All I see are two blank boxes (not allowed to look at videos at work). I’ll request it again: Please put a description of videos below them.
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West of the Cascades
This made my morning, thanks! For Belafon: Air New Zealand has Richard Simmons doing a “Fit to Fly” in-flight safety briefing. It’s funny and surprisingly effective.
@Omnes Omnibus: You know, I almost despise Kleefisch more than I do Walker. Almost.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: Schimel sucks too. This was such an easy ballot to fill out.
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sm*t cl*de
Air-NZ makes novelty air-safety videos as part of their advertising strategy. Bear Grylls is the celebrity in the current video; the next one — as breathlessly reported by news media around the world — will follow a Hobbit theme.
In practice the gimmicky videos are incredibly annoying to watch after the first or second time, forcing regular fliers to plug in ear-buds just to drown out the insult to their intelligence. I am not well-pleased with the ANZ policy of sacrificing the “accident preparedness” purpose of safety demonstrations and turning them into company promotion.
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Gin & Tonic
OT? OK. So the FT’s deputy Moscow bureau chief, Courtney Weaver, writes of meeting Russian soldiers in a restaurant in Luhansk (occupied eastern Ukraine) and the Defense Ministry of Russia issues a statement that Rush Limbaugh would consider condescending, calling her, among other things, a “naive girl.”
Two students are dead at Marysville-Pilchuck High School Friday morning after one of them opened fire on campus before turning the gun on himself, according to law-enforcement sources.
Police have not released details, but there are reports of four other people shot about 10:45 a.m.
Four of the injured were taken by ambulance to Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, including one with a head wound. A Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman said they were expecting one victim there, though it wasn’t clear if that person was being transferred from Providence.
At a noon news conference, Marysville Police Commander Robb Lamoureaux called the scene an active investigation and said police officers are still going door-to-door to ensure the school campus is safe. They are leaving tape to mark the doors of the rooms that have been cleared. Officers are finding students and staff members hiding alone or in small groups.
When can we expect the RICO investigation of the NRA?
Some of the girls had a way to hide the blades in their mouths
And a lot of kids came to work drunk and smuggled more booze into school. You do remember that, right?
Maybe these ammosexual copycatters need to learn about smuggling vodka mixed with orange juice into first period. Healthy ways to deal with problems! Also unprotected sex behind the bleachers. We had no respect for ourselves and we liked it! Kids today!
I’m with Amir — I’m pretty sure Simmons was never “in,” so he can’t really come out.
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Another Holocene Human
@Another Holocene Human: to be fair, me and my friends were not so much with the unprotected sex because in ninth grade we had an HIV poz speaker come to our school and talk to us about the agony of having a kid while positive, all of us except our one friend whose mother refused to sign a permission slip. She went on to date a middle aged professor while a college undergrad, keeping it a secret from her mother, until she grew some brains and dumped him so–parenting! FTW!
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Another Holocene Human
@Mnemosyne: You’re in as soon as you deny it, heaven knows he’s denied it plenty.
ETA: just to clarify, this shit is personal for me … I came out back in ’97 and that was not without risks. I know hollywood people have “people” who live off of them parasitically and try to stop them from coming out because they’re worried about their frigging paycheck but for fuck’s sake … still have an animus towards Jodie Foster all these years later, for the record
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Omnes Omnibus
@Another Holocene Human: I graduated from high school in ’82. Since it was in WI and WI was a 18 state back then, there was quite a bit of semi-legal drinking. That’s about it.
FWIW, Jodie Foster has actually come out several times (I think the first time was in 2007, but she did it again in 2013 at the Golden Globes) but it didn’t get much coverage because no one seems to care at this point. I do wonder if Simmons is still following the old Morrissey 1980s definition of “being gay” — if you’re not having sex, you’re not gay, you’re celibate.
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Trollhattan
Barry Bams: objectively pro-ebola.
Now he’s got cooties!
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Another Holocene Human
@Omnes Omnibus: Could be the proximity to the British Isles and their drinking problems, but teenage alcoholism in New England was a thing.
Maybe in WI the culture is different, Germans vs. Irish/English.
Goddammit. GODDAMMIT, I say, GODDAMMIT! I have but three phobias: spiders, needles, and Richard Simmons, and you have to go and post that … that THING. The creeps, I have them.
And I’ve actually lived the nightmare. Years ago, back in my reporter days, I was covering the annual bookseller’s convention — in Chicago, I think — when I rounded a corner on the the convention floor and literally, physically ran into Richard Simmons. He was tank-topped, of course; sweat glistened in his chest hair. My recoil was beyond classic. He laughed pleasantly and apologized, but I couldn’t erase “aghast” from my face. Brrrrrrrrrr. That’s about as creeped out as I’ve ever been.
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Another Holocene Human
@Mnemosyne: I know she came out in ’07 but unlike a lot of people, I’m still holding a grudge. Maybe that’s wrong of me.
Jodie Foster had a man try to kill the president of the United States because he was sexually obsessed with her. It’s hard for me to blame her for deciding to keep her private life as private as possible from that point forward. I think you’re a little younger than me, so I’m not sure you remember how she was hounded by the press for months after that, and reporters still try to ask her about it.
gimmicky videos are incredibly annoying to watch after the first or second time, forcing regular fliers to plug in ear-buds just to drown out the insult to their intelligence
Meh. I hear you, but last few flights I have noticed no one paying attention to the boring versions, either. Half of them had earbuds and music on as well, and the rest were reading or talking to their seatmates.
@SatanicPanic: Oh yeah, and there was a bloody knife murder too. That was pretty terrible. High school is scary.
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beth
Oh for fucks sake. Jake Tapper has one of the kids who was in the school during the shooting on the phone telling what happened. He mentions the shooter’s name while he’s telling the story. After they cut away for a police briefing, they go back to this kid and Jake tells the kid he shouldn’t name the shooter yet because they don’t know if his parents have been notified yet. WTF?? God I hate CNN. Why are you even interviewing a kid who has just been through such a traumatic event? Why are his parents allowing this?
And a lot of kids came to work drunk and smuggled more booze into school. You do remember that, right?
I don’t remember that or the razor blades, but I do remember my lab partner sparking up in science class in junior high. He was also my driver’s ed partner and showed up on speed.
ETA: but not in the 90s, though I doubt things changed that much.
@Mnemosyne: She was in my class in college; it was freshman year. I never knew her, but boy do I remember it! (It was just mildly annoying then, for everyone but her; I’d hate to imagine what it would be like with the level of culture media we have now.)
Now imagine if she’d come out and had to deal with “John Hinckley Turned Me Gay!” headlines screaming from every tabloid.
It’s a great social advancement that people can now come out early in their careers without damaging their prospects, but I think people forget that there was a huge anti-gay backlash in the 1980s that was fighting against the GLBT civil rights movement. Activists fought through that time and got us all out the other side to a better place, but that doesn’t mean that time never existed or that people who started their careers during that time weren’t affected by it.
Saw her in a play at the Yale Rep at that time freshman year, and she was awesome. I remember being totally impressed at how she could focus so perfectly on her performance with that stuff going on.
OTOH, she did publish kind of an eyeroll-inducing piece about it later, in Esquire I think.
@Omnes Omnibus: Same here…voted for Goldilocks and like eleventy judges, eek. Highlight for me was literally bumping into Rev William Barber at work before hitting the polls.
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Heliopause
Time to dust off Aristotle again.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
The Marysville shooter was a bad guy with a gun.
The Marysville shooter was stopped when he killed himself.
Therefore…
@Bobby Thomson: Some of my geek friends smuggled metallic Magnesium out of the lab and set it on fire. Good times.
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HeartlandLiberal
@sm*t cl*de: I have to disagree. Back before retiring I flew often, and repeatedly observed that no one paid attention to the dry and traditional safety presentations, whether live by flight attendants or videos. I have to think these creative videos get much more attention. And if you are a frequent flier, and already know it all, well, feel free to plug those ear buds in while others not so experienced have a pleasurable preflight briefing.
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Belafon
All I see are two blank boxes (not allowed to look at videos at work). I’ll request it again: Please put a description of videos below them.
West of the Cascades
This made my morning, thanks! For Belafon: Air New Zealand has Richard Simmons doing a “Fit to Fly” in-flight safety briefing. It’s funny and surprisingly effective.
Amir Khalid
You’ve posted the same video twice.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: That’s so you can watch it again.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: It’s like stereo for your eyes.
Another Holocene Human
Did Richard Simmons come out and I missed it?
Omnes Omnibus
Also too, I got back a little while ago from in-person absentee voting. My little opportunity to tell Scotty and Becky to go home.
Amir Khalid
@Another Holocene Human:
Was he ever in the closet?
Gravenstone
@Omnes Omnibus: You know, I almost despise Kleefisch more than I do Walker. Almost.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: Schimel sucks too. This was such an easy ballot to fill out.
sm*t cl*de
Air-NZ makes novelty air-safety videos as part of their advertising strategy. Bear Grylls is the celebrity in the current video; the next one — as breathlessly reported by news media around the world — will follow a Hobbit theme.
In practice the gimmicky videos are incredibly annoying to watch after the first or second time, forcing regular fliers to plug in ear-buds just to drown out the insult to their intelligence. I am not well-pleased with the ANZ policy of sacrificing the “accident preparedness” purpose of safety demonstrations and turning them into company promotion.
Gin & Tonic
OT? OK. So the FT’s deputy Moscow bureau chief, Courtney Weaver, writes of meeting Russian soldiers in a restaurant in Luhansk (occupied eastern Ukraine) and the Defense Ministry of Russia issues a statement that Rush Limbaugh would consider condescending, calling her, among other things, a “naive girl.”
Trollhattan
Cripes. Freedom[tm] again visits an American high school.
When can we expect the RICO investigation of the NRA?
Another Holocene Human
@Trollhattan: Shit, remember the good old days when students just slashed other students with razor blades in the bathrooms?
Trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
A closet crafted of the finest chiffon.
Omnes Omnibus
@Another Holocene Human: Actually, no. I do remember a few fist fights.
Another Holocene Human
@Amir Khalid: He’s like Liberace, flamboyant and denies being homosexual
http://www.ballerstatus.com/2007/06/08/russell-simmons-denies-gay-rumors/
http://www.queerty.com/12-celebrities-who-should-come-out-in-2014-but-probably-wont-20140111
Another Holocene Human
@Omnes Omnibus: It was the 1990s?
Some of the girls had a way to hide the blades in their mouths
And a lot of kids came to work drunk and smuggled more booze into school. You do remember that, right?
Maybe these ammosexual copycatters need to learn about smuggling vodka mixed with orange juice into first period. Healthy ways to deal with problems! Also unprotected sex behind the bleachers. We had no respect for ourselves and we liked it! Kids today!
Mnemosyne
@Another Holocene Human:
I’m with Amir — I’m pretty sure Simmons was never “in,” so he can’t really come out.
Another Holocene Human
@Another Holocene Human: to be fair, me and my friends were not so much with the unprotected sex because in ninth grade we had an HIV poz speaker come to our school and talk to us about the agony of having a kid while positive, all of us except our one friend whose mother refused to sign a permission slip. She went on to date a middle aged professor while a college undergrad, keeping it a secret from her mother, until she grew some brains and dumped him so–parenting! FTW!
Another Holocene Human
@Mnemosyne: You’re in as soon as you deny it, heaven knows he’s denied it plenty.
ETA: just to clarify, this shit is personal for me … I came out back in ’97 and that was not without risks. I know hollywood people have “people” who live off of them parasitically and try to stop them from coming out because they’re worried about their frigging paycheck but for fuck’s sake … still have an animus towards Jodie Foster all these years later, for the record
Omnes Omnibus
@Another Holocene Human: I graduated from high school in ’82. Since it was in WI and WI was a 18 state back then, there was quite a bit of semi-legal drinking. That’s about it.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@sm*t cl*de: The Hobbit vid is already out.
Mnemosyne
@Another Holocene Human:
FWIW, Jodie Foster has actually come out several times (I think the first time was in 2007, but she did it again in 2013 at the Golden Globes) but it didn’t get much coverage because no one seems to care at this point. I do wonder if Simmons is still following the old Morrissey 1980s definition of “being gay” — if you’re not having sex, you’re not gay, you’re celibate.
Trollhattan
Barry Bams: objectively pro-ebola.
Now he’s got cooties!
Another Holocene Human
@Omnes Omnibus: Could be the proximity to the British Isles and their drinking problems, but teenage alcoholism in New England was a thing.
Maybe in WI the culture is different, Germans vs. Irish/English.
Hungry Joe
Goddammit. GODDAMMIT, I say, GODDAMMIT! I have but three phobias: spiders, needles, and Richard Simmons, and you have to go and post that … that THING. The creeps, I have them.
And I’ve actually lived the nightmare. Years ago, back in my reporter days, I was covering the annual bookseller’s convention — in Chicago, I think — when I rounded a corner on the the convention floor and literally, physically ran into Richard Simmons. He was tank-topped, of course; sweat glistened in his chest hair. My recoil was beyond classic. He laughed pleasantly and apologized, but I couldn’t erase “aghast” from my face. Brrrrrrrrrr. That’s about as creeped out as I’ve ever been.
Another Holocene Human
@Mnemosyne: I know she came out in ’07 but unlike a lot of people, I’m still holding a grudge. Maybe that’s wrong of me.
Another Holocene Human
@Trollhattan: Nice.
Mnemosyne
@Another Holocene Human:
Jodie Foster had a man try to kill the president of the United States because he was sexually obsessed with her. It’s hard for me to blame her for deciding to keep her private life as private as possible from that point forward. I think you’re a little younger than me, so I’m not sure you remember how she was hounded by the press for months after that, and reporters still try to ask her about it.
C.V Danes
Nice to know someone out there still likes to have fun :-)
SatanicPanic
@Another Holocene Human: Jeezus I went to high school in the 90s too and it wasn’t that bad. One dude did get shot to death though.
currants
@sm*t cl*de:
Meh. I hear you, but last few flights I have noticed no one paying attention to the boring versions, either. Half of them had earbuds and music on as well, and the rest were reading or talking to their seatmates.
SatanicPanic
@SatanicPanic: Oh yeah, and there was a bloody knife murder too. That was pretty terrible. High school is scary.
beth
Oh for fucks sake. Jake Tapper has one of the kids who was in the school during the shooting on the phone telling what happened. He mentions the shooter’s name while he’s telling the story. After they cut away for a police briefing, they go back to this kid and Jake tells the kid he shouldn’t name the shooter yet because they don’t know if his parents have been notified yet. WTF?? God I hate CNN. Why are you even interviewing a kid who has just been through such a traumatic event? Why are his parents allowing this?
Bobby Thomson
@Another Holocene Human:
I don’t remember that or the razor blades, but I do remember my lab partner sparking up in science class in junior high. He was also my driver’s ed partner and showed up on speed.
ETA: but not in the 90s, though I doubt things changed that much.
Corner Stone
@Another Holocene Human:
Doesn’t sound like any John Hughes movie I’ve ever seen.
Redshift
@Mnemosyne: She was in my class in college; it was freshman year. I never knew her, but boy do I remember it! (It was just mildly annoying then, for everyone but her; I’d hate to imagine what it would be like with the level of culture media we have now.)
Mnemosyne
@Redshift:
Now imagine if she’d come out and had to deal with “John Hinckley Turned Me Gay!” headlines screaming from every tabloid.
It’s a great social advancement that people can now come out early in their careers without damaging their prospects, but I think people forget that there was a huge anti-gay backlash in the 1980s that was fighting against the GLBT civil rights movement. Activists fought through that time and got us all out the other side to a better place, but that doesn’t mean that time never existed or that people who started their careers during that time weren’t affected by it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Not a John Hughes flick, but from the same era.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Is there anything James Spader can’t do?
I would Joe Biden literally kill for that hair.
eemom
@Redshift:
Saw her in a play at the Yale Rep at that time freshman year, and she was awesome. I remember being totally impressed at how she could focus so perfectly on her performance with that stuff going on.
OTOH, she did publish kind of an eyeroll-inducing piece about it later, in Esquire I think.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone:
I don’t think he can do that hair anymore.
Mike E
@Omnes Omnibus: Same here…voted for Goldilocks and like eleventy judges, eek. Highlight for me was literally bumping into Rev William Barber at work before hitting the polls.
Heliopause
Time to dust off Aristotle again.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
The Marysville shooter was a bad guy with a gun.
The Marysville shooter was stopped when he killed himself.
Therefore…
Xboxershorts
Dude, you’ve got issues man. Serious issues.
Bobby Thomson
@Omnes Omnibus: a truly ridiculous movie. Much better one.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bobby Thomson: I was reaching for the ridiculous.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Mission accomplished.
ChrisH
Delta Airlines have made some semi humorous videos for the safety check but this blows them out of the water.
Annamal
Air New Zealand has made a number of gimmicky safety videos but my favourite is the first one.
Warning for (non-salacious) nudity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Mq9HAE62Y
The blooper reel from that one is cute too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavyisZHyCs
Another Holocene Human
@Bobby Thomson: Some of my geek friends smuggled metallic Magnesium out of the lab and set it on fire. Good times.
HeartlandLiberal
@sm*t cl*de: I have to disagree. Back before retiring I flew often, and repeatedly observed that no one paid attention to the dry and traditional safety presentations, whether live by flight attendants or videos. I have to think these creative videos get much more attention. And if you are a frequent flier, and already know it all, well, feel free to plug those ear buds in while others not so experienced have a pleasurable preflight briefing.