I agree, the media completely slobbers over this shit. I live in Nebraska and when we had the mall shooting in Omaha, I remember reading an article about it where the author seemed utterly gleeful and compared the shooting to us joining an elite club. I wanted to punch the guy.

Banning media coverage from this sort of stuff would have a significant impact I think since they do this to get attention and there is no bigger attention than national media coverage.

I'm sorry, we just don't need to have interviews and tons of photos. It's always the same thing. Of course they're traumatized, of course they're greiving, of course they're shocked. DUH. Even businesses latch on as much as they can use the tragedy as an excuse to post some fake mournful post on facebook/twitter/etc

what pisses me off is that the companies do precious little to stop this crap. It really wouldn't take much for the management to create a line to let people get to these things in an orderly fashion.

but nope, they do nothing to discourage this type of behavior, hell they encourage it.

People have died over this shit and the companies are the gleeful accessories to their deaths.

>> ^VoodooV:

tell me...how do you have plausible character development for Thor and Loki, a couple of demi gods.
when you take into consideration this is a comic book movie...and on top of it, the only reason the movie existed was to introduce Thor for the later Avengers movie...I thought they did pretty good.


thats why i used the word tepid.
it was ok.pretty god is fine as well.
i disagree with the dismissal of character development.i was a huge thor fan when i was a kid and there is a ton of back story concerning loki and thor (along with massive amounts of lore) but the movie really didnt touch on those things.not in any substanstive way to relay their complicated brother relationship.in my opinion anyways.

thank god joss whedon went in a different direction and portrayed thor much closer to the comic books (even his gleeful physical bouts with the hulk).

i mean think about it.while nolan has done a fantastic job with batman.singer dropped the ball with superman and green lantern was an abomination and due to those two last failures we may never see a justice league movie.

character development and plot wrapped in a tasty story is vital to a good movie.even if that movie happens to be based on super hero comic books.

>> ^budzos:

What's good about it, you ask? The music. The opening credits. The burning cows and other various sight gags. The design and rendering of the martians. The gleeful gore. The zany goings-on.


Such is what I noticed this time around, a lot I never noticed the previous viewing. They just make fun of a lot of situations, how agencies handle things etc.

What's good about it, you ask? The music. The opening credits. The burning cows and other various sight gags. The design and rendering of the martians. The gleeful gore. The zany goings-on.

That nobleman stands in for God/Jeebs in that parable. But you should ask shiny, for him we're all slaves to the all-powerful dictator, only some of us (that is the evil atheists) are rebellious against his power.

>> ^messenger:

A character in one of Jesus' parables says that line. It's a "nobleman" who steals from the poor to make the rich richer, and kills anyone who doesn't accept his supreme authority. Is that Jesus' example of good Christianity?>> ^razzyl:
>> ^luxury_pie:
So when he reigns the holy spirit out of everyone, will there be these other religions too? What is going to happen to them, when your/ our lord comes over?
I mean they will probably have a chance to accept him then right?

I think when the Second Coming, umm, comes, non-believers' pleas for acceptance will be drowned out by the gleeful sounds of Christians murdering the shit out of them.
Luke 19:27 “But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.”

A character in one of Jesus' parables says that line. It's a "nobleman" who steals from the poor to make the rich richer, and kills anyone who doesn't accept his supreme authority. Is that Jesus' example of good Christianity?>> ^razzyl:

>> ^luxury_pie:
So when he reigns the holy spirit out of everyone, will there be these other religions too? What is going to happen to them, when your/ our lord comes over?
I mean they will probably have a chance to accept him then right?

I think when the Second Coming, umm, comes, non-believers' pleas for acceptance will be drowned out by the gleeful sounds of Christians murdering the shit out of them.
Luke 19:27 “But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.”

>> ^luxury_pie:

So when he reigns the holy spirit out of everyone, will there be these other religions too? What is going to happen to them, when your/ our lord comes over?
I mean they will probably have a chance to accept him then right?


I think when the Second Coming, umm, comes, non-believers' pleas for acceptance will be drowned out by the gleeful sounds of Christians murdering the shit out of them.

Luke 19:27 “But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.”

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

Actually, while the sodium and caffeine in cola and similar beverages may have a (very, very) slight diurectic effect, you still retain more water from the beverage than the caffeine takes from your system. The same is true even of beer, though it's even more difficult to get people to believe that.


This.

Ages ago I just knew it had to be wrong when my Mom told me this. I was gleeful when I was able to show her proof I was right all along.

just wrote a joke this past week. not so much a joke as a short, funny scene in a screenplay, and as such it works better in action than in print, but i'll share it anyway.

one of the characters is being introduced as having quit hundreds of jobs, as we see a series of 6-8 brief flashbacks of him quitting a variety of jobs under funny circumstances. one of which is the following.

a large office cubicle interior, daytime, and a manager is addressing a half dozen of his employees. the character is one of these employees, and judging from their faces it's clearly not good news.
the manager closes with "Are there any questions?"

our smiling slacker raises his hand and asks innocuously, "Do you know what a cubit is?"

confused by the non sequitor, the manager half-smiles as he answers no.

presenting his forearm, bent vertically at the elbow, and using his other hand with a flourish reminiscent of a game show hostess as he points to either end, our gleeful delinquent begins, "An ancient standard of measurement, generally agreed to be from the end of the elbow, to the tip of the finger."

at this point he's clearly giving his boss the finger, but he continues while the other employees try to hide nervous laughter.

"in the bible, noah's ark is described as being 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 tall. now, given those parameters, do you think it's possible that..."
(he goes on while the view alternates between over the quitter's shoulder, gesture slightly out of focus in the prominent left foreground with the boss's growing recognition displayed on the right, then switching to over the boss's shoulder.)

after about 30 seconds of this he concludes, finally lets his arm fall to his side, briefly surveys the awkward silence, and says "Oh. And I quit."

so, next time someone pisses you off, just ask if they know what a cubit is.

>> ^dag:
Here's Maddow's gleeful take on the event:

You mean: http://politics.videosift.com/video/Anthony-Weiner-Goes-to-Town-on-Republicans

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Here's Maddow's gleeful take on the event:

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>> ^dag:
The convoluted nested nature of this back and forth is hard to follow.


Seriously! She has a doctorate in politics and this is the most concise argument she can make? I like Maddow but her gleeful, long-winded taunts aren't going to do any good.

dag = pushover

Ok stinker247, lookit-If I may, please, and not to damage your obviously compromised sensibilities any further ruffling the delicate lace trim on your panties, an observation:

Referring to your retort after some gleeful, tongue-in-cheek banter in the post you made below re:Schleptedly Begruntingnessocity:

A quick armchair analysis-Ya get hobbled, and instead of taking yer lumps ya begin to poke the place again with some classic, brown-nosing tactics.-
"I found a new embed for a deadpool video, but I'm forbidden from fixing it because of my hobbitting. Oh well."...."Oh well, seeee what I am doing while I am being punished, I am performing good-deeds for the collective to show just how frustrated I am and how willing, to do tricks to gain approval-

Ya make a fucking comment to a woman ya never fucking met in real-time, about anal sex, which whether or not she's a familiar enough wench for ya to take that kind of license with, speaks tomes to your character. You respond directly to my ball-busting in good cheer, with a hearty, "Fuck Off, Choggie" which, violates another fucking rule(ad-hom) of the sift, in tone and sentiment (because you see, there are some of us monkeys who have the innate or practiced ability to be able to decipher the fundamental character of a person through the written word) and this after I offer to do the work for you while you are fucking hobbled, because I'm such a fucking sweetheart of a guy!

Ya then reference my own infamous tenure, assuming you understand the mechanics of my self-immolation here on the sift, it being obvious that you have not a fucking clue as to why I left this place to begin with.......lemme fucking clue ya in:

I left because the place was being hi-jacked by a similar element of snarkish, clueless boobs who love to show their asses and post loads of artless bullshit-The few people who were violently offended at my candor, threw similar fucking hissy-fits to see me emasculated, one even fucking left the place after I was grnted re-entry, because that 40-something adult, has personal fucking issues better left to a professional counselor to attempt to resolve....

But hey, who needs a couch and a draw on yer bank account for the same when you have me, eh?? I offer my observations, free of fucking charge- Evoke my name again, please, lets be pals!!

Sad really, that more folks who care about the vision of the site don't squash like cretinous insects those who would that the mediocre, mundane, and base elements of the human condition be showcased and paraded before us all like some zombified military parade...."public masturbation quality control" perhaps a more fitting moniker....What are ya gonna do though?? The world continues to crank out generation after generation of uni-dimensional dysfunctionals, at a break-neck pace...Soon, the entire world will resemble some bizzarro planet of automatomatious lackeys whose only concerns will be to eat, sleep, shit, fuck, and die...and follow rules, which will be spelled out in one, continuous and unceasing spiel over loudspeakers and intercoms during hours of gleeful toil.

It's the end of the world as we knew it.