Useless Videos

[justdave]

 

[squirrel]

Tiger Woods Jesus Shot Glitch?


EA says no, its not a glitch

[Tale]

What if you found two fucked-up puppets and a fake axe by the side of the road?

Axe Me a Question part 1
Axe Me a Question part 2

[Phildo]

Big Lebowski in 2 minutes (NSFW)

[lac]

This is a truly unique masterpiece - woops

[Phildo]

That makes me really, really sad.  There aren't too many wax cylinder recordings left.

[Lakov_Sanite]

That makes me really, really sad.  There aren't too many wax cylinder recordings left.

No offense to people with parkinsons, I'm sure they can lead very functional and fulfilling lives but here's a protip Don't handle fragile wax-based one of a kind priceless objects.

[Amarr HM]

Yeh totally poor bugger I felt real sorry for him 

[Evildrider]

LHC Rap

[FatuousTwat]

At first glance I thought the cat's leg in Tale's avatar was a penis. I gotta stop watching so much porn I guess.

[Nerf]

First glance? I think that every fucking time I see it, it's creeping me out.

[Aez]

Devil Sheep

[Tale]

It's a perfectly innocent picture :P


Now watch this insane video of bicycle messengers racing in NYC.

[Amarr HM]

I worked as a bicycle courier for 3 years that brought some cool memories actually when your busy and working or racing like I used to do its a lot more insane and dangerous than that vid.

[bhodi]

Worst office freakout, ever

[Sky]

Tale's avatard is a good litmus test for whether you watch porn or not.

[Engels]

Tale's avatard is a good litmus test for whether you watch porn or not.

or wether you desperately need to shave your dick

[Brogarn]

or wether you desperately need to shave your dick

Damn it! Almost lost a bite of lunch there. Got me on that one. Hehehe.

[Amarr HM]

Worst office freakout, ever

holy crap

[FatuousTwat]

Fake, but entertaining.

[Endie]

Now watch this insane video of bicycle messengers racing in NYC.

Fuck I just wanted to see them jump the wrong light and get their brains spread over the front of a fast-moving bus, or have one of the pedestrians they nearly hit stick an umbrella through the spokes of their bikes.

[NiX]

Fake, but entertaining.

I recall it being real. It happened in Denmark or something. There's another video from the guy in the top right who pulls out his cellphone.

[squirrel]

The Combine Interview

[Lakov_Sanite]

The Combine Interview

All kinds of awesome

[Nerf]

The Combine Interview

All kinds of awesome

Did anyone else catch that they used the Tom Cruise Scientology interview for the dialogue?
(No offence to Lakov if that's what you meant by all kinds of awesome)

[Ironwood]

For The Nutsack.  Captions made me laugh hugely.

[Engels]

And he touched me down inside

listen for the adorable guitar solo, right after the bitchin bass solo.

[Endie]

And he touched me down inside

listen for the adorable guitar solo, right after the bitchin bass solo.

It's catchy as fuck, to be honest, but I'm guessing that you know it's fake?  "Punch and Judaism" is a good one, though...

[Engels]

You sure about that? http://dougsploitation.blogspot.com/ seems to portray it as a find from the 70s, an old tape the website dude dragged up from an attic or somesuch.

The name of that TV show was "The First Estate".  It used to air on WNBC (channel 4 in NY) on Sunday mornings at 11AM.  It dealt with religious issues and , yes, was multi-denominational.  The host was Dr. Russell Barber.  They had never had a musical act on before; usually priests or rabbis discussing what ever the hot topic of the day was.  They weren't quite sure how to shoot us or how it was going to work out.  By the way, we had no say about what songs were going to be taped for air.  "Jesus is a Friend of Mine"  was selected by Dr. Barber because it was different.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F05EEDB1438F93BA15750C0A963948260

[Amarr HM]

Now watch this insane video of bicycle messengers racing in NYC.

Fuck I just wanted to see them jump the wrong light and get their brains spread over the front of a fast-moving bus, or have one of the pedestrians they nearly hit stick an umbrella through the spokes of their bikes.

Yeh and then I'd like to see the courier shove the umbrella up the pedestrians arse and open it.

[sinij]

The website is down

A day in the life of a sysadmin who needs to play halo more than he needs to keep the webserver up

How is anyone involved in this video is staying gainfully employed?

[NiX]

Wait, so you honestly believe everyone employed by a company is competent?

[Endie]

You sure about that? http://dougsploitation.blogspot.com/ seems to portray it as a find from the 70s, an old tape the website dude dragged up from an attic or somesuch.

The name of that TV show was "The First Estate".  It used to air on WNBC (channel 4 in NY) on Sunday mornings at 11AM.  It dealt with religious issues and , yes, was multi-denominational.  The host was Dr. Russell Barber.  They had never had a musical act on before; usually priests or rabbis discussing what ever the hot topic of the day was.  They weren't quite sure how to shoot us or how it was going to work out.  By the way, we had no say about what songs were going to be taped for air.  "Jesus is a Friend of Mine"  was selected by Dr. Barber because it was different.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F05EEDB1438F93BA15750C0A963948260

Um, so he dug up the real name of a late eighties religious affairs program where the host is already dead vOv  The host is seen, but muted while the sound begins immediately after he supposedly introduces the band.

Look at the logo for Sonseed that he links to on the dougsploitation site, and which was supposedly the one that they were putting on t-shirts between the late 70s and 1983, when they broke up.  Despite the fact that this would undoubtedly have had to be scanned, zooming in gives some obvious compression artifacts, and absolutely perfect white away from the lettering.

The supposed poster for the show struck me as a bit suspicious, too, after looking at the detailing around the top and bottom of the lettering compared to the rest of the poster, which had obvious off-vertical artifacts on it. The lettering, however, had absolutely perfect horizontal lines, top and bottom.  As in, every single pixel was perfect on the horizontal plane of the log, top and bottom.  No other image with the lettering existed outside of the dougsploitation site.  Looking around, I found the picture which the wording had been added to.  The white lettering against a white background also looked like nothing a professional designer would do, while the style was about seven or eight years out.

The program was a serious magazine discussion of religious affairs, which in the last year that Sonseed supposedly existed (1983) booked "Mother Teresa, Bishop Tutu and His Holiness, the Dalai Lama".  The idea that they were booking a puppet-show called "Punch and Judaism" doesn't hang together.

The only reference to Sonseed that I can find outside of the dougsploitation site and references to it and the youtube posting is their album for sale at a site http://vinylrehab2.home.mindspring.com/gospel_record_albums.html.  When I found this, I was kinda surprised.  It looked genuine.  But the last updated date on that page was, suspiciously, within a day of its discovery by none other than... the dougsploitation site: http://dougsploitation.blogspot.com/2008/08/more-about-sonseed.html  Depending on server timestamps it may even be the same day.

And so on.  The lead singer, Sal Polichetti, appears right now linked with sonseed in one link on the web, the dougsploitsation site (this will change as google updates links to it).  Not unbelievable for someone in a televised, widely-touring band with an album release, but not hugely likely either (I'll spare you the detailed explanation, but I can tell you that even obscure UK Christian pop acts of the late 1960s get a few mentions, especially if they had albums, which are quite collectable in some cases).

So I'm pretty convinced that it's dougsploitation getting traffic through self-referential links.  And it's working, too.  With the internet, peoples' critical faculties are dulled.  I mean, look at the people who believe the (hilarious) web guy/sales guy thing posted above is real, despite the fact that the writer even appended his name at the end?

Edit: I believe the stuff about "Sal Polichetti" being an actor.  I suspect that sticking all that stuff in the interview (none of which relates to "Sonseed", including any references to him on the web) was our Doug being a bit pre-emptive.

Second Edit: The keyboards player in that video isn't even pretending to mime, let alone actually playing.  She is actually playing a completely different chord sequence in the reverse of the direction she would play it.  While she may have been intended to be miming, it would be unusual for an actual keyboards player to play a falling chord sequence when miming to a song she normally plays with a rising (I-IV-V) one.

[justdave]

[bhodi]

Just a couple of guys on skateboards. (Skip to 2:30)