(Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post roundups here on the motherBoing.)
- Jesse Thorn: I'm so disappointed that they left this crazy Russian sailor version of "Let It Be" off that Beatles box set. Link
- Richard Metzger: It's good to see that Papa John Phillips didn't fuck up all his kids! Link
- Jesse Thorn: Apparently Tracy Morgan was "the invisible fourth Tony! Toni! Tone!, also called Tony." Link
- Richard Metzger: Margaret Thatcher Calls the House of Lords, genius funny Link
- Jesse Thorn: Finally, someone is standing up for the real heroes in the health care reform debate: insurance companies. Link
- Richard Metzger: Meet Kent French, champion hand clapper! Link
- Sean Bonner: 28 Days Later reenacted in one minute Link (via @rudy)
- Jesse Thorn: The Godfather of Soul ripping it up on Letterman in 1982. Link
- Richard Metzger: Alan Arkin apeshit on Muppet Show Link
- Sean Bonner: To Live and Ride in LA (on bikes!) Link
- Richard Metzger: Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day out today in Canada (this and they get free healthcare, too?) Link
- Richard Metzger: Star Maidens (1975) The security guards wear go-go boots and mini-skirts Link
- Richard Metzger: Sarah Palin's Running Mate in 2012? The Skoal Rebel think Obama should be impeached! Link (warning: includes generous use of the n-word.)
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I was curious to see the "28 days later reenacted in one minute" video, but you botched the link- it's just another reference to the skoal rebel.
(which was way too hard for me to watch- I know so many people like him, watching it is like choking on concentrated despair for humanity)
Whiskey-flavored tobacco dip is really a thing? Sweet Jesus.
I'd just like to say thank you for posting this as I have had the shittiest day ever and this made me die laughing. Oh god I needed that. HOW does this asshat know how to utilize technology? My sides hurt from laughing
They walk among us.
"Worst cover of a Beatles song ever"?! Certainly they meant "Best cover of any song ever!"
What a great find!
While this young man is not necessarily well spoken, I agree with his sentiments. I own a smoke shop and last week I damaged out about $1500 in flavored papers.
The reasoning on the ban of flavor additives and flavored cigarettes caught me and lot of others by surprise. No more flavored rolling papers, no more flavored cigarettes, and no more clove cigarettes. The FDA says that flavored products market to children because they like sweet flavors. Uh yeah, but so do adults.
With this line of reasoning, the government should ban strawberry margaritas and other fruity drinks because the sweet flavor appeals to children and encourages drinking.
While good intentions were behind the government ban of tobacco flavoring, I believe in choice. This is more choice being taken away from adults. Tobacco use is a terrible, nasty, filthy habit, but I like it.
Freedom!!!!
UGH. Humanity is doomed. Doomed.
cry? or throw up? cry? or throw up? I really can't decide...
Thank god. I was beginning to think that people like this only lived in England.
This has to be some kind of satirical piece. At least I'm kinda hoping it is
I think he's got a valid point about banning the flavored tobacco products. Kids don't smoke that stuff.
Instead of regulating what goes into the products everyone buys, we pretend to make progress by banning something that hardly anyone consumes. At least, I thought nobody consumes...
Sweet Jeebus. Get the production crew for Tosh.0 to the dip shit's trailer STAT!
This MUST be documented in its native habitat! There are questions that MUST BE ANSWERED!
Such as: Favorite Hot Pocket? Clean up much? Indoor Plumbing: Yes/No/whuzzat?
Re: pissed off as hell
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
(my apologies to William Goldman.)
I like to think that nature has a way of weeding such dimbulbs out (notice stovetop with papers and shit all over it), but he's probably going to have like 10 kids with his cousin, ala opening scene of "idiocracy".
OMGARBL, LET IT BEEEEEE!
lol that's funny
He's the new poster child for eugenics for sure
I'm confused, am I the only person who actually wants to respond that it IS ridiculous to make flavored tobacco products illegal? Why not make marketing to anyone too young to purchase tobacco illegal and treat the products on a case by case basis? I love relaxing with a pipe of vanilla flavored tobacco after a long work week on occasion.
He sure seems like he can barely get the air in and out. I kept waiting for him to just stop breathing and fall off his chair.
He is right, though. Obama is SUCH a Jew.
If only that video dating company from 1987 could have had access to this video. They could have played it before showing the videos of their own clients to make them look good.
I was curious to see the "28 days later reenacted in one minute" video, but you botched the link- it's just another reference to the skoal rebel.
That's because the Skoal Rebel is so awesome, he leaks into other links.
I've fixed it, sorry, try again, plz.
Or as a birth control ad.
this guy reminds me so much of some of the folk i went to H.S. with. he must be from floriduh!
Skoalrebel's rendition of Smoke on the Water is not to be missed...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTnKkl5wJck
The thing about representational democracy is that our democracy seems to be going an awful long way to make sure it represents this guy.
You may laugh at the young man and his manner. Meanwhile the all encompassing control of what you can and cannot do with your lives continues. All in the name of the children, because the adults have no responsibility anymore as to how children are brought up and taught?
If I want to abuse my body with a flavoured tobacco, that is my prerogative, not a politicians. If I was to harm someone else in my enjoyment then the law can take an interest. It is a continual drip, drip drip of erosion of my freedom and yours.
So you laugh at someone because of his manner? Makes you feel superior? smug? At least he recognises that something is wrong!
Bet he felt a bit foolish when he sobered up though
I think you mean BEST COVER EVAH! I knew he was Russian- his accent was as thick as Crystal Renn and no one but the Russians have that kind of mad style lol. ;) The Beatles are overrated.
Did he just stuff that entire puck of Copenhagen into is face? Yes he did. That is nasty. He looks healthy enough.
Why ban flavored tobacco products? Obama smokes menthols, right?
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!
There's a whole slew of "dip videos" by this guy and others. It looks like a now-defunct youtube channel called brotherhood dippers pissed of the dip video community about something or other, but the responses are so inarticulate that I can't really tell what they are going on about.
@ Akula917:
Admittedly, I'm torn on the issue this individual presents: do I accept the slippery slope which this law presents or admit good logic since there will be government sponsored health care in the near future?
No, children should not smoke. Yes, there is clearly a lack of proper education on the part of adults to prevent children from smoking. Perhaps there is good data which suggests this a good course of action. What data do you have which contradicts the logic of the law?
That said, Skoalrebel has done everything in his power to engender the negative attention against which you're complaining. It's clear that his rage is not only generated by this law but other, deeper issues regarding race and religion.
Another dip video dude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZloJEjLwKo0
@Mark, you mean DEEYUP.
Wait until he hears about the ban on Lynyrd Skynyrd.
My theory about the internet as being composed of shrines and cesspools is reinforced.
Boingboing is a shrine.
Youtube is a cesspool.
#18. Luckily, pipe tobacco is exempt from the flavoring ban. Which is good for me, since I sell tons of shisha (flavored hookah tobacco). The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Act was kind of confusing when I read it. I don't know if my flavored cigar wraps were technically covered in the ban, but I damaged those out of my inventory as well.
Even some cigars were being treated as cigarettes under the FDA. The Wall Street Journal reported that the FDA informed a shop in MO that Black and Milds cigars were no longer allowed.
In the last few days, I have had numerous customers shocked that they could no longer purchase clove cigarettes. The only bright side to this new ban is that I have the largest private collection of flavored papers in East Central Indiana. Oddly enough, I kept one flavor paper in my inventory, menthol. The only flavoring that was exempt from the ban was menthol.
I know a lot of people were unaware of this legislation until it was too late.
#28 toxonix: Menthol is the only flavour that is exempt.
RE: pissed off as hell
Hey Cletus, better hope you have decent health care when flavored dip cancer eats your worthless, yammering mouth into oblivion.
before you dub the bean bag chair a racist idiot and leave it at that, consider his promise at 5:09.
he states unequivocally that upon his inauguration as president of the united states he will make EVERYTHING LEGAL.
now that's real change.
@ 19: I think you meant a gay Jew.
russian sailors! that must be what it sounds like to brazilians when american singers do a song in portuguese: enunciation just out the window.
the part where the lady is bobbing in and out of frame is the best thing.
Judging from the text on the singer's hat, it's the Russian Black Sea Fleet!
Maxoid: Dunno, Russian is a fairly articulate language. I'm thinking that maybe he learned the lyrics by listening rather than reading.
Re: banning of flavored tobacco products.
Problem is that we know what the motives of the tobacco companies are. They want to hook their future customers while they're young so they can extract the maximum from them before the product inevitably kills them. Isn't that the dream of every pusher?
The claim that "I should be able to do whatever I want as long as I don't hurt anyone" comes out of the same failed libertarian philosophy so many seem to believe in. No, you don't have the right to do whatever you want because you are not an individual monad adrift in the universe. You are part of a community and when you shoot up smak or any other drug (or vice) you necessarily harm others in your community.
Geez, Boingers are so elitist. Whatever you think about Eric, he can dip a full tin of Grizzly, which is pretty bad ass. Bet you can't do that.....
BTW: Russia's worst Beatles cover still has NOTHING On Sweden's worst Elvis impersonator, Eilert Pilarm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joncSCoF8eU
Lest you think it's a joke: This guy recorded six albums and played over 600 gigs before he hung up his blue suede (swede?) shoes... He was big in Sweden. :)
Bet you can't do that.....
@11 well actually, no one smokes dip.
While I agree that adults should be allowed to purchase something as vile as whiskey-flavored tobacco dip I am also horrified that there are actually people out there who would choose to exercise that right.
While this young man is not necessarily well spoken, I agree with his sentiments. I own a rub n'tug and next they're coming for the flavored domes.
"Man if I were fucking president, I would make everything legal. EVERYTHING."
[pause to chew]
"I'd definitely make prostitution legal. Not illegal, legal."
Sadly I find myself in agreement with this guy and his liberal positions. Say, why not impeach Obama? He broke all his promises, right? Fat southern dipper FTW!
I will say that Kodiak was a big fave in my high school because it tasted so sugary. Red Man was a close second, but it was hard to conceal the big cud.
I can understand the reasoning behind banning flavored stuff, and I can sympathize with the fact that this does infringe on adults' freedom to a certain extent. Which brings me to conclude two things:
1) Minors who miss out on flavored chew will figure out a way to flavor it, ban or no;
2) Damn kids ruining everything for adults GET OFF MY LAWN!
This is definitely the last, best chance to get my husband to stop doing the deeyup. I owe you one boingboing!
And I agree with the Libertarians on this one. Stop trying to save us from ourselves. We can handle it thanks.
Oh he is brilliant - the typical face of a Glenn Beck America!
Dip a full tin of Grizzly?
Can't let you do that, Starfox.
So sad... these people need help not ridicule. some education, some culture, and travel would certainly help.
Random thought. Stupid movie.
Demolition Man.
I think I'll take the sewer life and be 'human'.
When does this liberty stripping end.
I think chewing is gross. But I'd never infringe on another's rights.
I hope the government doesn't overstep itself TOO much before I leave/die.
But I can't help but think, things will only get worse on all aspects of personal freedom of choice.
I'd heard about this ban before it happened... I don't really get it anymore than this really f'n pissed guy. I'm not a smoker, but I don't get the logic behind banning all flavors of cigarettes besides menthol. It just reeks of standard government hypocrisy.
I think the removing of light and mild coming in July should meet with absolute hysteria.
Well spoken he is not. But lost amid his less-than-professional approach is a valid point: the recently passed tobacco bill (now law) was an absolute sham that was passed under the guise of "protecting the children" and "protecting the health of the consumer." Nevermind the fact that Philip Morris, the most obscene of the big tobacco companies, was an advocate of the bill. Sound strange? Research the bill and see what it actually does and does not do. It'll cripple little independent tobacco companies and not harm giants like Philip Morris one bit.
Meanwhile, adults no longer have the right to choose to smoke cloves. Can't be long before alcohol, sugar, and fast food are made illegal too "for our own good."
This guy (a non-smoker) hit the nail on the head. Boing Boing, if you want to balance things out, I challenge you to post a link to his vid (with well-spoken, educated points) to even out the video from this clearly uneducated (and yes, downright silly guy).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFuH4h0d-Aw
While I agree with those that think this legislation is ridiculous, I suspect that those talking about the continuing "loss of rights" under Obama have forgotten/forgiven/did give-a-shit when the Bushies raped our Constitutional rights in the name of safety. I also suspect those same folks of decrying the loss of personal choice in flavored tobacco products would NEVER acknowledge a person's personal freedom to abortion. Or same-sex marriage.
No more Djarum Black clove cigarettes? This is fucking stupid. I HATE regular cigarettes, I can't stand the taste of them, I hate smoking them. If I'm gonna be out with a bunch of friends smoking or at a house where everyone is smoking, I like to get a pack of Djarum Black so at least if smoke is going in my lungs is something I can stomach. I hate smoking but sometimes you just got suck one down.
When did this law go into effect? When I was at the 7-Eleven by my house last week I still saw Djarum Black on the shelf.
I can't wait until they start banning fast food, candy bars, sweet rolls, Mountain Dew...
Eat it while you can, soon enough you won't be able to. Hurray.
Grape 'rillos are banned?
God. Finally.
It's a good thing, folks--the only people who smoked candy-flavored cigars are retarded wiggers.
B33fj3rky, I think you're missing the whole point. It's not about who does or does not smoke grape cigars or clove cigarettes or whatever. It's the fact that adults are having choices taken away from them by the government under the guise of protection, when in reality this bill is a prime example of big business and government being in bed together.
Candy flavoured cigars..
What's the beef, Jerky?
@#6 - CLOVE cigs are illegal now? Are you effing SERIOUS?! I stopped smoking years ago but still grab a pack of Nat Shermans Touch of Clove any time I have a funeral to get through...
Alcohol is available at Walmart. Cloves cigs are illegal. This is insane.
Taliban, are you watching this? This man will do mortal harm to Obama in exchange for a good chewing tobacco.
re: skoalrebel
Should mention this guy has another YouTube video that has him holding up a prescription bottle of Seroquel at a high dose. Seroquel is an anti-psychotic used to manage schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He's severely mentally ill.
Wow. I almost puked every time he spit. Dude looks completely delirious. Pills, or booze? Plastic grocery (garbage?) bag hanging off the stove, one handle missing from same stove, vid/cam or swivel screen w/camera opposite stove & counter.....how big do you think that trailer is? Combo Confederate/Union flag? Wow. Wow! Trying not to hate on the poor and uneducated in this country, but this makes it tough. Has the USA failed its citizenry or has its citizenry failed the US? Where we/it all go wrong?
And as far as previous comments re: [speciously] valid points he made - hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day.....
after reading the comments i don't think i could get through the dip chewer's video but i agree with at least part of his sentiment on the flavored tobacco ban
i heard about it the day it was signed. and now i am back to smoking a pipe at home and smoking homemade clove cigarettes when i drive. [besides the difficulty involved in driving and lighting a pipe, cops for some reason cannot fathom a caucasian woman smoking a briar pipe that doesn't have weed in it.]
it's kind of a pain to set up and took me a while to find the right tobacco for my tastes, but aside from my little nicotine addiction, i am going to thoroughly enjoy smoking my clove cigarettes in public- the law is about sales and distribution. it does not cover making your own at home and smoking them as far as i have been able to glean from the law. [if someone could point me at the full text of it, that'd be neat - even the FDA site has an abbreviated version]
but here's the current photos i have of the process if anyone wants to flaunt this one along with me
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catastrophegirl/sets/72157622017594810/
"Dey took yer di-yip!"
Ah, I remember the day that "spit cup" was added to my lexicon.
Didn't view the vid and if Philip Morris was behind it it probably ain't good. But FWIW I would not mind if the government progressively outlawed all tobacco and this was just the thin end of the wedge.
Also by the way I love the smell of clove cigs even though I don't smoke. Definitely they were the only thing that enticed me toward smoking when I was younger, I always tried to follow the scent of clove.
That said they should outlaw that nasty dip. At least use the kind they sell in Sweden that doesn't make you spit, and you can keep your cancer to yourself in your own lip.
It appears that this Southern Gentleman is typical of the youth that are lost.
Country of 300 million is bound to have an end of spectrum neanderthals. The case for abortion is not without merits, regardless of the idiot being right twice a day (flavored or not flavored that is the question).
The American liberals must guard against the dark forces of the fifth column, anti-intellectual foreign/domestic agents and trolls of flyby states.
Some Progressives confuse egalitarianism with absolutism of intolerance, this kid needs a good
reeducation program in a health club.
Am I the only one that saw the tease "worst Beatles cover ever", looked at the screen shot and was convinced he was going to be treated to Newt Gingrich letting loose at some Republican fundraiser.
As for the tobacco issue, I've always said if we want to make tobacco illegal then lets do that and pass a law (I'd even support it). But if we decide that tobacco products are still legal then stop legislating all kinds of other laws around it.
But as for this one specific purpose. I propose that we make whiskey flavored tobacco expressly legal just for him. I say he's earned it!
Although the DIY in me thinks that making whiskey flavored chewing tobacco wouldn't be all that difficult. If I can make peppered vodka then I can pour a shot of whiskey in a fresh can of chew.
Sorry I couldn't stay away. I watched this dip guy video and was amazed...
But then I watched the William Kamkwamba video from another post and was amazed (He's the kid who built a windmill in his African village)...
Then I came back and watched the dip guy video one more time and am even more amazed.
I kind of feel that #59's Djarum commercial makes a fairly strong argument for their prohibition. He/she is coming right out and saying that they smoke cloves in order to fit in. Wow.
It seems that many people smoke Djarums and other horseshit hipster cigs because they feel like they "gotta smoke something." It's straight-up DARE program stuff; they feel like having a cigarette in their hands makes them cool, and all their friends are doing it, so...
This is the conversation I've decided to have with my teenage nephew:
ME: Okay, I need to ask you a favor.
NEPHEW: (Blank stare)
ME: It's going to sound crazy. I mean, really crazy.
NEPHEW: (Blanker stare)
ME: Watch this. (Play Russian Navy Glee Club cover of "Let It Be")
NEPHEW: (Nervous laugh)
ME: I want you to promise me that when plans are being made for the disposal of my remains, you will do everything you can to ensure that this video will be played at my final kissoff.
NEPHEW: (after pausing, deep in thought) In addition to the viking boat thing?
ME: During.
Could someone post a translation of this?
@CRIMIC
Tell me more about that 'viking boat thing?'
By the way in Sweden you are such a pussy if you spit out the
'Dip juice'
And in sweden its called SNUS, we gave your hillbillies this back in the late 19th century just like we gave you H&M, Ikea and the swedish bikini team!
Nothing beats the Red Army Choir singing Sweet Home Alabama and other western pop songs with the Leningrad Cowboys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W0PxtOIQXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0vZwONKshU
'It seems that many people smoke Djarums and other horseshit hipster cigs because they feel like they "gotta smoke something."'
Well, maybe, but it could also be because they taste delicious.
At least we have a new Joe the Plumber now.
I think I went to high school with the Skoal Rebel. Or 30 or 40 copies of him.
I love my hookah tobacco. Gotta say.
Any law against selling FLAVORING? Simple fix, y'all. Have Skoal/Coppenhaaaagen crease some channels into the bottom of the can. Sell a plastic widget that squirts the flavor into the crease so that the product soaks up the flavoring. Or market some dry powder that does the same thing. Drop it on top, close the can and shake. Diggity done. Someone send me a check.
Who wants bootleg Canadian clove cigarettes? I'm going to get one of those ghost ships anchored off the Philippines to run a load across the Great Lakes.
PS to the nice lady catastrophegirl who posted her Flickr set of making clove cigs: AWESOME.
But I think manufacturing heroin seems easier.
full text of the new law is here: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1256enr.txt.pdf
If i've posted this three times, I apologize, it keeps sending me to the preview screen.
@ OPTUSER - never made heroin, but i have a blister on my index finger from that cigarette machine!
@#85, thanks!
The authoritarian fascists that have been running the country for the last 30 or 40 years can go to hell. I'm an adult and perfectly capable of making my own decisions, and that includes enjoying a citrus, peach, or cherry flavored dip on occasion.