Sorry, it turns out my fresh install of my email client decided to sort Videosift emails into the junk folder, so I missed a bunch of replies.

Mainly I was ready to string these guys up for mucking around with historical artifacts. The sensitivity to it is because the current occupiers of this country already wiped out millions of indigenous people, and now the least intelligent among us have to drag what's left further through the mud with their buffoonery.

I also think the way the government has dealt with this is perfect, but, I still cringe when considering the disparity between how this was dealt with, versus so many recent, violent and unnecessary urban confrontations lately.

As a fellow introvert, I took a job as a bouncer when I was in college specifically because it's exactly the opposite of the kind of person I am. It was worth it.
I was in a major urban center though, so most slow nights were about like this in the video. The only really big difference being the density of people (and thus, about 100x more exchanges with drunk idiots like those shown above).
Very interesting experience.

Having been shot down by the Wife, the Husband's thoughts quickly turn to table legs, how Victorian of him. (Yes, I know, it's an Urban Myth, but a pervasive one, so it still applies.)

Not really an internet joke, but Aussie slang. You'd expect a Bogan to be wearing moccasins, flannelette shirt, and be a bit rough around the edges.

Do a google image search for Bogan and you'll get the idea. Some of the images from a search for деревенщина were a bit similar too, except that Bogans are (usually) more of an urban equivalent.

This is an example of what happens when law enforcement are taught sociology and psychology and de-escalation training. Where as in the US many (especially urban) police departments teach little more than how to use their new military hardware which end of a gun fire's the bullets. To many believe that they are soldiers in a war and criminals or even regular people - especially minorities - are the enemy.

I was raised by white parents, and I was also taught skin color didn't make a difference. I'm white, but I lived my entire life for ~18 years thinking racism was something from the past (I was very naive, and had very well-intentioned parents).

When I moved away to college (in an urban area) it was a slap in the face. It was also a slap in the face to be told that I was really racist and I just didn't know it. I know from experience it is entirely possible to be brought up in this country colorblind, but my being white just invalidates that opinion for most people.

In that respect, I won't raise my children to view race any differently than my parents raised me, but today I am far, far more racist than I used to be simply because I'm surrounded by this world that expects it at every turn. It's a somewhat lamentable journey backwards in that respect.

Attacking the religious text is a strawman in my opinion.

There's all sorts of outrageous (by modern standards) stuff in the Bible, Koran, Talmud, and other major religious texts. How could there not be? They were written hundreds to thousands of years ago at a time when reading and writing was limited to the wealthy or elite (i.e. priest classes). Much of that stuff is outright ignored or at the very least acknowledged by deemed less important by practitioners of those religions in modern societies.

All literature is open to interpretation and this includes religious texts. The fact that there are tens of thousands of denominations of Christianity with differing opinions about what it means to be Christian and how to behave as one gives testament to this. While there aren't as many named denominations in Islam, if you actually look at how it is practiced locally in say urban Malaysia (i.e. no Bhurka for women) compared with rural Afghanistan (i.e. full body covering required) you can see there's huge diversity there as well.

So if you want to judge the religion, then you actually have to take the time to make an informed opinion by looking at who does what and why they do it. And when you do that, you tend to find that there's this complex inter-relationship between religious teachings, economics, politics, ethnicity, history and so on which make it difficult to assign full blame to any one "thing" such as religion. The female genital mutilation example I used above makes this pretty clear.

Sticking solely with criticising the religious text puts a critic on very unsure footing, as at the end of the day all the critic is really doing is criticizing a specific interpretation of the text (i.e. their own understanding). That's why, as I said, it's something of a strawman argument since you're really arguing against an interpretation you yourself have created.

It is much better, in my opinion, to look at how specific groups are interpreting and enacting the text, and then criticizing their actions (or the effects of their actions) in the event that there is a negative effect. But in doing so I think it quickly becomes apparent that those actions are almost always enacted locally as opposed to globally. In other words, they are the actions of a specific group of people in a specific place at a specific time who have been influenced by all the factors (history, economics, etc.) I mentioned above.

And when you reach that conclusion you realize you're not criticizing Islam anymore, you're criticizing one groups' interpretation and enactment of Islam in specific context.

On the other hand, if you ask which type of criticism gets you more views on TV or more headlines in newspapers...

Man people are dumb... im not saying id prob do any different if faced with a wild Leapoard in an urban area, but screaming and waving sticks is unlikely to calm it down.

High-speed urban kayaking has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

Sweet Bastard Zombie Jesus!
This guy claims that global warming is happening because the core is hotter that it used to be, not because of anything people did or the atmosphere at all, then he goes on to contradict himself by saying this bit of cranial rectosis inspired insanity....

Climate Myth VS What the Science Says
"the warming trend over the Northern Hemisphere, where virtually all of the thermometer data exist, is a function of population density at the thermometer site."

30 March 2012 (Source)
Urban and rural regions show the same warming trend.

What a brain dead tool, followed only by others of his ilk.

2pm, 41°C (106°F) in the shade. It's close to 48°C (118°F) in the urban concrete jungle.

SUVs are not designed to be used as a tool like an Unimog. SUVs are designed to be an attractive luxury mobile for urban consumers, not forest workers.

I personally expect the trend away from religiosity in America to accelerate. In more urban areas where people are exposed to more diversity, they tend to leave behind the tribal myths of their elders. The Internet is bringing some of that diversity to the masses.

Yes the fact that he never removed his helmet made his character more than human, something unknowable. Combine it with Urban's best performance to do date in my mind, and you have an absolute cult classic of a movie.

I didn't get a sequel because it performed rather poorly at the box office. Whether it was poor marketing or heavy competition the week of release. But clearly it's become a hit since then.