People clearly having/describing a strong ineffable feeling of attraction to other persons, spiritual beings, characters, robots, theirselves, animals, plants, objects, ideas or locations - for good or for bad.
This is the day of the week when we give a little attention to videos that have drowned in the information overflow to languish in people's personal queues. The rules for the 5th edition are a little different but very simple, so please read on.
Your submission (one pqueued video, not from your own pqueue) has to be based on the post before you. Someone posts a worthy vid to start with, the second poster gets his/her inspiration from that video (its title, its channels, a tag or something shown in the video) and posts a new interesting pqueued video based on that, etcetera.
posted by Issykitty2 months 4 weeks ago • 656 views
Hello Happy Sifters!
Happy Channel owner Issykitty here, and my dearest then-fiance dystopianfuturetoday and I had been away on vacation for some weeks in the good ol' state of Montana, USA.
Last night we made it to the state of Nevada...
and earlier today we made a few stops in the city of Las Vegas to obtain a marriage license and then went on to have a civil ceremony that took place at about 2:30 pm (Pacific Time). What I'm trying to say is that I am now legally and officially MRS. DFT as of today, and we are very overjoyed and elated to share the news with all of you!!!
I have playlists that I try to take care of ever so lovingly. The problem is that I want to move my playlists up to sort them. Right now they show up in the order they were created. I want some of them moved up to get more attention. Is this something that is possible and I just haven't figured it out? Since I can't promote yet, I want my "Needs More Votes!" playlist to show first. Right now it is practically at the bottom. I want to add more to it, but right now it is practically invisible, and I love my playlists.
Thank you, Helpless in Texas.
can I put this in the *femme channel since i am a foxy lady?
I'd just like to say a quick thank you to the dedicated members who take the time to tend this video garden- *deading, *undeading, fixing, tagging, channel removing, *nsfwing and all those other tasks that make things right when you visit a page. You know who you are, and we know who you are.
I'm sure it's a labor of love, (obsessive compulsion?) for many - but it is appreciated and breathes life into this community, so thanks.
posted by rottenseed5 months 2 weeks ago • 291 views
I miss mlx, raven and karaidl. Where did our fallen sifters go? What are they up to these days? If somebody has their email it'd be fun to get them together for a reunion
Per this discussion - I'd like for us all to re-adhere to original guidelines for primary Sift Talk posts as layed out in the little blue box on the right. -->
Sift Talk is a discussion area for our members. Feel free to post and respond to issues about VideoSift, our community, or online videos in the news.
Another way to think of it is that this is the VideoSift channel Sift Talk. Perfect for all things related to VideoSift- issues, our members, rules, ideas, problems, culture and more. You could even extend this to news about online video in general - as that's what VideoSift is about.
For topical discussions - post to one of the channel Sift Talks. What's suitable for each one of those channels is up to the manager. I agree that *nochannel is needed for Sift Talk posts- we'll look at getting that turned on.
From this point on (not retroactively) we will try and keep this rule in effect and as clean as possible.
For a good way to get general discussions going or post what's on your mind. I recommend the VideoSift member blogs!
posted by yourhydra5 months 4 weeks ago • 596 views
So, you're in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn't have sex with you anyway.
What you will need: 1 x knife, 1 x ring, access to a sunbed, the ability to grow a beard.
Step One: Place the ring on your wedding finger and avoid contact with your friend for a month.
Step Two: Stop shaving and use the sunbed to gain a tan.
Step Three: After a month when your beard is full and your tan is noticeable, remove the ring from your finger.
Step Four: Remove all your clothes and break into your friend's house.
Step Five: Use the knife to cut your body in various places. Avoid the face. If possible, focus on your back. The more blood the better.
Step Six: Enter your friend's bedroom and lie face down on the floor. Wait for her return.
Step Seven: When she enters the room pretend to be unconscious. Allow her to turn you over and try to wake you for a few seconds before you open your eyes. The injuries to your body will serve as a distraction to your nakedness. She will be more concerned about your wellbeing instead of fearing the naked man in her room.
Step Eight: When she asks you what's happened you should ignore her questions. Instead you must act confused and ask the date. If it's September 15th she will say 'September 15th' to which you must reply 'No, what year is it?'
Step Nine: Upon hearing the year say the words 'It worked.' Pretend to lose consciousness again for a few seconds, implying that whatever it is that has worked took a great effort.
Step Ten: If your friend is a curious person she will probably ask 'What worked?', even if she doesn't ask this question it is important that you now say the words '(Insert Friend's Name), I'm from the future' in your most deadpan voice.
Step Eleven: Pause for ten seconds to allow the incrediblness of the situation to sink in. There will be no reason for her to doubt your claim, because your beard will make you appear many years older and your cuts would add weight to the idea that you've come from a post-apocalyptic future where a war is currently taking place.
Step Twelve: Raise your left hand to your face. All women are very observant, so your friend will immediately notice the tanline on your wedding finger. If she is educated to a decent standard she will realise that you are married and your ring has simply disappeared, because clothing and other items cannot travel through time. Your nudity will support this.
Step Thirteen: Now comes the hard part - The monologue. In your own words you must give a speech in which you mention all of these key points:
a) You are married to each other in the future b) Her current boyfriend is dead c) The world is coming to an end. It's up to you to pick a reason, but I would recommend a war against machines. This whole situation will be backed up by the Terminator franchise d) In the future your relationship is not going well e) You've come back in time because you can't help but feel that she would have been happier with her current boyfriend if he hadn't been killed f) Her current boyfriend is going to be hit by a bus on a day six months from her present. She should stop him going to work that day g) If she does exactly what you say this current version of yourself will be erased and you will never get married. If she questions this flaw in your time travel logic, because you cannot change the past, simply reference Back to the Future
Step Fourteen: Unless your friend is made of stone she will now be overcome by emotion, especially at your selflessness. Get to your feet and go to kiss her goodbye. It is important that you do this with the confidence of a man who has done this to her many times.
Step Fifteen: There is now no possible way that you aren't about to have sex with her. You're naked, kissing her, in her bedroom, agreeing to erase a version of yourself from history to make her happy. And as far as she knows you've had sex many times in a future that will no longer happen, so she thinks to herself that maybe she should have one memory of it.
Step Sixteen: After having the sex, ask to borrow some clothes then leave.
Step Seventeen: Shave off your beard and coat your wedding finger in fake tan. Carry on as if nothing has happened. There will be three possible outcomes:
1) During the sex some feelings that she didn't know existed are awakened and she will leave her boyfriend for you. 2) Life will carry on as normal. 3) You will be filled with guilt because of this moral gray area where you aren't entirely sure if what you've done counts as some kind of low level rape. You will take your own life by hanging, overdose or wrist cutting.
posted by alien_concept8 months 1 week ago • 668 views
Alright gang, just as a start to getting the votes back on high rated videos use this thread here to post the #1 video you had pre 3/11. Then please take the time to go through the list of everyone elses and upvote if you did before.
Keep it up everyone, we're doing great!
*Please don't quality this, for clear up purposes only
1. We want to sing of the danger of love, the daily creation of a sweet energy that is never dispersed. 2. The essential elements of our poetry will be irony, tenderness and rebellion. 3. Ideology and advertising have exalted the permanent mobilisation of the productive and nervous energies of humankind towards profit and war. We want to exalt tenderness, sleep and ecstasy, the frugality of needs and the pleasure of the senses. 4. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of autonomy. Each to her own rhythm; nobody must be constrained to march on a uniform pace. Cars have lost their allure of rarity and above all they can no longer perform the task they were conceived for: speed has slowed down. Cars are immobile like stupid slumbering tortoises in the city traffic. Only slowness is fast. 5. We want to sing of the man and the woman who caress one another to know one another and the world better. 6. The poet must expend herself with warmth and prodigality to increase the power of collective intelligence and reduce the time of wage labour. 7. Beauty exists only in autonomy. No work that fails to express the intelligence of the possible can be a masterpiece. Poetry is a bridge cast over the abyss of nothingness to allow the sharing of different imaginations and to free singularities. 8. We are on the extreme promontory of the centuries... We must look behind to remember the abyss of violence and horror that military aggressiveness and nationalist ignorance is capable of conjuring up at any moment in time. We have lived in the stagnant time of religion for too long. Omnipresent and eternal speed is already behind us, in the Internet, so we can forget its syncopated rhymes and find our singular rhythm. 9. We want to ridicule the idiots who spread the discourse of war: the fanatics of competition, the fanatics of the bearded gods who incite massacres, the fanatics terrorised by the disarming femininity blossoming in all of us. 10. We demand that art turns into a life-changing force. We seek to abolish the separation between poetry and mass communication, to reclaim the power of media from the merchants and return it to the poets and the sages. 11. We will sing of the great crowds who can finally free themselves from the slavery of wage labour and through solidarity revolt against exploitation. We will sing of the infinite web of knowledge and invention, the immaterial technology that frees us from physical hardship. We will sing of the rebellious cognitariat who is in touch with her own body. We will sing to the infinity of the present and abandon the illusion of a future.
So, every now and again I get the urge to make a mix cd of music to have on during... personal moments with my wife.
And I'm obviously not alone in this (well, I doubt anyone else has done so in order to use while being personal with my wife... at least not for a few years), so I will start with some ideas of mine and a roundup of other people's lists.
BUT, the question is, and it's because I value all of your opinions so much that I ask... what would YOU put on YOUR mix CD for having an intimate evening of carnal pleasure?
I've been looking at myself in a mirror lately and I'm in love. But then, that's beside the point.
When I look at my own stats in my profile or when I stalk some of the other alluring people on the sift, it seems to me that it ought to be easy to add more links to them. ... more inside ...
posted by lucky76010 months 3 weeks ago • 559 views
I completely forgot about this until SiftBot poked me in the ribs with his handle and sifted some funky smelling powder over my face, but he compiled a list of the Top 100 Videos of 2008 into a playlist of his, which you can find here: http://www.videosift.com/playlists/siftbot/Top-Videos-of-2008
Congrats to theaceofclubz and Matt Damon for landing the top spot! And congrats to everyone who made the top 100! And congrats to you all for all your contributions!
I'll handle it. I told you I can handle it, I'll handle it.
NETRUNNER (as he stands)
I knew that Farhad was going to have to go through all this. And Rottenseed -- well --
(then, after he sits besides Burdturgler)
-- Rottenseed was -- well -- But I never -- I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life, I don't apologize, to take care of my family. And I refused to be a fool -- dancing on the strings, held by all those bigshots. I don't apologize -- that's my life -- but I thought that -- that when it was your time -- that -- that you would be the one to hold the strings. Comedy - Corleone. Catsanddogs - Corleone, or something...
BURDTURGLER
Another pezzonovante...
NETRUNNER
Well -- there wasn't enough time, Burdturgler. Wasn't enough time...
BURDTURGLER
We'll get there, Pop -- we'll get there...
NETRUNNER
Uh...
(then, after kissing Burdturgler on the cheek)
Now listen -- whoever comes to you with this Blankfist meeting -- he's the traitor. Don't forget that.
I don't like to talk much about my grandfather. I don't think most people would understand the admiration I have for him. He was a WWII veteran. He survived the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. He marched across Europe, liberating concentration camps. He served his nation proudly.
But when he came back, the country he fought for institutionalized him for his... and I hate this word... "queerness" of character. They put him through electroshock therapy, a side-effect of which wiped clean many horrific memories he held of his service, for better or for worse.
My grandfather spent the last part of his life doing what he could for the San Francisco community. He sponsored people through AA, and donated his time and money to various charities, including The Names Project, better known as The AIDS Quilt. It was while volunteering that he met the man who he would share the last chapter of his life with, a Chinese national-turned-US Veteran. This man became as much a member of our family as anyone could, and I keep their dog tags together as a reminder that even though they departed at different times from this world, that they'll always be together - love is a force that bonded them, and their mementos I keep will always be with one another.
My grandmother never divorced my grandfather - she had a decent insurance plan as a College teacher that she would never want my grandfather to not be covered under. They lived apart from the time my dad was in 6th grade, but remained in constant contact, and would always be at family functions together. They always considered themselves "husband and wife." On my grandfathers deathbed, she confessed that she still cared deeply for him, and that she had no regrets for marrying and having 3 kids with a gay man, for the lives they both led.
My grandfather would want me to vote against Proposition 8 on the California ballots. If there's one thing I learned from him, it is that love, in all its forms and shades and colors, love is the most beautiful thing to have and share in this world. To say that someone's expression of love is less valid than another, simply because of some silly, superficial thing as gender, is an absurdity and a gigantic step backwards for civil rights.
It sickens me to hear the proponents of prop 8 justify their hatred and bigotry. They've been spreading lies told by children to push their message of intolerance. It disgusts me to think that hate is still a "family value" in religious households. These are the people who put my grandfather in an Asylum. They were the ones who put the electrodes against his temples. They threw the switch, erasing memories in a misguided attempt to erase what they didn't like about my grandfather. They are the religious conservatives, spreading lies and misinformation to goad voters into fearing homosexuals. "Love thy neighbor, unless he's a fag," they scream from their pulpits, missing the point of the teachings they claim to hold close so far, its ridiculous. What part of "universal love" do they not understand? It boggles the mind.
I'm urging all of my fellow Californian voters to join me in voting No on Prop 8. We need to send a message to religious conservatives that bigotry has no place in the State's Constitution, that Hate is not a family value, that the love shared by two consenting adults is always a beautiful thing, no matter who they are.
I'll close with a letter I sent to the editor of my local newspaper a few years ago. It got printed, and it is one of the pieces of writing I am most proud of.
-- Twenty years from now, when homosexuals have been granted all the same protections and benefits of heterosexual married couples, we will look back disdainfully toward those who stood in their way. The so-called “Champions of Marriage” who seek to prevent this change will be viewed as the backwards bigots they are, unable to get along with the rest of humanity, akin to the KKK and those who attempted to thwart the civil rights movements of the 1960s.
In this day of war, genocide, famine, rape, poverty and stealing, does it really matter to you that your neighbor seeks comfort in the arms of another man or woman, and why would this thought bring discomfort to you? Maybe a better question is, “If two consenting adults decided to consummate their affections towards each other in the peace and privacy of their own home, what business is it to you?” And if you’re in a quandary about it, let me give you the short answer: “None, whatsoever.”
To me, there is nothing moral about denying the love shared between two people. To deny that is to deny one’s pursuit of happiness. -- [/soapbox]
(I just showed this to my dad, who offered up some points and edits to make).
In my time here we’ve been fortunate to have community-minded members ask us to share a little about ourselves with the rest of our sifting family. A couple of Sift Talk posts immediately come to mind:
I know there have been others of a similar nature in Sift history. However, this is not that kind of post. Well, not exactly.
For this post I’d like members to share their first published videos, and if you feel like it, also share a little bit about what the video says about you. If you're a brand new member, still drop a link to your first video in the comments section. This isn't a high school reunion. All are welcome.
A wise member once said that sifting itself is a form of coming out, and it’s true. What you post can say a lot about you. So what was the first thing you told us about yourself?
This was my first published video. I like seeing true amateurs making a go of it with nothing but their talent and determination. This video highlights that in two respects, because it shows the lovely amateur Sophie Merry dancing her heart out for us, and it also shows the amateur video remixing talents of a fellow Sophie Merry fan. Good for both of them.
This next one was published second, though I submitted it at the same time as my first published video. (Dig the retro Yahoo player. I could update it, but I prefer to keep the vintage player for as long as possible.) This video foreshadowed two things in my Sifting career: 1. I REALLY enjoy posting comedy videos, as they are my bread and butter. 2. I’m a Star Wars geek. They say hindsight is 20/20. You poor bastards should have banned me right then.
We all like to brag about the quality of videos on VideoSift, but if you've ever tried sticking to videos that didn't have the dubious appeal of nutshots, pop comedy, or inflammatory grenades of political rhetoric, you'd quickly discover that you'd have a bloated PQ, too.
So thank you Calvados for bearing that cross for us!
From his profile page...
Single white male, straight, 30; Canadian, Quebecker, Montrealer; reservist infantryman, civilian air pilot, university student. Likes: motorcycle riding, pints at the pub, being late to school. Dislikes: climate change, peak oil, running out of milk.
So if you or someone else needs a hug or when you've got a fever for things around you and the only prescription is more love, jump in this pool full of lovely luv videos!
salute as they approach siftbot's throne, rose petals at their feet, because they're both way hoopy froods that took their sweetass time getting to 100.
posted by Eklek1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1394 views
I found these 2 long articles in the City Journal about the daily lives of contemporary young women and men (and female and male sexuality) rather striking: The New Girl Order (2007) and Child-Man in the Promised Land (2008)
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