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Siri definitely has some quirky remarks, but I haven't asked her about Jobs' death.

>> ^Yogi:

Is Siri really like this...I don't know anyone who has her yet.

>> ^rgnjc:

They're just dumb parlor tricks

"Another 10 Dumb Parlor Tricks" doesn't get votes.

*nochannel *wtf *water *magic

>> ^brycewi19:

The more pressing question is, how big of sandwiches does this guy eat?


Lol, huh? It was a bog standard sandwich bag. You could fit about 4 pieces of bread on top of each other in it, as in 2 sandwiches, and a bit at the top to fold over for some sort of seal. I've got hundreds, and fit 2 sandwiches in just nice.

Your video, Another 10 quirky science stunts: science tricks for parties, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

It's not just about dullness and being boring. Religious zealots confirmed in their beliefs and unswerving in their faith make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. It's kind of like the creepiness of the uncanny valley with robots. "Letting go and letting God" is an abdication of your humanity - and it shows on the outside.

Gay people, in my subjective experience, are often the opposite. Full of quirky, imperfect, damaged humanity - or maybe you could even call it the holy spirit. I think I will.

Allow me to quote GK Chesterton:

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

To live like Jesus is a taller order than you seem to realize, and of course as I am sure you realize, most of us have failed to do so. You seem to have this idea that Christians believe that they are perfect, but that is a joke. We are actually far more candid with eachother about our faults than would even be socially acceptable in secular culture. We don't think we are perfect, and even the most devout of the brethern runs into doubts. Letting go and letting God isn't in the bible. What we do is trust God with our lives, it isn't sitting back and doing nothing. To do what Jesus gave us to do is a lot of hard work.

This is what you don't understand: We love God. The tragic thing about you atheists is that you do too, in your own ways. You all love the Creation. You are fascinated and mystified by the Universe, in awe of its manifold complexity and endless wonders. That is, if there is nothing attached to the experience. You value and treasure your freedom from authority, and guard it jealously; after all you think you only have one life to live. I can understand that. You want to be in control.

Yet, you're not in control. Look at Steve Jobs, he had about everything you could ever hope to have, and none of it did him the least bit of good. In the end, he illustrated the truth of this verse:

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?


There is no control to be had, because no one is in control on this planet except for God. What you consider happenstance and coincidence doesn't really exist. So, we give God back what He already has. We decide to stop fooling ourselves and believe that we can beat the system, because the issue has already been decided. What you do in this life matters, because at the end you will give account for every idle word.

Someone has to be God, this what you don't understand. I doubt many of you have thought this through very deeply. Let's play your game for a moment. Let's say the Universe really is 20 billion years old, and life is able to evolve spontaneously from nothing. This means that some lifeforms have had a lot more time to develop than others, and the ones who were successful early and have mastered physical reality are going to be more powerful than anyone else. If any of this is true you most certainly already have a self-proclaimed divinity, one that may look upon a lifeform like us like cockroaches. The position of absolute ruler of existence is a power vacuum that will be filled by someone, and it is almost certainly filled already.

If God isnt in charge, you should be scared of who is. It is a far better thing to have someone who loves us personally and cares about our lives. The alternative is far worse, and something that should worry any thoughtful person. Because if God isn't in charge, and it isn't you and it isn't me; it is going to be someone else. You might not think God is perfect, but again, you love His reality, you just don't want to play by His rules. What you're unwilling to do is take a long hard look at yourself and see that if you are going to be honest about it, the problem is with you and not with Him. You most certainly have some terrific sounding excuses for how you justify rebellion against God, but none of them will match up to your conscience.

>> ^dag:
It's not just about dullness and being boring. Religious zealots confirmed in their beliefs and unswerving in their faith make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. It's kind of like the creepiness of the uncanny valley with robots. "Letting go and letting God" is an abdication of your humanity - and it shows on the outside.
Gay people, in my subjective experience, are often the opposite. Full of quirky, imperfect, damaged humanity - or maybe you could even call it the holy spirit. I think I will.
>> ^shinyblurry:
Well, firstly, the Kingdom of Heaven is on Earth, so Jesus will be here. When He returns He will judge the world, the living and the dead, and establish His kingdom. Secondly, righteousness is credited to you because of faith in God, not as in something that you earned, or because you're so great. It's all to Gods glory..I'm no better than anyone else.
Romans 3:22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,
Three, people have this impression of sin as being fun and cool, and living a sanctified life as being dull and boring. Where ever God is will be the creative center of existence..there isn't going to be a lack of interesting things to do. Everyone seems to like the Creation, and this is just s ahadow of what is to come. It isn't going to be boring. Sin is temporary pleasure, flash in the pan, and it all leads to death, and it is the source of corruption in this world. There is nothing good about it at all.
>> ^dag:
I think I'd prefer to stay down here with the unrighteous. If you're only letting in the self-righteous and pious moralists - it's going to be pretty dull.
I think Jesus would rather stay down here with us too - to be honest. But you go on up with the righteous SB, save us a spot. We'll muddle on without you post-rapture.
>> ^shinyblurry:
So it's my fault you don't have any self-control? It doesn't matter what you think about me personally. The word of God is what is important:
1 Corinthians 6
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
>> ^Payback:
>> ^shinyblurry:
It's never going to cease being a sin no matter how you dress it up. It is immoral and against the natural order of the Universe, as ordained by our Creator.

Oh fucking shut up already. No one here cares about your opinion on anything. Seriously.
I really wish the sift would completely remove you from my view when you're set to "ignore". Then I wouldn't be so fucking tempted to pop open your comments like the puss-filled, diseased boils they are.
Fucking troll.

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

It's not just about dullness and being boring. Religious zealots confirmed in their beliefs and unswerving in their faith make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. It's kind of like the creepiness of the uncanny valley with robots. "Letting go and letting God" is an abdication of your humanity - and it shows on the outside.

Gay people, in my subjective experience, are often the opposite. Full of quirky, imperfect, damaged humanity - or maybe you could even call it the holy spirit. I think I will.

>> ^shinyblurry:

Well, firstly, the Kingdom of Heaven is on Earth, so Jesus will be here. When He returns He will judge the world, the living and the dead, and establish His kingdom. Secondly, righteousness is credited to you because of faith in God, not as in something that you earned, or because you're so great. It's all to Gods glory..I'm no better than anyone else.
Romans 3:22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,
Three, people have this impression of sin as being fun and cool, and living a sanctified life as being dull and boring. Where ever God is will be the creative center of existence..there isn't going to be a lack of interesting things to do. Everyone seems to like the Creation, and this is just s ahadow of what is to come. It isn't going to be boring. Sin is temporary pleasure, flash in the pan, and it all leads to death, and it is the source of corruption in this world. There is nothing good about it at all.

>> ^dag:
I think I'd prefer to stay down here with the unrighteous. If you're only letting in the self-righteous and pious moralists - it's going to be pretty dull.
I think Jesus would rather stay down here with us too - to be honest. But you go on up with the righteous SB, save us a spot. We'll muddle on without you post-rapture.
>> ^shinyblurry:
So it's my fault you don't have any self-control? It doesn't matter what you think about me personally. The word of God is what is important:
1 Corinthians 6
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
>> ^Payback:
>> ^shinyblurry:
It's never going to cease being a sin no matter how you dress it up. It is immoral and against the natural order of the Universe, as ordained by our Creator.

Oh fucking shut up already. No one here cares about your opinion on anything. Seriously.
I really wish the sift would completely remove you from my view when you're set to "ignore". Then I wouldn't be so fucking tempted to pop open your comments like the puss-filled, diseased boils they are.
Fucking troll.

>> ^Asmo:

>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^Asmo:
>> ^Jinx:
Or Butt Smeller if you happen to be American

Incorrect, fanny (in the UK and Australia) is a euphimism for vagina as correctly noted by bareboards2.
It's why we colonials get such a laugh out of yanks and their fanny packs. ; )

So how is Jinx incorrect? In the US, fanny is a kid-friendly word for butt, exactly as he/she said.

Probably because the show isn't in the US... (there's this quirky concept, it's called 'the rest of the world').
He's changing the meaning of the word. If it were a US show with a US compare, then butt smeller would be contextually what the guy is laughing at. It's not. And context is everything.
Side note, this isn't doing a lot to diabuse the perception that American's are so self centered that everything else on the planet has to conform to their world view... = P


Then I suggest you check yourself for confirmation bias. I'm not suggesting that either way is right or wrong. I was just saying that Jinx pointed out that fanny means butt in US English and was told he/she was wrong. All I said was that Jinx was correct in his/her statement. Why the attacks on me? If you've got an issue with anyone bringing up US English, maybe you should attack Jinx.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^Asmo:
>> ^Jinx:
Or Butt Smeller if you happen to be American

Incorrect, fanny (in the UK and Australia) is a euphimism for vagina as correctly noted by bareboards2.
It's why we colonials get such a laugh out of yanks and their fanny packs. ; )

So how is Jinx incorrect? In the US, fanny is a kid-friendly word for butt, exactly as he/she said.


Probably because the show isn't in the US... (there's this quirky concept, it's called 'the rest of the world').

He's changing the meaning of the word. If it were a US show with a US compare, then butt smeller would be contextually what the guy is laughing at. It's not. And context is everything.

Side note, this isn't doing a lot to diabuse the perception that American's are so self centered that everything else on the planet has to conform to their world view... = P

I've got a raver friend who does that with his fingers. I just thought it was a quirky thing he liked to do, didn't realize it was an art form.

I voted 'no', mostly because as a English-is-not-my-first-language I have enough problems with channels that exist already. I kind of get what might be 'obscure', to me 'quirky' sounds like 'perky obscure' , and with either one, I am not crystal clear. Not to mentions channels like 'grindhouse', 'debunked'.. not that I am likely to sift anything to go on to those channels anyway.

I just think it would be nice if it was crystal clear what goes to a specific channel. Maybe because I am also a blonde, I always have problems with my channel assignments. Luckily most people are helpful abd NICE and they add correct channels to my submissions, or change them to proper channels. All I am asking is that you are nice about it (and like I said, most people are).

But then, you should be nice about everything else too. I do not like rude comments abouut my channels, tags or titles. If you are rude, I am most likely to ignore you. This might be 'just online' , but rude comments are disrespectful and people should just try to be civil. But hey, I try not to read any comments because I know things can get pretty ugly in some fronts..

Anyway! Sorry shuac about not voting for your channel. I just would love to see something a bit easier to define. I hope you have several other choices in mind, I had plenty when I was making mine.

OK, we'll see how long it takes for me to start thinking I never should have posted this comment..

>> ^JiggaJonson:

>> ^lucky760:

Bottom line is: don't let the existence of one poorly-conceived channel convince you to allow another one.

I'm glad you at least admit the Wilhelm channel was poorly conceived.


Reading back, perhaps my words were poorly chosen. I personally like Wilhelm, especially every time I hear the scream more and more in new movies and TV shows. It's an uber-specific channel, but there's always more content for it and I think it's really fun.

My point was if you think any existing channel was poorly-conceived (Wilhelm or not), don't use that as a reason to permit a new channel that you think is also poorly-conceived.

>> ^lucky760:


Bottom line is: don't let the existence of one poorly-conceived channel convince you to allow another one.

I'm glad you at least admit the Wilhelm channel was poorly conceived.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

@dag, I was thinking the waronterror channel should be changed to just the war channel, considering that "the war on terror" is a) an archaic concept and b) a propaganda term to begin with.


The war on terror is ideological. What if there was a war channel also?

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^Sarzy:
I think I'm going to abstain from this one -- I'd feel like too big of a jerk to try deny someone a channel that they want to create, but at the same time, this seems way too broad and impossible to define. You could probably make an argument for something like 90% of the videos on here to fall under a quirky channel. And who's to say what is and is not quirky? I might find something quirky that someone else finds completely normal, and vice versa.
You're apparently completely against this channel and willing to state it publicly. Why not just make it official? Don't think of it as being a jerk; it's just QA.
It's not like @shuac can't have a channel because this one gets denied. He can still try something else, or even refine this one and try again.


Agreed. I don't take it personally, trust me. Vote how you want. My circuitry doesn't allow personality is such that if this doesn't go thru...no biggie. I've got more channel ideas too. The next one I try may be too narrow...but we'll find out!