Thursday Comic Relief

Maybe weather forecasts should always be like this. Jeremy Paxman does the weather on UK nightly program, Newsnight. 

https://vine.co/v/MTAWgqxj3Wh/embed/simple

Kathy Weppner poses with her campaign staff: 

OK Go with incredible optical illusions: 

 

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86ae_e_ptU]

Mick Jagger & David Bowie’s odd video for “Dancin’ in the Streets”, which aired during Live Aid in 1985, excerpts from which are now presented without music: 

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_li_d_YviZ4]

Just so you know, if you’re out in public, no one needs your permission to record video of you. 

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiDXda1WjrA]

In Rally, the co-driver calls out pacenotes to the driver, advising him of what’s coming up, letting the driver go as fast as possible. But come on, Samir, you’re breaking the car!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FymE2Vu-7lc]

Finally, Philosopher Football (as in soccer), from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Here, Germany v. Greece. 

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04]

It’s a funny skit, but the genius of Python is this: 

The Germans are disputing it. Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside. 

2 comments

  • Ridgewaycynic2013

    If I was Samir, my navigator would have been doing a forced ‘tuck and roll’ after about a kilometre…

  • That soccer video is awesome, but the Bournemouth Gynecologists versus the Watford Long John Silver Impersonators sketch is even better.

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