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September 08, 2004

Great Moments in Male Stupidity

So, what the hell, it's Friday night and you don't have dates. You might as well get your buddy to shoot 25 roman candles directly at a bullseye on your chest, right?

The thing is, as stupid as this is, I personally wanted to do something like this in high school.

The dude getting pelted by 25 scorching-hot roman candles is funny enough. Funnier still is the ending-- "Water, water!"

That clip is work-safe.

I have to give credit to the site I got it from, but before I do, I have to say that many of the clips at this site are definitely not work-safe, and you can't always tell which are safe and which aren't based on a clip's description. This guy has some funny videos, and some videos which aren't so much funny as dirty-filthy, so you should be careful about opening them.

By the Way: The guy armed with the rockets is like a freaking James Bond of roman candles. He hits with half of them from a range of twenty or twenty five feet. How the hell did he get so good about aiming them?

I think we have to conclude that this isn't the first time they've done this. Which makes it an even greater moment in male stupidity-- doing something stupid once is understandable, but doing something stupid repeatedly until you actually become skilled at it is downright praisworthy.

We may have found John Kerry's next campaign manager.

The Coolest Moments in Male Stupidity: Awesome urban-acrobatic stunts from "The French Spiderman.


posted by Ace at 02:32 AM
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I'm downstairs snorting with laughter, trying not to wake up my wife upstairs. It's painful, like a roman candle to the gut. What does it say about the darkness of my soul that I found this so lung-collapsing hilarious?

"OOF. OW. Bang. OW. zip. WHOA. fzzz. YIEAH!"

My favorite part was at the end, when the target peels out of his flaming sweatshirt. "Waterwaterwater!" screams the candle shooter. (Third guy dumps bucket of water on the victim's smoldering shirt, on the ground.) "On HIM!"

Give that man a purple heart.

Posted by: See Dubya on September 8, 2004 02:55 AM

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2044 Democratic presidential candidate, Bullseye Guy!

"That night is seared, seared into my memory. I came under heavy, sustained rocket fire. Despite being heavily wounded, I stood my ground and completed my duty..."

"Republicans see bulleyes upon all the children and elderly of the nation. Under my administration, the only bullseye will be on my chest!!!"

Posted by: Capp on September 8, 2004 03:28 AM

That was hee-frickin-larious, probably because I can see various people I know trying to do something just like that.

Krugman, I'm looking at you...

Posted by: Sean M. on September 8, 2004 04:36 AM

Thanks, guys. I had barely managed to keep myself under control, and then I had to read this comments thread and wake the whole house up. Bastards, the lot of you.

I love this site.

Posted by: Rob on September 8, 2004 05:39 AM

Can't...stop...laughing...

Posted by: IdFaciam on September 8, 2004 09:00 AM

If this is the same site I'm thinking of, you've got to search for the French guy doing shadow finger puppets. It's the funniest thing to come out of France since Vichy.

Cheers,
Dave
Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave on September 8, 2004 11:03 AM

This might be a little vague of a question, but there's a video of these two French kids jumping off buildings and doing crazy judo moves and stuff. If you know what I'm talking about, does anyone know where I can find it? It's supercool.

Posted by: Sobek on September 8, 2004 12:06 PM

Oh my goodness.... rotfl.

Only men could do something *this stupid*.

Sobek, not to nitpick, but sure its judo? In America people tend *not* to practice judo because judo is hardly a 'flashy' sport (its rather closer to wrestling). Ok, ok, I'm done with the pendantic nitpicking. (Sheesh, I kinda understand how SDB must feel.)

Posted by: Rob on September 8, 2004 12:32 PM

The kids in the video are French, not American. But to be honest, I don't know the difference between judo and any other martial art. I just saw them doing all these crazy jumps, flips, kicks, rolls and other amazing stuff.

I saw the thing maybe seven or eight months ago. It is truly amazing.

Posted by: Sobek on September 8, 2004 12:50 PM

Sobek,

I have that video on my computer. The guy is doing a sport called "street climbing".

The video linked here you need to rename to a .wmv. The first two videos here work.

Posted by: addison on September 8, 2004 12:53 PM

Awesome. Right up there with the let's-pull-our-car-out-of-the-snow-by-hooking-the-rope-to-the-plastic-bumper guys...

Posted by: Longshanks on September 8, 2004 01:13 PM

That kid shooting the roman candles had this look of insane glee that all men get when they blow shit up. I will never understand it.

Posted by: lauraw on September 8, 2004 01:15 PM

Oh, this is their main site. I always knew it as "street climb" but they officially call it "Le parkour", the art of movement and its followers are called traceurs. Leave it to the French to try to philosophize jumping off buildings.

Posted by: addison on September 8, 2004 01:15 PM

I think the guy erred in wearing a helmet. I made a similar mistake as a kid once. It was in South Carolina, and my friends and I were having a firework war, and I thought it'd be a responsible thing to do to wear safety glasses.

Problem is, I got hit with a bottle rocket, which ordinarily would have glanced my head and flown own. Instead, it lodged in my glasses and blew up on my face.

That sucked. I did not get burned badly, but my ear rang for weeks.

Ah, those were the days!

Posted by: Barry N. Johnson on September 8, 2004 02:04 PM

Thanks Addison, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Posted by: Sobek on September 8, 2004 02:19 PM

You know, I find it hilarious that most men will nod, laugh, and probably recall an incident just like this from their own childhood (or from last weekend's drunken party). Most women will get a quizzical "WTF?" look on their face.

Ladies, if you ever wish to understand the male animal, you must understand not only what caused these men to shoot fireworks at each other, but also what caused them to film the event for posterity. Only then will you be enlightened.

Posted by: Monty on September 8, 2004 02:25 PM

This might be a little vague of a question, but there's a video of these two French kids jumping off buildings and doing crazy judo moves and stuff. If you know what I'm talking about, does anyone know where I can find it? It's supercool.

I ran that video a long time ago on the blogspot site. I'll dig it up again.

Posted by: ace on September 8, 2004 02:30 PM

Those jumpers really are awesome. I'm surprised nobody's enlisted their talents yet for a Fox special, or maybe even a crime-fighting superhero show. It could be even bigger than the time Menudo guest starred on Rubik: The Amazing Cube.

BTW-- any of the Blogger users on here having trouble today? I haven't been able to post since last night, all my posts just end up "Publishing" forever, stuck at 0% until it times out. Nobody can post comments, either. Happens at home, happens at work; I can't figure it out. Anyone have that problem before?

I sent a note to the tech support guys, but I fear that they'll write back about the same time I get replies to all the fan letters I sent to Gwar back in '99.

I *need* to post, dammit. I've been sitting on a new hypothesis that will upend our understanding of the Caine-Hackman theory, but if it doesn't go up soon, those bastards in Zurich might beat me to the punch.

Cheers,
Dave
Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave on September 8, 2004 02:42 PM

I don't know what's weirder, this video or that I heard about it from someone other than Dave Barry.

Posted by: Paul Zrimsek on September 8, 2004 03:16 PM

No sooner do I complain on Ace, but my blogging powers return after a nearly 24 hour blackout.

For his blog's healing powers, I will now sacrifice a hundred servants in Ace's honor.

Please visit GR to learn of the shadowy link between Jon Erik-Hexum and Radar O'Reilly.

Cheers,
Dave
Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave on September 8, 2004 03:55 PM

"Ladies, if you ever wish to understand the male animal..."

Yes, you are intriguing, fascinating creatures.

A mystery wrapped in a conundrum within an enigma shrouded by fart jokes.

Posted by: on September 8, 2004 04:46 PM
A mystery wrapped in a conundrum within an enigma shrouded by fart jokes.

Which reminds me: c'mere and pull my finger.

/snicker

Posted by: Monty on September 8, 2004 05:17 PM

As much as I want to hate everything French, I simply cannot get over how amazing that stuff is. (I dare them to try that when they're forty).

Posted by: Sobek on September 8, 2004 05:23 PM

I think the people who made this are MTV's Jackass.

There is an annual rally called the Gumball where rich folks come out and drive 3000 miles somewhere (imagine a flock of ferraris, porsches, lamborghinis, etc. going 150mph down the road). Anyway, this fellow was a participant in the last one, travelling in a winnebago with a bunch of MTV Jackass people. They called themselves the 'Ai Ya' group and he was the "whipping boy" and was, obviously, constantly beaten up and humiliated.

Posted by: addison on September 8, 2004 07:46 PM

I'm sitting here laughing my butt off, Monty. Thanks for reminding me I'm not 'most' women. Ok, I was the tomboy type. There's some quiz online somewhere (can't be bothered to look it up) that claims it can tell male from female. I keep getting 'male'.

But I am female enough to prefer being the shooter in that to being the shootee. (Damned if I'm letting anyone shoot missiles at MY chest!)

Back to laughing... it's too hard to laugh and type.

Posted by: Kathy K on September 8, 2004 08:29 PM

10 points to Dave for even knowing who Gwar is

Posted by: IgwanaRob on September 9, 2004 09:10 AM

Dave and IgwanaRob both get points for the hat tip to the fine composers who gave us "Maggots are Falling Like Rain."

Dude.

Posted by: Sobek on September 9, 2004 11:50 AM

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