RESOLVED: Youtube is the greatest invention of the past 500 years.

[Dr. Strange]

Arguing for: DUers whose username begins with one of the letters A-M.
Arguing against: DUers whose username begins with one of the letters N-Z.

DUers whose username begins with a digit or some Prince-like symbol are free to post their favorite youtube links. But if you lack the sense or foresight to come up with a name that starts with a letter, then your opinion can't be worth that much.

All right, let's do this thing.

This debate is sponsored by a grant from the temeah Foundation.

[jeff30997]

1. But,but what about sliced bread ?

Neff30997 :P

[Dr. Strange]

8. You, sir, are out-of-order!

You're making a mockery of the process, and I won't have any of it!

[Fran Kubelik]

2. Off topic: What is your avatar?

[Dr. Strange]

7. Doctor Strange:

http://www.marvel.com/doctorstrange

Master of the Mystic Arts
Sorcerer Supreme
Kick-ass Homey

[RainDog]

50. OMFG. your name really is "some strange."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=strange

[Dr. Strange]

51. Stop analyzing my handle...

You crazy handle-analyzer!

[RainDog]

59. say that again

[Dr. Strange]

63. What?

http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2008-09-22_1821411894136320/movies/pulp_fiction/english.wav

[Fire Walk With Me]

53. Master of the Mystic Arts, Sorcerer Supreme, Kick-ass Homey

I don't see a doctorate available for any of those skillsets. Is he an actual doctor or is it merely a distraction from his lack of a doctorate in the mystic arts?

[Dr. Strange]

54. Let us go to the wiki...

Stephen Vincent Strange was born on November 18, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Eugene and Beverly Strange. A few months later, the Stranges move to a farm in Nebraska where Stephen is brought up alongside his brother Victor (who later became the guitarist for Rush) and sister April.

In adulthood, Stephen becomes an accomplished, but arrogant, surgeon until he suffers subtle, though profound, neurological damage in an automobile accident in 1963. His hands in particular are no longer able to make the precise, fine movements necessary for surgery, although their overall mobility remains. Unable to continue his profession and too proud to accept subordinate medical assignments, he becomes unemployed and destitute. He is reduced to being a derelict, performing shady medical procedures for the Detroit Red Wings. Learning of a hermit called the Ancient One who might possibly cure him, the desperate Strange ventures to the man's isolated Himalayan abode and asks him for aid. The Ancient One instead offers to take Strange on as an apprentice in the mystic arts. Strange refuses, but cannot leave immediately due to sweeps week.

While staying for the duration of the storm, Strange witnesses the Ancient One's apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, secretly attack the teacher with mystically summoned skeletons, which the old man easily dispels. Strange, his skepticism eroding, confronts Anakin about the treachery but Anakin responds with restraining spells that keep Strange from warning the Ancient One or attacking Anakin physically. Amazed by these displays of magic, alarmed by Anakin, but frustrated by the mystic restraints, Strange undergoes a change of heart. Deciding that the only way to stop Anakin is to learn magic himself in order to challenge Anakin on his terms, Strange accepts the Ancient One's offer. Pleased by Strange's acceptance for unselfish reasons, the Ancient One removes the mystic restraints, explaining that he is well aware of Anakin's treachery but prefers to keep Anakin close by in order to control and possibly change him. Strange studies magic under the Ancient One for seven years and returns to the United States in the 1970s to become a Jedi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange

[Fire Walk With Me]

55. Frikin' incomplete WIKI pages.

Not one mention of the Great Zamboni Error, and its effect upon the mystical arts everywhere. :cry:

[NJmaverick]

3. Hi, I would like to renew my driver's license

is this the right line?

[TZ]

4. okay

I can argue agaisnt this solely on what I think is a better invention...batteries..because they make SOO many things possible *cough*....


:evilgrin:

[Dr. Strange]

16. So which is better:

batteries...
or a youtube video about batteries?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSy2weXVB6Q

[quip]

37. OMG

That was sick and wrong AND HIGHLARIOUS! :rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

5. Last I heard the temeah foundation was under investigation for not

filing their 990-PF in a timely manner. Something about nippelz getting in the way of the pen to paper action. :shrug:

[BeachBaby]

18. Shhhhhh!!!!!

Jeez - you didn't have to call attention to the actual reason behind the investigation! I'm the bookkeeper of the organization - and now everybody's going to be looking at my boobays and calling them out for their criminal shenanigans. And if I refuse to produce the evidence, the powers-that-be will be charging my bits and pieces with obstruction of justice.

:P

[TZ]

20. !

"... be charging my bits and pieces with obstruction of justice......"

:rofl: :spray: :patriot:

I CANNOT top that....:thumbsup:

[quip]

22. Alright you! Back to work!

(JGD, working at the temeah Foundation) =>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhaLFxkatOM

:hi:

[BeachBaby]

25. Whoa! I forgot about "the tapes".

Good thinking on changing my voice - otherwise, the "evidence" would have made the trial a slam dunk.

Now, make sure you destroy the rest - we don't want Nipplegate. :P

:hi:

[quip]

26. We DON'T want "Nipplegate?"

Are we sure? :P

It looks fun! :rofl:

[BeachBaby]

31. You may be on to something, tamale.

Releasing these tapes to the public may help the foundation get the "exposure" it most definitely needs.

So, if reporters show up at my door, I will smile and be polite - and hopefully my perkiness will win them over. *cough*

[quip]

32. Exposure: YES!

(JGD, answering the door for the reporters) =>



A guy can dream.... :P

[TZ]

33. If there is a "nipplegate" going on...

Would that make me "deep throat"?:evilgrin:

[quip]

34. Not anymore!

:rofl:

Are you trying to choke this thread and get it locked? :P

[TZ]

36. not really

But I am trying to bring a brand "spanking" new perspective on things...

[quip]

40. Well, go ahead and shake things up, but don't let anyone

yank you around in the process!

[TZ]

41. Hey now

Don't jerk me around...I don't get off work for awhile....:evilgrin:

[quip]

42. Well, whenever you get off, I'm sure it will be partay time!

Don't forget the batteries.... :P

[Dr. Strange]

30. zOMG! Elevens!

I love the "multiplies by elevens" girl.

[quip]

21. LOL Okay, first I had to google what a

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f990pf.pdf">990-PF was! :P

As far as the implication that our nipplez problem isn't genuine, I submit to you (YES, using the greatest invention evah, YouTube) this evidence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9wNkE820w

:hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

27. Pfft. Google? The hallmarks of an amateur.

I knew this foundation was a sham. It's just a coverup for all things booby.

[quip]

28. So?

It's just a coverup for all things booby.

What exactly is your point, Midlo?

:rofl:

[BeachBaby]

29. It's not a sham!

It's a foundation created for the research and further "development" of breast augmentation and overall nipple health.

That's what we tell ALL the authorities.

And I stand by my story. :P

[TZ]

35. hmm

I see it now..Temeah and DuStrange..The new Woodward and Bernstein..And I will chair the nipplegate investigative committee..being an expert and all in this area.
This could bring a whole new meaning to the name "Washington Post" if ya know what I mean...:evilgrin:

[quip]

38. BAAAAAAH!!!!ELEVENS!!

That just made my circulation go up! :P

[mcctatas]

6. There is no where else on earth that you can see adorable kittys

political titans and soft core porn all within the same 5 minute time span!

[jeff30997]

9. I totally disagree.

You can see adorable kitties getting smashed by cars,political titans getting smeared and softcore

porn all within the same 5 minute time span on Fux News everyday.:P

[Dr. Strange]

10. Or on my computer.

:hide:

[mcctatas]

12. Hey...

you chose the sides, quit going off message! Silly people!

[mcctatas]

11. Dude...

you're supposed to be on the affirmative side, keep up;)

[mwooldri]

13. Where else can you watch f&#king Bullseye?

Or find the long lost Christmas Tapes?

<seriousmode on>
I was not really a big Youtube fan, until I started looking for old TV clips. And I mean OLD TV clips. Then I learned about the Christmas Tapes. It started innocently enough: before those programmes on TV that would show the bloopers, outtakes, cock ups, etc, the guys in VT would collect them and make a "Christmas Tape" for the staff, never intended for broadcast. They were uncensored... and the guys in VT (video editing) got enough together to make up a decent tape. Later years some of the TV personalities would get in the act too, even to the point where if some of them (Noel Edmonds being one) if they made a cock up, they usually said "Merry Christmas VT" afterwards, knowing full well it would probably make it on that years' Christmas tape. They even made some attempt at making a programme. The BBC bigwigs learned about it and banned the practice. But it didn't stop the guys at the Independent stations... they got to the point where they did parodies of their own shows (the aforementioned "Welcome to f*cking Bullseye") and their own ultra-low budget shows too... by then the BBC got back in the game with their own parody show but by then it was the end of the Christmas Tape...
<seriousmode off>

[mainegreen]

14. Greatness, when used as a measure of human works, ....

is a measure entirely comprised of the sum total of human reaction to that work. While it can be argued that since the majority of the human race has never had experience with youtube, and thus do not view it as great, I would propose that with any invention that has reached a sizable percentage of the living human population can have the views of that percentage of the population extrapolated out to the rest of the human race, living and dead. Given this presupposition, if we were to look at this subset of population, we would find that the viewing of youtube videos is the single biggest activity of a sizable majority of the group. Given that we can use this set of people to determine the likely views of the rest of the human race, we clearly find that the viewing of youtube videos is by far the biggest pastime in the history of the human race. Since the greatness of a human invention is sum total of reaction to that invention, and the biggest measure of human reaction is how much time is comprised of using that invention, youtube is clearly the greatest invention, not just of the last 500 years, but of the whole of human history.

[Dukkha]

15. evidence against

YouTube is perhaps the most blocked non-porn web site on office servers. Rendering it useless as a diversion tool at work.

[Dr. Strange]

17. You make an excellent point there.

How can American business possibly thrive if people have no diversions?

[rug]

19. I vote for bubblewrap.

[quip]

23. You can have it all, baybee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmW1el0o9x4&feature=related

[TZ]

39. Thats cool

I'd love to have my bubble popped...er I mean I love to pop those bubbles....:rofl:

[quip]

24. Since technically, my nick reads backwards to forwards, I am claiming to be

qualified to argue BOTH sides:

For: It expands my mind

Against: It expands my shorts

Debate over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKoZpXJd_vI">HEY EVERYBODY, WE'RE ALL GONNA GET LAID!

[RainDog]

49. ™ sez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Aso0_gnMoA

it's a new world.

[bbernardini]

43. Even though I'm not supposed to, I have to disagree. As a parent, I can tell you...

...that the greatest invention of the last 500 years is washable crayons.

[quip]

44. Really? When mine get dirty, I just buy a new box

:P

[TZ]

45. Yeah but...

I'm thinking you NEED the washable crayons to wash off all "NIPPLEZ! ELEVENS! BOOBAYS! that you scrawl all over your walls at home....:rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

46. Aside from your brazen disrespect for the debate rules...

you are correct: those washable crayons/markers are a nice invention.

[Iggo]

47. Youtube is the internet.

The internet is Youtube.

[Dr. Strange]

48. That's a little too Zen for this debate.

[lost-in-nj]

52. WTF?????

"shrug" "shrug"

the screw top on wine is the ultimate...

now if Corona would use screw tops


all would be right with the world.

yup

:hi:

lost

youtube was made by someone who drank to much screw top wine

believe me


:hi:

lost

WTF THE SOFT PORN????? I NEED FUCKING LINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or i do not believe

[jeff30997]

58. You want soft porn ? Here's a short clip (Warning:May cause nausea):

:P

[Forkboy]

56. This non-music video is the entire reason the internet was invented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWAuBULP7Go

[jeff30997]

60. Wow !

One day that kid will invade Poland ! :crazy:

[zanne]

57. Youtube is the greatest invention of the past 500 years because of this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St_4vYCPax4

[LSdemocrat]

61. It would be if not for draconian enforcement of already draconian copyright laws

[MrSlayer]

62. It is the greatest and I'll tell you why.

Because it it the last bastion of true freedom of expression and the last way to get truth out to the general population as all traditional media outlets are compromised by the corporatists.