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Every time I watch Ski Jumpers I get goose bumps. I have seen some of their ramps in real life and they are HUGE.
It takes a brave men to do this sport …
Click image for more bravery … or madness …
Every time I watch Ski Jumpers I get goose bumps. I have seen some of their ramps in real life and they are HUGE.
It takes a brave men to do this sport …
Can anyone please explain to me the pleasures of winter camping? The cold? The cold? Or the cold?
Sorry Keith I had to abuse you …
The first thing the West always sends in an Emergency to help are reporters. They will mobilize the Public at home. The Public then will pressure the Politicians “to do something” to help these poor people.
The Politicians only really care what happened in some shitty place somewhere because their voters do. The Politicians then pledge to send some help now and loads of money later (which usually never arrives).
Then the Reporters will report back and show nice images about the help coming from the Country they are representing. This makes the Public at home feel good and generous about themselves for being such nice people.
The West loves Poverty Porn: we love watching starving children while having Dinner. We also love the Pop Concerts triggered by Poverty Porn.
Yes, Nerds can make music … all they needs is some gadgets to get rappin’. Brett Domino and his crew are brilliant. Make sure to visit his website or his YouTube channel.
Uh, all this nerdy excitement and brilliance makes me giggle like a little girl!
Warning: This video might be unsuitable for people who still believe in the good of human nature.
Actually I am doing this all the time in my cellar with my "Hello Kitty" collectables, but please don’t tell anyone …
PS: You can’t "unsee" this video, it will be stuck in your mind forever.
Just go and watch the Battle For Milkquarious. If you are not killed by laughter, the sheer brilliance of it’s cheesiness will end your life or your sanity.
Enjoy!
New York Times: How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
The article above confirms my personal observations: it’s not always an advantage to think "straight" or be normal.
Paradoxes and "weird stuff" are good for your mind. It helps to brain to find new approaches and brings inspiration.
So crazy humour is as good as zen koans or mad art to get you "thinking" in new ways. Our minds need to be rattles once in a while to get out of it’s usually patterns and look for new ones …
Honestly, I often wonder how kids survive that mixture of high fructose sweets and this kind of TV?!
No surprise that kids are all mental and hysterical these days. How can you be a calm and centred person after watching this kind of stuff for years?
I bought my first Lebkuchen in early September – so the Silly Season officially started in late summer this year.
Have you bought your Christmas presents yet?
Be a good consumer and shop for Jesus!
It would be great to have spiritual gurus guiding us to the afterlife. Too bad none of them have been there themselves … so they are all fake!
BBC News: Gaddafi want a Security Council Reform
Now this is how you say some obvious truths and combine it with great theatrics.
I agree that the UN Security Council is crap: it basically is a relic from WWII, it is neither fair, nor does it reflect the current global power situation. It’s just a a political instrument for the US, Russia, China and the Brits to play their global games. Yes, I know that the French are also part of it, but they don’t really play on a global scale anymore.
But a tyrant asking to reform an international institution is a great act of hypocrisy. He hardly runs his country on a fair and balanced basis …
Update: short video of Gaddafi
Official site: www.themenwhostareatgoatsmovie.com
The movie features a great cast of many of my favourite actors. It is based on the book with the same name.
The military is always eager to find the ultimate weapon, but I think this is the first movie that perfectly illustrate the madness behind it – combined with our current mad ideas of esoteric and spirituality.
This amazing design is from Verner Panton and one of his Environments (check the page for this design and search for the video link). He designed this 1970 for a furniture fair in Cologne titled "How will we be living tomorrow".
So funny how all that futuristic concept art from the 1960’s and 1970’s all got it so wrong – except for Mr Kubrick’s amazing movie "2001". His conservative and dry Bauhaus-like vision prevailed.
Still I like the design above. Looks groovy and comfy, should be a great hit in a nightclub or chill out area. No drugs needed, just some nice ambient music and a few drinks to drift off …
Just watching this hurts … a lot! Wanna see some closeups? Click here! Wanna know what this madness is all about? Click here! And you can even visit the local website with loads of images here …
I love the Brits for their weird traditions, but I also applaud them for still allowing such dangerous stuff. People should be able to kill themselves for the amusement of others …
Since a Black Person is President Gun sales have literally exploded in the USA.
The usual suspects (NRA, Fox News, Right Wing Nuts, etc.) are afraid that the Negro might take away their guns or they might be another ban on sales of Assault guns (you know those toys which the free citizens of Iraq use to kill each other).
Anyone how Obama was chastised for saying that some people just cling to their Guns & Religion? That’s exactly happening right now.
That is pure satire …
These people are cowards: they can’t face Democracy without a Gun. It’s pure paranoia, not the true involvement of active citizens in the Democratic process. Instead of being well informed and political active they rather trust in violence instead of votes.
Their mindset is stuck somewhere around 1775.
Whipping yourself into a bloody pulp or even getting nailed to the cross doesn’t get any closer to any God. It just shows that you are willing to trade pain for a nice spot in Heaven.
Consumerism sometimes produces strange products, I don’t see a large market for this thing here in Europe.
It is amazing how much money kids and overgrown gamers spend for just killing each. This headset monstrosity is a mixture between a helmet and stereo system. How much electronics do you need to blow a loud "boooooom" into a 14 year old brain?
And this thing adds to the already huge energy bill of gaming systems as well: the overpowered processor, incredibly power hungry graphic card(s) and cooling systems.
Madness.
Why don’t you try beating each other with sticks? That much more exciting and at least you get some exercise?!
Click image for a bigger Schmusefest.
German women went absolutely bonkers over the Führer. They fainted, screamed and moistened when he was around or when he spoke.
Hitler was a rockstar in his "better years" and women craved his attention.
Until his very end Hitler was single and had quite a following. But the Führer himself was neither very progressive nor charming to the Ladies.
Women voted in droves for Herrn Hitler.
Another war involving Israel and once again people all over the world and the intranet are taking sides.
And once again barrages of silly arguments fly through the air – missing reality by a mile and only damaging egos …
BBC News: Iceland: Britain’s unlikely new enemy
The current financial crises sparks the most ridicules situations: under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act of 2001 the British Government has seized Icelandic assets in the UK.
You can call the lovely people from Iceland many things, but terrorists?
The Icelanders are not amused (see article above).
It once again proves that governments are only to willing to twist any law and regulation to suit their agenda.
Confusion seems to be a pretty natural state of mind for most people. Isn’t it great that our own mind can confuse itself?
But let’s look at the “confusion” from another perspective: Why does our mind (therefore you yourself) decide to confuse itself instead of operating in clarity and good spirit?
Unless the outside “stresses” us to act – there is no need to cloud our minds ourselves.
So why do we choose to fuck ourselves up?
Is it just a simple excuse not to get things done? Do we love to be drama queens? Are we avoiding to face the real problems and make up neurotic small ones to keep us from the real ones?
Yes, this is not going to John McCains VP, but your next president.
Since America is so much in love with old white males ruling the country – Muslim change from Kenia has to wait.
Mr McCain might be a tough guy, but he is 72 years old the job of being president will kill him sooner or later.
So my dear Americans your country will be run by a superbreeder and Über-mother that has even less experience than Obama.
But don’t despair: she is a fine Christian and Creationist.
Isn’t that what your country is looking for in a good President?
Yesterday’s wars are today’s football games. Nationalism and passion boils over when football teams battle for the national pride. Although I don’t like football very much I prefer this form of nationalism over wars and other bloody conflicts.
Today is a tragedy in the making: either Germany or Austria will be kicked out of the tournament. In both cases a national disaster.
Since neither nation likes each other very much a war of words already started last week when it was clear that the German team was in deep trouble after it’s shitty game against Croatia.
Now the mighty German Fußball Nation has to win against tiny Austria – which has been not bad so far in this tournament.
Personally: I don’t care! May the best team win – although I would love to see Austria win, which would result in the bigger tragedy. I think that would be much more entertaining …
So far I think Oranje is the best team – they have played the best games so far and played the most convincing football.
I think before watching any fundamental (Christian) preacher or politician one should always watch this very video.
Many people always say they know what God or Jesus wants from them or us. But what God wanted in the old testament is pretty different from what Jesus and his Daddy later propagated in the new one.
So maybe now 2000 years later there might be some new additions as well?
Yeah, I know it’s an American thing to do this. Yeah, I know it’s awkward for a president to do this. Yeah, I know that he still hasn’t visited a single funeral of a fallen American Soldier – but hey – at least he gave up Golf to show solidarity with the families who lost someone in the war …
No, I am not kidding.
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The dream of the Jetpack is an old one – just strap enough power to a human’s back and he will fly. Yves Rossy – a longtime pilot and madman – decided to take the dream into the 21st century and built his own cool jetpack.
He sacred a lot of cows, when he screamed through the Swiss alps.
He might be a great dreamer on one side – but I like his pacifist approach on the other. The military asked him to deliver a prototype – which he promptly refused. It’s made for fun only.
Good man!
Getting rid of some extra hair doesn’t make you anymore attractive or a better person. I am especially looking at you "shaving mad" Americans.
I always have loved London – what a great city. When London reelected “Red Ken” as it’s Major I was thrilled. But after eight years Londoners wanted to kick Gordon Brown for his miserable job and kicked out good old Ken and elected the weird ‘Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’ instead. Oh, the tragedy …
Boris has been more on television in game shows in actually running any tiny local anything so far. Even George W. Bush had more experience running ’something’ than Boris. His political view are terrible – when he presented the TV documentary The Dream of Rome his remarks and historical conclusion were way of the scale.
He is an old school populist born in the wrong century. He would have loved living during the 17th or 18th century – the heydays of the British Empire. But – dear Boris – these days are long gone …
Donald Rumsfeld and his former Boss George W. Bush are the worst public speakers ever. The must me either related or suffer from the same disease. The BBC has some of the greatest moments from Rumsfeld’s war press conferences in one painful and agonizing clip. Enjoy!
Just because you are the only white male around doesn’t mean you automatically become the King of everyone and get the girl.
What’s Chinese for “fucking too much snow, because we wrecked the environment with our dirty factories”?
We all have to jump into dark holes and make a transit into a new and foreign world in our lifes. New places, people and social platforms might feel alien or even mad to us – but part of the human experience is to learn new ‘games’, socialize and comply to group consensus.
But no matter were you travel to and whatever games you have to comply to – you should keep your inner world and not let other people’s madness infect you.
I applaud the current writer’s strike in the US. The creative people should be paid for their stuff! But I don’t think I can cope for much longer without Stephen, John, Dr. House, Boston Legal …
But especially American political satire is needed these days with all the weird presidential election stuff going on. Bring some insanity back to explain all the political madness going on …
Yesterday I spent almost the whole day to sort out my computer box. I used to work as a system administrator for some time, so there are plenty of digital ‘leftovers’: adapters, cables, chargers, batteries, converters, transformers, even more cables and hubs of all sorts.
It is precious high tech trash. Some of these cables and especially adapters once cost a huge amount of money. I found one old Mac PowerBook to SCSI cable that once cost over €100. Now it’s simply high tech trash.
But it’s mostly poisonous trash. Some countries have laws against disposing it all as usual. Most cables and plugs contain precious metals – so it should be recycled.
But most of all: these cables and plugs should be designed to be more universal.
The USB plug and cable system for example was meant to be universal – just as the name says. But already USB is no longer just one plug but four different sizes. Well done computer industry!
And why can we have ONE charger for all those small gadgets like cell phones, cameras and mp3 players?
When you join this circus called a business career make sure you are ahead of everyone racing the circle.
Someone has to be the winner … maybe?
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It is amazing how much Kitsch animations like that are on the web. I can understand when a little girl likes such crap, but when so called grown up woman indulges in such little dream worlds it becomes a case for a therapist.
Still waiting for your knight in shining armor too?
With the Web and eMail revolution our life’s got suddenly flooded with bizarre, cute or funny pictures. Then we added broadband DSL a few years later and we got even more picture and additionally videos.
Weird and bizarre stuff was before that time pushed into the funny section of your newspaper or made it sometimes on the TV news when nothing else was important.
Today we seem flooded and addicted to the bizarre and weird moments on this planet. The more bizarre the better. YouTube and many image galleries are monuments to the stupidity and addiction of humanity to weird stuff.
I think we like to watch extreme stuff other do (to themselves) to reassure ourselves what is normal and that we ourselves are normal. Each bizarre image or video is a marker on the scale of human madness – and we constantly check where we stand on that range of weirdness.
So it all basically boils down to checking your own social conformity and some amusement. Would you do that? Did you laugh about that? No? Yes? Check your own weirdo factor …
The Japanese have a very weird TV shows, but this one drove me mad with laughter: Human Tetris, Part 2 and Part 3. Enjoy!
Thanks to Edosan for another mad moment in my life.