I was missing the core message here due to the initially apparent illogicality and counter-productiveness of the methodology employed to spread it.. however this limited view was based on my not having personal experience of living in a culture that is overly oppressive to women to such an unfamiliar degree.

So thanks to @Lann and @chingalera for the clarification and alternative perspective (before I made an ass of myself making comments that would have only related to some more so progressive cultures where this type of protesting isn't needed)

Yogi, I wholeheartedly agree with your overall observation and appreciated the indulgence with the stereotypes. Gals can all agree, guys today (even you yourself by mere presence within the epoch) are men-like creatures in unfamiliar skin-suits, fish out of the water they have allowed to be fabricated for themselves by whoM??..
-Other men-like, fleshapoids more influential and powerful a douchebaggering force than they themselves, determined to whittle a new breed of useful stock for future indulgences...

Real men exist inside every male. Real women, too!

...these guys are total cock-bags!! )

Now read Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and count how many times the word the word "nigger" is used and think about the context of what you are reading before you recoil from seeing letters arranged on pages that make you feel....uncomfortable.

Other suggested reading:
http://www.tommyduggan.com/teacher.html

Oh, and Joseph Conrad "NIgger of the Narcissus" ??...Here's a moronic move by the publisher re-issuing the book in 2009(about the time when all this N-Word nonsense started??) written in 1897, the new printing calls it, "The N-Word of the Narcissus"
in a dull and vapid move to not hurt anyone's wittle feeewings when gazing at it on the shelf??! WTF?! Censorship of an issue someone has with semantics and etymology, etc....ludicrous.

Racist books should be read to kids to school them on HISTORY as well as guide them in a path to understanding the species and the social cauldron we live in now. You can't help the old fuckers, they're gonna have to work it out on their own...But please, teaching your children to reference a word by it's first letter?? Someone hand me that airplane bag, still got a few hours left on the flight.

I lapse into this diatribe for your benefit and edification EDB, not trying to be mean-I believe the recent fervor over Django Unchained got me back on the subject, as well as the inappropriate title of this offering.

I also believe that it is part of the natural order of the species to survive, and to avail oneself of all the tools necessary to do so during one's tenure here should be a no-brainer to modern man with an I.Q. of 90 or above, hence my stance on being able to bear arms with as many bullets as needed to accomplish the task by birthright-Why should only cunts have guns, eh? Makes no sense.

Hope you understand my stance on guns now...I ain't no ya-hoo and I know my way around all the guns I own and the ones I've had a chance to get my hands on after about 50 rounds with an unfamiliar handgun?? Holes in holes at 10 yards, all day long!

Oh and BTW, I called that phone number on this advert. "No Longer in Service"

Is this freal??

I appreciate your invitation. I would gladly visit you, but not for that purpose. I haven't been a Christian all of my life, so I am not unfamiliar with these types of experiences. I know what they are, and what is behind them. I know they are very important you, and I am not trying to condemn you; I am warning you that you are playing with forces that are beyond your control or understanding, and that they are malevolent in nature. I don't expect that you will believe me but I do pray that God will reveal this to you in a way that you can understand. Thank you again for your kind offer; I can understand your perspective on this. I might have thought in a similar way previously. God bless.

>> ^seltar:

I've seen one other, and it was equally bad with regards to the camera work. Just because he's done it before, doesn't make it ok
The rants are fine, don't get me wrong. But he could've done without the camera theatrics. >> ^notarobot:
>> ^seltar:
Oh camera man, that isn't how you're supposed to move a camera. You're being silly, camera man.

Methinks you are unfamiliar with the rants of Rick Mercer, no?



The quirky camera movements have been a signature of Mercer's two minute rants for more than a decade. I've always thought that the camera style to be fun way to add punctuation to his speech--but to each their own.

Among my favorites are rants about Toronto weather, and his quality "It Gets Better" rant on bullying.

I've seen one other, and it was equally bad with regards to the camera work. Just because he's done it before, doesn't make it ok
The rants are fine, don't get me wrong. But he could've done without the camera theatrics. >> ^notarobot:

>> ^seltar:
Oh camera man, that isn't how you're supposed to move a camera. You're being silly, camera man.

Methinks you are unfamiliar with the rants of Rick Mercer, no?

>> ^seltar:

Oh camera man, that isn't how you're supposed to move a camera. You're being silly, camera man.


Methinks you are unfamiliar with the rants of Rick Mercer, no?

It's good fun to pick on the commentators but what should they do? Compliment everyone so those of us unfamiliar with the sport don't have any idea why everyone isn't given high scores? It's not like they're being especially nasty, given the sheer volume of commentary that the Olympics produces. Except the comment about the girl not keeping her legs together, wow. Props on the research at least.

What are you going to do with the rest of the melted gold? Thatt was a really odd tangent, about the medals, and the gold. I don't really get it. The chimp makes more sense.
>> ^Lolthien:

>> ^budzos:
Honestly.. the wide-spread perception of this video is an illustration of why it's impossible to reason with some people. Almost all people are seriously prone to attach non-existent narrative to completely neutral events when it suits their agenda.

Good thing you're here to show us the error of our ways. After all, our complete unfamiliarity with primate behavior is no excuse to believe what the title of the video, and the people in the video suggest. We should all take up a collection, and purchase a medal. Then melt down that metal and each of us should drop a single drip of molten gold into our pitiful eyesockets and hope that the gold reaches our brains and somehow fuses with our neurons and makes us as perceptive as you. The only other possibility is death, and that is much preferable to remaining as stupid as well all are.
Thank you sir, thank you for showing me the error of my ways.

As a biker, I've had people try and run me off the road for no reason at all. And by no reason, I mean me minding my own business while casually riding to work. At one point, I had a car full of thugs try to side swipe me because I gently honked my horn when they didn't leave from a green light after about 10 seconds. This same group of thugs followed me to the parking lot where I worked and 3 of them proceeded to get out of said care with what looked like tire irons and a baseball bat. If I hadn't been legally concealing a fire arm at the time things likely would not have ended well for me. As it was they decided it was a better idea to return to their car and drive away.

Things like this are why, even though I hate that I have to, I am always armed when riding in unfamiliar areas.

Well, I mean more a channel about the tech of the internet, the usage of the internet, possibly the social ramifications (like the Egyptian protests), so yeah, no memes or viral pieces, they don't fit the idea.

More like this, or this.

So, "The history and impact of the web", would be its tagline I guess.
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I'm crazy for the Sift! An internet channel, that can't be *meme or *viral. I wonder.
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C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S!!! Ruby ruby ruby! What's your channel going to be??


You mad bugger, you got me over!

I'd better post a few more videos lest dead videos don't drop me back under.

Oh, and I didn't even notice it until I was commenting this morning, and the newly minted comment popped up and I saw an unfamiliar colour next to my name.

You are crazy UP, but I thank you for my new bling :

I'm crazy for the Sift! An internet channel, that can't be *meme or *viral. I wonder.
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C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S!!! Ruby ruby ruby! What's your channel going to be??


You mad bugger, you got me over!

I'd better post a few more videos lest dead videos don't drop me back under.

Oh, and I didn't even notice it until I was commenting this morning, and the newly minted comment popped up and I saw an unfamiliar colour next to my name.

You are crazy UP, but I thank you for my new bling :

In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S!!! Ruby ruby ruby! What's your channel going to be??


You mad bugger, you got me over!

I'd better post a few more videos lest dead videos don't drop me back under.

Oh, and I didn't even notice it until I was commenting this morning, and the newly minted comment popped up and I saw an unfamiliar colour next to my name.

You are crazy UP, but I thank you for my new bling

>> ^Fletch:

Everything NDT says sounds like the most astounding fact he's ever heard, and that you should be astounded by it too. His meter - every enunciation, accentuation, and pause - sounds affected and I, for some reason, can't stand to listen to him. I've tried. He talks about things I'm interested in and I enjoy reading what he has written (I have "Pluto Files" and "Space Chronicles" on my Kindle), but when he starts talking, it just sounds like he's talking to five year-olds to me.
F ck it, upvote.


I know exactly what you're saying. There's a british version of this and he's called Brian Cox. Every single time he speaks, i feel my skin crawling that he knows that he has to try and manipulate the audience into feeling emotion that they just don't feel.

I subscribe to the principle as well. I agree, the connectedness of the universe is absolutely amazing. When you think about the familiar vs. the unfamiliar, the known vs. the unknown.... we know each other, we know the planet we live on and we feel safe here, but there's an infinite chasm in all directions around us. Sometimes when i consider this i can give myself vertigo.

If i were trapped in a cave with the most fundamental islamist ever, and we didn't know what lay on the other side of the collapsed wall, we'd eventually cooperate and work together to get out, to see what's there. Maybe we find something great out there, or maybe we have to build some defences to make ourselves safer in the cave.

Put us on earth, and we put bombs in each other's homes. The knowledge of how amazing the universe is really does lift you up, places you above all the stupid racism and general jingoism. But you can't fake it or inspire it, you either feel it or you don't.

Having said that, at least they're getting the field of physics more attention, and maybe they might influence some kids whilst they're influence-able.