http://videosift.com/video/Tortoise-Mobile-Again-with-added-wheel with commentary

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Tortoise-Gets-a-New-Leg-From-an-Office-Chair without commentary

Dupe of the second vid, without commentary, yeah?

@Lawdeedaw, wanna start earning some dupe badges?

edit -- (sorry about that, dupes are a bit of a heartbreak, aren't they?)

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by bareboards2. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

So here's what I'm finding suspicious. Why would they go to interview the boy in a small room right outside of a dark open room. I know Jamaica sucks, but that's a crap place to do an interview. Also, watch the foot placement of the boy before they cut away from that angle. His feet are below him. Now, I tried to move place my feet like his and move my chair like that and I was unsuccessful, however I am 180 lbs. and I'm on a rolling office chair on top of carpet. The other option is a string/rope tied to the back of the chair and held by somebody in that back closet.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Poor writing, directing and style choices- it could have been good if hadn't been run into the ground by Hollywood schlock-masters.

Any SF show or movie has to respect the art-form of Science Fiction- or it will fail. This show did not. I imagine some cigar chomping fatty leaning back in his office chair saying "let's give those nerds an alien with big tits - you know, one of those Vogons or whatever those idiots call them". That's why SF shows fail. No science fiction people running the show. That's why Gene Roddenberry was awesome (he hired writers like Harlan Ellison) and that's why the JJ Abrams movie was good too.

I can't call dupeof, but:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Japanese-Motorized-Unicycle-Office-Chair

who DOESNT do praise and worship in a office chair and broadcast it on tv?

Note to self -- Before going anywhere in an office chair at high speed, swap the cheap plastic casters for some metal!

I believe the existence of uniformed armed forces is a terrible necessity that we must endure. I am not particularly glad about this but am realistic in the need for it's existence, humanity will never sing kubaya, hold hands and hit the peace pipe. It's simple psychology that each and every one of you can see in normal life, when you are treating someone with equality and fairness, open your lives to them they often take a great big shit on you. Only in our geopolitical world this usually comes in the form of tanks rolling across borders. This was an example of this, it's sheer expression of arrogance and projection of raw military power.

But its been put into motion by politicians sitting comfortably behind closed doors, in nice comfortable office chairs pushing divisions and plans that start with words like "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and filter down to some young kids on the battlefield, coming from places that sometimes don't have any opportunities, sometimes from a real belief that they are there to do good even though they are told so by their government, sometimes just to see the world, sometimes to earn citizenship, sometimes because they have no direction, sometimes just to see someone die.

Actions shown in this video is a basic reaction to being put into a environment where your friend died yesterday in an IED explosion, you watched a whole humvee torn apart, its engine block landing 50 yards from the wreck, pieces of your troop lying around like debris of blood red confetti, being shot at day by day by an enemy you never see. Command never being able to give you proper operable intelligence. Your training meaning little because basic covers fighting a uniformed aggressor not asymmetrically warfare against a guerrilla force in urban combat environs. Frustrated that what you are doing day by day means little, your people die and it gets worse and not better. Wondering if all the lives lost are essentially wasted on a mission that was idiotic to begin with.

This is why I find it hard to hold the troops accountable. Because it's not their fault they are there, its not their fault that they are not trained as a UN peace keeping force, a police force, a counter insurgency force. Its not their fault they were never given or taught proper cultural sensitivity training.

It's the fault of the people in power, not just the president, but the Generals, the Joint Chiefs, The Pentagon, and essentially the whole intelligentsia of America that simply let this catastrophe happen. There hundreds of thousands of educated professional Americans that willingly kept silent. Unable to criticize their own governments action. Its the fault of all who pushed this war through the most basic emotion humanity has. Fear.

What is really sad it that it's not the first time and it wouldn't be the last I believe.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'office chairs, jump, ramp, stunt' to 'chair, office chairs, jump, ramp, stunt' - edited by twiddles