waiting for this moment
October 6, 2018 9:28 AM Subscribe
I have mixed feelings about this... having lived through this song's initial period of popularity, it's a little too soon for me to find anything to do with it likable or funny. At the same time, this is approximately the funniest thing I have ever seen.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 9:35 AM on October 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by Sing Or Swim at 9:35 AM on October 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
It's been 37 years. We're further from In the Air Tonight now than it was from Sentimental Journey when it was released.
It's a horrific ear worm, I'll give you that, but too soon it ain't
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 9:42 AM on October 6, 2018 [13 favorites]
It's a horrific ear worm, I'll give you that, but too soon it ain't
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 9:42 AM on October 6, 2018 [13 favorites]
rhythm doesn't match the actual solo
Tbh I think that's like three quarters of why it's funny.
posted by nebulawindphone at 9:42 AM on October 6, 2018 [28 favorites]
Tbh I think that's like three quarters of why it's funny.
posted by nebulawindphone at 9:42 AM on October 6, 2018 [28 favorites]
Setting aside the soundtrack/joke for a moment, I am mightily baffled by the deer's decision to stumble through such a tight place when it could have so easily walked around it. Especially since it continues to wander around aimlessly afterward, so it didn't seem to have a particular otherwise-unreachable goal in mind.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:44 AM on October 6, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:44 AM on October 6, 2018 [8 favorites]
It's clear that nonchalantly pretending "I meant to do that" transcends species boundaries.
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 9:47 AM on October 6, 2018 [64 favorites]
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 9:47 AM on October 6, 2018 [64 favorites]
Setting aside the soundtrack/joke for a moment, I am mightily baffled by the deer's decision to stumble through such a tight place when it could have so easily walked around it. Especially since it continues to wander around aimlessly afterward, so it didn't seem to have a particular otherwise-unreachable goal in mind.
Cats aspire to this deer's level of you didn't see that dignity.
posted by entropone at 9:48 AM on October 6, 2018 [9 favorites]
Cats aspire to this deer's level of you didn't see that dignity.
posted by entropone at 9:48 AM on October 6, 2018 [9 favorites]
Hooved locust.
posted by humboldt32 at 9:50 AM on October 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by humboldt32 at 9:50 AM on October 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
I think this is the original upload on Youtube. "in the deer 2nite"
posted by Lanark at 9:57 AM on October 6, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by Lanark at 9:57 AM on October 6, 2018 [6 favorites]
>It's been 37 years. We're further from In the Air Tonight now than it was from Sentimental Journey when it was released.
>It's a horrific ear worm, I'll give you that, but too soon it ain't
'Too soon' is in the ear of the beholder. I assure you that for me, for the rest of whatever time is allotted to me on Earth, it will be too soon.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 10:09 AM on October 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
>It's a horrific ear worm, I'll give you that, but too soon it ain't
'Too soon' is in the ear of the beholder. I assure you that for me, for the rest of whatever time is allotted to me on Earth, it will be too soon.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 10:09 AM on October 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
Cats aspire to this deer's level of you didn't see that dignity.
Chalk it up to "Damn, nature - you clumsy!", eh?
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:26 AM on October 6, 2018
Chalk it up to "Damn, nature - you clumsy!", eh?
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:26 AM on October 6, 2018
Long before the smartphone era I watched my family's cat straight-up fall off a fence and then sit where she landed, licking herself nonchalantly like it wasn't no thang.
posted by The Card Cheat at 11:32 AM on October 6, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by The Card Cheat at 11:32 AM on October 6, 2018 [3 favorites]
I am mightily baffled by the deer's decision to stumble through such a tight place when it could have so easily walked around it.
I'm guessing you've never met or lived with deer. They are remarkably dumb for mammals. We're talking about an animal that will slowly amble right into traffic. I once was on the bus and we were five minutes late because it was rutting season and there was a pair of deer boinking right in the middle of the road, while another one standing there casually took a shit and then dumbly watched the other two deer giving each other the business.
I've seen deer walk straight into a tree and just bounce off it. I've seen deer walk blindly into the sides of buildings, windows, doors, cars, and fences. It's like whatever algorithm is controlling their mobility it doesn't have any radar or collision avoidance half the time.
Deer seem to have two, maybe three modes of thought: Eat, fuck, and sometimes run. Calling them "stilt rats" is a huge insult to rats because rats are actually smart.
posted by loquacious at 12:03 PM on October 6, 2018 [22 favorites]
I'm guessing you've never met or lived with deer. They are remarkably dumb for mammals. We're talking about an animal that will slowly amble right into traffic. I once was on the bus and we were five minutes late because it was rutting season and there was a pair of deer boinking right in the middle of the road, while another one standing there casually took a shit and then dumbly watched the other two deer giving each other the business.
I've seen deer walk straight into a tree and just bounce off it. I've seen deer walk blindly into the sides of buildings, windows, doors, cars, and fences. It's like whatever algorithm is controlling their mobility it doesn't have any radar or collision avoidance half the time.
Deer seem to have two, maybe three modes of thought: Eat, fuck, and sometimes run. Calling them "stilt rats" is a huge insult to rats because rats are actually smart.
posted by loquacious at 12:03 PM on October 6, 2018 [22 favorites]
They are remarkably dumb for mammals. We're talking about an animal that will slowly amble right into traffic.
I'm not sure not knowing how to deal with a very fast, strange metal animal that can't stop or turn quickly on its own and has only existed for a very, very short time compared to deer counts as being stupid.
And I say that as someone who has crashed a truck into a moose that was just running down the middle of a road that someone had thoughtlessly routed right through the woods.
posted by bondcliff at 12:17 PM on October 6, 2018 [5 favorites]
I'm not sure not knowing how to deal with a very fast, strange metal animal that can't stop or turn quickly on its own and has only existed for a very, very short time compared to deer counts as being stupid.
And I say that as someone who has crashed a truck into a moose that was just running down the middle of a road that someone had thoughtlessly routed right through the woods.
posted by bondcliff at 12:17 PM on October 6, 2018 [5 favorites]
arewethebaddies.jpg
posted by mintcake! at 12:36 PM on October 6, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by mintcake! at 12:36 PM on October 6, 2018 [1 favorite]
I'm not sure not knowing how to deal with a very fast, strange metal animal that can't stop or turn quickly on its own and has only existed for a very, very short time compared to deer counts as being stupid.
I'm not just talking about fast moving cars or cars in general, though. I've had deer try to walk right through my tent and hammock. I've had them bolt in front of me on my bicycle. I've seen them saunter right into slow moving heavy city traffic.
Lots of other animals know to get out of the way of some kind of large moving object or just humans in general or are otherwise simply aware that a human, car or not, might be something to avoid.
I know I'm anthropomorphizing, but I have yet to meet any wild animal with less situational awareness than the deer I've seen around here. We have almost no apex predators and lots of tasty gardens and a bunch of old hippies that don't hunt deer, so the local population has grown to be incredibly, exceptionally dumb to the point it's like their startle response has been bred right out of them.
Yeah, wildlife is great, I don't want to eradicate the deer for being dumb, flighty mammals. And animal intelligence isn't human intelligence, etc.
But deer are fucking dumbasses. If there's a dumber non-human mammal out there I don't want to meet it.
posted by loquacious at 12:36 PM on October 6, 2018 [35 favorites]
I'm not just talking about fast moving cars or cars in general, though. I've had deer try to walk right through my tent and hammock. I've had them bolt in front of me on my bicycle. I've seen them saunter right into slow moving heavy city traffic.
Lots of other animals know to get out of the way of some kind of large moving object or just humans in general or are otherwise simply aware that a human, car or not, might be something to avoid.
I know I'm anthropomorphizing, but I have yet to meet any wild animal with less situational awareness than the deer I've seen around here. We have almost no apex predators and lots of tasty gardens and a bunch of old hippies that don't hunt deer, so the local population has grown to be incredibly, exceptionally dumb to the point it's like their startle response has been bred right out of them.
Yeah, wildlife is great, I don't want to eradicate the deer for being dumb, flighty mammals. And animal intelligence isn't human intelligence, etc.
But deer are fucking dumbasses. If there's a dumber non-human mammal out there I don't want to meet it.
posted by loquacious at 12:36 PM on October 6, 2018 [35 favorites]
Back when he was inventing zoology, Aristotle classified the octopus as a particularly dumb animal, because he observed octopuses being curious about humans rather than frightened of them. Needless to say, Aristotle’s observation says more about the behavior of humans than the intelligence of octopuses.
Which is to say that regardless of whether or not deer are dumb, being relaxed around nice humans doesn’t necessarily mean they’re stupid — even though nice humans are in a broader sense an exception rather than the rule.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 12:57 PM on October 6, 2018 [3 favorites]
Which is to say that regardless of whether or not deer are dumb, being relaxed around nice humans doesn’t necessarily mean they’re stupid — even though nice humans are in a broader sense an exception rather than the rule.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 12:57 PM on October 6, 2018 [3 favorites]
I live with the same deer loquacious does. There's no exaggeration there.
posted by humboldt32 at 1:05 PM on October 6, 2018 [9 favorites]
posted by humboldt32 at 1:05 PM on October 6, 2018 [9 favorites]
Jason Kottke has a whole category for videos like this.
posted by grahamparks at 1:30 PM on October 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by grahamparks at 1:30 PM on October 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
This is also notably the first time a drum solo has brought a smile to anyone's face.
posted by zippy at 1:47 PM on October 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by zippy at 1:47 PM on October 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
But deer are fucking dumbasses. If there's a dumber non-human mammal out there I don't want to meet it.
Suburban rabbits make deer look like Deep Thought.
am I the only one that feels the rhythm doesn't match the actual solo?
Yeah, that deer is a shitty drummer.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 2:16 PM on October 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
Suburban rabbits make deer look like Deep Thought.
am I the only one that feels the rhythm doesn't match the actual solo?
Yeah, that deer is a shitty drummer.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 2:16 PM on October 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
But deer are fucking dumbasses.
My last literal run-in with a deer is a testament to this. It was standing in the middle of my lane just right over a hill so I didn't see it until I was right on top of it, but I had enough time to swerve to the left. It was also facing right. I watched as this dumbass crouched down to prepare to jump out of the way, and instead of jumping to right, where it was already facing, into the woods, it turned in the middle of the crouch and jumped left into my bumper. It was a very idiotic deer.
posted by numaner at 3:31 PM on October 6, 2018 [1 favorite]
My last literal run-in with a deer is a testament to this. It was standing in the middle of my lane just right over a hill so I didn't see it until I was right on top of it, but I had enough time to swerve to the left. It was also facing right. I watched as this dumbass crouched down to prepare to jump out of the way, and instead of jumping to right, where it was already facing, into the woods, it turned in the middle of the crouch and jumped left into my bumper. It was a very idiotic deer.
posted by numaner at 3:31 PM on October 6, 2018 [1 favorite]
I've seen deer walk straight into a tree and just bounce off it. I've seen deer walk blindly into the sides of buildings, windows, doors, cars, and fences.
All those moments will be lost in time, like deers in rain. Time to die.
posted by Pendragon at 4:10 PM on October 6, 2018 [18 favorites]
All those moments will be lost in time, like deers in rain. Time to die.
posted by Pendragon at 4:10 PM on October 6, 2018 [18 favorites]
Nothing drums like a Deer™.
posted by klanawa at 5:51 PM on October 6, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by klanawa at 5:51 PM on October 6, 2018 [6 favorites]
I'm not sure not knowing how to deal with a very fast, strange metal animal that can't stop or turn quickly on its own and has only existed for a very, very short time compared to deer counts as being stupid.
Trees are not noted for their speed or recent entry on the scene.
posted by scalefree at 9:32 PM on October 6, 2018 [9 favorites]
Trees are not noted for their speed or recent entry on the scene.
posted by scalefree at 9:32 PM on October 6, 2018 [9 favorites]
I went deer hunting for the first time four years ago. I had never hunted anything larger than a grouse before and I didn't own a rifle, so the friend who was taking me on the hunt loaned me one. But I wasn't entirely comfortable with firearms and I left it unloaded, thinking that we were unlikely to find a deer and that, if we did, my friend would be the one taking a shot. I was honestly more in it for the hike and time in the woods. We walked into the woods around 5 a.m. and were only about 10 minutes up a game trail when we broke into a small meadow and there was a deer standing on the opposite site, about 75 feet away. We froze and my friend whispered "you take it." I raised my rifle and sighted it in my scope. It was small, probably born the previous year. I had the ammunition in my pack and figured there was no way I could unsling it and load the rifle without spooking the deer so I said "no, it's yours." My friend raised his rifle, took a look, then said "no really, go for it." The deer was alert and looking in our direction and I didn't feel like getting into a big back and forth about me having an unloaded gun. So we stood there for a few seconds. The deer's ears swiveled back and forth. Then it started slowly walking in our direction. It covered about half the distance to us and stopped. "Shoot" my friend hissed. But the deer started walking again and headed straight for us. It's hooves crunched lightly in the dry autumn grass. It came right up to me, stopped, and stood within arms reach, looking intently into my eyes. I could hear it breathing and see the cloud of condensed breath coming from its nose. I'm sure it was sensing the same things about me. The moment passed and the deer continued past us and stepped into the trees along the trail we had just walked. My friend turned to me with a boggled look. "Seemed pretty small" I said. "Yeah, I guess it was. But the next person who runs into that deer is just going to bang it over the head with their rifle stock and call it a day." We hunted the rest of the day without seeing another deer.
posted by otolith at 10:02 PM on October 6, 2018 [14 favorites]
posted by otolith at 10:02 PM on October 6, 2018 [14 favorites]
I have chased a deer with my car for a quarter mile, honking and revving my engine at it, because the stupid thing was running down the middle of the highway, instead of fucking off into the woods on either side.
posted by ryanrs at 12:05 AM on October 8, 2018
posted by ryanrs at 12:05 AM on October 8, 2018
More stupid deer stories, please. This thread is absolutely making my morning.
posted by merriment at 7:25 AM on October 8, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by merriment at 7:25 AM on October 8, 2018 [2 favorites]
How could I ever forget the first time
The last time
we ever met -et -et -et-.....
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 3:49 PM on October 8, 2018
The last time
we ever met -et -et -et-.....
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 3:49 PM on October 8, 2018
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