As soon as you see the gem sweater, you know it’s gonna get weird.
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Category Archives: Videos
Kids!
A sweet, funny little video about the birth of the now-famous YouTube the goat. Hope you’re not eating Ethiopian tonight…
I was gonna post some Larry Birkenhead/Howard K. Stern slashporn, but this is just too cute not to toss on the blog immediately.
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Forrest Whitaker’s Oscar Speech
Thank god for YouTube; they reduced a possible four hours of marketing-saturated, passive boredom and bitchily self-indulgent fashion criticism into five minutes of clicking through “Forrest Whitaker” search results and two minutes of the most inspiring Hollywood speech of the last twenty years.
Sorry for the dickwad blathering right over the most important line; it seems that Oscar is a very controlling sort and has sent most of the video captures to the great bit bucket in the sky, where no doubt Lucy and Ricky are enjoying the bit where Helen Mirren performed “Borat” at this very moment.
Alas, YouTube is TheirTube and they have had this video killed. Found another for now.
The transcript still works, though!
Transcript over the jump
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Mooseball!!!
See, North Americans love soccer too! We just play it differently.
The funniest thing about this video is the way the moose gets so pissed off when the ball gets caught in a shrub. You just know that as he stomped away he was cursing that shrub and muttering moorosely.
via Defamer, the Hollywood Gossip site. And no, I don’t know why they went with this when they could have posted Helen Mirren reading lines from Borat, but oh well.
Webjunk, from whence Defamer stole it, has helpfully provided a translation of the anguished dog’s commentary.
“You are ruining my life. Stop it stop it!!! Why? This is all I have. Oh sh*t, dude you are stepping on my tail. Oh – that’s better. Hey Moose, stop. Please, that has my scent on it. Make him stop, I will never leave it outside again. Kill me. Kill me. Why?”
That said, we are huge dog lovers (no, we are not Korean) and we find this hilarious. Is it because the pain is so real?
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rocketman, and no, not the William Shatner version
The Yves Rossy version. Yes, it’s the Icarus of Switzerland on video!
Stole this from Dale, who stole it from Defence Tech, which is the kind of trash he reads at the hairdresser’s, just to give you an idea what his life is like. You’d think the boy would learn from me and raise his standards, but noooooooooo.
I’m tired of putting videos over the jump. Nobody EVER watches them that way. Dialup users, you’ve annoyed me one too many times; payback’s a bitch!
and here’s some text from his site explaining exactly what’s going on, as if you couldn’t tell by the above video of a small man with a jet-propelled, winged strap-on jumping out of an airplane.
…the aerodynamic wings were improved and their span was increased to 3 meters. As of 2004 and because there was a loss of rigidity due to the inflatable side of the wings, Yves had to stop his collaboration with “Prospective Concepts” and work only with “ACT Composites” who then created foldable carbon wings, able to be used from a Pilatus Porter plane.
Finally, at 7:30pm on June 24th, 2004 and after the 3rd trial of the day (6th motorized trial), Yves finally dropped out of the Pilatus at an altitude of 4000m over the Yverdon airfield. Before pulling on the little lever that controls the opening of his wings, Yves lets himself glide for a couple seconds and at the altitude of 2500m, he starts the ignition of the engines and waits 30 seconds for them to stabilize. Once they are steady, he can finally speed up the engines and suddenly the dream comes true… He manages a horizontal flight at 1600m from the ground for more than 4 minutes, at a speed of 100 knots, in formation with the Pilatus!
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raincoaster 