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Open Thread – You must make a friend of horror

by Sarah Proud and Tall

I give you due warning – the sight of cute Russian boys in their undies is not adequate compensation for the boyband/Christmas acoustic horror that will overwhelm you if you press that play button.

I suspect Poe’s law may also apply to bad europop.

Sometimes the youtubes take me to scary places.

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January 28, 2012 2:00 am Posted in: Music, Open Thread  45 Comments

45 Responses

  1. Suffern ACE - January 28, 2012 | 2:11 am · Link

    Oh, please. Not even close to winning the award for europop boybands in underwear.

  2. Yutsano - January 28, 2012 | 2:15 am · Link

    Eurovision entry. It’s inevitable.

  3. Sarah Proud and Tall - January 28, 2012 | 2:17 am · Link

    @Suffern ACE:

    Jesus. Just, ... Jesus.

    It’s on, bitch.

  4. Omnes Omnibus - January 28, 2012 | 2:22 am · Link

    You people scare me, and I am going to go to bed.

  5. Sarah Proud and Tall - January 28, 2012 | 2:23 am · Link

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You people scare me, and I am going to go to bed.

    Wuss.

  6. John M. Burt - January 28, 2012 | 2:27 am · Link

    Gee, and here I assumed the audiovisual horror would be coming from one of the Republican debates.

  7. Suffern ACE - January 28, 2012 | 2:29 am · Link

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: Had I known I would have to produce a 2nd one, I wouldn’t have started at the top. But I will note that you’re response has no underwear.

  8. Yutsano - January 28, 2012 | 2:35 am · Link

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: You made me do this. And no I’m not just sucking up to eemom.

  9. John Cole - January 28, 2012 | 2:37 am · Link

    Which episode of Glee was that?

  10. Sarah Proud and Tall - January 28, 2012 | 2:39 am · Link

    @Suffern ACE:

    No, really, you won. Nothing I can come up with comes close to that thing you made me watch.

  11. Sarah Proud and Tall - January 28, 2012 | 2:41 am · Link

    @Yutsano:

    What the holy living fuck was that?

  12. Yutsano - January 28, 2012 | 2:43 am · Link

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: Bad spanakopita.

    (Don’t worry. I got more. Though this one is a touch catchy.)

    @Suffern ACE:

    Ageanime.

    Win.

  13. Suffern ACE - January 28, 2012 | 2:43 am · Link

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: Ageanime.

  14. freelancer - January 28, 2012 | 2:57 am · Link

    @Yutsano: @Suffern ACE:

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: You made me do this. And no I’m not just sucking up to eemom.

    Christ. And I thought Jesus was big in Italy and America!

  15. Origuy - January 28, 2012 | 3:00 am · Link

    I should have logged out of YouTube before I started reading this thread. Now it’s going to think I want to see more like those.

  16. Sarah Proud and Tall - January 28, 2012 | 3:01 am · Link

    @Yutsano:

    Though this one is a touch catchy.

    So is herpes.

    I do worry about you sometimes.

  17. Suffern ACE - January 28, 2012 | 3:03 am · Link

    @Origuy: Sure. But your Google imputed age probably just dropped 20 years.

  18. freelancer - January 28, 2012 | 3:07 am · Link

    I was just thinking, apropo of this thread that this is ripe for a take from Sasha Baron Cohen, but then I realized I haven’t seen the Bruno movie.

    I will get back to you, if I can get through it.

  19. Yutsano - January 28, 2012 | 3:11 am · Link

    @Sarah Proud and Tall:

    I do worry about you sometimes.

    I less than three you too hon.

  20. PanurgeATL - January 28, 2012 | 3:14 am · Link

    Feh! You call this cute? (And people complained about glam-metal hair bands in the ‘80s.)

  21. jeff - January 28, 2012 | 3:40 am · Link

    ...the barbaric language and fat heads negate whatever hotness is there. (Except one of them, who may have a Croat grandparent or something.) Plus, “Hepatitis” is a terrible name for a boy band.

  22. Citizen Alan - January 28, 2012 | 3:42 am · Link

    @Sarah Proud and Tall:

    It’s on, bitch.

    So at 1:40, is that what Mitt Romney really looks like beneath the magic underwear?

  23. BJ - January 28, 2012 | 4:00 am · Link

    A couple of things I learned from watching this video, and response videos from the comments: 1) I need to puncture my eardrums, move to eastern Europe and become some kind of music video producer. 2) My gayness and body condition are seriously deficient.

  24. Down and Out of Sài Gòn - January 28, 2012 | 4:06 am · Link

    So where’s Simo Häyhä when you need him?

  25. mac - January 28, 2012 | 5:40 am · Link

    Truly moving. Seldom has music literally brought tears to my eyes. I am still quaking with emotion.

  26. jeffreyw - January 28, 2012 | 5:57 am · Link

    This is horrific if you empathize too closely with fish. We are all monsters from someone’s point of view.

  27. amk - January 28, 2012 | 6:34 am · Link

    The birther drama in GA was hilarious.

    During closing arguments, as Taitz began referring to documents that were not in evidence, Malihi pointedly asked, “Counsel, are you testifying?”

    Taitz abruptly halted her arguments, took the witness stand and began testifying. Malihi soon cut her off.

    nucking futs all.

  28. Raven - January 28, 2012 | 7:37 am · Link

    hilarious article about the Pats

    http://nyti.ms/yHtGgy

  29. BO_Bill - January 28, 2012 | 7:45 am · Link

    It was nice of these boys to warm Yutsano up for me.

  30. wormtown - January 28, 2012 | 7:48 am · Link

    @John Cole: that’s very good.

  31. Lojasmo - January 28, 2012 | 8:30 am · Link

    Since we have an underwear thread, my sister-in-law’s wife owns a foundation’s business. They’re mostly sold at high end stores like Barney’s etc.

    So if any of you ladies want to pay outrageous prices for cute under stuff, check out Sloan and Tate

  32. Perfect Tommy - January 28, 2012 | 8:44 am · Link

    Did they expect a different number?
    Another Look at the State of the Union Address: 27% Turned Away After First 5 Minutes

    At least they are consistent…

  33. Rook - January 28, 2012 | 8:52 am · Link

    EVIL!

    This is
    PURE!
    EVIL!

    You are my Goddess, Sarah.

  34. Mino - January 28, 2012 | 8:56 am · Link

    GOS linked to this amazing short of the 9/11 Boatlift, narrated by Hanks. Guess I, too, never thought of Manhatten as an island in that connection.

    http://www.youtube.com/embed/MDOrzF7B2Kg?rel=0

  35. Stickler - January 28, 2012 | 8:57 am · Link

    A slight correction, in the name of East European nationalism: the under-wearing boys in question are Ukrainians, not Russians!

  36. Omnes Omnibus - January 28, 2012 | 9:04 am · Link

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: A man’s gotta know his limitations.

  37. Dekabrist - January 28, 2012 | 9:18 am · Link

    FYI: Ukrainian, not Russian.

  38. rea - January 28, 2012 | 9:44 am · Link

    Not bad, as long as you keep the sound turned off.

  39. Ken - January 28, 2012 | 10:51 am · Link

    I suspect Poe’s law may also apply to bad europop.

    Edgar Allen Poe, maybe. Or H.P. Lovecraft.

    And amk @27: Do you think judges ever look back on the good old days when they could order someone committed for psychiatric evaluation?

  40. kideni - January 28, 2012 | 11:47 am · Link

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: I kind of liked the parody response. Gettin’ down in the snow with Rune.

  41. kideni - January 28, 2012 | 11:49 am · Link

    @Yutsano: This is Icelandic music, dangit. Just a bunch of nice girls who are all getting married.

  42. Bruce S - January 28, 2012 | 1:03 pm · Link

    Newt’s billionaire angel loves Israel and…uh…the Chinese “Communists”:

    http://titanicsailsatdawn.blog.....aires.html

  43. Kola Noscopy - January 28, 2012 | 2:20 pm · Link

    Hey, I LIKE this video!

    Does that make me a bad person?

  44. jon - January 28, 2012 | 4:00 pm · Link

    Christmas and underpants? Kiss my ass!

  45. Nate Dawg - January 28, 2012 | 7:21 pm · Link

    Wrong. The cute Russian boys in their underwear is MORE THAN enough compensation for the horror of having to press the mute button. Yum.


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