>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^harpom:
>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^harpom:
>> ^conan:
This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:
Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.


LOL. Whatever. The instrument is made to sound like a piano. Sad that you have to go through life taking everything so seriously.

Everyone has their pet peeves, mine is calling pieces of music songs (which she actually does). When people are raised with a musical background minor things like that are just little quirks that make us who we are.

See response to conan. Also last time i looked Chop Suey was a song by SOTD.

And when it's played on piano without anyone singing, it has no words. When it has no words, it's not a song.

Again lol. Don't try and tell me when you listened to the song you were not hearing the lyrics in your head.

>> ^harpom:

>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^harpom:
>> ^conan:
This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:
Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.


LOL. Whatever. The instrument is made to sound like a piano. Sad that you have to go through life taking everything so seriously.

Everyone has their pet peeves, mine is calling pieces of music songs (which she actually does). When people are raised with a musical background minor things like that are just little quirks that make us who we are.

See response to conan. Also last time i looked Chop Suey was a song by SOTD.


And when it's played on piano without anyone singing, it has no words. When it has no words, it's not a song.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^harpom:
>> ^conan:
This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:
Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.


LOL. Whatever. The instrument is made to sound like a piano. Sad that you have to go through life taking everything so seriously.

Everyone has their pet peeves, mine is calling pieces of music songs (which she actually does). When people are raised with a musical background minor things like that are just little quirks that make us who we are.

See response to conan. Also last time i looked Chop Suey was a song by SOTD.

>> ^harpom:

>> ^conan:
This is not a piano. It's an electronic keyboard. If it has a plug it is NOT a piano.>> ^harpom:
Excellent, amazing and brilliant. I love how the song translates to the piano so well.
Chop Suey is a hard kick ass song, yet it plays so well on the piano. Sounds like a cross between Mozart and Beethoven.


LOL. Whatever. The instrument is made to sound like a piano. Sad that you have to go through life taking everything so seriously.


Everyone has their pet peeves, mine is calling pieces of music songs (which she actually does). When people are raised with a musical background minor things like that are just little quirks that make us who we are.

>> ^Shepppard:

What I hear is him forcing himself to try and put Freddy Mecurys Quirks into the song, making a lot of it seem slightly.. well, unnatural.
His voice is damn near spot on, but the way he flows through it.. it doesn't have Freddys.. I don't know, Flamboyancy? Heart? Soul?
I can just picture Freddy singing this hunched over, eyes closed, singing his heart out into his mic, and that seems to be what's missing.


I imagine the only way it's possible to have flamboyancy, heart and soul in singing is when you use your own voice

What I hear is him forcing himself to try and put Freddy Mecurys Quirks into the song, making a lot of it seem slightly.. well, unnatural.

His voice is damn near spot on, but the way he flows through it.. it doesn't have Freddys.. I don't know, Flamboyancy? Heart? Soul?

I can just picture Freddy singing this hunched over, eyes closed, singing his heart out into his mic, and that seems to be what's missing.

Does she live in Canada? Did you meet her at Niagara falls? I <3 breakfast club!>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^enoch:
here are a few rules i live by:
1.i never let anyone dictate how i should feel about myself.
2.assuming someones intentions is the most arrogant of all human proclivities and is something i attempt my best to avoid.sometimes i succeed,other times i fail but in any of those cases if i am unsure.... i ask directly.
3.when dealing with people on the internet i deal with them as human beings and not just a name or avatar.i may be at times harsh or irreverent but i ALWAYS temper my words with that in mind.they are an actual person.
i make no bones if i am angered or irritated or even touched or humbled because i am always sincere.
all of this i can do because i know who i am.my strengths...my weaknesses and even my odd quirks and to ask people on the internet to change their behavior due to my own oddness is a task that is not only unfair but damn near impossible.
that being said,i shall add something here that i tend to keep to myself but for boise's sake (who i find a decent sort),let me add this which may (or may not) add weight to my words:
i am bi-polar.
not your everyday,"im feeling down" kind of bi-polar but the rip-snorting,high-octane,we-are-going-for-a-ride kind of bi-polar.
oh....the stories i could tell you all...but i digress,
i suffer from severe and debilitating depression at times and is a reason some of you may notice that at one point or another i seem to just vanish from the sift.
so for those of you on the sift that suffer from depression.you are not alone but (and this is big) NEVER..EVER..let anyone dictate how you should feel about yourself.
that is your job to work out.
to give someone else that authority is to become a slave to someone elses imperfect and subjective understanding of you.
reserve that for the people who truly love you,for it is through the eyes of those who truly love you who can remind you who you are when you have forgotten.
man,i hope not a lot of people see this.
i feel like my fly is open.
anyways.this one is for you boise.
open fly and all.

I should have just listened to my girlfriend and taken a Xanax instead of posting this.
(Yes, I do have a girlfriend--she's a cheerleader in another state--you wouldn't know her.)
Thank You, enoch.

>> ^enoch:

here are a few rules i live by:
1.i never let anyone dictate how i should feel about myself.
2.assuming someones intentions is the most arrogant of all human proclivities and is something i attempt my best to avoid.sometimes i succeed,other times i fail but in any of those cases if i am unsure.... i ask directly.
3.when dealing with people on the internet i deal with them as human beings and not just a name or avatar.i may be at times harsh or irreverent but i ALWAYS temper my words with that in mind.they are an actual person.
i make no bones if i am angered or irritated or even touched or humbled because i am always sincere.
all of this i can do because i know who i am.my strengths...my weaknesses and even my odd quirks and to ask people on the internet to change their behavior due to my own oddness is a task that is not only unfair but damn near impossible.
that being said,i shall add something here that i tend to keep to myself but for boise's sake (who i find a decent sort),let me add this which may (or may not) add weight to my words:
i am bi-polar.
not your everyday,"im feeling down" kind of bi-polar but the rip-snorting,high-octane,we-are-going-for-a-ride kind of bi-polar.
oh....the stories i could tell you all...but i digress,
i suffer from severe and debilitating depression at times and is a reason some of you may notice that at one point or another i seem to just vanish from the sift.
so for those of you on the sift that suffer from depression.you are not alone but (and this is big) NEVER..EVER..let anyone dictate how you should feel about yourself.
that is your job to work out.
to give someone else that authority is to become a slave to someone elses imperfect and subjective understanding of you.
reserve that for the people who truly love you,for it is through the eyes of those who truly love you who can remind you who you are when you have forgotten.
man,i hope not a lot of people see this.
i feel like my fly is open.
anyways.this one is for you boise.
open fly and all.


I should have just listened to my girlfriend and taken a Xanax instead of posting this.
(Yes, I do have a girlfriend--she's a cheerleader in another state--you wouldn't know her.)
Thank You, enoch.

here are a few rules i live by:
1.i never let anyone dictate how i should feel about myself.
2.assuming someones intentions is the most arrogant of all human proclivities and is something i attempt my best to avoid.sometimes i succeed,other times i fail but in any of those cases if i am unsure.... i ask directly.
3.when dealing with people on the internet i deal with them as human beings and not just a name or avatar.i may be at times harsh or irreverent but i ALWAYS temper my words with that in mind.they are an actual person.
i make no bones if i am angered or irritated or even touched or humbled because i am always sincere.

all of this i can do because i know who i am.my strengths...my weaknesses and even my odd quirks and to ask people on the internet to change their behavior due to my own oddness is a task that is not only unfair but damn near impossible.

that being said,i shall add something here that i tend to keep to myself but for boise's sake (who i find a decent sort),let me add this which may (or may not) add weight to my words:
i am bi-polar.
not your everyday,"im feeling down" kind of bi-polar but the rip-snorting,high-octane,we-are-going-for-a-ride kind of bi-polar.
oh....the stories i could tell you all...but i digress,
i suffer from severe and debilitating depression at times and is a reason some of you may notice that at one point or another i seem to just vanish from the sift.

so for those of you on the sift that suffer from depression.you are not alone but (and this is big) NEVER..EVER..let anyone dictate how you should feel about yourself.
that is your job to work out.
to give someone else that authority is to become a slave to someone elses imperfect and subjective understanding of you.
reserve that for the people who truly love you,for it is through the eyes of those who truly love you who can remind you who you are when you have forgotten.

man,i hope not a lot of people see this.
i feel like my fly is open.
anyways.this one is for you boise.
open fly and all.

@bamdrew: "If this logic were strictly adhered to I don't see how you could ever return to your original future once you've gone to the past" -- Nice theory, but it's proven wrong in BTTF 1 where Marty didn't return to his original future. He landed in the altered future (where his brother's a lawyer, his father's an author, he has a truck, etc.).

@campionidelmondo: Those are some great thoughts that will help me sleep at night. I like the idea of #2, as it reminds me of Bill and Ted: "Later, I'll travel back to before we got locked in this cage and give myself the key... Now I have the key!"

Glad I'm not the only one who overlooked this gaping hole for so many, many years. That's how you know these movies are really great- they're capable of distracting you by entertaining you so thoroughly.

Side note: I learned in the new special features that the original ending was written so that Marty drove the Delorean into a nuclear bomb test detonation in the desert rather than hitting the lightning cable at precisely 88 mph. (And what are the odds he could hit the cable at the split second the lightning bolt was hitting it? Another quirk that's started bothering me.)

I am asking, and this is my main point, which you need to address, can parents make any decisions related to cosmetics? Or is it limited to what you and I use as our subjective standards? For example, can a parent have the earlobe removed because it will make the baby more beautiful/handsome to the parent? It is, after all, reasonable to point out that both are harmless cosmetic adjustments. (And why note that a parent has a right to have one cosmetic surgery but be a hypocrite and say that the same parent does not have the right to have another.)

Can a parent have a harmless lip-reduction done on a child? Or how about removing the nipples on boys? I ask because some parents do have these surgeries done... and it seems you are fine with them...because they do not leave trauma.

Also, we can speculate a bit on the extent of damage, but damage to the body does rewire the brain. You blind a man, you just don't take his sight, his brain rewires to the physical trauma...

Some studies suggest that ripping an infant's dick skin off creates aggressive tendencies later in life. Do I "have an idea of" how far that damage or violence caused might be. No. But we all DO know that physical trauma does propagate violence.

And removing some of the earlobe is not like removing all of the foreskin. All the earlobe and all the foreskin. Just because you leave actual dick skin, that doesn't equate to the foreskin...

>> ^SDGundamX:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/Lawdeedaw" title="member since May 3rd, 2010" class="profilelink">Lawdeedaw
Read the link I posted if you'd like to know how to get rid of your scar. It explains the procedure pretty clearly (and is apparently painless).
I understand that you don't believe ear piercing and male circumcision are equivalent. That doesn't mean they aren't equivalent, though. You just don't agree with me, just as I don't agree with you that circumcision is akin to chopping off earlobes. I'd say shaving the earlobes a little bit would be a better comparison and I suppose it is just a quirk of fate that such a cosmetic change is not considered aesthetically pleasing by any particular cultural group. So, on that point I think we're pretty much at a draw.
As to your second point, it doesn't matter that "you have no idea what happens" to the brain during a circumcision. The medical consensus is that it isn't harmful physiologically or psychologically to children. If there's no evidence, how can you legislate against it? You have no idea if eating apples causes cancer, do you? There's no medical evidence for it. Do you see my point here? Saying "you have no idea what happens" isn't a defensible argument in any way.
My primary concern is the medical consequences of the procedure. If there are none (and there don't appear to be so far--who knows what they'll find in the future) and if the process is reversible (which, if you read the link I posted apparently it is) then I don't see the need to legislate against it other than because of someone's Don Quixotic profound interest in interfering with how other people live their lives. There are far better and more serious issues to campaign for than this.

@Lawdeedaw

Read the link I posted if you'd like to know how to get rid of your scar. It explains the procedure pretty clearly (and is apparently painless).

I understand that you don't believe ear piercing and male circumcision are equivalent. That doesn't mean they aren't equivalent, though. You just don't agree with me, just as I don't agree with you that circumcision is akin to chopping off earlobes. I'd say shaving the earlobes a little bit would be a better comparison and I suppose it is just a quirk of fate that such a cosmetic change is not considered aesthetically pleasing by any particular cultural group. So, on that point I think we're pretty much at a draw.

As to your second point, it doesn't matter that "you have no idea what happens" to the brain during a circumcision. The medical consensus is that it isn't harmful physiologically or psychologically to children. If there's no evidence, how can you legislate against it? You have no idea if eating apples causes cancer, do you? There's no medical evidence for it. Do you see my point here? Saying "you have no idea what happens" isn't a defensible argument in any way.

My primary concern is the medical consequences of the procedure. If there are none (and there don't appear to be so far--who knows what they'll find in the future) and if the process is reversible (which, if you read the link I posted apparently it is) then I don't see the need to legislate against it other than because of someone's Don Quixotic profound interest in interfering with how other people live their lives. There are far better and more serious issues to campaign for than this.

Yes, quirky characters are a staple of comedy, and there is often a straight-man there to play off of.
It may be formulaic, but when the performer is talented (do you think the ability to say a lot of inane stuff really fast and not crack a smile is talent? I do.) it can be enjoyable to watch. This, at least, is much better than that stupid Will Ferrel character whose quirk was talking really loud.

Anyway, yeah, this is not a joke repeated over and over, it's a performance.

If people feel it's interesting enough, they'll make it. The "Who attended X siftup" is something that could be fun to look up at some point, but I fear it could quickly devolve into mudslinging and edits back and forth. There are certainly controversies I could do without a retelling of.

I thought that the main focus of the wiki was to clarify rules and quirks of the site, not to be a videosiftpedia.

Making pages about each other also seems terribly self-involved to me, it might be nice to have something like it, but only really for us. I mean, who gives a shit who gwiz665 is outside of videosift anyway (or on videosift for that matter.. *sniff*)

>> ^kymbos:

I think we can all agree that, whatever the significance of Wikileaks, or Julian Assange's character, these issues pale in significance against quirks of the English language that upset pedants.


I hate it when people say "i-SS-ue" instead of "i-SH-ue"...

Just shayin'