I'm surprised how nonchalant these guys are. These guys see a huge fireball rip across the sky and barely grunt. Those Russians are stonecold mvtherfvckers...

I guess there's a benefit in teaching someone to use a tool that is capable of killing you. The respect and discipline involved is something of a life lesson, and can be extended to any number of potentially deadly things that we interact with more or less often.

When I was about 12, my dad and I went to a gun range in Florida for the first time, and he put his 1911 .45 in my hands, and showed me how to hold it, how to check if it was loaded, how to load it, and how to shoot it. He showed me how to respect the thing for the destructive life-taker that it is.

"Don't point a gun at anything you don't want to destroy" he said over and over again. I was terrified. I still enjoy shooting guns, even though I don't own any, and don't think I'll ever want one, but I can see the allure.

When you infuse an object with that level of emotional mass... it's like you can feel it in the room with you. The thing becomes more than a tool, it's a little gravity well of destructive power.

That's how I see them anyway. The people who are nonchalant about them scare me though. Stupid kids pointing guns at themselves in facebook cover photos. These people are the reason we can't have nice things.

Good point-

Her reaction to the roaches was quite the tell. She's too girly-girl looking to have reacted as nonchalantly-She's seen these bugs before.

I am the hipster elite Heeple Sheeple titan supreme leader with cheese! And I approve this message in a nonchalant disaffected sort of way while listening to my "Classic" NOW THAT'S MUSIC tracks on my U-pod wearing my fattest Stussy gear.

BTW... Female Greek Soldiers were called EsTrogans.........

He could've nonchalantly made his way to the desk and switched it there. But nooo, he had to announce what was wrong with the device and paused to replace it lol. Just an amateur presentation mistake.

Nonchalantly kicking that safety glass open is clearly a win. Unfortunately, the bank being able to check the camera logs with the time and ATM use will ultimately turn it all into one big fail.

I think once you've stepped in shot you've just gotta keep going. Cross the whole frame like a boss, make it soo nonchalent that everybody knows you were meant to be there. Don't pussy out in the middle and declare to the whole world that you fucked up.

I saw this video about a week or so ago. I thought about sifting for the policewoman's heroism and her nonchalance, but ultimately decided that this was basically a snuff film.

So, I downvote as well. It is an amazing video, if true, though.>> ^SDGundamX:

Yeah, I downvoted. I don't believe videos like this contribute anything of value to the Sift. There are plenty of other sites where you can go to watch people getting horribly maimed or killed. VideoSift shouldn't be one of them, IMO.
As a reminder from the VideoSift submission guidelines:

3. Please do not post pornography or "snuff" films (which we define as the explicit depiction of loss of human life displayed for entertainment).
Note: The presence of human fatality is acceptable and not considered "snuff" if presented as a limited portion of a lengthy educational, informative news report or documentary. Our definition of "snuff" does include but is not exclusive to any short clip in which a human fatality occurs whether or not any victims are actually visible on camera.

I love the nonchalant "Yeah, okay." look he gives, and then just takes a drag and goes back to normal after he's obviously been told "Stop that".

Awww. I have to *promote this as I live near this zoo and recently went. Giraffe's are their mascot too so this is great. Can't believe how nonchalant they all are, especially the mother with a 40lb baby hanging out of her, then when it drops to the floor they all skit off, weirdos!

perfect nonchalant move

I would so play this game... Love the absolute mayhem by the end, and the T-1's total nonchalance.

Thanking you for the promote

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*nonchalant prick

*nonchalant prick

Dogs
by Aaron Kramer

Looking foolish next to the tree in a one o'clock rain:
umbrella aloft, the leash in my other hand—
I wanted my late-coming neighbor to understand
that dogs are worth the expense, inconvenience, and pain;

their tails are truthful, no coiled rebellion beneath
a loving look; they are quick to kiss you, and quick
to fetch for you, and —should you raise a stick
threateningly—they are quick to show their teeth;

and better still (but this I never revealed),
when you bring downfall home, the death of a hope,
their nonchalant manner does more for you than a drink;
and best of all, when triumph's to be unsealed,
such lack of respect they show for the envelope,
—your fingers halt, the brain cools, and you think.