We at the ol’ raincoaster blog did not just fall off the squid trawler, ya know. No indeed, we were not hatched yesterday nor even the day before and are perfectly well aware of the mass moist madness that erupts when you get groups of excited, vigorous young people together in a consequence-free and water-and-stain-resistant environment stocked with bottled beverages.
Behold the world’s largest Mentos and Diet Coke experiment:
Honestly, it looks like an orgy at Hogwarts to me. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ’em all!
There’s not a raging snotload of things to do in Belgium, if you don’t rustle mussels or brew beer for a living, so these enthusiastic, yet two-years-behind-the-meme students decided to go for mass quantities, rather than attempt to duplicate the balletic elegance of the original experiment. For this monumental achievement, they gathered in historic (and, presumably, easily hosed down) Ladeuzeplein Square in Leuven, Belgium. Note please, that Coke does not work as well and regardless of what the Torygraph article linked to above tells you, it must be Diet Coke.
Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz were the famed mad scientists whose hypnotic Aesthetic of the Absurd video, covered extensively in this blog and millions of others, set the tone for memes to come, from the inexorable rise of lolcats up to and including Anonymous‘s current campaign against Scientology.
Not-Fleshed-Out-Yet-Really-Quite-Inescapable Conclusion: The dominant vernacular of civil engagement today defines itself directly against the current structure and forms of terrorism and is absurd in every sense, self-aware, positive in tone and gesture, meta-(not post-)intellectual, and a helluva lot of fun.
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Hahaha… How are you?
This pic is strange… I expect a thousand penis-ss.
But it’s a good piece.
Scope.
You’ve been to Belgium and you didn’t pop over to London?
Yes, I’ve been to Belgium. One of the strangest facts about me (and there are many from which to choose) is that my first language was actually Walloon.
However, I have not been to Belgium since just before Kennedy was shot. So there goes my alibi, eh?
Scope, glad you like it. That’s my classy viral marketing technique in action!
That displays the weakest understanding of cloud seeding that I have ever seen. They’re never going to get the soybean to come up this season.
Underpowered rockets. Next time, they use ALTOIDS!
What they ought to use is Squirt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirt).
I’ll remain Flematicon the subject from here on.
Flematic on
Fuck
Hope that helps the cuss-o-meter
they match.
who cleaned up that mess?
would like to see their cuss-o-meter
I just ran rain’s blog through the cus-o-meter.
you go girl.
http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/blog_cuss
I beat you at something rain.
Damn.
Well it’s a fucking improvement:
before:
Around 13% of the pages on your website contain cussing.
This is 63% MORE than other websites who took this test.
Now:
Around 13.3% of the pages on your website contain cussing.
This is 48% MORE than other websites who took this test.
while we have improved by .3%, we’re slipping compared to other sites. in less than a month there has been a sharp increase in profanity in the webisphere.
what is causing the frustration I wonder.
there must be a lot of cussing going on in my comments, i don’t remember doing too much in the posts.
party on.
Jesus fucking Christ, why not?
Yep~
I like anything that’s not so ordinary. Hahaha…
I’m trying to wreck the cuss-o-meter by flooding it with ‘fuck’ except that Singaporean government people might come after my sorry ass for that someday~ Hahaha…
Ciao~
Scope.
Well, isn’t WP.com hosted in the US? Subject to US laws? You could say you were “exporting the trash” and see how that goes?