Hmmm, to counter EDD's comment I'll propose:

Sherlock Holmes + Explosions = fuck yeah!

What. the. fuck.

I mean... what have they done to Sherlock Holmes? To the reserved intellectual? The detective who uses observation and deduction? For goodness' sakes, this trailer fits the story of Iron Man 2 better than of Conan Doyle's stories.

Seriously, what the fuck

Twats like you that get all supercillious over my opinion on something.

If i didn't trust my own opinion, whose opinion should i trust? Would you like to compile a list so that i can do some background reading and decide what my opinions really are?

Fuck slam poetry, fuck you. Mirror analogy and irony duly noted.

In reply to this comment by RhesusMonk:
I do not have the level of bullshit acceptance that Eric has cultivated. Pompous? Look in the fucking mirror, Holmes. Anyone who trusts his own opinion with authority is, by definition, pompous. Aloofness? Like, you mean they don't know that they're performing on a stage? Like, they're just talking to a friend? You watch Rives or Saul Williams and think, "That guy's pretending like he's just talking to me like his friend"? Dude, I get that you don't like poetry, but don't bullshit me with obviously fabricated, after-the-fact reasoning. What is it that you really don't like?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'polley, egoyan, tragically hip, holm' to 'sarah, polley, egoyan, tragically hip, holm' - edited by mauz15

1. http://www.videosift.com/video/George-Carlin-Ten-Commandments
2. http://www.videosift.com/video/Hadoken

>> ^Farhad2000:
^Qualm disagrees with Imstellar and his Ayn Rand fuel views. So he down voted most of the videos that deal with Austrian free market ideology.

Disagreement is fine. But, downvoting within seconds of viewing, say, eight videos is not being a discerning critic, it's doing a blanket attack. The precedence has already been set by those who own and run the site that "hurting the sift" is bad, and downvoting a large number of videos in a row for an obvious personal vendetta is certainly hurting the sift because it denigrates the intended quality-by-number-of-votes model of the site.

By the way, I've already pulled dag aside about his picture being something that is clearly hurting the sift, so I, too, am trying to fight the good fight. That scruffy, sexy bastard needs to SHAVE!!! His mouth looks like a hairy 1970s porn vagina that I would most certainly have my way with John Holmes style*.

Okay, let's get naked and party!


*In honor of the gay tag invoked earlier, and because mouth raping dag is hilarious. I bet for a fleeting moment dag considered upvoting this comment until he read the 2nd paragraph.

yo holmes, invite to the dupe playlist.

>> ^bcglorf:
Finally, I must insist that Israeli aid to the region must not be ignored either. If Israel really wants the region cleansed, why are they still the largest individual provider of humanitarian aid to the region? You know what the biggest complaints where when the borders where closed? Access to Israeli hospitals that where previously available to Palestinians living on the border. And for unemployment caused by closing the border, it was because a great many living in Gaza were working in Israel.


Err? Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza since 2007.

U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said that while Israel had been letting some relief supplies into Gaza, with 60 truckloads entering on Monday, that was "wholly inadequate", as about 100 truckloads a day of flour or grain alone were needed. Stocks of fuel were "more or less zero", meaning Gaza's power plant might have to shut down at any time, while medical supplies were "just about enough to cope", Holmes said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LV538165.htm

A boat delivering 3.5 tonnes of Cypriot medical aid to the Gaza Strip has been rammed by Israeli naval vessels in international waters, activists say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7805075.stm

"The Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Karen AbuZayd, on Monday warned that new restrictions Israel planned to impose on the West Bank could force the agency to curtail its humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/925748.html

Billions of aid dollars pledged to the Palestinians to bolster peace talks with Israel are having a muted economic impact because of Israeli restrictions on travel and trade, the World Bank said on Sunday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2616242520080427

The United Nations is accusing Israel of imposing arbitrary taxes on humanitarian relief supplies - including food and medicine - being ferried to Palestinians in occupied territories. The levies charged by Israel were "unreasonable and unique", Peter Hansen, commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees, told a meeting of donors Wednesday.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/aid/2002/0925israel.htm

On average, the U.S gave more than $6.8 million* to Israel each day and
gave $0.3 million** to the Palestinians each day during Fiscal Year 2007.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/usaid.html

Favorites

1) Season - Spring
2) Place in the world - TBD
3) Children's book - The Slant Book or Inside, Outside, Upside-down.
4) TV Series - I don't watch.
5) Word -
6) Film - Unbreakable
7) Curse - Fuck
Creature -
9) Pastime - Hiking
10) Person - TBD

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Yes
12) Sweet or savory - Whatever
13) Cereal or Toast - Cereal
14) Tan or pale - Pale
15) Shoes or barefoot - Shoes
16) Desktop or laptop - Yes
17) Drive or walk - Walk (see 9)
18) Drama or comedy - Drama
19) Sex or food - Sex
20) Futurama or Simpsons - Futurama, I guess.

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - That's tough... I feel like I have such an inconsistent collection. I'll have to go with http://www.videosift.com/video/Wassup-Holmes-the-illest-detective
22) A great comment on one of your vids - none spring to mind.
23) Most off the wall member - I'm gonna go with Karaidl, though it was totally in a good way.
24) Favourite user name - videosiftbannedme is good for a chuckle.
25) Your most used channel - comedy
26) Personal dumbass moment - don't think I've had any significant ones on the sift.
27) Best avatar - rottenseed, schmawy or perhaps the aforementioned videosiftbannedme
28) Partner in crime - N/A
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - I don't have a problem.
30) Idea for the site - See my sift talk posts and comments.

About you

31) Where do you live - Sullivan County, NY; home to the original Woodstock Festival... and nothing else.
32) Smoker/non-smoker - non-smoker like woah.
33) Left or right handed - righty
34) Hair color - Started life blonde but I've slowly shifted to what can only be called "field mouse brown".
35) Relationship status - perpetually single
36) How tall - 5'11"
37) Children - I often refer to my roommate as my son since I'm always cleaning up after him.
38) Ever had an operation - no, but I've had endoscopy twice which is considered a "surgical procedure".
39) Best feature - beats me
40) Use four words to describe yourself

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Perhaps Einstein as Zifnab said.
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - I'm not that charitable and I really don't like working.
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Only one?
44) Relive a moment in your life - I met an incredible girl a few years ago and completely blew it. I'd sure like a do-over on that one.
45) Have a superpower - spacetime manipulation might be too much power. perhaps just teleportation.
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - Probably everything behind the JFK assassination.
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to -
48) Be president for one hour - No thanks.
49) Delete a period in history - that would undo the lessons learned
50) Achieve one thing - find the girl I can spend my life with.

Sure, it's technically correct, but it lacks the feeling and soul that a human puts into a musical work. Maybe he should try dressing it up like Sherlock Holmes.

Was sick this week, read Nerd Girl in Paradise City. It's basically the story of a smart college writer punkrock wannabe chick chasing the heavy metal dream in LA, and living Cake's Rock and Roll Lifestyle. Very well observed.

Library Books --

The productive programmer
Living Well without a car
Train Your Brain
Car Free in Boston

Books from Swaptree to read--
Steven Johnson/Emergence
The Big Switch

I guess it's funny that the only book that grabbed me was fiction and all the others are bran muffin books...I tend to packrat information to a much greater degree that I consume it. I want the Neo datajack.

Just discovered Canadian TV series Holmes on Homes. Home Renovation Schadenfreude. Very educational as we are in the market for a house. Will have to Netflix that.

>> ^gorgonheap:
guy is certifiably nuts.


not anymore!

>> ^BisH0p69:
>> ^BisH0p69:
>> ^westy:
Maby its because im british that i dont find this funny .
yanky comidy to me is to obvouse to find evan slighty amusing

If you wanna take the p1ss out of US comedy, make sure you can string a sentence together without looking like a neanderthal.

Actually looking back at previous comments on your ridiculous spelling, it's as noted one of 2 cases. A) You actually spell like that, so you are a moron or B) you do it on purpose for some inexplicable reason, hence again, you are a moron. I hazard a guess that you actually can not spell, I lived in the UK long enough to know how SHOCKINGLY bad some people's grammatical skills are here. Yes rest of the world, its not all Sherlock Holmes type logic and intelligence this side of the pond......plenty of mouthbreathers around.


Is that the only reason you could contrive to imagine someone can't spell? ..that they are a moron? I would think, then, that it is you lacking in the intelligence. You'd do well to judge on the value of one's message and not the method of delivery.

Regarding the vid; some good humour, laughed.. but some of it was definately too obvious. Obama's was similar. It's always nice to see a more friendly exchange in the politics though.

Youtube cat is youtube.

Ad hominem. Repent or be damned.

>> ^BisH0p69:
>> ^BisH0p69:
>> ^westy:
Maby its because im british that i dont find this funny .
yanky comidy to me is to obvouse to find evan slighty amusing

If you wanna take the p1ss out of US comedy, make sure you can string a sentence together without looking like a neanderthal.

Actually looking back at previous comments on your ridiculous spelling, it's as noted one of 2 cases. A) You actually spell like that, so you are a moron or B) you do it on purpose for some inexplicable reason, hence again, you are a moron. I hazard a guess that you actually can not spell, I lived in the UK long enough to know how SHOCKINGLY bad some people's grammatical skills are here. Yes rest of the world, its not all Sherlock Holmes type logic and intelligence this side of the pond......plenty of mouthbreathers around.

Go back to youtube.>> ^BisH0p69:
>> ^BisH0p69:
>> ^westy:
Maby its because im british that i dont find this funny .
yanky comidy to me is to obvouse to find evan slighty amusing

If you wanna take the p1ss out of US comedy, make sure you can string a sentence together without looking like a neanderthal.

Actually looking back at previous comments on your ridiculous spelling, it's as noted one of 2 cases. A) You actually spell like that, so you are a moron or B) you do it on purpose for some inexplicable reason, hence again, you are a moron. I hazard a guess that you actually can not spell, I lived in the UK long enough to know how SHOCKINGLY bad some people's grammatical skills are here. Yes rest of the world, its not all Sherlock Holmes type logic and intelligence this side of the pond......plenty of mouthbreathers around.


Go back to youtube.