>> ^Engels:

You guys seem to miss my point entirely. Maybe I was too crude with my first comment but the question still stands : why do romantic feelings even come up?!!?!


The video is about gender, I don't think wondering about 'relationship stuff' is much of a jump. Especially as sexuality is strongly suggested; I was thinking about why someone would want to do this and I presumed he was gay although I know this isn't necessarily the case.

I think I see where you're coming from. I dislike videos with titles like "hot girl has hula hoop skills" because, while videos featuring under-dressed young ladies can certainly be perfectly enjoyable, mindless references to her appearance in the title or "I'd hula her hoop if you know what I mean" type comments are annoying. But this isn't one of these videos and there hasn't been comments like that.

>> ^Shepppard:

@Quboid Pretty sure you and I are on the same boat here.
You and I would probably be able to befriend her no problem, but a romantic relationship is off the table because in the back of our mind we're being told "That's still a man somewhere" (and no, I don't mean anything to do with genetalia) But it'd just be too close to a "gay" relationship. There's nothing wrong with people being gay or having a relationship with someone of the same sex, but that's just not for me.


Spot on.

Watching this, I was wondering if I should risk triggering a Videosift shitstorm by saying that, despite being nearly as liberal as can be, I couldn't get romantically or physically involved with this woman. Turns out, this discussion was already being played out in a perfectly mature fashion.

As has been said, I feel bad about this but ... this is weird. I feel for this person, she must have gone through a hell of a lot (and I don't just mean the physical transformation) but there's something inside me that says this person is too male for me. I could never see them as 100% female. As @Payback (and @Engels, oddly as if making an original point), it's not her, it's me.

I guess this is the same effect as when you're walking up a stopped escalator. When I get to the top, and it comes to stepping off, I know (sensory information) that they're just stairs and to walk on as normal, but I can't switch off the prior knowledge that I need to time my step to account for the escalator's movement - for me, this results in a very strange moment; obviously I can handle stairs and escalators but I nearly fall over with an escalator masquerading as stairs.

An interesting look at this communist's actual actions:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

Depressing stuff.

Despite a clear weight category mismatch, the feather weight really used his agility to his advantage. We don't see if there's a knock-off but if it was decided on points, kitty gets the belt.

>> ^VoodooV:

he's an....he's an....he's an A-Rab!
If you cannot even explain yourself (let alone prove it) when you put an accusation out there, there should be some sort of penalty out there beyond just public humiliation.


I know this is unworkable and undemocratic and impossible but she should not be allowed to vote. Not because I don't agree with her, not because she's (wild guess) a republican, but because she has no idea what she's talking about and her vote is just a proxy vote for whatever radio show host that's telling her what to think.

We should get a non-biased body (7 words in and it's already unworkable!) to come up with 2,000 multiple choice questions based on this country's politics and history, enough so no one could just memorise a leaked list. Each voter gets 10 random questions and their vote is weighted by how much they know. Know your stuff? You get 9 or 10 votes. Clueless idiot? You get 2 or 3 votes from guessing answers. Seemingly actually trying to be wrong like this lady, you're lucky to get 1. I don't imagine I'd get 10/10 but I'd expect to get 5 or 6, and I'd probably take more of an interest; there'd be a generally better informed electorate.

It annoys me that if this thing lives in a US swing state, her vote is probably 1,000,000 times more important to shaping the world than my vote, which is irrelevant in a constituency which has voted for one of two virtually identical parties in every election for decades.

My dog is 9 years old and doesn't really understand "here". My cat is 14 weeks old and has understood it for a month now.

Cats can be trained. Some dogs can not.

>> ^volumptuous:

Lame.
Yes, they were shouting "Romney" which is why Mitt was trying to get them to chant "Romney" instead. Wait, what?


Uh, no. Regardless of what doctoring or whatever is going on, this is just wrong. He tried to get them to chant "Romney/Ryan".

It sounds like "Ryan" to me, at this point. The audio's not great and this just apples to this few seconds but I don't think this is doctored. If it has been doctored, that's really shitty.

"I had fun once. It was awful."

He does looks grumpy as hell but he's acting happy enough

"NSFW for language."

Welcome to modern society. Here's a video of someone actually getting shot but careful, he uses some naughty language.

>> ^Fletch:

Amazing footage. I kept wanting him to press "s" for scope.


In the FPSs I play, "s" moves backwards. Which would also be fair enough!

>> ^Fletch:

>> ^Quboid:
Why do baseball players look so fat? They're not wearing American Football style padding are they? They're not uber muscled body builders are they?

Professional athletes who go to work and sit on their asses for 1/9 the time when on "offense", jog 100-200 feet to thier "defensive" positions, only to stand around and wait for something to happen that will require, at most, several seconds of effort. I bet their heart rates rarely surpass 100bpm, much less their target zones. (Pitchers aand catchers exempt from this description, of course, but not Pablo Sandoval.)


So basically, it's because they are fat. Huh.

I'd have thought basic professionalism would dictate they look after themselves. Even if they don't need to be able to sprint like a football player, basic co-ordination and physical reactions would be better if they were slim. If nothing else, being on TV regularly would give me extra motivation to look my best.

Good name for a dog, am I right?

Why yes, that does happen to be my dog's name. How'd you know?