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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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If you're going to pick a fight with someone on the bus then maybe pick someone other than the big crazy guy wearing a t-shirt which says "I am a motherfucker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58a0qgIJ2DQ

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Rough Lobster posted:

Isn't this the guy they based that Danny Trejo BAD rear end movie on? Really curious to hear what the rear end-kickee was saying afterwards.

Yeah, they based BAD rear end on 'Epic Beard Man' in that video but it turns out he's a legit crazy guy who didn't even go to 'Nam.

Here's the guy who got asskicked doing an interview about the fight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I1r3dhMUO4

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Sam Faust posted:

I honestly can't say I wouldn't have the same reaction. Scratch that. I wouldn't even put my hand in the box in the first place.

Yeah, that's an expensive pet. You don't just let some blindfolded doofus swipe at it with his meaty paws, he might injure it.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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YeahTubaMike posted:

I saw the video for this on Facebook and the kid pretty much immediately starts screaming at the top of his lungs.

Scyantific posted:

Link or it didn't happen.

Here ya go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xosUjZgIzrs
The original was apparently a vine and the scream sounds edited in to me but who knows? :shrug:


They should have PSAs about exercise balls, they'll gently caress you up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-RRVdEhm_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xftdgXU3DA

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Today was the Melbourne Cup, the "race that stops the nation" in Australia where some people riding horses do a thing I dunno BUT the relevant part to this thread is that a whole bunch of people get hosed up drunk in public.

Here's some classic from previous years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0xn2zelzbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnKifxUZZJU

Here's today's winner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bivpyVwpxnQ

Sport of Kings! :tinsley:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Get the A lasered off and replaced with a U.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Mistakes were made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVTtL5WovU

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Crazy guy writes lovely fairytale-inspired fantasy novel, goes bugfuck crazy when a woman leaves a bad one star review and stalks her Twitter and Instagram accounts her to find out where she works, travels from London all the way to Glasgow and smashes a wine bottle over her head when her back was turned. The cops tracked him down pretty quickly, he didn't exactly try hard to cover his tracks. He plead guilty in court today, it turns out there's consequences for crazy poo poo like that.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenager-bottled-ex-countdown-champion-6802185
Somewhat :nms: for photo of head wound stitched up like a Xmas ham.

Here's the review if anyone wants to read it. It contains this wonderfully prescient line: "Unfortunately, Mr. Brittain has gained a bit of infamy on Wattpad where he's known for threatening users who don't praise him (pray for me)"

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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goddamnedtwisto posted:

Holy poo poo the heroine of his story has a name that's an anagram of the woman he has a conviction for stalking.

He allegedly got the idea for the book when he sent her a Valentine's card (sometime after the police warned him to stop contacting her) where he included an illustration of her as a fantasy character. He had an awesome idea on how to get the book publicized!

quote:

Seven months later, when it was complete, I decided to try to make my book known by getting into the national news. I found out that she worked in Glasgow, so I travelled there with a plan. I was going to tell her that if she came with me, and we faked a kidnapping, we would both become famous. We would go into the hills and camp out for a few days while the nation searched. I had brought the necessary supplies.
https://richardbrittain.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/the-benevolent-stalker/

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Skier hits a trench and cartwheels 1,600 feet down a mountain in under a minute. That's almost half a kilometre.

Good news, he was wearing a mic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQxVE32BQo

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Craptacular posted:

Based on extensive viewing of Youtube videos, I've come to the conclusion that every Russian driver is (pick two):

1) Retarded
2) High
3) Drunk
4) Impatient
5) Distracted
6) Ignorant of traffic laws
7) Operating a vehicle in desperate need of repair

8) Illegally driving a stolen/unregistered vehicle. I've seen a few dashcam crash videos where the driver just abandons his car and makes a run for it.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I was feeling a bit unlucky and depressed today, but then I saw this and realized my day ain't so bad after all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=571yhElTEE8

Tyres will gently caress you up and most of the time you don't even see them coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqYF3G6GT8w

There's a ton of videos of people getting taken out by rogue tyres but I can't find a compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfqTqvHGzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYRkSEG56b0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivYc4XDVe8

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Knock knock!

http://imgur.com/gallery/TgOt72d

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Rondette posted:

Yeah if you watch UK's Police Enforcers or any of those programmes where cameras follow the Police around, it seems that if you are co-operative and generally decent to the Police you're much less likely to get hassle. I thought that was the case everywhere. Sorry America.

Comparing the US Cops show to similar shows from other countries is always hilarious. In this video a New Zealand police officer is questioning a youth who had been acting suspiciously at 3am. In the US he'd probably be face down in cuffs at this point, in NZ he's being given fatherly advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NhQmZ3S6E

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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doodlebugs posted:

iirc it was 60mph.

44-60mph.

Original thread:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3281586

Internetjack posted:

You do not re-engineer this or re-tool this.
You built a death-ride, Congratulations.
Speeds of 44-60mph, are you loving kidding me? You do not "tone that down" you tear it down. Any other option is inviting yourself to lawsuit hell.

Its a great looking platform, too bad it was designed for "murder speed".

You do not implement a modification to something that can kill to make it "Now its usable!". You start from the get-go to design something that "Under 99.9% cases, this should be pretty drat safe". You simply do not re-tool bad designs "to make it work" when lives are at stake. For the children for christ-sakes.

FYAD reaction thread with quoted photos:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3290020&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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If you're riding a BMX and you hold onto a car you can go really fast! Really really fast!

http://imgur.com/gallery/fhkix0p


Edit: picture is unrelated

Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 16:14 on Dec 3, 2015

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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It's the old "Put your hand on that dart board and I'll throw the dart between your fingers, I promise" trick!

http://imgur.com/gallery/MT7aVoD


synthetik posted:

I'm looking for the article and I'll edit it in when I find it, but it's basically the other way around - the guy that bought it actually bought exclusive rights to the album, the buyer can redistribute and sell or give it away or whatever, WT now has no rights to it.

Apparently they built a loophole into the contract:

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Sex Hobbit posted:

God drat. I got chicken pox when MYST was a thing and played it through the week I was home from school. :corsair:

I had chicken pox and whooping cough back in the 70s. I'm revoking your :corsair: privileges.

Back in those days our cars and our home consoles both had faux wood siding

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Those loving bleeding heart do-gooder Greenies. First they used up all the sunlight and now they going to use up all the wind!

quote:

Kate Sheppard reported today on some recent [Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)] comments about climate change and wind power.

"Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is. Wouldn't it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can't transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It's just something to think about."
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_09/020014.php

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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The automatic flush on these electronic Japanese toilets gets weirder every year

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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The related videos on that are schadenfreudtastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbDoBBTHZtA

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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chitoryu12 posted:

He's like Dunning-Kruger personified.

I'm just counting down to his inevitable Puppet Master claim, it's gonna be glorious.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Ethnic man gives free luggage samples to strangers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckdToC8MMw

Here's their FB page if you want to read all the outraged comments:
https://www.facebook.com/jalalbros/

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Subjunctive posted:

One done on private property.

Or performed in a public place with the correct permits (in the case of filming a stunt for a movie)

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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CowboyKid posted:

And Landis isn't wrong. The new movie will lose it's luster on multiple viewings.

It made half a billion dollars in its first weekend and set at least a dozen new box office records and a good chunk of those sales would have been people going back a second or third time. Looks like people like it just fine after multiple viewings!

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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veedubfreak posted:

I'm surprised there aren't more accidents in the UK considering they drive on the wrong side of the road all the time.

Some brave vehicular pioneers attempt to drive on the other side in some of the videos and it doesn't go well for anyone involved.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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So ironic shirt mugshot schadenfreude has been a thing for a while ...



Here's a new spin on it: ironic welcome mat schadenfreude

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Parts Kit posted:

Ruh roh, looks like someone got shot in the making of another one of these videos.
http://utmnews.com/man-involved-with-jalal-brother-prank-shot-while-making-another-fake-bomb-stunt/

Phanatic posted:

It looks like people keep buying transparently fake stories from questionable news sources.

Also the original prank videos were almost definitely filmed with their friends playing the 'victims'

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Rally drivers' onboard cameras, a mix of :stonk:"OH GOD!":stonk: and :cool:"gently caress YEAH!":cool: moments


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXgcAECcpAg

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Bloody Hedgehog posted:

1928 - The Some Such Thing is Patently Orful Letter Writing Group

23Skidoo - "I say old bean, have you heard of this bloody rot about Penicillin?"
Archpuke Franz Birdinthehand - "GHASTLY! Some sort of medicant, supposedly kills internal parasites!"
23Skidoo - "Bah, all these young whippersnappers! Thinking they can cure their bodily ailments with a simple injection. Why, as if leeches and a stiff upper lip weren't natures cure already!"

People have made a habit of making GBS threads on newfangled contraptions which turned out to be revolutionary inventions which would change the world for several thousand years now and providing some tasty schadenfreude for us here in the future.

quote:

What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
- The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825)

quote:

The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it... Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient.
- Dr. Alfred Velpeau (1839), French surgeon

quote:

This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
- Western Union internal memo, 1878

quote:

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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du -hast posted:

When europeans ask when Im from I say California, because if you're not a drooling retard, you have heard of California.

Well that'll just confuse them, they won't know if you're from Pennsylvania or Missouri or Colombia or El Salvador or any of the other dozen Californias we see in movies and TV shows all the time.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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quote:

My cousin got a drone for Christmas..

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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It was probably hovering at floor level and she bent over it to pick it up.

I love that she got her hair tangled in all four rotors, that's a great effort on her part.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Solice Kirsk posted:

Oh, I'm not defending her at all. I just find it baffling that people still post stupid poo poo on Facebook all the time. Its basically the easiest way to get divorced/fired from your job.

And it wasn't even a private rant that somehow got out, it was a public post on the restaurant's FB page. Maybe she was still drunk?

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Cartoon panda schadenfreude via CD:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Volume posted:

How is your first thought not choking?

There's a whole bunch of entitled shitbags whose first reaction on seeing someone keel over in public would likely be "Fuckin' junkies!!"

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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The Australian government has launched an official investigation into hoverboard safety & electrical compliance standards after a whole bunch of incidents where they caught fire, including one case where a no-name-brand hoverboard caught fire and burnt down a house.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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A bouncer at a bar wears a GoPro on NYE and records all the lovely customers being butthurt and lovely when he doesn't let them in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uurT7yVWkQ

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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The fact that you guys are having an involved discussion about what to do if this happens to you would seem to indicate that you think there's a less than zero chance that you'll hold an open flame to your gas tank some day.

Here's my tip: don't do that.

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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kalstrams posted:

Australia Got Talent.

Australia Missing Some Chromosomes

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