Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Is he trying to be like Ghyslain?

What's sadder are some of the comments on Youtube for this video.

> Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

local pyscho

"I was researching a home defense shotgun when I found this."

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

And I call Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

Its good to see we understand that war is what it is. Friendly fire incidents happen all the time. That is why you mark your lines, pop smoke, get your radio man out of harms way and take cover.

Imagine: You are in a room in a combat zone, with thick concrete walls and all hell has broken loose. You have been charged to keep a doorway secure so that your sarge can get a Air Strike. Multiple tangos inbound on your position and they parent gonna stop until every thing is dead. You are shaking so hard that you feel as if your heart is going to explode. You hear boots running towards that door, you clear the chamber of your SAW and prepare to let it loose. The "enemy" materializes in the door way, and let it go full auto praying that you don't get wasted by any ricochet, or the enemy. Because the air strike is just a second away. You wipe out all the guys at the door way and they are piled up almost to the top of the door frame, then you notice something about the moaning wounded, they have US flags on their shoulders.

These things happen, if some one runs up on your 6 with out yelling FRIENDLY and you turn round snap shoot them, there is nothing that can be done. We see it all the time in first person video games, and we will see it large scale and im die Fleisch in videos like these. Lucky for those guys in the video that they didn't wipe out the whole column.

It could have been worse.

...this movies' gonna go over real big in Bahhston,....

a pre pre-screen freebie says that this yawning attempt, to garner praise from the mediocre shit factory cartoon snooze division of Turner Prawncasting, will fall dead on its ass marketwide.

Little Brittle: (Song) Well back in 1912 I could kick your ass;
I did the tango and the foxtrot before it got banned.
There was ragtime and jazz before there ever was rap;
now I'm trapped with a colostomy bag in my pants..

Tags changed from "japan, dance, kasou taishou" to "japan, dance, kasou taishou, tango" by gold star member oohahh.

(haha, joedirt...)

agree completely about waiting awhile before coming back to this.

want to remind everyone that the sense of self-linking that's being discussed here is *not* clearly spelled out in the videosift user guidelines, as phoenix noted. it was only codified in krupo's sift talk post (in august?), at which time several longtime VS members were surprised to find that such a thing was out of bounds here. the context for that post was the strenuous efforts being made by krupo, joedirt, and a few others to police the new member submission queue (now gone).

despite all the talk in this thread and others about the dangers of spam and astroturfing, i don't know of a single attempt here that's been successful. no doubt this is due to the vigilance and excellent detective work of many of the most-active VS members.

there is no reasonable sense in which this type of self-linking (call it krupo #1) is self-promotion, as most people understand it. it does however break the rules of sifting. we're free to change those rules, if we want.

in this case, there are a number of good reasons for considering this, not least of which is that the current policy is *completely unenforceable*. we posted this video last night from a 4-day old youtube user account. we've seen this video before on youtube, but it got taken down (copyright, probably). we have a copy of the .flv file for "tango" from that earlier posting. so is that youtube user account legitimate, or is it a dummy account we set up? it's only been active 4 days, with 18 videos watched, and 8 videos posted.

it so happens that it is legitimate, but i don't think i could prove it to anyone, let alone a user account on some other video hosting site that includes less information about the uploader. unless you're going to move all sorts of posts into that new self-link queue (siftbot command: *self), it will remain entirely up to users who know their way around here to voluntarily comply, like mlx did, like we did.

since the rules in this case have to be followed voluntarily (whatever they are), we're in a position of having to trust each other. personally, i don't think the kind of rule-breaking we're talking about here is that serious a betrayal of trust (because, again, it has nothing to do with self-promotion). i don't want to see anyone banned over it, and i think that threat needs to be taken off the table upfront to make it easier to come to an agreement about what the rules should be.

This is one of my favourite songs from the Soviet film "Mimino", I would have loved to sift a trailer for you however there are no DVDs of the movies I used to watch really. He is the one who starred in the movie and also sang the songs. Prolly sifting this for myself but whatever.

Before stepping on stage this is what he says:

"Why do I sing this song? It's because I love the blue sky above Tbilisi, it's mountains, it's sun. When my soul is happy I sing it, when sad I still sing it. My song is born from this land, this sun, from my people. I sing and I feel as old age dawns, and I remember my childhood... I become very sad... but I still sing."

Kikabidze Vakhtang Konstantinovich, a professional singer, actor, screenwriter, producer, the author of many songs, was born in Georgia (Tbilisi) in 1938 on July 19th. Georgian national actor, the winner of USSR state premium, the winner of different international song concourses and film festivals. The chevalier of awards of honour of the king Vakhtang Gorgasali (of Nikolai Wondermonger and Knight Cross of St. Konstantin the Great). The honourable citizen. In 1999 in Moscow on the "Star Square" was founded his star. In cinematography he created a pleiad of eminent actors who became very popular. Here is the list of such films as: "Ne gor'ui", "Mimino", "Melodii Veriiskogo Kvartala", "Sovsem propashii" and so on. His last film "Fortuna" was made with the producer Georgi Danelia in 2000. Constantly goes on tours. As a scriptwriter and producer made two feature films: "Bud' Zdorov, dorogoi" (took the first premium on the international comedy festival in Grabovo, Bulgaria) and "Muzchini i vse ostal'nie". Married with two children and three grandchildren. Since 1996 has been brought in the international encyclopedia "Who is who".

http://www.buba.diaspora.ru/eng/tango.html

This makes me happy and sad at the same time.

"In other words, 'Takes the mickey'."

What the hell does THAT mean? Mickey Mouse? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot are you talking about? Did you just try and define a euphimism with a euphimism?

Scent of a Woman is a 1992 film which tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irascible blind, medically retired Army officer. It stars Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It won the Academy Award for Best Actor (Al Pacino) and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

This should be watched by everyone growing up. Some trivia for you

* Al Pacino was helped by a school for the blind in preparation for his role. He says he made himself look blind by not focusing his view on anything, and that using prosthetic contact lenses would "fake" his performance.

* During the disciplinary meeting, the headmaster tells Slade "You are out of order!", a line told to another of Pacino's characters in ...And Justice for All (1979).

* Director Martin Brest disowned the version of the film shown on airlines and television.

* In order to get Charlie out of the hotel room Slade asks him to buy some aspirins and a Montecristo no. 1 cigar, a Cuban product banned in the US due to the Cuban embargo. As this task is impossible it would keep Charlie away for a long time.

* Pacino prepared for the famous "tango" scene in the movie by taking intensive Argentine tango lessons at DanceSport, a Manhattan dance studio located near Columbus Circle.

* Slade notices the girl he will tango with a few minutes later by her smell. When Slade and Charlie talk to her, she tells her name was Donna - which is the Italian word for "woman". The approach scene therefore is a homage to the title of the original 1974 movie Profumo Di Donna.

la la la la la
doot'n'doot'n'doo doooooo!
whiskey tango foxtrot, over.

Just want to add that this is the real deal, unlike some of the stage tango/tango fantasia you might see on "So You Think You Can Dance".

The 80's music is killer. I was ready to believe this is a parody b/c of it.

This gun, would of course, be horribly useless if the cover you're standing behind would allow bullets to permeate. Or if the tango whipped grenades at you. <shrug>

You're probably SOL if that little viewfinder fails. Wonder if they have a mirror/periscope backup?

I like how they cover the "paintball says 'you're out' if the gun is hit" with their little example... which proves nothing.