>> ^lucky760:

These types of dupes are not a result of siftbot searching by textual content but by finding what looks like an identical unique ID in the two embed codes. It's a bit tricky to feed siftbot a smart enough algorithm to support all video hosts, but when these types of issues arise just let us know so we can address them. Rest assured that these types of quirks are expected, but need to be addressed on an as-discovered basis.
Expect that these specific types of false dupes shall be resolved before long.


Thank you for the update, Lucky760.

These types of dupes are not a result of siftbot searching by textual content but by finding what looks like an identical unique ID in the two embed codes. It's a bit tricky to feed siftbot a smart enough algorithm to support all video hosts, but when these types of issues arise just let us know so we can address them. Rest assured that these types of quirks are expected, but need to be addressed on an as-discovered basis.

Expect that these specific types of false dupes shall be resolved before long.

>> ^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.


Q.F.T.

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.

>> ^BoneRemake:

you are saying within 20 minutes your video got 8 votes ?
hah, the quirks of VS.

Yeah, weird, isn't it? It went for an entire day without votes, then rocketed to the top 15 as soon as I promoted it. It just goes to show you how much of a difference posting a video at the right time can make. It also goes to show you that even after hanging around here for three years, I'm still terrible at figuring out the best time to post videos.

you are saying within 20 minutes your video got 8 votes ?

hah, the quirks of VS.


Great tags btw. Paul Rudd is fantastic.

@MilkmanDan, I think the DSM method of diagnosing mental disorders causes a lot of "sort of" diagnoses (almost everyone can answer yes to one or two or three of the questions for any diagnosis). You can just keep in mind that it's only really relevant to talk about labels like that if it's pathological, rather than just a quirk.

Some parents are perhaps a bit more eager to put a diagnostic label on their child, because it explains the confusing behavior of e.g. a moody teenager. Same goes for "is my baby using drugs?".

It might be healthier to be aware that no one behaves exactly like the textbooks say they ought to, and that doesn't have to be a reason to worry.

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Okay, I wasn't going to comment on this originally. I assumed people had the intelligence to see what was going on here. But, I see people prefer to mindlessly pile on the hate bandwagon instead. I wonder if any of you guys commenting on Justin's intelligence actually understand the question he was being asked. Note that Justin experienced this first hand, he did not have the benefit of our ability to replay the scenario over and over until he figured it out.

Let's look at a partial transcript:

Interviewer: "Uhhhh, okay, Justin, um, Beiber, sorry, is German for basketball, true or false?"
Justin: "Is what?"
Interviewer: "Is German for basketball, true or false?"
Justin: "Germing?"
Interviewer: "German. Sorry, that's the Kiwi accent going on there. German, you know? German"
Justin: "I don't know what that means."

The interviewer's verbal sloppiness butchers the original question. It appears that him saying Justin's name is merely him addressing Justin, which then makes the entire question only "Is German for basketball, true or false?". This impression is then reinforced when he repeats only that part of the question. Unable to parse that question, Justin assumes he's hearing words incorrectly and asks about "German"/"Germing" as that was the least clear word. The interviewer clarifies that the word is "German", mentions that he is Kiwi, and continues to hammer on the word "German" without ever restating the entire question. At this point, the original question is long gone, and Justin's brain is primed to assume that the phraseology of the question he thinks he's being asked is due to some quirk of how Kiwis talk. And so he says "We don't say that in America", as in "I'm not familiar with talking that way". Then he offers up that he likes basketball just to give the interviewer something.

If the interviewer had originally said "Your last name, "Beiber", is the German word for basketball, true or false?" then none of the misunderstanding would have happened.

I don't like airheaded celebrities or tv personalities either, but lets not be sloppy in our hate as that discredits our position.

Hey, no worries - sadly, no matter how much I search beforehand I still dupe maybe 33% of the time. Thanks for catching it!

In reply to this comment by arvana:
Great find, Kevlar, but although I hate to do this to you...
http://videosift.com/video/Whose-Line-Party-Quirks

In reply to this comment by Kevlar:
Hey Arvana, I've got one for your Whose Line playlist:

http://videosift.com/video/Whose-Line-Is-It-Anyway-Colin-The-Sex-Detective

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by gorillaman.

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by demon_ix. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

Sadly, it's a dupe...

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Whose-Line-Party-Quirks

Great find, Kevlar, but although I hate to do this to you...
http://videosift.com/video/Whose-Line-Party-Quirks

In reply to this comment by Kevlar:
Hey Arvana, I've got one for your Whose Line playlist:

http://videosift.com/video/Whose-Line-Is-It-Anyway-Colin-The-Sex-Detective

I don't really notice any difference. My login cookie seems to be fubared though, I have to relogin every visit. Had some other weird quirks pop up early on, but they seem to have been resolved.