1. Is there a certain movie that shocks you when people say that they they didn't like it?
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2. Is someone's opinion about a social issue made more or less valid by the fact that they're directly involved in that issue?
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3. Should there be restrictions and limits placed on elderly drivers?
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4. Should adult females be allowed to purchase birth control pills over-the-counter?
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5. Do you have a reason to be paranoid?
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6. Do you think we should give homeless people fake Bluetooth headset so when they speak aloud to themselves they would look less crazy?
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7. Which would you rather be for one year: pregnant or a nudist?
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8. Are DJs musicians?
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9. Would you rather have no arms, or pineapples for hands?
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10. Is it time for something other than a Democrat or Republican to sit in office?
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Funniest Comments of the Year

Random Thread:
Shortbuttall: Why is it that guys love their video games? Everytime I look my boyfriend is playing a game.
CaptainTrips: See, us guys have this extra chromosome called "awesomeness", which allows us to appreciate things that don't suck, like video games, or football, or massive amounts of violence. Women have the same thing only it's a "lameness" gene, which is why they love shopping and Meg Ryan.

From News thread: "Joy transformed to sorrow after bride dies during first dance.":
EhFahQ: What a sad story. At least they had a really sharp DJ. As soon as she hit the floor, he faded in Billy Idol's 'Dancing with Myself'

In the thread in news commemorating the death of the creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Gary Gygax:
Boredofu: The vision of Noldor, Dacash and Wertzro as nerdy college RPG'ers is illuminating. Particularly Noldor instantly regressing to type by the use of the word awesome.
wertzro: Who said anything about nerdy? I played sports, had good grades, that was another way to relax *stuffs BOU into a bag of holding*
Boredofu: Unleashes 40 armies from Kamchatka into Alaska and destroys your continent.
smilodan: You can't win a land war in Asia. INCONCEIVEABLE!

Random Thread:
tulip: Benda needs a enema.
birdsong4j: I bet if you rearrange that, there's a palindrome in there somewhere...
bendaman: Too many odd amounts of letters for it to work.
birdsong4j: You're so right, and palindrome was SO not the word I was looking for. Let's try "anagram" instead...that'll teach me to post while drinking. benda needs an enema = banana needed semen.

In a thread titled "your youthink beginning":
RedGhost: I take it everyone on this site knows each other personally in someway.
ichabod00x: Or another.
holly_bolly: I'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha.

In the thread "Robotic monkey cyborg army arising" about a chimp controlling a robotic arm with its brain:
mudassar: Is no one else even slightly bothered they bound the monkeys arms? Cruel bastards.
Lou Two: If they let him use his real arms too he'd be approaching the chimp equivolent of Doc Oc.
Putterer: Fortunately, when that one turns to evil, there are plenty of spider monkeys out there to fight him.

In a news story about a teen who was decapitated by a roller coaster while trying to retrieve a hat from a restricted area:
w8in: Looks like he didn't need that hat after all.

Random journal:
panophobia: wtf is a nullification mod?
pinkconverse: A mod that nullificates.
panophobia: nullification isn't a verb.
pinkconverse: What I did to your mom last night is, though.

In the "Crippling Back Pain" journal:
hannah_h: I fell over in Spanish today.
Isthiezak: Fell over in Spanish? Did you shout 'AY CARUMBA' on the way down or something?

Random Thread:
psycho_trap: I'm currently located in Utah. I'd like to live in Idaho though.
jealousblues: My current shirt is gray, but I wish it were a blander color of gray.

Jokes of the Year

Grandma

Member of the Year

The member of the year is JayY. As voted on by the YT public from a list of this past year's members of the week, JayY was the overwhelming choice. Thanks again to Ichabod00x for running the voting for this year's contest. Congrats!

JoeInterview's Member Feature

These interview questions are excerpts from interviews throughout the year, asked by Chips2001 and travbowman.

JoeInterview: Have any kids' names picked out yet?

Superkay37: Yes, actually. My fiance and I agree on them, too... shock!! But, I don't like sharing them, because then people will be like "oh, those names are AWESOME" and they'll steal them for their kids, so by the time I actually have kids, everyone else's kids will already have those names, and I'll be forced to name my kids something horrible like Brick or Shoe just to be different, and my kids will get beat up all the time and hate me.

JI: What's the most important issue to you today when it comes to voting?

Tulip: No doubt healthcare. I am appalled that we turn our backs on over 40 million US citizens every day. This is a shame on our country. I think guaranteeing healthcare to all citizens would be cheaper than it is now. So many heathcare dollars are wasted on the insured by unnecessary tests. I have witnessed so many BS procedures to make the hospitals money it makes me cringe in anger. This is one issue that is not going to go away.

JI: So a heist like Ocean's 11...could it ever be pulled off?

Pepperdrinks: I don't know... probably? The security is good, but I doubt it is impenetrable. And it might just be the fact that I don't work for a Vegas casino, but it just wouldn't be as cool and glamorous as in the movies. No fancy steel doors and pressurized floors... laser systems and passwords that change on the hour. I wasn't expecting all of that, but I wasn't exactly expecting what the vault is really like either. I was, at the very least, expecting a windowless room, which it isn't.

JI: You must have seen some of the world in the navy. Tell me about a place you loved, and a place you loathed.

HaroldTheBat: I got see see places I'd never in a million years pay to go to, like Bahrain and parts of the UAE. That turned out to be a lot of fun. I got to ride a camel and have some of the local food, which was really good. I miss it sometimes.

We moored in Australia for a few days, too, but it was really disappointing. I think a big part of the reason to go to Australia is to see the land and animals, and we didn't do any of that. Fortunately, my mother was raised there and I have an uncle who still lives there, so we're going back for an extended tour next year.

JI: Do you make special efforts to make sure your kids aren't bored all summer?

Anthropology: My oldest will be working through the summer and hanging with her friends, so I doubt I'll see much of her. She's like the little bird on the edge of the nest spreading her wings out right before she jumps off for her first flight. Part of life, but it's still hard to deal with sometimes.

My youngest will be attending an awesome day camp that has different activities each week like rock climbing, photo editing, golf, basketball, etc. One week she'll be going to a week long summer camp. Yep, I'm jealous of her summer.

JI: Does all the performing cut into your daughter's study time?

CarolineYes: Not really,she is due to go to secondary school this year and is currently top of her class in her studies.

If I ever thought her extra curricular activities were effecting her school work I would have to cut things down a little but from a young age she always said that she wants to go into television/theater so everything she is involved in is actually going toward her future...We also make it clear to her though that it is a career a vast number of people are aiming for and that studies are just as important as skills and talents to make it into the academies she will need to attend when she reaches 16.

JI: With gas prices heading where they are, how will it affect the trucking industry as we know it?

BGraham23: That's a good question. It will definately be interesting to see what's going to happen with the trucking industry in the next few years. I have seen several drivers that own their own truck have to hang it up lately due to fuel prices. It's really sad. When I was driving, I was putting between $400-$500 a day in the truck and fuel was under $3 a gallon. Now diesel is nearly $5 a gallon. This country pretty much functions off trucks. Pretty much everything we utilize was on a truck at some point. The increase in fuel prices has, which I am sure nearly everyone has noticed, caused almost everything else to increase in price as well. I think that a great deal of smaller trucking companies are going to start ceasing operations while the larger companies will probably be alright...for now. No one seems to be really looking into alternative fuels for heavy hauling either.

JI: So the Anime convention...what are your thoughts on the fans who take it a little too seriously?

CrunchySocks: Having just returned yesterday, I can tell you first hand that they're all awesome. Even the smelly, overweight nerds who devote way too much of their time, IMO, into their favorite Animes. I had a blast.

JI: What's the best kids toy out there today?

VictoryRider: Me! Umm, I don't know really. My kids are more into books, drawing and coloring, and playing outside. They like their big wheels a lot. And you can never go wrong with a large cardboard box. A sandbox is good too. Really, just about anything that gets them to use their imagination and/or stimulate their mind is good. I find though, that the toy doesn't really matter if we take time to play with them.

JI: Since you're the metrosexual now, who has had the best look over the years as they entered the ring?

CameronVance: Ric Flair. The man always had the best cut suits and the finest leather shoes, all handmade of course. Lots of people had style, Rick Rude, The Rock, but Flair had the class and the attitude that tied it all together. WOOOOOOOOOOO!

JI: What's the toughest thing about being a teenager in the US in 2008?

PinkConverse: I guess I could say things like peer pressure, and grades.. but that's really not it. For me, the worst part is seeing so many problems with the world, my country, my state, even my city. That's the worst because I, as a 15 year old girl, have little, to no chance, of being able to help any of these problems. And even if I did, there isn't a class called 'Saving the World 101'. I would have no idea how to get anything started. It's hard to get your voice heard and seriously considered when you're a teenager.

JI: Do you think you could live in an area that didn't have mountains nearby?

immortal_1: Absolutely not. It's not just the beauty of the mountains, I also feel at ease when I'm surrounded by them, or at least in view of them. To me it's a mindset. A way of understanding the world and where I am in relation to everything around me. Mountains humble you in a way that you could never get from fields, hills, or cities. (In all honesty, I probably could live in a place without mountains but I wouldn't want to do so.)

JI: Outside of the hair incident, what was life as an atheist like for you at Catholic school?

Psychoman364: I didn't become an atheist until my senior year, so there wasn't much conflict. I generally kept quiet in religion class and most of the tests were worded as "The Catholic Church believes..." so I never really had to lie on tests and reports and such. I also didn't talk about my beliefs much, so most people assumed I was still Catholic. Dress-down days were hilarious, though, with some of my band shirts. I actually had a nun tell me I was going to burn in hell, dead serious!

JI: What do you think is the most positive thing you've gained from your relationship with your family?

Flovebunny: I've learned patience, restraint, and tolerance. When you're a teenager you have this overwhelming urge to do nothing but show contempt for your parents if that's what you're feeling. For some reason, once I hit adulthood, it all sort of mellowed. When my mom will start to nag me or whatever, before I start to jump into something I'm going to regret, I'm able to calmly diffuse the situation; I think this skill has helped us have a more or less pleasant relationship since I was about nineteen.

I've been able to use this in other situations; whenever I'm stressed at work or with something else, I can sort of emotionally detach from it until I've solved the problem or it has gone away. I think I'll always have the strongest relationships with my siblings, especially my sister that's closest in age to me. We all have these inside jokes with each other, and every time we're all home for Christmas or anything, it's very uproarious and merry, being around them.

JI: You recently added a suggestion to the suggestions forum to overthrow Buddy. What should YT expect with you as its supreme overlord?

Hael: Now there's a question I can answer. First the mods will be required to take a loyalty test. Those who fail will be stripped of their rank but those who pass get a shiny new hat signifying their power.

The swear filter will be removed and members who don't have keys will be required to answer a series of questions abut 80s sitcoms and pop music to prove their age. Since trivia is so popular this should entertain the newbies more than posting would have anyway.

Each forum will have a different password that changes every day and only the mods of the forum will know what it is. The password will give access to the cooler threads which will be the only ones where images will be allowed to be posted. They'll post various on the other pages. It will be a treasure hunt each day.

Also we'll finally remove Buddy's infamous "no jews" policy which I am making up here to make him look like a nazi. It will be replaced with a much more reasonable "no mexicans" policy.

A sort of karma system will be added allowing each member to be voted on in douchiness. Mods, or Judges as they will now be called, will have access to a special page listing all the top rated douchiness for easier banning.

The clock time zone will be changed to UTC -2 as it is the time zone covering the South Sandwich Islands which is of course the spiritual homeland of this site. Sort of like YT's Mecca.

Thread operators will have the freedom to ban users from their threads or to force all of a user's post to be translated into Pirate speak.

More themes will be added letting users change their background and text colors, as well as the layout of threads and the option to turn yellow envelopes on or off.

The horribly unfair "no mexicans" policy which I never approved of in the first place will removed in favor of a "mexicans only" policy.

YT will be at war with Eastasia. YT has always been at war with Eastasia.

A game forum will be added allowing YTers to chat while playing simple games like hangman, tic tac toe, chess, and Battlefield 2.

There will be a special forum for posting original work such as poetry, short stories, novellas, screenplays, novels, art, and amateur porn. They will be rated and lower rating works will be translated into Pirate speak. Especially the porn.

More will be added as I think of them.

Oh yeah, and back to "no mexicans."

JI: Speaking of which, what's the craziest thing you've ever done while drunk?

Balladeer: Oh gawd. The list continues on this one. I've done a lot of stupid things and I've done a lot of fun things. One thing I'm very, very guilty of is while watching small shows, I try to go up and play they're instruments or sing in they're place because I know that I can do so much better. I was in Atlanta with my girl and a whole bunch of her friends and I was really drunk. I walked up and tried to take the microphone from the singer. He was cool about it, but still... not cool. haha

JI: So what's the key to a girl making it to her 20s relatively unscathed?

Die_numb: For starters, a girl needs a support network, whether that is her friends, family, people online, or an actual support group. Being able to talk when you're feeling down with someone who feels the same way really helps to maintain your sanity.

But at the same time, you shouldn't dwell on it either, because that will only bring you down. So go outside and discover things you like to do and do them. Happiness is key, and that will come while doing things that you enjoy. It will also help you to realize who you truly are as a person, and that will lead to increased confidence.

JI: What's the craziest cake you've ever done?

NarcoticNico: Hmm, I guess there was a pistachio cake that I made, where I mixed the pistachio pudding powder with the cake mix in order to make the cake green, then I shaped it so that it looked like a frog. I couldn't shape the actual cake mix like a frog, I don't have a frog shaped cake pan, but I had to put pieces together and then frost them so that they stayed together. It was for a friends birthday, who obviously loves frogs.

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

JayY: 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 year's article is titled 'Woman accidentally stabs lover in sex game', and the thread was posted by Sammy.

This year's link is titled '5,000 years of religious history in 90 seconds', and the link was posted by SoWhiteBread.

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