A Fail Hero Returns
September 9, 2020 7:54 AM Subscribe
Youtube user TwisterNederland (channel; previouslyish) spent 2012–2015 establishing a niche – fail compilation videos. Birthday candles starting small fires, boats tipping over, over-ambitious skateboarders, cars driving through gates, you name it. (warning: some videos of people getting hurt/hit by things, maybe seriously) And after a five year hiatus, the king of fails has returned with new videos: 1 2 3
To editorialize a bit—what sets TwisterNederland apart from the near-ubiquitous availability of "Funniest Home Videos"-type fails online? A few things:
• They use original audio wherever possible; no wacky music
• A keen sense of timing—each clip is just long enough to get the gist, see the mishap, and get a moment of consequences (usually just enough to see that the participants are OK)
• A good mix of the worrisome and the silly—I tend to look away for the really-painful-looking ones, and find them relatively few and far between compared to other fail edits online.
CW for possible folks getting bonked in the head, or cringe-y shots of falling off a bike, but mostly it's good clean schadenfreude of a type I thought we'd lost online.
To editorialize a bit—what sets TwisterNederland apart from the near-ubiquitous availability of "Funniest Home Videos"-type fails online? A few things:
• They use original audio wherever possible; no wacky music
• A keen sense of timing—each clip is just long enough to get the gist, see the mishap, and get a moment of consequences (usually just enough to see that the participants are OK)
• A good mix of the worrisome and the silly—I tend to look away for the really-painful-looking ones, and find them relatively few and far between compared to other fail edits online.
CW for possible folks getting bonked in the head, or cringe-y shots of falling off a bike, but mostly it's good clean schadenfreude of a type I thought we'd lost online.
Ahhhh. No thank you. I was silly to click. I should know better. I have to disagree that there is no one seriously injured in some of these.
posted by agatha_magatha at 8:25 AM on September 9, 2020 [17 favorites]
posted by agatha_magatha at 8:25 AM on September 9, 2020 [17 favorites]
i got less than halfway through the first link and it'd be a damn miracle if someone didn't wind up dead or hospitalized in a huge number of the incidents on film
i noped out on a simple one - a kid about my kid's age trying a rail slide with a scooter - he falls and thwacks the back of his head on the pavement - that's a concussion right there and if i saw my kid, any kid, do that in person my stomach would turn - a concussion can be a life-altering event
yes, some of these are funny and innocent but many depict the absolute worst day in someone's life
posted by Caxton1476 at 8:39 AM on September 9, 2020 [8 favorites]
i noped out on a simple one - a kid about my kid's age trying a rail slide with a scooter - he falls and thwacks the back of his head on the pavement - that's a concussion right there and if i saw my kid, any kid, do that in person my stomach would turn - a concussion can be a life-altering event
yes, some of these are funny and innocent but many depict the absolute worst day in someone's life
posted by Caxton1476 at 8:39 AM on September 9, 2020 [8 favorites]
I love fail videos, not because I like seeing people get hurt, but because they're such a great antidote to the shiny veneer of perfection that the world likes to portray through social media. It's like a the outtakes from everything people actually share.
posted by Ickster at 8:39 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Ickster at 8:39 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
I might have a softer heart than I did five years ago, because I used to really enjoy these, and now the tonal shift between, like, 'Haha, that guy fell off his bike!' and 'Jesus Christ, that guy could've totally died!' might be a little much for me.
posted by box at 8:47 AM on September 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by box at 8:47 AM on September 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
It would be better to edit out the ones that appear to show serious injuries and focus on clips that show disaster following upon hubris or overreach. We might also save those that show catastrophe resulting from inattention or incompetence. The takeaway should be: "Pride cometh before the fall" and "Massive things fail massively".
posted by Modest House at 8:49 AM on September 9, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by Modest House at 8:49 AM on September 9, 2020 [4 favorites]
I think the "but people are getting hurt" reaction is an age thing. Many youngsters feel indestructible and have never had direct experience of serious injury. They may think these films are like the movies; person takes a tumble, gets up, dusts themselves off and carries on. But there were a lot of life-changing injuries in the first compilation.
I have done the jump off a boat and hit the dock wall one personally. I got away with a trip to hospital A&E for stitches, tetanus jab and a bad leg for a few weeks. I thought I was young and stupid back in the day, clearly I hadn't a clue.
The phone-filmed loading bay fails seem interesting, why film them at all unless it was known what was going to happen? Last day at work for the individuals filmed?
posted by epo at 8:54 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
I have done the jump off a boat and hit the dock wall one personally. I got away with a trip to hospital A&E for stitches, tetanus jab and a bad leg for a few weeks. I thought I was young and stupid back in the day, clearly I hadn't a clue.
The phone-filmed loading bay fails seem interesting, why film them at all unless it was known what was going to happen? Last day at work for the individuals filmed?
posted by epo at 8:54 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
I did not like the one where the lady got hit by the rogue tire. Not at all.
posted by grumpybear69 at 9:10 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 9:10 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
Yeah this is a little weird because indeed many of the clips are just people being dumb or irresponsible but there are definitely a few where you gotta assume someone died.
Speed kills, people.
posted by GuyZero at 9:13 AM on September 9, 2020
Speed kills, people.
posted by GuyZero at 9:13 AM on September 9, 2020
I now feel fremdschamen road rash quivers all over my body.
posted by notsnot at 9:14 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by notsnot at 9:14 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
Oh, how I love people hurting themselves doing something stupid. I am a bad person.
posted by Capt. Renault at 9:18 AM on September 9, 2020
posted by Capt. Renault at 9:18 AM on September 9, 2020
although I am always amazed at how people survive those jumping-into-a-pool-from-a-height-and-missing situations. it looks terrible and very painful! but somehow not fatal!
posted by GuyZero at 9:24 AM on September 9, 2020
posted by GuyZero at 9:24 AM on September 9, 2020
Welcome to Ridiculousness, I'm Rob Dyrdek. With me as always, Steelo Brim and Chanel West Coast.
I absolutely cringe at some of these, but I also love watching them. Fail videos are my weakness.
posted by hanov3r at 9:25 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
I absolutely cringe at some of these, but I also love watching them. Fail videos are my weakness.
posted by hanov3r at 9:25 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
Makes me feel like my lifetime of careful planning and attention to detail has not been wasted.
posted by aramaic at 9:27 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by aramaic at 9:27 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
(Okay, to be fair I was so excited by this person's return I didn't watch the latest one all the way through, apologies if I undersold the scariness of these. Grimacing emoji is me. Apologies to my fellow mefites, and if folks have been upset please mods feel free to add additional content warnings and accept my regrets and face-palm!)
posted by Zephyrial at 9:28 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Zephyrial at 9:28 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
Mod note: Zephyrial, give me the text you'd like to add/change to more accurately reflect the videos, and I can edit the post text.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 9:36 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 9:36 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
yeah this guy was the best link aggregator (though I do cover the screen or close my eyes when something really bad is going to happen to someone)
posted by Heywood Mogroot III at 9:39 AM on September 9, 2020
posted by Heywood Mogroot III at 9:39 AM on September 9, 2020
To cleanse the timeline: here's an amazing video (in which zero people get hurt) of a stray car tire whizzing up onto a house porch, taking out a support column, and smashing into the doorbell.
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:41 AM on September 9, 2020 [8 favorites]
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:41 AM on September 9, 2020 [8 favorites]
Oh, how I love people hurting themselves doing something stupid. I am a bad person.
I am definitely guilty of being the kind of person who has occasionally gone down a FAIL rabbit hole. I wouldn't call it therapeutic ... but maybe I should. Or maybe just, given the times we're in, I occasionally need to see STUPID get rewarded. By which I mean injured.
Speaking of which, this recent incident (#Dumbkirk) may just be the FAIL we all need right now. Still haven't seen any actual video though.
posted by philip-random at 9:47 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
I am definitely guilty of being the kind of person who has occasionally gone down a FAIL rabbit hole. I wouldn't call it therapeutic ... but maybe I should. Or maybe just, given the times we're in, I occasionally need to see STUPID get rewarded. By which I mean injured.
Speaking of which, this recent incident (#Dumbkirk) may just be the FAIL we all need right now. Still haven't seen any actual video though.
posted by philip-random at 9:47 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
Mod note: Edited the text with OP's updates. Thanks!
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 9:52 AM on September 9, 2020
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 9:52 AM on September 9, 2020
Thanks LobsterMitten!
Rewatching these now, I am reminded that the magic of the edits is less "oh you can see they're ok" and more "let's cut away soon enough afterwards so you get distracted by something else before you can think too hard about the last one." It's that weird little gasp in between chuckles that gets me.
posted by Zephyrial at 9:55 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
Rewatching these now, I am reminded that the magic of the edits is less "oh you can see they're ok" and more "let's cut away soon enough afterwards so you get distracted by something else before you can think too hard about the last one." It's that weird little gasp in between chuckles that gets me.
posted by Zephyrial at 9:55 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
Oh, how I love people hurting themselves doing something stupid. I am a bad person.
Shame on you. I watch them for the physics.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:05 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
Shame on you. I watch them for the physics.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:05 AM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
I feel like in the spectrum between a guy dropping his cell phone and another guy getting literally doused in gasoline and lit on fire there's room to separate the clips into nobody-got-hurt and people-died videos.
But I think putting them together is part of what makes them effective. You don't have time to emphasize with the person who receives a life changing injury through no fault of her own because two seconds later you're laughing at some idiot who deserved what he got.
posted by klanawa at 10:45 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
But I think putting them together is part of what makes them effective. You don't have time to emphasize with the person who receives a life changing injury through no fault of her own because two seconds later you're laughing at some idiot who deserved what he got.
posted by klanawa at 10:45 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
The thing is that at the time, its all a big laugh but then the reality of a friend getting quite badly hurt must dawn. And they still post the video on social media! Kids are horrible, they should be banned.
posted by epo at 10:55 AM on September 9, 2020
posted by epo at 10:55 AM on September 9, 2020
I am definitely guilty of being the kind of person who has occasionally gone down a FAIL rabbit hole.
I broke my knee doing something stupid, so I come by my grim amusement honestly.
posted by Capt. Renault at 11:12 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
I broke my knee doing something stupid, so I come by my grim amusement honestly.
posted by Capt. Renault at 11:12 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
I think my favorite of these types of videos are where some macho idiot is showing off their Man Truck or Man Car or Man Bike or Man Toy in a way no one possibly finds cool and then ends up wrecking it without hurting anyone. I'm always a little astonished at how much money is just thrown away...like how is it you just laugh off a five-figure amount of damage to your thingy? Does that just mean some lib's roofing quote is being doubled on Monday?
posted by maxwelton at 11:29 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by maxwelton at 11:29 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
an astonishing number of bicyclists running full force into lift gates. Just, so many. I've learned 2 things so far: 1) people are way too comfortable lifting and moving things that are hundreds of times too heavy for them to lift or move, and 2) warehouse shelves are held together with lint and well wishes.
1:33 of the 2nd video is my favorite so far. Won't give away why, but it's unexpected
posted by FirstMateKate at 11:34 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
1:33 of the 2nd video is my favorite so far. Won't give away why, but it's unexpected
posted by FirstMateKate at 11:34 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
Speaking of lessons learned, I learned that you should probably not:
posted by mbrubeck at 12:01 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
- Jump that ditch.
- Jump off the roof.
- Jump off the balcony.
- Jump over a railing.
- Jump onto anything near water of any kind.
- Climb on that fountain.
- Stack boxes too high on your cart/dolly.
- Go off that jump.
- Do a wheelie.
posted by mbrubeck at 12:01 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
Jump onto anything near water of any kind.
Apparently pools are dangerous, but not for the reasons you'd expect.
posted by Ickster at 12:15 PM on September 9, 2020
Apparently pools are dangerous, but not for the reasons you'd expect.
posted by Ickster at 12:15 PM on September 9, 2020
some idiot who deserved what he got
This is disgusting.
posted by mhoye at 12:39 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
This is disgusting.
posted by mhoye at 12:39 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
> some idiot who deserved what he got
This is disgusting.
When you're giving two of your buddies a ride on your motorcycle (one side-saddle in your lap, one behind you), none of you are wearing any gear at all (no armor, no gloves, no helmets), and you all go over the ass end trying to do a wheelie? You deserve what you got, and I'll laugh at you.
That's 15:05 in the second linked video
posted by hanov3r at 12:50 PM on September 9, 2020
This is disgusting.
When you're giving two of your buddies a ride on your motorcycle (one side-saddle in your lap, one behind you), none of you are wearing any gear at all (no armor, no gloves, no helmets), and you all go over the ass end trying to do a wheelie? You deserve what you got, and I'll laugh at you.
That's 15:05 in the second linked video
posted by hanov3r at 12:50 PM on September 9, 2020
some idiot who deserved what he got
>This is disgusting.
No what's disgusting is that apparently 97% of Europe's landmass is ditches
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:25 PM on September 9, 2020 [7 favorites]
>This is disgusting.
No what's disgusting is that apparently 97% of Europe's landmass is ditches
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:25 PM on September 9, 2020 [7 favorites]
My desire to see and laugh at other peoples' misfortune seems to have disappeared of late.
posted by tommasz at 1:55 PM on September 9, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by tommasz at 1:55 PM on September 9, 2020 [5 favorites]
Alvy Ampersand: Shame on you. I watch them for the physics.
I watch for the physiology. We live an a cold drafty farmhouse and sometimes the easiest solution in the evenings is to stuff a hot-water bottle up me jumper. in 2017 I was doing some internet research on dams and floods [it was around Oroville time] and found myself watching with a sort of horrified compulsion a flash flood coursing across a US interstate highway in some South-Western desert. An impatient car-driver waited a minute and then started off into the flood. As his front wheels got to deeper water they lifted off and the car started slewing towards the road margin which fell away in a boiling torrent across the desert. He stopped, the car paused its drift and the dashcam operator urged him to "back up dude, that's not sensible" . . . the hazard lights came on but there was no more movement and eventually the tide seemed to ebb a bit. Suddenly I felt sick. I got up, threw away the hot-water bottle, had a small drink of cold water and went and stood outside in the cold darkness for a few minutes. That put a stop to the barf's gallop.
Here's what I think happened: luckily I have taken my own course in Human Physiology so I know a thing or two about how the body maintains its equilibria. In my lectures on the nervous system, I spend a lot of time on the autonomic nervous system ANS which has two complementary sections 1) the sympathetic division is for fright, flight and fight responses mediated by adrenalin while 2) the para-sympathetic uses acetyl-choline for rest & digest to recuperate and replenish after the drain on resources induced by a flood of adrenalin.
My bout of nausea came about because the hot-water bottle was causing a lot of intestinal warm glow and circulation [parasympathetic] but the youtube video was cranking me into a state of anxiety [sympathetic] and this conflict in my ANS was saying "something is not right, I think we'd better jettison the last thing I ate just in case".
posted by BobTheScientist at 2:11 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
I watch for the physiology. We live an a cold drafty farmhouse and sometimes the easiest solution in the evenings is to stuff a hot-water bottle up me jumper. in 2017 I was doing some internet research on dams and floods [it was around Oroville time] and found myself watching with a sort of horrified compulsion a flash flood coursing across a US interstate highway in some South-Western desert. An impatient car-driver waited a minute and then started off into the flood. As his front wheels got to deeper water they lifted off and the car started slewing towards the road margin which fell away in a boiling torrent across the desert. He stopped, the car paused its drift and the dashcam operator urged him to "back up dude, that's not sensible" . . . the hazard lights came on but there was no more movement and eventually the tide seemed to ebb a bit. Suddenly I felt sick. I got up, threw away the hot-water bottle, had a small drink of cold water and went and stood outside in the cold darkness for a few minutes. That put a stop to the barf's gallop.
Here's what I think happened: luckily I have taken my own course in Human Physiology so I know a thing or two about how the body maintains its equilibria. In my lectures on the nervous system, I spend a lot of time on the autonomic nervous system ANS which has two complementary sections 1) the sympathetic division is for fright, flight and fight responses mediated by adrenalin while 2) the para-sympathetic uses acetyl-choline for rest & digest to recuperate and replenish after the drain on resources induced by a flood of adrenalin.
My bout of nausea came about because the hot-water bottle was causing a lot of intestinal warm glow and circulation [parasympathetic] but the youtube video was cranking me into a state of anxiety [sympathetic] and this conflict in my ANS was saying "something is not right, I think we'd better jettison the last thing I ate just in case".
posted by BobTheScientist at 2:11 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
For those who would like a gentler mix: Best Fails and Wins.
posted by storybored at 2:12 PM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by storybored at 2:12 PM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
some idiot who deserved what he got
This is disgusting.
posted by mhoye at 12:39 PM on September 9 [+] [!]
Look, if you're dumb enough to do a handstand on concrete steps and the worst thing that happens is that you drop your phone, you got off pretty easy and learned an important lesson.
Maybe dial in the aim on your outrage cannon.
posted by klanawa at 2:35 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
This is disgusting.
posted by mhoye at 12:39 PM on September 9 [+] [!]
Look, if you're dumb enough to do a handstand on concrete steps and the worst thing that happens is that you drop your phone, you got off pretty easy and learned an important lesson.
Maybe dial in the aim on your outrage cannon.
posted by klanawa at 2:35 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
I want to go further than the other complainants: this isn't OK to share on MeFi and I don't get why people think it is?
There are people are doing dumb things, sure. People shouldn't do these dumb things. Rich people trash high-value assets, dumb moves end badly, I kind of get the schadenfreude.
But... laughing at, taking pleasure from watching actual human beings, who are people, getting horribly injured or maybe actually fucking dying? What the fuck, MeFi? What is actually wrong with you?
No, not this. This is bad. We shouldn't be normalising/laughing/celebrating this.
posted by parm at 4:32 PM on September 9, 2020 [7 favorites]
There are people are doing dumb things, sure. People shouldn't do these dumb things. Rich people trash high-value assets, dumb moves end badly, I kind of get the schadenfreude.
But... laughing at, taking pleasure from watching actual human beings, who are people, getting horribly injured or maybe actually fucking dying? What the fuck, MeFi? What is actually wrong with you?
No, not this. This is bad. We shouldn't be normalising/laughing/celebrating this.
posted by parm at 4:32 PM on September 9, 2020 [7 favorites]
Lots of these fails involve males. Just sayin’.
posted by vac2003 at 5:38 PM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by vac2003 at 5:38 PM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
We shouldn't be normalising/laughing/celebrating this.
ç'était seulement pour encourager les autres
nine years since speaking French, apologies for errors, and also to Adm. Byng
posted by aramaic at 7:39 PM on September 9, 2020
ç'était seulement pour encourager les autres
nine years since speaking French, apologies for errors, and also to Adm. Byng
posted by aramaic at 7:39 PM on September 9, 2020
Maybe dial in the aim on your outrage cannon.
This post demeans the blue and leaving it up was a mistake.
posted by mhoye at 7:54 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
This post demeans the blue and leaving it up was a mistake.
posted by mhoye at 7:54 PM on September 9, 2020 [2 favorites]
Hi all! I am feeling bad about the direction this has gone, and I take responsibility for posting it without thinking too hard about how the content of “literally people getting hurt” would make people feel. I realize that sounds incredibly stupid, but I’ve been in a bit of a brain-fog lately and thought “hey, this thing that made me excited today might be worth sharing with metafilter!” (In my own meager defense, my own joy around schedenfreude was indeed stronger pre-2016.) I agree there’s an empathy deficit going around today and I never meant to contribute to it, nor to pollute anybody’s experience of the blue with videos that spread shittiness. I’m sorry.
Mods, please feel free to delete if you think that’s the right way to move forward! I know you folks have hard jobs this year and I regret if this stupid post made your jobs harder today.
And fellow mefites, please accept my apologies and thank you for responding as clearheadedly as you have. I won’t threadsit but as penance I can only think to offer this twitter thread of complete unadulterated care and joy.
posted by Zephyrial at 8:01 PM on September 9, 2020 [4 favorites]
Mods, please feel free to delete if you think that’s the right way to move forward! I know you folks have hard jobs this year and I regret if this stupid post made your jobs harder today.
And fellow mefites, please accept my apologies and thank you for responding as clearheadedly as you have. I won’t threadsit but as penance I can only think to offer this twitter thread of complete unadulterated care and joy.
posted by Zephyrial at 8:01 PM on September 9, 2020 [4 favorites]
I think the "but people are getting hurt" reaction is an age thing.
I agree; my kids love fail videos and laugh at them while I cringe and wonder how long the physio is going to take.
posted by nubs at 8:14 PM on September 9, 2020
I agree; my kids love fail videos and laugh at them while I cringe and wonder how long the physio is going to take.
posted by nubs at 8:14 PM on September 9, 2020
It is an age thing. My 90 yr old dad kills himself laughing while I feel a leetle bit ugh.
posted by storybored at 8:20 PM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by storybored at 8:20 PM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
Young enough not to care, or old enough to laugh in the face of death?
posted by nubs at 8:26 PM on September 9, 2020
posted by nubs at 8:26 PM on September 9, 2020
It's not an age thing it's a not giving a shit about other human beings thing.
Which I get, I'm an arsehole too.
posted by fullerine at 11:12 PM on September 9, 2020
Which I get, I'm an arsehole too.
posted by fullerine at 11:12 PM on September 9, 2020
I don't claim it's in any way bad to enjoy this and I'm not sorry to see it posted. But, the quick cutting between "this is a bit embarrassing" and "you'll never walk again" moments sure is a bit jarring. Maybe it's just 'cause I have a busted lip, scabbed knees, and a possibly broken tailbone at the moment, but I'm having a hard time enjoying this right now. But, it's not like I clicked on it without knowing what I was getting into.
For those looking for a similar fix but with assurance nobody is physically hurt, I recommend Just for Laughs. (Note that they do - in other videos - sometimes make very unfortunate choices with regard to sexual preference, the existence of trans people, and occasionally race. But, the "oh shit" moments are pretty satisfying.)
posted by eotvos at 2:01 AM on September 10, 2020
For those looking for a similar fix but with assurance nobody is physically hurt, I recommend Just for Laughs. (Note that they do - in other videos - sometimes make very unfortunate choices with regard to sexual preference, the existence of trans people, and occasionally race. But, the "oh shit" moments are pretty satisfying.)
posted by eotvos at 2:01 AM on September 10, 2020
I recommend Just for Laughs
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posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:48 AM on September 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
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posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:48 AM on September 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
Young enough not to care, or old enough to laugh in the face of death?
Whistling past the launchramp.
posted by rhizome at 6:58 PM on September 10, 2020
Whistling past the launchramp.
posted by rhizome at 6:58 PM on September 10, 2020
My desire to see and laugh at other peoples' misfortune seems to have disappeared of late.
Really? Mine just got a bit more specific.
posted by atoxyl at 9:02 PM on September 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
Really? Mine just got a bit more specific.
posted by atoxyl at 9:02 PM on September 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
No, not this. This is bad. We shouldn't be normalising/laughing/celebrating this
You might wanna tell that to 2012-2015.
(I do feel that including, say, random motor vehicle accidents that don't seem to involve anybody trying anything stupid or memorably fucking up simple procedures is rather unsporting.)
posted by atoxyl at 9:10 PM on September 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
You might wanna tell that to 2012-2015.
(I do feel that including, say, random motor vehicle accidents that don't seem to involve anybody trying anything stupid or memorably fucking up simple procedures is rather unsporting.)
posted by atoxyl at 9:10 PM on September 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
It would be better to edit out the ones that appear to show serious injuries and focus on clips that show disaster following upon hubris or overreach. We might also save those that show catastrophe resulting from inattention or incompetence. The takeaway should be: "Pride cometh before the fall" and "Massive things fail massively".
Those are the ones I like. Thinking you can jump the creek but falling short is a great fail video; someone getting injured or killed isn't something I need to watch.
posted by Dip Flash at 7:24 AM on September 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Those are the ones I like. Thinking you can jump the creek but falling short is a great fail video; someone getting injured or killed isn't something I need to watch.
posted by Dip Flash at 7:24 AM on September 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
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