the Europeans brought in a rock climber who knew nothing about Ninja Warrior and just sent him in fully rested to do the arm-centric work.

Boy, we could get together and write a dissertation on this subject.

You want to take out the PINK femmenist card you might want to go look at the founding fathers and operators of the site. The Ninja 4 as I like to call them.

You have been around long enough you should know this history, the history of the sift. Shame on you, shame on your joke. shame shame shame shame shame .

*blocked in Canada because we don't believe in ninjas.

https://sites.google.com/site/fiveholeninjas/_/rsrc/1396309390002/home/hockeyNinja_final.png?height=320&width=286

Description is technically correct, but misleading.
He was the SECOND person to finish the 4th course, but the first person to win ANW. He was 3.5 seconds faster than the Frist American Ninja Warrior, making him the winner of the $1million prize, but not the title of First ANW.

Here's a mirror link for those who have it *blocked

http://mirror.ninja/2twt

Thanks! Found it---now, I can't get the Sift to recognize the Mirror site.
http://mirror.ninja/5dea