#7 Oh - I thought Snotr was what its members wanted to discuss. Thanks for the correction.

#8 - while we don't have malaria in Europe (well, very marginally in E. Europe), we do have the spread of the Asian tiger mosquito to consider. This lovely little insect transmits West Nile fever, dengue fever, Chikungunya disease and yellow fever, among other diseases. It's reached the South of France already and is adapting to the cooler European climate. And it's spreading....

I'm not sure I made my point very well in comment #2. Michael Jackson was one of the people who dominated the entertainment industry when he was alive, and he certainly wasn't a talentless idiot. "Ukelele James" didn't write "Billie Jean", Michael Jackson did. He plays it well, but he is never going to be able to fill a stadium with that performance in the way that MJ did.

Impressive! Now rearrange them to make Batman!

#20 Yes. It's very small.

For the rest of us there is Microsoft's Flight Simulator. With that you can do stuff that commercial and even military pilots can only dream of.

Nice driving! Too late to save the boat, I think, but at least it put a stop to that pollution.

No affiliation #26, I knew Intel had built the plant but I needed to Google up a reference to support it.

I'm blushing! Thanks very much!

#1 I'm guessing that he's embarrassed he doesn't have one of those booming confident voices that we all know so well from US documentaries and TV News etc. Which would be a shame, because you get tired of always hearing that same type of voice.

I like that they make the most of the situation and don't spend all their time indoors moaning about the cold.

Very informative. But I think in 10 minutes I will be as clueless as before.

That's flippin' amazing! I never thought a wild fox could be trained like that. Lovely looking animal too.

#1 Is that you, boy?

#8 We had another one a while back - http://www.snotr.com/video/9903

They were lemon sharks, which suggests a nice recipe to me.

I'll ignore the fact that it's an ad for YouTube. The visuals were great.

Low-res TV encoded as HD, 309.5MB = Fail.

Apart from that those were hardly the "best news bloopers" of the year, most of them were US-based weather reports. Surely other English-speaking countries have had their fair share of bloopers too?

Putting on windscreen wipers seemed like a waste of time.

5:17 "Ha, ha! It's so much fun, I can't stop doing it!"

dammit #12, I was going to downrate that comment until I saw the second part of it

Anyone who can laugh at another human being getting seriously injured has already lost a part of their humanity.

Maybe he did intend to claim insurance for an accident that never happened. If so he was incredibly incompetent - he didn't try to collide with a vehicle as some others have done. But even if he did intend to defraud, there are courts to deal with that. And even then, the reasons WHY would still be a mystery to anyone watching this video. What if he was utterly destitute and this was the only idea he could come up with to get some money? None of us knows, that's why courts are a better place to decide culpability and punishment. Vigilante justice is almost always unjust.

Sorry to go on about this. I'm shocked to see another human being injured like that, and disappointed to see cowardly website surfers enjoying it.

I'll add that the same benefit of the doubt extends to the motorist. It's not apparent that he intentionally ran over the guy. My comments are directed at people who have replied to this thread.

#15 You don't know why he lay down. He could be drunk, about to faint, or having a heart attack. He could be mentally incompetent. He could be suicidal.

In NO situation would it be right to drive over him. None whatsoever.

That is fucking outrageous. My Dad was asked, when taking his driving test "When does a pedestrian have right of way over a motorist?" And he answered correctly "Always. It's a licence to drive, not a licence to kill."

I had expected it to turn solid and hit the ground with a thud. It turns into ice crystals instead. Interesting.

Great link, #8

#9 I'd recommend you have some fries ready just in case.

#3 I think the "ball" got lost under the couch.

LOL - a bit extreme, but then so are some parking wardens.

Give some people a uniform and they think they're Hitler.

Aw man! That is the essence of cuteness.

#18 http://i.imgur.com/wJKSm.jpg

It was a mistake to train him with doughnuts before moving on to fruit.

At the start, when I saw that it was a made in Russia dashcam video, I prepared myself for more hilarity on Russia's roads. But I was sickened when the lorry load turned out to be living animals.

I think #8 is right, invisible thread (possibly synchronised with the music) is what's startling the cat. You can see the dude's feet under the table at 1:15.

Legalise drugs. Reclassify drugs rationally based on empirical data. Put Class A drugs under government supervision so that harder drug users come within the system and get access to medical and psychological care. Eliminate the criminality and use the money saved on police work to build better inner city communities and provide more outlets for young people's energies.

Seeing how little he uses it, the temporary loss of blood to Clarkson's brain was never going to make much of a difference to him.

In other countries: don't drink and drive.
In Russia: don't drink OR drive.

The guy who did it has walked into a police station with a copy of the video. He says the video is faked! What a nutjob.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/ken-olsen-victim-of-road-rage-attack-where-car-is-rammed-seven-times-run-off-road-and-man-punches-windscreen/story-fnat79vb-1226540320984

Is that why they call it a "lighter"?

@ #2 & #3 She's in shock, poor thing.

That is such a brilliant idea, the next greatest thing after the wind-up radio.

You can be sure he wasn't singing before, during, or after that incident.

Me too #4 - I find it difficult to watch movies about divers running out of oxygen underwater for the same reason. By the time I'm nearly blue in the face I remember that it's only a movie and I can start breathing again.

Any info on this? Like where and when it happened? I'd like to know what happened to that person with the umbrella.

Like a boss.

#6 Well we are planning to launch a mission to the sun. We'll go at night to avoid the heat.

#11 and #12 I don't know how you would manage to compile a top 10 of survival stories without including many of the best known ones (i.e. the ones you'd find in a Google search). The source of each story is given on the video. I recognize about half of them, the others look worth researching.

What's the deal with the "Confidential" stamp on the video?

My eyes are watering from laughing at this one!

What an incredible sprinter. He was almost last at the changeover and 20 metres behind the leader.

Ho hum. A Google ad.

If a droplet the size of Lincoln's eye on a penny is enough to kill you, then those huge containers must have enough for every man, woman and child on the planet.

I've watched this so many times now. The sustained level of wit is just awesome to watch. His (Robert Smigel's) ad libbing is remarkably good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smigel

#10 Fruit flies are very modest. You never hear them bragging about their exploits in space, do you?

This might be a comedy sketch, but if it isn't then you have to admire eccentrics and their off-the-wall ideas. A neighbour like this might be a pain in the a** at times but think of the stories you can tell your friends and grandchildren.

Which reports, #8 ? There's not enough info with the video to see that it's a basking shark. The only clue for me is the Irish accents of the ppl on the boat, but to be fair those can be heard in abundance in Oz these days.

Love this guy and his enthusiasm. "You don't need to get all outer spacey to have fun with your ashes".

#4 They pushed one guy out of the boat and he just managed to get back into the boat before a shark got him.

Gotta say he took it very well. Hope he got his revenge later.

I think these guys deserve a visit from Triumph: http://www.snotr.com/video/7467/Triumph_The_Insult_Comic_Dog_-_Star_Wars

I'm expecting this "sport" to feature in forthcoming fail compilations. It looks like a small mistake will lead to a large fall.

Is it called Christmas Island because of the scent o' claws?

He's smarter than he looks. Let's face it - he's gotta be!

It was either the lake of fire or visit his wife's mother's. He chose the easier option.

He plays much better after a few screwdrivers.

Goodness gracious! Little balls of fire!

The video description is wrong - it should say *impossible* not to smile.

Imagine the fun you could have if you could do that!

Another answer to #4: https://xkcd.com/1074/

What a privilege to be alive at this time to see the Earth from space and to feel yourself at the cusp of a huge leap in human evolution and understanding.

Fabulous video. To anyone wondering whether it's worth waiting for 433MB I can tell you it most certainly is. Watch it full screen for maximum impact.

This guy is exceptionally good. Even on stop-start playback I couldn't see how he did the things he did.

Aha! Watch the pink glow on his hand at 2:12. Those cards are different colours on each side and he's probably using a bicycle deck so he can manage 4 possible card faces. Plus he keeps putting one hand behind his back!

Maybe his name should be Yu Jo Kin?

Who's a clever boy then?

If only I had watched this video a few years earlier... I knew the *theory* but I screwed up on the application and had my very own hand-held soda fountain.

Tap the sides, tap the sides!

#9 No it's not. The vast majority of people everywhere are just like you and me. And we're not evil are we? The evil people are that very small group who create divisions between people and stir up wars, and use those situations for their personal gain. They know how to manipulate us via our fear and greed, and they've been doing that since the dawn of humanity.

How nice for a change: a horizontal fireworks display.

The guys were good at what they did, but I think the judging panel was heavily influenced by the crowd behind them. The bottom line, in a talent contest, is how many people would pay to watch them or buy a DVD of their performances?

Ever feel you walked into the wrong room? I haven't a clue what all this is about, but fun to watch anyway.

Nicely done. He really captured the mannerisms of a live dog.

Oct 23rd, 2011
Antoine Montant dies base jumping
http://justacro.com/news/111023/antoine-montant-dies-base-jumping

I think the girl is sad because she has 40% of the DNA of a chicken.

This is from the same show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3YBLZMl03I

#11 Really?? Computers can do that??

Holy shit. What a wacko.

I'd have enjoyed this more without the voices of the people filming.

That's a horrible sight. I've been up close to those trees, they are majestic.

This is poetry in motion. But I wouldn't think any of these guys less cool if they wore a helmet.

#8 You'll probably like this then: http://www.explosm.net/comics/2637/

What evil bastards invented the BMX bike and the skateboard? Were they out-of-work surgeons?

#15 There are two types of knowledge, only one of which is considered valid by science. Empirical knowledge can be shared but experience cannot. Some "religious" people fail to understand this latter point and try to prove God's existence when in fact no proof is capable of being transmitted.

Speaking as an ex-atheist, who rejected religion for probably many of the same reasons as you, my understanding was changed by Aldous Huxley's book "The Perennial Philosophy". He compared the sayings of the mystics of the great world religions and showed that they were talking about the same reality, common to all paths. The terminology, rituals etc of the different religions are means to the same end, which is direct knowledge of Reality. The different manifestations of religion relate to the needs of the time, people and place that they were revealed.

"All religions, as theologians - and their opponents - understand the word, is something other than what it is assumed to be.

Religion is a vehicle. Its expression, rituals, moral and other teachings are designed to cause certain elevating effects, at a certain time, upon certain communities.

Because of the difficulty of maintaining the science of man, religion was instituted as a means of approaching truth. The means always became, for the shallow, the end, and the vehicle became the idol.

Only the man of wisdom, not the man of faith or intellect, can cause the vehicle to move again."

- Shaykh Ala'uddin al-Bukhari al-Attar

Loved the way the two girls stuck their heads out of the rear window whenever they sang their parts!

#11 There's a story told by the Sufis. A man was praying to God when he noticed sick, and crippled, and poor people. He prayed "O God, how can a loving creator see such things and do nothing about them?". The answer came back "I did do something. I made you."

That was a very odd confrontation. I couldn't understand why the guy got angry with someone who had only walked into the room. And for all his bluster and aggression, he walked out like a frightened sheep at the end.

My favourite was right at the start at 0:21

I want to know: does Neil deGrasse Tyson have a porpoise?

Indeed #12. By its very nature, the interconnectedness of the modern world forces us to cooperate: no one person is capable of doing very much by him/herself. Take any object in your house and ask yourself if you could make that from scratch. Chances are you can't.

Quite brilliant. Another proof that the people who preceded us weren't idiots and knew a lot more than we give them credit for.

Helping other people in order to get something back is commerce, not charity.

And Brits say Germans have no sense of humour!

I almost backed out of watching this when I saw it was 571MB but very glad I didn't. Absolutely fascinating. I especially loved the way she jumped in and out of the hole at 15:00 - I imagine they have to be careful once they're back on Earth to take care around open manhole covers!

A very intense guy. He needs to lighten up a little.

This car not only violates rules of thermodynamics, but also aesthetics.

Even his eyes smile.

It takes courage to jump from a height as the first guy did, but it takes even more to allow someone to effectively drag you along with them, tethered or not.

Insanely good ball control skills.

I've just checked and apparently all 4 freeboarders in this video are still alive and still active in the sport.

#12 Number 3 on your list would be awesome if you won Wimbledon that way.

Good opportunity to take advantage of the confusion and sneak a peek at the answers of the students either side of you.

He was trying to reason with a sheep!

I'd like to have seen the reactions of the people when they were told it was a prank. I doubt they would have found it very funny.

The quality of the photography fully justified the 128MB for this vid.

Entertaining guy, but I tell door-to-door salesmen that I never buy stuff that way.

#14 - whoa! that's another crazy one. I still prefer the one in the video above. And when I say "prefer" I mean "it would take ten nightclub bouncers or the promise of hot babes for life to get me onto that thing!". But I'll happily watch and listen to others suffer on it.

Wild! More like fighter pilot training school than fairground ride.

Excellent link #10 - but you don't need to be shy about the URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

I didn't see anyone rushing to put any money on his plate.

That ended pretty well, looks like the idiot on the bike didn't get badly injured.

He has the head of a baby too, but I ain't saying that to his face!

If I could slow down the waves like that, I could probably surf too!

Incredible that the ants figured out they had to move infected ants away from the nest.

Very late answer to #23. If you have ants in the house, try sprinkling talcum powder where they are. They hate it and it's worked for me many times, it's much better than putting down poison bait which can contain some really nasty chemicals.

Great moves! But I can't listen to dubstep without thinking of this cartoon:
http://www.explosm.net/comics/2565/

#2 True, but knowing my luck it would go down my sleeve or into my shoe.

Liquid nitrogen is not something to mess with lightly. Even to have it splash on your skin could be nasty. Recently a girl had her stomach surgically removed after drinking it in a cocktail.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/08/teenager-stomach-liquid-nitrogen-cocktail

No cat burglar career for you!

I missed the other cards because I was using my other eye to read email.

Light entertainment.

Gotta feel sorry for the guy who got kicked unjustly.

U.S. gun porn.

Where was the element of surprise in this proposal? All we got was a performance for the camera.

They could have garnished it with that Scottish delicacy, the deep-fried Mars Bar in batter.

To think that all this is happening around us, and it's only very recently that we learned about it. I'd guess that we are merely scratching the surface of insect behaviour and that there are many more stunning discoveries to be made. There's a whole language of chemical signals to be decoded for a start.

Works better as a comedy record than as a safety video.

One alternative - not a nice one, admittedly - is to graze animals where mines are suspected.

Actually a better idea has just occurred to me: why not stampede all the contestants for those TV "talent" shows through the area and then audition the survivors?

#9 I agree with you that all drugs should be legalised. But as for Ian Anderson, just read the comment on that video by GTX1123:

"Ian Anderson never touched drugs - not once nor even got drunk. This is a well known fact. Unlike the Ed Sullivan show, there were certain shows back then where you were not allowed to play live. This was probably because the directors and producers were terrified of one disasterous performance which could cause a big loss in their ratings. OK, yeah whatever - he could have got a little closer to the mic - but this was typical of Ian's always entertaining, animated bawdy antics on stage. "

Also, this interview with him: http://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/ian_anderson_of_jethro_tull/

"I mean, out of all the bands, and all the people I’ve known, really, I’m probably the only person I know for sure never did what we popularly called “drugs” during all of that period. It was just something everybody did. And I didn’t really enjoy being around people who were doing drugs, so I just took myself often to read a book somewhere, and waited for it all to kind of evaporate from the rock and roll lifestyle."

Surprised the racer was still in his (or her?) pod after the double accident and hadn't either gotten out or rejoined the race.

You often see, in defence of cannabis, someone claiming that much of rock music came from its consumption. But some of the most productive musicians never smoked. That includes Frank Zappa (who also said it gave him a headache when he tried it) and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

My own experience, of 15 years' daily smoking, is that I had some amazing times that wouldn't have been possible without it. But in the end I regretted the amount of my time that it used up.

Use different colours for those wind vanes and you've got a giant kaleidoscope.

2:47 Does that robot look like it needs to use the bathroom?

#1 I'm sure they will recess them in production models.

Does the dog get invited to stag parties?

We live in three worlds at once: the familiar world of experience, the world at microscopic scale, and the world as a tiny piece of the cosmic jigsaw. Sadly we usually fail to notice two of those.

We're talking different names for the same thing.

"Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin, Putonghua, Guoyu and Modern Standard Mandarin, is a standardized variety of Chinese and the official language of the People's Republic of China[3] and the Republic of China (Taiwan), and is one of the four official languages of Singapore." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese

I'm beginning to worry about this guy.

#9 Wikipedia thinks otherwise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

Judging from the accuracy of the speech to English translation, the Chinese version is probably not good enough to risk on an important conversation.

5:37 "Take the text that comes from my voice input iii translation system.
It really happen to stop.
In the first instead.
We take english."

And this one...

6:24 "So now we're taking the things I'm not saying and we're converting them into chinese."

He didn't say the word "not" in that sentence so the translation is now the opposite of what he in fact said.

The idea looks good on paper. But over time buildings age: metals start to corrode, wind carries dust and plant seeds etc which will start to settle on the metallic vanes and interfere with the architect's pristine vision. I'd like to see the buildings in 50, or 100 years and see how well they withstand the test of time.

I'm reluctant to label a sport "sissy" unless I've played it first. I used to think cricket was a wimp's game until someone threw me a cricket ball. You can break a finger on one of those things if you're not careful!

I'm not a fan of American Football. (Or most American sports for that matter - they're much too stop-start for my liking, there's no flow to the game like in football* or rugby). But I'm pretty sure that all that padding is there for a good reason.

*football = soccer for US readers

I must show this to my sister. She complains when my brother-in-law steers with his knee.

Sorry Sizzlik, it gets my goat that whenever any scientific advance is made, someone pipes up with a comment like "what a waste of money!". Science is cheap and we ought to do more of it, and spend less money building more and more weapons and dreaming up new ways to kill each other; or bailing out rich bankers and their friends whenever they have a bad day at the casino.

Rant over. Thanks for listening.

Money spent on pets in the US (2008): $45.4bn
US Federal science budget (2009): $54.8bn

Construction cost of Large Hadron Collider: $4.75bn
Annual running costs of LHC: $5.5bn

US Defence budget (2012): $1,030bn

Sources:
http://www.dancingdogblog.com/2009/06/454-billion-spent-on-pets-top-5-categories-8-basic-annual-costs/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=money-for-science
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/07/05/how-much-does-it-cost-to-find-a-higgs-boson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States#Budget_breakdown_for_2012

You could attach a few baited hooks to the back and catch your evening meal on the way home from work.

Folks, this video is 6.4 megabytes and is way more entertaining than many I've seen that are 150MB+. Quality trumps quantity every time.

I doubt this prank would work if he was an old man in a mac.

The Voyager space probes are, in my opinion, one of mankind's greatest achievements ever. In terms of science they have probably delivered more bang for their buck than any other space mission. 35 years travelling to the stars, still doing useful science and still transmitting back to Earth, even though the signals we receive from them are a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a watt.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/

I thought this was really well done. It was almost as funny as Remy Gaillard's elevator pranks on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRefZf3gj74

I'd like to throw in a blue one and watch what happens.

Their clothes look weird because they are effectively wearing Faraday cages to protect themselves from the electricity. http://io9.com/faraday-cage/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

I love work. I could sit and watch it for hours.

Nice to see real craftsmanship isn't dead. Ikea, eat your heart out!

I'm a cynical old bastard, but this brought tears to my eyes.

Looks cool, scuba diving without any effort!

Imagine what we will be able to make from these new materials. In addition to their strengths as materials for use as fabrics etc some have interesting electrical properties. We may be able to make wearable electronic devices, even batteries and solar panels. How about a portable inflatable boat that could be carried in little more than the volume of the can of compressed gas needed to inflate it?

Well something has to explain the millions of YouTube video views for Justin Bieber!

There's an article at the BBC News site about this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20252212

A judge in Ohio has come up with an unusual punishment for a dangerous driver.

Shena Hardin will have to hold up a sign saying "only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus"

The Archive of Misheard Lyrics: http://www.kissthisguy.com/

What's this guy's name again?

That was really well done, but I can't listen to any airline safety talk without remembering George Carlin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DagVklB4VHQ (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjKciefHo38 (part 2)

Warning on unsuitable language for both of those. Further warning: you may hurt yourself laughing!

Beautiful animation. The music was perfect too.

The US comedienne Joan Rivers once said "If men are so smart, how come they put a little noose around their necks before going to work?". I stopped wearing ties there and then.

#9 read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_New_Zealand

Kiwi users have no choice on capped broadband.

#4 I can't speak for myself but I do know that some people are on monthly quotas with their ISPs, it's very common in Australia and New Zealand for example. So a video that's 126MB is a significant chunk of someone's quota, especially if there is no good reason why it's so large. This video is a simple animation, it could have been recoded to be much smaller with no loss of information or entertainment value.

On to the video itself: it's good to evaluate your own thinking every so often but we wouldn't get much done if we had to constantly examine our thought processes. In the example he gave, 99.99% of the time someone takes your parking space they have no valid reason and our reactions are probably correct.

#9 The furthest we have sent anything away from Earth is the Voyager 1 space probe. It has been travelling for a little over 35 years and has managed to go 18,300,000,000 kilometres at a current speed of 17.26 km/sec. At that rate it will take another 57,615 years to reach the expected distance of the nearest star to Earth (Ross 248, which in about 36,000 years' time should be about 3 light years away from us).

The idea of sending a probe to check out a planet and report back is just not realistic.

I'm with #8 on this: nanobots do not achieve any objective of spreading human life through the cosmos. We need better ideas and novel technology.

One thing is sure: the planet will eventually run out of luck and be hit by something from space. It makes sense to, at the very least, have inhabited another planet in our own solar system to increase our survival chances.

Bravo! This kid is exceptionally gifted.

I'm well aware of that #7. Clouds of sulphuric acid, extreme atmospheric pressure: it's not a welcoming environment.

But it still has more potential than Mars as a possible place to live. There are creatures on Earth that can survive the kind of extreme conditions seen on Venus. We have bacteria and even some multicellular creatures whose chemistry runs on sulphur and appear not to require oxygen. They can be found around deep sea volcanic vents, operating at temperatures and pressures that would kill most other creatures.

I reckon we have, or will soon have, the technology to genetically modify some of those to not only survive in Venus, but to use them to transform the Venusian atmosphere into something resembling Earth's. The atmosphere is the key to making the planet habitable: if we can reduce the greenhouse effect and manufacture oxygen then we can eventually introduce other, similarly genetically-modified, organisms to further prepare the planet for life.

It's not going to be easy, and it's not going to be quick but I think it's our best way forward if we want to leave this planet and ensure our long term survival.

I think Mars is not an option for future human colonisation. Any base we might establish there would be very difficult to sustain.

Maybe a better option would be to find a way to terraform Venus, which has a denser atmosphere than Mars and Earth - a toxic atmosphere, but an atmosphere nevertheless. This might be achievable over centuries if we could find a way of sending genetically modified organisms into the Venusian atmosphere to convert the carbon dioxide there to oxygen and carbon. We already have some organisms on Earth that can survive at very high temperatures and pressures, so those could be candidates for some DNA insertions to effect the necessary functions.

With the right mixture of organisms we might be able to transform the entire planet into somewhere survivable. Venus is much closer to Earth in terms of size, and therefore surface gravity, than Mars. Our chances of finding, let alone reaching, a planet that is more suitable for Earth-based life forms anytime soon are close to zero so it's got to be worth a shot. At some stage we are going to have to start journeying to other planets to escape our dying star, so Venus would be a good candidate for us to learn some terraforming skills.

Now that we're all able to watch it....

I didn't know where this was going at the start. I thought we were about to get a dose of self-pity, or sport as an outlet for his anger, or else some horrible New-Agey airy-fairy crap which never rings true. Instead we got a realistic positive way forward for all of us, disabled or not. Respect, bro.

I never thought I'd feel empathy for a snake but this is distressing to watch.

What a wild ride! The adrenaline rush must be amazing.

This is a fan-only video. The one-liners make sense if you've seen the Mythbusters series, for those of us who haven't it's not so interesting. I won't downrate it out of respect for the fans though.

"The right attitude and one arm will beat the wrong attitude and two arms every time".

I love this series of videos. Often I feel smarter at the end of them, but not today!

Beautiful fish. I can understand why an angler would want to pit himself/herself against one of these.

This is a sport for the rich or the fanatic, it costs a lot of money to hire one of these boats. I'd guess that the cameras are all part of the charter service.

Sorry Mindtreat (#16), my previous comment should have been directed to Erazor (#15).

If you're right darkzangel (#25) then the title of this video should change from "Lucky Lada driver".

#16 he can't overtake the bus because of the double continuous white line. And I would say the reason the driver had to stay near the centre of the road was because the idiot in the Lada was not yielding road position on the right.

#6 the bulls aren't hurt during the bull run. They run bulls through the Southern French town I used to live in and the only casualties are guys who run with the bulls. When I say "with" I mean "in front of" and "away from".

What an idiot. Seems like he expected to be allowed in front of the video maker's car and didn't like being overtaken.

Incidentally disagree with #2 - you need to watch from about 00:10 to see the Lada make its appearance.

There must be something extra that can be done to make this safer. It's only a matter of time before an innocent motorist, cyclist or pedestrian gets injured from the debris. Stick a giant sign over the bridge saying "Very Low Bridge" or paint it a lurid colour, anything to make truck drivers sit up and take notice.

@ Natan_el_Tigre: LOL! But I thought they were more interested in helium?

Further proof of Frank Zappa's claim that stupidity is the only thing more plentiful than hydrogen in the universe.

Love it! Nice to see most folks can take a joke.

Kudos to the electrical and mechanical geniuses who design and make these.

The game forerunner, Grand Theftendo, was being developed in free time (see 1:58). Now it's a multi-million dollar industry. Just goes to show how far a good idea + hard work + good timing will take you.

This is what happens when you let pets drive.

Zebedee, there are three stages to life:

(1) I worry what other people might say about me.
(2) I don't care what other people say about me.
(3) I realise no-one was talking about me in the first place.

Anyone tattooing themselves to make a statement is demonstrating that they have moved beyond stage (1) and are now at stage (2). However, they'll find it difficult to retract their "statement" when they reach stage (3).

The car in front had already turned left, in front of the oncoming motorcyclist. That *should* have alerted the rider to pay a little more attention to the road ahead and to slow down.

Interesting stuff here: "Why do we behave so oddly in lifts?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19846214 which links to a longer article in The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all

The accidents I can understand. But why would someone deliberately take a hit to the family jewels as in 2:48?

Why so many negative votes for this video? The skill level here is incredible.

Beautiful animation. Very trippy from 12:00 onwards. Hope these animators go on to bigger and better things.

#1 - There's still plenty of room for original thinkers and careful observers to make contributions to science.

This guy is creepy.

A man could die of thirst here.

When clouds turn bad.

An optimist would say that he was left with one unbroken arm and one unbroken leg.

There is already a mechanical calculator, still in use (last time I checked) in one of the world's most advanced countries. It's been around for thousands of years and in the hands of a skilled operator can deliver results of ordinary arithmetic as fast as a digital calculator. Ladies and gentlemen, the abacus.

He makes it look like the juggling balls are stuck to his body. Awesome skills.

Heads up to admins: #(removed comment) "benben1" is a known scammer - http://www.romancescam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=44616

Henry Thomas is 41 now. Makes you feel old, doesn't it?

#11 Ringmaster, thanks for the heads up. I was talking about item 23 on the list in the video and used the # symbol as shorthand for the word "number" out of habit.

#23 Overtoun Bridge may have a logical explanation for the dog "suicides": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411038/Why-dogs-leapt-deaths-Overtoun-Bridge.html

I admire anyone who can play an instrument (cos I can't) but wow! this kid is special. And he plays jazz! It's such a sophisticated taste in a seven year old, I'm really impressed.

I loved the little routine he did before jumping, kind of like Arnold Schwarzenegger with Tourette's.

#7 Would that be a photo Finnish?

This one just got better and better. The cliche of the overturned fruit stall and the leap over the chopper were highlights but the entire chase was as well done as anything in Hollywood. Top marks from me.

#9/#11 Google Translate is NOT your friend.

@ #3 - Yep, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

"foreign" depends on where you live though!

This is one of those situations where you wish there could be two losers.

I like the wild look in his eyes. Always a good sign in an artist.

Thanks #5. I stand corrected.

To all Snotr members: mark my earlier comment down and spare my blushes please!

I watched this live. This is really cool.

#2 - these things cost a lot of money, so no complaints from me for the fact that it was commercially sponsored. NASA wasn't willing to pay for it. Are you aware that the jump was extremely useful from a scientific point of view? This may be the way astronauts return from low earth orbits in future emergency situations.

PS: I found this funny from Matt Bors which you may like: http://www.gocomics.com/matt-bors/2012/10/15

And this: http://imgur.com/iTsHL

One question. Why?

I'm beaming from ear to ear.

The State reserves the exclusive right to use coercive force to enforce the law. That's reasonable provided that the State behaves justly.

In the case of Spain and the other countries affected by the European Banking debt crisis, the State is NOT acting justly. It still expects private citizens to repay their own debts, whilst bailing out the banks and absolving them from THEIR debts. And it expects the same indebted citizens to repay the bailout money given to the banks! Meanwhile bankers are now dictating to governments how they should legislate, which services they should cut and which new laws and taxation systems they should enact. Bankers are still paying themselves bonuses for good performance. The nerve of it is breathtaking.

We, the citizens, know we are being rooked and we are starting to demonstrate. So we should, it is our right. And the State will try every dirty tactic in the book to thwart those demonstrations, including deliberately provoking violence via over-aggressive riot police and planting agents provocateurs in the crowd to get the ordinary demonstrators a bad name.

Luckily people are aware of some of the tactics likely to be employed. Filming and YouTubing is a powerful counter-weapon in the battle between justice and tyranny.

I feel an overwhelming urge to shout "Yeehaw!"

If you watch from 0:09 it looks like he's trying to become the first human to fly without an aircraft.

Not a single fattie among them.

Terrific - and terrifying. Great animation.

I try to make up my own mind about things, Dan5883. I bear in mind, when accessing media sources, that they are ALL biased in one way or another.

It's easy to pass judgement on others less fortunate than ourselves and to pat ourselves on the back for what, in many cases, is merely a case of being in the right place at the right time. Yes, there are people who have lost all ambition to work and who have decided to live on government handouts, but my understanding is that welfare is not very generous in the US compared to here in Europe. In normal circumstances people prefer to work and earn their living here just as much as Americans do. The safety net of the state is reassuring but it doesn't make for a fulfilling life and people know this.

As far as your opinion of socialism goes, I can only say that the red meat, winner-takes-all society that the US appears to this outsider to be, does not appeal much to me. It's pretty much proven that societies with smaller gaps between rich and poor are safer and happier places to live in. I don't think a society where 95% of the people scrabble around for 37% of the pie is a healthy one.

As to the US bailing Europe out: I cannot see how it is possible. We are both in QE ["Quantitive Easing"] Phase 3 now - i.e. we are printing money a third time around. Each time we are told that this is a temporary measure and that the banking system will soon be on its feet, and thereafter the economy. I'll believe it when I see it. I recommend the golemxiv.co.uk site I linked to earlier to anyone trying to understand the present economic crisis.

I uprated your comment by the way: you're quite right that this discussion about US vs European perspectives on the economy has nothing to do with the video! But hey, it's interesting to exchange ideas isn't it?

LOL at "how to replace a tattoo with a scar" in the vid description.

I've gotta say I don't like tattoos. Small ones are OK but the ones that cover someone's face or most of their torso look ugly to me. And even though it's not fair to the tattooed person my first impression is that they are not that intelligent. I realise that's just my opinion but I suspect I'm not the only one.

Well #9, from the perspective of a European looking in on American society, it appears terminally broken. The top 5% of Americans own 63.5% of the country's wealth. The bottom 80% of Americans own just 12% of the wealth. See http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2012/10/why-are-we-bailing-out-the-banks-part-one-the-simple-answer/ for the source of the figures. Most Americans are unaware of this disparity between the rich and poor.

That sort of inequality has to have an effect. The gulf between the aspirational American Dream and the reality that the vast majority of people will live their lives as modern-day serfs must find an outlet in violence or internalised aggression (drug-taking, alcoholism, eating disorders etc).

#10 You're welcome to your opinion.

Forgot to add this classic from Bill Hicks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

When a centenarian is interviewed and asked how they managed to reach such a ripe old age, they usually assume that their longevity is down to something they have done.

But there's a logical fallacy involved here called "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" which means if someone does something (X) and then something happens afterwards (Y) then X must have caused Y.

In the case of old people, one will say that they reached 100 by drinking a small glass of wine a day. Another will claim that they never drank or smoked and that's the reason they lived to 100. One will credit their vegetarianism, another their love of a juicy steak. Given that the advice is often contradictory there doesn't seem to be any infallible "method" of prolonging your life. And although it *might* be possible, I think Coca-Cola is best avoided irrespective of this guy's story.

We need more people like Fred Rogers. He would be horrified to see the depths to which TV has sunk in such a short time.

When you have a kid that age you take the breaks wherever you can find 'em. If Gangnam Style gets him eating, then you silently thank Psy and keep shovelling that spoon into your kid's mouth!

Had to laugh about the girl who said "not a lot of people know this". Presumably it's public knowledge on her Facebook page.

That 1100 year flight sounds OK so long as refreshments are available for the duration.

Yup #10 - I saw a quaint video somewhere (maybe on the BBC website?) showing American drivers learning how to drive on roundabouts. I suppose it's not quite as obvious as it looks.

Thanks #5, that advice may save a life.

A quality site thanks to the hard work put in by the staff here, who make it a friendly fun place to visit. Thanks Snotr.

This is brilliant stuff.

Am I the only one whose eyes glaze over when people start talking about "empowerment", "peer to peer marketplace", "collaborative consumption", "micro-entrepreneurs", "assets", "inventory" and so on?

I thought it was only in Russia during the Cold War that people joined a line without knowing what the line was for.

These are the same people who frisk little kids for weapons.

So bad it's good!

#12 I can only speak for myself but I don't laugh at ALL of the clips, fixento2.

I DO laugh at the self-inflicted ones, usually. The ones where someone attempts something crazy, like jumping out of a closed window; or attempts to skateboard along a railing and either ends up straddling it (ouch! ) or falls awkwardly. Oh, and the wannabe parkour guys. Hopefully someone out there may watch the video and reconsider the wisdom of attempting the kind of stunts trained professionals would shy away from. Or at the very least attempt them wearing a helmet, knee and elbow protectors, and a jockstrap.

I DON'T laugh at road accidents or where an innocent bystander gets thumped by a stray rally car, bicycle or by an idiot attempting an unwise stunt.

Dunno Geekster, a human baby knows its mom's voice, responds to music it heard in the womb, knows how to suckle etc. Luckily we don't need to be mobile straight away, our parents protect us from predators.

One thing that occurred to me, watching the video, was that a lot of blood ends up in the water. That's got to be of interest to any nearby sharks. I'd guess that a dolphin pod would be at high alert whenever a calf is born.

The tail... I can see the tail!

Fantastic to see how lively the baby dolphin is the moment it's born.

I love these compilations. Please keep doing them!

#9 you should be ashamed of yourself! You should have written "make sure that your grammar and spelling ARE correct".

Vive La France!

#5 mikeyboyzee - not everyone here speaks English as their first language. And if you're going to be a grammar nazi, then make sure that your grammar and spelling is correct. You should have written "Your" instead of "Your'e" and "too" instead of "to".

You only need about 40 decimal places of pi to calculate the size of a circle as large as the known universe to an accuracy of the diameter of a proton.

You have to see the full clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtM0-ZFwiNo

Thanks for the link #10, operating one of those things definitely IS rocket science!

#13 the chances are tiny so long as the rocket isn't launched near a major population centre. You're probably as likely to be hit by a meteorite or chunk of ice falling from an aeroplane wing.

I'm not sure about this, but isn't there a little parachute to slow the descent in any case? There's definitely something attached by string to the train when the little boy finds it in the field.

That's an amazing sight, and one we won't see again for a long time. This stuff costs a fraction of the cost of the banking bailouts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: shame the budget doesn't stretch to pursue positive, long-term objectives like our future in space.

Sure, the guy is a pain in the neck, and most probably wrong in affirming his right to film anywhere - apparently he needed permission, which he didn't have. But to commit violence on him for this is extreme, unjust and an overreaction.

He was never going to be able to enter that room with his camera, he didn't have a weapon, he wasn't threatening to assault anyone. My understanding is that the taser was only to be used to prevent or stop violent behaviour, not to give a functionary a chance to play God. There were other, older, ways of dealing with the situation that would have worked equally well.

I'm saddened, but not surprised, to see so many people getting off on watching one human being injure another.

Sorry folks, a taser is an offensive weapon. This man presented NO physical threat to anyone. He did not deserve to be assaulted. What will you say if it happens to you because some official doesn't like to listen to your opinion about something?

Flawless performance. And what we see is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the amount of rehearsal these guys and gals do.

Democracy and the justice system need to be transparent. I'm all for the presence of cameras in courts. To tase this guy - especially without giving a clear verbal warning - is an abuse of power. I'm with #16 on this.

There are other videos showing balloons entering the stratosphere and coming back to earth but the animation of the train makes this one special.

What a hero, he risked his life maybe more than he realised.

Love those funky eyes!

"Hey dude! Last night I met this girl in a club. This morning I woke up next to Johnny Depp. I'm freaked, man!"

I tried to give the guy the benefit of the doubt - he might have been concussed - but the little somersault onto the inside of the track and the couple of times he peeked around to see what was happening look highly suspicious. I'm not sure what he stood to gain from having the race red flagged, though: wouldn't the restart go ahead without him?

My excuse is that I'm tone deaf and have no sense of rhythm - unlike this guy, to whom I raise my hat.

And they all lived happily ever after. She, with her new boyfriend, and he, with his video on Snotr.

It's not Bruno Bozzetto's best work. This is much funnier imo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeSzFtqLxQ4

I looked at it in action (just under the description #1 and #2).

It looks great. But... it seems likes a lot of work and requires a lot of equipment to make. Each step carries a risk of getting something wrong. What's wrong with the old fashioned campfire cooking techniques?

When a voice on a video makes it sound interesting but then you find it isn't...

Wow - I must've missed the moment the world sorted out all its problems and found time to get around to automating popcorn dispensing. I'm off out to celebrate.

Had it been the other way round, there would have been a fatality. The green tractor had a sort of roll cage to protect the driver but the red one has no protection. A dangerous 'sport'.

That punch by the biker was potentially lethal. The car driver appeared to hit the ground head first.

It almost looked as though it was running away!

Lucky the seagull didn't drop it over the water, but then we wouldn't be watching the video on snotr.

After the big ball game, the little ball game.

Think he probably had to head back home to change his trousers after that!

The guy at 0:42 was scared to turn around.

Poor sheep lost its maa.

Just speculating, but perhaps the hippo lost a pup and is acting maternally towards other animals because of that?

#7 it looks as though the hippo saved a gnu (also called a wildebeest) AND a baby zebra.

That is stunningly good filming inside the body of the living caterpillar.

Great photography. The mantis looked almost cute close up.

I think this is a really cool idea. For some reason it reminds me of the toilets in the Amsterdam central railway station which have a fly designed into the male urinals to give guys something to aim at (and helps keep the toilets cleaner). We need more play in our lives.

PS - #9 you forgot Switzerland. They wait there too, it's scary to watch people afraid to use their common sense.

Nice, except for the unnecessary moves that were done simply for visual effect.

Doesn't this guy have a brother in The Muppets?

Man, that was nerve-wracking to watch.

Great to see someone getting the upper hand versus the carnivals. Most of those games are rigged to be *almost* impossible to win.

#1 I don't really mind ants, I think they're fascinating creatures. If you get them in the house lay down some talcum powder and they won't walk on it. Now if you want creepy, Google "giant weta" or "african giant millipede"...

...or this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Scutigera_coleoptrata.JPG - we used to have them in our garage and they can give you a nasty sting.

It doesn't appeal to me, it looks like a sterile way to live. And every machine will fail eventually, or require expensive maintenance. What was wrong with a house with a driveway and garage, or an underground parking lot in an apartment building?

That was WEIRD. I prefer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3YBLZMl03I

The USA: beautiful country, really hospitable people, and the worst politicians on the planet.

After seeing this video & the one linked at #9 I'm seriously considering getting a dashboard camera for my car.

As pranks go, this one is fairly lame. Most people assumed an insect had touched them. It would have been much better if the pranksters had revealed themselves at the end so you could watch the victims' reactions (like the Canadan show 'Just for Laughs: Gags' does).

M.C.Escher would have been delighted to see his drawing turned into a 3D working model.

He plays with great panache!

#23 even if true that this Zahir Muhsein *was* somehow representing official PLO policy (and there are grounds to believe that he wasn't since he was in conflict with other PLO factions according to Wiki) it's an irrelevant point in any case. It's a fact that the village was destroyed and the land was taken from its original owners (unless you subscribe to the notion that the land has always belonged to the Jewish tribes and that anyone else on that land is somehow squatting). It's also a fact that Intel built its plant on that land. I'll leave it there since this has been a long digression from the video.

Back on topic somewhat...

#24 Yup, Sizzlik, it looks like the best they were able to do under the circumstances. The original machine would have been impossible to replicate. I suspect that the machine plays the tune regardless of when and where the balls strike. But it's damn impressive even so.

I'm guessing those are asbestos gloves.

He keeps his car in the same bag. It's a Mini, I believe.

I'll get my coat.

So one quote from one Arab in 1977 justifies the razing of a village 29 years earlier?

"What would be there if things were different?"

The original Palestinian villages would still be there, occupied by their rightful owners, in accordance with international law and guarantees given by Israel (and immediately broken) that those people would be "fully secure in their persons, abodes, property and personal effects".

Given that those villages were razed to the ground and their inhabitants driven out, I doubt very much that Intel is providing much employment to Palestinians there.

Since you mention it, Sizzlik (#13), Intel has built a major plant on stolen land in Palestine. See http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-intel.html for details. They *may* be a charitable organisation in other ways, but profiting from the land of dispossessed people isn't nice.

Wow! I remember watching the original video and thinking "this would be impossible in real life because you could never rely on the balls to bounce in such a predictable way---the slightest deviation would ruin the effect". I stand corrected!

I've just checked the price of (presumably) the cheapest car here, the Subaru BRZ. I can't afford it!

Hmmm... can't find any archaeological evidence of this. I wonder whether they existed or not. The same accounts that mentioned the Brazen Bull also mentioned that the bones of those interred inside it glittered like jewels, which sounds false.

Cars are much much safer nowadays than they used to be, and even pedestrians are safer in impacts as a result of good design and engineering. Anything that improves safety further is a good thing - it could be any one of us, or our families, whose lives are saved by this new development.

Beautiful. Just beautiful. And it looks as though the smallest mistake would ruin the effect and cause the artist to start all over again.

Looks like a great idea. I don't wear a helmet when cycling but I would wear one of these.

/Me/ rolls eyes Homer Simpson style "mmmm.... chocolate".

This would have been a better piece of reportage if a chess-playing journalist had been assigned to it. Blindfold and simul chess isn't as difficult as it looks, to someone who plays at club level.

#13 compare Bobby Fischer: "I like the moment when I break a man's ego" and "Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind".

I couldn't watch to the end. I like boxing, the technical skill and so forth, and a knockout is a dramatic moment in a match, but a video composed of nothing but KOs is fairly sickening.

Wow - what an intricate process to make a vinyl record. It's closer to traditional craftmanship than mass production.

I can see why the record companies wanted to make CDs: it saves them a lot of money. Shame when they brought in the CD they charged the same price as for vinyl. But then they shot themselves in the foot: by changing an analog technology to digital they ushered in the mp3 era and now they're moaning that it's too easy to copy and distribute music. Serves them right for being so greedy imo.

I wasn't impressed until he started cutting the cucumber.

Wiki entry on Damien Walters explains all the acrobatics in the film:

"Damien Gareth Walters (born 6 April 1982) is a British former gymnast from Derbyshire who specialises in tumbling."

What a guy!

Part of growing up is realising that the media tell you what they want you to believe.

The cat looks utterly disgusted.

Be careful here folks. I had a PC years ago which was badly designed. If you unplugged it and held the plug you got a shock from the capacitors. Even though they were the less powerful types mentioned in this video, they were big enough to deliver a vicious shock. These ultracapacitors can kill.

More excellence from Canada's "Just For Laughs (Just pour rire)" which is one of the funnier programmes on TV.

Great use of cutting edge technology. And what a cheerful little girl she is!

I'm with you #4. Mastery of an instrument is not the same as musical ability. To see the two combined is a joy however - check out Guthrie Govan playing Fives here for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPEewaalik

Always fascinating to see how stuff is made.

One reason for keeping the cables above ground - in Japan at least - is that it's much easier to fix after an earthquake.

He's great - I lived in the same French city as him for 8 years. Check out his videos on YT - the elevator sequence always cracks me up. And he's a pretty good footballer too.

And don't golfers suffer from a serious lack of humour?

Karin Lipp-Mayer:

"What's happened in Japan is almost lucky".

I hope that was a bad translation of what she said in German. One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, causing 15,000+ deaths and one of the world's largest nuclear accidents is hardly "lucky".

Great animation. The style reminds me of "Heavy Metal".

This is modern Britain - no consideration for the rights of others.

A suspended sentence and community service seems a very light sentence for what she did.

Great compilation.

Poor widdle ant that got sacrificed to feed the dragonfly! Ants have rights too!

Incredible creatures, dragonflies. The bigger ones can deliver a nasty bite, as I found out once while trying to catch one.

Anyone care to enlighten me? Why is the cosmic background radiation, travelling at the speed of light, only arriving here now? Sorry if I'm not explaining this well, but it seems to me that if I shine a flashlight, then travel at less than the speed of light in the direction in which I point the flashlight I will never see the light from it since it will outrun me. Hasn't the light from the Big Bang done the same with respect to our solar system?

Looks like my question (at #18) has been answered in this BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-18876537

Very cool. From the home page of Bright Bricks they say that this is "a working model of a Rolls Royce aircraft engine". I don't know what they mean by "working" in this context - it's hardly going to get an aircraft off the ground! But very impressive nevertheless.

This is... ahem... nuts!

Superbly done!!

For me the impressive bit was at 1:50 when he overcooked it a little and knew it was time to part company with the bike.

Should have gone to Specsavers...