Well, if this story from 2006 still holds true, I can see why you'd block the whole lot of us. If you have to put the great wall up again, maybe you could set up a filter that would let through specific IPs. Then I could log on using my fixed IP line.

Wow and they didn't even get an eviction notice. It's really weird for them to compare it to the great wall of China. This amazing Dynasty and then you realize that they just poured concrete throughout the entire thing killing all the citizens.

>> ^ShakaUVM:
I'm an American. I studied French, and currently study Mandarin Chinese. While hiking for 10 miles along the Great Wall of China, I encountered a group of 4 French college students. I said hello in French. They asked, "Are you American?" When I said yes, they said, "I thought so. We could tell by your accent." And turned away and snubbed me.
What? I went to the effort of learning your fucking language, and even spoke it to you in China of all places, and you hate on me because I'm American? I think the problem is in Europe, not America.


Are you basing your views of Europe solely on 4 French students that you met one time in china?

I'm an American. I studied French, and currently study Mandarin Chinese. While hiking for 10 miles along the Great Wall of China, I encountered a group of 4 French college students. I said hello in French. They asked, "Are you American?" When I said yes, they said, "I thought so. We could tell by your accent." And turned away and snubbed me.

What? I went to the effort of learning your fucking language, and even spoke it to you in China of all places, and you hate on me because I'm American? I think the problem is in Europe, not America.

Nice find Feduip. While I think it's great to conserve historical monuments like the Wall, it is not sacred. In fact, I think all of the famous walls throughout history are a testament to stupidity of walls. China's Great Wall never stopped the the Mongol invaders. The Berlin Wall eventually fell to political pressure. Hadrian's Wall didn't deter Pictish incursions. Some day the American Empire might finish it's wall along the Mexican border. I predict that it will fail as well.

Whenever I think of walls like this I recall Frost's "The Mending Wall".

"Good fences make good neighbors."

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Great Wall of China' to 'Great Wall of China, China' - edited by kronosposeidon

Save it with neo-slaves!! Move em from the tennis-shoe line, and let em retrofit the shit close to the farmstead...cheap labor is cheap labor....after all, there's the ...goddamn olympics to think about-

How about, "fuck the great wall", New York will look like someone slaved over that, when they dig that worthless fucker up as well, get on with the business of making China smart, by teaching them their leaders need killing.....(then come to America and do the same)

Pfft Internet, more like 'Great Wall of China Intranet'.

How does this ramp compare to this one?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Skater-Jumps-Great-Wall-of-China-Falls-a-Great-Distance

Small update: The skater is Danny Way in 2005 (July 9) Danny becomes the first person to jump the Great Wall of China on a skateboard

They were interesting shows. I’m not a big fan of these shows that make a derisive comment on the people they are interviewing and I think Louis Theroux (and Nick Broomfield in film) were the first sign of the nightmarish reality shows that were to come. However, compared to the sneering tone taken to contestants on The Apprentice, Survivor or Big Brother (whether they deserve to be sneered at for agreeing to go on such a show in the first place apart!), it is strange to be able to look back on Louis Theroux’s shows nostalgically – at least he was interviewing people the public were interested in knowing more about in the case of these When Louis Met… docs, or of cults, crazies and strange sub-cultures in his Weird Weekends programmes. I was interested by the way I was never sure whether I found Louis endearing in his curiosity or whether his naivete was an act, and I think his subjects felt the same way. I think a more important thing is to think that Louis gave his subjects ample rope with which to hang themselves!

He is a particularly good comparison to Nick Broomfield in the sense that their films are much more about their reaction to the people and places they visit than they are about the actual things they are supposedly documenting – not that their subjects are not important, but the presence of Theroux or Broomfield and their reactions are really the primary focus and makes them in a way an audience surrogate where we are exploring the situation with them (and in a more difficult way we are also being given clues of what reaction is expected of us as viewers by the way we see Broomfield and Theroux reacting). This is perhaps best shown in the Theroux documentary which follows him trying to get an interview with Michael Jackson, which he eventually doesn’t get – that infamously went to Martin Bashir – though Louis does get an outside view of the baby dangling incident.

The When Louis Met… programmes were full of pathos (the same pathos Ricky Gervais was tapping into when he had Les Dennis as a guest star in the first series of Extras), since most of the subjects were entertainers from a past television generation: the magician Paul Daniels and his assistant (and wife) Debbie McGee who had a high profile magic show in the 80s on the BBC which I remember watching. They were kind of shown up when David Copperfield became huge in America – somehow seeing the (relatively) ugly Daniels performing middling magic tricks seemed very old fashioned after seeing Copperfield walking through the Great Wall of China or making the Statue of Liberty disappear etc, and I think the BBC felt that too since they dropped the show soon afterwards despite his show still getting good ratings (and ratings the BBC would kill for today – in the tens of millions). Then the vogue for debunking magic tricks occurred which destroyed his act anyway.

I remember seeing Jimmy Savilles ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ show in the mid-80s, where kids would write with requests such as wanting to ride a monster truck or meet a celebrity etc which Jim then ‘fixed’. It is just difficult to watch the programme now in these more cynical times without a feeling of watching a dirty old man with an unhealthy interest in children which is probably why the show stopped. Not that Saville ever expressed any such interest, it is just the society has sadly become more distrustful of men and children, and there isn't the possibility of such a programme being shown now without those kind of thoughts popping into the audiences heads!

Chris Eubank, while ostensibly famous as a boxer, was only ever familiar to me from his comical television appearances, which had grown fewer over the years before this Louis documentary was made – probably as he realised that the audiences were laughing at him and his affectations rather than with him.

And I actually saw Keith Harris and Orville the Duck perform on stage in the late 80s – they were very well loved at the time, but again it was perhaps a more innocent gentle humour that didn’t really work as the world changed.

Neil and Christine Hamilton are the odd ones out from the group as they only became famous because of Neil’s accepting cash payments for asking question in Parliament in the early 90s and then being spectacularly defeated in 1997 when New Labour came to power. They were basically just opportunists hungry for publicity compared to the other participants who weren’t adverse to getting back in the limelight but had their limits. They were also minor figures by the early 2000s as well – it is just that they had much briefer fame and hadn’t done anything to be particularly proud of or to be fondly remembered for anyway! (Perhaps making them the earliest examples of people ‘famous for being famous’, ready to do anything to keep their profile in the media up)

swampgirl:
If I'm not mistaken, DC Shoes, Danny Way's biggest sponser, built the ramp. It's all for promotional advertising.

dag:
Again, if I'm not mistaken, this is the same guy as the great wall jump, Danny Way. My guess is that is actually older footage.

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

Lands it quite nicely. Reminds me of the great wall of China jump -
ah here we go:
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=278

He lands it quite nicely too, but then rockets about 100 feet into the air without his board, ouch.