Sorry sweetie.

Well, at least you have the pleasure of having the first -- and possibly last -- WEEDBOWL. (If God sends hurricanes to punish Teh Gays, what does it mean when he blesses legalized marijuana?)

@mintbbb
hey hey stranger!
i dont know why you second guess yourself in regards to how you are perceived based on peoples subjective and highly irrational understandings.

humans...a curious lot.

you are a total sweetie.you are just super sensitive and some people never really understood that about you.
your husband is an idealist.
thats not a bad thing,in fact that can be a very good thing.

we NEED people to be dreamers and your husband is a dreamer and sometimes that can be frustrating if you are in an argument with him (which i have been).

i didnt always agree with him but i always liked him.

some here on the sift have questioned my friendship with @chingalera.
they didnt understand.
i seemed to be so much more approachable and less acidic in my commentary.
so how could i align myself with such a trollish sifter?

the answer is simply because i get him.
we BOTH are idealists.
just like your husband.
the difference lies in that both ching and i battle,on a daily basis,the rising tide of cynicism.

a cynicism that was born out of being beaten,imprisoned,lied to,betrayed and many times by the very people and/or institutions that we once were idealistic about.

disillusion is a real motherfucker.

yet we still retain that idealism.
we both are humanists.
we care about people.

so everything we do or say is with that at its heart.
so when ching is berating somebody,they may perceive that as an attack.
and it is but it is NOT an attack on them,personally,but rather an attack on their media-induced mythology.
or maybe a person is suffering a severe case of myopia and needs to be shaken out of their apathetic dystopia.

but its always,and i mean ALWAYS to get someone to look at a situation with a different perspective or challenge a belief.
to get people to actually think.
to not just give in to authority but to realize ALL authority is illegitimate until proven otherwise.

i tend to use less shocking and confrontational vernacular than ching does.so that may explain peoples confusion why i consider him a friend.

but if you understood his intent,the words he uses would have less of an emotional impact.

note* by my commentary i am not excusing,condoning nor dismissing chings very real outbursts that actually did hurt some feelings.
but i also know that when people get their feelings hurt they sometimes lash out (and i also suspect that those outbursts were in conjunction with copious amounts of booze).

passionate people are just as sensitive as the next and can/will retaliate in kind when hurt.i know i have.

which brings me to the actual point at hand (sorry..i tend to rant).

why would we remove/negate anything from the archives?
the organic growth and procession of a community should be held intact.
warts and all.
to remove,edit or scrub clean serves nothing,except to maybe repeat past indiscretions.

we never use the ignore button.
nor the sarcasm or jokingly.
so why would we erase the communities past dealings?
be they enlightening or incredibly droll?
its who we were and gives us all a marker where we may be going.

just a thought.

Sorry, sweetie. I went to California public schools. They taught grammar in the Catholic parochial school.

@pumkinandstorm

You've been here a little over a year and you have the temerity to upvote a long-time member getting banned? He was one of the "good guys", afaic, and the Sift is less interesting without him. I'll take one Volumptuous over 20 badge whores any day. Your true nature is revealing itself more and more in these little tidbits. Get over yourself, sweety, or one day you may be the only one left here admiring your "Achievements".

Honestly, I think you are a mental case.
This is what you're contribution to sift talk is here:
"shit Fuck fucking Fuckazoids cunts fuck-off dick fuck off fuck"

Are you sure your mommy and daddy have allowed you to use the computer? Maybe it's past your bedtime.

And what are you even freaking out about? Ads? You understand ads pay for the site? Is there a particular ad you have a problem with? Are you so smart that you can complain about it but not figure out how to block it?

None of this matters, does it honey? Baby just needs attention. Here you go sweetie --- *hugs*.

*dead, sorry sweetie

*isdupe, sweetie peetie. ....

>> ^bareboards2:

Thanks, sweetie!
PBS doesn't agree.
>> ^NetRunner:
quality



PBS probably does agree, but knows it won't help their case to weigh in on this, or their brand long-run if they allow their biggest icon to become a football for partisan politics.

Thanks, sweetie!

PBS doesn't agree.

>> ^NetRunner:

quality

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/QI-Spot-when-the-Sun-sets

@Fusionaut, you could have gotten a step towards a new dupe badge, sweetie!

Thanks for finding the dupe.

OH dear. Cenk, sweetie, you LITERALLY put words into his mouth and then argued with him.

I can come up with another ending to the aborted (ha!) sentence -- "Fortunately I didn't have to.... shun my relative. Live with the knowledge that an abortion happened in my family. Disinherit my relative. Get the rest of the family to shun that relative. Or... DRIVE HER TO THE ABORTION CLINIC????

Cenk, bad job. Bad job. I know you are a pundit, and the first half of this is better than average for you. Just... bad ending. Intellectually dishonest. And wrong.

I mean really. What if he was willing to drive her to the abortion clinic? Lots of pro-lifers have had abortions, you know.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Maybe we need sub bronze, or tin stars?>> ^ReverendTed:

>> ^bareboards2:
Sweetie, you are two vids away from bronze. Your situation is easily fixed with a minimum of effort.

I was wondering if anyone would take the time to check that. (I was surprised when I noticed it just a few weeks ago, because I'm honestly not sure where some of those stars came from. I know I wasn't very close right after 4.0, and kinda lost interest out of frustration at the time.) I'm sure it doesn't bolster my argument that I'm also sitting on 7 Power Points at the moment. (I'd have to go look up what they're even good for pre-Bronze.)
While I agree with you that thresholds are good things in a largely self-moderated community such as the Sift, I think some of the Bronze level powers would be perfectly safe in the hands of folks with far fewer than 25 Star Points.

>> ^bareboards2:

Sweetie, you are two vids away from bronze. Your situation is easily fixed with a minimum of effort.

I was wondering if anyone would take the time to check that. (I was surprised when I noticed it just a few weeks ago, because I'm honestly not sure where some of those stars came from. I know I wasn't very close right after 4.0, and kinda lost interest out of frustration at the time.) I'm sure it doesn't bolster my argument that I'm also sitting on 7 Power Points at the moment. (I'd have to go look up what they're even good for pre-Bronze.)

While I agree with you that thresholds are good things in a largely self-moderated community such as the Sift, I think some of the Bronze level powers would be perfectly safe in the hands of folks with far fewer than 25 Star Points.

Sweetie, you are two vids away from bronze. Your situation is easily fixed with a minimum of effort.

Talk to eric3579 -- he's always been generous with finding siftable vids that he himself doesn't want to post. He has given me several Top 15 vids... you might even earn some power points out of the deal, if he is still being generous (it's been awhile since he has shared with me.)

I'm glad that there are thresholds that need to be met in order to gain certain powers. It doesn't stop the odd Self-Destructo from using their powers to wreck havoc when they leave, but certainly it slows down folks who are bent that way from the beginning.

Two vids and you can dead head to your heart's content, my friend! No need to keep yourself hobbled.


>> ^ReverendTed:

Two things in your post really play off each other. Dead videos and the random feature.
Sometimes I'll sit down and just start hitting Random, occasionally tracking through the Related videos (much in the same way one can get lost on a Wikipedia journey). But I'm often struck by the number of dead videos (account closed, video removed, copyright claim, etc).
I'd love to report them (or attempt to repair them), but my bronze star got revoked in the 4.0 reorg.