Too true. I think it's a double whammy. It stops you from taking control, and then it festers afterwards. Victims feel they were somehow complicit in their own abuse because they weren't more assertive.

I wonder if this type of abuse, and indeed the catcalling as well, is basically a power thing - a dominance thing. Confronting them deprives them of their little power trip. At any rate, it's evidently a hard thing to do.

Interesting to see that compared to a guitar version of one of these, there's a lot more soul and funk.

BTW "Treat Her Right" was a Roy Head song, The Commitments were a fictional band and just did covers, and the very first song (Seven Nation Army) doesn't actually have a bass guitar in it (it's an electric guitar through a Digitech Whammy pedal down an octave).

Still the 4 string guys don't get nearly enough recognition, so *promote the low end!


edit: just finished watching.. no The Chain?!!?! WTF, dude!! give me back my promote, you couldnt-handle-six-strings bastard!

...but that's not what you said....
(I know, you changed it and now seem to want to pretend you didn't in some effort to say I'm wrong, but I quoted you and that quote didn't change...D'oh!)
...you said "liberal government and unions"...that's 2....double whammy....and now double fail.

Liberals
Government
Unions

Triple whammy,

Liberals, Government and union controlled education.
Triple whammy, no wonder failure is the only outcome.

....as in, there are very few that don't need retuning after a serious flexing of that whammy...Those old Gretsch's with a tremolo hold tune pretty well from what i remember

*edit-Schaller and Kahler are what a lotta guitar threads are sayin'...Personally, I've only ever played on the classic old fenders and Gretsches...

Looking at this downvote-fest clearly shows that mental illness is like flying planes and swimming with sharks. Everytime something horrible happens involving planes, sharks or insane people it's on the news, becoming the big story. Somebody shot up a school, details at five o'clock. Every fucking time.
These stories of terrible perril and death are so interesting, we make the best blockbuster cinema out of them: Psycho, Jaws and Snakes on a Plane (the double whammy of scary things!).
We're conditioned to fear that stuiff, we're comfortable fearing that. It looks and sounds scary and everybody can come up with easily terrifying scenarios.
Nobody is afraid of driving their car though. I wonder what the statistics make of that.
First of all, "better lock her up, she might get herself killed" is not an argument to lock up the crazy lady, it is an argument to lock up the postal worker. Before he goes postal on her. Yeah, that was a great pun, you better clap. But I meant: before he stands his ground.
Second, "she might be dangerous!"
Really? How do you know? Should we get the cops to taser her into submission? How would you like that video, "mentally ill woman tasered by cops"?
I see no weapon, I see no hint of her trying to get too close to that guy. She vents some paranoia and then leaves. She goes away. That's it.
Sure, her other videos may make her creepier but that's her thoughts she posting. I'm a man. If I'd walk around with a camera and record every thought of mine, I'd probably been locked away by now because there's a lot of people I'd like to shoot. In my thoughts. Not even touching upon the sex stuff here. Our thoughts tend to be weird and creepy. It applies to all of us.
Hers are just of the rails, as in mentally ill. And she's oversharing.
And finally, I'm not Chairman Woo but I endorse his message. And he saved me lots of typing.

The story: Shamalan wrote the screenplay after his kids liked the cartoon. However, he decided to make a helluva lot of cuts to the movie to make it more cinematic. He completely neglected a TON of things that made the original great, especially the comedy.

The also tried to change race/element rolls, so instead of traditional Chinese, the firebenders were Indian, which also pissed a lot of people off, because one thing he could have done RIGHT was cast Dante Basco (Rufio, from hook, and the original voice actor of prince zuko) as his respective character.

The names were also mucked up, (Ahh-ng instead of Aang, Soakah instead of Sock-ah) and the overall tone of the movie was god, freaking awful.

It was a double whammy, he made the storyline of a kids cartoon even dumber than it already was (sorry people who love the show, but it is a kids show, they're not meant to make total sense.) and in doing so alienated any parents that went to see the movie with their kids.

And because he changed the storyline so much, he caused fans of the show to hate the movie because of its.. well, bad-ness.

Overall, I end with a quote.

By @artician

"Who keeps giving this guy money?"

>> ^marbles:

With AA, being any minority is a significant advantage.
No it is not. If we lived in some egalitarian society where race had not been a massive limiting factor for centuries, and where decisions like going to college took place in a fairy land where money, the schools you went to, the opportunities you had earlier and familial obligations play no part, then you might have a point. We don't live in that world.
>> ^marbles:

Opportunity isn't distributed.
Yes it is. If its more than twice as hard to get a job because your skin is dark (it is), if your family doesn't have money to allow you the freedom, to have a safe environment in which to grow up, to allow you to get a good education or to start your own business because they too have suffered financially and socially from the legal and social forces that distribute the power to choose, then you are being denied opportunity for non-meritocratic reasons, and those opportunities are being given to others, for non-meritocratic reasons.
>> ^marbles:

Just like every other social problem in the past century, the government's solution has done more harm than help.
Sure, property rights and national defense are terrible impositions on personal sovereignty, and if we dispensed with both of them then AA would probably not be needed, but I don't really care about fairyland politics, I'm only concerned with reality and how to realistically address problems within it
>> ^marbles:

Anyway it's not the role of government to be distributing anything.
Um... except that they distribute EVERYTHING. Property is a government system that codifies the distribution of resources. They set land boundaries, they arbitrate disputes, what the hell are you talking about?
>> ^marbles:

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Social Convention is not reason or eloquence either, it is force just the same. I would rather the bullies fight each other, then just let the less accountable one loose to beat the shit out of us.
>> ^marbles:

Better solution? Stop subsidizing poverty and end drug prohibition would be a good start.
"subsidizing poverty" I presume is a reference to social programs that allow poor families to have a stable enough environment that their kids can have some opportunities. How exactly does trapping future generations in poverty solve the disproportionate racial distribution of class privilege?

drug prohibition is only tangentially related, consider:

1) All classes do drugs at similar rates
2) poor people get caught more often
3) non-white people get convicted more often

The double whammy of historical poverty and racist jurisprudence are the problem. The insane "war on drugs" certainly has racist consequences, but they are symptomatic of a larger problem that decriminalization will not solve.

I came when she hit that Pinch Harmonic at 54 seconds. I was more impressed with her 4th finger dexterity

I play a Fender Squire with an after market Seymour Duncan Humbucker, 21 Frets, and no Whammy Bar it gets the job done. I've never really like the fugly looking guitars.

Although I plan up upgrading to something like this; http://www.zzounds.com/item--SCEBJATXC1

Double-whammy: he appears to be hitting the narrow side of a barn.

>> ^Unsung_Hero:

The aiming looked so unstable, I bet you couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with it...
...oh wait.

I also discovered the same thing. It's probably safe to call *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Press-Your-Luck-Madness and the same for the other video
>> ^residue:

The description is well done, so it's a shame that this is a dupe of
http://videosift.com/video/Unemployed-Ice-Cream-Truck-D
river-wins-Big-Bucks-No-Whammies
which turns out to also be a dupe of
http://videosift.com/video/Press-Your-Luck-Madness
The first of the two is the higher quality though, so I'm not messing with any of it

The description is well done, so it's a shame that this is a dupe of
http://videosift.com/video/Unemployed-Ice-Cream-Truck-Driver-wins-Big-Bucks-No-Whammies

which turns out to also be a dupe of
http://videosift.com/video/Press-Your-Luck-Madness

The first of the two is the higher quality though, so I'm not messing with any of it

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