• I like your theory, griphus, but I believe a more accurate one is that newspapers employ lots of lazy people who don't bother to factcheck shit.
  • I find it hard to muster a lot of sympathy for the antics of an entitled toff, whose "... most ambitious stunts humiliated his victims" I like to imagine that the assorted Ramsbottoms, Winterbottoms et al had a magnificent burst of camaraderie, fraternity, and solidarity as they realised their shared suffering, and then jointly hunted their last tormentor down for a sound and deserved thrashing.
  • A dermal dendritic cell capturing an Leishmania parasite in vivo. [dermal DCs are a type of WBC]
  • I don't think that anyone has ever doubted that America has the best health care in the world for the wealthy. Actually, I'm not sure about that. A serious medical problem without insurance can easily run a couple of million dollars. That's not just wealthy, that's super-rich. And if you're in that category you strongly consider going to another country for elective healthcare. "Wealthy", like being able to afford a house and send your kids to an expensive college and take vacations in Europe? Those folks are just as trapped by rising health care costs as anyone. Both my partner and I have private medical insurance with Blue Cross / California. They raised our rates 30% this year. Not for any specific reason, just increasing costs. My recommended recourse is to switch to a policy with a higher deduction and significantly less coverage of prescription drugs. We can afford the extra expense, but at 20-30% increases a year that won't last long.
  • hearing sinatra makes me want to go on a killing spree as well. srsly, why is he popular? i just don't. get. it.
  • Is there something inherently provocative about "My Way" that inspires violence among karaoke enthusiasts? Could be...
  • Entertain the possibilty this is creative marketing by some very influential people who would benefit greatly if people started buying American made cars. Is this a worldwide recall?
  • what did the original link point too?
  • I wish that here in America we had a single-payer option that we could raise questions about.
  • I'm not a fan of the single-payer model, but the Canadian system is attempting to give affordable, decent, if not world-class, care to the middle and lower classes. I just wondered how you would be able to provide any sort of intelligent commentary on the Canadian system.
  • This post contains links to a lot of recent articles about Fujita.
  • Hopefully. But I think the sheriff and prosecutor's actions are outrageous on their face. The chilling effect on nurses reporting doctors is what scares me most about this. See, I don't disagree with either of these statements, but outrageous things happen every single day, there are people that act shockingly bad and abuse their power all the time, these best we can hope for is that they don't get away with it, and from what little I know about the case and about TX law in general seems to suggest that it is quite likely the Dr. and sheriff is going to be seriously smacked down for his actions. If it happens differently then I'll unlock some of my hoarded bile for the case. As to "chilling effect"... possibly, possibly this will happen. Or possible it will transpire that Dr. Shitface will get sanctioned and dismissed, the nurses will win a large settlement against him and the sheriff, an indeed the opposite will happen. The term "chilling effect" has been so overused in the last decade or so I kind of lump it into scare quotes category. And, I'm not trying to be dismissive of the possibility of what you are saying, actually happening, but again unless it happens and can be shown to be happening my concern shelf is already full to bursting.
  • I don't buy it. This guy is almost cartoonishly cool.
  • Get well soon.
  • Couch fort dinner party does not belong on that list, because it is the best idea EVER.
  • I think the problem with saying, "this ain't shit" is that there's a problem bigger than what these individual women are facing. The chilling effect on nurses reporting doctors is what scares me most about this.
  • You might not see them, but they're there.
  • His advanced deafness prevented him from realizing that his carefully timed coughing was inadequate to cover his explosive breaking of wind. His "advanced deafness" doesn't seem to quite fit with the things he pulled off, and I half suspect that someone (perhaps someone with a score to settle with Mr. Cole) hoaxed the Oxford Dictionary folks regarding that. It would certainly be appropriate.
  • The really annoying thing is that this is going to poison the public against electronic control. This despite the fact that electronic control can be designed to fail safely just like mechanical control can be (and has been). A mechanical throttle can become stuck or open wider if designed incorrectly as well, but good design prevents that from occurring even in the worst case. It's like electronic voting. Done right, electronic voting could be much more reliable and trustworthy than paper ballots. But that's likely forever out of our reach due to the terrible, terrible implementations we've seen so far.
  • The office of Sheriff is one which can very easily turn into a personal fiefdom for a power hungry maniac. See Arazona's Joe Arpaio, for example. A lot of Sheriffs seem to resist that, either that or they're much better at covering up than the ones who make the news are. But if, in general, you want to find a cesspit of corruption, graft, general low level evil, and brutality look no further than the nearest Sheriff. Especially out away from the major cities it seems as if they can often do anything they want and get away with it for quite some time before they get caught. I'll guarantee that if the story is true, and the Sheriff in question really did do what he's accused of doing, he's done a lot more and a lot worse in the past.
  • Nice to see everyone rooting for Vitter's team. You guys should watch the game together.
  • Gave these links a read mainly because I was so delighted that someone used the prefix "paleo" in a way that didn't describe a diet plan for New York hipsters with urban burnout or the state of being a non-neoconservative. Good stuff. Hope the exhibit comes my way once it hits the road.
  • Beck, Hannity, et.al. are gonna ride this one til the cows come home. posted by Thorzdad at 10:03 AM on February 7 You know, I've been observing the debate down south for a while now, and I have to tell you, it's infuriating whenever one of these douchebags brings up the Canadian system. And this goes for either side of the issue; these clueless braying morons who insist that the Canadian system is absolutely horrid or absolutely perfect, without any idea of what they're talking about. For the record, our system isn't perfect; our hospitals, particularly in urban centres, are running at the very limits of their capacity, and wait times can be unreasonably long for some procedures. Our health-care professionals are often overworked and underpaid. But somehow, it works; my own experiences have been positive thus far. Personally, I think a renewed focus on family doctors would solve about ninety percent of our issues, but that's for larger brains than mine to figure out. In the meantime, my American brothers and sisters, I make this request: Leave us out of it. Unless you happen to carry a provincial health card, you really don't know how our system works, or doesn't work. So stop bringing up Canada's system when debating the state of your own. Thanks, Yanks!
  • Bork! Bork! Bork!
  • Goatse on the cover of Time Magazine
  • Argh, we just finished the New Deal in the US history class I'm student teaching in! I should have thought to search for these audio recordings last week. Thanks for this! I will have to find a way to work them in somehow.
  • I believe the Encyclopedia Dramatica article is authoritative.
  • These aren't grifters. They're a couple whose lifestyle collapsed, who couldn't adapt to their changed circumstances. Sad, not venal.
  • I suppose this could be used to "fake" sympathy, but a little borrowed eloquence, sincerely applied, might sometimes be appreciated by everybody involved. Well, almost everybody.
  • Well, if you ask my father, this whole thing has been a hatchet job orchestrated on Toyota by the "Obama Motors" administration in retaliation against the new Japanese government over its stance on US military bases on Okinawa, with the side bonus of denigrating the image of Japanese cars in general and boosting the USA big 3. There are real mechanical problems with the cars, he argues, but the scope and magnitude has been far exaggerated by the administration and is being used as a club to beat Japan, specifically by outlets such as NPR, who, for the past week, have dutifully reported at the top of each hour just how Toyota was plotting to kill you and your family in a fire. This is one of his sounder theories, actually.
  • Wait, is #7 a chair for a make-believe girlfriend? You're a hipster only if the chair is Asian rattan.
  • I see a general pattern in the sympathy messages, which is useful to me. Breaking them down into either sentences or paragraphs (depending on the length), ... 1. Express the your own reaction to this news. I am deeply saddened by the sudden death of Henry.... 2. Bring up happy qualities or memories. ...I'm proud to have known such a kind, warm and brilliant person.... 3. Extend an emotional support between the sender and recipient. ... My prayers and thoughts are with him and with those he left behind. It even works for the sympathy-but-trying-to-remain-upbeat letter to the cancer victim: 1. It was so nice to see you today. 2. You looked beautiful in your red scarf. 3. I know this journey is very challenging, but I am here to support you in whatever you need. -- Oh, and eeeeeez: I suspect ColdChef would never send a card like that to you, because his sense of humor is so alien to you that you two would probably never become friends. Me, I'd fucking rise from the grave just to scare the fucking hell out of him, and fucking die (again) laughing at his reaction. And he'd think that was totally awesome. After he changed his pants.
  • "The complaints received via our dealers center around when drivers are on a bumpy road or frozen surface," Nolasco said. "The driver steps on the brake and they do not get as full of a braking feel as expected." That sounds to me almost like there isn't actually a problem, in fact. Maybe the 'issue' is the brakes are working perfectly fine, they just don't feel like they are working perfectly fine. Early ABS systems used to freak people out - the pedal would suddenly vibrate, or sink towards the floor and the car wouldn't stop as quickly as they expected. Later systems tried to maintain pedal pressure more reliably and, perhaps, people got used to it. I'd be interested to know how many of the people complaining had never driven an ABS equipped car before. That'd be a really interesting statistic, as bumpy and icy roads are the time that braking would be into prime full ABS mode and the car wouldn't be able to give as much of a braking feel as normal. I wonder if they'd have complained if they'd just skidded?
  • hal_c_on: Do you often make parties stop? Hell, he just got the real party started!
  • Cardiologists say Canada has cutting edge cardiac care, virtually no wait times An interesting twist in the last two lines:
    Feindel said the Munk's waiting time for non-emergency cases is within about two weeks. "Few patients really want to rush into a heart operation faster than that." It's likely Williams's case was not considered urgent if his doctors agreed to let him travel for care.
    And happy anniversary Hidegarde!
  • This is absurd. Agreed.
  • After you sing your lungs out in the shower every morning for ten minutes who has the spunk to go karaoke? Also: I love singing Take me home country roads in the shower.
  • 1) Shift into neutral 2) Press break 3) profit not die.
  • Third comment in a row here, but forgive me. halloween Jack's link is harrowing. Along with the original post -- WTF?? How does it happen that this shit still goes on these days? Don't we all know about the constitution etc.? Jesus christ folks, we're trying to have a civilization here. And Sheriff Robert L. Roberts (jr.) can go fuck himself. I feel sorry for any of his family who are trying to live their own lives, still trying to love such a man. Holidays at that house must be hell.
  • The Wolffs At The Door An interesting story about a couple of elderly grifters in Massachusetts. The Boston Sunday Globe published a follow-up article today.

    Apparently the couple had been running scams for a few years and family members had initially been paying off their debts. Here's footage of the grandparents in court.
  • Seattle Weekly had a good cover story on out-of-control Prius accelerators last year.
  • You can find written copies of the WPA interviews on Project Gutenberg, like this one
  • How sad. I would love to hear their rationale. I suppose if the ship is going down, you might as well play duets.
  • As part of his Masters project at Ohio University, Francis Gardler created a series of ten video clips about photographer and teacher Dave LaBelle. In clip 5, Dave talks about the empathy and compassion needed to photograph other human beings. The title of the first clip: "Connecting The Eye With The Heart" sums up the series perfectly. [via]

    For Dave LaBelle, close relationships with his mother and Denning McArthur, his high school photography teacher, helped define him not only as a photographer, but as a human being. He discusses the tragic loss of his mother to a flood in clip 2, "Beginnings." David LaBelle continues to work as a photojournalist, educator and writer in an ongoing effort to contribute to the photojournalism community and to give back to humanity. A number of his workshops are online.
  • HE'S LOOSE! RUN!
  • Cool Papa Bell, the process is called chemotaxis. Those links should probably give you enough to go on, for starters.
  • So how much jail time are they looking at?
  • I guess I'm getting old at 29 when I have to google this stuff.
  • Canadians travelling to the United States to bypass wait times and to visit top-notch surgical facilities isn't something new, however the leader of a province doing so is. This is just speculative editorializing and has no place in a FPP. Since Danny isn't talking, we have no idea if he would have had to wait at all. Implying that wait times had something to do with his decision is bullshit.
  • I guess we'll know eventually, still If I had a toyota, I'd be curious if they hook the car up to the diagnostic computer and surreptitiously apply a software update during the pedal fix.
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  • Software systems also have a mechanical reality; my computer is made of integrated circuits, which were printed using a very complex process, and a bunch of elements you don't hear about that often; it also includes printed circuit boards (copper layed out on some sort of plastic) and aluminum discs covered in magnetic materials, spinning at thousands of revolutions per second. All the 0s and 1s therein are built on a huge tower of physical abstractions (voltages, transistors, magnetic storage).
  • I do a pretty good rendition of 4'33 For me, it gets too difficult after the intro.
  • The main reason I still think a software problem is a possibility is the huge range of models and markets affected. I have a much easier time believing they all share a common bug in the throttle-control code than it is to believe the iQ, the Tundra, and a dozen other models of all shapes and sizes in between, from city cars to full size sedans to SUVs, manufactured on both sides of the Atlantic, share the exact same accelerator pedal assembly with the exact same mechanical flaw that can be fixed in the exact same way. So long as the driver doesn't panic, the stuck accelerator scenario is very survivable regardless of whether it's automatic or manual transmission. ...assuming the shift-by-wire system allows you to downshift to neutral at speed with the throttle wide open.
  • This is just the best. Secure people who know right from wrong and are willing to say so -- God, they're so rare--but holy carp! They exist! Go Saints in that sporting event thingy you do!
  • I write obituaries every day. This is a helpful resource. Though I will admit that I usually aim for brevity, rather than profundity. Obituary space in most newspapers is expensive. Often, it is cheaper to just run a regular framed advertisement.
  • And I must say this is less an issue about Canadian health care than it is how Danny Williams is an idiot.
  • Hmm, the order was not completely thought out either: 19. Amputate favorite limb ... 24. Icepick to one good eye So what if that limb is my icepick-swinging one, smart guy? Then what?? Coaxial sweater vest: I can't condone this. HDMI is a good enough, modern digital standard. And the sweater will be less bulky.
  • Pffft. Anyone looking to simplify their life will know that those panties don't need lights.
  • Me and my lawn are going to need you to explain this particular meme, because I would really rather not have to Google it.
  • I do a pretty good rendition of 4'33
  • Bob Edwards talked to David Bradley about the Federal Writer's Project. Very interesting listening (link to mp3).
  • None of this explains why the president of Toyota spells his name Toyoda.
  • I'm wondering if there might not be more to this than just a sticking pedal. What with Wozniak's comment about easily reproducible bugs in his Prius, I'm thinking this could actually be a software error; the pedal fix might just be damage control instead of a real fix. The whole thing has felt very strange to me, as the recall has widened and widened. It feels like grasping at straws, rather than engineers really understanding the problem.
  • ...and I realize that finding this amusing in times of lesser grief might make you feel baaaaad when you return to it in times of need, but I pray you'll find peace and comfort in the days ahead.
  • The only karaoke song I've ever partaken in was a duet of "White and Nerdy." I knew all the words already.
  • Retinue. What a great word.
  • Methinks someone is trying to influence who I cheer for tonight. I CANNOT BE BOUGHT WITH PLATITUDES.
  • If this is a small Texas town, moving it to a neighboring community won't do anything to help the polarization issue. They need to move it to a place like Houston, San Antonio or Dallas.
  • Go Bears! I mean, uh, geaux Saints! Seriously, though, one of the funny things about his story is that apparently the more right-wing blogs are "saying that he was brainwashed by his UC Berkeley education." Doesn't sound very brainwashed to me: "I know there's a certain stigma that comes from being from Berkeley,'' Fujita said. "And I'm proud of that stigma, to tell you the truth. I never claim to have all of the answers. I don't know someone who does have all the answers. I just have opinions.''
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  • There is a party?
  • How could you not include squirrel financial advisors?
  • I love him.
  • I had no idea these existed. Thanks. I hope the "The Civil War was worse than slavery!" crowd take a long listen.
  • Karaoke-related assaults have also occurred in the United States, including at a Seattle bar where a woman punched a man for singing Coldplay's "Yellow" after criticizing his version. Violence after a coldplay song? Finally...a war I can get behind. USA USA!
  • I've long suspected that many of the people who say Our Thoughts and Prayers are With You never really give it a second thought, let alone a prayer.
  • Ever lose someone very close to you and you had to write the obit? Try it. I was completely at a loss when I had to write my father's obituary last year. Luckily, when I opened up his pre-need folder, he had written it for me. Five pages worth. That's a good dad. (though, to be truthful, I should say that I edited the hell out of it)
  • however the leader of a province doing so is Not even true. I can't give you a reference, but when Quebec premier Robert Bourassa had skin cancer in the early 90s, he went to a U.S. clinic for it. It was generally known but did not, as far as I recall, provoke a scandal. (The illness eventually killed him in 1996.)
  • Nevermind why you'd give condolences to "a wife..." Presumably, the condolences are to the person whose wife has died.
  • Excellent.
  • I also wouldn't be too quick to trust Eastern Health with my life.
  • Who dat? indeed.
  • *to those with less money
  • Oh hell yeah, when Midland/Odessa is the nearest big city, you're in a world of pain unless there are no humans nearby. Figures this crap-head "doctor" was pushing herbal hooha, too.
  • Yikes!
  • This is not controversial at all. Danny Williams is cuckoo bananas, don't get me wrong, but this move has nothing to do with it. If anything, by going to the states, Williams is freeing up a bed in some Newfoundland hospital, which is a good thing.
  • I didn't see this in any of the other articles, so : from Zirin's interview. DZ: Do you have any concerns that teammates, fans, people will say Scott Fujita may be married and have kids, but maybe on the down low he might really be gay? Do you have concern that teammates, bloggers, the press will talk that kind of smack about you either behind your back or to your face? SF: No, I have no concern about that whatsoever. I know who I am. My wife knows who I am. I don't care one way or the other Dave. I imagine that when some of this gets out guys in the locker room might give me a hard time, and they always give me a hard time. They call me the Pinko Communist Fag from Berkeley. I'm used to it. I can take it all. Fuck yeah, Scott. Geaux Saints.
  • Yeah, not too sure about the eloquence of the letters either: Her passing will not only leave a void in our lives, but in the hearts of all those who knew her. Deanna will always remain within my heart. So, she'll always remain in your heart... in the void left by her passing? Or just alongside the void?
  • From above article: "The complaints received via our dealers center around when drivers are on a bumpy road or frozen surface," Nolasco said. "The driver steps on the brake and they do not get as full of a braking feel as expected." Smells like a problem with the antilock sensors or controller. Definitely could be software.
  • The early "Spawn Till You Die" t-shirts were white ink on a black shirt, which was perfect for an eighties Alaskan punker kid. I was disappointed when he switched to printing it in color. I still have the original shirt in the back of my closet. Ray did the labels for Ketchikan's Raven's Brew Coffee, which have also been printed on t-shirts. (I buy beans from Heritage Coffee in Juneau, though.) Another Ketchikan artist who has done work reminiscent of Ray's is Evon Zerbetz. I really like some of her raven cards.
  • You know, I have this theory. My theory holds that things like this (and, while we're on the subject, this) are the result of a cult of Situationist Anarachists embedded in important gatekeeper positions. They've wedged themselves right between the lower (development) and upper (management) tiers of groupthink and weasel weirdness in through the works just to make the world a little bit odder. I came up with this theory after I decided that the world I want to live in isn't dumb enough for these events to be accidents.
  • I mean, replace "unpopular song" with "unpopular race" or anything like that and watch the LULZ just dry right up.
  • Funny that this is being played out like Toyota is the worst ever. Both Ford and GM have has WAY larger recalls.
  • Can someone explain how they managed to stay at the Quality Inn in Lexington for 6 months without being immediately kicked out after their credit card stopped working? Is this like the way landlords can't evict a renter without notice or something? Massachusetts law is very good to tenants. I assume because they didn't have a permanent address the hotel was, for legal purposes, just like an apartment and it takes a minimum of six months to execute an eviction in the Commonwealth. They must have been mixing their own cocktails, but I think to get the breakfast you just have to show up. The hotel was probably advised to continue to give them normal services in order to not give the couple grounds to contest the eviction. I don't think continental breakfast at a cheap hotel costs the facility much per person anyway.
  • Beerfilter: That's yet another reason why bailouts are such a bad idea. Now that the government is such a large shareholder in General Motors, it automatically brings into question anything it has to say about car safety. Even if what they're claiming is completely accurate, and I suspect it probably is, its credibility has been compromised. What your father is saying most likely isn't true, but it's not laughably insane like it would have been, say, ten years ago.
  • Only sodomize things that forgive Well that clears *that* up.
  • Trouble is, these tips leave one with no life. Pretty useless - and frankly, hopelessly uncute. I see you have simplified your life by commenting before reading.
  • Done done those thangs. Don't get no simpler then this.
  • Those were the days!
  • There isn't enough facepalm for this
  • The bacteria getting eaten sorta look like diplococci - microbiology-speak for paired-up round bacterial cells. If the big phagocyte is a human PMN (polymorphonuclear leukocyte, AKA a neutrophil, our primary bacterial-gobbling shock troops), that'd make the bacterial cells likely to be either Neisseria (n. meningitides, a cause of meningitis, or n. gonorrhoeae, the cause of... guess what?) or Streptococcus pneumoniae. I'd say the latter option would be more likely. Anybody with a less cursory knowledge of this care to weigh in? Do you often make parties stop?
  • A white kid adopted by a Japanese-American couple, he grew up hearing stories of his grandmother raising his dad in an internment camp while his grandfather fought in Italy, and didn't eat a baked potato until he was eight. He went to UC Berkeley. He's vocal in his support for marriage equality. Scott Fujita is a linebacker for the New Orleans Saints.
  • What's polish for "Do a barrel roll"?
  • A single Youtube link in which Angelo Badalamenti displays and describes how he wrote the Twin Peaks theme with David Lynch.
  • What I'm wondering is, are these problems more of an image issue or are an actual significant risk in terms of danger to lives? I mean, consider that if 31k people died in car accidents in '08, let's imagine for a second that there's a model from another manufacturer where pedals never stick but it offers slightly lesser degree of protection in a crash. Nominally, there's nothing wrong with its design and it would not be recalled because there's nothing to recall it for. And yet it's possible to imagine that it's more dangerous than pedals sticking half a dozen times a year. I am not saying that's the case and I'm ignorant of the whole thing; but it sounds like it could be similar to airplane crashes that are so dramatic if not to say epic that they seem to overshadow much more frequent yet "boring" car crashes. But death is like pregnancy - you can't be a little dead. Will we ever think about these risks in terms of 'I have 0.00001 chance of this a year, 0.00035 of that, ..."?
  • I hope the nurses file a civil suit against the doctor and the sheriff They already have. From the NYT story: The nurses' lawyers, John H. Cook IV and Brian Carney, have filed a civil lawsuit in federal court charging the county, hospital, sheriff, doctor and prosecutor with vindictive prosecution and denial of the nurses' First Amendment rights. We'll have to see if the prosecution backs up its "you don't know the whole story" claim during the trial, but it sure looks crappy from here.
  • Somehow some of this is useful. Somehow some of it sounds like out-takes from Radiohead's Fitter Happier. Somehow it's all brilliant.
  • "If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun and just end it all right away." Audio recordings from interviews with former slaves, conducted by WPA folklorists and others, including the Lomaxes and Zora Neale Hurston. Only these twenty-six audio recordings of people formerly enslaved in the antebellum American South have ever been found.
  • Seriously, if not for the whole boring football part... ultimate dreamboat of the universe.
  • I'm just hoping the Saints do not get blown out. The last time my team was in the Super Bowl (2002? I'm drawing a blank here on the year because I am still trying to put it out of my mind) I said I don't really care if the Raiders lose just as long as it's not one of those crap blowout Super Bowls. They got creamed by Tampa Bay. The Super Bowl is often a horrible game. With the dilated commercial breaking and the extended half time it can be unwatchable. Still I have to root for New Orleans. If they get blown out this is going to be long long torture.
  • On the face of it this is so crazy over the top I can't help but wonder if there is information not being reported here. The number of tiny little towns and counties in the US is high enough that even if craziness is distributed normally, there are many small communities that are five and six sigmas out on the BUGFUCK CRAZY tail.
  • Metafilter Karaoke
  • Lock them up and throw away the key! This is Texas after all...
  • Um, the entire site seems to be a linkfarm. For example, the "Obituary Resources" menu item returns this: Free Genealogy Create and print your family tree in minutes. Completely free! www.myheritage.com Am I missing something? Where is the non-linkfarm content?
  • The bacteria getting eaten sorta look like diplococci - microbiology-speak for paired-up round bacterial cells. If the big phagocyte is a human PMN (polymorphonuclear leukocyte, AKA a neutrophil, our primary bacterial-gobbling shock troops), that'd make the bacterial cells likely to be either Neisseria (n. meningitides, a cause of meningitis, or n. gonorrhoeae, the cause of... guess what?) or Streptococcus pneumoniae. I'd say the latter option would be more likely. Anybody with a less cursory knowledge of this care to weigh in?
  • It's sad that that's a 'risky' stance for an NFL player to take, and I'm glad he took it. Seems like a great guy.
  • Really? I thought they were kind of amazing. I'm afraid I can't mark it Best Answer if it doesn't contain actual CP. It's like thousand island dressing and Big Macs: that's what makes it Pedobear.
  • He gave theatre tickets to a large number of bald men whose pates seen from the dress circle spelt out an expletive: characteristically he even remembered to dot the 'i'. He held a party for a group of men who introducing themselves in the absence of their host discovered that they all bore such surnames as Ramsbottom, Winterbottom, and Boddam-Whetham. I love this guy.
  • Cole was a bit of a toff, but he wasn't titled and never sought sympathy - quite the opposite. He was a socialist and anti-establishment figure whose targets were generally the pompous and self-regarding - naval officers, bishops, members of parliament and the like. He took against the "bottoms" (in quite an elegant way) because his first wife ran off with a Winterbottom. There was more to him than meets the eye.
  • I read the NYTimes link this morning and actually ended up discussing it with friends over lunch. I thought there were many amusing detours in the article that suggest some sort of larger study. The John Denver bit and the gender politics both were very interesting.
  • Bunga bunga!
  • Way 0: Become an hero
  • Here's another one.
  • Last year, Bernama reported that Malaysia's information minister, Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin, had issued a public put-down of karaoke singers by likening them to another group of social misfits: bloggers. Both groups, Mr. Zainuddin said, "take pleasure in their own singing but have no influence."
    OHHH BURN
  • Funny that this is being played out like Toyota is the worst ever. Both Ford and GM have has WAY larger recalls. Maybe Toyota is just better at hiding it.
  • Horace, I think the best answer to your question lies with Yahoo Answers. I hate that I know who pedobear is. *sigh*
  • I would love to hear their rationale. Probably something along the lines of: they worked hard all their lives and ended up with nothing to show for it, so hey, fuck it.
  • There's nothing wrong with a two-tier system where the lower tier gets affordable, decent healthcare. The U.S. has a many-tier system where the lowest tier gets nothing.
  • I understand consuming locally when one is able, but is there a surfeit of cardio-thoracic surgeons in Newfoundland?
  • "Coming two weeks after his company began recalling cars by the millions, the short, formal dip, head cast down, suggested regret for causing so much trouble for his customers. But Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder of the Japanese automaker now battling to save its global image from the stain of safety problems, did not deliver the deeper, longer bow that some expected."
  • Nicene Creed Robot would make an excellent 1: mefi username 2: band name 3: robot name.
  • No, no, no, no, no! Free market principles will save the day again. Let the doctor go on about his business and sooner or later maybe he'll kill someone, or a few people, and then word will get around and he'll lose customers and leave the business. Voila! The miracle of capitalism!
  • Incidentally, as I have stated elsewhere, I am unable to comprehend that thought processes of someone who is driving a car that they can't slow down that is able to function competently for a sufficiently long to effectively operate a telephone but not enough to understand the concept of shifting into Neutral. Surely some serious lack of awareness of how a car functions has to exist for that lack of logic to exits. I am aware that a lot of people aren't exactly mechanically adept, but understanding that the pedal makes it go only if the stick is in the right place is not beyond the basic mental acuity of most people, surely. I'd have expected to hear more stories of destroyed gearboxes from people trying to ram it into Park in a panic (instead of just neutral) than 'the car kept going until we died'. I'm not sure extra training will fix that kind of disconnect in logical thinking. I maintain that 'brake failure' is entirely subjective, in that situation, but I haven't seen an engineering report on the condition of the car in question. The chances of total brake failure is tiny in a modern car - it has Aviation levels of redundancy in it, as well as an additional emergency brake. I suspect that 'The brakes aren't slowing the car' = 'they are not overriding my powerful car on full throttle so in my panic I am assuming they thus do not function at all". I may be wrong, but I've seen people freaked out entirely by hitting throttle and brake and being utterly convinced the brakes had failed and then just 'gone alright again' afterwards. The car not slowing when you expect/need it to is such a terrifying jolt to people that normal logic fails, I suspect.
  • Is there a name for the style of art the Vancouver mascots are done in? It is very distinct and recent, sort of like anime-meets-Illustrator and is very flat. It is definitely distinct and recent, Twitter uses it as do a lot of other Web 2.0ish sites.
  • Unspecified? It's likely Mayo
  • It's so weird to think that fight is likely happening inside of me right now. Oh ten second rule, you fickle mistress.
  • O Deanna! She was more than my friend; she was my fucking partner.
  • Ever lose someone very close to you and you had to write the obit? Try it.
  • Aaaand now I have a zit.
  • [By Metafilter's own etc etc, of course.]
  • Because I have nothing intelligent to add to this bit of beauty, here are some weird remixes: * Falling dance mix - David Twins 1991 * D. Twins - Falling Twin Peaks (DJ Herbie Re-Re-Remix) (So damn tough!) * Twin Peaks - Euphorics bootleg * Twin Peaks FWWM D'n'B remix (Go! Go!) * Moby - Go (DnB remix) * Child Support - Twin Peaks (2003)
  • Do you often make parties stop? *bangs on the ceiling with a broom* Turn that fucking music down or I'm calling the cops again!
  • I've always said that karaoke is the 5th sign of the Apocalypse. Maybe Sinatra karaoke is the 6th, and I had an inkling that a gentleman I saw/was subjected to one night who called himself "Barryoke" and only sang Manilow songs (from a karaoke dvd he brought with him, natch) was the friggin Antichrist himself made flesh. Also, nice job with this post...I thought about putting it here when I read it earlier, and knew someone else would do a much better job. And here you are!
  • Seppuku or gtfo Just kidding posted by Iron Rat at 9:04 PM on February 6 [+] [!] not funny. posted by dunkadunc at 9:10 PM on February 6 Iron Rat was just quoting Senator Grassley: In fact, last March, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, even suggested in a radio interview that executives at ailing financial giant American International Group /quotes/comstock/13*!aig/quotes/nls/aig (AIG 22.41, -0.18, -0.80%) "follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I'm sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide."
  • I'd never heard of him before this morning (thanks for passing me that link, honey!), but the more I read about him, the more I realized that his stereotype-breaking support for marriage equality is the least interesting thing about him!
  • I think I see the Proteus there, off to one side... with Raquel floating outside...
  • Go Saints.
  • After Gay Orientation Briefing over at Lavender Menace HQ, I was given training in how to diffuse tense crowds through music. Unfortunately my instructor was the resurrected rum-soaked spirit of a Scottish sailor, so all I learned was "All For Me Grog". Granted, I learned it very well. I do a mean sad-sack version of "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" if you get me soaked in enough whiskey
  • Merlin Mann is a complete jackass. A very lucky jackass that happens to be able to write stuff that makes marginally smart people think they're even smarter when they read it. But still. Complete. Jackass.
  • 32. Couch fort dinner party Oh, mais oui! The only question that remains - is it a bring your own cushion affair, or should I - as the host - supply my guests with an array of cushions suitable for fort building?
  • "a wife..." let's hope she's not YOURS... Worst. Valentine's Day card. Ever.
  • I feel slightly smug that my 1997 Avalon is too old to be affected by the defect.
  • On the face of it this is so crazy over the top I can't help but wonder if there is information not being reported here. A big part of my job is representing whistleblowers. This aint shit. Seriously, I've seen worse. Happens all the time.
  • What is the mechanism at work here that explains how the white blood cell is appearing to "stay on the hunt," so to speak, like a bloodhound after a bad guy? Intelligent design.
  • By commenting here, you just lost The Game. Oh shit!
  • What I was trying to address was the notion that software is inherently less reliable than hardware and that almost always the cause of any electronic device failing to operate properly. I don't follow the field very closely: do we have a compiler that is close to be "proven" in some reasonable way yet?
  • I live in Texas and when it seems that can't do anything more ignorant, they triple vaullt over their last ignorance hurdle into a whole new land of crazy. I am sorry to say that this story just reinforces my really negative views of Texas. With great apologies to the minority of enlightened folks who live there. That doesn't make everywhere else wonderful, but I'm always unpleasantly surprised by how bad Texas based stories can be.
  • Fujita said that when he chose to leave the Cowboys as a free agent in 2006, people asked why he was abandoning what some call America's Team. "Well, they were the self-proclaimed America's Team a couple decades ago," he said. "They have really, really good, loyal fans. But the rest of the country hates them. Let's be honest Wow, he's right about everything!
  • From wikipedia: Vehicles were originally sold under the name "Toyoda" (トヨダ), from the family name of the company's founder, Kiichiro Toyoda. In September 1936, the company ran a public competition to design a new logo. Out of 27,000 entries the winning entry was the three Japanese katakana letters for "Toyoda" in a circle. But Risaburo Toyoda, who had married into the family and was not born with that name, preferred "Toyota" (トヨタ) because it took eight brush strokes (a fortuitous number) to write in Japanese, was visually simpler (leaving off two ticks at the end) and with a voiceless consonant instead of a voiced one (voiced consonants are considered to have a "murky" or "muddy" sound compared to voiceless consonants, which are "clear"). Since "Toyoda" literally means "fertile rice paddies", changing the name also helped to distance the company from associations with old-fashioned farming. The newly formed word was trademarked and the company was registered in August 1937 as the "Toyota Motor Company".[7][8][9]
  • PEDOBEAR DOES NOT APPROVE
  • Beck, Hannity, et.al. are gonna ride this one til the cows come home. Til the cows go home. These guys happen to be pretty far out.
  • I just wondered how you would be able to provide any sort of intelligent commentary on the Canadian system What qualifications are you looking for, exactly? A subscription to the Walrus? MacLeans? High school current events? Health Canada itself says this about our health care system: "...universal coverage for medically necessary health care services provided on the basis of need, rather than the ability to pay." By bringing up "the ability to pay", it's pretty explicit that Health Canada feels providing health care to people that can't afford it is one of their core functions. Is that so different from what spaltavian said? How about if I re-iterated what he said for you and disclosed that we have 2 PhDs in nursing in the family that have been working in the Canadian health care system for 30 odd years? Hey Canada: We have guests coming over. Let's drop the tired "chip on the shoulder" routine already.
  • Every time I get a life-threatening illness I consider medical tourism. Not just for the sunny beaches, but also for the controversy!
  • So they made cortex into their mascot?
  • To me the most interesting part of this article was that these bars employ gay men, who are seen as "neutral parties" since they aren't vying for the attention of women, to diffuse situations with humor and kindness. It's like we're animals, belting out our mating calls and clubbing other males who dare attempt to outdo our ritual performances. You know that they use attractive females as bartenders, since they sell more drinks? They use lesbian women as bouncers at (mostly male) gay bars? Hetero males as bouncers to bars that need a higher ratio of good looking females to drunk dudes. We're all animals when it comes to working in a capitalistic society. Just ask that really pretty pharma female sales rep, or that really good looking dude with his hand on his hips at Barneys.
  • So, Halloween Jack, what do A.C. stand for in Sheriff Gilless' name? I've googled all over the place, and he's only mentioned by initials. I see the fucktard died in 2004. Any further updates regarding the consequences of his actions, for the jailed and for the taxpayers?
  • Only sodomize things that forgive They may forgive, but trust me when I tell you, they'll never forget. posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:58 PM on February 7 [+] [!] If you do it well.
  • My cousin and a few friends took Richmond back in the 70s. Not quite as spectacular, of course.
  • None of this explains why the president of Toyota spells his name Toyoda. The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries I just thought that Toyoda should have delivered his apology in Japanese with a simultaneous translation. His English is atrocious and incoherent.
  • Wait, is #7 a chair for a make-believe girlfriend? Or a make-believe chair? It's a chair you can. Cuddle.
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  • From the interview with Aunt Harriet Smith, part 1: John Henry Faulk: Well what would the preacher preach about in them days? Harriet Smith: I don't know. I didn't go. He'd preach about you know, maybe something or another. John Henry Faulk: They didn't preach like they do today? Harriet Smith: No. They wasn't educated, you know, and they uh, uh, would, would tell you how to do, and how to get along, you know, and how to treat the white people and so on. ... John Henry Faulk: Well would the white preacher tell you to behave yourselves and be [Harriet Smith interrupts] Harriet Smith: Oh yes, they [John Henry Faulk interrupts] John Henry Faulk: Be good to your master and mistress? Harriet Smith: Oh yes. That's what they preach. We, sure, didn't know there was any such thing as God and, and, and God, you know. We thought that was a, a different man, but he was our master. Uh, our white folks, you know, preachers would refer to the white folks, master, and so on that way. Preach that way. Didn't know no better. All of them, all of them would go up there to church. Then after we come to be free, you know, they begin to, preach us, you know. They, we begin to know, you know, there was a God and so on.
  • Don't worry, it's not limited to Texas. This stuff happened in the small California town where I grew up, too. (It probably still does but I ran ran away!)
  • But, reading the article it sounds like a whole bunch of noise and bluster over what seems very likely to be a big fat loss for the doctor. Hopefully. But I think the sheriff and prosecutor's actions are outrageous on their face.
  • This is why we can't have nice things.
  • For those of you Colts fans who feel guilty not supporting Fujita's team, remember that their starting tight end is Jeremy Shockey. Still doesn't excuse you not supporting the Team Of Destiny That Shall Rebuild The Lower Ninth Ward With The Power Of Light Reflecting Off The Lombardi Trophy, but at least this will make you feel a bit better about it.
  • After a Japanese drug firm admitted in 1996 that several hemophiliacs had contracted HIV from its contaminated blood products, one victim's family complained that the company's contrition didn't come from the heart. Within moments, six top company executives silently fell to their knees before the families, lowering their foreheads to the floor. It may be faked contrition, or good business strategy, and nothing else, but that image is incredible. Does Japan still have a lower HighestExecSalary:LowestJobPay for the average company than the US? ie...do they view a business as an entity the makes everyone's lives better, or are they just trying to make a fast buck like in the US?
  • Horace, I think the best answer to your question lies with Yahoo Answers. For the record, those answers are complete shit.
  • We killed it.
  • I loved that episode of Love Boat where stuff keeps getting stolen and then it turns out to be the sweet grandparent-y couple who is stealing it all. It blew my mind when I was a little kid.
  • This. And Thankyou. For all of it. (timeshiftableearthcontinentmapwithdinotimelinewithreallyniceimagesandlikelessonplansfromwhatIwishelementaryschoolhadbeenabout.) If anyone follows their lead on doing the amazing western drive/fossil hunt... don't miss out on jumping up into Alberta and seeing horseshoe canyon. It has also what you are looking for.
  • My white blood cells are apparently really, really lazy since I've had bronchitis, sinusitis and an upper respiratory infection within the last 2 months.
  • hal_c_on: I guess the part that interested me most was actually thinking about how this currently wouldn't work in America. In the Philippines, where there appears to be a more open and accepted LGBT community this situation can work, just like it would work in the wild. In America in most bars a gay diffuser would probably often succeed in only bringing violence (verbal or otherwise) upon himself. Here the men not only have to project their masculinity to the female population but also feel that they need to defend their sexuality from homosexual men. In that way our mating rituals refuse to mirror nature, where a male looking to procreate would be relieved to lose the competition. (I'm not saying that everywhere the bar community is unfriendly towards the LGBT community, mind you).
  • I saw this a few months ago and had a week-long obsession with this theme.
  • Care to explain why you say Canadian healthcare is not world-class? Why it is "decent" and not "excellent"? Why I shouldn't think you're full of shit and don't know the first thing about what you're talking about? I didn't say it wasn't world-class. I said it was "decent, if not world-class". The two of you may not be familiar with that turn of phrase, but that's no reason for either of you to be dicks about it. I'm not a fan of the single-payer model, but the Canadian system is attempting to give affordable, decent, if not world-class, care to the middle and lower classes. I just wondered how you would be able to provide any sort of intelligent commentary on the Canadian system. So, you disagree that the Canadian system attempts to give better care to those with money than the American system? Because that is clearly my point and is clearly not something that would require "expertise", which I do not claim to have. I'm not particularly interested in defending my right to make such a comment to you.
  • A couple of things... 1. This is why people need more training before they're allowed to operate a motor vehicle. After this started happening, I quizzed my wife on what she'd do if her car ever started accelerating on its own, and of all the things she came up with, "turn off the ignition" took her a while, and "shift into neutral" didn't even come up. She's had formal driver training beyond most people in the US, mind you; it's just not a scenario that was ever discussed. 2. This is why people would benefit from having to learn stickshift before getting a license. My gas pedal got stuck on the floormat once (non-Toyota) while I was full-throttle pulling away from a stoplight; I just pushed the clutch back in out of reflex to avoid hitting the car in front of me, reached down and freed the pedal, straightened the mat, and went about my merry way. When you drive stickshift, being in neutral is just part of the moment-to-moment operations, making these events into non-events. 3. This is why more thought has to go into the cool, gimmicky stuff that they're starting to put on cars. After the Toyota issues came to light (but pre-recall) I realized that I had no idea how to turn off a car with a push-button start and keyless ignition. This was after I drove a car like that, too, a hybrid Altima that I initially couldn't figure out how to start. I shut the car off that day, but I don't remember how. The easier cars are to drive, and the more gimmicky they are, the more they're going to contribute to incidents like this. This won't be the end of Toyota any more than it was the end of Audi in the US after their unintended acceleration issues, but like Audi, Toyota's going to take a short term hit. None of this is particularly important, though, if we're not fixing the real problem: lack of driver training (both generally and regarding their specific cars) to allow them to deal with this sort of thing, and lots of other scenarios that can come up when you're operating a motor vehicle.
  • I have always believed that well-insured Americans surely got better care than your average run-of-the-mill Canadian; given the money changing hands, it has a logical truthiness to it. Imagine my surprise when my well-insured friend in California was diagnosed with the same cancer I had two years ago, and had a substantially worse experience in spite of her high-priced insurance. She was treated in urban California; I was treated at a suburban hospital in the Toronto area. She woke up after surgery alone and in pain, trying to get the attention of a busy recovery room nurse. I woke up with a nurse at my side, who checked on me constantly and knew I was going to throw up before I did. Her treatment was interrupted and lengthened because she couldn't get an appointment with her specialist in time post surgery; mine arranged to see me according to my schedule within 5 days of surgery. While I spent 4 days in radioactive isolation at the hospital, she was sent home after a day and a half because her insurance would only cover a single night in hospital. That means she was sent home a danger to others because of the levels of radiation she was emitting. She ended up staying in a hotel room on her own dime to avoid exposing her young son. That means: the woman who cleaned her room afterward, without the usual precautions, was certainly exposed to unhealthy amounts of radiation. (Everything I left in my room at the hospital was incinerated or kept a safe location for several weeks afterwards.) She got the scare of her life partway through her treatment when she got a letter saying she had lost her insurance. After a several days of worry, it turned out that a bit of paperwork was missing and a fax repaired it. I forgot my health card when I went in for my surgery, owing to my complete and utter terror at the time; then waved me in just the same. I don't know why Danny Williams went to the US for treatment. I presume it has something to do with the idea that I have always had; best treatment comes with having to pay upfront. My own experience, and that of my friend in California, is an anecdote. But it reminds me what good treatment I got, and I'm grateful for it. (Today is my 2nd year cancer-free anniversary!)
  • The world was a simpler place in 1910. And if today is the centenary of the Dreadnaught hoax, that means that we're approaching an even more important centenary:
    "On or about December 1910 human nature changed . . . All human relations have shifted—those between masters and servants, husbands and wives, parents and children. And when human relations change there is at the same time a change in religion, conduct, politics, and literature." - Woolf in 'Mr Bennett and and Mrs Brown' (1924)
  • I think the problem with saying, "this ain't shit" is that there's a problem bigger than what these individual women are facing. The chilling effect on nurses reporting doctors is what scares me most about this. By "this ain't shit" I don't think he means it's not significantly problematic. I think he only means he sees more egregious cases of corruption and retaliation against whistle-blowers frequently, perhaps ones that have even greater "chilling effect" potential.
  • My white blood cells are apparently really, really lazy since I've had bronchitis, sinusitis and an upper respiratory infection within the last 2 months. That's what happens. They get a Netflix account and bam! No productivity.
  • Maybe Toyota got hacked. Seriously, they have made so many truly great cars. They'll be back.
  • Yikes, that 911 call is horrible. No brakes. Accelerator on full throttle. And they are blaming a freaken floor mat?! I totally missed the "no brakes" part when this story first broke.
  • Canadians travelling to the United States to bypass wait times and to visit top-notch surgical facilities isn't something new, however the leader of a province doing so is. And I still fail to see why this is anybody's business. Danny was a self-made man worth millions before he ever got into politics. He has better everything than most people, always has, and probably always will. The health care system is the problem here, not Danny Williams. Forget about the flaws in the systems, if I needed serious medical attention and had the cash, I'd be hightailing my ass to the best doctors money could buy. Who wouldn't? Get well soon Danny! We need you.
  • Quietly awesome.
  • Very nice. Is it meant to be a parody of zenhabits? Or is that just a happy coincidence? On preview, ah, yes that is deliberate. Good.
  • "She seemed like a really nice lady. If I had to judge her personality, she was just a nice, honest lady." As another elderly person, namely George Burns, said: "Sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made." Course, these oldsters got caught, so they don't have it made any more, but... they had it made for awhile!
  • The whole Danny Williams thing is an "issue" mostly for the way he's done it - literally disappearing. If he or his spokesperson had simply announced his illness and that he had decided to go to Dr 'X', or clinic 'Y', or whatever, there would be far less fuss. You can just about any cardiac or cancer treatment somewhere in Canada. For the record, between my wife's parents and my parents, we've witnessed the following medical processes: - two knees, one hip - wait times were significant (6 - 9 months) but not unbearable - prostate cancer, successful outcome - breast cancer, successful outcome - rectal cancer, treatment almost complete, successful outcome expected - lung cancer, terminal - quadruple bypass, prolonged and unsuccessful recuperation (terminal) In all the above, access to specialists was fairly fast (immediate for heart issue, 1-3 weeks for cancer specialists). Treatment was thorough, competent and compassionate. (Especially the nurses. I heart our nurses). Bills? There were some bills for incidentals, prostheses and consumables. Most Canadians have supplemental insurance through their employers that will cover drugs and many ancillary costs. It's my experience that most Canadians, even most affluent ones, will go with the Canadian system. Most often, only the very rich will jet to the States as the first step. But the rich do that anywhere. Most Americans don't know what they're missing.
  • DU: From the point of view of someone who really likes to drive, I don't need a safety scare to leave me cold when it comes to the current generation of electronic pedal boxes. My beef is that the current crop degrade the quality of the driving experience. So far every car I've driven with a drive-by-wire accelerator has exhibited a momentary but disconcerting lag between moving my right foot and the engine responding - quite unlike the impercebile delay inherent to a conventional cable connection as tension builds up in the cable. And although that might just be a matter of sample rates or bus speeds to the ECU, no manufacturer currently seems interested in trying to emulate the connection between engine and driver provided by a cable and spring return, and digital pedal boxes seem to have no substantive resistance to pressure, so there's a certain tactile feedback missing when you go to press the throttle (feel free to make your own vinyl vs digital comparisons). My '07 XR4 has a drive-by-wire throttle and it's only because the suspension, the gearing, the torque curve and rest of the package makes the car so enjoyable to drive that I was prepared to tolerate and learn to adjust to the accelerator's odd feel. Admittedly, its really just a matter of time and refinement. The power steering in my little hot hatch is whole orders of magnitude more communicative than the power steering was in my '77 CM Regal, for example. But we're a long way off yet from the point where a software throttle will be the equal of a mechanical throttle, and there's no question that if a mechanical throttle had been an extra-cost option when I ordered little Ilsa from the dealership that I'd've ticked that box of the order form in a heartbeat.
  • #14 seems needlessly complex. And redundant with #25.
  • I don't follow the field very closely: do we have a compiler that is close to be "proven" in some reasonable way yet? I'm not exactly a close follower myself, I just happen to hang out with a few profs that go on about this all the time. To answer your question, I'm not sure which compilers for the mainstream languages are formally verified. Most of my searches led me to research papers from the past decade. Actually there is a crapload* of research going on to create better tools for program determining program correctness from the given specification algorithmically via constructive logic or other such means. (This is related to what you are asking for. This whole site explains some methods for testing mission critical applications, with much technical jargon). *Not affiliated, but I know one of the profs working on this project
  • "Isn't this what the internet is for? To shine a light on crap like this???" No.
  • Never trust anyone over 30 40 50 60 70.
  • I used to have a terrible time writing these things, until I said to myself: what exactly am I trying to say here? And I wrote down just that: "I just wanted you to know I was thinking about you. I am so sorry. Please let me know if there is anything I can do." That's all it takes, really. Even when I believed in God, I had the good sense not to invoke His Plan in those letters.
  • Hells yes! Great post! I work super close to the Burke Museum and I haven't been to the exhibit yet. Tiny lunchtime meetup, anyone?
  • To me the most interesting part of this article was that these bars employ gay men, who are seen as "neutral parties" since they aren't vying for the attention of women, to diffuse situations with humor and kindness. It's like we're animals, belting out our mating calls and clubbing other males who dare attempt to outdo our ritual performances. The gay men, as males outside of the contest for procreation are in a unique position to deescalate tensions. My mating call is "Friend Is a Four Letter Word"
  • But where is Chris Hansen?
  • Yeah, Ray Troll has probably had more of an impact on Southeast Alaska fashion than any other person in history. Which says a certain something about the state of "fashion" in Alaska, methinks. I tried wearing my old Spawn Til You Die shirt in New York recently. Boy, it really didn't translate for folks here. Not even in an ironic hipster way........which makes it even more awesome.
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  • Oh, and: we need to ease up on this whole trend towards epic powerplants in mainstream cars thing -- do you know that in 1982, a Lamborghini Countach V12 did 0-60 in 5.6 seconds, and a 2010 Toyota Camry XLE V6 automatic does it in 6.2? If my Nissan Versa ever unintentionally accelerates, I probably won't notice for at least a hundred yards... right! I'm continually floored by the teevee ads that blare "and it has umpty-bajillion horsepower!" like that matters to 99.99% of drivers who a) have no day-to-day need to pull grounded ferryboats off sandbars and b) have absolutely no place to legally drive this behemoth that accelerates so fast the bumpers red-shift as they pull away from the stoplight. my 53-hp, 1600cc vw beetle, just by way of example, was not an unreasonably underpowered car. I never had trouble getting on the interstate or passing when necessary, and I think most people would be better-served with much, much smaller engines and cars. (although probably not that particular car, much as I did love it.) which brings me to my current love of the great modern japanese small cars that have the really important high-tech features - fuel injection and ABS. auto transmission, not so much. This is why I like cable-controlled throttles, gearshifts with mechanical linkages, and ignition switches that actually turn off the ignition instead of telling the computer to do so. after a couple of near-misses with stupid-ass red-light runners, I've concluded I'll never again buy a car without ABS. Hell yeah, it pulses the brakes a bajillion times a second and the car. just. stops. no skidding, no drifting, no bullshit. and fuel injection. it mixes the fuel and air for you, sampling, resampling and remixing constantly so YOU DON'T HAVE TO. Take that you stupid gunky crud-dumping, water-beading, fuel-pissing carburetor! I hate you!
  • Having said that, this is perhaps the most alarmingly awful sample condolence letter I have read in my life.
    I want you to know that I'm here for you and your family. God does not test people who do not have the courage to pass the test. It is important to keep the faith and move on with your life.
    Seriously? "Move on with your life? Sheesh.
  • I kinda felt sorry for that little guy.
  • Maybe he's saving the deeper bow for the stockholder meeting?
  • You are always in my prayers
  • He/She would be very happy to know that you loved him/her so much

  • For a Friendly Neighbor
  • For a Wife

    • Nevermind why you'd give condolences to "a wife..." let's hope she's not YOURS... obituarieshelp.org will help you fake like you are nice and caring, not just when writing the obit, but at any sorrowful time, big or small. And so much more than just condolence letters you can copy.

    Plus, keep up on all the moderately famous recently departed.
  • I just wanted to comment on some of the conspiracy stuff floating around: Foreign manufacturer screws up and it's America's fault? Really?
  • Ray Troll made my favorite Christmas card of all time.
  • "After a day of barbering, Rodolfo Gregorio went to his neighborhood karaoke bar still smelling of talcum powder. Putting aside his glass of Red Horse Extra Strong beer, he grasped a microphone with a habitué's self-assuredness and [...] belted out crowd-pleasers by Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck. But Mr. Gregorio, 63, a witness to countless fistfights and occasional stabbings erupting from disputes over karaoke singing, did not dare choose one beloved classic: Frank Sinatra's version of "My Way." "I used to like 'My Way,' but after all the trouble, I stopped singing it," he said. "You can get killed."

    "My Way" has reportedly generated so many outbursts of hostility that some bars in the Philippines now do not offer it on the karaoke menu. Is there something inherently provocative about "My Way" (YouTube link) that inspires violence among karaoke enthusiasts? Sources quoted in the NYT link suggest that the song's "'triumphalist' nature might contribute to [...] violence" as its "lyrics evoke feelings of pride and arrogance in the singer, as if you're somebody when you're really nobody." Or is "karaoke rage" a predictable consequence of the fact that karaoke bars may bring together several socially combustible elements? Elsewhere in the world, karaoke song selections as varied as Dio's "Holy Diver" and John Denver's "Country Roads" have been implicated in rage-related crimes.
  • None of this explains why the president of Toyota spells his name Toyoda. I wondered that too. From Wikipedia: Vehicles were originally sold under the name "Toyoda" (トヨダ), from the family name of the company's founder, Kiichiro Toyoda....But Risaburo Toyoda, who had married into the family and was not born with that name, preferred "Toyota" (トヨタ) because it took eight brush strokes (a fortuitous number) to write in Japanese, was visually simpler (leaving off two ticks at the end) and with a voiceless consonant instead of a voiced one (voiced consonants are considered to have a "murky" or "muddy" sound compared to voiceless consonants, which are "clear"). Since "Toyoda" literally means "fertile rice paddies", changing the name also helped to distance the company from associations with old-fashioned farming.
  • Great post. Dave is a legend, especially in Kentucky where he was on faculty at WKU for many years. His books The Great Picture Hunt and Lessons in death and life should be required reading for anyone interested in community photojournalism. As part of her Masters project at Ohio University... FYI, Francis Gardler is male. Perhaps a mod can update the post.
  • apologizing for some of my fellow Canadians' comments that is SO Canadian!
  • Gilless was subject to an inmate abuse lawsuit even as he took his office.
  • Not everyone is as articulate as we on Metafilter (ha). There's nothing wrong with getting a little help when writing something important to someone in grief.
  • After a Japanese drug firm admitted in 1996 that several hemophiliacs had contracted HIV from its contaminated blood products, one victim's family complained that the company's contrition didn't come from the heart. Within moments, six top company executives silently fell to their knees before the families, lowering their foreheads to the floor. It may be faked contrition, or good business strategy, and nothing else, but that image is incredible.
  • Trouble is, these tips leave one with no life. Pretty useless - and frankly, hopelessly uncute.
  • This is like saying we should shut down all the public schools in America because Obama sends his kids to private school. In other words, it's either completely stupid (unlikely) or completely disingenuous (likely). An argument only a troll could love...sorry....
  • This is the definitive cover of My Way. Though some would argue for Nina Hagen over the Pistols.
  • Ugh. I hate, hate, hate writing condolence cards. Everything I can think to say either sounds insincere, saccharine or glib. I've totally searched sites like that when I was sitting there with a card and a pen and no clue what to say.
  • If you liked the The Blind Side, don't miss The Bonsai'd: in theaters March 2012.
  • I wish I could give you his name, my ex-step father was his post op nurse but he's forgotten his name (says he was an asshole though), & google fails me - it was just a tiny article in the back of the Toronto Star at the time. That should be discoverable for anyone in the area with access to a library that keeps newspaper archives.
  • software applications we build with our current standards have so much more potential for failure than basically any proven, well made mechanical system. Once I bought a Dodge Dart V-8 from an old lady whose nephew had put on a four-barrel carb, with the result that the angle at which the throttle cable entered the engine compartment had changed. Soon after I bought the car, the throttle cable became pinched after I floored the accelerator. I threw it into neutral, but that was a scary few seconds hurtling down the street. (He had also installed a new head gasket improperly and that failed soon after that, never saw so much white smoke come out of a tailpipe before or since.) Mechanical systems only need one eager nephew to turn deadly.
  • Regrets? They have a few.
  • Go get it, boy! Go get it! Gooooood, White Cell. Gooood boy.
  • I just wanted to comment on some of the conspiracy stuff floating around: Foreign manufacturer screws up and it's America's fault? Really? As a further counterpoint, it is perhaps noteworthy that the accelerator issues were present in Toyota automobiles — at least around or before September 2007 — well before the American auto industry collapse and general economic meltdown of late-2008 through 2009.
  • wait hold on a second, is Toyota going bankrupt?? That would be real news.
  • So after I played the youtube version, one of the two videos suggested afterwards was "White Blood Cell Saves Christmas." Impressive thing, the immune system.
  • 1. This is why people need more training before they're allowed to operate a motor vehicle. After this started happening, I quizzed my wife on what she'd do if her car ever started accelerating on its own, and of all the things she came up with, "turn off the ignition" took her a while, and "shift into neutral" didn't even come up. She's had formal driver training beyond most people in the US, mind you; it's just not a scenario that was ever discussed. This was covered in my driver's ed class way back in 1988. It was. That and what the runaway truck ramps are for in the Colorado mountains. No, I lived in Oklahoma, not Colorado. Does a normal driver's ed class not cover what to do when there's a stuck gas pedal? I really doubt, or else Coach Caroon (who at the time didn't know he had a brain tumor that would kill him two years later -- RIP) was the most freakin' thorough driver's ed instructor in America. 2. This is why people would benefit from having to learn stickshift before getting a license. In the 22 years since I've received my license, I have driven a stick-shift vehicle for about five months aggregate. Save the time I borrowed the neighbor's truck, all that time wasn't in the US but in the UK. Except for sports cars and a handful of subcompacts, American cars are automatic transmission. Suggesting that people should be made to drive stick before they get a license is like saying no comp sci major should be allowed to program in anything but Pascal. Besides, I have been in the exact scenario you've been in -- floormat causing stuck accelerator -- and I solved it the way Coach Caroon taught me -- throw it in neutral, use escape route, apply brakes, remove floormat. And I did in a pickup with automatic transmission years before I ever got behind the wheel of a stickshift. So long as the driver doesn't panic, the stuck accelerator scenario is very survivable regardless of whether it's automatic or manual transmission.
  • This is why I like cable-controlled throttles, gearshifts with mechanical linkages, and ignition switches that actually turn off the ignition instead of telling the computer to do so.
  • Seattle bar where a woman punched a man for singing Coldplay's "Yellow" So the karaoke violence isn't all bad.
  • I hope that comment comes with a side of hamburger. Because if not ... awkward!
  • He'd probably face more controversy within Newfoundland by going to Toronto.
  • Today we find out which is the better baseball team. GO SPORTS!
  • He should ask Obama for lessons.
  • Following xetere's line of thought, this kind of publicity could easily make it more difficult for these nurses to find work; given multiple applicants at another hospital, a less enlightened medical hiring staff might choose the nurse who hasn't been involved in a whisteblowing scandal, regardless of how this case turns out. I hope the nurses file a civil suit against the doctor and the sheriff and win a nice chunk of change for themselves to compensate for emotional and reputation damages.
  • This is why I like cable-controlled throttles, gearshifts with mechanical linkages, and ignition switches that actually turn off the ignition instead of telling the computer to do so. Testify! I don't like flying. Irrational, I know. I was aghast to hear that all the flaps and sundry aerilons in big jet planes went wireless in the 1980s!
  • Toyoda is the Japanese family name. My brother is married to one.
  • It clearly can't have been Horace De Vere Cole because De Vere was dead by 1904, before many of the most most famous exploits, the Venetian Moor hoax, the I Come to Bury Victoria Not Praise Her speech, the Scottish Prank, all of these happened after De Vere's death. Clearly, since it can't have been De Vere, those pranks must have been pulled by Horace sir Francis Bacon Cole.
  • It reminds me of similar odd but strangely appealing phrases.
  • Artist Ray Troll (previously 1, 2) and paleontologist Kirk Johnson, the self-described "paleo-nerd duo", have been working as a team ever since they took a road trip across the American West in search of fossils. In 2007, the pair published the book Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway based on those travels. Most recently, they have collaborated with Dr. Elizabeth Nesbitt at the Burke Museum (previously) in Seattle to produce a traveling exhibit by the same name.

    High-resolution Images from Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway Videos from Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson Photos from the opening KUOW podcast interview with Kirk and Ray Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway - Soundtrack by The Ratfish Brothers! (listen here)
  • Olympic mascots are generally such shit that pedobear is actually an improvement.
  • Youtube version Saw this on reddit a couple hours ago. You're slipping, metafilter.
  • A Polish newspaper ran a picture of what they thought were the cartoon mascots of the Vancouver Winter Olympics. One of the five is decidedly odd.
  • The only reason to feel pity for these people is if it turns out one of them has dementia.
  • Neato. It's one thing to read about this sort of thing and try to visualize how it might go down, even with the best medical illustrations, quite another to actually see it in action. Thanks Brandon Blatcher.
  • You say "affordable, decent, if not world-class, care." Care to explain why you say Canadian healthcare is not world-class? Why it is "decent" and not "excellent"? Why I shouldn't think you're full of shit and don't know the first thing about what you're talking about?
  • Newfoundland isn't widely regarded as a go-to destination for critical cardiac care. Reporting on this is pretty much just political douchebaggery. May as well bitch about the head of tourism for Nunavut flying down to Cuba to stick his toes in some warm water... except that in the FPP situation, a life is on the line.
  • Sheriff Roberts was later heard muttering to himself, "This is what happens when you teach women how to write..."
  • So this is one of those "Woolf in sheik's clothing" stories, is it? Somebody get this guy an award. That's the cleverest pun I've ever seen.
  • This is an outrage. I'm horrified. We must all band together to fight against this horrible misuse of the word "optics".
  • I think the problem with saying, "this ain't shit" is that there's a problem bigger than what these individual women are facing. The chilling effect on nurses reporting doctors is what scares me most about this. I'm saying its worse. I've done around 10 or 12 of these cases. The worst is always law enforcement top managers. They are used to having power. They do not realize the people here have rights. I also think in this case, its the dumbest thing they could have done. What "friend" "helps" by drawing huge attention to the fact that the doctor has a troubled history? Instead of just shoving it under the rug and move on somewhere else. This guy's whole professional history is going to be on trial. So dumb. He ended his friend's career, not helped it. That's the thing. The people who do this sort of thing have on thing in common: their dumbshits who are used to getting their way. This kinda thing works for a while, until it hits someone with courage and a sense of right and wrong. If that whistleblower gets the right lawyer, then others stand up in the same office. Once you have a few witnesses you are in good shape. If I was Kay Bailey Hutchinson. I'd be watching this case. It typifys the type of abuse of power stories we see coming out of Texas.
  • Geaux yeux meauxfeaux wheux beat mai Brett Favres! Geaux!
  • A big part of my job is representing whistleblowers. This aint shit. Seriously, I've seen worse. So... are you going to tell us about it or do you just enjoy teasing us?
  • This is just speculative editorializing and has no place in a FPP. Since Danny isn't talking, we have no idea if he would have had to wait at all. Implying that wait times had something to do with his decision is bullshit. I apologize for editorializing; I have been here a little over a week and am learning the dynamics of the site. I meant the latter with respect to Williams (top-notch) as I really do not believe a Premier would wait for a necessary surgery in Canada. The former is a more common phemenon with well-off Canadians. I apologize for the lack of clarity in saying that.
  • "And since most MeFi readers are not Canadian, note that the word "Newfoundland" rhymes with and has the same stress pattern as "understand" in U.S. and Canadian English. (It isn't NEWfindlind or newFAUNDlind.)" As a Newfoundlander living in Ohio, I can tell you that many of the people I meet have tried to correct me in my pronunciation of my home province, and even the people I've worked with for 9 years can still not pronounce it, despite how many times they've heard me say it. Dealing with owners of Newfoundland dogs is a trip, also, since they insist that the dog's name is pronounced differently. That being said, and back on topic, I have health insurance from my job, but I can't count on it being around forever - each time our union contract is renegotiated, it seems as though we lose medical benefits. Even now, there are a lot of hoops to be jumped through to claim full benefits (ie. have to call the insurance company before going to an emergency room! Yeah, sure, let's make a quick call before we go to the EMERGENCY ROOM! Oh wait, I'm on hold...)
  • I would like to buy that man a beer. "News of the weird" really gets people to take the strangest positions.
  • Anecdotally, driver's ed in northeastern Massachusetts in 1993ish covered stuck accelerators, as well as total brake failure *and* "if it's you or the squirrel, the squirrel gets it every time" and "do not make eye contact with other drivers, it may be perceived as hostility." Of course, I lived twenty minutes outside of Boston, too, so our driver's ed might have been... a tad more aggressively-oriented... than standard driver's ed.
  • Let's hope that the poor of America learn of this and rise up in self-righteous outrage so they can continue to keep themselves uninsured for years to come.
  • I've long said that karaoke was Japan's revenge upon the US for Hiroshima. The evidence continues to pile up.
  • I read this article with relief, knowing that, with the unveiling of "karaoke rage," the media had finally run out of threats with which to scare the general population. ...that's how it works, right?
  • I know what killed her: four bullets above the fold.
  • His advanced deafness prevented him from realizing that his carefully timed coughing was inadequate to cover his explosive breaking of wind. I'm not sure if having that in your Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry would be humiliating or just plain awesome. (And by the way, I'd like to see some proof of that "deafness." Then I'd like to see some proof of that "proof.")
  • OK, so the white blood cell doesn't have eyes, so it's not like it's chasing the bacterium in the same way a dog chases a cat. Moreover, the bacterium doesn't have little Speedy Gonzalez legs to run away on. So, what's actually happening here? How are these objects moving or appearing to move? What is the mechanism at work here that explains how the white blood cell is appearing to "stay on the hunt," so to speak, like a bloodhound after a bad guy?
  • I'm gonna simplify fourteen so hard.
  • I'm wondering if there might not be more to this than just a sticking pedal. What with Wozniak's comment about easily reproducible bugs in his Prius, I'm thinking this could actually be a software error; the pedal fix might just be damage control instead of a real fix. The whole thing has felt very strange to me, as the recall has widened and widened. It feels like grasping at straws, rather than engineers really understanding the problem. Woah! Interesting call. I always thought something smelt fishy but didn't really have the time or the need to take it any further than "wow, that seems strange." I also found that [related?] 911 call a bit strange. The one where they all died. Not tin-foil-hat strange. Just creepy-tragic-surely-you-could-just-slam-on-the-brakes-why-the-hell-are-you-ringing-911? strange. At least one MSM news report in Perth cited brake pedal problems. Long live mainstream journalism!
  • I was under the impression that when the surgeons or facilities for a given procedure weren't available in Canada, it wasn't out of the ordinary for the Canadian healthcare system to foot the bill for the procedure elsewhere, often in America. That's the way it works in Europe too. You see it a lot more because nations are smaller and have fewer specialists. In north America it's the equivalent of going to another state or province because a doctor a few 100km away can treat your glitch more competently. Also, I'd like to point out that when this argument is raised in Canada, it's a rallaying cry for improving the public health system to make it more egalitarian. In the US it's seen as proof that public health care doesn't work and we should never ever have it.
  • One of the five is decidedly odd. The smaller one, with the cowlick, looks scared and is walking funny? /one ticket, please
  • Karaoke-related assaults have also occurred in the United States, including at a Seattle bar where a woman punched a man for singing Coldplay's "Yellow" after criticizing his version. He got off easy.
  • Frank could have returned the favor (returned fire?) and sung "Anarchy in the UK" but he didn't and we always have and alway will hunger for this ever after.
  • The top two phrases people use are #1: With Deepest Sympathy and #2: Our Thoughts and Prayers are With You. On at least two occasions, I've written on a card, "This fucking sucks." Of course, the bereaved were close friends of mine and they appreciated my sentiment and knew the love and support that came with it. Trying to convince a florist to write that on the card is quite another matter.
  • I live in Texas and when it seems that can't do anything more ignorant, they triple vaullt over their last ignorance hurdle into a whole new land of crazy. I mean we have arguments over putting Rush Limbaugh into our history books and taking out MLK Jr (Yes, really.) We have arguments every 5 years over what parts of Evolution not to teach in our classrooms, our Governor threatens to secede publicly and his approval ratings jump. They cling to their ignorance here like Charleton Heston to a .45.
  • Ah, it's that old love story: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy eventually gets girl, boy and girl become over-privileged bastards who don't give a shit about others and fuck over everyone they meet. Warms the heart, it does.
  • very cool. i love hearing about athletes who aren't total assholes. i love sports. i love progressive politics. and i'm a fan of dave zirin. i'm also stoked about the saints being in the super bowl. they have been my favorite team since childhood. dad's side of the family, a big chunk of them are from louisianna, so my house rooted for the saints and LSU. the 'aints' no more...
  • a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads." I would like to buy that man a beer.
  • I will not eat half of my Quaker Parrot. OTOH I will eat all of my girlfriends Betta Splendens.
  • I know I'm echoing some of the above points, but the "conventional wisdom" on this topic drives me NUTS. How anyone can hold up the idea of wealthy foreigners traveling to this country to receive care millions of our own citizens have no access to as an endorsement of our current health care system just blows my mind (and yes, I'm thinking of traveling to Mexico to get that fixed...)
  • Beck: Rich and benefitting from the current system. Hannity: Rich and benefitting from the current system. Danny Williams: Rich and benefitting from the current system. Exclusive American cardiac surgeons: Rich and benefitting from the current system. Anybody see a pattern here?
  • "This is a bummer, man. That's a bummer."
  • These days I begin to feel like I ought to be apologizing for some of my fellow Canadians' comments. It's an odd sensation.
  • Needs a shoe on his head. Seaking.
  • On at least two occasions, I've written on a card, "This fucking sucks." Of course, the bereaved were close friends of mine and they appreciated my sentiment and knew the love and support that came with it. Trying to convince a florist to write that on the card is quite another matter. posted by ColdChef at 8:00 AM on February 7 [4 favorites +] [!] Coldchef, at our shop, if that is what you wanted, you'd get it. We've "dropped" the f-bomb for folks before. (It's a military town so we don't get the vapors, even if the language is not something we necessarily personally use.)
  • I will give a short, formal dip to express my remorse at being so slow to provide an explanation.
  • But really, isn't time for a profile on a total meathead player who thinks Glen Beck is onto something and that butt sex is gross? You're really beginning to mess with my jocks vs. nerds mentality here! Will this do?
  • Freeze your clutter. Yes!
  • ColdChef - If a friend of mine put that on my fucking card I would get a fucking leave from hell to fucking haunt him in his fucking sleep.
  • Man. I haven't watched Twin Peaks since it aired (and missed a good portion of the horrid second season), but this theme gives me chills.
  • Merlin is partially responsible for creating the sites he's mocking here, so I consider it a kind of penance. Entertaining penance though it is.
  • This is Zirin's interview with Fujita, from last fall.
  • This is Texas and small town Texas at that. I live here and have worked at several small hospitals across the state and I fear that the nurse will be convicted unless they find a jury of 12 people who give a shit. This situation with this doctor is not a one off. There are many of them across the state and no I will not be writting letters. I have been enough trouble just filing complaints up the chain of administration.
  • We must all band together to fight against this horrible misuse of the word "optics". So right. About six months ago I had never heard it in this sense of "appearances, from a public-relations perspective". Now I encounter it three or four times a day.
  • herrdoktor, it sounds a lot like the complex subtleties and nuances of "izzat" - media only sees guys running around killing their female relatives for loitering wth other men but the concept of 'honour' and 'respect' are deeper and more complicated than that.
  • I'm glad you apologized Anything because I was very mad at you for essentially promising me a solid silver walking stick and then delivering a solid gold one instead HAMBURGER this is the greatest YouTube video since that kid who got all excited about seeing lobsters for the first time NOT HAMBURGER
  • Damn, this is messed up. Even if the prosecution looses the case (which it appears they should based on any legal or moral interpretation of the above), this case has terrorized and impoverished these poor women. This is absurd.
  • This is eerily like the "Bert is Evil" case.
  • Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams (no stranger to Metafilter) has travelled to an unspecified location in the United States to have heart surgery.

    Canadians travelling to the United States to bypass wait times and to visit top-notch surgical facilities isn't something new, however the leader of a province doing so is. Some are calling for honesty when it comes to the state of the health care system. Others, like interim Premier Kathy Dunderale, are asking that people to butt out of his private life. Others are saying this is another example of a two-tier system masquerading as something else. The controversy isn't limited to Canadian borders; skeptics of a Canadian-style, public health care argue this raises questions about single-payer options.
  • Also, I had the chance to transcribe a bunch of interviews (not by FWP) for the Brown vs Board of Education museum. They were really wonderful and enlightening.
  • Of course!
  • fnord
  • And since most MeFi readers are not Canadian, note that the word "Newfoundland" rhymes with and has the same stress pattern as "understand" in U.S. and Canadian English. (It isn't NEWfindlind or newFAUNDlind.)
  • Thanks for passing that along. That's awesome.
  • On the face of it this is so crazy over the top I can't help but wonder if there is information not being reported here. Seriously, that's what crazy people count on you to think when they pull something like this. It was mentioned that the doc may be unusually powerful due to difficulty in attracting other physicians to the area; it disgusts me that these nurses basically stood up to someone providing substandard care to those who can't necessarily go elsewhere and haven't been celebrated.
  • I love pedobear. It's such a simple, subversive criticism. ▲ ▲▲ Crap.
  • In the same spirit:
    "Pirate" Paul Lennon shouted: "Now hear this! The U.S.S. Bennington has been captured by Sydney University pirates!" Then, for good measure, says Lennon, "we turned two handles labeled 'Battle Alarm' and 'Chemical Warfare.' "
  • On the face of it this is so crazy over the top I can't help but wonder if there is information not being reported here.
  • This is a fucking absurd story. I initially was going to write a long comment decrying the lack of appropriate legal protections and so on and so on. But, reading the article it sounds like a whole bunch of noise and bluster over what seems very likely to be a big fat loss for the doctor. Here are a few good pull quotes:
    ...the Supreme Court of Texas has held that good faith requires only a reasonable belief that the conduct being reported is illegal. In a surprise inspection last September, state investigators found several violations by Dr. Arafiles and concluded that the hospital had discriminated against the nurses by firing them for "reporting in good faith."
    Even in small town TX I suspect this is going to end up being a major headache and financial loss to the Doctor and the Hospital. And, it sounds like this might galvanize the community enough to give the Sheriff a good run for his money next election cycle.
  • 1) Shift into neutral 2) Press break 3) profit not die. I thought it was CTRL-break?
  • These aren't grifters. They're a couple whose lifestyle collapsed, who couldn't adapt to their changed circumstances. And so they became... grifters.
  • Reminds me of some guys I knew who went around on the street selling cups of Kool-Aid for 5c a pop while wearing sombreros and serapes. The cops, surprisingly enough, were satisfied once they had only smelled the Kool-Aid.
  • Personally, I think a renewed focus on family doctors would solve about ninety percent of our issues, but that's for larger brains than mine to figure out. Oddly enough, I think that's part of the problem down here, too.
  • It looks like the clueless newspaper found that graphic here.
  • It never ceases the amaze me the gall of some people.
  • Well, that wasn't what I expected! made me chuckle ~ he he ~
  • B is bacteria and that's good enough for a white cell!
  • smackfu is not trolling
  • I expect a lot more people than you would want have no idea what Neutral is I also expect many people don't understand what it means to "push the brakes as hard as you can". I'm a 230 lbs guy and "as hard as I can" is pretty damn hard. But that's barely adequate for larger vehicles like minivans and SUVs. I can't produce anything close to the braking force of a power-assisted panic stop. Low braking effect plus the lack of feedback from the dead pedal probably leads many people to give up too soon. They think the brakes have completely failed and stop pushing. But they actually need to push harder. Note: if the brake pedal offers little resistance and just flops to the end of its travel, then the brakes really are gone. In that case, forget the brakes and proceed with Plan B.
  • Ba-dum, ba-dum ba-dum, ba-dum ba-dummmmmm! Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bloodstream.
  • Bowing has many, many aspects in Korean culture as well. I am not familiar with the subtleties of it, but would like to offer my observations about big-time apology bows and gestures. My pop ran a business. He had re-married after a divorce, and his new brother-in-law took over the business/financial portions of the operations. Things were peachy, and everyone was happy. Money was coming in, until, well, one day my pop went to a 7-11, tried to pay for a pack of smokes, and was told that his credit card was declined. So he went to the ATM, to try to get some cash. It wouldn't give him $20. At this point, he started to get a little irritated. He loved to smoke. In this period of irritability, he went back to his office building, and called up his brother-in-law, and asked, "hey, brother, would you look at what's going on with my cards? They're not working." A simple, non-accusatory question. The guy replied in a way that sounded very "nervous" to my pop's astute sense of character. So he goes upstairs and knocks on the guy's door. He hears mechanical noises. And that's when it all clicked: all those years of presumed trust in this guy. The lack of direct involvement for many financial matters. Having someone in the family and "trustworthy" deal with the practicalities of banking, etc. He thought: "Boy, I was stupid. I am angry now. I will talk to him." But the door was locked. And the guy inside was panicking. So my pop pulled out the thing he and I fear the most in him: Korean rage. He first kicked a whole in the door down, then started pulling off sections of the door down. He knew what was going on. The brother-in-law just started spilling the beans on everything. My father had calmed down. He understand what was going on. The truth, then being told, sounded very plausible. All he asked for was for an apology. The guy didn't apologize. He started going bananas. You've got to understand that there are huge cultural concepts behind the actions and traditions of bowing. It's more than simply expressing remorse, or accepting responsibility. It is a direct way of communicating, at the very least, a true heartfelt remorse, a promise not to simply never do it again, but to become a better person, saying sorry for not being the best one could be-- for failing to live up to a standard, this, in addition to the actual wrong committed. There's just so much wrapped up into what seems like such a simple series of physical motions. This brother-in-law, my step-uncle, embezzled millions of dollars from my pop. He had opened up multiple lines of credit, drained those, then opened more. He rubber-stamped checks. He bought lots of fancy cars and paid for golf schools for his kids, when my pop was raising us very simply and drove 10-year-old Toyota 4-Runner, whose seat had a hole it it from where his bony ass would sit (he never got that patched up-- he just bought more crap to cover it up over time). My father's response? He said look, there are two options: either apologize to me, or suffer the fate of the American law system. Seemed simple enough to me. But it wasn't a simple apology. The man was expected to come to my father's house, look my father and his family in the eye, get down on his knees and bow. He didn't do it. He couldn't do it. He has suffered the brunt of the law, and makes regular payments as best he can. 2/3rds of his house is actually owned by my father, which he pays for. This whole crazy thing makes me angry, too, and I have the Korean rage as well. My father's is pretty bad, but I'm the only guy he is afraid of when I get mad (rest assured, it takes a terrific amount of insult to make me upset). Even after all this, even after everything this guy put my father and my family through, being the cause of so much stress and causing physical hardship on my father, I myself would be fine with all of his transgressions if he would simply show up and bow. It sounds so stupid, I know. And I wish I could better articulate all the little gestures and meanings as to why it is the way it is. But ultimately they all point to the same concepts many cultures understand: Apologize. And when you apologize, be earnest. Through apologizing, become a better person. And don't bullshit it. Because everyone will be able to tell. And then you're in hot shit.
  • I was taught to first reach underneath the pedal with my foot and try to pull it loose. If you are calm enough, have plenty of time and a nice long straight road for it. Otherwise, just go straight for neutral and let the thing rev away. If that didn't work, shift into neutral, pull over to the side of the road, stop and pull the pedal loose with my hand. This is by far, BY FAR the best option to the point that everyone should consider it the ONLY correct response. Other things to do are to shift in to reverse (better lose a transmission than a life) Oh, hell no. You either won't get it to go in (in a modern auto it won't let you and will sit in neutral, so back to point 'b') or it WILL go in and the car will swap ends on you and you will have massive crash. This is, in case it isn't obvious, the worst possible reaction other than 'wait and see if it fixes itself at the next sharp corner'. The e-brake is not a great option at all for much the same option. It may not be as bad as hitting reverse, but it is an emergency brake (ie sub optimum in normal use) so only try this if your brakes don't work after hitting neutral. and/or shut the car off. This is also bad - you lose power steering, lights (for indicating your intentions), and possibly lose braking feel/effectiveness as the engine powers a brake assist function (either electrically or by vacuum). In addition, you run the risk of triggering the steering lock (if you pull the key out or it falls out). Again, the only correct response is neutral and slow down to a stop as calmly as you can possibly manage. I've seen some hideously bad 'advice from experts' on this and some of it was misleading, some incomplete and some downright dangerous.
  • In Newfoundland he's known as Danny Millions.
  • I had the acceleration problem with my Toyota in 1996 when I was in graduate school. My excellent mechanic found it after days of looking for the cause, and it was the computer box, not the pedal. I am so relieved that I didn't end up like some of the other less fortunate folks who encountered the problem. My heart goes out to their families.
  • an hero
  • I must say that I love the series of links on MeFi lately about cool football players - from Dhani Jones' bow ties to Ricky Williams' journeys with Mystic Steve... good stuff. But really, isn't time for a profile on a total meathead player who thinks Glen Beck is onto something and that butt sex is gross? You're really beginning to mess with my jocks vs. nerds mentality here!
  • not funny.
  • Goatse at the BBC
  • There are kind of scads of google ads all over it, and the page navigation is circuitous, but I was having fun getting lost deep in the annals, and there is a really large variety of content available overall. I found it both potentially useful... and hilarious out of context. Like an aisle of greeting cards, only with (dead) tastefully omitted but implied on all the categorical markers. "For the (dead) nephew," "on your anniversary (of death)." Ymmv. I'm telling everyone I see that I'm praying they'll find peace and comfort in the days ahead. Thanks, obituaryhelp.org! In other news, I think we done slashdotted it.
  • Singing karaoke in Japan is such a weird thing. It's pretty much in every lounge, cabaret, and "hostess bar." You go with a group of your workmates to eat Korean BBQ. After that you mill around in front of the shop and wonder what to do next. Someone whips out a cell phone and phones a "mama he knows" at some "snack" or lounge, and everyone troops on over. You go in, and the late-40s mama welcomes everyone, and makes appreciative noises about the foreigner. Other patrons are already crooning "Yosaku" or something like that, so it's hard to hear. You sit a low tables in little booths and light up cigarettes. The decor is red velvet, chrome, glass tables and mirrored walls. Bowls of salty snacks are produced. Although there must be 50 different kinds of booze lined up on shelves behind the bar, whiskey-and-waters and distributed by a couple of "o-ne-chans" who may or may not be cute, or who may or may not be from the Philippines or Vietnam (it depends on how far you are from a big city). The karaoke songbook gets hauled out. The most popular person in the group sings first, and people listen, laugh and clap, and sometimes sing along. The songbook gets passed to you. Could you sing a song by the Beatles or Elvis? Okay, you sing, people clap and laugh and listen. After a few performances and a couple of rounds the group's interest in whoever's singing begins to decline. Soon, no one's listening, but people keep singing anyway, encouraged by the mama. You smoke and drink and flirt with the bar girls (Don't tell them we're teachers - we're all plumbers!) and maybe persuade one to sit on your lap, and then the oldest in the group pays the bill and you stumble on home, while a hard core go out for drinks at yet another, more elegant bar, for heart to heart conversations that reinforce their lifelong bonds, and maybe end in a promotion.
  • I don't think that anyone has ever doubted that America has the best health care in the world for the wealthy. I'm not a fan of the single-payer model, but the Canadian system is attempting to give affordable, decent, if not world-class, care to the middle and lower classes. This is what the American system fails at.
  • To piggyback on this, when people send flowers/a plant/whatever to a funeral, they have to write (or have us write) a little card to go with it. The top two phrases people use are #1: With Deepest Sympathy and #2: Our Thoughts and Prayers are With You. So, if you're stuck, either one of those or something similar will do just fine if you can't think of anything else.
  • Had a co-worker from Kermit. Even she referred to it as the "armpit of Texas".
  • For me, it gets too difficult after the intro. Pro tip: focus on getting your breathing right, and you should find that the rest will follow a lot more easily.
  • so many potential sockpuppets.....
  • My white blood cells are apparently really, really lazy since I've had bronchitis, sinusitis and an upper respiratory infection within the last 2 months. As I tell my girlfriend whenever she complains that her immune system is crap because she got sick, "If it wasn't actually pretty stupendously badass, you'd already be dead."
  • Texas Monthly ran a story maybe 10-15 years ago about how useless, to the point of being counterproductive, the self-regulation of doctors was in the state. They built it around one egregiously dangerous doctor, but spread their net wide enough to show that it was a systematic problem. Looks like it didn't do any good.
  • that Encyclopedia Dramatica link makes popups and contains NSFW pictures.
  • I was under the impression that when the surgeons or facilities for a given procedure weren't available in Canada, it wasn't out of the ordinary for the Canadian healthcare system to foot the bill for the procedure elsewhere, often in America. Why is this out of the ordinary? Based on the articles this all seems to be based on speculation fueled by the fact that this guy is rich and kind of a dick.
  • "something something [something]" is the most elegant joke structure known to humans.
  • Oh good, something else I'm ashamed to know about. I can't tell my friends about this! What if some of them don't know what Pedobear is? I'll have to reveal that not only that I know what he is, but I'll probably also mention that it's from 4chan. THEN I'll have to describe what Pedobear does and then explain what 4chan is! Luckily, they will not ask why I know this.
  • I'm not a fan of the single-payer model, but the Canadian system is attempting to give affordable, decent, if not world-class, care to the middle and lower classes. This is what the American system fails at. Could you explain how you became an expert on the Canadian system?
  • I don't understand the controversy. There are well known clinics & famous doctors/surgeons the world over that people travel to for various treatments. People should be able to seek treatment wherever they want. There are cancer treatments that can only be gotten at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto - a republican who's an opponent of universal health care was cured here back in the early 90's. I wish I could give you his name, my ex-step father was his post op nurse but he's forgotten his name (says he was an asshole though), & google fails me - it was just a tiny article in the back of the Toronto Star at the time.
  • OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM always wanted to say that...
  • "... INTO THE GARBURATOR." (I can't believe this is a real word - nice going, Canada! Why don't Americans use this incredibly awesome word?)
  • Tiny shoggoth in your bloodstream...
  • 44. tear up lists
  • Hey, don't neglect the rest of the PedoPals family tree.
  • Can someone explain how they managed to stay at the Quality Inn in Lexington for 6 months without being immediately kicked out after their credit card stopped working? Is this like the way landlords can't evict a renter without notice or something? How were they even getting service (i.e. the cocktails or the breakfast)?
  • So, you're saying that a "conservative" is undermining the idea of public healthcare in his country?! Gee, that's surprising.
  • Could you explain how you became an expert on the Canadian system? Nothing I said would require any expertise whatsoever. Could you explain your point?
  • 'walk with a cow's udder protruding from his flies and then cut it off with scissors before aghast bystanders' Boy, you tried anything like that today, and they'd arrest you as a sex offender; life over.
  • 43 ways to simplify your life.
  • I, too, would like to see violence inflicted on people for performing songs that I dislike.
  • Sigh. I beg forgiveness for misremembering and mistaking the main theme music for this one, the Laura Palmer / Love Theme.
  • Lookie, I hacked 14!
  • robtf3 - you can sleep soundly that the Yaris is not part of the recall. But maybe your ex will be touched by your thoughtfulness anyways.
  • So, I'm wondering if I was taught wrong. I was taught to first reach underneath the pedal with my foot and try to pull it loose. If that didn't work, shift into neutral, pull over to the side of the road, stop and pull the pedal loose with my hand. Other things to do are to shift in to reverse (better lose a transmission than a life) and/or shut the car off. Also, I had a pedal stick on me once. It was a Pontiac. Luckily I was able to use my foot to free it. I now need to call my ex-girlfriend and see if she has taken her Yaris in. I'm not happy with her being an ex and all, but still, I don't want her to become an ex ex. I mean ex ex as in dead and not ex ex as in we got back together because that would maybe sort of someday be cool and I could live with that kind of ex ex.
  • On a normal car, wouldn't a wide open throttle cause a loss of power brakes? I suspect the reduced vacuum at WOT might not be enough to operate the assist servo. There's probably a vacuum reservoir, so you get a couple good pumps, but after that you'll have to press really hard. But this probably doesn't apply to the Prius since it's designed to be driven with the engine off.
  • Eating half of each pet seems like it would complicate things, what with half of each pet laying around uneaten and stinking up the place. Also, as a female, you don't want to get caught staring. Men will think you are staring at them or want to know what you're thinking about. Complications...
  • This guy must have a ton of trouble getting served in restaurants.
  • That almost makes up for the helicopter parade last night.
  • So far every car I've driven with a drive-by-wire accelerator has exhibited a momentary but disconcerting lag between moving my right foot and the engine responding This is by design, not by any kind of fault. As emissions control became tight, the fact that immediate/instant off-throttle behaviour caused a stack of nastiness became apparent. There is zero reason why this behaviour couldn't be prevented, but it's there in purpose. If you had a cable throttle (which some cars that exhibit this behaviour do) there is often a damper in the release mechanism that slows the shutting of the throttle mechanism. My beef is that the current crop degrade the quality of the driving experience. ... digital pedal boxes seem to have no substantive resistance to pressure, so there's a certain tactile feedback missing when you go to press the throttle Whilst I agree in principle as over-use of tech makes feel an issue, there is a certain disconnect - due to power delivery curves not being linear there really is no reason to associate the steadily increasing pedal effort of a mechanical throttle linkage in the way that people do. It really shouldn't be that hard to realign your perception - while the force gave a good feeling for 'how far throttle has moved' it doesn't correspond in any accurate way to 'amount of power requested'. my 53-hp, 1600cc vw beetle, just by way of example, was not an unreasonably underpowered car. I never had trouble getting on the interstate or passing when necessary, and I think most people would be better-served with much, much smaller engines and cars. Power to weight is far more important to your point than overall power. There has been an increase in power to weight but not as dramatically as power figures have risen.
  • Even in small town TX I suspect this is going to end up being a major headache and financial loss to the Doctor and the Hospital. But this is already a major headache for the woman, financial and emotional, and there is always the chance with juries, that you know, they return a verdict that is bat-shit insane. This is the point of the entire prosecution. She lost already, the only discussion is if she loses a lot of time, sleep, and money or if she loses her freedom. This is pretty much a SPAPP (Strategic Prosecution Against Public Participation. It is criminal and it is the state prosecuting. Lawyers might chime in to prove me wrong, but I believe that you really can't get damages or restitution for your lawyers fees even if you are judged innocent. You are Shit out of luck. You could try to sue for malicious prosection etc., but the bar is very high.
  • So this is one of those "Woolf in sheik's clothing" stories, is it?
  • Some people write best for a deadline.
  • Fujita's show of support for gay rights began in the fall with Zirin, a Sirius radio show host, sports correspondent for The Nation magazine, and author of edgeofsports.com, a website dedicated to the intersection of sports and politics. Wait, The Nation has a sports correspondent? Isn't that a little bit like Soldier of Fortune having an opera critic?
  • Ironmouth is such a tease.
  • "This account has been suspended." The bacteria won?
  • I've lit the mod signal, to get the link changed in the post. Let's see who's sober!
  • Act Two. One Sinatra Fan ... Versus All of Network TV. Before Sinatra died, Sarah Vowell appeared on this radio program and made a prediction about how network news would cover Sinatra's death ... and she made a simple plea. We hear whether her prediction came true. She didn't like "My Way" either.
  • In Texas, two nurses anonymously reported a doctor to the Texas Medical Board for what they considered to be malpractice. The doctor complained of harrassment and local law enforcement found out who filed the complaint. Now one nurse is being prosecuted for reporting. The charges against the other nurse were dropped due to prosecutor's discretion. The medical board has warned of a dangerous chilling effect if the charges are pursued. But, the sheriff and the DA are convinced that the case is valid. Regardless of the outcome, a civil suit has already been filed against the hospital, the doctor, the sheriff and the DA's office on behalf of at least one of the nurses alleging violations of her First Amendment rights, among other things. Is it a case of prosecutorial misconduct or a vindictive nurse trying to get a doctor ousted? Trial begins Feb. 8.
  • There is no way I will sing My Way your way.
  • Wait, is #7 a chair for a make-believe girlfriend? Or a make-believe chair? I was never any good at koans. I just cheated off the monk next to me. Oh! Are they both make-believe?
  • Unspecified? It's likely Mayo For cardio, I'd bet it's Cleveland. Bonus: The director of the Cleveland FREE Clinic is also named Danny Williams.
  • Only sodomize things that forgive They may forgive, but trust me when I tell you, they'll never forget.
  • It was with a great sense of loss when I heard of Deanna's death... This isn't even a coherent sentence. Not a great place to go borrowing your eloquence from.
  • Well, this is what happens when you only pay the CEO $900k/year. If he were paid $20m per year like an American CEO none of this stuff would have resulted in recall happened.
  • Luckily we appoint judges rather than elect them, so we can prevent the influence of local interests in our justice system, in cases like this! Whats that you say? mhhmmmm....state judges....elected officials.....including Texas.....well shit.
  • Horace Cole certainly was very deaf - the consequence of a nasty bout of Diphtheria as a child. I'm delighted that the centenary of his most famous prank has been recognised. I have just written the first biography of Cole (called "The Sultan of Zanzibar" available thru' Amazon, if you must know....) which tells the full story of the hoax and all the other strange and wonderful pranks and jokes that Cole performed (including the occasion he impersonated the Sultan of Zanzibar). I agree - now he would likely be shot by armed police for attempting the Dreadnought Hoax-at the time, he was simply horsewhipped by naval officers. Happy days.
  • Good grief!
  • GO SAINTS!!!!
  • This will come in very handy for all the obit FPPs about people I have never heard of.
  • [Swapped out the link to the working youtube version.]
  • I confess, this made me chuckle, because I had my hate right on till I read it.
  • Speaking as one half of a bi-racial family, the man is a true mensch; standing up for human rights, not Focus on the Family bigotry.
  • Isn't this what the internet is for? To shine a light on crap like this???
  • You would think that people who go to karaoke bars on a regular basis would be used to bad singing, or be hardened to being laughed at... ah well. The purposeful inclusion of a "nonthreatening" gay man (or men) in the crowd to defuse angry situations and soothe testosterone-inflated egos was interesting. I wonder if it's effective.
  • borked already, alas
  • Actually, transcripts for all the interviews are available through the linked site as well- you have the option of hearing or viewing when you click on an individual interview.
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  • This is why I like cable-controlled throttles, gearshifts with mechanical linkages, and ignition switches that actually turn off the ignition instead of telling the computer to do so. As a software guy in training this very widespread attitude irritates me, especially because in this day and age, it's a very understandable position. Note: When we began to develop hardware systems to do our bidding, we started from a very high level of abstraction. That is to say, the materials available to us were complex compounds of various elements like and rocks, minerals and metal ores spanning huge range of properties that were amenable to manipulation by us. We did not start from subatomic particles like quarks and leptons and then figure out how to combine them in various ways to create the basic 118 or so elements so that we could create molecular, metallic and organic compounds so that we may finally build a fucking house or something. Software systems, did begin from their basic element: discrete electronic signals representing binary 1 and 0. From this we developed assembler and then low level compiled languages like C and FORTRAN and then go further to create modern languages like Java, etc. Of course, languages used for direct hardware control are much lower level, but my point remains the same: We created levels and levels of abstraction on top of each other so that we could derive from discrete electronic signals basic tools that are amenable to manipulation by us so that we can build a fucking flash game or whatever. With each abstraction layer, we add incredible amounts of complexity that make creating reliable, proven systems that much harder. The artificial abstraction layers we have made are simply not as seamless from one level to another as that of the physical natural world. Therefore the software applications we build with our current standards have so much more potential for failure than basically any proven, well made mechanical system. Plently of generalizations and glossing over details there, but I think I've been clear. I should finally mention that even with all this, its all gonna be OK. People all over are working at this and problems are getting fixed and our knowledge is improving at immense rates. It's only a matter of time before the big problems are fixed. Sit back and enjoy your ride into the singularity. Then it's war.
  • "Fujita received a degree at Cal-Berkeley in political science and later earned a master's in education. When he is done playing football, he plans on maintaining his platform. He wants to become a public school teacher, and he will still be a man who gives his opinion when he is asked." SO dreaammmy.
  • 45. Use torn-up lists for kindling.
  • When no one is looking, he feeds stray kittens. INTO THE GARBURATOR. I have no proof of this. Damn perfect people.
  • thank you for this important alert! friends of mine are going out karaoke singing tonight and I think I've warned them in time!!!
  • Ray Troll has to be the best T-shirt artist alive. His shirts were a high point of my time in Juneau. I wish I had one or two left, but I've worn them all out. Spawn Till You Die is a perennial favorite.
  • Although it would be better for historical purposes if the stories were more linear and clearer, I love the language of transcribed interviews. I've written a lot of fictional ones. Particularly moved by an anecdote from Aunt Harriet Smith (Part 3 of 4): Harriet Smith: [. . .] these white people, this boy that killed [her husband], old W. B., I nursed him when he was a baby before I was ever acquainted with my husband. John Henry Faulk: Well what I was, what I'm trying to, to find out is, how come him to kill your husband. Was it over politics? Harriet Smith: Uh huh, politics and different things you know. [mumbles] Poor white people. [. . .] John Henry Faulk: What did they do to W. B.? Harriet Smith: Well, you know how that was. He lived up in there, you know. They would tell any kind of tale. Didn't do nothing, didn't hang him up, put him in jail about, seemed like (unintelligible]. But his brother-in-law killed him. John Henry Faulk: Is that right? Harriet Smith: Sure. John Henry Faulk: They must have been a-shooting a lot of folk up in them days. Harriet Smith: Oh yeah, Them peoples was poor peoples you know. Rich white people don't bother nobody. The result of an ancient strategy.
  • MetaFilter: Pedobear Olympics.
  • Strange case. Based on the FPP text, I was wondering if the report was somehow inflammatory or false, but that dosn't seem to be the case here:
    When the medical board notified Dr. Arafiles of the anonymous complaint, he protested to his friend, the Winkler County sheriff, that he was being harassed. The sheriff, an admiring patient who credits the doctor with saving him after a heart attack, obtained a search warrant to seize the two nurses' work computers and found the letter. ... The letter also mentioned that Dr. Arafiles was sending e-mail messages to patients about an herbal supplement he sold on the side.
    So basically a small-town sheriff and local corruption. There really needs to be more oversight of these people. If the NYT article is correct, and since the case has been moved to a nearby county where hopefully people don't know the people involved I would be shocked if they were convicted.
  • His own dogfood, not eaten?
  • Lilac Girl, if something is good enough and interesting enough, they'll check it out on their own. Send out an email to the class (or do a 1-page write up).
  • I sometimes wish people would tell biographical stories without feeling the need to tell you how it ended. I'm not sure I wanted to know that 'with the coming of the Great Depression, he was bankrupted; he died penniless and forgotten in 1936 at the age of 50 in France, where his antics went virtually unnoticed.'
  • Although these are the only recordings that exist, thousands of interviews of ex-slaves were made by the WPA. These interviews later formed the basis for George Rawick's 1972 study of slavery, From Sundown to Sunup, the first book in a 41 volume collection of all the interviews.
  • Isn't that a little bit like Soldier of Fortune having an opera critic? They gave Ride Of The Valkyries four stars, I heard.
  • I've read Toyota's explanations, and it seems really plausible that it's a friction problem. I guess they'll eventually switch to a force-feedback pedal, with a "fail-up" feature.
  • Beck, Hannity, et.al. are gonna ride this one til the cows come home.
  • Rad.
  • smackfu: don't feed yourself (troll)
  • I'd have expected to hear more stories of destroyed gearboxes from people trying to ram it into Park in a panic (instead of just neutral) than 'the car kept going until we died'. I'm not sure extra training will fix that kind of disconnect in logical thinking. True. I expect a lot more people than you would want have no idea what Neutral is, and only know Park (what you put it in to get the key out) and Drive (what you put it in to drive). That's really the only ones you need to know to actually drive an automatic.
  • All the 0s and 1s therein are built on a huge tower of physical abstractions (voltages, transistors, magnetic storage). True, and often this adds to the complexity of the software intended to run on the hardware. However, I'd like to point out that the computing hardware in any embedded system has only one purpose: to run the coded software application. It is a base platform and need not be too far removed from any other type of embedded system around. It can be easily adapted from existing designs for a specific application and easily tested for functionality. Of course, any of that could have a fault for any reason and cause all sorts of problems. What I was trying to address was the notion that software is inherently less reliable than hardware and that almost always the cause of any electronic device failing to operate properly. Yes, it can often be the case, because of what I outlined before, but not necessarily, somewhat, i guess. ok....
  • I don't believe it is going to prove to be a pedal problem. I think's very likely a software flaw. But that is just gut instinct, not anything I've any sort of proof for.
  • Love love love him. Sports are not the dumb dude thing that some people like to think they are. Go Saints!
  • Hold on there, Halloween Jack, are you saying something bad happened in another US state? Was anyone violated by a toilet plunger? Oh, you're a saucy one, Halloween Jack.
  • Seppuku or gtfo Just kidding posted by Iron Rat at 9:04 PM on February 6 [+] [!] not funny. posted by dunkadunc at 9:10 PM on February 6 Iron Rat was just quoting Senator Grassley: Iron Rat's comment got deleted by a Mod?! Jesus Christ.
  • The great thing about Canadian healthcare is that when it is necessary, you're sent to where you can get the best treatment. Actually, the most great thing is that in the Canadian system, healthcare ≠ insurance.
  • My beloved football team had a problem with some of their prominent stars a few years back. Liverpool FC's John Arne Riise was famously assaulted with a golf club by then teammate Craig Bellamy for refusing to participate in a Karaoke competition. The local bar where I live now has a regular Karaoke night, and while lacking the violence, the people who turn up every. single. time. to perform take it very seriously indeed.
  • Oh, and: we need to ease up on this whole trend towards epic powerplants in mainstream cars thing -- do you know that in 1982, a Lamborghini Countach V12 did 0-60 in 5.6 seconds, and a 2010 Toyota Camry XLE V6 automatic does it in 6.2? If my Nissan Versa ever unintentionally accelerates, I probably won't notice for at least a hundred yards...
  • Whoa, whoa, whoa. I support all this "equality for everyone" stuff, but no baked potatoes before the age of eight? Sacrilege.
  • I get what Ironmouth is talking about; anyone who thinks that this sheriff's actions are particularly heinous should acquaint themselves with the story of A.C. Gilless, the late Shelby County sheriff (whose jurisdiction included Memphis and suburbs), who turned the local jail into a major-league hellhole in which gladiatorial fights were staged between inmates by guards, sold deputyships, and settled two sexual harrassment suits against him in part with public funds. Never saw a day of jail himself.
  • Got hung up in a panic trying to figure out what sex the person in the picture is.
  • It's a chair you can. Cuddle. Yeah, my brother had a chair like that.
  • One of the best lunches of my life: about 20 years ago, I had occasion to interview Tim Booth, the lead singer of the british band JAMES, on his entirely forgettable first solo album. It had been produced by Badalamenti, and to my delight he showed up for the interview as well. He wasn't saying much, but after getting a few perfunctory "all about the new album" questions to Tim Booth out of the way, I warmed him up by asking about some of his relatively obscure early production credits. He warmed up a lot more when he found out my father had also been born in New York City. We went on to have an awesome discussion, and to Tim Booth's credit he seemed quite happy to take a backseat and let Angelo hold court and tell tales of growing up on the streets of NYC. He called his publicist and had the next interview scheduled delayed, so we got an extra hour of conversation out of the now very garrulous Angelo. The (tiny, unremembered) magazine published 3 paragraphs worth of "new album" quotations from Tim Booth, and couldn't have been less interested in the remaining 90 minutes of conversation.
  • If ever there was a need for Yakety Sax. ...an elegant website for a more civilized age.
  • For the record, those answers are complete shit. Really? I thought they were kind of amazing. Just like every other YA answer. Besides, I was really hoping that the juxtaposition of Yahoo Answers and Pedobear would have caused a rift in the spacetime continuum, swallowing the Earth, saving the universe from everlasting insanity and torment.. Alas, I have failed in my mission.
  • Toyota's fix for the brake pedal thing is a mechanical one, and I think it has a mechanical cause.
  • Chris Hansen with Pedobear
  • At least he didn't do the Sid Vicious cover.
  • I'll get you next time, Woolf! Next time!
  • wow, that didn't take long.
  • They're a couple whose lifestyle collapsed, who couldn't adapt to their changed circumstances. Or who thought they could run down the three score and ten clock on someone else's dime. I know people whose retirement planning (such as it is) is kind of a variant on this. Scary, really. (Sorry the Goldman Sachs thing turned out bogus. Always fun to find another stick to beat those guys with.) Massachusetts law is very good to tenants. I assume because they didn't have a permanent address the hotel was, for legal purposes, just like an apartment and it takes a minimum of six months to execute an eviction in the Commonwealth. Hm. So, arguably, if they waited to be evicted instead of just skipping out, possibly there could be no criminal charge against them? Or do you only get to do that once? Just thinking out loud here.
  • I had no idea about this guy! Who dat!
  • I enjoyed this list.
  • For god's sake the word is DEFUSE. Thank yPou. And bouncers at gay bars have a pretty easy job. I have never seen someone throw a punch at a gay bar. And the wrestling is generally consensual.
  • I think the particular dry, matter of fact tone of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography could keep me going for days by itself. "His widow married Mortimer Wheeler (1939) and shot Lord Vivian (1954)."
  • You should see what happens when I do my version of "Party in the USA"
  • toodleydoodley: " I'm continually floored by the teevee ads that blare "and it has umpty-bajillion horsepower!" like that matters to 99.99% of drivers who a) have no day-to-day need to pull grounded ferryboats off sandbars and b) have absolutely no place to legally drive this behemoth that accelerates so fast the bumpers red-shift as they pull away from the stoplight." Buddy of mine insists on always getting "the best" of anything, regardless of the added features are actually useful to him. So he has a Mazdaspeed 3. Turbo, more power than my V8 impala, etc. Then he gets to griping about always having to put premium in it. And now, any time there's even a hint of snow on the ground, he absolutely cannot drive the car. It will go sideways, immediately. But he still insists on buying "the best".
  • It's like we're animals, belting out our mating calls and clubbing other males who dare attempt to outdo our ritual performances. The word you're looking for is Lek.
  • New info on the Prius situation, which affects both US and Japan (this one has been pushed heavily by the Japanese government, so it's not just the US government that's concerned).
  • Today is the centenary of the Dreadnought Hoax, when a group of pranksters paid a ceremonial visit to the Royal Navy's flagship, HMS Dreadnought, pretending to be the Emperor of Abyssinia and his retinue. The organiser of the hoax was Horace de Vere Cole, an inveterate practical joker whose favourite trick was to 'walk with a cow's udder protruding from his flies and then cut it off with scissors before aghast bystanders'. But one of the other hoaxers went on to become famous for other reasons. Her name? Virginia Woolf.
  • I like the idea of a human minding the helm. I'll take Akio Toyoda the human over ADM the remorseless borg any day.
  • Although Newfoundland certainly doesn't have the expertise required to do this type of surgery (or rather, the numbers required to attract the expertise), it's not clear that Canada as a whole doesn't. Most likely there are hospitals in Ontario that could do what he needed. However, "most likely" is just that, since Williams isn't giving details of his condition, which I don't think means anything beyond personal privacy. The dude is loaded. Maybe he's just heading to the States to eke out that last .1% of care. Maybe he honestly believes that he will get substantial better treatment down south. Or maybe he just wants a luxuriously-appointed private recovery room1 which he wouldn't get at home. As long as he works towards improving the public health care back home, especially with the scandals Newfoundland has been having over testing recently, this doesn't matter one bit. 1: You know, with silken surgical gowns, rich mahogany catheters...that kind of stuff.
  • a gay diffuser Just stick me knee-deep in liquid and I'll spread cheer for 6-8 hours.
  • I'm with UbuRoivas that the site feels a little sketchy. If you have to tell me in your tagline that you're "an informative and respected website", you probably aren't.
  • Horace, I think the best answer to your question lies with Yahoo Answers. Well that's something you don't hear every day.
  • DREEEEEEAMY
  • a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads." I would like to buy that man a beer. You've obviously never heards Jason & the Scorchers' cover of that. As far as "My Way," goes...some people hear Sinatra and decide they're fucking La Cosa Nostra all of a sudden, I guess.
  • What a phage!
  • OMG. T-shirt. Now.
  • Today is February over 9000, and "Milhouse is not a meme" is stiil not a meme.
  • Wow--just saw the "empathy and compassion link." Magic. Thanks.
  • Yeah, never visit E.D. if you use Internet Explorer. Ever.
  • I'm not saying that there isn't something wrong with the throttle or whatever with Toyotas, but my impression is that this is a problem which has been around for a while, and which just now is coming to head. Curious timing, what with GM and Ford struggling to regain US market share, and Toyota having pretty much killed for a couple of years now. The whole thing just feels a bit, um... manipulated to me. Again, not saying there's no problem, just wondering about the timing and the scale and media blitz and such.
  • Holy shit, that's the best thing I've seen all month!
  • Was this site made for LarryDavid-like situations?
  • If ever there was a need for Yakety Sax.
  • Know your meme: Pedobear
  • They laughed when I stepped onto the stage and picked up the microphone, but then I dialed up the Yoko Ono songs...
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  • CHARLIE TOTALLY RKS
  • Harmini...Harmini...Harmini...Harmini!! lol ??
  • @ jesscolombiana I now wronger is not a word and u wait is that the only thing u now beside u are a slut
  • @applebuttlotion the reason why this song haves soooo many views is because some or most people watched this over and over again. its not how many people who watched it.
  • show us more akon
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  • i dont get why people waste their time saying how much they hates her shes not perfect, she gonna make mistakes for the rest of her life. and btw calling someone ugly just make you even uglier and ignorant
  • 1. say your name 10 times 2. say your mom's name 5 times 3. say your crushes name 3 times 4. paste this to 4 other songs. if you do this, your crush will kiss you on the nearest Friday. but if you read this and do not paste this, then you will have very bad luck. SEND THIS TO 5 SONGS IN 143 MINUTES. WHEN YOU'RE DONE PRESS F6 AND YOUR CRUSH'S NAME WILL APPEAR IN BIG LETTERS ON THE SCREEN. THIS IS SO FREAKY
  • Why is this song by "Timbaland"? did he write it, or did OneRepublic write it. OneRepublic has more of the singing part in this song...so weird.
  • The bass player your thinking of for this song is FUNKY MACHOMAN. he's on you tube i think.
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  • pie 3,14
  • 1. say your name 10 times 2. say your mom's name 5 times 3. say your crushes name 3 times 4. paste this to 4 other songs. if you do this, your crush will kiss you on the nearest Friday. but if you read this and do not paste this, then you will have very bad luck. SEND THIS TO 5 SONGS IN 143 MINUTES. WHEN YOU'RE DONE PRESS F6 AND YOUR CRUSH'S NAME WILL APPEAR IN BIG LETTERS ON THE SCREEN. THIS IS SO FREAK
  • It seems that's the case with a lot of artists these days....XD
  • I like this song.
  • amazing song...i`m listening to it over n over :xx
  • You are an idiot.
  • PLEASE DONT READ THIS U WILL GET KISSED BY THE LOVE OF UR LIFE.TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF UR LIFE.HOWEVER IF U DONT PASS THIS COMMENT something bad will happen.NOW UR STARTED READING DIS SO DONT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY.SEND THIS TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES.WEEN UR FINISHED PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS.THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS.THIS ACTUALLY WORKS!!
  • (M)olester (J)erk
  • i think what made me laugh the most was charlie's giggles. he sounded so CUTE!! :3
  • epic
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  • LOVE IT
  • Tifany, Connie was born November 20, 2000, so she turned 9 last November. She is also making a new album.
  • i will give anyone that comments and rates the video on my page 20 free subs!!!
  • math fail
  • das lied -,- is hammer
  • we dont speak spanish
  • PLEASE DONT READ THIS U WILL GET KISSED BY THE LOVE OF UR LIFE.TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF UR LIFE.HOWEVER IF U DONT PASS THIS COMMENT something bad will happen.NOW UR STARTED READING DIS SO DONT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY.SEND THIS TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES.WEEN UR FINISHED PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS.THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS.THIS ACTUALLY WORKS!!
  • Funniest song... EVER !!!
  • I issue you a challenge to get a job.
  • Lol at the woman at 0:50 Wonder what she was thinking at that moment in time?? Hahaha!! Good voice though (Y)
  • What is this video about? And what language is this????
  • Check out filmingmonkey and get a good laugh
  • Miley... You can climb on my pole anytime.
  • JOE is the sexiest man aliveee:)
  • i <3 the JB
  • @babyjulie25 are you kidding? joe is not sweet. thats why him and taylor swift are not dating anymore because he dumped her on the phone and he is selfish. Nick is kinda ok and same with kevin but Joe is a fruit
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  • i just love this song
  • Is that a joke?
  • Beautiful! Connie you are a little sweetheart. Please keep on singing for us.
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  • go to my channel
  • super ! =D
  • Akon my boy, your the man. Best songs, best voice ever. Keep it up
  • OMG ME TO!!!!!! xD
  • @Kababa15 the psycho look
  • Buzzie~ Great! Popcorn is better for you than potato chips with dip & even pretzels! What are you washing it down with while watching the game? I am hopping someone will be posting the commercials that are aired at the Super Bowl tomorrow on YT. since they usually are so funny! Kingy!Dear darling bro~You know that I don't stutter, while drinking! I have 2 of anything & I fall asleep! You have the still in the palace courtyard, not I! By the way how does it taste? I filled if full of TANG!
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  • isch maq das lied voll ja ♥.
  • Wow +136 million views
  • dude i like your you have good taste!
  • esta mieerda de video sale en todos lados este sucio pago para que pngan su video d primero en todas las busquedas que c asen en youtube. y cansion copiada tambien
  • Lee - Sis, Keep your knickers on!
  • These jerks ruined the ending of Sixth Sense for me.
  • ero, of course, have a safe trip. look-the counter just jumped! Not far enough!!
  • Andrei Oserow ist der Beste
  • what is the language in the subtitle Question?
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  • Ha!!!
  • bing bong bloooom lol
  • holy crap 100,000,000 million viewers!
  • 82 million veiws omg it's not that good
  • Spanish i think
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  • So good, I jizzed in my pants.
  • love this vid, awesome(: hey check out our channel we just created, hope you enjoy the vid(1) on there - gemma and rainie <3
  • SHIT
  • I like this song but she dosent now how 2 move it makes her look retarded
  • @jesscolombiana i dont like miley cyrus music so i agree but i still think your a slut. slut!!!!!!!!!!!
  • I hate their music.I hate their face.
  • dis song craks me up the faces are histerical go on there other 1s like we like sport there be a load on there
  • lol. this is so gay.
  • 1.take a deep breath 2.think of someone u like 3.press F10 5 times 4.send this to 5 youtube videos 5.look at your backround
  • this is hilarious
  • Its meadow soprano, dont talk about her! Tony will keel you.
  • Oh my gosh.. it's so funny! Kinda.... catchy.
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  • ohh waoh isnt tht illegal?
  • I just finished watching the movie at: VoobyMovies,com you watch everything right on their site and it's free. I dont know how they get some of these films, I mean some of this stuff hasen't even hit the big screen yet.
  • not picky just a 19 female who wants a big pipe inside me
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  • no lie this is the best video yuhh gutys made in my opinion because i misses the ways yuhh guys were when yuh used to dress regular and stuff but love yuhh guys :D
  • Yup, they are gay.
  • Hey guys would u like to win a ipod shuffle by wining " the best joke contest??""
  • Ale as once again forever..
  • Extremly funny,best video ever
  • idk if this one or the original one is better
  • MICHEAL AHHHHH!!!!!! (Imatation of a girl)
  • King, ten years in your case!
  • I remeber this when it had like 200k views.
  • is this a song for nick jonas
  • Subscribe? :D
  • Mazz you are retarded. Its a low quality web cam. Of course its going to look off. If you really played the guitar you'd see that he played it perfectly.
  • @Gekkou25 No, why would you think so?
  • i have seen it a million times and i still laugh i agrree with u i lilke dumbledore
  • Tell me about it!
  • chase chase chase...lol luv this song!
  • hey, look its the fag brothers. . .
  • @xXPrettyGirl94Xx stupid bitch it only takes 5 seconds to type a comment.
  • I DNT WEAR RUBBER jk
  • WOW
  • so freakin racist, but also freakin hilarious. love this vid.
  • :o OMFG
  • Reinhard ist schwul
  • it,s hoottt!!!!
  • PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT something bad will happen. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY
  • died laughing wen i herd it. luv it
  • OMG SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOD*-*
  • jonas brothers suck complete penisballs... listen to metal queers!
  • the song or the show video cause DIS SONG IS COOL DUE
  • mazz, you dont know anything about guitar, he played it normal speed, people play WAYYYY faster than this, so stop trying to think your better than himm :P
  • whats the name of the song at 4:24 plz msg me
  • type mexicans in heaven
  • King, yes, but I prefer Jushua Bell. Why?
  • Haa. Let get your another white supremist Right? KKK? Neo Nazi? Skinhead? Which is it? Just curious?
  • Paris has fleas in her BUSH
  • Taylor Swift is a Liar, a Poser and an Animal Abuser. See My Channel to Find Out the Horrible Truth!!!
  • How old is she NOW? I'm ten, soo....
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  • i lov this video to
  • Lee, that still sounds pretty strange. And that pretzel, beyond weird. I'll keep with my merlot.
  • Well, King, you could get time off for good behavior, but just how long might that be?
  • que estupides
  • WOW..again never judge a book by it`s cover...this guy proved all the people who thought he was going to bomb....WRONG! BRAVO!! PAUL!!
  • Used to love Miley but she is getting so not cool with her barely there costumes, and showing too much of everything.
  • oh yes, because the us govt definitely goes out and kills people at random. right. oh AND they destroy two of the biggest buildings in a country and kill millions of people. im not putting it on muslims, but im saying TheBuffaloKiller you're an idiot.
  • I think he lies a lot. Now he says he went to college. A few weeks ago he said he never went to college.
  • hggmhg
  • Great musician!
  • different personalities, different tastes.
  • Seriously man , Continue with guitar , Your gunna be famous when your older , I think everyone here will agree with me. ..
  • This Bitch Iz From Ky But She Claims Tennesse Fuck Her We Dnt Like Her anyway Shes Going to Be a washed Up Addict In a Couple Of Years
  • The sadest thing is that this is the most viewed video. I mean WTH!? CHARLIE BIT MY FINGER!? SO WHAT!?!?!?
  • @theapocilip Hahahhah! That was classic man! I laughed so hard ^^
  • cause he pay to the youtube managers thats why this video is in every search you do
  • i love this song
  • @jjrocko808 agreed! lol
  • or its spelling
  • D< I hate how addicting this song is.She's beautiful in this video.
  • J'avoue ça c'est un commentaire censé.
  • there wasn`t too many dry eyes ;)
  • Snape.. Snape.. Severus Snape.....
  • Nice vid
  • hahaha....they're so cute!
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  • A certain movie director is using Obama commercially. watch?v=gFXk-4E4-BE Can you forgive him? :-(
  • That was mildly creepy.
  • shittest band on the planet!!!!!
  • How is this the most viewed video?! wtf/
  • converted this video to a ring-tone on tube2tone(.)com
  • Recorded a ringing tone 0:35-1:15 of this video on tube2tone[.]com
  • lol. dumb slut got boned and dropped
  • did u look at this video on my channel
  • The "I jizz right in my pants" part sounds like an Eminem hook, voice and style-wise
  • Sofia comes home after a long day of work. Chat with friends and prepares dinner for her boyfriend. But something happens and is forced to choose between fact, fiction or something that is halfway between both. What you want to hear is a love story about the relationship between fiction and reality.
  • King, you're not very appealing! You said so yourself earlier.
  • michael jaxon is alive
  • I hope Jeff Dunham doesnt get threatened by some islamic nutt case. cos if we cant make fun out of whoever we decide there is something wrong with democracy.
  • WOW. Awesome song. But amazing amount of views. wow.
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  • wow this isn't even funny i dont know why this fucking video has so many views stupid fat ass baby and gay ass british kid.
  • lol look T-pain at 1:25 xD
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  • 385, Then it looks like I have dropped a clanger!
  • I just issued a challenge to spacer...let's see how long it takes that pussy to respond...it's been 4 minutes so far
  • no wonder the rest of the world hates USA
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  • Just made my personal ring-tone from 0:01 - 0:40 of this video on zutone(.)com
  • Some people take youtube too serious lol. Anyways rip MJ you were a amazing artist.
  • Great song
  • Which is the song at 4:03?
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  • I <3 This Song **
  • HEY EVERYONE! I LIKE PIE :D
  • omg 100 mill. views
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  • Britney Style
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  • FAG
  • i think this video is alsome! iv watched it a million times and its still hilarious every time ....hahaha
  • Vive la FRANCE !
  • BLACK MAN RULES!!!!!
  • OMG THAT IS SO F***ING FUNNY
  • Lee, I think you drink too much, You are starting to ssssttttuttteerrr!
  • say ur name 10 times2. say ur moms name 5 times 3.say ur crushs name 3 itmes 4.post this on 5 songs in 143 when done push f6
  • WTF! look @the views ! omg im the 85.946th commen tXD
  • Straight reppin da slums of Cleveland Jus got out da Penn. en now imma free man Hardcore street thugs pullin drive-bys on busta's Me en my crew reppin da E. 90th Hustla's Hata's betta rekonize befo dey step to dis shit Im dat crazy white street thug who gunna be callin da hit
  • Pause at 1:58
  • This guy is not the best it pisses me of
  • fuck u mother fucker u think u your all tuff and shit for saying that over the internet? haha grow up little girl
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  • jajajajaja estupida bandita de disney que se creen lo maximo como van a comparar a TOKIO HOTEL con esta banda de mier*da
  • i love the best
  • Thats fuck rediculous....110m veiws .....iv head better songs ......ten year old girls in the the vid wow 5 th 6th grade love waist of time!!!! suck it uo al live!!!!!!!!!! stop crying and htinking your liffe sucks and be your own person ....and dont be like her....... it will get oyu farther in life
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  • tokio*
  • OK, family meeting folks, need to cut cost, for starters bare bone essentials only, canceling all insurance policies (frauds anyway) walk away from credit cards (fico: huge fraud), walk and bye bye underwater mortgage. Hey,...it's just a pragmatic family business decision. Got the idea from Wall Street too big to fail banks, I hear they are really good at it, got my Tarp money and all, so screw it. Start me a family weed/veggie garden, gunsNroses, pop me a cool one and,..Oh, well Fuck It.
  • this should be called the evolution of a dork the only thing funny that happened during this video was that i farted and scared my cat this was about as entertaining as sitting in a corner listening to rush limbaugh why this has had almost as many hits as whitneys crack pipe is beyond me
  • I think I will steal your excellent language, here, LOL! :)
  • i love katy perry
  • This video is so stupid!
  • michael jaxon is alive
  • i<3 this song
  • silence! i kill you!
  • pitbull... im not gay :)
  • this has almost has 100 mllion views AWSOME song
  • Cool
  • Jizz in my pants!Don't tell your friends or i'll say you're a slut.
  • everybody keeps on coming on to this song saying it sucks and comments on it like 15000000 times and they wonder how it has that many views? Well you must like it if you keep on coming back, so if sucks stop watching lol retards...
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  • Thats some bull shyt
  • super0__0 zor xosha sehr geil my song^__^
  • I agree.
  • stupid fat peice of shit god damn i hope he develops a brain tumor and fucking dies ugly fat baby. and the stupid gay british faggot. I wish John kennelly would rape them. (look up To catch a predator naked guy) yeah he needs to rape them both, gay little fags.
  • lol min mamma garva ihjäl sig:s någon som kan ressa henne?
  • Reinhard ist der beste
  • real musicans. They are not musicians in the end, they are just posers to attract girls by playing shit music to get american teenagers to enjoy it, so that miley cyrus, jonas brothers and disney can earn a lot of money by getting money from the teens nationwide and even worldwide. well i guess its the business which is making them make shit music, just to get them famous and money. i miss the 70'sm 80's and 90's, when music used to be good and true. now, its all garbage.
  • thats what i thought too
  • hahahahahhahahaha.... Miley Cyrus looks like a fish. literally. a fish. it's creepy.
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  • so funny xD
  • what is the name of the song, can't remember :$
  • FIRST!!!!!!
  • Just made this video my ringtone on tube2tone[.}com
  • I HAVE a job, 2010, I coach underpriviledge youth in hockey...most of them can't even afford equipment, which I pay for out of my OWN pocket...I've spent about $7500 on the equipment...and I keep them off the streets and away from drugs, etc, while there parents are at work trying to eke out a living...so don't give me that get a job bullshit...and did you not see the part where i said that i was EMPLOYED when I was 18...so what do YOU do to help your community?
  • @blackrad101 screw u these ppl didnt put this vid on to be made fun of
  • t-pain cantas xido pero;la neta cantas mejor con wisin y yandel we la neta x k la cansion de imaginate estuvo vien chingona we bn sale we no bemos kamaras we
  • Michael Jackson Beat It ROCKS Especially Eddie Van halens Guitar Solo
  • 99,647,825 views Yea right... F*cking fake!
  • knock knock whos there me i kill you lol
  • i luv u joe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • @DBZGUY100 Fuck you too you stupid british bitch. Your a little fag for trying to be a tough guy over the fuckin interenet douchebag. And fat? yeah im not fat at all your probably a little twirpy crooked toothed pale ass fag who was inbread from your cousins
  • ♪♪ hey YouTube I'mma 14 year old rapper from Germany and I do rap music since 2 months ! <-- I did a lil rap on Drakes "Closer To My Dreamz" .. its just a snippet but I'll finsih the track if i got time :) ♪♪ So clik on my channel and HIT PLAY ! ★★ TheSouthakaWhiteTee ★★
  • 1.take a deep breath 2.think of someone u like 3.press F10 5 times 4.send this to 5 youtube videos 5.look at your backround
  • i think its called canon or some thing like that
  • Soooo adorable :)
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  • @385~KingyPoo is never on his best behavior, you should know that by now! KingyPoo! Stand up straight & take your hand out of the front of your shirt! You are not Napolean! If you have to scratch your lice, go the the little boy's room & do it! ♥
  • Sii
  • Happy Thanksgiving And Happy Holidays to Everyone and Thanks to everyone for the views of my Channel..
  • Exactly, you find the correct words.
  • When YOU have a job, then MAYBE your words will have some value, ok?
  • the woman looks like Diana, not Hillary
  • Lee, I'll bet they're up tonight. The stuff coming out of that still is sure tangy, all right!
  • dude were you fuckin horny or something?
  • fuck you im swedish!!! :)
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  • her hair looks good in this video
  • heheheheheh
  • I just finished watching the movie at: VoobyMovies,com you watch everything right on their site and it's free. I dont know how they get some of these films, I mean some of this stuff hasen't even hit the big screen yet.
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  • wow 79million views
  • Hope my news video gets as many hits
  • I dug this film. See dis at Theater4.infoR -- remove R
  • whats wrong with her face?
  • stop complaining mazz id like to see you do that
  • 385, I will appeal!
  • This video has more views than Evolutions of Dance.
  • Straight reppin da slums of Cleveland Jus got out da Penn. en now imma free man Hardcore street thugs pullin drive-bys on busta's Me en my crew reppin da E. 90th Hustla's Hata's betta rekonize befo dey step to dis shit Im dat crazy white street thug who gunna be callin da hit
  • this song makes me think of my baby!!i am 15years old and my baby is 6weeks old
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  • @ansing16 so am i
  • Fuckin Gayest Fuckin Video on the Fuckin Internet Mother Fuckers.
  • @THE1LAMBO Nice grammar ;]
  • do this and your crush will kiss you on the nearest friday and you will see his name on the computer screen 1 say your name 10 times 2 say your moms name 5 times 3 say your crushes name 2 times 4 post this on 4 more vids
  • I've just put some videos of me singing and playing guitar on you tube..I'm super shit and I've just started! haha, but would love anyones support :) subscribe if you like, or not, wateva! haha hope you're all well. Sending hugs from Australia
  • ooo qe guapa la cancion
  • does anyone knows the name of this song watch?v=6pYbJSsOVX4
  • i know right ! & the eye liner & mascara just make them pop !
  • HAHAHAHA "snapeharrysnapeharrysnapeharrysnape" DUMBLEDORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Ha ha so true
  • lol! Its funny! They all just suddenly start dancing¬
  • Hiya Buzzie! Great to see you!! Long time no see!! @385~ Really healthly stuff! Got malt, barley & hops in it!! I like a bottle of Guinness with the rocket sprocket inside the bottle once in a blue moon! Something about it that I like, maybe because I like to here the clink! LOL Pretzels? I don't know, but I had a strange soft one that I got from a vendor once, just to try it, was pretty tasty with the salt on it! But if I want salt I'd rather have it accompanied by a Margerita!!
  • he talks about love but the girl looks like a whore
  • I've just put some videos of me singing and playing guitar on you tube..I'm super shit and I've just started! haha, but would love anyones support :) subscribe if you like, or not, wateva! haha hope you're all well. Sending hugs from Australia
  • ur rite i dont like the jonas brothers, but if you dont like them why make fun of them...are you insecure, idk... u r totally rite agree =0
  • @TheSharlynann it's mostly about nick but, in a mag I read its about all of her crushes. But were it say the parts she loves it is about nick.
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  • OMG SEARCH BAROQUE BOYZ!!! THIS STUFFS HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! f8347fg38f67r67wg4f34fg783fg68fg3y64gfy24f67347f63f7634f7634fv4f674ff6g674gf634fg346
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  • who cares.
  • this guy gets more comments than most mortals get views , it really good but 4 years old now so be good to hear Funtwo play a new song
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  • man, this guys is my greatest idol. i don´t care if nobody knows him, if he´s a poor guy. i don´t care. that´s the guy that could die right now. the made too much for us already!!
  • Wow....dude...holy shit...
  • I LOVE IT
  • absolutely fabulous!
  • 61 million views :O
  • HOT OR NOT ?
  • 385, Do you like Nigel Kennedy the violinist?
  • trimmed this video and made a ringtone 0:43 - 1:13 on tube2tone{.}com
  • its too late too APOLOGIZE:(
  • ???its good???
  • 1. say your name 10 times 2. say your mom's name 5 times 3. say your crushes name 3 times 4. paste this to 4 other songs. if you do this, your crush will kiss you on the nearest Friday. but if you read this and do not paste this, then you will have very bad luck. SEND THIS TO 5 SONGS IN 143 MINUTES. WHEN YOU'RE DONE PRESS F6 AND YOUR CRUSH'S NAME WILL APPEAR IN BIG LETTERS ON THE SCREEN. THIS IS SO FREAKY
  • i like her outfit in this video (:
  • SEX SELLS
  • yeaahhh you cool
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  • I love this song but , 75 million !! OMG
  • totally awesome show . Playn at Theater4.infoR -- remove R
  • I went to a two-year college, but according to YOU Sexy, that doesn't count...so for the sake of avoiding the same argument (you DO bring up stuff repeatedly), I just told spacer THAT...get it now?
  • People clicking on this video wondering why. That's why!
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  • im white and i like this
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  • She has beautiful eyes. =)
  • thats not justin timberlake
  • haha definitley
  • It started with Rap Music, when rappers made basic beats using FL Studio and loop basic sounding unsophisticated DJ loops and start rapping to the beat. They started the era of bad music today and the Jonas Brothers are being just like them, except using the guitar and spoiling rock, making it sound terrible. I only respect Disney, Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers because they are successful with their business. They music however, is pure garbage.
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  • You should find something better to do with your time.
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  • PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT something bad will happen. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS THIS ACTUALLY WORKS
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  • totally awesome movie. Its at Theater4.infoR -- remove R
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  • i love this song
  • It's a YouTube classic
  • made a custom ringtone from this track 2:31 on zutone(.)com
  • Just made this video my ringtone on zutone[.)com
  • not only does this song suck! it has a great rating for the amount of views it has! I clicked on the first video response to the left, and it was a fourteen year old kid, and it was 50000000 times better than this shit!!!
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  • I just realized something. I don't blame the Jonas Brothers for their shit music they make, in fact they and Miley Cyrus may like music which sounds good like the way I do. Its the stupid american teenage girls and teens in general who want music to sound like shit since their musical interest is really bad an uneducated. DIsney just wants money, so they are doing a shit job with music and are making the Jonas Brothers perform right out a music book to play just to be posers, rather than
  • Mainstream prostitution sucks. Some teenagers are pathetic
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  • I've just put some videos of me singing and playing guitar on you tube..I'm super shit and I've just started! haha, but would love anyones support :) subscribe if you like, or not, wateva! haha hope you're all well. Sending hugs from Australia
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  • sixth sense bit made me crack up
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  • its cute, thats why its so popular
  • thats amazinq!
  • made a custom ringtone from this track 0:19 on tube2tone(.)com
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  • Yes, this is a great song. On the contrary, this alternative video, has my attention in its grasp. Very well planned and executed graphically.
  • LOL @ "Spacer" -- Exactly; the story continues to change and flip-flop back and forth. One minute, he's been to college, the next minute he hasn't. Which one is it?
  • I love their music. I hate their faces.
  • jump on it
  • simon cowell freaks me :-s
  • Doesn't even look real. Looks as if it's played slow then sped up!
  • Lee How many more times have I got to tell you to stop Tang-ling with my tang!
  • " 106,475,800 views " holly shit! I better get a kid quick!
  • @Jesus1rocks14 i like your name, and the fact that you have a kid at 15 years old
  • blueyedboy I think Paul gives Pavarotti a run for his money, Oct. I saw him. Paul will have perfected his pitch now. Opera people are taught to sing a certain way, but people hear with emotion, that is what music is about. Pauls voice big tenor range, but stirs emotion. Tell your college tutors to teach the emotion Pauls voice causes to people, they can't, its inate. I think to tell us dozens of times Pauls no good, but all these tutored names we should listen to and like best annoying.
  • wow all imma say is wow
  • haha yea with the snow, they have like 2 feet of it
  • the cleening guy is justin timberlake!
  • Such an angel! Her voice is magical..especially to make Simon feel better after his bad mood. I want all her albums!
  • she's hot nice song <3
  • lov this song hate miley
  • lol i dont care who you are, this is probably the one miley cyrus song you can tolerate. gets me up off my seat everytime!
  • decapitatedborgir you hate it so much yet you took your time and looked it up and even commented! ^_^
  • Come back here, spacer, and run me off, faggot
  • This is a lesson for those who doubt people..never doubt anyone...support everyone!!
  • He is from sweden.
  • My favourite part XD 2:43 / 2:58
  • swedish, I think
  • do u mean 100 million
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  • i wasnt saying that! at all. all i was saying was why does she dress like that. if thats what you look for in a girl then fine that you. i just dont like revealing. and why dont ya comment on the people that are actually calling her a slute! cuz i wasnt!
  • but still sounds immense
  • he is so cute!!!!!
  • @BlueChaos15: You're just jealous that you didn't come up with the idea first. By the way, using profanities that often is just means of covering up for a very limited vocabulary.
  • Das ist eine Beleidigung gegen Barack Obama , aber nich mein Problem. Geil
  • paul potts is good but i still like pavarotti
  • 385, It's your fault - your sentences are too long!
  • I really want to ask you something : if you think that they 1. make bad music 2. can't sing and play instruments 3. whatever why do you watch their videos? I love them :)
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  • I just finished watching the movie at: VoobyMovies,com you watch everything right on their site and it's free. I dont know how they get some of these films, I mean some of this stuff hasen't even hit the big screen yet.
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  • hahaha you couldnt have worded it better! thumbs up!
  • me too
  • @contrabndsuprman lol
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  • your moms tits are fake
  • Love this songg!!! :D, we make music videos to jonas brothers songs!! check them out :)
  • your a weardo
  • i love this song, so funny
  • 385, Sorry - I was provoked!
  • she is pretty crap tbh. so's her sket of a boyfriend xD
  • the fact that ppl even compare him to pavarotti means that he is amazin
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  • hi hate this guy, taking all the credit this is not funtwo , it makesme soo angry taking credit the real vid is here and the real channel name is funtwohimself
  • wow it makes me chuckle how this is a english song and somebody comments in spanish, wow ... y manu75241 de que handas hablando ellos hacen cansiones para ninos! que crees que los ninos van a escuchar toko hotel, deverdad? ay osea comprate un borrador y borrate!
  • amazing
  • holy shit this guy fukin rips the shit out of all the other gutarist i know wow
  • follow me on twitter @ichellyy and @xoBieberBoo please!
  • lol thats funny
  • good thing he wears a rubber alot
  • fuck of bitch
  • look who's talking... assface
  • omg i love the parody party in the library better
  • 385, I don't know! It's unbelievable, a footballer going off the straight and narrow?
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  • it is swedish indeed...
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  • Yeah! pause at 1:58 She looks pretty weird
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  • 1. say your name 10 times 2. say your mom's name 5 times 3. say your crushes name 3 times 4. paste this to 4 other songs. if you do this, your crush will kiss you on the nearest Friday. but if you read this and do not paste this, then you will have very bad luck. SEND THIS TO 5 SONGS IN 143 MINUTES. WHEN YOU'RE DONE PRESS F6 AND YOUR CRUSH'S NAME WILL APPEAR IN BIG LETTERS ON THE SCREEN. THIS IS SO FREAKY
  • Gotta say, this song is catchy! Ya'll are just a bunch of HATERS! Fuck who she is, or how she looks, this song works. Hi haters!!!
  • 500 of them views are meee LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
  • 0:32
  • O. K. That very creppy in alot of parts. Still funny tho
  • McCain should have won
  • i got goosebumbs!!! She's awesome!
  • bah honnêtement moi je regarde les vidéos de poupou par Karobelz ça me suffit
  • LOLL! This has been my favorite video on YouTube for a couple of years... never gets old.
  • 99,986,289, views ummm coz of the sexy girls in the video , the song should go down as the worst song in the world ever , bob the builder song was bettre, lol
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  • This shit got over 75 million views.... you are all retards.
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  • No skill involved in this shit at all... Anyone who's been practising an instrument for 3+ years could do this, not to mention the singing part. Now, I might not be the right guy to judge this, as I was raised with iron maiden, metallica and ozzy, but imo, it doesn't even sound good. It's almost false at places, even though it's studio recorded! Pathetic that young people should have look up to these wannabe's. They're getting judged for their looks, instead of their music.
  • Lol "the washington monument looks like a tribute to Bill Clintion."
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  • amen. They are awesome singers.
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  • My idea was to have the talent contender to be hidden from the judges, so they had to judge on the quality of the song itself and not looks
  • i just love that laugh!
  • Jonas Brothers totally rock and lots of other kidz think so too. If u dont like them then why are u watchin the vid !!!
  • you mke me sick
  • why the fuck does this video have so many views?!
  • @meccgirl13 where and when? xD
  • hello, im 14 from Baltimore. check me out and decide if im better than this corny shit..
  • @ Zgodni12 thx man ;D, i just wanted to find out her name but then i jizzed in my pants :S
  • Not at all. I've had the privilege of sharing a long dinner with Paul, and he is a delightful, intelligent and humble man - just the sort of man they portray here. He's had a genuine impact on the world.
  • Susan Boyle and Paul Pots proves never judge a book bye its cover.
  • omg i love this song.lol.
  • heres an example Me: " A big college boy like you should be able to answer a simple query like that" Thorn: "I'v never been to college you moron"
  • why do black people always have to be stereotype?
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  • his face at 1:51 ! haha priceless !
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  • She will be a good singer when she grows up 4sure
  • 1.take a deep breath 2.think of someone u like 3.press F10 5 times 4.send this to 5 youtube videos 5.look at your backround
  • The man is happy,rich and a stud...god bless him.££££££££££
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  • she looks like she is going to beak her neck, with all that jerking and spazing!
  • i recorded this on my phone!!!
  • PEDAZO DE MIERDA
  • just recorded a custom ring-tone from 0:19 - 0:59 of this video on zutone[.]com
  • gay obama
  • Heey!! So, I'd love it if yall came and watched some of my vids of me singing!! I've got one cover on there and some of my original songs!! I need some HONEST OPINOINS. I'm no pro and I'm not looking to get "discovered" I just want your guys' input!! My passion is song writing so I hope you like the lyrics!! Dont forget to comment and rate!! Thanks!
  • Fuck u fat American cunt ur the sad prick cussin a baby looossserrr
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  • Hi Sampenny123! I´m agree with you. Paul is the counterpart of Pavarotti only better.
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  • 2 things what is with the zebra & Alexander is HOT!!!
  • haha i watched this like the 2nd week it was out xD
  • We can all agree that black people are evil
  • Revelation 14:6 Fear God and give him the Glory because the hour of his judgement has come, Worship him who made the heavens, the Earth, the sea and the fountains of waters! Babylon/America are to be destroyed this year by East Coast comet offshore destroying 13 states. (fallenstar . us)
  • PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT something bad will happen. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS THIS ACTUALLY WORKS
  • *squeaky voice* i kill you!!! LMAO
  • this sucks assssss dude how the hell did this get so many views???????? like really????"????? i fucken hate this
  • WTF!! rush 100M
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  • this is the number one song for 2009! :-)
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  • is it just me, or are the most watched videos on youtube the most random shit ever? :\
  • She's more than amazing !
  • @nandesneto of course. His is an amateur not someone who studing music for all his life....He is got talent
  • seriously keep those comments to yourself please... Its quite disrespectful to call a parents kid a gay ass brit or a stupid fat ass baby...
  • @JohnnieGarner yeah well im not one of them so dont group me into that 'millions' dochebag. this sucks.
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  • dude that was fricken funny
  • I LOVE DIS SONG IT ROCKS
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  • knock knock. who there. me i kill you.
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  • 'm really sorry, but these things freak me out sooo much! dnt read this(cuz it really wrks). u will gt kissd on the nearest frieday by the love of ur life. 2mara wll b the bst day of ur life hwever if you dnt post ths comment 2 at least 3 vids u will die withn 2 days nw uv startd readn this dnt stp this is so scary snd ths ovr 2 5 vids in 143 mins when ur done press f6 nd ur crush's name wll appear on the screen n big letters ths is so scary cuz it actully wrks ths really wrks
  • I Love MJ!!!!
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  • do u wanna see the ugliest girls that i've seen ever!!!,,ok look for the video ogliest girls ..unbelivabl LOL
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  • Je fais la même vidéo avec mon chien chuis sur tout le monde l'a regarde ;)
  • Also i wish i was here when FAPSTOEVERYONE was here i wanted to run him off today.
  • uh no dur you dumb shit, he bit your finger why the hell would you put your finger in his mouth if he bit you you mother fucker see you done made me mad thank you for your time
  • thats not a gay video and song
  • what the fuck a fifteen year old and a baby keep your pants up
  • ya michel jackson
  • 58 mil
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  • What the fuck is wrong with you?? Obviously you wish you were even half as cute as that baby is!
  • lydialikespancakes is a cutie and she is here to have some fun, fortunately for us she doesnt know about the surprise we are going to leave inside for her. It wouldnt be as fun if we told the girls about it so we let our cocks do the talking.
  • almost billion views!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
  • the text in the beginning says can you have any more fun yes in swedish
  • iluvgodsomuch need too sh'd thee f'k uppppppppp &&stop haten on miley.Your jus made b'cuz she's PRETTIER than YOU!!!haha
  • 'm so horny when i see this ROFL DEAD AMERICANS! noting more beautifl then americans diying in pain like they are shits! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
  • BURN IN HELL JONAS BROTHERS!!!!!!!!
  • she's very very very fantastic this girl
  • i met her!
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  • @ "FTW" -- Yes, I concur. ;-)
  • New Song Look This watch?v=X90qTI5twxM
  • wow you can be a one man band!!!! how do you get that drumming sound out of your guitar while your playing it?
  • damn miley really have HATERSSSSSSS...[[MILEY ROCKS:P]]
  • Sick.
  • leeb, king, BST Mercedes and everyone else, I will have to excuse myself at this time as I have to make a trip out to get someone. Their car broke down and now they are out in the cold so this makes my departure all the more urgent. 0755 PM EST
  • this really made my day.
  • LMAO
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  • Thorn you've told me you've never went to college you fat-ass LIAR.
  • HARRY POTTER! -spazzes- Snape! Harry! Snape! Harry! xD That was hilarious
  • bahahahha..... what a terrible singer. she should write a song about her climb to being a better singer. awful!
  • are you stupid? it's Spain spanish
  • Sampenny123! I´m agree with you. Paul is the counterpart of Pavarotti only better.
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  • good song
  • its kinda funny, but seriously the most viewed youtube video? this is just a home video! no...
  • perfect song. i could listen to it 24 hours a day on the ipod i got for free at scoreanipod.webs. com
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  • or piss ?
  • HEY EVERYBODY, WATCH THIS PILE OF SHIT. watch?v=FfWA5pQ3Rzs
  • does anyone knows the name of this song watch?v=6pYbJSsOVX4
  • Este es el mejor de los mejores no body can beat him he is the best.
  • ero, Good luck!
  • geht garnicht oder..schrei mich hier wech...wie klasse ist das denn!!!
  • SHIT UTTER SHIT! Why do they bother? They should try it again without autotune. Then again no one would listen to it.
  • love this vid , awesome !(: hey check out our channel we just created, hope you enjoy the vid (1) on there, - gemma and rainie♥
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  • best song ever. dunno why miley cyrus has more views than this song. the beat is awesome too.
  • flo rida is the best
  • Rofl :')
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  • hot hot hotttttttttttttttttttt
  • kekeke cute x3
  • the best music! see the video on my channel!
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  • Ya dads a bitch xD
  • This song was soooooo irritating.
  • Connie's CD 'Over the Rainbow' is #15 from the top of Amazon Music's 100 Best Sellers - Britain; still going strong, made 2 yrs ago by a 6 yr old.
  • well done to you mate...
  • I would love to see what you look like! I bet you arent so cute!
  • love this song deff in ma top 20 lol!! x x
  • ur rite i feel dumb
  • fuck,aah stop touching me bitch,I kill you
  • 385, true!
  • LOL gay but funey at the same time my fav.... part is when he says DUMBELDORE ! lol :)
  • ebebe feo y azco parece el hijo del wason pff... wtf
  • @KingOfCoolio it's not very hard to top fred. he sucks balls. so ur saying achmed is below a 6 yr old?
  • The climb the climb but look at her face !
  • I love u Miley
  • you're vain, you're ghey, you're a whore~
  • Yep you be trollin
  • its ok but not the best song! =(
  • Millions of people agree around the world that Connie's music is wonderful. Her beautiful debut album "Over The Rainbow" won 5 gold, 2 platinum, and 1 double-platinum disks. Connie is working on a new album for release in the next few months.
  • you're allowed to... *gg*
  • so adorable! lolz
  • Kababa15 : hahaaa :D so funny :D the woman xDD O.o :D so funny :D:D lol :D
  • fangirls screaming, tolerable people annoyed.
  • MJ in My HeART!!!!!
  • BLOOOM..!!!
  • my antiey like this song and i like it to.
  • I'll sample this and make a more decent song out of it.
  • I just finished watching the movie at: VoobyMovies,com you watch everything right on their site and it's free. I dont know how they get some of these films, I mean some of this stuff hasen't even hit the big screen yet.
  • say ur name 10 times2. say ur moms name 5 xs3.say ur crushs name 3 times4. post this on 5 songs in 143 when done push f6
  • best part of the song is at 2:00 and onward.
  • King, you are TOO MUCH!
  • Haha i know who the fuck defends some fat baby and his ugly brother.
  • i don't like the music video but i like the song.
  • sooo cool
  • love this vid , awesome(: hey check out our channel we just created, hope you enjoy the vid(1) on there, - gemma and rainie <3
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