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Oligobble. Great portmanteau.

Um, sorry, I don't agree with this -- are you implying that @quantumushroom should be banned?

You talk of derailment -- that only happens when folks choose to engage. It takes two -- or more -- to derail. He drives you nuts? Stop engaging with him. Then he is reduced to one comment and then silence. Works great.

I don't agree with him, hardly at all, ever, but I will defend his right to be here. Besides, he is much less offensive and combative than many others on the Sift. In fact, I can't remember him personally attacking anyone. But then, my memory is shite.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

Ok, I think we've actually put up with QMs bullshit for long enough. He has crossed the line from being a misguided, moronic, but occasionally funny, troll into either deliberate spiteful trolling or full-on bigoted fuckwadery. I fail to see how his contribution to this community outweighs the numerous threads he has derailed with his own unique brand of portmanteau-based idiocy.
HERP DERP, I'll call it "the Gay"... for fucks sake, grow up. I haven't hit anyone outside of a dojo in years, but I think I'd punch you in the face if I met you.
And actually, while I'm on the subject, who fucking cares if being gay is a choice? If two consenting adults decide they want to screw each other, who is anyone to tell them not to?
Man, I've got to stop watching american politics on this site. It's so depressing to watch the worlds biggest economy dictated by a political scene that the rest of the world regards as frankly retarded. Honestly, when Obama came along I had some hope, but it's just more of the same shit.

Ok, I think we've actually put up with QMs bullshit for long enough. He has crossed the line from being a misguided, moronic, but occasionally funny, troll into either deliberate spiteful trolling or full-on bigoted fuckwadery. I fail to see how his contribution to this community outweighs the numerous threads he has derailed with his own unique brand of portmanteau-based idiocy.

HERP DERP, I'll call it "the Gay"... for fucks sake, grow up. I haven't hit anyone outside of a dojo in years, but I think I'd punch you in the face if I met you.

And actually, while I'm on the subject, who fucking cares if being gay is a choice? If two consenting adults decide they want to screw each other, who is anyone to tell them not to?

Man, I've got to stop watching american politics on this site. It's so depressing to watch the worlds biggest economy dictated by a political scene that the rest of the world regards as frankly retarded. Honestly, when Obama came along I had some hope, but it's just more of the same shit.

You're so kind, thank you Mr. C! (Love your portmanteau 'avincarnation', by the way.)

A genuine picture of myself?...hmmm...
...maybe there should be a ' De Facto Pic Day' on the sift? Heh.
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Thank you. What a sweet and wonderful greeting to my day this was. You are a darling.

May I extend the same to you?

I missed commenting on your last avincarnation. I really liked it...as have I all previous and the new one.

One of these days I suspect you will slip in one(or more) of you. If, that is, you have not already.

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Happy, groovy keen weekend to you and yours!

"Hobo" plus "Snow" equals "Snowbo"

portmanteau
>> ^residue:

I don't get the title

>> ^jiyanibi:

Personally, I think "no" on the sifter-assigned badges. Too much drama. And "maybe" on the "achievement" style badges. If you go for the achievement style badges, here are a few I just thought of...
"Resident Republican"...consistently downvoted comments in the Politics channel.
"The QuantuMushroom Award"...use the word "obamarxist" (or any other conservative talking point portmanteau) in more than half of your comments.
You know, something QM and WP can wear with pride.


The word portmanteau makes me think of a cajun sandwiches; and now I'm hungry.

Personally, I think "no" on the sifter-assigned badges. Too much drama. And "maybe" on the "achievement" style badges. If you go for the achievement style badges, here are a few I just thought of...

"Resident Republican"...consistently downvoted comments in the Politics channel.
"The QuantuMushroom Award"...use the word "obamarxist" (or any other conservative talking point portmanteau) in more than half of your comments.

You know, something QM and WP can wear with pride.

^ Some wiki-searching for ya:

Tollywood( Telugu:టాలీవుడ్/తెలుగు సినీపరిశ్రమ ) refers to the Telugu film industry. The origins of that name are disputed, but it is generally considered a portmanteau of "Telugu" and "Hollywood".


Telugu or Telegu (Telugu: తెలుగు) is a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages) mostly spoken in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where it is the official language.

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I propose the portmanteau "helilator" for this move.

(or escacopter)

How about a hideous portmanteau? Videosift: High I*Q-uality Video

But then of course, we'd need to ban half our membership.

See Wikipedia for support to both our positions. To quote the start of the article (which has many signs of the type in my video):

Chinglish (slang) is a portmanteau of the words Chinese and English and refers to either (a) English interspersed with Chinese language errors common to those Chinese persons who are learning English or (b) Chinese interspersed with English, such as used by westernized Chinese (e.g. American-born Chinese) who are not fluent in Chinese and codeswitch English words into speech when they can't think of the correct Chinese word.

Chinglish is not the name of a language, creole language, pidgin, or dialect.

The wonderful William Plympton? No kidding. I always thought 'portmanteau' was a little bag you kept your powder and wads in, not a linguistic handle.
Who Knew?

>> ^Aemaeth:
I don't understand why Republicans should be less in favor of IRV than Democrats. Who gains the upper hand from a split vote changes ever election.

You may have misread my post, I used the portmanteau Republicrats

I don't see how this could be a realistic approach to a national election. Consider the ballet: there are 10-20 candidates on there. I wouldn't want to rank all of those myself and a I think a lot of voters would have a tough time figuring it all out.

Generally you are not required to vote for all outcomes, usually one or two "minor" candidates as first choices, then a "major" candidate for last pick, so that your general preference will always be counted.

Now an admittedly ignorant question: why do we need to support so many parties when we have open primaries? I understand, for instance, the Green Party is based around strong environmental views. Why do we need a whole political party built around this? Same goes for the Libertarian Party. Al Gore was very "green" but was a Democrat and Ron Paul is very Libertarian, but Republican. Why don't we just have the smaller independent parties run under the party they most closely associate with (Rep/Dem)? Consider the success Ron Paul is enjoying and then consider if he would have the same with the title "Libertarian."

The general argument against this is that the major parties, and the primary system in general, are designed to reduce electoral choice/input. Not all states have open primaries, or primary elections at all, some have caucuses, which further marginalize "unelectable" candidates.

The real value of IRV is that people can vote for people because they agree with them, not because they are "electable". IRV allows everybody to add their "electable" preference as a backup to their real choice so people are more likely to vote with their ideals than with cynical pragmatism.

Right now in the US less then 2% of the electorate votes with their ideals against pragmatism. When people vote for a Libertarian, Green or Socialist candidate for president or governor they know that they will not win, but they feel that votes should be based on ideas, not cynicism. IRV makes it possible to have both, everyone can vote their ideals, without having to worry about it having negative pragmatic consequences.

This is was my favorite part, next to the Van Gogh and the castle piece.

Dreams — aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Yume (夢), I Saw a Dream Like This, Konna yume wo mita, or Such Dreams I Have Dreamed — is a 1990 portmanteau film based on actual dreams of the film's director, Akira Kurosawa at different stages of his life. The film is based more on imagery than on dialogue. It consists of eight separate segments in the following order:

# 1 Sunshine Through The Rain
# 2 The Peach Orchard
# 3 The Blizzard
# 4 The Tunnel
# 5 Crows
# 6 Mount Fuji in Red
# 7 The Weeping Demon
# 8 Village of the Watermills

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_(film)