Sorry to hear that. It was only funny to me because he got up again and seemed utterly indifferent to having bonked his head.

In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
That doesn't look funny to me! that's exactly what the last cat I had looked like at the moment he died. Shudder.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'cat, siamese, narcolepsy, sleep, sleepy, dozy' to 'cat, siamese, narcolepsy, sleep, sleepy, dozy, bonk' - edited by calvados

I remember playing this day after day with my Simpsons Sing the Blues CD playing in the background. Also switched off with Bonk's Revenge on the failed Turbo Grafx 16 as well.

Well done.

*Discuss *ban

No response to accusations of sock puppetry. And these videos are of limited value to the sift. Bonked on the head with a soda bottle, demonstrations of gravity, etc.

Previously...

http://wtf.videosift.com/talk/Um-yeah-hows-this-for-fishy

I must confess a funny true story.

I've been pretty sick for the last few days. So last night, while watching this, I burst into uncontrollable laughter, which triggered a coughing fit, which actually caused me to pass out and bonk my head on the carpeted floor.

It didn't really hurt, but it did leave a rug burn about the size of a nickel on my forehead (I'm sure kp can relate).

Issy thought I was doing pratfalls, but no, it was real. Embarrassing, but true.

Thanks a lot fissionchips.

First 1:00 min is absolute bonk. I think the original submitted put that in there to avoid detection... So just skip the first 1:00 min

so is the rule... you can only bonk to british bands?


Personally I like the Cure. (ironically, "Pornography" or "Disintegration"

Saw this back in the day, and had to look up everything about Gaelle Denis. This is what digital film should be.

Really liked the slip cg part in the dead center of the piece, used to switches from real to imaginary worlds. You can FEEL that slip! The sound effects, the lighting, the slow motion, just very impressively done. Just watch the water splash from her arm! Everything about that shot denies how it was made (fake-bonking head on a green screen table) to the extent that you must watch it over and over to catch any imperfections.

AND, the mousy-voiced Joanna Newsom track at the end is a wooonderful fit... I really like it when music choice compliments a film well, even if its this overt.

Thanks for the heads up. Not sure on a replacement yet it won't let me use the new one.


In reply to your comment:
“http://www.videosift.com/video/Owl-Getting-Bonked-On-Head-By-Sparrows-113 is dead, but there is a replacement here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Gangsta-Birds-Attack-an-Owl

Fix yours and I'll discard his.”

http://www.videosift.com/video/Owl-Getting-Bonked-On-Head-By-Sparrows-113 is dead, but there is a replacement here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Gangsta-Birds-Attack-an-Owl

Fix yours and I'll discard his.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Owl-Getting-Bonked-On-Head-By-Sparrows-113

It's dead though. Messaging the original poster.

"I'm sorry gorillaman, but I respectfully disagree: intention is mostly irrelevant. If someone bonks you on the head with a tennis racket while you were just standing there minding your own business, is it important whether the person who bonked you did it because you were of a certain racial background or because he simply didn't like your yellow shirt? The crime is the bonk, not the intent behind it."

No. You've given two examples of the same thing and pointed out that there's no difference between them, and I don't disagree. However, your assertion that the intent is irrelevant is wrong. It's important to recognize that all crime takes place within the mind, and so to object automatically to what you see as thoughtcrime is irrational.

I'll give some examples of my own, in all of these let's assume you don't deserve to be hit over the head with a tennis racquet:

1. I hit a ball with a racquet.
2. I swing for a ball with a racquet, but hit your head by accident.
3. I hit your head with a racquet on purpose.

This may seem elementary, and I'm sure everyone would agree that only (3) is an example of crime. Why? Because of intention. My simple bodily actions of tensing my fingers so, moving my arm thus, play no part in the crime. Neither do my extended, compound actions such as gripping a racquet or swinging a racquet. Even the duel physical/mental artifact of swinging a racquet at someone's head in order to cause injury or pain cannot be considered to constitute any part of a crime, there are any number of situations (e.g. self-defence) in which a person executing such an action must be considered blameless. Only falsely believing you deserve it, or deciding to attack you in spite of the knowledge that you do not can be considered my crime, and this is a wholly mental activity. Now consider:

4. I swing for your head with a racquet and miss.
5. I would hit you over the head with a racquet, but never get an opportunity.

In each of these, the intention is identical with (3), only the consequences differ. Now, again, most people would agree that (4) involves the same level of criminality as (3), again, because of my intention. What about (5)? There's your thoughtcrime, and this is where current conceptions of law break down. This is why we need to start punishing people for their ideas and leave base action out of the equation entirely.

I'm sorry gorillaman, but I respectfully disagree: intention is mostly irrelevant. If someone bonks you on the head with a tennis racket while you were just standing there minding your own business, is it important whether the person who bonked you did it because you were of a certain racial background or because he simply didn't like your yellow shirt? The crime is the bonk, not the intent behind it.


A little history lesson for the woefully ignorant on the origins of hate crimes:

During 1988, the predominant architect of “Anti-Hate” legislation, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, helped sponsor a nationwide, law-student competition to write a model “Anti-Hate” law for America. This law would criminalize not just physical acts of racial violence but statements that might lead to violence.

On April 20-22, the ADL helped sponsor a conference at New York’s prestigious Hofstra University entitled “Group Defamation and Freedom of Speech: The Relationship Between Language and Violence.” Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich), also a pioneer of the hate crimes legislation now before Congress, was the keynote speaker. The winner of the hate crimes competition was announced as Joseph Ribakoff, a law student from Whittier College in California.

In his prize-winning proposal, Ribakoff asserted that with the upsurge of “Hate Crimes” in America, it will no longer suffice for the government merely to outlaw acts of physical violence; it must ban those forms of verbal communication which cause hatred, suspicion, and possible violence against groups of people. Ribakoff recommends that federal and state censorship boards be established to review all films and videotapes before they are shown publicly, determining if they contain statements which might stimulate hatred or contempt for some group of people. If so, an immediate court order would ban the film in America. Ribakoff: “Any person, persons, or organizations which publicly shows a film or movie before it has been submitted and reviewed by the agency shall have committed a misdemeanor.”

Further, if anyone is a member of an organization that has publicly shown such a film and intends to remain a member, supportive of its goals, he also will have committed a misdemeanor.

Ribakoff’s prize-winning “Group Libel Statute” was not limited to verbal criticism of Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, etc., but would indict anyone who criticized homosexuals as a group, causing “mental anguish” to members of that minority.

And so it began. Other countries are far deeper into this Orwellian nightmare than the USA.

Preachers in Canada and Europe can now be jailed for preaching the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality.

Whether you agree with the Bible or not, that's far scarier than the boogeyman liberals are trying to make out of the Patriot Act.

LOL @ Sketch.

Bonk!

Ohhh, I have been! I just went on a *dead rampage, and channelised or re-channelised a few vids too. Fun! I've been looking forward to this for ages..
http://www.videosift.com/video/Owl-Getting-Bonked-On-Head-By-Sparrows-113
http://www.videosift.com/video/Live-Hamster-Video-Game-Action
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fox-Fever
http://www.videosift.com/video/Rejected-Ads-for
http://www.videosift.com/video/indonesian-mimic-octopus-immitates-banded-sea-snake
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sen-Clinton-fires-hard-hitting-questions-at-Rumseld
http://www.videosift.com/video/Police-Uncuff-Suspect-Just-to-Beat-the-Crap-Out-of-Him
http://www.videosift.com/video/Adventure-Time-736
http://www.videosift.com/video/Top-Gear-Precision-Driving

loving it.