Local cuisine in Vancouver means any ethnicity of food you can imagine, at reasonable prices. Some off-the-beaten-path hot spots include Commercial Drive (S of Broadway), Main St (N of Broadway), and Fourth Ave (W of Burrard). If you like Malaysian I highly recommend Banana Leaf.

Whatever you do, be sure to stop by a sushi joint! You'll find one (or two) on every block. Several that stick out are Shabusen, Aoki Sushi, and Shiro. Tojo's is supposed to be the best in town, but it's too rich for my blood.

ok. obviously i have a little explaining to do too. so, here's where this all starts, for me:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Gay-adoption-PSA

came across that on the unsifted queue, all sorted the way i like, and i start watching, and it's weird, but i seem to think it has a weird way of actually trying to say something important.

so then i look at the sifter, and it's shroom. and honestly, i'm pleasantly surprised.
'cuz i didn't see anything, attacking the message, from him. and it reminded me of another very recent, much cooler, and pretty fucking amazing sift, all things considered, by Doc_M:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Barack-after-his-close-New-Hampshire-loss-Yes-We-Can

which really blew me away, and i told him so. because, as a Lib, i really am very accustomed to being able to work almost as well with the (Social Liberal) Dems, as the (normally Fiscal Conservative) Reps.

i just honestly don't think shroom is here to get along, the way that i often see Doc and deedub making real efforts to get along with everyone, and make honest arguments, when they can't agree.

here's another guy on the mostly-right, who happens to be just about the sharpest i've seen on YouTube, from a mostly conservative stance:

http://www.videosift.com/member/justa11en

because he does a better job, of making sharp, honest arguments, and defending his point of view, than (and SO not intended as a slam on Doc or Deedub) anyone i've seen defend a Conservative point fo view, here at the sift.

which is exactly why i asked him to create a login here, for possible future use, after he uploaded this:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-New-Day-Resolution

i do not see, in shroom, what i see in the other 3 i mention. i don't think he's here to get along. i think he's here to push buttons.
and i know many here that wholeheartedly agree, and we all let him, because we're 10 times more tolerant than he'll ever be, and he knows it, and it probably really pisses him off.

to my knowledge, we have more than just the "mores" here. we have some "folkways". and one of 'em says, you try hard not to downvote, while unsifted, without a comment/reason.
the second, and more important, says you don't target an individual, and downvote their queue with clearly nothing more than malice in mind.

would shroom like to explain to anyone here, what he found so distasteful, about 2 malaysian kids holding hands?
while he tosses up a hacked-up PSA, from the 80's, about domestic violence, that we're supposed to find fucking amusing now?
it's the only upvote i've ever given here, that i genuinely regret.

because unlike the other 2 clips, that i did really like, and gave an honest (if confused) upvote, that one i only upvoted, in a vain attempt to be able to say what i wanted to tell him, and not have him do, the very thing he did anyway.

that's not all i have to say about the whole damn thing, but i also don't want to waste anyone's time. i just thought this was the pertinent timeline, from my point of view, and i'd be happy to bookmark this, answer any questions, as soon and as accurately as i can, and let everyone else here decide what, if anything, should happen to either of us.

thank you, all, for taking the time to read this. srsly.

- owen / m15

Hey! it's a Malaysian ad.

Kill the Malaysian Prime Minister. Got it.

Seems like just another overseas commercial about a burger. Nothing particularly interesting or funny, unless we want to poke at Malaysians and their funny ways of saying something. Sorry. downvoted.

yeah???...glad Malaysian's dig the old, guest-host relationship, this guy's acne scars make the wigglies in his puss, an afternoon at the cockroach day-spa....

From reading the YT comments... those worms did not come from inside his face. It's a traditional Malaysian(?) method of treating certain sinus ailments by rubbing cockroaches on the person's face, and the juices are supposed to have some curative effect. From what I read, it seems the worms actually come from inside the roach's stomach, and the little white blobs you see first are actually eggs from which the worms emerge. Third world charlatan hocus-pocus.

Where did you get the idea this was a result of eating tainted food?

My friend runs a killer Malaysian cooking site here, if anyone is interested.

http://www.rasamalaysia.com/

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Are we sure this is actually a video of people practicing Malaysian martial arts? Never heard of the practice, although I suppose it's not beyond all belief. There are very few delusions that don't find their way into martial arts nowadays.

In any case, anybody who does this, regardless of intention, deserves the smackdown from Darwin that's coming for 'em.

Here is an article from the campus newspaper about this.

By the way, regarding the comment I'm equally interested to see an Indian instructor teaching at a Malaysian school speaking English. An interesting peek into the minds of international students, NTU is in Singapore and not in Malaysia. But in both Singapore and Malaysia there are a lot of Indian lectuers (they're a great combination of being highly qualified and cheap ), and naturally, they would speak English because English is the language of instruction at most Malaysian and Singaporean universities, especially for Engineering.

Do you really think this is NSFW, Krupo? Does anyone else? I don't think the guy speaking a quick, almost unheard "shit" would qualify this as being NSFW. I'm removing the flag, but if someone else agrees with Krupo, please let us know.

Great find, MLx. I'm surprised that so many students in Singapore write the way they do to him. I'm equally interested to see an Indian instructor teaching at a Malaysian school speaking English. An interesting peek into the minds of international students.

Maybe this is why I've never heard of Malaysian martial arts.

That is fuckin' hilarious! Malaysians should stick to the type of entertainment they know best...Trannies.