This reminds me of the sad AMC broadcast of "Blazing Saddles" last night. They bleeped out every single racial or ethnic slur in the movie. The irony was just too much.

Normal saddle chair: testicles pressed.

Split saddle chair: testicles IMpressed!

I knew that the salli saddle chair is made in Finland when i saw the fine shape of that guys balls

I gotta agree with one thing, a saddle seat without the gap is a tad uncomfortable. Your junk goes numb.

You know its there, but you can't be sure...

This lovely family was in the news a while back when their local shop refused to make a "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler" cake for them: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/today/index.ssf/2008/12/holland_township_family_angry.html
The parents are just horrible on several levels: obviously extreme racist bigots, willing to saddle their kids with a lifetime of pain/teasing/unwanted attention. I don't know just how many parts evil and how many parts stupid.

Even with all that, I doubt it's best for the kids to adopted out to some family they don't even know. Of course if there is some other kind of abuse going on, that changes things. Unfortunately, kids grow up in racist homes all the time and a great many kids grow up with values I don't agree with. Sometimes, the world just is what it is, and you have to hope that little Adolf and his siblings will eventually mature better than their parents and escape this sad and murky existence.

Ouch, that blows about losing all that work. But do it man. If that's one of your first loves, and you're good at it, get back into it.

I've tried guitar now for 2 years on and off, with me just completing Guitar I as a replacement class for my degree. I got a B-. I really should have stuck with music when I was younger; easier to learn. At 36, it takes a lot more repetition and practice. I figure if I can ever get it down, I can use it in my comedy. And of course, with the Betties.

I imagine I'll get back into drawing one day as I used to be a decent artist. Just been to busy trying to finish my degree and get the fuck out of Vegas. Seriously though, pick it back up. (And get a backup drive this time!)


In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I used to tinker around with Reason, Cubase and Sony's music program. Then one day, my hard drive took a shit and 5 years of work disappeared. I was pretty disheartened after that and never had the nerve to get back into it. I did just get my home computer up and running again, maybe I should saddle up. It's very cathartic.

In reply to this comment by videosiftbannedme:
Wow, seriously? It used to be like $5-$7 when I went. And Seaport Village used to be free, they started charging for that too I heard.

Are you artistic? You mentioned music, but do you draw? Have you wanted to? And with the reading, have you ever wanted to explore a certain area, ie. Shakespeare, the 'Classics', etc. I know how you're feeling though, as I too just finished classes. Been catching up on some of the video games I've missed out on now that I got this new rig. But that too get's boring. Wish I knew what to tell you mang.

When I hear a bass drum
I gotta get dumb, but some
Think it's a fable and label me not able to come
Correct, so I cold jet back to my room
And invent something to compliment the boom
Of a kick, cause I want it all like in Monopoly
The great make not a mistake, make sure it's properly done
Strictly for public satisfaction
So you're in awe when I'm in action
Cause all we do, from me to you, is a song
Strong, bump intention tumping system is born
I deliver, somthing to shiver you peak level
And if you want it deep, yo Dre go get a shovel
And you're bumping, your speakers rattle
This is all over the world, but without a saddle
Light the twice, I hype the mic, make it dumb
And Dre is the engineer, but I'm the drum

It's the diggy diggy D.O.C. y'all

I want you to turn up the radio, listen to the lyrics
And I let the bass go so you can hear it
Bumping, your speakers are thumping, dig it, yeah you like it
You know the album? Get it
And I'll keep producing and inducing
A rhythm with a style that makes you get loose and
Sweat, cause I'm as good as you've gotten yet
Some said they can handle, you wanna bet?
And I don't understand the misconseption
Think that if you make it, you go in one direction
When you're in flight, yo, you gotta fly high
So you were born, so you die
It's all evolution, here's the rule
Evolve, my meaning, enroll in a new school
Adn learn the tricks that makes the mix dumb
Then be certain to keep suckers hurting when it comes to a drum

It's the diggy diggy D.O.C. y'all

Yo! And now your eardrums are cold full of the big beat
But you're attatched, like ankles are to feet
So you listen, and as it play you pump it louder
But to your speakers you're sparking some gunpowder
Check it for a second, listen and behold the
Great as I open your mind like a folder
Down with the science, I'm rocking like a musical
So when you're listening, you're seeing me and
Dre cold sweating cause you know we're like striving
For number 1, not number 4 and number 5 and
Nothing can mean more than to make it last a lifetime
In the middle of his mix and my rhyme
Never been in need now that Dre is on the cut
You may think I speak of music but I dream of coming up
Rolling to the homies in the city getting dumb
The sound of the D-O to the C and the drum

When I hear a bass drum
I gotta get dumb, but some
Think it's a fable and label me not able to come
Correct, so I cold jet back to my room
And invent something to compliment the boom
Of a kick, cause I want it all like in Monopoly
The great make not a mistake, make sure it's properly done
Strictly for public satisfaction
So you're in awe when I'm in action
Cause all we do, from me to you, is a song
Strong, bump intention tumping system is born
I deliver, somthing to shiver you peak level
And if you want it deep, yo Dre go get a shovel
And you're bumping, your speakers rattle
This is all over the world, but without a saddle
Light the twice, I hype the mic, make it dumb
And Dre is the engineer, but I'm the drum

It's the diggy diggy D.O.C. y'all

I want you to turn up the radio, listen to the lyrics
And I let the bass go so you can hear it
Bumping, your speakers are thumping, dig it, yeah you like it
You know the album? Get it
And I'll keep producing and inducing
A rhythm with a style that makes you get loose and
Sweat, cause I'm as good as you've gotten yet
Some said they can handle, you wanna bet?
And I don't understand the misconseption
Think that if you make it, you go in one direction
When you're in flight, yo, you gotta fly high
So you were born, so you die
It's all evolution, here's the rule
Evolve, my meaning, enroll in a new school
Adn learn the tricks that makes the mix dumb
Then be certain to keep suckers hurting when it comes to a drum

It's the diggy diggy D.O.C. y'all

Yo! And now your eardrums are cold full of the big beat
But you're attatched, like ankles are to feet
So you listen, and as it play you pump it louder
But to your speakers you're sparking some gunpowder
Check it for a second, listen and behold the
Great as I open your mind like a folder
Down with the science, I'm rocking like a musical
So when you're listening, you're seeing me and
Dre cold sweating cause you know we're like striving
For number 1, not number 4 and number 5 and
Nothing can mean more than to make it last a lifetime
In the middle of his mix and my rhyme
Never been in need now that Dre is on the cut
You may think I speak of music but I dream of coming up
Rolling to the homies in the city getting dumb
The sound of the D-O to the C and the drum

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Saddled with an unfortunate Nickelodeon-reminiscent name, but this looks pretty interesting.

I wouldn't doubt if some bible belters didn't think this guy was dead on, as ponceleon said. But I bet even outside the belt there would be some who still totally agree with him.

Funny thing is just the other night I was watching Religulous with a friend of me who is Christian. I myself am agnostic with some pretty out-there beliefs, but I'm a realist so I don't take ANYTHING on faith. Now, mind for a christian my friend is pretty much a realist as well. He doesn't believe in Adam and Eve, he knows the most the stories in the bible are totally made up. But at the same time he has some odd beliefs. He thought christianity was the oldest religion in the world at once. He is absolutely certain jesus was a man and all his miracles were true.

Anyway it gets to the part where they are at the museum showing ancient humans and dinosaurs living together as well as one dino with a saddle on it's back. I laughed, saying these people had to be complete ostriches with their heads in the sand to even SAY they believe dinosaurs and humans lived together. What does my friend say to this?

"Well, there may have been one time when like raptors and tyranosaurs lived at the same time that early humans did."

As you might imagine.. I was somewhat taken a back. Even explaining to him that dinosaurs died out or evolved tens of millions of years before the earliest ancestors of humans even existed. But he said to me 'the bible says there were dinosaurs so, there must have been.'

I rolled my eyes.. I wasn't about to argue farther but I couldn't believe me ears. How can a modern, rational, technically minded human being believe this stuff? He was raised very hard-core christian but still.

Yay!! Gold100 back in the saddle again!

Me oh my! Ow-eee! Ouch! Power points have all vanished too. Well, dust them chaps off and get back into the saddle I guess. Good luck boys.

When you learn how to make arguments without loaded terms like "heavy taxation", "excessive burdens" and "genocide", then maybe I'll decide to reply to one of them. Given the way you wrote, for me to make an intelligent reply would take 80% refuting things I didn't say. Which is too bad, because you do make some interesting points in there.

I have found this sort of response to be commonly employed when debaters would rather stay on the surface instead of diving deep to the root of an issue. If you really want to address the substance, then it isn't difficult. Pick whatever adjectives you didn't like and toss them. Instead of 'heavy taxation' just say 'taxation' in your brain. It isn't a tough exercise, and should alleviate your overtly stated concern which you claim prevents you from continuing to substance.

However, I disagree with your opinion that the terminology was 'loaded'. That implies that the words were inaccurate or misleading. But they were not. The US taxes ARE heavy - 2nd highest on the planet in fact. Industry IS saddled with excessive burdens, which is why they shelter overseas to reduce costs. Socialist governments DO commit genocide when they are at thier worst (which is how I qualfied it). Stalin, Lenin, Khamir Rouge, China - there is no shortage of examples. Now, you may not personally LIKE the words I chose if they do not hew to your bias, but that does not mean that I have inaccurately applied them.

Regardless of that - Lord knows people (such as the kid in the vid) who espouse personal responsibility and small government have had to put up with more than their share of 'loaded terminology' when discussing issues. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. You - for example - used loaded terms when you said 'benefits the country as a whole more than it benefits the individuals who used to have that money'. That's loaded. Who are you to say that the person who has the money isn't benefiting the country? Why is it assumed that a person who has earned wealth is somehow an unworthy custodian of it?

Starting every paragraph with "I would suggest..." and "I would posit..." doesn't make your style appropriate, and putting smiley faces after put-downs doesn't work either.

It is as I feared. You have no sense of humor. But in jest I made a good point. You claimed Canada has the best universities on the planet. Even the kindest evaluation wouldn't define Canada's colleges in that kind of lofty 'loaded' language. The QS poll lists the top 100 Universities, and Canada has grand total of four entries... #20, #34, #74, and #91. By comparison, the USA has 1, 2, 5, and 8-14, 17, and 18 of the top 20. I'm not trying to offend you. I'm just grounding you in reality.

I used to be a professional project manager. It seems we were the first people to go in the great recession/depression of 2008-?. Now I am back to basic research using my (previously unmarketable) training as a physicist. However, I have been fielding calls from several of my former writers/editors who have been saddled with project management responsibilities. It seems that the world is quick to judge who is unnecessary, while equally quick suffer the need for particular services.

It is from this place that I beseech all of you who supplement/forgo cable and/or satellite TV because of the bounty of Videosift: For gods' sakes, think of the sift as the professional service that it actually is!

Think of this as an opportunity, as a community, to make a statement about the viability of niche media services. Do we really want to to be slaves of Network TV in perpetuity, so that our children inherit a media ecosystem that rewards programing with 1-5 million weekly viewers with immediate cancellation? In the age of the internet, thousands, or even hundreds, of individuals should be capable of supporting professional services/programing (without corporate overhead).

In the spirit of full disclosure, I have NOT made a financial contribution to the sift, nor am I a charter member. This is due to two factors: (1) I am losing my current position on July 31st (corporate cowards backing off from basic research), and (2) because I am already actively donating to the Rebel FM and CO-OP podcasts. Forgive me for prioritizing content creators over contend aggregators, but the sentiment is the same: I want niche media to succeed.