Who are we to trample on people's right to hate stuff? The Jedi are well-meaning and all, but they act like overbearing parents, imposing their peaceful ways on us by the end of a light saber.

Peace is a lie. There is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
>> ^pho3n1x:

>> ^gwiz665:
talks
Bah humbug. I don't like the imagery of burning books, but if no one is hurt in the process, go right ahead. Burn books, flags and whatever symbols you like.

but... hate breeds hate.
there was once a wise man from Dagobah who said, “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
this whole debate about the Park51 community center and the Quran burning has led to anger and hate. Ask the NYC taxi driver who got his throat slit...

>> ^gwiz665:

talks
Bah humbug. I don't like the imagery of burning books, but if no one is hurt in the process, go right ahead. Burn books, flags and whatever symbols you like.


but... hate breeds hate.

there was once a wise man from Dagobah who said, “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

this whole debate about the Park51 community center and the Quran burning has led to anger and hate. Ask the NYC taxi driver who got his throat slit...

Did anyone notice the theme music is similar to Bernard Herrmann's score for Taxi Driver?

Or is this common knowledge and I've actually discovered nothing? I hate it when that happens.

Same here, though I enjoy both.

Seven thoughts as I watched this vid:

1. Gangs of New York was such a nothing film. The Departed and Shutter Island were terrific.

2. Scorsese's early work (Who's That Knocking on My Door, Mean Streets, and Taxi Driver) was very artistic. His movies since that time: not so much.

3. "We Are the People is not the same as We Are the People. Let's not fight. Look, I'm gonna make it real simple. We don't pay for the buttons, We throw the buttons away."

4. The only Kubrick film I was really disappointed with was Eyes Wide Shut. That was also a nothing film.

5. Kubrick's movies are timeless and infinitely re-watchable. But then, so are Scorsese's.

6. Kubrick started as a photographer and so his films are meticulous and beautiful, especially Barry Lyndon. Kubrick was an artist through and through.

7. "Hey Dad. There's a strange fella sittin' on the sofa munchy-wunchin' long tics of toast!"

It's not made clear how this was started, or how they get the good parking.

From googling around, the program appears to be government funded, but I would like to know if the parking spaces are paid for, and if the other taxi drivers have the option to bid for or purchase similar preferential parking.

Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver. That's the best acting I've ever seen.

acting sane is harder than acting crazy.. for some of us ..

with exceptions for: taxi driver and silence of the lambs. bravo there!

I dont know if I'll ever get the hang of tipping.

When I was in Chicago, I had to buy luggage. Went to luggage shop and the guy behind the counter had to go down to the store room to get a wheelie-suitcase for me. Should I have tipped him? Is that considered a service like wait staff or something? Could he have been molesting a voodoo doll of me for the last five years?

I just tipped my taxi driver, the fare was €8 (for about two miles) so I gave him €10. I thought that was generous.

Much appreciated.

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*promote *vintage

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That's all we need to know pims, all we need to know

Issy, my god I think we're on the umm... fourth episode of season 3 and it's AMAZING! Lost is just surpassing itself in every way too, woohoo bout frickin time.

Ok i'll start you off then if I must.

This was one of the weirdest things to happen. I was young and reckless and completely rebellious and decided one day to jump the train with my friend to London. She knew some fellas up there who would put us up and I briefly knew who they were and had met them so wasn't particularly concerned. We spent the hour and a half there wedged in the loos smoking out of the window and drinking a bottle each of white cider, bleeeech. By the time we got there I was pretty wasted already, and it was a hot day etc. Wandering through London taking buses to get to this mobile phone shop they all worked in together. Eventually they finished up for the day and we went home to her friends place, by this point I had been given a few spliffs on top of the cider and was really not myself at all. Anyway, when we walked into this apartment there was this guy who was all dressed up in overalls painting the place.

Kelly's friend introduced him just as Steve and that he was doin him a favour decorating his place out for him as he'd not long moved there. He was a total hottie and I was drunk and stoned so had clearly lost any inhibitions and was flirting outrageously. As the evening went on he finished up and came in and sat down to eat with us and get drunk. Of course I was being a total slapper, and he seemingly didn't mind at all. Basically we got a bit frisky and all that jazz but when it came down to it (literally) there was no way I was going there his penis was abnormal and by that I mean gigantic! Scared the living shit out of me. Luckily he wasn't a bad guy and just laughed and we fell asleep all being well.

Next day I got made a complete twat of. Somehow the staff at the home I was living in had gotten hold of Kelly's number and rang her Mum who had done a 1471 when Kel phoned her the night before and gave the number to my social worker. So the next morning this guy who's flat we're in gets a very shitty phone call telling him that he had two underage girls who have run away, one in local authority care and that if he didn't take us to a police station so we could get home they would ring the cops and get them arrested. So yeah that was horrible, especially seeing as i'd lied about my age haha. Fucking embarrassing, but I was glad to get out of there after that. We had to wait in the police station until they could get a taxi driver who was willing to drive all the way to London from Bournemouth and then back again. Some stupid red tape funding issues stopped us just getting a taxi from London as it was going to be Social Services paying it, not us outright. Eventually some guy got there, and we fell asleep in the back of the car.

Woke up to find ourselves off road somewhere in the New Forest!! We absolutely shit ourselves, neither of us had a phone. All the lights were off and the driver was passed out in his seat, it was about 2am. We demanded he wake up not trusting him or the situation, it all felt very weird. He tried to tell us he was just needing a nap or he couldn't drive but we both started crying and panicking, so the poor bastard was left with little choice. Finally got home, acted like the little twat I was when they started questioning me about where I had been and what i'd been doing, as if they had no right to worry about me, god I was such a prick sometimes haha.

So I got lumped with paying that whole bill off, took me nearly a year to finish. As far as I was concerned though, it had been a little adventure and something in me when I was young craved independence so much I didn't think twice about doing stupuid stuff. The end of this story was the weirdest part...

This Steve had through his friend told Kelly a few times he wanted to meet up with me again and blah blah. I was never interested, mostly cos unless I was drunk the male species pretty much perplexed me even up until I was about 17! Turned out it was a good job I never went there. About 6 months later I get a phone call from Kelly telling me to turn the fucking tv on NOW. The Cook Report was on, some investigative journo Roger Cook used to go around doing exposes on stuff, he was one of the first people to do a show such as that. And there he was, this Steve. Turned out he wasn't a painter and decorator, he was the owner of a chain of phone shops and he had fraudulently made hundreds and thousands of pounds in stolen and contract phones. Jesus Christ

I'm not sure what the moral of this story is, but I can safely say I've never been as reckless since!

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Very impressive, KP. This is my first post. It's not great, but anything with Taxi Driver in it is good enough for me. The reason I joined the sift was so I could post this, but someone did it a week before

Funny to see that my 4th published vid got to #1 in the top15. That's right, I've been a fan favourite from day 1

1) Season - Summer. noooo doubt.
2) Place in the world - the deep forrest or in the mountains
3) Children's book - Lord of the rings (read it when I was 9, so that counts)
4) TV Series - nothing right now
5) Word - schadenfreude, it just sounds so fun, yet perverted
6) Film - too many to choose...but I'll say either Taxi Driver or Good, Bad & Ugly
7) Curse - the curse of the receding hairline (as it affects everyone but me)
Creature - Jeff Koons' puppy
9) Past time - looking in the mirror with my pal Narcissus
10)Person - Bob Dylan...big surprise, I know.

11) Dog or cat - they're both good
12) Sweet or savoury - savoury
13) Cereal or Toast - cereal
14) Tan or pale - hmmmmmmmmmm....gonna have to go with pale - you brits are OK by me
15) Shoes or barefoot - slippers
16) Desktop or laptop - laptop
17) Drive or walk - ghost-riding
18) Drama or comedy - there's a time for everything
19) Sex or food - ever heard of multitasking?
20) Futurama or Simpsons - both very good...nowadays it's futurama

21) Your fave personal submission - Joe Strummer - Redemption Song
22) A great comment on one of your vids - I don't comment on my own vids
23) Most off the wall member - too many...or too few?.
24) Favourite user name - dystopianfuturetoday
25) Your most used channel - comedy
26) Personal dumbass moment - what, today?
27) Best avatar - Mine, but blankfist made it. Whatta guy!
28) Partner in crime - siftbot
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - I like to keep my realities separate
30) Idea for the site - no more election vids.


31) Where do you live - norway, it's cold here
32) Smoker/non-smoker - non
33) Left or right handed - right, I'm not a freak or anything!
34) Hair colour - blond
35) Relationship status - free as a bird
36) How tall - 189 cm, not sure what in feet/inches
37) Children - only my inner child
38) Ever had an operation - numerous
39) Best feature - I've been told I have beautiful eyes (by blankfist)
40) Use four words to describe yourself - don't. feel. like. it.

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Maybe not so famous, but (Emperor) Joshua Norton would be great. (and Joe Strummer of course)
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - diabetes, I guess
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - myself, I've always wanted my own planet (yes, I know it's not a planet, but it'll do!)
44) Relive a moment in your life - I don't live in the past
45) Have a superpower - being able to juggle
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - who killed jfk
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - nah, I like women
48) Be president for one hour - what for?
49) Delete a period in history - the 80s
50) Achieve one thing - to die in my footsteps

>> ^Fade:
Thats probably the most ignorant thing I've read in a long time. You wanna tell a plumber/taxi driver/waitress/oh I don't know pick anybody with a job that they simply don't have the right to express their own political opinions?
FYI most politicians are actors. Presidents and Govinators were actors.


I think you're overstating things here...

No one has ever accused Arnie of being an actor.