Duckman, hold your mouse over the arrow and you'll see who downvoted your comment. I don't know why he would though

In reply to this comment by Duckman33:
Sorry, just can't upvote this guy. Specially when a lot of things he says here directly contradict what he did as President. Might want to add this to lies as well.

OK upvote now for the lies channel add.

And screw you whoever downoted my comment. Truth hurt much?

Sorry, just can't upvote this guy. Specially when a lot of things he says here directly contradict what he did as President. Might want to add this to lies as well.

OK upvote now for the lies channel add.

And screw you whoever downoted my comment. Truth hurt much?

Well Ok I just rewatched it.

I take it back much more going on here then appears.

The guy did very very well.

well ok, might as well now - *beg.

This one may be old, I dunno, but I had written it in English before, so it was just a copy-paste.

A 47-year-old bachelor decides to have a complete facial cosmetic surgery, just because his luck with the ladies is dwindling and, well, simply because he can.

After thousands of $$$ paid and several hours of hard surgical work, the procedure is complete and as the man inspects his new self in a mirror, behold! a miraculous visage! - even all the doctors agree this is the best decorative surgery they've ever seen.

As the man checks out of the hospital, he decides to treat himself for a walk. And just as he walks down the first street, ladies survey him with great interest and awkward smiles, some giggle and even blush - finally, the man knows what it's like being a male supermodel.

However, all that hospital food has him gone quite peckish, and our hero opts for masses as he sets foot in a McDonalds. Even sassy teens eye him over their trays of fast-food and the shy sales-girl cannot contain her obvious desire. Impressed with himself and with this newly-found self-esteem slash arrogance, the man asks her,
"Hey, how old do you think I am?"
"I don't know, 29, maybe?"
"No, wrong! I'm 47, actually. Ain't it cool?!"
And he walks off with much gusto and complacence.

As he finishes his meal, he decides it's high time to return to his humble abode, and with that, he leaves for a bus. On his way to the stop, a group of three girls are about to pass him in the opposite direction, all having eyed him with great interest, so he asks them, too:
"Ladies, will you take a guess at my age?"
"Well, OK. 31?" one of them is quick to reply.
"No way, he's more like 27-something". Another one says.
"Yeah, but I'm actually 47! Really, not kidding!"

And he strolls off to the lonely bus-stop. There, he spends a couple of minutes waiting by himself, until an elderly granny joins him. What the hell:
"Hey there! I bet you cannot guess my age."
"Well, sonny, I'd love to, but I'm afraid I might not be as good at this as I was in my youth."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you see, when I was a young and pretty lass, I used to have this talent-if a man was to ever let me suck his cock, I'd be able to tell his age with absolute accuracy. It never failed me, but now, it's been years since I last tried it..."
Well, it's a completely empty street, and the payoff would be boasting his good looks yet again-
"Well all right then."

After a not so quick bj which the old lady seems to have enjoyed immensely, she stands up, shakily, and exclaims "47"! to which the man is completely dumbstruck. After a long pause, he inquires,
"But... I mean, how does this work? How are you able to tell this, cause I don't look anything like 47..."
"Well, that's my bus right there, sonny, so I'll be straight with you - I was behind you in line at the McDonalds."

Thank you very much for this comment. I think you make a very valid point, and I didn't see it in that way before. And just to let you know, Mormons believe that virtually all of God's children, Mormon or not, will live eternally in paradises beyond our wildest dreams. It is a common misconception.

I'm glad you like my posts. I try to be of use to the world, but I don't always succeed.

I'm curious to know what you considered hypocritical.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Not to stick my nose in where it doesn't belong (well, ok, I am quite intentionally doing so, but you know) -

I think that's his ironic point - the Mormon Church is heavily into missionary work. Their missionary work is founded on the pretext that if you have a different faith, you won't just be ridiculed, but be eternal damned. I suspect Don_Juan has faith in little else besides himself and his Laura, but that's just a guess. I'm sure he buys into various cultural paradigms as any human must, but that's not quite the same thing as being so convinced of a spiritual point of view that all those who hold another view are labeled as either lost or redeemable. Just a thought.

I like your posts btw - I was torn between up or downvoting the mormon vid. On the one hand, it is an interesting view inside the church; on the other hand, it is an incredible piece of hypocrisy (even in terms of internal consistency with LDS). So, I didn't vote either way. I suspect its religiously "controversial" nature should get it right onto the front page. [edit] yep! I was right!

In reply to this comment by thepinky:
Please don't make belittling and insulting comments about people's faith. It's cruel and ignorant. I don't know everything about the Mormon religion, but I'd like you to explain to me how whatever YOU believe is more logical than what they believe. In your own words, Mr. High and Mighty.

In reply to this comment by Don_Juan:
Obviously those of the Mormon superstition have not been enlightened about the great, holy, and sacred Flying Spaghetti Monster. Be saved from DEATH! Be saved from being EVIL! Be a GOOD person and live FOREVER in Spaghetti HEAVEN!
Praise Flying Spaghetti Monster!! There is but ONE Flying monster - Flying Spaghetti Monster!!!!!!! YES!~ Become a Pastafarian BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!

Not to stick my nose in where it doesn't belong (well, ok, I am quite intentionally doing so, but you know) -

I think that's his ironic point - the Mormon Church is heavily into missionary work. Their missionary work is founded on the pretext that if you have a different faith, you won't just be ridiculed, but be eternal damned. I suspect Don_Juan has faith in little else besides himself and his Laura, but that's just a guess. I'm sure he buys into various cultural paradigms as any human must, but that's not quite the same thing as being so convinced of a spiritual point of view that all those who hold another view are labeled as either lost or redeemable. Just a thought.

I like your posts btw - I was torn between up or downvoting the mormon vid. On the one hand, it is an interesting view inside the church; on the other hand, it is an incredible piece of hypocrisy (even in terms of internal consistency with LDS). So, I didn't vote either way. I suspect its religiously "controversial" nature should get it right onto the front page. [edit] yep! I was right!

In reply to this comment by thepinky:
Please don't make belittling and insulting comments about people's faith. It's cruel and ignorant. I don't know everything about the Mormon religion, but I'd like you to explain to me how whatever YOU believe is more logical than what they believe. In your own words, Mr. High and Mighty.

In reply to this comment by Don_Juan:
Obviously those of the Mormon superstition have not been enlightened about the great, holy, and sacred Flying Spaghetti Monster. Be saved from DEATH! Be saved from being EVIL! Be a GOOD person and live FOREVER in Spaghetti HEAVEN!
Praise Flying Spaghetti Monster!! There is but ONE Flying monster - Flying Spaghetti Monster!!!!!!! YES!~ Become a Pastafarian BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!

Well ok, maybe Red

"It is a dead certainty, that there were less gay folks per-capita in the United States in the 1750's, than there are today, and the reason has nothing to do with not as many gay people being born, either."

And with completely uninformed statements like that (and your inability to know the difference between were and we're), you continue to demonstrate your homophobia to us all choggie... (well, ok, the we're, were thing has no baring on homosexuals, but I found it painful to read).

The thing with gay marriage as a political point is that it's an interesting barometer of the candidate's ability to separate church and state, unwashed mass appeasement from what's really fair and just.

As Jesse said, why there should be any discussion at about gays being able to have a civil union is beyond most rational people who can see past religious doctrine. Trying to suggest that man-woman marriage is a bedrock of the modern world is an amazing piece of unsubstantiated crap, how do they come to that conclusion AT ALL?

What the hell are any of you who are against gay marriage afraid of? WHAT? What the hell will happen if two guys or two women get married? What? Will it suddenly create an explosion of same sex people being content and living peaceful lives in harmony... dear god, the horror.

F*ck off for even suggesting that it's a bad thing, really, f*ck the hell off.

I actually looked up borscht to try and get it right... man I didn't do well, ok, I'm updating it now!

..yeah, but Gore Invented the Internet!, and he didn't win...

well.., ok, so he won, but you know what I mean.

Dunno man, I like Cotsner, but he's only ever Cotsner. I like Denzel, Sam Jackson, again, only ever themselves.....Hanks....he's good when he's good, and the 2 above, well, ok....something about his calm-guess Sleepless in Seattle and Forest Gump sorta jaded me.....The undisputed king of "make everyone feel good or sorry for him" characters.......stick to directing, producing, and cherry-picking yer future roles Tom....and NEVER do another chick flick, please.

"Meg Ryan, your lips have arrived at gate 4, Meg to gate 4"

Calling BULLSHIT on me? OH NOES, SERIOUS BUSINESS. Well, ok then, BATTLE ON CAPS LOCK CRUISE CONTROL.

(Patriot, I'm sorry I won't be addressing your specific concerns in this post, but Qruel really wants to earn that Earth Badge so he can catch 'em all and get this sift back in the mecca of manhood that is the Science channel, so this one's for him but you may read along as you please and we can continue our discussion once the dust settles and the poo falls.)

Now, where was I? ALLONS-Y PIKACHU GO.

SCIENCE CHANNEL
Funny how you just happened to leave off the second part of my channel's description. Let's read that part, shall we?

"Be proud that although quality science videos are somewhat rarer to come by and harder to find, we do not play to the lowest common denominator, that rather our Science sifts are raising the bar and challenging all sifters to step up and THINK.

On a casual note, what belongs here: science-related sifts, obviously. Please be sure not to sift technology-only videos, or slightly geeky/nerdy videos. Videos belong here only if there is something definitely about science in them. This can include appropriate descriptions, so be sure to add more reading material when possible. In addition, if the video is intended to be factual and not parody, it must be reasonably scientifically accurate."

Note that last bit there. It's the same reason why I will kick out videos that say we never landed on the moon because the earth is actually flat. Oh, sure, it's a theory. It's also an incorrect theory. The term science is so damn broad that it could encompass damn near everything, but I'm not going to lower the quality of sifts on my channel just because it might include something poorly passable as science. It should NOT matter whether I agree or not IT IS BAD SCIENCE AND SO IT GETS KICKED OUT OF THE CHANNEL.
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I went to the Science channel and checked out videos and comments and have had a number of instances where I require submitters to prove the worthiness of their video, and subsequently removed it from the channel. That's not our job. It's my job. You think I don't require the same certain standard for other sifts? Tell me exactly what my comment was on this Schrodinger's Cat sift. Hell, and that's even well within scientifically supported theory, rather than a theory that's been dissed and dismissed for decades. Don't tell me about how I'm running the Science channel. I would know. I RUN IT, CHRIS BROWN STYLE.

This video discusses SCIENCE, and as I stated, IT DOESN'T MATTER. There are a shitload of intelligent design apologists' videos out there that discuss SCIENCE and I sure as hell won't willingly put those religious closet-case videos on here either.

I'm reading through your post above and I see numerous NON-SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES to studies done on fluoride by BIASED WEBSITES and just happened to notice that YOU FAILED TO QUOTE ANY STUDIES YOURSELF. Copy-pasting is not exactly awe-inspiring debate, and copy-pasting sources that can't be described with words like "PEER REVIEWED" and "STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT" and "DIRECT PROOF" is actually not even worth debating. Come back with real sources and then maybe we can actually begin the debate proper.

I kicked the video out after putting on a number of comments on fluoride and getting nowhere, specifically the part about meeting on even scientific ground by citing papers from well-accepted journals. And here you are again, copy-pasting from FLUORIDETRUTH911.org or whatever site it is you've found on Google.

I should NOT reinstate this video into the SCIENCE channel until I really feel like it deserves to be there, and I hate to say that things don't look promising.

Now, let's take a look at two real scientific papers! I'm going to toss these out here, and you come back and analyze the data and refute the conclusions. I'm serious. You can choose to meet me on a scientifically-accepted level, or this sift can sit and watch all the real science sifts play while psychic healing videos try to get it to pay attention to them.

STUDY 1 WO MEN QU LE HAO DOU TIAN
Community water fluoridation and caries prevention: a critical review.
Abstract: The aim of this paper was to critically review the current role of community water fluoridation in preventing dental caries. Original articles and reviews published in English language from January 2001 to June 2006 were selected through MEDLINE database. Other sources were taken from the references of the selected papers. For the past 50 years community water fluoridation has been considered the milestone of caries prevention and as one of the major public health measures of the 20th century. However, it is now accepted that the primary cariostatic action of fluoride occurs after tooth eruption. Moreover, the caries reduction directly attributable to water fluoridation have declined in the last decades as the use of topical fluoride had become more widespread, whereas enamel fluorosis has been reported as an emerging problem in fluoridated areas. Several studies conducted in fluoridated and nonfluoridated communities suggested that this method of delivering fluoride may be unnecessary for caries prevention, particularly in the industrialized countries where the caries level has became low. Although water fluoridation may still be a relevant public health measure in poor and disadvantaged populations, the use of topical fluoride offers an optimal opportunity to prevent caries among people living in both industrialized and developing countries.

This article is gathering evidence through a metastudy of sorts in order to analyze the efficacy of community water fluoridation in preventing dental damage associated with low fluoride levels in combination with poor dental care (significant past 0.1%) while also noting that efficacy drops off due to proper fluoridation through topical application and personalized regular professional dental care. The paper goes on to suggest that suboptimal care results in a negative trending in the absence of general fluoridation.

STUDY 2 VAMOS A LEER DESU
Position of the American Dietetic Association: the impact of fluoride on health.
Abstract: The American Dietetic Association reaffirms that fluoride is an important element for all mineralized tissues in the body. Appropriate fluoride exposure and usage is beneficial to bone and tooth integrity and, as such, has an important, positive impact on oral health as well as general health throughout life. Fluoride is an important element in the mineralization of bone and teeth. The proper use of topical and systemic fluoride has resulted in major reductions in dental caries (tooth decay) and its associated disability. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have named fluoridation of water as one of the 10 most important public health measures of the 20th century. Nearly 100 national and international organizations recognize the public health benefits of community water fluoridation for preventing dental caries. However, by the year 2000, over one third of the US population (over 100 million people) were still without this critical public health measure. Fluoride also plays a role in bone health. However, the use of high doses of fluoride for prevention of osteoporosis is considered experimental at this point. Dietetics professionals should routinely monitor and promote the use of systemic and topical fluorides, especially in children and adolescents. The American Dietetic Association strongly reaffirms its endorsement of the appropriate use of systemic and topical fluorides, including water fluoridation, at appropriate levels as an important public health measure throughout the life span.

Now, mind you, this is a position paper from the WORLD'S LARGEST ORGANIZATION OF FOOD AND NUTRITION PROFESSIONALS, WITH OVER THREE QUARTERS OF THE MEMBERSHIP AS REGISTERED DIETITIANS. Functional as a broadscope metastudy, the ADA took the position by announcing their support of fluoridation, noting the support of the CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL, THE UNITED STATES' AGENCY FOR MONITORING DISEASE AND EFFECTING PROPER PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY IN RESPONSE. The ADA notes that high doses of fluoride have typically been avoided, while also noting the organization's widespread and unanimous rejection of the theory that fluoride levels have reached toxic levels or that such levels of toxicity are even accurate. Furthermore, they note that levels of toxicity have not been well-established in comparison to demonstrable negative health effects beyond surface-level observation of the possibility of dental caries developing with rats exposed to doses many times those any community in the US receives. They outright reject the theory that high levels of fluoride, even at factors well beyond the maximum range that limits first world countries' drinking supplies, can result in complications beyond aesthetically-noticeable but healthwise insignificant dental issues, even countering with a notable upcoming experimental study on the use of even higher doses of fluoride for pre-empting the development of osteoporosis.




Now feel free to sort through this comment's combination of knowledge and bullshit that I've just dropped in a steaming pile on this sift. Oh, and watch out....it's fluoridated.

Good luck with proving that Unilever has a sense of altruism and really wishes to do good. I think you'll find my Paris Hilton quotation off their website an interesting place to start

smibbo I have a problem with one company cynically putting out whatever message it thinks you want to hear, regardless of its product portfolio as a whole, especially when that message involves little girls and body image.

People seem to be upvoting the concept regardless of the source, well OK, remember I never attacked the slogan, just the source is completely fubar and the execution is 100% hypocritical. If they said "we are pulling out of the evil beauty industry and putting all our money into childrens' hospitals" then i might upvote.

If George Bush says "we need to bring peace to the middle east" do you just applaud him or do you look at other things he does as well?

And didn't you notice that the girl they featured is impossibly beautiful?

Anyway.

I don't think the talent is necessarily in the skating, I've seen plenty of people skate similarly. I think the talent is in the precision with which she skates, I mean to not touch any of those cones was freakin' amazing! (Well, ok, she did smack that first one...)