Backroom Video Thread

[Lemur]

Ronald Reagan versus James Dean: Fight!

Too bad I can't embed this sucker.

[Ronin]

Faux News Pundit tries to start a battle of wits with Jon Stewart....

unfortunately he's un-armed.

Jon Stewart Responds to Bernie Goldberg in song

[naut]

Uh. This is from a children's movie?

[InsaneApache]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSow...layer_embedded class

[Crazed Rabbit]

An HD, 500fps slow motion video of the 1969 launch of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket:

http://vimeo.com/4366695?hd=1

CR

[Fragony]

OUT OF MY WAY CITIZEN http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9369...nt_plebs_.html

[Fragony]

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/4323...rwijderen.html

Damn straight. +1.01

[InsaneApache]

Good evening ossifer......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N01...eature=related

[Crazed Rabbit]

A follow up to the Restore Stephen Baldwin video, we have the infinitely more awesome restore Joss Whedon video:
(SPOIL'd because of swearing)
(Also because it has Serenity spoilers!)

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

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[Fragony]

lol@Sweden http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/nyh...icle7114073.ab

[Louis VI the Fat]

lol@Sweden http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/nyh...icle7114073.ab

Gives us some background information for the Swedish-challenged!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Vi...versity_attack

Brownshirts, bookburners, etc.

[Fragony]

GOGOGO http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9451...ernisbaan.html

[Crazed Rabbit]

An awesome video (as in awe-inspiring), showing a hillside in Italy slide down like an avalanche of snow:


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[Louis VI the Fat]

Awesome, CR!


Here's ten seconds of your time you won't regret, some buzzer-beater:

[Fragony]

One more for the unlikely friendship files http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9503.../bizar_1_.html

[Crazed Rabbit]

Republican Mark Souder, family values man (you know where this is going, don't you?) and drug warrior extraordinaire*, resigns after having an affair with his staffer.

Said staffer can be seen here interviewing the congressman about how abstinence programs are the best:


*

Mary O’Grady argues that we will never eradicate drug use. One wonders what other vices Ms. O’Grady proposes we surrender to. Child abuse? Spousal abuse? Rape? We may never eradicate any of these crimes either, but that doesn’t mean that we simply give up on them.
Not coincidentally, by the way, all of those crimes, and many others, are frequently linked to drug and alcohol abuse. It’s a tired old canard that drug abuse is a victimless crime.

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[InsaneApache]

[Louis VI the Fat]

[Fragony]

MUHA http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9587...icio_faal.html

[Crazed Rabbit]

The purpose of film - to transport our minds to a different time or place - is distilled perfectly to its purest essence in this brief video from a 1906 San Francisco cable car;




The same trip, circa 2005.

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[Lemur]

Republican Mark Souder, family values man (you know where this is going, don't you?) and drug warrior extraordinaire*, resigns after having an affair with his staffer.

Yeah, that whole "family values" thing never ends well, at least not when it's flown as a political flag.

As for their affair, what can I say? I'd do them both. He's got that pudgy-with-glasses look that I find irresistable, and she's got a straight-laced thing going on.

[Fragony]

ROFL no dutch required http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9596...t_bijlmer.html

Dude you forgot the watermelon and ginger-beer how un-street

edit dangit it's a joke and I fell for it

[Crazed Rabbit]

Apparently there was quite a hail storm in Oklahoma City recently, complete with golf ball sized hail:


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[Fragony]

eureka... http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9773...e_is_slim.html

amazingly clever

ROFL http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9807...aan_prank.html

[Lemur]

I don't know a lot about scuba or diving, but shouldn't this sort of thing be, I dunno, physically impossible? More than six hundred feet down on a single breath? Isn't there a phenomenon called the bends? I thought once you got more than two hundred feet down you had to worry about nitrogen bubbles forming your blood and agonizing, crippling pain. Can someone explain to me how this guy does this and lives?

[Fragony]

wth??????? Nope I can't explain that but that was awesome.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Can someone explain to me how this guy does this and lives?

Guillaume Néry has learned his leet skillz at our secret Mediterranean underwater base off the coast of Nice, which was build in the 1960's by Jacques Cousteau. Here octosquids and French special ops have been exchanging techniques and genes, to breed an elite army to take over the world in 2012.


Meanwhile at the Atlantic coast, in our base near Nantes, we are developing high-tech equipment to further harness the power of the squid:

[Gregoshi]

I don't know a lot about scuba or diving, but shouldn't this sort of thing be, I dunno, physically impossible? More than six hundred feet down on a single breath? Isn't there a phenomenon called the bends? I thought once you got more than two hundred feet down you had to worry about nitrogen bubbles forming your blood and agonizing, crippling pain. Can someone explain to me how this guy does this and lives?

Here is an article about the video.

[InsaneApache]

From memory you only get the bends if you inhale compressed gases. If you hold your breath then the lungs and the air in them get compressed but when you return to the surface the pressure equalizes. I might be wrong but that's what I understand.

[Hosakawa Tito]

I believe free divers are also suceptable to the bends. It depends on the speed of one's ascent and time at depth.

Becoming susceptible to the bends is a function of depth and time at depth. The deeper you go, the less time it takes for your blood to get 'saturated' with nitrogen (your blood has dissolved as much nitrogen as it can hold at that depth). Once your blood has achieved saturation, you must rise slowly, often stopping for periods of time at various depths (decompression stops) to allow that gas to come out of solution in a controlled manner through your lungs. If you fail to do so, the nitrogen can come out of solution IN your bloodstream which causes 'the bends'.

It's kinda like shaking a soda bottle. Take off the cap quickly and it bubbles over. Take off the cap slowly allows the bubbles to dissipate and not boil over.