Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW*

Amazingly accurate for someone so plastered. I think all history should be taught at this level of intoxication.

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[mmarlett]

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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[eldavojohn]

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.

Why? Probably because Edison was a pompous jerk. Probably because Tesla was an immigrant. Probably because he expressed too many alternative ideas ... some of which had serious merit and continue to influence us in new ways until this very day.

And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos ... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.

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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[girlintraining]

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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[eldavojohn]

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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[Your.Master]

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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[somersault]

*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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[tomhudson]

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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[Enderandrew]

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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[macshit]

So I've decided to electrocute cows if you disagree with me!

mmmm.... electro-bbq....

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[g0bshiTe]

The pain will stop when the heavy drug smoking race ends.

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[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Because it's funny. Front page funny.

How dare you sir. Slashdot is Serious Business.

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[JerRocks]

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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[hoggoth]

> 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.
> And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos ... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.

Yes! Tesla has been overlooked and neglected and we need videos of drunks puking into toi

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[skornenicholas]

I take it you never went out on a late night bender and ended up in the company of Tesla and Poe. Now that my friends is worth the three day hangover.

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[pushing-robot]

So you're saying... in a hundred years we'll all have earthquake lasers?

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[owlnation]

How in the name of Shub Internet did this make front page? Bad slashdot editors. Bad! No cookie for you.

Meet samzenpus. He specializes in this kind of crap. He refuses to let idle die the death it deserves.

If would be fine to have idle articles -- if only /. 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.

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[linear core]

How do you "stumble upon" an article with the title "Drunk History..." and think it will be serious? The title in my RSS feed told me what to expect before I ever clicked the link.

Lightweight!

[Threni]

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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[Anonymous Coward]

Oh man, you must be a really cool guy.

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[Rogerborg]

Mod parent up. If you're lucid while throwing up, then it just means you are a goddamn pantywaist pussweed hippy who can't hold his liquor. Like Edison.

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[Bigjeff5]

I wouldn't call him lucid.

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[Zironic]

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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[Anonymous Coward]

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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[TheTurtlesMoves]

If made the proper way, even back then i didn't have any real "hallucigenic" in it. The heat breaks it down.

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[h3llfish]

That is incorrect. It's certainly a highly potent alcoholic spirit, but it has no hallucinogenic drugs in it. That part is pretty much made up. It's basically just regular booze. It's certainly nothing like Psilocybin mushrooms.

This site has a pretty good FAQ:

http://www.wormwoodsociety.org/ [wormwoodsociety.org]

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[Carewolf]

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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[Anonymous Coward]

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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[AdamTrace]

Talk about... what, exactly?

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[skornenicholas]

The colors man, the colors!

Nothing More Inspiring

[eldavojohn]

Than watching a grown man laying in a bathroom about to throw up saying "Tesla ... was the Electric Jesus ... I can't breath." Well done, good sir. I only hope this weekend has in store for me the same beauty that you have gifted to the internet.

Idle can please die.

[Elgonn]

What setting am I missing that blocks idle from appearing on the main page?

Re:Idle can please die.

[eldavojohn]

Upper right of the page you're viewing has a "Help & Account" link. Click it or open it into a new tab. If you are using the dynamic index like most, click "Exclusions" under that heading. Enter "Idle" into the text box and hit save. While you will probably miss stories like "Bill Gates Sits Idle as World Burns" you will not see any Idle: stories on your front page. In the classic index, you can select sections and remove Idle. I don't know why the dynamic index doesn't have this granularity of exact control yet. I'd give you links but they're javascripty popups so take care if you have javascripty blocking mechanisms.

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[Joe Helfrich]

Is there a way to do this for RSS feeds as well?

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[Ihmhi]

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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[Zephyr14z]

You of course realize that actually clicking the story and viewing it is entirely optional?

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[DarkIye]

That's like saying it's no biggie that large, hairy gay men are winking suggestively at you on the street since they aren't actually pinning you down and having their way with you.

(Apologies to gays who are into that sort of thing.)

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[Zephyr14z]

I would agree with that statement. That's their first amendment right to do so. (Apologies to those reading from countries without free speech)

Ah yes, my thesis defence...

[bunhed]

...that video brings me back. Good times, yep.

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[skine]

You drank half a bottle of absinthe and a six pack of beer before your thesis defense?

Crispin Glover makes me happy

[Shandalar]

So does that other guy.

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[MyFirstNameIsPaul]

So does that other guy.

That's Reed Rothchild.

Where's my Flux Capacitor...

[grapeape]

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

[kannibul]

I'd never puked from drinking until this past fall, me, at 31yrs old, until I had 1 and a half pints of Jeager, 2 Vicodin, and 6 malt beverages and 3-4 mixed shots, in the time span of around 3 hours.
I can't imagine hurling on a 6 pack + half a bottle (however much that is) of Absinth.

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[macbeth66]

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

[BKX]

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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[damien_kane]

Actually they do match.

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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[adolf]

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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[ThomConspicuous]

I've never had Absinthe, but after I had researched it a bit it appears you're not supposed to drink it straight up but rather in small amounts mixed with very chilled water. So the story is BS anyway.

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[AshtangiMan]

I've made it a few times, and while the prim and proper like to drink it mixed (very ceremoniously) with sugar and water it is very fine straight up. I brought a bottle to a party which a bunch of us passed around. And then mad hilarity struck . . . it's different than regular booze and I highly recommend making it for yourself. You will need to set up a still, because after you macerate the wormwood and other herbs in everclear (or wine spirits) you mix with water and then distill the final product (you

drunk people are funny

[voisine]

drunk people are funny

the alcohol is the least of the interest here

[SethJohnson]

Summary should have mentioned this is a John C. Reilly and Crispin Glover collaboration.

Seth

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[tunapez]

Recognized Krispy early on, Reilly not right away. Thought I saw Jason Lee, as well. lulz

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[Skratchez]

I recognized Crispin right off (having just seen Alice in Wonderland) but couldn't think of Reilly's name until the credits, I just kept thinking, that dumb cop in Magnolia (who I really like).

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[LowlyWorm]

An [betterwritingskills.com].

NSFW?

[Joucifer]

History, a few swear words, and vomit. Work at the nunnery must be rough.

Funny or Die Presents

[StrifeJester]

You guys all realize this is a Funny or Die presents video that was re-done with the drunk guy narrating it thats why the actors are in there. Still hilarious though.

Weed

[605dave]

This would be far better if he was stoned. Say what you will, but getting a smart person on a stoned rant can be entertaining. And they don't puke in the middle either.

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[darth_borehd]

Tesla invented radio. You Marconi people can stuff it.

Slashdot Killed the Video...

[lag10]

It now displays, "This video has been removed due to a breach of the Terms of Service."

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[Ihmhi]

This reply has been removed due to a breach of the Terms of Service.

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[Valdrax]

And now the level of content is even more appropriate for Idle.

The video on YouTube

[Smurf]

Yeah. Apparently someone uploaded teh video to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFazanaWQY [youtube.com]

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[Ezel]

"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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[Alarindris]

http://www.megavideo.com/?d=CIPB1VOT [megavideo.com] @ 11:01

I never hated idle before....

[ZosX]

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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[Handover Phist]

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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[apetrelli]

Removed there too :-(

hrm

[phresh]

Would be cool if it was actually on funny or die..