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Misheard Lyrics : Soviet Anthem
New improved lyrics somehow remind me of Sofa No. 2.
Evolution of Television 1920-2020
The innovation that he missed was the remote control. Being able to switch channels without getting off the sofa changed everything.
USSR Anthem Misheard
God's finest sofa, feliz navidad!
and of course....
Pasta with polka, police coming through!!!
The Most Disturbing Painting
I'm not really a fan of straight-up horror movies. I don't have anything against them, they're just not my thing.
(Honestly, I'm a big scaredy-cat )
But I have heard good things about CITW, so I shall man up and watch it from behind the sofa.
Noooooo! Travesty.
Watch it.
So good....so very good. A totally different horror movie that's not just another rewrite of a classic, even though it starts out like every other teenage sex romp/horror movie, but then......no spoilers, just watch it. Hilarious and scary.
Side note, keep an eye out for a Reaver in the mayhem... Easter egg.
Greg Lake of ELP plays "Still You Turn Me On"
RIP Greg Lake
I just had to lay on the sofa tonight in the dark with some *quality earphones listening to my original vinyl copy of Brain Salad Surgery.
How Lemony Snicket Got His Pen Name
I fully expect to find this most curious sofa inside of Lemony Snicket's house.
Rose McIver's Sick Magic Trick Pisses Off Jimmy Kimmel
That is one method, but it is possible to do it with a planted card rather than a full deck.
This is my little brother's trick that he tends to do if someone finds out he's a magician and asks the inevitable 'show us a trick then!'
When he did it to me it was at our parents house. He came into the room, put his bag (a back pack) in the middle of the floor and sat down on the sofa. He then turned to me and did the imaginary pack spiel, just like Rose does in the video. I choose a card and announce it to the room.
He then tells me to go to his bag and look through it for his wallet. I find the wallet and take it out of the bag. It's not a big bag and there's only one wallet. He then tells me to open it and look through the card slots until I find a playing card. I do so, there's only one card. Predictably it's the card I've chosen.
There's no trick deck and I'm pretty sure it's not a trick wallet. He didn't handle the bag or the wallet after he put the bag down in the middle of the floor and sat down.
He won't tell me how it's done, but I've seen him do it numerous times to numerous people. It's always the same method although if he's out in public he might just keep his bag on his shoulder rather than put it on the floor and he'll handle his wallet and show the card, but in a way so that everyone can see what he's doing. I've asked him about that and the handling isn't necessary for the trick. the method is the same whether he's handling the bag/wallet or not.
He's a magician who designs tricks for other magicians. He's worked as a technical advisor for magic TV shows, designing props and methods. He specialises in mentalism. He doesn't talk that much about how the tricks are done. He'll help me out if I'm guessing along the right lines but I don't push for answers too much. I've done a little magic myself when younger, but nothing on his level.
The trick deck is just one way of doing this effect, but it's not the only way.
I actually have a deck of cards that is prepared so that you can do this trick. To prep the deck you sand the back of every card so that there is a bit of a rough surface. When the backs of two cards are placed against each other they will stick together if enough pressure is applied but will slide apart if you ease off.
Cards are paired together so that they add up to fifteen (back to back) and suits are paired together as well (clubs with diamonds and hearts with spades). For instance you would pair the 2 of Diamonds with the King of Clubs, the 3 of Hearts with the Queen of Spades, the 4 of Spades with the Jack of Hearts, the 5 of Clubs with the 10 of Diamonds et cetera... Aces are paired with each other.
When you set up the deck you set it up so that all of the clubs and hearts are on one side and if you flip the deck over you will see all of the diamonds and spades. A spare joker is used to mark which sides has the spades and diamonds and must be face down so it's back is seen when you pull the deck out. If the victim call out a diamond or spade you flip the deck over and find the corresponding card and the deck will look normal because of the joker's backside. If the victim calls out hearst or clubs you pull out the deck and remove the joker saying "oh, ho ho. How'd this get here?" and then find the corresponding card.
Just make sure that you sit down to do the trick so that people don't see that back of your deck...
Is my explanation okay? It's kind of a weird trick...
Edit: okay I got it kind of wrong but this video explains it waaaay better:
https://youtu.be/yUo32TSZES4?t=6s
The World's Fastest Toilet
Meh. There are 10,000+ toilets moving ten times faster than this at any given moment. Not impressed.
EDIT: I'm more impressed by the world's fastest sofa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TP8pav_KSU
Fire The Catzooka
If it was a tank built out of expensive sofas it would be quite effective. Deploying ablative scratching post armor would solve the problem.
I hear he was originally going to call it the "Pussy Cannon" but people kept getting the wrong ideas.
That would never take out a tank.
Why die on Mars, when you can live in South Dakota?
With a consistent 3 (the minimum) electoral votes.
I'm from Kansas, where it is pretty much guaranteed that any vote to a non-republican (presidential) candidate is pretty much pointless. All 6 of those electoral votes are going red unless "you look over and see Satan sitting next to you on the sofa, and then look out the window and see snow".
A consistently red state. Perhaps dying on Mars would be preferable.
Spider Infested Apartment
I was thinking more like the common house spider (http://www.uksafari.com/housespiders.htm) hence why they're all sitting around the sofa waiting for the dude to put the TV on!
Those appear to be wolf spiders. I don't think there are any eusocial wolf spiders species, nor any that migrate en masse. They tend to be solitary, yeah? Very atypical behaviour for them.
husky pups and their momma
Couch/Sofa, dude.
that floor will need to be replaced if they ever move.
Where are my keys? (Sift Talk Post)
I suppose you've already checked every trouser- and jacket pocket, every bag you used, the washing machine and dryer, the laundry basket, the fridge, the sofa crevices and under the sofa and bed. That's all that comes to my mind right now. Maybe this'll help you: http://wherethefuckdidileavemykeys.com/
Stuffed Animal Slaughterhouse Truck - Banksy
I think you guys aren't giving him the credit he deserves really. No one ever said that any one particular piece of art from an artist decides whether or not they have something valid to say, and in the interests of swaying you over towards thinking that he's up to his hype, check out his work on the west bank wall and possibly the simpson's sofa-intro-thingy that he did.
I think it's great as you could probably tell. If he was mindlessly scribbling or just putting foul language up then i could understand anyone's concern, but they're at least well considered and put together. And at least he's trying to make a difference with what he says. Moar subversion!
"The Device" ...Awesome Scifi Short
That was cool, but how stupid would you have to be to discover such a device then just toss it on the sofa instead of putting it in your pocket? That ruined it for me.