spoco2
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Married, 3 young kids, living in be-a-utiful Melbourne, Australia.
Life is good.
Also, opinionated pain in the arse.
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If the meaning of upvote and downvote were to be defined by the FAQ, I'd gladly comply; I'm all for working in a system. But, as it stands, it's left up to each of us to interpret them for ourselves.
I try to vote on every video I watch. Only if I really just don't know what to make of a video do I not vote, or if I feel somehow conflicted about it.
If I find value in the video, I upvote. If I don't, I downvote. Pretty cut-and-dry for me. I feel people are too concerned with getting videos published, any videos, rather than getting good videos published. I don't think it should be easier to get something published. If anything, I'd like to see it made more difficult.
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See, I see things a little differently.
We have
Upvote: You think it's a great video, worthy of moving up higher on the site
No Vote: You don't like the video, or it left you 'meh', or you just thought it was pretty lame... you don't feel it particularly worthy to go any further.
DownVote: You really believe this video has no place on the sift, either it's horribly offensive, racist/bigoted, in really bad taste, is full on propaganda with no truth to it etc.
I really see the downvote as being reserved for those really bad videos. If you just don't like something then don't upvote it for god's sake, it's hard enough to get published around here let alone with people making life harder by downvoting for no real good reason.
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Brilliant. And so, so true.
Palin trying to make talking about the past be a no-go area was just shameful. It sorely showed how poor the Republican ticket is going when they have to try to pretend that everything the Republicans have done doesn't really exist, have to pretend that learning from mistakes doesn't make sense, how knowing your history can help you in the future.
They are a team of blinkered no hopers. It amuses me that republican supporters try on the 'Obama is just selling hope with no substance'... Where the Obama/Biden team are more than willing to talk about the actual issues, whereas the McCain/Palin team are a team actually selling 'fear with no substance'.
Please Right Wingers, even in your right wing allegiance, surely you can see how this particular ticket is selling snake oil? Surely you can see that?
No?
You can't?
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Sift-Up-in-Vancouver-Whos-Coming#comment-526180
No dandelion petal unfortunately, but each course will only be a few bites.
Then again, it is 12 courses, not just 3 or 4
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>> ^djsunkid:
Sorry, have to downvote. It was a reflex reaction when they showed mcdonalds with fine dining over it. Want to see american fine dining? Try Alinea or MOTO or The French Laundry, or WD-50, or any of a hundred different places. America actually does have a cuisine. STFU. Fucking big mac. Argh.
I just watched the Alinea video, and while I'm sure the food is delicious, I HATE that form of cuisine...
"Here is your main meal sir"
"Where?"
"There sir, on the plate"
"I can see a flower petal on a stick"
"Yes sir, that is your meal, a dandelion petal infused with Yak butter broth, perched delicately atop a reduction of baby seal flipper, drizzled with aioli and ground camel hoof."
"Well, that sounds great, but I think I'll eat that in, erm, one, maybe two mouthfuls"
"Ahh, but of course, you just need to order another 18 courses sir"
"This one cost me $45 on its own!"
"Is sir a cheapskate?"
"No, but I do need to pay the bills"
"I scoff at you sir... scoff"
Really, a complete wank... I enjoy good food, I enjoy food with great presentation, but I can NEVER come at food where the portion sizes are so insanely small that even after a 3 or 4 course meal you're left empty. I don't suggest just going to a steakhouse and getting the largest damn slab o' meat you can, but come on, I go out to EAT not to sample.
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You pedantic sonofabitch!
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Yeah, same issue with the control bar... no worky.
Still, some great clips, although some of them are woefully low res
**Still, those were some great clips. Although, some of them are woefully low res.
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That was friggen awesome.
And I totally agree, the English language is dum.
But it also irritates the living shite out of me when people can't spell or use punctuation properly.
(How hard is it to learn their/there/they're and your/you're ?)
Yeah, same issue with the control bar... no worky.
Still, some great clips, although some of them are woefully low res
**Still, those were some great clips. Although, some of them are woefully low res.
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That was friggen awesome.
And I totally agree, the English language is dum.
But it also irritates the living shite out of me when people can't spell or use punctuation properly.
(How hard is it to learn their/there/they're and your/you're ?)
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That truly is the lowest of tactics for trying to gather votes... truly pathetic.
And SO MANY PEOPLE WILL BUY IT.
It sickens me that so many people are such mindless puppets that they can be so easily maneuvered using such BLATENT bullshit as this, I mean, completely and utterly avoiding REAL issues, and pretending that everyone will be enslaved or killed if you don't vote for McCain, well, that's a big f*cking load of *lies right there.
Disgusting.
Really... disgusting.
http://happy.videosift.com/talk/Thinker247-Is-Now-Thinker101-1
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See, my issue with this video?
She's saying she's hot.
I mean, she is hot, very cute... BUT doesn't it smack, just slightly, of being very full of yourself to assume that everyone thinks so? People who think they're hot, and think that everyone else thinks they are, are kinda a turnoff...
But yeah.
She is hot. Dammit.
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"Sometimes food is hot"
"You asshole, I've been working on that account for months"
Brilliant... and insane!
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"Travasty"
"No, No, he wears men's clothes"
My god I love Ferguson...
And I know not of her, but she seems funny, intelligent and well read... bravo for a model with brains!
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>> ^complacentnation:
fuck trucks
It's hard to without injury.
Um
So I've heard.
For some of us danger is uncommon but for a few of us danger is an every day thing.
That's why I got out of my last line of work.
Do i let it rule my life, no I don't. But do I let my guard down, I was trained not to.
I said stay off the highways, it means take a back road.
My posts are to be taken with salt.
By the way those are good odds, I should play the lotto.
I sure hope you're being sarcastic.
What an insanely fearful way to live that robs you of basic joys every day. If you spend all your time worrying about what could, possibly, in a 1 in a 100,000 chance, maybe happen if you go out of the house... then... really... what's the point of life.
But then, I get the impression you are joking because, well, your post makes little sense... how has anyone got any back to a wall, and how does this apply to subways?
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It is, if you check just near the middle of yours it's the same thumbnail they have, all it takes is for a vid to be a sec or two longer or shorter for it to have a different thumbnail.
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You sure it's the same vid? It seem similar, just strange to have such a different thumbnail.
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*dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/What-if-there-were-no-stop-signs , but their embed is gone, I'd say give this embed to them and discard this...
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you know, this might be better if you explained what the hell the ad is you're talking about.
I have no idea what this is in relation to, so it makes no sense at all to me.
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*dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/What-if-there-were-no-stop-signs , but their embed is gone, I'd say give this embed to them and discard this...