h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you suffer from motion sickness, probably best not to watch what I did after work the other day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUl7Ng7PKA0

Thanks TC.

Stargate SG1 McKay Vs Carter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx24s7ZQG-Q

Here's Adam Buxton reading out YouTube comments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-WBaSNrTQ

I'm in the audience but just out of shot I'm afraid.

Happy Canada Day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBI68Il4Zsc&feature=player_embedded

Sorry-



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBI68Il4Zsc

Grrr!

WHY is this happening!?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBI68Il4Zsc

On post 2441, Hoovooloo parasail gliding, when the vertigo hits (usually only if I've been off my meds for a protracted time), I reach fpr the prozac. It doesn't operate instantly, but with regular use, as for depression, prevents vertigo entirely (for me, without side effects), drastically superior to the immediate action dramamine.

For cl zoomer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBI68Il4Zsc

~jwf~ showed me the error of my waysssssss.

If you're a bit of a lefty, you might know the French anthem, "the Internationale".

You've probably not heard it sung like this, though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLF7Fl4SXh8

How Many Dogs Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP7_BCevW-0

The 8-bit version of the Game of Thrones theme:

http://youtu.be/qyCCfJwFh8I

This thread has been dormant for a while.

So here you are.

If I could speak Japanese, I would be able to understand what was being said here:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0DsVPkyZg&feature=related

But I would still have no idea why!

PP.

If you're between the ages of about 35 and 65, you probably grew up with people - parents or grandparents - telling what life was like "during the war", with the clear implication that YOUR life was better because you weren't living through a war. And at the time, you might have thought you weren't.

Except...

Except it's hard to describe to someone who's, say, twenty, that when I was ten I knew, really knew for certain, that there was a realistic chance that I'd never see forty. I knew for certain that there was a realistic chance that I and everyone I knew and had ever met would be dead before the decade was out, either vapourised (if we were lucky) or a slow death from radiation poisoning. Newspapers, magazines, books, comics, films, television shows and even Bod help us pop music remind us of this fact on a pretty much daily basis. There weren't daily raids of planes coming over with actual bombs like there were during the Blitz, but there was a daily rain of information telling us that if someone said something wrong at the UN or there was a mistake in some bunker somewhere, we'd have four minutes to get our affairs in order.

Science fiction today takes it as read that the future will be high-tech, full of robots and computers and flying cars and wacky gadgets - see The Fifth Element, Minority Report, I Robot etc. Science fiction of my childhood took it as read that the future would be a nuclear wasteland. That's why Star Wars was such a breath of fresh air.

What all this is driving towards is the following video, which shows chillingly how, if you're between 35 and 65, you lived through a war. A war conducted slowly and carefully right across the globe, a war in which, after the initial burst of incredible violence, each side used its weapons on itself as a warning to others about the terrible consequences should they ever need to be used on someone else. A war which, as a species, we now seem to have managed to bring almost to a halt. It's hard to say if anyone "won", per se. It's hard to say how many casualties there were.

But if you're about my age, tell your kids - you lived through a war. Don't forget it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY

On post 2453, a little incongruous watching a marching and drill team perform in civilian clothing.

They remind me a little of a live performance by the UK's Black Watch I saw once upon a time.

iQuad does Queen.

(Full screen and crank up the volume!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSHLu51TS84

Counting is fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXvsl8xgRxc

But the novelty wears off.

PP

Academy Award Winning Trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAG9Xn5bJwQ&hd=1

Ithink it's fair to say that this guy is a nutter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p8kG24_El0&feature=related

and

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

and a bit of a bio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=758glVBglfM&feature=related

PP.

How a differential works.
A late 1930s demonstration film.

http://youtu.be/K4JhruinbWc


~jwf~