Ridiculous or not, it's just as catchy as the Macarena was. Further, I'd challenge any male OR female,to grow weary of watching cute little Asian chicks dancing in unison in children's clothing..HELLO??!! The goofy guys moving like retro pimped-out disco-gangster urchins is an added, fucking bonus!! Great dance, great hook, great phenom.

Everybody hop on the unshorn beaver express!!

Damn-What were white folks thinking that disco got so crazy-popular? We should have stopped with the last sexy-looking dance moves before this phenom was ever allowed to happen...Like the swim?? Watusi? hell, the twist is better than most of the disco-era dancing....How bout the go-go dancing those dames in the beach-party movies did?? That one where the entire chick's body is shaking and undulating to the point of convulsion?? Now that was some sexy shit!!

@chilaxe

No, historically it has been ethnic-based tribalism. Any outsiders were tokens who had to prove their bonafides by driving stereotypes and condemnation of their ethnic group. These so-called "race men", seem to always talk about racial issues at the core, because their identity in conservative movements are not defined by any conservative principle, but by their race/ethnicity. Michelle Malkin, for example, talks about race incessently, and even wrote a book praising internment. If she stopped talking about any racial issues for a year, I bet her viewerbase would drop off dramatically. Most All of these characters have had to leave their dignity at the door.

Cain is an absolutely new phenom, and an encouraging one, a highly regarded minority that does not focus on race, and has pushed back (a little) on racism in his party.

You know how I feel about immigration. Yes, let's let high skilled workers in. The US probably does that more rigorously than any country.

But, show me a country that does not have a large pool of unskilled workers. I don't see how you can avoid it. One great thing about the US is that people in lower classes have been able to climb higher, while in other countries, they'd be stuck at the lower rungs forever.

@bareboards2 As you can see, chilaxe has a major bone to pick with Affirmative Action, especially the forms which benefit latinos and blacks, but not some Asian groups. Implying that blacks and latinos may still suffer from mass bias in society would weaken some of his criticisms of those programs. So, he must raise the bar for racism, requiring explicit evidence for a phenom that has very subtle forms today.

I have lived in the south, as well as the San Fran Bay Area, and I am very familiar with the attitude that would have someone overreact over a petty crime. Apparently, it has gone over Chilaxe's head the fact that these boys will be overpunished for a petty crime, and this may have some bearing in bias against them or their group.

He calls them repeat criminals (proof?). I say they are stupid kids. I know plenty of people of all races who committed crimes in their high school or college youth, but went on to live productive lives. Only a subset of them (guess which) are given snap labels like 'offender' or 'criminal'. Nothing to do with race, though.........

"Imagine my surprise when the mad “Russian” himself strolled into breakfast yesterday. Our favorite IGOTD had shown up at the blogger shoot. I cornered him at the range (where he was wearing muffs and glasses). While he didn’t want any photos or videos taken he agreed to a short interview. After softening him up with some easy questions about the weather, his guns and the intricacies of Baltic cuisine, I asked him a real question: what’s up with the lack of eyes and ears? He responded that he recognized he needed to be wearing PPE and would do so in the future; especially since 20 percent of his viewership is under 18. FPS doesn’t want to set a bad example for the tweens. So, is he Russian? I can definitively report . . .

Nyet!

I was sitting at the breakfast table with ace snapper Oleg Volk. Oleg, a genuine Russian emigre who speak the lingua franca of the old Communist Evil Empire, thought FPS was Russian—because of his lack of safety. So I sent Oleg to speak Russian with FPS.

Oleg reported that FPS couldn’t talk the walk. When I interviewed the Internet phenom he sounded like a good ‘ole southern boy.

And there you have it: a fake Russian playing with really big guns. Except not in his most recent post, which has him paint-balling his little heart out. Good thing Lucky Gunner’s got him back with serious firepower. Dasvidaniya!" - http://thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/05/ryan-finn/confirmed-fps-russia-a-k-a-fpsrussia-isnt-russian/

>> ^E_Nygma:

i have to say, i disagree with all of the "hosts" sentiments. their respective final decisions about the theory are non-derivative of their final remarks. both the spiraling of a conversation and the flocking of birds are governed by separate-but-related phenoms, which the guest clearly states in his talk. yet these are the points upon which the first two hosts hinge their vote of theory confirmation. and the quite eloquent statement by the host next to the guest(despite his lack of contribution earlier in the show), which i happen to agree with-namely that all things may in fact be chaotic and that it is our finite knowledge that deems them random- does not fit with his ultimate denial of the chaos theory.
i find the most educational portion of this interview to be the affirmed lack of rational decision-making by the majority of speakers involved.


They aren't denying chaos theory? Wasn't he, rather, explaining that there is no such thing as a random system, but a complex one? Not sure what you are getting at exactly.

i have to say, i disagree with all of the "hosts" sentiments. their respective final decisions about the theory are non-derivative of their final remarks. both the spiraling of a conversation and the flocking of birds are governed by separate-but-related phenoms, which the guest clearly states in his talk. yet these are the points upon which the first two hosts hinge their vote of theory confirmation. and the quite eloquent statement by the host next to the guest(despite his lack of contribution earlier in the show), which i happen to agree with-namely that all things may in fact be chaotic and that it is our finite knowledge that deems them random- does not fit with his ultimate denial of the chaos theory.

i find the most educational portion of this interview to be the affirmed lack of rational decision-making by the majority of speakers involved.

Also, a newspaper story about the phenom - they play up the 'really melts in your mouth' bit.
http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/944732--breast-milk-ice-cream-melts-in-the-mouth

The 'lol gingers' phenom: dumbest thing of the last decade.

And they're still "practicing" slavery in CRAZY North Africa. Slavery is a worldwide phenom that was practiced for thousands of years. Every race has at one time or another been slaves. Blacks should not feel singled out for persecution.

>> ^Lawdeedaw:
No. They came because African tribes sold their own, Spainards delivered them, white people used them, most nations (Rome, Greece, etc.) before America used slaves and led the way, and a million other reasons.

this was a great movie.
caine is phenom.
"you failed to maintain your weapon sir"

>> ^Trancecoach:

And now she's 12 years old.
Internet meme phenom gone viral


UPVOTE COMMENT! Thanks for linking this from here! I had no idea the other video existed

And now she's 12 years old.

Internet meme phenom gone viral

Jazz; blues; rock and roll. This phenom has been around in a while: white american and world culture embracing black american music.

Hip Hop is everywhere. I visited a large and not well known city in china a few years ago. While walking through a mall, I randomly ran into a performing b-boy group. I am not even sure that these folks knew about the origins of hip hop. For all they know; it could be a chinese creation. That's all right, though.

>> ^enoch:

they are also called yo-yos.
ok..lets put aside for a moment that the classification of "whiteness" is a fabricated term.
let us instead look at the history of american culture.
over the past century and a half there has been a few waves of immigration to america and each of those waves took approximately 2 generations to assimilate.
the italians assimilated,the irish assimilated.polish and dutch.the ONLY culture that was having trouble assimilating was the black culture and they had been here for almost two hundred years longer.the reasons for this is a far longer discussion but i use this point as a perspective tool.
blacks had been here for hundreds of years and generation after generation remained socially stagnant UNTIL...the advent and consequent popularity of hip-hop.
it was this genre of music which was so uniquely tied to black culture which ushered in the assimilation of black culture.now i do not propose that this has been a smooth transition nor has it been complete but rather pointing out the immense impact of this musical genre.what civil rights and basic decency could not do over the years hip-hop managed in only a few.
so is it any wonder that we now find other cultures participating in the creation of hip-hop?
not at all.music is the greatest form of sharing cultures' and styles and genres will bleed into each other.if you look at the history of music this is played out over and over and over.
there is poetry in that my friends.
music will always traverse stereotypes and cultural divisions.
so we should not be surprised to see white kids,latin kids and even the odd asian kids paying homage to hip-hop in the ways that humans always do.
either by copying or mocking.
in either case it means that hip-hop has reached global status.

Cool. A possible future badge to consider could be a Phenom badge - for folks with sufficiently high average-votes-per-video. This would be a great way to recognize all-around quality sifters.