If you just want to fantasise about what the dog is thinking etc. then I fail to see how my comment would prevent that? Unless of course you think I'm right and resent your little bubble of ignorance being burst in which case fuck you and your backwards mindset.

Just because you don't appear to care doesn't mean everyone else feels the same way. Or are you one of those people that finds unnecessary education somehow offensive?

If you don't like it or disagree then either ignore me or challenge my point, what you just said there was basically "Your a douche because you tried to make people think about something instead of taking it at face value, and thinking about things is a drag".

"That you don't get it or like is fine, that you want to spoil it for everyone else that's why your an asshole." -Bill Hicks

The worst of then clan be ignorant, bi-polar hicks on all kinna skank-ass meth..

Was there a Heckler? I thought someone just walked out. Since when is that heckling?

@Yogi: There's a small part of Stanhope that is a resurrected Bill Hicks. He eventually get's too raunchy for me to recommend to most people, but I really like him for his stance. I always feel like this clip sums him up the best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPDT5qHtZ4

"Make the United States safer". Oh, ffs. Anyone else immediately think of Ben Franklin when you hear this bullshit line? I'll trade a 9/11 and a Boston bombing every decade for the governement staying the hell out of my phone and my computer. (Omg, am I starting to sound like goptea'er?). This crap that Obama spewed the other night, roughly "you can't have both 100% security and 100% privacy", is the ol' statue-of-liberty play. He's implying that these programs provide 100% security. You can dismiss everything he says after that because his premise is FALSE. You can dismiss everything he said before that as well, but that's another rant.

And Mika, you can't demand a "yes or no" answer when you just don't want to hear the explanation. There is a very good reason why you weren't paid as much as Joe, and you should thank your lucky stars they still let you read the intros. And stop with the huffing and tsk'ing and eyerolls. You're starting to look and sound llike one of those shrill FOX "analysts".

Willie, what a dumb question. Of course there is a difference between state secrets that do not inpinge on our freedoms and rights of privacy and those that do, you knob. Some would even say the ultimate purpose of maintaining state secrets is to assist in protecting the very American freedoms and rights that are being grossly abused by these programs. The difference between Manning and Snowden is that Manning exposed warcrimes and other abuses being committed on brown people, and Snowden exposed an invasive, Orwellian-level spying and data-mining infrastructure being used on Americans by our own government. So yeah, a little different. So what? Both heroes. And it infuriates me when our government goes after them and tries to paint them as treasonists. They have committed no crimes against America because the government is not America. It's straight-up self-preservation, and has nothing to do with protecting the citizens of this country and the tenets on which this country was founded. What Manning and Snowden did, however, does.

There was once a time when democracies around the world, whether imminent, new, or struggling, could look to the US for inspiration. Now, we could learn much today from a country like Turkey. They get it. It took a few whacks with police batons, and lots and lots of tear-gas, but they get it now. They get beat down, and get smarter and angrier. We just get dumber and dumber no matter what this government says or does.

“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”
― George Carlin

“Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”
― Bill Hicks

I don't mind Stanhope so much. He's really not all that bright tho, and millions of miles away from the political minds of Hicks, Bruce or Carlin.

I guess my question is, is he like, down with the Alex Jones crap?

Choggs... I think you may have missed the real, though unintended, message in this bit of "journalism". Us southern hicks are just generally nicer than everyone else, arn't we?

I'm glad you didn't put this in * news, as ABC clearly wants it to be considered. Perhaps *wtf would be appropriate though, because that was my reaction to this ridiculous "reality" tv segment.

This is exactly the kind of shit production we should downvote as a society, not just here at Videosift. This pathetic attempt at "reality" tv cum journalism is the worst and most pathetic kind of social manipulation.

Don't mistake my hatred of this crap production for hatred of any of the players or played. Mostly I feel pity for the lot of them. Yeah, self-righteous and above-it-all-better-than-everyone-else kind of pity. Why? Because this is pure and simple a slice of shit on a shingle served up fresh and hot for any takers.

Hicks' bit is funny, but it's also complete horseshit. If I can work a shit job for a few hours to make enough money to allow me to take any one of a number of other jobs that I'll love for weeks/months/years, it's not a question at all.

If anything, that's how you know you are on the global artistic roll call. Work hard, occasionally doing shit you hate for obscene amounts of money. I wonder if Bill had ever had a dump truck full of cash driven to his door if he'd have felt differently.

He completes my Holy Trinity of Stand Up: Carlin, Hicks, Stanhope

Yea, that's generally the attitude of the people sneaking into the country "I wish I had enough money to make it 100s of miles on a raft or through the desert to freedom." Must be a charmed life where your comfort outweighs your apparent need to leave. Yup...go back to sleep, shang.>> ^shang:

we have reached the same level of the movie Idiocrasy now...
the government's IQ is below retarded, the national average IQ is now hitting retard levels...
As Bill Hicks said "Go back to sleep America, go watch your 'American Gladiators', go back to sleep'
I wish I had the momey to leave this country, so embarrassed to live in it.

we have reached the same level of the movie Idiocrasy now...

the government's IQ is below retarded, the national average IQ is now hitting retard levels...

As Bill Hicks said "Go back to sleep America, go watch your 'American Gladiators', go back to sleep'

I wish I had the momey to leave this country, so embarrassed to live in it.

There was a clear problem in that you didn't care for any characters. The most likable character was the homicidal robot, which is a failure in my book. In the original Aliens, you grow to like Ripley and you like the camaraderie going on in the beginning of the movie, even if most of them were fucktards. The marines in Aliens were also likeable, even if you sorta recognized them as the dickheads from high school - some of them were our hook into the world, ripley, hicks, hudson all good. Even in alien 3, you still ahve ripley to hang on to, even if it's a desolate despairing film. Alien 4 you have Winona Ryder-robot to like, where ripley is more.. well, alienated.

in prometheus, I liked the Captain Janek and in a twisted way Fassbender-bot, because he was played well. All their motivations didn't make all that much sense though. I hated Holloway, hated Shaw, hated Vickers, fucking hated all of them. Gah, it's so irritating, because the universe of it is so interesting! aaargh.
>> ^Fletch:

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I think there could have been a much better movie with the same source material, I think the concept could be really cool, but it's beyond a simple reedit repair job. The characters need a total rewrite to not be selfish, unlikable fucktards. There needs to be a lot more explanation and more time spent soaking in each of the more important subject matters and not this jump from one scene to the next with no flow and no reason.

I don't know. It seemed like it needed more "epicness". Like you said (or, as I understood you), more time for the viewer to parse the implications of the much bigger picture before they throw up a scene of some slimesnake tickling someone's uvula. Maybe a scene where they just stand around and go "OMFG! We've discovered the greatest discovery in the history of mankind! Oh, shit! That's a fucking alien structure! The first one ever discovered!! This is fucking amazing!!" They just didn't seem too impressed with anything. And I wish they had left the Alien stuff out completely. They didn't need it. There's just a bigger, better story here than the one we've already seen again and yet again in the sequels. Most of the characters did have that ST:TOS red-shirt aura about them, and really served little purpose outside of biting it in creative ways. Could have been better, but I still dug it, and I think the sequel(s) has a chance to be great. I just hope the Engineer homeworld isn't overrun with alien queens or some dumb shit like that.

Thanks for the promote
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"Its not a war on drugs, its a war on personal freedom ... Keep that in mind at all times."
Bill Hicks

I had heard Florida can be quite the hick-ville in some places. For some reason it didn't strike me as very "south".

More and more, I keep seeing reasons to thank my good fortune to have avoided the need to move to the US, and instead went to Canada. Sure it is Quebec, but it could be worse