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The History Channel is to history what baconnaise is to condiments.

I was trying (but have failed) to find a War Nerd column (highly recommended reading) on the subject of american military revisionism in WW2. The Sherman "makeover" as actually being a really nice tank and yadayadayada was part of a larger jingoistic effort during the start of the current desert wars. Remember those days of red, white and blue fever? Wonder if the History channel will make a doc on that...

As for the Sherman, you just need to look at it. I would call it a VW Beetle with a turret mounted on top, but that would be insulting a fine car.

The truth of course is that the real WW2 was fought on the eastern front and the might of the Wehrmacht was only halted by rivers of Russian blood.

That's just how I looked when I woke up this morning. They say sacrifising a new-born will make it go away, but I think I'm just going to try some pills first.

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Nice avatar makeover.

Nice avatar makeover.

Hey Gwiz, What's with the makeover - this is your scariest avatar (& theme) yet!

Have you been taking Cotton Candy Injections!:P

Sorry about the soppy theme. Yes its <3 and yes I do have other interests.
1. I convinced my 6 year old self that Sonic the Hedgehog was my boyfriend
2. I actually liked Knuckles more, but figured he was out of my league
3. I thought I was in loved with my parents' friends' son, who was much older than me. I was about 12.
4. Then at 14 I contacted him, because I thought it would be romantic to lose my virginity to him, my first "love"
5. We hung out, I realized it was all fake, and kicked him out of my house before we did anything serious. He was not happy.
6. I went through all of middle school hung up on wanting a boyfriend and liking boys. No I do not have an absent father figure.
7. I became confident and found my true personality in the second year of high school, from then on, I got anyone I perused and started doing extremely well in school.
8. I almost lost my virginity drunk at a party on the backyard lawn. We were interrupted.
9. I almost lost my virginity in a bathroom in Cuba, with a Cuban model. We were interrupted.
10. I lost my virginity on a forest floor, with a British man whom I dearly loved and who dearly loved me. We had a long wonderful relationship. I am very glad it happened that way, and I feel very stupid reflecting on how it could have happened.
11. In middle school I fell in love with a bat. He was a character in the "Silverwing" book series. I told my friend and she laughed at me and made me cry.
12. I was my best gay friend's straight love (every gay guy has a girl love). I rejected him, he guilt tripped me and we didn't speak for 2 years. We have been amazing friends since then for about 6 years now.
13.I have had my heart broken once. He later fixed it.
14. I have never been in a "bad" relationship.
15. I am exactly like my mother when it comes to love.
16. I was in love with my high school art teacher. He was an ugly British man. He knew I wanted to fuck him in the dark room. He was a very innocent guy and it made him feel somehow guilty. We are friends still, and we email each other and I visit him at school. He is proud of me artistically and that makes me happy.
17. I have had a sex dream about the guy from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Except he wasn't all overly concerned and happy, but was bad ass, to match his sexy exterior
18. I had a sex dream about House (Hugh Laurie)
19. I had a sex dream about Chase (the Aussie) from House
20. I had a sex dream about a young version of Marilyn Manson
21. I enjoyed all of the above
22. I watch porn at least once a week
23. Although I have used the word "love" loosely, I have only actually truly loved two men.
24. I feel like I am an extremely lucky person and that nothing horrible has every happened to me...especially after reading some of these.
25. The only things that matter to me in life is creative fulfillment and mutually loving the people who deserve it, hopefully that is your family, your current partner, your children, and probably only half your friends.

I'd like to see the FAQ get a makeover with the help of some of the creative talent on this site. Between the ranking system, invocations, posting rules and all of the weird and awesome culture/mythology we've built up over the years, it's a fairly complex place. It would be nice if the FAQ were more fun to read and explained more of the cultural quirks of the site.

The rules could be done in the style of an airplane safety brochure. The discussion of power points and rank could be described as if it were some type of fantasy RPG and done in the style of an old PRIMA strategy guide (invocations as spells, etc.). Maybe we could even coax one of the filmmakers to do an old classroom filmstrip style instructional video.

Continuing with the gamer theme, it would also be fun to have a set of xbox style 'achievement points' for achieving particular tasks (getting 100 votes on a video, sifting 3 vids in a day, etc.)

Would love to hear ideas from others on this.

I'd like to see nested comments too.

I deliberately made my description of Talks as concise and precise as possible. Many channels just have the same description as channel name, which doesn't help users much. We've almost all put something wrong in Bravo before it got updated, for instance.

Maybe we should give the orphaned channels a makeover and get the community to make descriptions for them - hell, even the channels with owners could get some, but then it would be at the discretion of the owners whether to use the new descriptions or not.

From "The Washington Post," 11/22/07:

As a former English major -- he dropped out of the University of Maryland to pursue his music career -- [Bomani] Armah has conducted creative writing and audio/video workshops for kids. He has worked as a youth counselor. He has seen firsthand one of the most pernicious effects of the rap game, the warping of black reality into a one-dimensional caricature. Too many in his generation of artists, he says, aspire to be "as grimy and gangster" as they can be, a depiction of black life that filters down to the kids, who become the next inaccurate storytellers.

"As an educator and an artist, it was hurting me both ways," says Armah, who is hardly the first "conscious" artist to come along advocating a hip-hop makeover. But most artists who feel as he does, Armah adds, "write essays or long esoteric songs" that are indigestible. Armah was determined to do something more jolting. Provocative, but funny.

" 'Read a Book' was a joke from the beginning," he says. "It was more about parodying the state of hip-hop." And now it has become the thing that defines him. He thought about that for a moment. "Damn, do this many people not get me?"

there are different, more radical answers out there, not just makeovers of the existing system like this bailout thing. to mention just one: a few months ago american people had the opportunity to choose the Ron Paul approach to getting the US from this financial disaster, but I guess in the long election frenzy media neglected to point out what's really happening with american economy and went back to covering the fake political discourse of the stereo-party. and the people fell for it again. so, politically such ideas are still impossible, it would seem. you certainly can't expect some concrete change coming from Obama's administration, that should be clear to anyone now. i hope. trying to put the patient out for a while and do a radical surgery, rather than this woodoo-style practice of patching up the zombie that is America with more fictitious money (btw: I love it how sift's spell checker won't allow for not using capital A in america), is not a popular move for any ambitious politician these days. it's much more fun to blame it on the non-existent clash of civilizations, global warming, oil dependence, the Chinese, the Russians, the terrorists=Arabs, etc. meanwhile, a few very smart and greedy people are stealing away what's left in your coffers (not unlike Russia or any former socialist country in the 90's), all payed by the american people - the two most abused words in any american political debate. Obama (btw: spell checker doesn't recognise Obama as a valid input) should have more balls and act more Putin-like: throw those responsible for this mess in jail and seize all their assets. i'm sorry, Barack, but calling their behaviour shameful on tv and then not do anything about it, just makes you a whiny pussy instead of an inspiring leader, people hungry for change project and see in you.

Gay marriage is not like 9/11, it's more like Extreme Makeover - Home Edition...

You're welcome! I decided to click on the London tag from another post and see what crazy stuff has been sifted about the place where I live.

That video raised the bar on crazy


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Thank you very much!

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*promote

Thank you very much!

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*promote

Yeah it was Robotron alright, but it was a lot more too. It had an extra colourful spacy psychotropic element that a vid doesnt really get across.

Imagine its the early to mid 90's and your playing this on a big tv all the colours and latest graphical effects, plus the zany sound effects really turned up the experience.

Plus it was free and I probably played it more than most commercial games. Llamasoft were pretty great, they gave lots of classi games a Llama themed makeover and released them free. Attack of the Mutant Camels anyone?

I think the original post was to testify that Mormons are actually good, familiar people. Is it a coincidence? But I hear the proverbial brain sucking aliens are in need of a similar image makeover.