Questions of the Week

1. Is sterilizing lethal injection needles a waste of money?
Added by: Wubba D

2. When you see girls carrying designer bags (Coach, Kate Spade, Vera Bradley, etc.), do you assume they're real, or knock-offs?
Added by: birdsong4j

3. Does your name mean anything in another language?
Added by: _melancholy

4. Does it annoy you/make you uneasy when online ads use your IP address to find your city for ads?
Added by: Canine

5. Is it ok to be in a relationship with someone and hold accounts on dating websites?
Added by: rh_07jk

1. What would happen to you after a nuclear holocaust?
Added by: gabcab

2. What Disney hero are you?
Added by: CuteGiraffe

3. What pirate are you?
Added by: MsNutcracker

4. Should you reproduce?
Added by: vampiress632

5. How well do you know art?
Added by: neopolitan

Funniest Comments of the Week

In hollybolly's "controversial subject:abortion" thread she asked for suggestions on next week's controversial subject:
redreine: How about the subject of America thinking they're better than everyone else? Ought to be interesting enough, seeing as this website is full of people from everywhere in the world.
Hael: I don't think we're better than any other country. I mean, we are. But I don't think about it.

In a thread for the YT advent calendar, in which Abzurd's head is superimposed on a Neil Diamond Christmas album:
falconwing: AHAHAHA! That so rocks! Abzurd Diamond sings YT's best hits: 1) Hark I hear the Newbies sing: I am bored and Hael thinks he's king 2)I saw Buddy Kissing SammyClaus 3)Have your self a Modbot little Christmas 4)ALL I want for Christmas is No Mods Loggin in 5)The First N00b 6)It's beginning to look a lot like Pornicide 7)Thh the Snowman 8)O YT Night 9)The Cheese King and the SnowQueen 10)DO you ban who I ban?

Q: Have you ever gone on strike?:
juliewillard: strikes are gay
pepperdrinks: It's true. Strikes do like other strikes.

From one of YT's Argentinian members, Pegasus's thread entitled "Death threats... lovely" about a crazed acquaintance who has threatened to poison her own dog:
face: Maybe she's trying to get on the Atlanta Falcons.
thh: A joke that will most likely go right over Pegasus's head.
face: oh yeah. . .I forgot Quizá ella trata de montarse los Halcones de Atlanta.

Random Thread:
baby2blue92: lol?
Cindy_: lol.
baby2blue92: UmMmM i WilL Go WhErE EvEr i WaNt.. ThAnKS.... BuT NoBoDy TeLls Me WaT To Do... aNd YeAh i WiLl TyPe HoWeVeR i WaNt...AnD As FoR YoU MiSs...CINDY!! YoU CaN LaUgH AlL YoU WaNt iM NoT GoiN NoWhErE!!? THaNkS ThOuGh!!
Cindy_: Dude, I'm not laughing. You asked a question and I answered you.

Joke of the Week

Turtle Picnic

One day, there were three turtles walking to go eat at a picnic. There was a mommy turtle, a daddy turtle, and a baby turtle. It takes them about three months to get there. When they finally get there, They realise that everything they brought (except the sandwiches) were in cans, and they had forgotten the can opener. After about an hour of arguing over which parent should go, they say "Hey, baby turtle! YOU should go!"

"No way!" he said. "You'll eat my sandwich when I'm gone!" But eventually, they got him to go.

Two months passed, "He should almost be there." they said. Three months passed. "Okay, he should be getting the can opener by now."

Seven months passed, and they had not eaten anything, but they still had the sandwiches. Baby turtle was no where to be found, so they ate his sandwich. The baby turtle then popped out of the bush and then said "SEE?! I TOLD you that you would eat my sandwich! That's EXACTLY why I'm not going!"

Member of the Week

The member of the week is blue-guy. A member since December 2007, blue-guy recently finished in the top ten of the November trivia contest. He also has contributed questions for an upcoming trivia day. Thanks and Congrats!

JoeInterview's Member Feature

This week's interview features JayY. This interview was conducted by travbowman.

JoeInterview: First off, how did you find YT?

JayY: Let me try to remember back then... I was finishing up high school and found myself to have no need for a job yet. Graduating a year earlier than my peers I had too much time on my hands so I started joining all the misc crap sites out there to kill time. I think facethejury is the one that had a link to YT and I never looked back.

JI: What would you say is the biggest reason you keep coming back for more?

JY: I have never been able to pin point that one... the sodomy? I'd say the interesting music threads is a big part of it, though we've lost some of the forum's legends we still have a strong group in there... Other than that I'm a people watcher, esp those with interesting quirks, style, personality, intellect etc... YT draws a diverse crowd so watching some of the discussions can be quite amusing. You don't always get to hear people's full conversations at a coffee shop or on the train.

JI: What band or bands have you gotten into more because of the Music forum?

JY: Over my years on YT probably a lot...Most recent would have been The Cinematic Orchestra...

Trying to remember back though I could probabaly relate Mr. Bungle and Fantômas to YT. FuseBOX Funk was an old YTers band... oh right, Red Sparowes was a definite YT introduction. I got into Muse through a YTer that became a real life friend. I'm sure there's more...I actually have a journal of bands I still need to look into further and quite a bit of them are from YT.

JI: Can you share which YTer became a real life friend?

JY: Actually there's a couple all from the 2002 era and relatively unknown members that don't come around anymore. Sarah_86 became practically a sister to me, and lilnessylou is the one I just mentioned who introduced me to Muse.

JI: Why and when did you move from Manitoba to Alberta?

JY: That would've been The fall of 2000. I came out to play junior hockey, during the season my parents moved to Calgary so when the season was over and it was time to go back home home had become Calgary. My parents moved back in 2003. By then I made a few good friends here, and figured it was time to give it a shot on my own so I moved out and stayed.

And perhaps I should clarify the "junior" part there given YT's broad audience (Not like anyone is reading this anyway, pfft who's this JayY clown? This sucks, interview Hael again). Junior hockey is generally 17-21 year olds (I was in as one of the team's maximum of 2 underage players at a minimum of 15yo), these are elite players playing a high level in their last stages of development before making the jump to pro or minor pro... Most Canadian players take this route the way that many US players would play high-school varsity then NCAA Div I.

JI: Did you play against anyone who has made it into the NHL?

JY: Travis Zajac (New Jersey Devils), Nigel Dawes (New York Rangers), Eric Fehr (Washington Capitals), and Dustin Byfuglien (Chicago Blackhawks) are all guys I have played with. There are a few others that were drafted and are currently around playing minor pro.

JI: Okay Goalie, make the call: Best goaltender in NHL history, and why?

JY: Patrick Roy for sure! A goaltender should be a team leader and you'd be hard pressed to find a better money goalie than him. His ability to make any team he had in front of him into a playoff threat was exceptional. The records for regular season and playoff wins. A record of 3 Conn Smythe's speaks a ton of his playoff prowess. Also his record for OT playoff wins in a season shows his ability to shut the door completely when in mattered. He also perfected the butterfly style, maximizing the amount of blocking surface presented to the shot in most situations.

I was also lucky enough to meet him in 1996 and have his rookie card signed.... Actually if you find a book called 'A Day In the Life of the NHL' and go into the Colorado Avalanche section there is a picture of the team getting off their bus at the hotel in Winnipeg. There is a kid in a Montreal Canadiens jacket waiting for them to get off... That's me.

JI: How did you end up a Habs fan and not a Jets or Flames fan as a kid?

JY: They're the Habs I mean come on. Only the uneducated and unworthy would cheer for a lesser team...In all honesty it was a combination of Roy and my dad was a Habs and Ken Dryden fan when he was a kid. The 1993 cup is the first playoff I fully remember. Like I remember watching hockey before that just no details, but in 1993 I remember being allowed to stay up and watch the Habs win and chanting 'Na Na Na Goodbye' with the crowd.

JI: What's the story behind your tattoos?

JY: The one on my forearm is a tribal arm band I came up with, the red star shows devotion to leftist politics as I am a socialist, and the script is a font that the band A Perfect Circle used in their album art. I figured out what letters the characters represented and used them to spell out 'Spiral Out, Keep Going' which are lyrics from the Tool song. Lateralus. That song is pretty well representative of how I try to live, I also have the last half of the lyrics posted in my profile.

My shin is a tribal shin armour piece... I guess it's my dedication to my role as an Earth warrior...and of course there'll be more to come.

JI: About what age did you realise that socialism lined up with how you believed the world should be run?

JY: Dammit make me think why don't you! I'd say about 14 or 15 is when I realized that my personal politics were indeed "socialist".

JI: Where do you see yourself in ten years?

JY: What is this a job interview? haha.... Naked in the mountains living off the land. Probably a store manager with my current employer or maybe something in the office. Hopefully by then I would've found someone I'd want to spend my life with. Personaly I'd just be a 33 year old version of me, I am who I am and I love it. Since about 15 I've fully known who I am and just grew and progressed around that.

JI: You get to invite any three YTers over for dinner. Who is coming, and what are you making for them?

JY: Just three eh? You're going to get me in trouble...le_berger for the interesting music discussions and the general good sense of humour. Cheese King because all these years he has managed to stay fresh with his wit and intellect, no mouldy cheese for me. hmmm now to narrow the rest to one eh? birdsong4j because we'll need a female in the mix and again great music taste is always a plus.

Side note, YT needs more hippies.

I'd prepare a grand feast that may last multiple days depending on our inebriated state and the general grandeur of the event. Served would be blackened sockeye salmon, borshch, perogy, holoptsi, pediske, fresh croissant, pa nang nua, kang kiew wan kai, tom yum, pad hoi ma lang pu, lamb rogan josh, butter chicken, and naan. Of course it will all be natural ingredients from my store. Dessert shall be the finest of BC green.

JI: Where'd you learn how to cook all these impressive dishes?

JY: I'm Ukrainian so those ones are just easy. The rest is just from learning on my own. I love to cook and experiment. I also used to be a baker so things like a croissant are actually simple to me.

JI: Have you been back to the Ukraine recently?

JY: I'm third generation. Unfortunately I can't even speak it. I just have all the family recipes handed down to me from my baba (grandma). I was born in Winnipeg.

JI: Tell us more about your store.

JY: I work for a great little company called Planet Organic Markets.

We specialize in organic and natural foods. It's a full grocery store complete with produce, deli, dairy, bakery, and a supliment natural living section etc... We very focused on customer service and sustainable living practices. We now have 10 stores nationwide and the company is always growing. I am the grocery manager and hope to be a store manager in a couple years. It's great to be part of something that cares about the envrionment and healthy living.

JI: The biggest fear for a lot of people regarding organic groceries is the extra cost. What do you tell those people?

JY: Actually many of our products are comprable to main stream brands and products. With the ones you may be paying a bit more you have to consider that you're paying for the care into making sure you are getting the best. It's not mass produced items thrown together with a bunch of chemicals a quick as possible to get the product out there. People are actually ensuring that the are only using the best ingredients and keeping many sustainable heathly buisness practices in the process.

JI: What's the most unhealthy thing that you can't give up eating?

JY: I'd probably say different pops... Mainly Pepsi, ginger ales, dandelion & burdock beer... the majority of my eating habits are extremely healthy and anything else unhealthy I do consume I can give up in one day.

JI: Whose humour always does it for you each time you read/see/hear it?

JY: Oh there's many I suppose...I love Don Hertzfeldt, there is the obvious vugarities and stupidity to his humour. But there is a also a subtle context that is brilliant to his work that I think sadly is lost on many of his fan base. They just give the "my anus is bleedin'" and "heh my spoon is too big funneh" retard responses. David Firth, well just come on. His work is soooo messed up you have to laugh and enjoy it. Say what you will but I love Brad Pitt's delivery on witty lines. Movies like Fight Club, Snatch, and 12 Monkeys are gold. Henry Rollins is amazing. Great intelligent socially conscious humour. Also along those lines Rick Mercer has been a favourite since I was kid.

There's my buddy Rob who is a witty belligerent f*cker. We can get wasted and get on a roll for hours about anything. That's what I really love in humour. That lowbrow, laid back, rough sh*t that's excessively intelligent. I love the lower middle class intellectuals. There's a humble side to it because of the background, but a strong confidence that emanates from knowing that you have risen above the rest and are still standing strong. I find these people to be some of the best rounded people out there and they make for some hilariously witty f*cks... plus they have the alcohol tolerance and experience so they keep that wit going while partying and not become some retard like these silver spoon kiddies out there who only have the reaction to go "I'm soooooo dunk, i beet u up hahaha"

And I'm sure I could list much more of the stuff that cracks me up but I'll spare ya.

JI: What's the craziest thing you've done while wasted?

JY: Probably fallen off a couch. I'm a pretty tame drunk. I'm more likely to want to go to bed when I get drunk than anything. I prefer the green to actually alter my reality. Drinking is more of a casual thing. But ya Rob loves to bug me on that couch story for some reason. We went to a concert, pre drank a ton, had a ton more at the show, and smoked many joints. I barely remember the second band. I don't remember getting from the arena to his car, I remember briefly starring at the floor of Mr. Sub, and I don't remember the half hour ride to his house.

I passed out as soon as we got back. I ended up waking up a few hours later with my back facing out. I ad no idea where I was so I spun around to look and soon found the edge of the couch and the floor while everyone was still up drinking a few feet away in the kitchen.... See? tame.... all my good stories are because I am usually still fairly sober and remember all the stupid things everyone else does haha.

JI: Any final words of wisdom to share with your fellow YTers?

JY: Find out what matters to you, believe in it, and then live it!

oh, and only dance with blue dingoes on the first even numbered Tuesday of the month.

This week's article is titled 'Huge Stash of Marijuana Found in Ancient Tomb', and the thread was posted by angeleyesgr.

This week's link is titled 'Ragdoll Volleyball ', and the link was posted by josh...

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