Sorry, but there's just no way that a home kitchen can beat the taste of macerated skin and tendon covered in "chicken flavor".

*promote the half-dacade-old nostalgia

Parties aside, why do people believe anything politicians say when they're running for office? There are plenty of people I've supported in the past, and I knew their position on issues, but I never considered them to be committed. And now that I'm remembering, I'm not sure I ever even make that accusation of people I don't support.

EXAMPLE:

Where I'm from in Vancouver, WA, we've been trying to build a new bridge across the Columbia river. It's a pretty necessary action considering the age of the old bridge and the amount of traffic on I5 that crosses it.

Now here's the thing: In the last election the "good-old-boy" mayor, Royce Pollard, explained to people that bridges really aren't built in America these days without at least considering tolls. This became a huge issue in the run up to the election. So his main opponent, Tim Leavitt, simply ran on the platform that he would make sure no one ever paid tolls for the new bridge, ever. Now, a reasonable, rational person might have realized immediately what he was doing, but voters where I'm from (and pretty much everywhere else) tend not to be reasonable and rational about anything.

So, after Tim was elected the new mayor of Vancouver, can you guess what his first "epiphany" was?

And can you really fault him for such a strategy? People will say, "oh, well he'll never get elected in this town again." But he doesn't really have to be, because his next stop is probably senator, if he's lucky. And along the way, if anyone brings it up, he'll just say "oh, well I was young and naive" and you know what?: People will believe him.

It's our fault that politics works this way.

Yeah, I commented here for years until I finally submitted a video. I don't even remember/have access to those first accounts I had. And even though I've been here for years now, I still just carry the gold star because my primary motive is discussion and videos, not submitting new ones.

It is nice to be able to ban spammers now though.

I almost want my vote back, I guess I was just assuming they modded the game to include the actual portals. I'm not really that impressed by changing a character skin...

Well, I laughed through the whole thing.

Damn, a moth! Kosher or Fleur de Sel???

I hate how they always mention "300" and "The Watchmen" when "Dawn of the Dead" is clearly his masterpiece.

Thank you Issy! I've been looking for a good recipe for papaya salad. The one thing my wife brought back with her from Thailand is a lust for papaya salad that's so spicy that I can't let it touch my lips when I eat it, or it creates visible burn marks. She'll be very happy if I can make a decent one.

I'm just going to give my opinion here, mostly because George Carlin is my hero, and because I'm interested in the topic:

Regarding things being offensive:
There isn't any topic known anywhere to human kind that won't offend someone. Whether it's daisies or pancakes or pinwheels someone, somewhere, can be offended by it. I guarantee it. This is just my opinion, but I don't think that anyone has the right to 'not be offended.'

Regarding comedians:
People mostly don't seem to realize the importance of humor in all of our lives. Comedians play a very important role in the collective human community that cannot be replaced. They help us deal with parts of ourselves that would otherwise be unacceptable for us to even sometimes think about. Just like the court jester who might otherwise get himself beheaded if he were a normal person suggesting the king was fat. Almost all humor, successful or not, makes people feel uncomfortable. The very best humor makes people really uncomfortable. Laughter itself is a response to these same situations and events that we just have a little-bit of a hard time dealing with. I think this is why comedians, while onstage, are given a free pass. Even their televised specials get edited for content, but the only time a comedian gets kicked off stage in a club is when no one is laughing. What they're saying implies a lot more about the people laughing than it does about the comedian. Follow me?

And it's important to remember that most comedians are artists who are immersed in their material. Most have specific routines that are worked out over and over again, tweeking the tone and meter until they become almost meaningless to the comedians themselves. This is why you rarely see experienced comedians laughing at their own jokes, they've just heard them too many times. And even when they are performing improvisationally, like Tosh was during the event in question, they aren't saying things that they think are funny, specifically, they are saying things that they think the audience will find funny. It may seem like a small distinction, but it can make a big difference in understanding why some jokes are made. Some comedians have a style based on saying shocking, offensive things, and it's they're job. They are paid to make an audience laugh, and whether you like him or not, Tosh gets paid.

And the particular incident and joke:
This whole thing was brought up by a woman who was at a show and heard something she didn't like. She retorted back from the audience that rape isn't funny. To which Tosh retorted back that it would be funny if the woman was "raped by like five guys." Now, according to the woman, that made her actually fear for her safety and she got up and left. I'm not going to debate her sanity, if she really felt threatened, then that's terrible and I feel bad for her. But there are a few things that need to be pointed out here:

1: Tosh didn't threaten anyone. Had he said: "you five guys over there should rape this woman," it would not only be offensive to many people, but it also could have been perceived as a legitimate threat that, maybe, could have been pursued legally.

2: Hecklers are always dealt with harshly. And so should they be. Complain all you want about a person outside of a show but when you go to a comedy club, you have agreed that it's that person's time to talk. And so has everyone else who paid money to listen to them, not you. They're up there making a living, succeeding or failing at the expense of their own ass, not yours. It should be noted here that the woman said she left the room to the laughter of the entire audience.

3: You do not have the right to not be offended, especially if you are at a fucking comedy club. There was a pretty famous incident with Joan Rivers when she was joking about deaf people on stage, and a man in the audience stood up and started yelling at her because his daughter was deaf and he didn't find her jokes funny. Well, Joan Rivers responded that her own mother was deaf, and that she'd had to deal with that on her own terms. Comedy was something that helped her deal with that (because comedy is a useful tool) and if he didn't like it, he could go fuck himself. And that's the thing, you never know people's story. The girl at Tosh's show couldn't know Tosh's experience with rape, just like he couldn't know hers. And if you don't think people who've experienced a major tragedy can joke about the horrible events in their lives, I invite you to go watch some Bob Saget material. Humor is subjective. Saying you don't think something should be allowed because it's not funny, is exactly the same as saying something shouldn't be allowed because you don't think it's funny. Whatever it is, you can bet that someone out there finds it funny, even if it's nonsense.

Rape jokes are hardly ever funny. Even Carlin's few never got much of a laugh. But jokes are thoughts, and I'd really rather people stop trying to police thoughts. If someone finds a joke threatening, then deal with the threat, not the joke. And if someone finds a joke offensive, well...

Did you ever see "The Abyss?" James Cameron finally pissed off the creatures that live in the Earth's crust after his little sightseeing trip into the Marianas Trench!

How is this any different than being required to pay for auto insurance? Or for that matter, having to pay penalties for any crime you commit? Penalties are applied all the time when people go against the law. Couldn't the argument be made that the government is forcing you to not murder people?

>> ^maatc:

This video was shot in my hometown of Hamburg, Germany.
That train is part of the "S-Bahn" public transport there.
(You can see their "HVV" logo as in "Hamburger Verkehrsverbund" on the bottom right corner of the train)
Big Balls indeed! quality!


A hamburger train?! Fuck yes!!

>> ^EMPIRE:

Those are not police officers, they're probably the maintenance workers who have to clean up the shit he just did.
That's probably a public transport. I'm fine with grafitti artists painting on the walls of rundown buildings and whatnot, specially if the artist is good. This is pure vandalism, and everyone pays for it. Not to mention that it's awful taking a ride on a train with painted windows. At least stick to the body of the train only.


Or maybe try to paint something besides your fucking tagger handle. I swear to god, all the little pricks that run around writing their name on shit like so many little chihuahuas pissing. I saw a tag the other day that said "Pac Man". The "artist" actually even did draw something next to his name this time: a little retarded looking, sort-of half-impression of Pac Man. Seriously... what kind of an inbred, dumbshit, screw up do you have to be to not be able to draw Pac Man???