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You tell that hunk of junk, BR.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Man, why do you keep killing vids with 7 or so votes? 7 votes is a badge of honour, especially for the boutique vids you got happening.
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*kill



Yeah now I remember why started doing it, for some reason I wanted to keep my average votes per video and general quality of submitted videos at a high level, which is now sitting at 34.28 .

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Man, why do you keep killing vids with 7 or so votes? 7 votes is a badge of honour, especially for the boutique vids you got happening.
In reply to this comment by ZappaDanMan:
*kill



personal quality control. Get's to 10 votes on one pass or it gets scraped. Feel free to re-submit it yourself I don't like videos hanging around my personal queue. I'm not sure when I started with this anal habit.. I'll have to ask the other guys in my head.

I was too lazy to go back and verify the spelling -- which I still struggle with even after all these years....

The sifter. I think that is a noble and uplifting label!

If there is any way to unkill your original, I will gladly transfer these votes to you. Because you are, indeed, The Sifter.

For all that, I do accede to your demand for payment for the (non-existent to me) slight.

Name your vid! If I have the point, it shall be yours!


In reply to this comment by kymbos:
"The sifter" killed it? How dehumanising. You owe me a promote, BB.

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I am so turned on right now. Damn, kymbos!
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It's hard to appear dumb when your profile pic is Dr Strangelove and you use terms like 'vagina cats' and 'glory holes' while berating the immaturity of the internet. I salute you!
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You're on a roll. Please keep going...
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A humpback whale? Real mature, guys. Next thing you know we're posting videos about sperm whales and vagina cats.



Whew..! Kymbos -- thank GOD, I was worried that I was just posting the first lame thing that came to my head and ignorantly appeared to be some dumb asshole that makes immature, low brow, unapplauded, and not-so insightful comments about otherwise top 10 material.

With your blessing, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Scientologists, this annihilation wave will never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever end. Glory! (holes)

Hey do you have a pair of assless chaps a guy can borrow ?

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
God I hate you guys.


Your comments upvote was overshadowing my comments upvote.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
You're on a roll. Please keep going...
In reply to this comment by poolcleaner:
A humpback whale? Real mature, guys. Next thing you know we're posting videos about sperm whales and vagina cats.



Whew..! Kymbos -- thank GOD, I was worried that I was just posting the first lame thing that came to my head and ignorantly appeared to be some dumb asshole that makes immature, low brow, unapplauded, and not-so insightful comments about otherwise top 10 material.

With your blessing, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Scientologists, this annihilation wave will never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever end. Glory! (holes)

If everybody can agree that the show, its essence notwithstanding, has new characters in new situations then it becomes difficult to sustain the idea of theft. I'm just glad that whatever happened we got some cool content out of it.
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Really, short of stealing the actual gags to the letter, they've couldn't steal more than the exact concept replicated in a new Olympic city. I read comments from Clarke that they saw it as lifting the essence of The Games, and he saw it as a theft in spirit, even if he couldn't prove it in law. I tend to agree with this. And while I take your point, I really think the 'in defence of art' argument is the last refuge of the one-eyed.

Well, we can start with the understanding that faux-documentaries are now fairly common, and that the olympics as a huge public event is very attractive to satire. So two different shows being produced along these lines isn't completely unlikely, and once you have those two shows then there are always going to be similarities.

I don't know much about the idea that The Games was being pitched to the BBC and who from those meetings went on to produce Twenty Twelve. There is a suggestion that the makers of The Games had gone so far as to lend the writer of Twenty Twelve DVDs of their show before he went off and wrote his, which is pretty hilarious.

Regardless I think it's fair to say Twenty Twelve isn't a direct copy of The Games; it had its own tone and told its own jokes. (Whether you think those jokes are funny or not.) Stealing the general idea 'satirical mockumentary about the olympics organisers' would actually be totally legit - that happens all the time and is pretty much how art advances, by building on earlier ideas; stealing lines and situations wouldn't be, but I don't see that happening. If I were plagiarising The Games the genetically-engineered horse and 94m 100m track would have gone straight into my script, for starters.

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Ok, I've only watched one episode, but the similarities were overwhelming to me. How is it different?

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