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Enraged driver confronts another, immediately regrets it

MichaelL says...

Yeah, that made me laugh too. Guy is groggy from 3 blows to the head and his buddy puts him back behind the wheel...

brycewi19 said:

Yes, after getting the snot beat out of you, please proceed to get back in the driver's seat and continue driving.

Turn Down for Spock

MichaelL says...

Soundtrack is annoying as hell...
However, funny to watch the actors throwing themselves around. Must have made for some good laughs on set...

Don Rickles on David Letterman - May 3rd 2014 - Full Intervi

MichaelL says...

It's doubtful anyone in the audience under the age of 50 knows who Don Rickles is... he's really from a different age of comedy.

George Lucas Explains The Concept Of The Lightsaber.

MichaelL says...

I always thought the severed arm thing was done wrong. It's been hacked through and you see blood on the floor. I'm not an expert but I would assume that a laser would cauterize flesh instantly, therefore, no blood.

Open Letter to Ellen Degeneres: Don't Promote A Psychic

MichaelL says...

Oprah is another dim-bulb that promotes these types...
Seniors, in particular, are easy prey for these con artists, probably because they've lived long enough to see friends and family die.
My mother - suffering the early symptoms of dementia - put her and her 3rd husband deeply into debt because of these creeps. After she was institutionalized, I went through her paperwork and discovered the letters that she had written to various psychics asking for help. It broke my heart -- once they had her hooked they sent her endless letters each promising to reveal big secrets to her and she dutifully sent them money time and time again.
Ellen, show some backbone...

Tiny Puppy Protects Food Bowl from Big Dog

MichaelL says...

One scrappy little dog you got there...
Reminds me of my bigger dog... he never knows how to play with smaller dogs so he winds up sort of gently stepping on them like this big guy.

The Great Escape

MichaelL says...

Also, a little bit of trivia... Donald Pleasance -- who plays the forger who eventually escapes with Charles Bronson -- actually spent time in a similar POW camp during WWII.

The Great Escape

MichaelL says...

The father-in-law of a fellow Toastmaster actually participated in the Great Escape. He was a penguin... responsible for distributing the dirt dug from the tunnels throughout the prison yard via pockets built into their pants. Fortunately, he was NOT one of the ones chosen to escape. Aside from the fact there were no Americans at the POW camp, he said the movie was reasonably accurate, i.e. three tunnels, the one used came up short of the treeline...
The camp commander was imprisoned after the war. Some of his POWs went to visit him to let him know that they bore him no ill will. They were all soldiers and they considered the base commander to be a fair man who treated them well under the circumstances.
He refused to see them. Via an intermediary he relayed to them that he simply couldn't face them. He said that he never felt more ashamed to be a Nazi as when he heard that the SS had executed the 50 escapees from his camp.
The most fascinating part of Jim Lang's story though was the story BEFORE he arrived at the POW camp. Too long to relay here but he was shot out of the sky when returning from an air raid. Spent a few weeks on the run in the Belgium countryside.
He has since died but I fortunately recorded his presentation... just a great slice of history.

Now you smell it ...

Car Hits Cyclist and Leaves a Mattress to Cushion the Fall

Best Fails of the Week 2 March 2014

MichaelL says...

Dear morons... let the video speak for itself. You don't have to bray like a jackass to cue us in that it's funny. You are like the most annoying laugh track ever...

Careless Whisper - Vintage 1930's Jazz Wham! Cover

Reversing Arrow Optical Illusion

MichaelL says...

I am tired of debating stupid people... you win, it's an illusion.

Moving on...

Payback said:

Your examples are flawed.

Place a rose-tinted glass in front of someone, and they would think you've placed a rose-tinted glass in front of them. The would expect the image transmitted by the glass to be rose-tinted as well.

Place a white sheet in front of them, and they would think you've placed a white sheet in front of them. They would expect to see a white sheet.

Place a clear object, such as a drinking glass, in front of them, they would think you've placed a drinking glass in front of them. They would expect to see through it, maybe expecting a perfect image, maybe a distorted one.

Fill that glass with water, and they do NOT expect to see a reversed image. It's an illusion. The arrows are not faced right, they are faced left, but they SEEM to be facing right.

By your yardstick, a mirage, the most common form of illusion, isn't.

Reversing Arrow Optical Illusion

MichaelL says...

Yeah, no worries. On the Internet, you're never sure who's just yanking your chain and who's an intellectual midget.

chingalera said:

I apologize if it ruffled feathers which incidentally, are worthy of ruffling if they be but feathers.

Reversing Arrow Optical Illusion

MichaelL says...

From Wikipedia:
An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality.

That means when you stare at an object DIRECTLY, you are tricked into believing that it has different qualities than it does.

In this example, you aren't starting at the arrows... you are staring at a diffracted image of the arrows. The diffracted arrows REALLY do point in the opposite direction. There's no illusion here.

Consider this...

If I put a rose-tinted pane of glass in front of the arrows, would you consider that an optical illusion?

Would you think "Hey, those arrows were on white paper before, NOW the paper is pink! Mind blown! Optical illusion!'?

No, you understand that you are seeing the colour pink because that's the property of the pane of glass IN FRONT OF the white sheet.

If you put a white sheet in front of the arrows, would you think: "Hey, the arrows have disappeared? Optical illusion!"?

No, that's the property of the sheet in front of the arrows.

And so on...

Hopefully, that clarifies it for you...

Payback said:

And just to back up Chingy...



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