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I like the news too...it's a barometer I am able to access from time to time, to remind me that I may still be on a planet filled with the developmentally disabled (my charges, if you will, one of the many unreasonable situations the creator placed me here for whatever, fucking reason she decided to be on with that day) and the socially depraved. If I see an inordiante amount fo utter bullshit before I leave the bed, I deal with it, usually having myself to deal with when face meets face in bathroom mirror......OTHERWISE, I have dingleberries in the form of news-spamming half-wits on the video blog I have come to fancy, when I so feel that it is time for a dose of the real, to fuck with.

If this bothers another or other users, they can come to me with questions and may or may not like the answers, otherwise, fuck man.....what do you want from me, I have limited information and I am only one man,in a sea of editorializing half-wits....??!

In reply to this comment by dag:
I get that you don't like news. Other Sifters do- me included. If it really bugs you- I suggest using the channel filters to remove it from your view- rather than go after the Sifters who post news videos. Otherwise- if thine eye offend thee - pluck it out.

Cheers

In reply to this comment by choggie:
I haven;t been saying shit but askng questions which fall on the deafest ear in the bunch-

Perhaps here again is the proper time to address the issue and have NR respond, rather than ignore, which is the coward's lot until told to do what is required to get a bedroll free of lice and a white-bread sandwich..

Is NR spamming news bullshit for fun, passion, or motherfucking profit, and are dag and lucky in collusion??....happened before with fedwhip and he tucked-tail and ran once the jig was up.

You get checks from Maddow there NR? Or are you simply as delusional as they come?? Oh and, people who avoid confrontation?? Probably don't know how to use utensils properly and have piss-poor grooming habits as well. And what the fuck is up with that whiter than white Max Headroom rip-off....neat-o software!!??

Glen Beck is as much a diversion as Maddow-same team, different uniforms and spiel. Both designed to divide and conquer your slow-basted minds with meaningless drivel.

Why do you think i sent the goddamn Olbermann to the file 86?? Old news is no news, and new news is there to confuse. If we use the Videosift as a microcosmic barometer of the direction the world is headed, well, we can always hope for an asteroid to do the hard work for us lazy folks.

Nice vid wankers, you guys really put some work into that one....usete same model for your tee-virus, and offer selections in anything but white....and burn the program you guys use to make the designs...

I'm two days short of a year on unemployment myself. First time I've collected unemployment in my life, and after paying into the unemployment funds for 35 years, I don't feel bad in the slightest for collecting it. Especially since it doesn't actually cover our cost of living (which went up nearly 30% when I had to start paying the insurance that used to be paid by my employer). I worked for a fraction of the market value of my position, because I tremendously enjoyed the work and the people I worked with. Apparently I was just foolish and I should have been far more mercenary. Our finances are within a few weeks of bottoming out...the savings (admittedly not large) are gone. The 401K comes next, but after taxes and penalties, that'll last no more than a few months. And I'm beginning to suspect that I'm not going to get another job in the high tech field I've been working in for the last 25 years, apparently due to being 50+.

So, I'm more than a bit lost as to what to do next...compete with even more people for jobs that pay next to nothing? If I can't get work in my field, I don't think downshifting to other fields is going to be better. Funnily enough, according to our government, I can do a better job of taking care of my wife if I was dead. At least then, she'd be able to collect my social security, which would keep her from having to live in a cardboard box. My country...what a crock. "My" country clearly doesn't give a fuck about me, or anyone like me.

The next time someone tells me again how Joe Stack had it so rough...with his nice house and private fucking plane, I'll be hard put not to explode. I won't even begin to discuss Republican politicians. If I were to meet one face to face, I probably -would- end up with assault charges (if I could maintain control, it'd just be for spitting). I do understand rage. I still don't support violence, however tempting it may be.

The guy in this video looks to me like a hypocritical wuss. He says he's convinced Bush is responsible for murdering millions and is a traitor to America, and the best he can muster is to curse the guy out? Yeah, you sure showed him. Bush no doubt went home and cried, and is now terrified of going out in public ever again.

Sorry, if you really believe that Bush is such a monster but lack the resolve or nerve to use anything more than harsh language when face to face with him your part of the problem. This guys impotent rage and indignation do NOTHING to reduce or diminish the crimes he is decrying.

Reminds me of the anniversary of Pearl Harbor where they brought the surviving US and Japanese veterans together. I wish I could remember where I saw it... on the History Channel, I think.

When the two sides first come face to face, one of the Japanese pilots says to one of the American sailors (and unfortunately I have to paraphrase here), "I am sorry for bombing your ship."

The American replied, "You have nothing to be sorry for. We were soldiers and we were just doing our duty."

It was really amazing to watch them come together.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

LO and I are former friends (for reasons which need not be brought up here). Trust me when I tell you he's a firearm encyclopedia.

I couldn't care if you've manufactured your own firearms. Unless you've stood off face to face with someone and had to shoot at someone you still don't have a clue. Nor the psychological switches that go on.

Powerful Stuff and TRUE! Every bad trait we have was passed down generation to generation by our ancestors, to our parents and then to us - proven fact!

Anyone who's been through couples counselling has come face to face with this. We never see it until it becomes a problem - the trick it recognising it early enough before you pass it on to your kids!

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Choggie is a quality sifter. The fact that he self-destructed over a year ago doesn't give anyone the right to keep banning his new accounts, this whole 'banning the person, not the account' is just stupid. Why don't you just ban videosiftbannedme then?

I've spoken to choggie a few times and I know he wants to be part of this community again. He's broken no rules with his new accounts, but 2 prominent sifters do not want him here and keep banning him. I consider these two people as friends so I'm not looking to start a war or anything.

I know choggie sees the error of his ways, so to speak. I hope he doesn't mind I post something he sent me the other day: "Dag acted as I would have in banning choggie's account. I was way out of line, and this was due primarily to my inability to have a face to face. This is the real problem with the internet, and with the written word. You simply can't expect everyone to be able to derrive meaning through the limitations of language."

Bring back choggie!

I think this has been a fully fledged character assassination attempt and I am disgusted by it. I am not afraid of what you'll think of me, because the truth is on my side.

This thread, or rather all the rumblings behind this thread, is filled with vicious lies which I can only assume stems from peggedbea. I am deeply troubled by this.

Rasch, this will be my last message directed to you, because I really don't like you and I haven't for a long time. I will make this as delicate and level-headed as I can. You have been misinformed. My messages to both AC and bea after my texas trip have been different ways of asking "What happened?" because none of them would tell me what they were upset about.

I don't know what you and the rest have been told about the trip to Texas, but I am very much not in denial. I do know what happened when I was there, and it was what I wrote in my message above.

Furthermore, where else have you read about my trip to Texas? If it's anything I've written then please present it. I know I talked to AC about it before I went over there, but I've never talked to you about anything? How can you know anything that doesn't stem from peggedbea? Is it not possible that she's the one that's either in denial or just lying for the hell of it.

I have heard a few rumors about what I allegedly did over there and elsewhere. Here's what has been relayed to me

1. You flew to Texas to visit Bea, out of the blue and without an invite.
This is false. We discussed it in the lounge and later on messenger and she invited me. I don't know anyone that currently live in Texas, why in the hell would I book a (very expensive, I might add) trip to texas out of the blue? How could I ever even expect to be allowed to stay with her then? It just doesn't make sense.

2. From the beginning you engaged in a lot of sexual talk with her, some of it around her kids- to the point of telling her 5 year old that she could legally have sex when she's 15.
The latter part is a bold-faced lie. I never, ever talked to her kids about ANYTHING sexual. I talked to bea about it, but that was certainly as much her as it was me. We talked a bit more subdued, but like we've talked in the lounge. Anyone who has ever been in the lounge knows that she talks way more shit than I do, and people who know me in real life know I'm not nearly as sordid when I'm talking face-to-face. And I would fucking never talk about sex to a child. Fucking hell, that's pure evil spreading a lie like that.

3. You grabbed InflateableVagina's ass and boobs while staying with Bea, and generally freaked everyone out.
No and yes. I didn't grab her ass, I think I smacked it. The boob thing was just an immature prank that turned out to be way out of line. I acknowledged that above, and I have apologized to ivy about that. I can't say that I generally freaked everyone out, but I suppose I could have freaked the three out that were there, bea, ivy and their friend rick. The kids were long gone to be by that time, and they certainly liked me both.

A little context as well, this was the second day I was there (tuesday). I was there from monday till thursday morning. I do remember that after it happened ivy or bea said that it was inappropriate, but ivy seemed to laugh it off and I did the same. I shrugged it off as an immature prank gone a little overboard. We were all a bit drunk and I acted like a high-schooler, that was it. I've apologized for this on many occasions now to ivy.

The next whole day, we went to Six Flags and not a word was mentioned about it, so I thought, that I stepped over the line, but it looked like they forgave me, so let's just move on. We were still having fun and bea and I were still talking fine together, so I assumed everything was alright.

The next morning at 4 or 5 in the morning, she knocked on my door and woke me up and explained that someone in her family had died and she had to go away to another part of the state to deal with it. She was very distraught and I've not brought it up before because I don't think it's nice to share such things here, but that's what it's come to. I'm sorry in advance to bea for this, but she's made it abundantly clear that she has no trouble lying to people about what happened, so I have lost all esteem for her and can't be concerned with it anymore.

We drove to the airport in the morning with the kids half-awake on the backseat, she dropped me off and drove on to what she had to deal with.

I wrote Ivy a text message later in the morning asking if she had heard anything from bea and if she was alright, so she can attest to that as well. After that bea blocked me on facebook and ignored all PMs on videosift (and promptly deleted them) and AC wrote me that she didn't want to speak anymore out of the blue. What am I to believe here? I mean, can't you see a possible connection? If bea spread a lie to AC about me that was a terrible as the one above, I could understand that AC reacted the way she did. If only she had told me that, if that's the case.

4. You have been communicating with Alien Concept - planning a visit, and claim to have pictures of her that you found somewhere.

I have indeed been communicating with alien_concept. We've been communicating a great deal since the lounge started, I think. We had a good talk in the lounge, and I'm pretty sure there were other people in there as well. I can't remember which of us asked for a messenger address, but in any case we started talking on messenger as well, because I thought she was fun and I can only assume she did the same to me (well, she said as much at least). I've never been planning any visit to her. I've talked to her about it; that it could be cool to meet up at some point; but she's always wanted her boyfriend to come over before any other sifters. And I can respect that. I did some friendly jabs at her about how cheap it was to go to London, but there were never any plans to go anywhere. We had talked about me coming by after new years, or maybe make the siftup then, when her boyfriend was there as well, but it never panned out to anything concrete. I certainly don't have any pictures of her that I've "found somewhere". She has sent me exactly 5 pictures over messenger herself, nothing sordid or anything. At some point, I think during this winter, I sent her some videos of myself playing guitar like the blog posts, which she at the time thought was fun.

When she all of a sudden wrote her "I don't want to talk anymore" I was completely baffled and saddened. Mostly because I didn't understand why she did it. She said that I "didn't respect her and her boyfriend's relationship", but I never saw it as me trying to horn in on her, we were just talking and having fun. We were both in our talks, I didn't just yap at her leg all the time at all. So I pestered her a bit after she wrote it, because I wanted her to reconsider and at least explain to me why the sudden change of heart and because I considered us friends, and friends do have at least a little lee-way to deserve an answer.

I still very much like the rae that I've talked to and I like ivy still too. I'm completely disillusioned about peggedbea. I liked her, but I don't anymore - this is just vicious and she should be stopped. Rasch, you and some others in here are so quick to judge me and deem me guilty, when it's just not true. This is not denial talking, this is reason talking. If you have heard any other rumors about me, bring them out! We're already doing the laundry in public, we might as well do it proper.

I'm am still not the crook in this and by now I've laid myself bare and exposed more about people I liked that I would have wanted to. This disturbs me, it really does.

I am glad that there are some sifters who still have my back and support me, because the truth is still on my side.

>> ^ForgedReality:
I'd have called that fucker out. "Did you have something you wanted to contribute? Hey, stop being a PUSSY, and come down here man-to-man. Come on down here and state your case to the cameras. Come over here face to face, and we'll sort you out. Or are you too scared? Let's go big man, or I'm coming over there. What way do you want it?"
That dumb mullet-wearing hick would get knocked the fuck out.

Uh oh...we've got ourselves an internet tough guy.

I'd have called that fucker out. "Did you have something you wanted to contribute? Hey, stop being a PUSSY, and come down here man-to-man. Come on down here and state your case to the cameras. Come over here face to face, and we'll sort you out. Or are you too scared? Let's go big man, or I'm coming over there. What way do you want it?"

That dumb mullet-wearing hick would get knocked the fuck out.

What a good reporter, she kept her cool and didn't seem affected by him saying he didn't think he did anything wrong. Just watching this upsets me but I can't imagine being face to face and hearing that answer.

It's amazing that no one ever noticed this in person while carrying out face-to-face conversations with these people.

Thank goodness we have vigilant citizens analyzing these small, highly compressed videos, otherwise we would never know the truth!

I hate written quarrels. I always come off as more angry than I really am, and I perceive the other part as passive aggressive most of the time. A trivial matter can often become a huge issue by communicating via e-mail or forums instead of talking face to face or by phone.

What's with the idiot cutting him off at the end like that? I get the 5 minute concept but come on, who has the chance to talk to him face to face? Not many.

hey you're one of the most respected scientists and atheists, but let's cut you off halfway through your statement because a stupid clock rang

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