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Trancecoach (Member Profile)
Your video, Star Wars Action Figures Rolling a Joint, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
Printing a Giant Wrench with a 3D Printer
I'm such a geek
>> ^Sagemind:
Ooooo,,,,
Print me up a vintage Boba Fett Action Figure with firing backpack please!
Printing a Giant Wrench with a 3D Printer
Ooooo,,,,
Print me up a vintage Boba Fett Action Figure with firing backpack please!
Childhood Sale, One Man Selling His Huge Comic Collection
I'm a collector as well - right now I still have 5-600 (may be an over-exaggeration) star wars figs still in package and tons more out of package. Everyone who knows me always asks about value, what are they worth? I can't even put a price on them because I don't care - I like'em and I'm not selling. I collect because I like the stuff. Not so I can walk around and say, "my stuff is worth a lot, that's why I collect it".
I have comics & trading cards. I have the full complete set of the Dark Crystal trading cards - I don't care what they are worth - I like em! Star Wars, Marvel, Boris, Olivia, fantasy, baseball trading cards 1000s of them...
On that same note, stuff I have sold.
My full complete collections of Star Trek figures (plus DS9 figs) - gone
My full collection of X-men/X-force figures - gone
My full and complete set of Bat Man- animated series figs - gone
Full and complete set of vintage star wars figures (half still in packages)
My full and complete set of Tod McFarland Spawn/Wet Works/YoungBlood action figures (plus rare and limited release figs)
Robocop
TMNT
Robotec
Black Hole
Battlestar Galactica
Buck Rogers (from the TV series)
D&D lead figures
so much more...
I regret ever having to sell the stuff - there was a time with my first child when I had to choose between toys or formula & diapers. I made the right choice but I wish I had found a different way to come up with the cash. Especially now that I have two kids who would have loved to have that stuff.
I've replaced some of the vintage star wars stuff and I have tone of the new star wars figs from the past 15 years. I also have an almost complete set of Aliens vs. predator figs (minus the loader - I sold that off as well)
Crazy awesome fight scene from THE RAID
I liked Ebert's take on it:
Another gem:
And lastly:
Gotta love the Eeeb! After reading this review, I was reminded of the fictional, award-winning film "Ass" from Mike Judge's Idiocracy and I thought to myself: We're on our way!
Jesus Christ Action Figure
4 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.
Jesus Action Figure Doll (cross not included)
This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by bareboards2.
Jesus Action Figure Doll (cross not included)
Indeed, @jonny.
*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Jesus-Christ-Action-Figure
Jesus Action Figure Doll (cross not included)
@bareboards2 - this is a *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Jesus-Christ-Action-Figure
Crazy Christians 6 - Star Wars, Pokemon, Smurfs, Potter
If he's talking about the prequel action figures, he may have a point.
Deadly lovebird kills all with axe
Was this bird molested by an action figure in its past? Seems like some deep seated issues here!
Slow Loris with a Cocktail Umbrella
They're like fully poseable action figures.
This woman wins WORST PARENT award
This does raise a question however. What is an acceptable punishment for a kid? It seems natural to make him aware of consequences to his actions. You could say, "send him to his room," but in this age of PSPs and action figures, that's not really a punishment. He was probably going to go there anyway. What should she do? Make him run a lap? Not give him toys on Christmas? Make him sneak his desert rather than give it to him outright? How do you make the kid really regret his behavior?
This particular form of abuse does not carry with it any physical harm, so I can see how someone might perceive it as a relatively tame way of making consequences felt. However, it is also clear from the video that the parent has completely lost the trust and respect of the child, and thus her form of discipline has diminished effectiveness. The kid is being taught to avoid being caught (lying), rather than avoiding the behavior.
This begs the question, in todays world, what is an appropriately measured form of parental discipline? How do you discipline your kids? Does it work?
dystopianfuturetoday (Member Profile)
Thanks — I agree!
Next time I'll hold off for 44 hours and 43 minutes.
In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Bwaaahahaha... this is *quality. Damn you for beating me to it 44 hours 42 minutes ago.
"Anybody's Son Will Do"
"Anybody's Son Will Do
By Bill Willers
20 April, 2010
Opednews.com
In 1983, the National Film Board of Canada produced a 57-minute film, "Anybody's Son Will Do". Arguably the best anti-war film ever made, and tailored for public television, it scared the hell out of the U.S. military machine, which has done its best to "disappear" it. For years it has been nearly impossible to find a copy, but some kind soul has posted it on YouTube where it can be seen in six segments.
The film shows the process by which young men become psychologically engineered to kill or die on command. While the model used is the U.S. Marine Corps, it's made clear that the modern techniques for creating soldiers are refined, dehumanizing and universal.
Military forces will take boys as young as the law allows, as witness African militias that, unrestrained by regulation, recruit children as young as ten. People into their twenties, having begun to think for themselves to too great a degree, tend not to be sufficiently malleable. In the U.S., recruitment below age 17 is not legal. However, as war has become ever more computerized, need is growing for tech-savvy recruits who can kill coolly and indiscriminately from great distances, as if playing video games. The military has become very good at video games.
What this leads to in the real world is exemplified by this recently publicized footage of the slaughter by U.S. military of 12 civilians. The video has been a much-needed awakening for many. But as distressing as the carnage itself is the callousness with which the people go about their work: "Alright, hahaha, I hit 'em... Nice, good shooting.... Thanks"
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
AsGlenn Greenwald has correctly declared, the tragedy of this is that it's not aberration but commonplace. What is unusual is that this particular episode was made public.
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/39266
What is also tragic is that it represents precisely what the U.S. military wants to make of recruits who will be
reeducated -- brainwashed -- to see it as manly, patriotic, heroic. And what youngsterwith percolating hormones, negligible life experience and no basis for critical thought doesn't want to be like that?
Go to http://www.americasarmy.com/ and click on "America's Army Graphic Novel" to see what age group and level of education the Pentagon is aiming for. The "novels" are 28-page comics with text bubbles over GI Joe action figures and brightly colored noise representations: "KRR-AKK", "BLAM", "RATATATAT, CHAKA CHACKA CHAK...".
And now with their arcades open to the public, the military has its foot in the door of the minds of younger children who, if asked, would likely insist they can tell the difference between video games and reality.
click here
As for "Anyone's Son Will Do", DVDs of it should be in every junior high and high school in the country. Parent-teacher associations should have screenings. With any luck, it might get us headed toward a day when a common sight will be bumper stickers "Support Our Peace Makers".
Bill Willers is emeritus professor of biology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh now living in Middleton, WI. He is founder of Superior Wilderness Action Network (SWAN) and editor of Learning to Listen to the Land and Unmanaged Landscapes, both from Island Press. He posts occasionally online at OpEdNews, Common Dreams, Counterpunch and Dissident Voice."
http://www.countercurrents.org/willers200410.htm