That's so fascinating to me. You're clearly only looking at all the couples from one perspective: American males are shit and Chinese males are wonderful.

Try considering it from both points of view in both couples. The Chinese girl forces her boyfriend to hand over all his money even though he clearly doesn't want to. In order to appease his ball-and-chain, the Chinese guy has to bribe her with a purse. The Chinese girl forces her guy to hold her purse and suffer through shopping with her. The Chinese father-in-law is overtly overbearing and controlling. Chinese couples dump off their babies with in-laws to live free of their burden.

It's not racist to joke about American males being infamously fearful of commitment. In America there are endless references in popular culture to that aspect of American society all the time. Does that make racist the producers of such content?

It's also very commonplace for couples in America to get divorced. Would it have been racist if they'd joked about Americans divorcing versus Chinese staying together despite being miserable?

It's a matter of facts, and pointing out facts in a humorous (to some) way is not a racist act.

And the whole "fucking bitch" line was mostly an over-exaggeration for comedic effect, and it worked. But the fact remains that it's not uncommon for Americans to really feel that way about their SO picking off their plate. (Like I said, I've seen worse than a verbal insult in the form of a physical attack.) Whereas it's ostensibly more uncommon in China.

Ah - in the video clip above there is a shot of the cannon lying on its side. It appears to be the cannon that Tory built himself that they used for the "Ball and Chain Prison Escape" episode. It also appears to be mounted on a pair of old timey wagon wheels via some sort of shop-built rig. If there was any sort of anchoring system in place then I couldn't see it in the vid.

There's a reason why old style field artillery on wheels had that big wooden splay in the back. It provided an anchor point that prevented the canon from bucking up when fired. Looks like the Build Team took out thier home made cannon, had no anchoring system, and let fly with it. They used more powder than they did in that particular device in the past, and chaos ensued.

Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that JD Nelson (who was on the site) didn't say something. He usually seems to be pretty savvy about explosives, and should have observed that the cannon needed some means of fixing in place. Doesn't seem like thier other explosive expert (Frank Doyle) was there, or it may have gone better. I also bet if Jamie or Adam had been around that this wouldnt' have happened. They have experience with firing real cannons from the Pirate episodes, and they probably would have noticed a problem.

I just wish they let the gays marry already, because honestly it really doesn't effect anything beyond some people being offended. And I could really give a damn. As long as they don't take gay marriage as some sort of sign to be out all public display of affectioning every chance they get, don't care at all. And that's not even a bash against two guys/girls PDAing, I just don't like seeing massive PDA stuff going on in public locations. You really don't need to be making out, grab assing and trying to head to second or third base while everyone watches. It's not even the grab ass, it's just they are in the way or moving too slowly because they are too busy trying to stick their tongues down each others throats. Same opinion on cell phone addicts, put it away or move out of the way so you stop holding everyone up.

Plus, if they allow gay marriage, Im hoping we can finally stop hearing about it. If they want to marry a lamp, let em marry a damn lamp. Besides I see "marriage" as a religious institution backed by government, they could just as easily have partnerships or bonded pairs or ball and chain mean the same thing as marriage in the view of the law. And while it wouldn't technically be marriage in the religious sense, they'd still have all the rights for insurance coverage etc. Because if these religions supported gay marriage we wouldn't have all these "Christians" running on a platform of stopping gay marriage, so bypass religion, get your rights under another name refer to it as marriage because in the eyes of the law it would be the same.

Marriage to me means you need a piece of paper and a ring to say you care, but I do recognize that having legal bonds might be beneficial for ownership, insurance, and medical emergency choices. They should focus on their legal bonds, stop referring to it as marriage to appease these ignorant assholes and then after it's in place call it whatever the hell they want. And then promptly stop talking about it, it's important to them I realize but man.....both sides are beating that drum like it's a very important topic that has long lasting ramifications. It doesn't unless you want it to.

Besides the way I see it, more gays married. Less Maury "You ARE the father" shows. And I think that's a win for everyone.

Just moved to an apartment building after living in a house for several years. It takes some getting used to. Sorry to hear about your problems. She's probably new to apartment living and doesn't understand how it works.

I often wish I could peek into my upstairs neighbors room just to see what the hell is making those strange sounds. It's probably something totally understandable, but it sounds like somebody's dragging around a ball and chain.

To me, apartment etiquette allows for a little loud music once in a while, as long as it's not in the wee hours and as long as it doesn't drone on for hours.

Everybody's gotta get a little crazy once in a while.

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by Duckman33.

You called it, can you confirm with an isdupe?

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Think this may be a dupe of this dead vid: http://videosift.com/video/Janis-Joplin-Ball-and-Chain-liveMonterey-Pop-Festival-67

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by therealblankman. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

Yup, it's a *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Janis-Joplin-Ball-and-Chain-liveMonterey-Pop-Festival-67

Think this may be a dupe of this dead vid: http://videosift.com/video/Janis-Joplin-Ball-and-Chain-liveMonterey-Pop-Festival-67

I turn on the tube and what do I see
A whole lotta people cryin' "Don't blame me"
They point their crooked little fingers ar everybody else
Spend all their time feelin' sorry for themselves
Victim of this, victim of that
Your momma's too thin; your daddy's too fat
Get over it
Get over it
All this whinin' and cryin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

You say you haven't been the same since you had your little crash
But you might feel better if I gave you some cash
The more I think about it, Old Billy was right
Let's kill all the lawyers, kill 'em tonight
You don't want to work, you want to live like a king
But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing

Get over it
Get over it
If you don't want to play, then you might as well split
Get over it, Get over it

It's like going to confession every time I hear you speak
You're makin' the most of your losin' streak
Some call it sick, but I call it weak

You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass

Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin' and moanin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

Get over it
Get over it
It's gotta stop sometime, so why don't you quit
Get over it, get over it

And that my friends is why they're called balls and chains.

*quality.

>> ^messenger:
>> ^gwiz665:
They NEVER keep it to themselves.
Coming from someone who seems to understand evidence and logic and theories, I can't imagine you mean this literally. Do you mean you see a lot of religious people who don't keep it to themselves?

Naw, I was being facetious. My point was more that when a religion actively requires you to recruit and thus "save" people, a follower would be obligated to spread their belief. And even if they don't blather on about it, the religion still directly influence their decisions. A deeply religious person in power scares me, even if they keep it under wraps.
On a related note, most religions are extremely jealous about people leaving their religion (apostasy).


Other than that I have a bit of a grander scope on my objections, in that I think that religion is detrimental to the human race. Like a ball and chain it keeps us from being able to run. We are in essence slaves to superstition, irrationality and foolishness, even if we don't believe in it ourselves, because people in power impose their stupidity on the rest of us.
This seems like the same (valid IMO) point to me: people who impose their religious beliefs on us are slowing us down as a people. Right? And if they kept it to themselves, then they wouldn't be slowing us down anymore.


You would think so, but we cannot isolate people completely from the rest of the world - there will always be reasons for interaction between the peoples. I have nothing against "healthy" traditions with no logical purpose (birthdays, xmas or in some sense even prayer), but when people actually believe that something is different just because they pray, it's ones birthday or it's xmas there is an intellectual dissonance, because nothing has changed.

The only way we advance as a species is through science and technology, religion is very similar to what it was a thousand years ago.

>> ^gwiz665:
They NEVER keep it to themselves.

Coming from someone who seems to understand evidence and logic and theories, I can't imagine you mean this literally. Do you mean you see a lot of religious people who don't keep it to themselves?

Other than that I have a bit of a grander scope on my objections, in that I think that religion is detrimental to the human race. Like a ball and chain it keeps us from being able to run. We are in essence slaves to superstition, irrationality and foolishness, even if we don't believe in it ourselves, because people in power impose their stupidity on the rest of us.

This seems like the same (valid IMO) point to me: people who impose their religious beliefs on us are slowing us down as a people. Right? And if they kept it to themselves, then they wouldn't be slowing us down anymore.

Messenger:
As long as they keep it to themselves, I have no problem with people believing in anything. But when religions actively encourage that they don't keep it to themselves, there is a problem. They NEVER keep it to themselves.

Other than that I have a bit of a grander scope on my objections, in that I think that religion is detrimental to the human race. Like a ball and chain it keeps us from being able to run. We are in essence slaves to superstition, irrationality and foolishness, even if we don't believe in it ourselves, because people in power impose their stupidity on the rest of us.

I don't directly gain anything from mocking them, I avoid losing our collective sanity.

Ball and Chain.