Awesome Video Of The Day
Pen Spinning!
I’m not usually into internet videos of people getting hurt, but this one transcends the run-of-the-mill, poor-bastard-gets-hit-by-a-bus genre.
He starts off solid. Cocky even, like he’s some sort of Bruce Lee of pen flipping. He adjust the camera, starts doing some of his awesome moves, then BOOM - the light explodes. He freaks out, and that’s satisfying enough, but it gets better. So much better.
I feel bad laughing at the guy but someone needed to put him in his place, and that someone turned out to be an electrical current. Sure, he may have been seriously injured, but you know what? If I got electrocuted and made a noise like that, I wouldn’t be mad if everyone laughed. Provided I still possessed the necessary motor skills, I might even laugh along. If I’m already on the ground convulsing, SOMEONE might as well get a chuckle out of it.
If you agree with the above statements, congratulations: You’ve just rationalized laughing at someone else’s misfortunes!
Pointless Blog Roundup
Most Pointless Blog of the Week: Screw Asylum
I don’t even know what to say about Screw Asylum. It’s either the dumbest thing ever or the most brilliant thing ever. It makes me want to throw my laptop out the window and see the entire internet at the same time. Somehow, a blog about screws has managed to encapsulate everything that’s wrong with blogging and everything that’s wonderful about it simultaneously.
Whether you’re looking at the individual posts (screws, screws and more screws) or the links section (including links to a google image search for “screws” and the Wikipedia entry for “screw”), there isn’t much to be found on Screw Asylum that doesn’t relate to… well… screws. What to make of that? Was it created by a genuine screw fanatic, or is this some Kafkaesque meta-comment on the navel-gazing nature of blogging? You won’t find an answer on Screw Asylum. All you’ll find is screws, screws, and MORE FUCKING SCREWS.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter. Whether it’s screws, or pencils, or comic book panels of people getting hit in the nuts, the internet is - for better or worse - jam-packed with millions of websites dedicated to things that millions of other people don’t give a shit about.
And that, my friends, is the beauty of it. Either that or it’s the reason we should all unplug our computers and go out for a nice walk.
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November 12th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Strange guy… He may be a Kazakh… He talks without accent albeit like a cartoon character…
November 12th, 2007 at 9:00 am
I guess he does look white, but all of his mannerisms are distinctly hipster asian.
November 12th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Now for some linguistic enlightenment!
“БЛЯ! Ё МОЁ!” may sound totally Scandinavian but in fact it means “Shit! Holy fuck!” in Russian. Then he says “Look! It got stuck there!” before you know what happens…
Now you know who are the most skillfull, inquisitive and fearless out there!
And he talks very funny… It seems he’s addressing a kid… Or another 23 YO psycho…
November 11th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
I agree 100% with what you said about the ‘net’, but only 50% of the time.
November 11th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Glenn, what makes you think he’s Asian? He doesn’t look Asian, he looks Caucasian. And the language he’s speaking sounds more Austrian, or Scandinavian than any Asian language.
November 10th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
well if you look closely (i am contradicting myself from earlier) he doesnt stick his finger in the socket. the pen is sticking out of the socket, and he tries to grab it and gets aui aughghghghg’ed.
November 10th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
1. I think the reason he was electrocuted was because he touched the metal lamp with his other hand, creating a circuit.
2. My 5 yr old son believes that what the dude screams out is, “I AM ZAPPED!” Actually, that sounds right.
November 10th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
I call Shenanigans.
November 10th, 2007 at 10:56 am
aui auwaghghghgh.
he sucks at flipping pens. rule #1 in pen-flipping: dont stick your finger in open light sockets.
November 10th, 2007 at 12:57 am
I think the noise is what makes the whole video
November 9th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
If a child would have done it, I would have screamed in horror. A mentally challenged adult? I would have wept. A cocky asian dude? As Eddie Murphy would say, I giggle my motherfucking ass off.
November 9th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Merely laughing at the guy was humane. If we can’t laugh at idiots putting their fingers in light sockets and finding god in a stream of alternating current, well, dammit, the terrorists have already won! And seeing cars slide along icy streets, plowing into one another and occasional pedestrians? The epitome of physical comedy. Fuck it, if my 90 year old neighbor were to fall and break her hip in front of me I’d probably spew snot trying not to laugh, I’m that sick.