Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW* 91
Amazingly accurate for someone so plastered. I think all history should be taught at this level of intoxication.
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I don't care how it made it on the front, because it was so funny that I not only literally lol'd, but nearly literally peed my pants. Awesome!
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How in the name of Shub Internet did this make front page? Bad slashdot editors. Bad! No cookie for you.
Because it's funny. Front page funny. And it mixes comedy with an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college.
... some of which had serious merit and continue to influence us in new ways until this very day.
... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
Why? Probably because Edison was a pompous jerk. Probably because Tesla was an immigrant. Probably because he expressed too many alternative ideas
And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos
I disagree with your hard line "no cookie" stance and instead offer the Slashdot Editor trapped in my basement a full cookie and the ability to rub his eyeball on my shoe. I thoroughly enjoyed the throwing up of absinthe mixed with pineapple as well as the "Tesla was the Electric Jesus" statement.
All you have to do, girlintraining is filter Idle so that it doesn't appear on your front page. It's in your preferences.
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I disagree with your hard line "no cookie" stance and instead offer the Slashdot Editor trapped in my basement a full cookie and the ability to rub his eyeball on my shoe.
Just so we're clear: The cookies are not poisoned. Eat them.
All you have to do, girlintraining is filter Idle so that it doesn't appear on your front page. It's in your preferences.
In my preferences? Well, I prefer androgynous looking girls, with a strong personality, good sense of humor, and stunning eyes. Don't care so much about smoking or race, but heavy drug use is a kill-joy. I don't see why slashdot needs to know this though, but whatever. Will the pain stop now?
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In my preferences? Well, I prefer androgynous looking girls, with a strong personality, good sense of humor, and stunning eyes. Don't care so much about smoking or race, but heavy drug use is a kill-joy. I don't see why slashdot needs to know this though, but whatever. Will the pain stop now?
Could you give me a non-subjective definition of "good sense of humor"? How about an objective definition of "heavy drug use"? Because you can buy absinthe (grande wormwood even) nearly everywhere in the states now. Turns out it's never really been illegal after prohibition. Or perhaps six beers is heavy drug use? Or perhaps the coffee/energy drink he drank that morning? Or perhaps the high fructose corn syrup from the bread in his sandwich that he threw up? Maybe I should inform my coworker that tak
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Why should she have to give a non-subjective definition? She only used them in the context of a subjective description.
Maybe I should inform my coworker that takes an aspirin everyday that I don't enjoy his heavy drug use in my office space?
Am I getting "Wooshed" or something? Maybe my sarcasm detector is on the fritz, but that and several other sentences you gave are a textbook strawman.
Wait...do you think that was supposed to be a judgment of the guy on the video being drunk? Even though he's neither a girl nor androgynous? I think you're pulling her phrase out of one context and into another.
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*whoosh* :P she wasn't talking about the video at that point dude, she was employing some kind of "non sequitur humour"ous device.
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It was the pineapple on the pizza he ate, not the booze.. Pineapple on pizza ... yuck! No wonder he puked it up in chunks.
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Pineapple on pizza is precisely twelve types of wonderful, and I will electrocute sheep if you disagree with me!
And while I somewhat enjoyed the video, not once did I approach laughter. I'm not sure why people thought this was outrageously funny.
So I've decided to electrocute cows if you disagree with me!
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So I've decided to electrocute cows if you disagree with me!
mmmm.... electro-bbq....
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How dare you sir. Slashdot is Serious Business.
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Yet I didn't hear about him until college.
I had no idea who Tesla was until I read the liner notes to this 1989 masterpiece: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Radio_Controversy [wikipedia.org]
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> an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college. ... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
> And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos
Yes! Tesla has been overlooked and neglected and we need videos of drunks puking into toi
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So you're saying... in a hundred years we'll all have earthquake lasers?
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Meet samzenpus. He specializes in this kind of crap. He refuses to let idle die the death it deserves.
/. would TAKE THEM OUT OF THE MAIN RSS FEED! That way those of us who don't want to stumble upon this crap can avoid it.
If would be fine to have idle articles -- if only
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Lightweight! (Score:4, Funny)
6 American beers and half an absinthe? Come back when you've downed the best part of a bottle of whisky and a handfull of shrooms, and we can talk.
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Oh man, you must be a really cool guy.
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I wouldn't call him lucid.
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o.O Absinthe is basically a bottle of whisky with shrooms.
It's 70-90% alcohol with a hallucigenic drug mixed in.
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No it isn't. It used to be when it was illegal and made with more amounts of worm wood, but now worm wood is trace at best.
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This site has a pretty good FAQ:
http://www.wormwoodsociety.org/ [wormwoodsociety.org]
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Only when made right. He was probably drinking legal American Absinth. I know a few Americans who made the mistake in Southern or Easrtern Europe to order Absinth. They didn't feel too good, neither did I, because I was stupid enough to drink with them..
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Still incorrect. It is not hallucinogenic but a neurotoxin produced by the wormwood. So, all those 18th century french poets were not hallucinating but damaging their brains
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Talk about... what, exactly?
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Nothing More Inspiring (Score:5, Insightful)
Idle can please die. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Idle can please die. (Score:5, Informative)
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Is there a way to do this for RSS feeds as well?
I've asked this tons of times myself and gotten no answers.
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(Apologies to gays who are into that sort of thing.)
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Ah yes, my thesis defence... (Score:1)
...that video brings me back. Good times, yep.
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You drank half a bottle of absinthe and a six pack of beer before your thesis defense?
Crispin Glover makes me happy (Score:2)
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So does that other guy.
That's Reed Rothchild.
Where's my Flux Capacitor... (Score:2)
Crispin Glover was there and I still dont have a Flux Capacitor or even a hoverboard? Im pissed and I blame it all on Edison.
Pretty weak constitution (Score:1)
I can't imagine hurling on a 6 pack + half a bottle (however much that is) of Absinth.
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Beer before liquor never been sicker and liquor before beer never fear.
Oh, what nonesense. This never happened to me. Besides, mythbusters put this sucker to bed, once and for all.
http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/102109-mythbusters-dirty-versus-clean-car
Re:Pretty weak constitution (Score:4, Informative)
Uh, no. A fifth is 18 shots (a pint of liquor is 250 mL vs 750 mL for a fifth (yes, I know is seems wrong, but the names for those sized bottles no longer match their volumes, not even in the US)). Therefore a pint, being exactly one third of a fifth, is 6 shots. I define a shot as 42 mL, which is strikingly close to the US government's definition of 44 mL (1.5 fl oz).
And don't start claiming that is shot is some other size like 1 fl oz or 30 mL or some bullshit. It's slightly less than 1.5 fl oz, dammit. In fact, there MUST be 18 shots in a fifth. That way I can finish my bottle of whisky just as I start the 18th hole. (And now you know why there are 18 holes in a full round of golf.)
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A "fifth" is actually 1/5gal, or "one fifth of a gallon". This is 25.6oz of fluid, which is why in Canada we call it a "26'er"
Google [google.ca] translates this to 757.082357 ml.
Further, I'm not sure where you get your pints, but a 355ml bottle of beer isn't enough to fill a proper pint glass.
A pint is 16oz, 450ml, just shy of 2/3 of a fifth. A standard bottle of beer is 12oz. If you're only getting 250ml when you step up to the bar, I would hope you head back there now and get your change.
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I thought the discussion was about liquor, not beer.
I usually buy my liquor in handles. These traditionally contained half a gallon, but have been abbreviated to 1.75 liters.
Meanwhile, actually in actuality, the fifths sold here in Ohio are 750ml, not 757.082357ml. Canada is no different -- your 26'er, at 25.360517 fluid ounces, is a lot closer to being a 25'er than its name would imply.
There are also 1-liter bottles available (often referred to as a quart, even though that's also wrong).
Further, from Wik [wikipedia.org]
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drunk people are funny (Score:2)
drunk people are funny
the alcohol is the least of the interest here (Score:2)
Seth
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Recognized Krispy early on, Reilly not right away. Thought I saw Jason Lee, as well. lulz
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NSFW? (Score:1)
Funny or Die Presents (Score:1)
Weed (Score:1)
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Slashdot Killed the Video... (Score:1)
It now displays, "This video has been removed due to a breach of the Terms of Service."
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This reply has been removed due to a breach of the Terms of Service.
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And now the level of content is even more appropriate for Idle.
The video on YouTube (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah. Apparently someone uploaded teh video to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFazanaWQY [youtube.com]
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"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Funny or Die, Inc.. "
Anybody got a new mirror? I still haven't been able to see the video.
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I never hated idle before.... (Score:1, Flamebait)
Fuck idle.
There. Maybe we can get a 2000 post discussion all saying the same two words. Then maybe crap like this won't make it to the front page anymore. I mean really. Who voted this shite up? When did slashdot become digg?
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But not from here:
http://gizmodo.com/5502148/drunk-history-nikola-tesla-the-electric-jesus?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+(Gizmodo) [gizmodo.com]
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Removed there too :-(
hrm (Score:1)