>> ^NetRunner:
Yeah, good thing the Democrats didn't have any power during WW2, or we'd be speaking German now!
I musta forgotten that FDR and Truman were Republicans!


Also (my American pre-WW2 history might be a bit hazy), but did not the US government have to overcome CONSERVATIVE isolationist policies to get involved in the conflict at all?

>> ^swampgirl:
Cento, you can vote for your own sift you know.

Hah, for some reason, voting for myself never occurred to me. Thanks for the heads up!


(Thanks to eric3579 for giving me the same tip as well.)

The really sad thing is that ALL DAY on Monday CNN ran with this story on the angle "Biden's angry responses to interviewer"... o.O

Can someone tell me where in ANY of this clip Biden ever once got angry?

Am I the only one wondering if this is fake?

Is there more context to this video? For starters, why is there a camera right there monitoring nothing of any significance otherwise that just happen to catch her in the center of the frame? Something about this just seems bogus... o.O

Ok, I'll pipe in with my own actual experiences drinking Absinthe...

I live in the US, but have had Czech, Spanish, and French Absinthe (quite a lot of the Spanish and French stuff). A friend brought the Czech bottle of Hills back from a trip, and I found a supplier that I could get bottles shipped from Europe for the Spanish and French brands (despite the illegality of it at the time, since the last time I imported any was over 5 years ago). I have also had friends try to brew homemade Absinthe with a ton of Wormwood.

The Czech Hills brand is FOUL. It is cheap, crappy absinthe. The French and Spanish brands were MUCH better. The home made stuff was worse than the Hills - MUCH worse. And there is a lot of variation of flavor between brands, so I highly recommend trying different labels.

Now, as far as effect? I got drunk. No hallucinations, no other effects, just DRUNK. Many of my friends would claim to feel a host of effects, often similar to a light pot buzz, but in my opinion they WANTED to feel something and so they did. But we certainly did get quite drunk quite often drinking this stuff. During this time of my life, I was putting down a fifth of vodka and plenty of beer EVERY weekend, so I had quite a tolerance for alcohol going, but I still gotta say this stuff has a kick, especially if you just start doing shots of it instead of doing the whole water and sugar routine.

But still, it was just getting drunk.

No idea what the state of American absinthe is, since I pretty much walked away from the hard drinking, pub crawling period of my life about 5 years ago.

Anyway, no concrete scientific data here, but at least some first hand accounts from someone who drank quite a bit of it from a number of different labels in a few different countries.

For those asking whether or not he has a cold in this one, the end credits DO say:

"written by a bottle of cough syrup and Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw"

So, very likely yes, he might have a cold...


*edit* to add: P.S. - If some of you aren't reading all that text at the end, you should. It is often some more funny stuff!

Yes, parking on the wrong side of the road like that is illegal in California where this was filmed.

Apparently the guy that did the music for "Shoes" provided the exact same audio track to LDG sans vocals for them to do this remake.

This troupe is pure awesome!

?? What are the clear viral purposes? It is no more viral than any music video...

Most of the ones I have been at are floated on little wooden boats. I have only seen a few that were purely mechanical conveyor belts. I'd never seen the sushi train idea - that's kind neat. But there are many dozens of different Sushi Boat-type resteraunts all around the great San Francisco area.

Re: Sushi Boat type resteraunts - The way every sushi boat / conveyor resteraunt that I have been to (both in the States and in Japan), the standard is that various items are placed on various colors or designs of plates and placed on the boats / cpnveyor belts by the chefs. As items come around, you pick items you want off of the conveyor. You can also special order items from the sushi chefs behind the counter. When you are done, your plates are counted to figure out your total. Normally the plates are coded based on the color or design to indicate their price.

And that video does make me happy. It just seems sublimely honest. It's just people being people.