Author Topic: Random videos/images/memes thread (Read 4259520 times)

Reb · « **Reply #21780 on:** July 28, 2014, 03:58:54 PM »

We can all visit reddit ourselves.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21781 on:** July 28, 2014, 04:21:48 PM »

and you can see it all again here!

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #21782 on:** July 28, 2014, 04:29:56 PM »

too long; didn't reddit

Atramental · « **Reply #21783 on:** July 28, 2014, 05:06:15 PM »

Father Mike goes to reddit so I don't have to.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21784 on:** July 28, 2014, 07:05:00 PM »

http://i.imgur.com/7hjKZEz.jpg

chronovore · « **Reply #21785 on:** July 28, 2014, 07:39:57 PM »

Rufus · « **Reply #21786 on:** July 28, 2014, 07:45:49 PM »

I wish he'd been around longer. :c

benjipwns · « **Reply #21787 on:** July 28, 2014, 08:00:16 PM »

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/earthlings-anarchists-and-other-animals/

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Sometimes, walking to the subway, I’ll stop to watch finches play on a patch of grass, or a squirrel flick its tail next to a bush. If I’m lucky, I’ll see rats running along the tracks while I wait for my train. But aside from the occasional dog, I never interact with animals. And while I feel more strongly now than I ever have before that being vegan is the most ethical lifestyle choice I can make, I’m also more sensitive to the artifice inherent in my daily understanding of animal life.

My first time grocery shopping after going vegan last summer, I walked down the meat aisle past sausages, ground beef and chicken cutlets, aware that my rediscovered beliefs were, to a large extent, intellectual. It took an imaginary leap for me to recognize the blood pooling in the corner of some Saran Wrap as that which had once carried nourishment to the organs of another being, so I conjured up videos I’d seen of slaughterhouses, battery cages and nursing sows. I reminded myself of all I’d read recently, how disgusted I’d felt just days beforehand. Reaching the end of the aisle, I still felt disconnected. Then I saw the chicken feet.

They’d always been there next to the cow tongues but I’d never seen that they were so humanlike. They were bled white and plump. Their four digits bent innocently at the knuckles like children’s. Skin was torn where it was handled too roughly, and snapped tendons showed from the ends of wrists beneath ragged skin where the feet had been chopped. Fingernails came to elegant points. I got close and stared. What had been theoretical just seconds before had suddenly become disturbingly, gloriously real to me.

V.

Growing up by the water in Florida, I spent a lot of time interacting with wildlife: stingrays, pelicans, mangroves, lizards, orange trees, hibiscus and any number of sea birds and tropical bugs. My husband and I flew down recently to visit my parents and I took him to an estuary where I used to spend my free time. We stood silently at the edge of a tide pool, and after some minutes, fiddler crabs crept from the mud, first one at a time, and then by the dozens. They scuttled around our feet making gentle waves, unaware that we watched from above.

It is one of my life’s great regrets that I haven’t done more to defend other species against human greed. Whether fatigue or complacency, finding excuses is easy. A lack of time and money is the first. Then comes the blame: I don’t have money because capitalism doesn’t work; this is how the system’s designed; it doesn’t allow you to resist. Then the defeat: We’ve already lost; the earth is doomed; I’m doing all I can day to day.

Deep down, I know that I’m not.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #21788 on:** July 28, 2014, 08:39:33 PM »

Quote from: Rufus on July 28, 2014, 07:45:49 PM

I wish he'd been around longer. :c

Too true. H2G2 is probably my favorite book/thing ever. I've read the books, listened to the radio plays (the original and the LP version), listened to the audio books, read the comic books, played the text adventure, watched the BBC miniseries, watched the movie. Multiple times.

The Dirk Gently books were great too.

Also, fuck Eoin Colfer , I do not accept that shit. If you want a new ending to the series not written by Douglas, the ending to the Quintessential Phase did it better.

chronovore · « **Reply #21789 on:** July 28, 2014, 08:54:02 PM »

Someone celebrated the Ghostbuster's 30th with a product placement:

benjipwns · « **Reply #21790 on:** July 29, 2014, 02:07:28 AM »

One of my political pet peeves is people who say "Oh, I'm a moderate/centrist." And usually some crap about compromising in the middle. I pissed off one guy when I said "alright then, we'll tax the poor, kill only half the Jews and allow lesbians to marry."

The pet peeve is the unique part of this story, not me pissing someone off with sarcasm.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21791 on:** July 29, 2014, 02:16:17 AM »

That's the problem, they usually do. Like stronger feelings than mine about Galaxy Quest having to be included by law in any ranking of Star Trek movies.

Kara · « **Reply #21792 on:** July 29, 2014, 03:05:14 AM »

Quote from: benjipwns on July 29, 2014, 02:07:28 AM

One of my political pet peeves is people who say "Oh, I'm a moderate/centrist." And usually some crap about compromising in the middle. I pissed off one guy when I said "alright then, we'll tax the poor, kill only half the Jews and allow lesbians to marry."

The Sceneman · « **Reply #21793 on:** July 29, 2014, 05:11:23 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on July 28, 2014, 08:06:04 AM

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Quote from: The Sceneman on July 28, 2014, 03:50:46 AM
http://i.imgur.com/2KB07.jpg

That last one, the furry... it really sets off the collection.

Yeah, the final 3 really end the series with a bang. The rainbow fairy one and the cyberpunk fingerbang are mind shatteringly good

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #21794 on:** July 29, 2014, 07:41:35 AM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #21795 on:** July 29, 2014, 08:40:36 AM »

Quote from: benjipwns on July 29, 2014, 02:07:28 AM

One of my political pet peeves is people who say "Oh, I'm a moderate/centrist."

This, but with "undecideds."

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #21796 on:** July 29, 2014, 11:09:29 AM »

That's the problem. Everything is so polarized, if you identify yourself as <whatever> then everyone assumes you believe X, Y and Z on other issues. So, it's much easier to identify as a centrist if you lean one way but don't buy into the entire political dogma of a party.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21797 on:** July 29, 2014, 12:45:49 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21798 on:** July 29, 2014, 04:33:37 PM »

https://www.flickr.com/photos/greenstreetm/14587405030/

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21799 on:** July 29, 2014, 04:36:28 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21800 on:** July 29, 2014, 04:52:02 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21801 on:** July 29, 2014, 04:57:09 PM »

http://i.imgur.com/WkaqxqX.jpg

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21802 on:** July 29, 2014, 08:17:31 PM »

http://instagram.com/p/rB8fzSO61G/

Atramental · « **Reply #21803 on:** July 29, 2014, 09:26:32 PM »

toku · « **Reply #21804 on:** July 29, 2014, 09:28:40 PM »

Turn Up

Atramental · « **Reply #21805 on:** July 29, 2014, 10:26:19 PM »

Atramental · « **Reply #21806 on:** July 29, 2014, 10:53:07 PM »

Tier 6.

https://soundcloud.com/_type/part-two?in=_type/sets/red-horse-red-horse

toku · « **Reply #21807 on:** July 29, 2014, 10:54:58 PM »

Kinda bullshit that "folk" is number 3 though. That's 2 at most.

Atramental · « **Reply #21808 on:** July 29, 2014, 11:32:51 PM »

doctavius bonbon · « **Reply #21809 on:** July 30, 2014, 01:11:52 AM »

Quote from: Atramental on July 29, 2014, 10:26:19 PM

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i thoroughly enjoy it when a producer delves into level infinity and turns this (6~ minutes in):

into this:

thus completing the cycle

Atramental · « **Reply #21810 on:** July 30, 2014, 01:21:12 AM »

chronovore · « **Reply #21811 on:** July 30, 2014, 03:44:34 AM »

Quote from: Atramental on July 29, 2014, 11:32:51 PM

And then Johnny goes home and writes complaints about how his Amazon Prime Air deliveries are all late.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21812 on:** July 30, 2014, 11:07:01 AM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21813 on:** July 30, 2014, 11:08:09 AM »

Brehvolution · « **Reply #21814 on:** July 30, 2014, 03:49:55 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #21815 on:** July 30, 2014, 04:59:54 PM »

Go to a Keith Urban show, brehs.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/30/showbiz/keith-urban-concert-rape/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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A teenage girl was raped at same Keith Urban show where 20 people got so drunk they were hospitalized, police said.
The attack happened in front of a large crowd of other concertgoers on the lawn of the Xfinity Center, an outdoor amphitheater in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday night, a police statement said.
The rape ended when a woman in the crowd pushed the alleged attacker off the victim and he fled, police said.

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"Up on the lawn tonight, that was nutso. It was so cool," Keith Urban said.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21816 on:** July 30, 2014, 05:11:06 PM »

http://gfycat.com/FrailHarmlessErmine

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #21817 on:** July 30, 2014, 08:34:01 PM »

https://vine.co/v/MUjjMipMWOg

small businesses

Broseidon · « **Reply #21818 on:** July 30, 2014, 08:43:28 PM »

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21819 on:** July 30, 2014, 09:18:24 PM »

chronovore · « **Reply #21820 on:** July 30, 2014, 10:37:00 PM »

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on July 30, 2014, 05:11:06 PM

http://gfycat.com/FrailHarmlessErmine

I was a little disturbed when the surf Betty turns into a surf dude at 1:40, but it's a great collection otherwise.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21821 on:** July 31, 2014, 12:08:58 AM »

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/07/28/scientists-bad-luck-killed-the-dinosaurs/

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As the Smithsonian begins its 5-year restoration plan for the National Museum of Natural History’s dinosaur bones, comes a new report that suggests the colossal beasts were extremely unlucky that the asteroid that wiped them out hit the Earth when it did.