Koons is quantum, both totally full of sht and a genius. Anyone considered a famous artist for putting 3 basketballs in a fish tank is quite the fellow.

I got to see everything that I really really wanted to see, but there were a bunch I would have liked to squeeze in -- Life During Wartime, Antichrist, Broken Embraces, An Education, Fish Tank, Precious, Mother, Men Who Stare at Goats, Micmacs, Mother and Child, Survival of the Dead, and a ton more. There's something like 300 movies playing during the festival, so it's always rough to narrow it down. Plus, there's always conflicts where two movies you really want to see are playing against each other, so lots of tough choices.

We had one of these in our salt-water fish-tank growing up. It is exactly as described. We had some rock that we had gotten in the ocean and it came along for the ride. The one we had was MUCH smaller and never bothered the other fish because once my father saw it, he started feeding it on a stick exactly like the lady is showing.

At night, we would hear this loud clacking coming from the tank, it was the mantis shrimp burrowing through the rock to make his home larger...

Gay Fish Lyrics

Yo, uh, uh c'mon

*Verse 1*
I've been so lonely girl, I've been so sad and down
Couldn't understand why haters joked around
I wanted to be free with other creatures like me
And now I got my wish, cause i know that I'm a gay fish (gay fish)

*Chorus*
(Gay fish Yo) mother fuckin' gay fish
(I'm a fish yo) goin' on a gay fish
(It's alright girl) makin' love to other gay fish

*Verse 2*
All those lonely nights at the grocery store
In the frozen fish aisle feelin' like a whore
Cause I wasn't being true
Even though everyone said that I had to make a switch
(Gay fish) now I know that I'm a gay fish (gay fish)

*Chorus*
(Gay fish Yo) mother fuckin' gay fish
(I'm a fish yo) Goin' on a gay fish
(Now I'm where i belong girl) makin' love to other gay fish

*Verse 3 Rap*
I used to be scared, denying who I was
Acting straight but then going out to the gay fish clubs
Dancing with the Marlins making out with the all the Snappers
I'd take a Salmon home and work that Coddle Fin for hours
But now I'm out and I'm free to love what I want
Be it Yellow Fin or Bass or them trout in Vermont
I slapped that Holland ass, make that Gooberman shake
I'll come to your house and have an orgy in your motherfuckin' fish tank (fish tank, fish tank)

*Chorus*
Mother fuckin' gay fish
(I'm a fish yo) Goin' on a gay fish
(Yeah now I'm where i belong girl) makin' love to other gay fish

*Verse 4*
I really get around I'm the slut of the sea
When i say I've got crabs I mean it literally
I was eating dinner and just had to go down on that Mackerel on the dish
Cause I'm the gayest of the gay fish (gay fish)

*Chorus*
Mother fuckin' gay fish
(I'm a fish yo) Goin' on a gay fish
Yeah now I'm where i belong girl

*Verse 5*
But I gotta settle down I can't be a whore
I ain't gonna just sleep with any fish no more
I've found me a lover, a brother who's a cross-dressing Cod named Trish
And together we are gay fish (gay fish)

*Chorus*
(Gay fish yo) motherfuckin' gay fish
(I'm a fish yo) goin' on a gay fish
(Yeah, now I'm where i belong girl) makin' love to other gay fish
(Gay fish, gay fish, gay fish, gay fish, gay fish, gay fish...)

Unbelievable... Fish on a whole don't seem to have the ability for this kind of bonding, but that said, growing up, my father had a salt-water fish tank and definitely had a few larger fish (a remora and a puffer fish) who certainly recognized my father (or his hand) as opposed to other members of the family and would allow him to handle them in the tank... it always amazed me.

Not quite as dramatic as this, but it was still amazing to see the puffer fish allow my father to pick him up out of the water and not blow up in to a ball. He would happily swim into my father's hand and wouldn't freak out when taken briefly out of the tank... almost like he was curious.

N

We used to have 4 dogs... I can still remember them all snoring at the same time. We have 16 pets now, but 15 of them are in a fish tank.

Frivolous? I'm glad random diamond members can make that call.

And you take videosift much too seriously. Take a break and watch a video of a cat running into a fish tank, then tell me more about the seriousness of "the courts."

>> ^gwiz665:
I can enjoy parody as much as the next man, but as soon as "the courts" are involved, which they were with the siftquisition, then the ante is upped dramatically and it becomes a much more serious matter. You were hobbled because your mock-siftquisition was frivolous and because you've done it before.
There are tiers of seriousness involved here, and you were the one to raise it - if peggedbea had done it, she would be the one in cuffs.
You two can take your games to facebook or where ever else you want, for all I care you can keep it up in the PMs, but do not involve the community with a siftquisition frivolously.

reminds me I need to clean the algae from my fish tank glass

I'm seeing two conflicting things being said in some of the arguments, 'if we raise the vote cap it'll keep the crap out' and 'look at the crap that makes it into the top 15'. I'm going to assume crap = cute animal videos, people being stupid, and/or the multitude of politics videos. Those kinds of videos sift the fastest and generally get a decent amount of votes, I think raising the queue will make them even more prominent than they are now. (I actually happen to like those kinds of videos).

Videosift has a lot of users, therefore a lot of videos are going to get submitted and a lot sifted. I think its just one of the "problems" of being a large site.

I still think video sift has a lot to offer over youtube in terms of quality:

Dupes are rare, whereas on youtube you can bet your ass there are at least ten different versions of any given video.

I have yet to see any videos sifted that consist of some kid trying to show the world how cool they are, that's what 50% of youtube right there? (Well unless something happens that show they are plainly not cool at all in the most hilarious fashion possible ie. lifting weights breaking a fish tank, and calling for mommy)

The actual video quality of sifted videos is generally good. Occasionally something with bad video quality does gets sifted, but that normally means the content is quality and it just has the misfortune of coming with bad video.

And last but not least, videos are marked and sorted 800 times better than youtube. That alone makes video sift worth it.

I love Atmosphere, I remember finding them on a CD left over on a stair case in my old apartment in Montreal. I loved "Suicidegirls".

"Okay and number 2, being fucked up
is not an excuse to piss in the goddamn fish tank"

What gets me more than there not being a "small" size is that there tends not to be drinks that are truly small anymore. Even the smallest size offered at many places tends to be a large proportion. Most of the time places don't even display cup sizes associated with the names they give them. It's gotten to the point where if I order a large drink I expect them to plunk down a 20 gallon fish tank full of ice and soda right after I sign an agreement promising not to sue them when(not if) I develop diabetes.

And a fish tank! I remember when I got ET for Christmas.

hey worst is the "break into the home of one whom you wish revenge or ill will upon, and rearrange the furniture in every room"...have fun oh ye vengfull

fish tank on the ladder, that's hitchhiker's guide meeces........

Cute. My cat *detests* TV. In the ten years I've had her she's never *once* made eye contact with the TV screen, or even the fish tank for that matter. Pick her up and press her against either of them and she'll crane her neck 180 degrees just to avoid acknowledging their existence. *shrugs*

I've seen baby fugu for sale in Japan in pet-fish shops. They are really cool looking!!! They look almost perfectly square, like dice!

My friend was thinking of keeping pet fish and really wanted to start with fugu. He and his wife have an often stormy relationship.
So we spent some time checking out pet-fish shops and the baby fugu.
He was telling me about a fight he'd had with his wife that morning.
And as a joke I said,
"With the kind of relationship you have with your wife you may not want to keep fugu around the house. You never know if she would drop one of the babies in your curry-rice at dinner....ha ha ha...."
He then looked like he was thinking about it seriously and said,
"Yeah, good point" without a hint of joking!
He never did buy any fugu for his fish tank!

I have a young son and wouldn't dream of keeping pet fugu just in case my son got too curious.