If they could do the gang signs with the weird face while holding the camera over their heads and scrawling something on their boobs (preferably while dancing to "Riding Dirty" or "Bringing Sexy Back"), no one would need to write out the 10,000,000 names of god--the stars would go out of their own accord and the singularity will have reached. posted by maxwelton at 2:50 PM on April 4, 2007 [3 favorites]
Oops--"have been reached," though my typo may be more profound. posted by maxwelton at 2:51 PM on April 4, 2007
It's no worse than that ironic thumbs up with a really big smile that everyone in the world seems to do when posing in front of something "funny."
I hate that more. posted by chococat at 3:12 PM on April 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
The Paula Abdul link is amazing. posted by the_bone at 3:20 PM on April 4, 2007
This actually made me laugh. And I needed a laugh. posted by ColdChef at 3:33 PM on April 4, 2007
Frankly, I had no idea that the gangs had spread so far and wide. I fear for suburbia. posted by djgh at 3:35 PM on April 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
That goes with the stupid face-of-the-day, eyes rolled hard to the side and up with the tongue pressing hard against that same inside cheek. posted by HTuttle at 3:39 PM on April 4, 2007
As an asside, I saw this adorable video of a little kid saying that his baby brother was bleeding. He was saying "blood! Baby blood!" and his dad was laughing, so the kid goes "NOT FUNNY, BLOOD!"
I thought it was really cute, but it seems to have been deleted.
maxweldon -- it's the 10,000,000,000 names of God. Lost a few orders of magnitude there. You print out just ten million names of God, and you probably just get a solar eclipse or something. posted by localroger at 3:57 PM on April 4, 2007 [2 favorites]
Why get left behind by the Rapture when you can get a reach-around from the Singularity? posted by Burhanistan at 3:58 PM on April 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
In Soviet Russia, you reach around Singularity! posted by loquacious at 4:07 PM on April 4, 2007
You gotta take "gang signs" with a major grain of salt these days.
Where I live in Denver, all the kids at North high will throw their sign, the kids from the East side will throw theirs, etc, and this stuff could even lead to fights and what not, but to say that these signs are "gang signs" doesn't capture the idea very well.
To the white suburbanite, gang sign == homicidal killer cult of scary brown people. It doesn't mean that to actual kids that grow up in the hood (many of whom I know, and they throw signs, and they are not in any gangs). posted by teece at 4:16 PM on April 4, 2007
When I was a kid I would sometimes visit my dad, who lived in Mesquite, Texas during the summer and other school breaks. My next door neighbor was almost exactly the same age as me (born in 1980, and in the same grade as me) and he would tell me stories about how the middle and elementary school were divided into "gangs" of "punks" and "new wavers" (?!) and some other splinter groups. Like everyone in the school was divided into these subgroups.
This was a suburban school, and Mesquite is literally a suburb. The whole thing was preposterous. I ended up taking a few days of class at these schools (or course they had more days of school in Texas then in Iowa, since they seem to hate children down there) and they were a joke compared to what I was used to in Iowa. posted by delmoi at 4:23 PM on April 4, 2007
It certainly delivers as advertised posted by saraswati at 4:31 PM on April 4, 2007
I hate to say it, but this fpp is good... smiles are good..this made me smile....
I have to find the Jr. High School movie for my 8th grade teacher wife.... things really haven't changed since 1978! posted by HuronBob at 4:33 PM on April 4, 2007
as long as you commit, it will alwaysnever work posted by tehloki at 4:34 PM on April 4, 2007
You know, this is so tragic there should be a wikipedia article about it, but I don't have time to create one...maybe someone here could create one...
Makes me wistful for the days when white chicks would carry around dead rabbits instead. Or maybe that was Irish immigrants. I cannot remember, but you get my point. posted by Slap Factory at 4:37 PM on April 4, 2007
What's this about Cingular's new reacharound policy? posted by jefbla at 4:48 PM on April 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
This white chick, gang sign nonsense is just after the increase of anal gaping in porn at the top of my list of Things That I See A Lot More Of Than I Used To But Really Need To Stop. Now. posted by Cyrano at 4:56 PM on April 4, 2007
I'm throwing up a gang sign right now. It only uses one finger. Can you guess which one? posted by Pastabagel at 4:59 PM on April 4, 2007
Who (else) had to back up and pause for the prom-gowns-and-garters pic (0:19)? posted by booksandlibretti at 5:21 PM on April 4, 2007
Shorties be like, "Yo, raise up MS-13 bangas; Vatos Locos, TRG in the hizz, STC no place to be, DF muthafucka, UBN up on ya, hee allay up 1-5 Amigos; SSL loco fa life, 124 Crew hear me, 187 Crew up in this, you down wit' LPC! West Side Mob never die, Latin Mafia vatos, 18th Street life, my homies in La Raza! KP, AB, you feel me; Latin Devils, Mara Loca, Palmer Park Crew, Rollin 60’s Crips, Southside Locos, Latin Crew, lemme hear y'all! La Mara Li, Latin Homies, 24 Mob, C-Hill Crew, BTK killahs; Sangre, Pura, take no prisoners!" and all that shit, think they trippin' with they rags and flips, dumb birdy get got. Same white bitch roll through Low Cost shaking on a green dot, think she street ready; now she on public record raising up all them gang-ass muthafuckas, they be like, "Yo, you for real?" All them sets be shifty, you know, stillin' up on them bitches and pop! Pop! She ain't even mean it but they gangsta like that, play that shit hard. Shorty don't even know, shit be crackin' straight out the county way, ain't no place safe today, feel me? posted by breezeway at 5:29 PM on April 4, 2007 [5 favorites]
*holds up thumb-and-forefinger L on forehead* posted by sonofslim at 6:00 PM on April 4, 2007
since they seem to hate children down there
Being from Texas I can say we don't hate children. They are really quite tasty. posted by YoBananaBoy at 6:07 PM on April 4, 2007
Lanolin and a good horse-hair comb-out and I'm fine.
I don't even know what that means. posted by Dizzy at 7:47 PM on April 4, 2007
Contained within things I don't understand, I believe I saw "live long and prosper" and "the shocker"... posted by Tube at 7:56 PM on April 4, 2007
I can't wait for his followup "Frat Dude Cradling PBRs." posted by KevinSkomsvold at 9:24 PM on April 4, 2007
I love this website so much. posted by Baby_Balrog at 9:53 PM on April 4, 2007
That "My boobs are OK" video makes me ashamed to be a Norwegian. Seriously, I'm glad I moved from there. posted by Joakim Ziegler at 10:40 PM on April 4, 2007
I thought I saw a girl I once knew in one of these pictures. She was a girl who liked her blow, once passed out drunk in my friend's bed and pissed herself, and then disappeared from our lives.
This is one of those cultural artifacts that archeologists of the year 3000 will find, and wonder what the f*** US culture was about in the 21st century. posted by humblepigeon at 1:40 AM on April 5, 2007
All I could think of,whilst watching the video, was that the CG character doing the singing is not very realistic.
I thought that was great. The coup de grace was when the guy was singing with the cup of coffee in his hand. posted by OmieWise at 5:53 AM on April 5, 2007
My boobs/my boobs/my boobs are OK
The roof/the roof/the roof is on fire posted by kirkaracha at 6:11 AM on April 5, 2007
za couple a chicks throwing Vulcan signs in there.
ShirKahr to my left and T'Karath to my right...V-nigs gonna be all up in this shit tonight! posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 6:51 AM on April 5, 2007
Can I just say my boobs are spectacular? posted by Sparx at 7:37 AM on April 5, 2007
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