Oh my god I know someone who lived in that building a few years ago. I've heard all these Walter stories, including the jars of pee. I always thought she was kinda making some of that stuff up, but that's crazy you've lived there too.
A lot of times swimmers false start on purpose to get into the water and get their body acclimated. Also to psyche out the other swimmers. But at most meets the whole field only gets 2 false starts, so if someone's already false-started, and then you false start, you're out. At least that's how it was on my high school swim team. It always seemed a bit harsh.
So this poor guy must be really pissed at the other swimmer who already false started before him.
One of the videos linked from that video is the world record for most toothpicks stuck in a human beard. Now THAT is a record. Talk about burying the lede!
Argh, this brings back terrible memories..
I was once at a bar where they do this domino trick, and some bigshot comes in and buys the bar a domino round for his birthday. It was a big deal and took forever to set up. Everyone in the bar was watching and was really excited for the big domino rally. The glasses were almost all set up and the bigshot guy was about to knock the first one down...
Meanwhile I had gone to the bathroom and didn't know what was going on. I just came back and saw all these glasses lined up on the bar. Now I may have been a little drunk, but mostly I think I'm just an idiot, because my reaction was "hey free drinks I'll get myself a glass", which I proceeded to do, picking up a glass and setting off the entire domino reaction from the middle of the line, in two directions down to either end of the bar. And it was a long bar so it took forever for it to reach the end, clink clink clink, all the while the whole bar is silent, staring at me.
It was probably the most embarrassed I have ever been, right up there with the time in high school a cute girl pointed out that not only was my zipper down, but the front hole in my boxers was also open, and she could see everything. This was almost as bad as that.
Fortunately everyone got free drinks, but the bigshot birthday guy was pretty pissed. I got out of there in a hurry and never went back.
So this is a fun video for tizzdogg, is what I'm saying.
Or the part in the Chipmunks Adventure when the baby penguin has lost its mommy? That made me cry for like my whole childhood. Anyone else? Eh? Eh? Anyone?
So I recently went to see a screening of the documentary "Buck" which if you havnt heard of it is a feel-good story about a horse trainer who's really good with horses and makes us all feel better about ourselves and is basically like the best guy. Everybody likes him. You should go see it.
AAAAAnnyway. So we watch basically the whole movie, until like 10 minutes before the end, right at the emotional climax of the film, this lady stands up in the second row and yells "FUCK YOU BUCK!", and then just starts going to town on him, mocking every line he says. She clearly had some kind of mental issue, which kept itself under control for the majority of the movie, but then something snapped and she couldn't take Buck anymore. It was really weird and uncomfortable! Everyone shushed her, but that didnt help, and the theater refused to kick her out because "the movie's almost over". Totally ruined the movie, and I still don't know how it ended.
Anyway that's my fun talking-in-the-movies story.
Yo Im a rappin Rhino and Im here to say
I love fruity pebbles in a major way
They're bedrock yellow, orange, purple, lime and red
But the get the Fruity taste, I've gotta trick Fred!
Anybody else remember that commercial? That's my go-to 90s rap for whenever I'm called upon to rap.
So I've been to Vietnam (mr fancypants tizzdogg over here), and this is actually how you are supposed to cross the street. There are basically no traffic laws, nobody stops at traffic lights or uses lanes, so it's very confusing for a westerner who's not used to this type of traffic.
One of the first pieces of advice any tourist gets is how to cross the street: basically you just start walking out into traffic confidently and trust that the millions of motorcycles will not hit you. If you pause or get scared or make sudden movements you'll confuse the drivers and they're more likely to run into you. So you just step out into the street and keep a steady pace, and magically it generally seems to work out pretty well for all parties. It really takes some getting used to though. They have literally the craziest traffic I've ever seen.
The most perplexing thing about this video is the Pepsi-themed videogame he's playing at the end. Is that a real videogame? Get a better videogame Bangs!
Yeah it's sad. Hopefully nasa will refocus now on longer range missions and leave the low earth orbit stuff to private companies. But they canceled constellation, and now congress is proposing cutting nasa's budget by $2 billion. It's rough times for nasa. Hopefully they can get their groove back.
One of my earliest memories is watching the first shuttle launch, so it's sad to outlive it.
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