83 posts tagged ‘Video’
Virgin Mary statue crying magical tears in Mexico (video)
Boing Boing,
Crowds of believers are filling a church in Colima, Mexico to see a statue of the Virgin Mary crying real tears. Watch it happen below! "Similarly, when we cry, and our eyes become red, the same happens to the image," said town resident Victor Ramos. — Read the rest
Huge deadly cobra interrupts golf game (video)
Elitha Peachey's tee time was interrupted when a huge Cape cobra slithered onto the course at the Atlantic Beach Golf Club in Cape Town, South Africa. Video below. Seen in the background is a mongoose, the Cape cobra's main predator. As the Fark headline noted, it's like a Far Side cartoon come to life. — Read the rest
The Daily Show recommends Leslie Jones as the solution to annoying family at Thanksgiving dinner
This fantastic sketch from TDS shows Leslie Jones fixing Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving, don't worry about how to handle your annoying relatives. For $29.99, Leslie Jones will teach you how to shut down awkward conversations. — TDS I've had some weird Thanksgivings, but my favorite has to have been this one time some friends and I were recruited to help keep a Thanksgiving dinner low-key, as one of our cadre's long-divorced parents both intended to attend, with their new spouses, after decades of not speaking. — Read the rest
Kevin McCarthy just "sucker punched" — literally — Rep. Tim Burchett
Former speaker Kevin McCarthy has so much bottled-up rage after his ousting, he's now lashing out — literally — at his own party members, according to Rep. Tim Burchett. As in sneaking up behind the Tennessee lawmaker — one of the "crazy 8" Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy — in a hallway on Capitol Hill this morning to "elbow him in the back," causing Burchett "a lot of pain." — Read the rest
Watch US senator challenge Teamsters boss to a fistfight during Congressional hearing (video)
In a US Senate hearing this morning, Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) challenged International Brotherhood of Teamsters general president Sean O'Brien to a fist fight in the committee room. O'Brien had previously called Mullin a "clown" and a "fraud" in posts on X. — Read the rest
A beginners' safety guide to hunting the wild Scottish haggis
The beauty of Scotland matched with the thrill of the hunt. This video promises everything one could hope for and will introduce you to the exciting world of haggis hunting. Haggis are mythical creatures reputed to have left and right side legs of different lengths, allowing them to run around steep mountainsides more quickly, not unlike the fabled sharks of Alcatraz who reportedly had one fin cut off to force them to swim in circles around the prison island. — Read the rest
Watch sweet hungry kitten morph into ferocious beast (video)
A very cute and hungry calico kitten with a high-pitched "mew" knew how to sweet-talk a man into giving her a bottle of milk. Until… …she got her paws on it — and morphed from baby putty-tat to claw-baring beast. In fact, the longer she sucked on the liquid ambrosia, the more aggressive she became, growling like a roaring tiger as she tried to scratch the hand that feeds. — Read the rest
Psychedelic film from the 1940s, featuring Bing Crosby, used to treat mental disorders
In the 1940s, British psychologist Cecil Stokes created Auroratone films, deeply psychedelic short movies meant to be shown at psychiatric institutions to help treat patients suffering from mental disorders, particularly war veterans. In 1942, Stokes was granted US patent #2292172 for the Process and Apparatus for Producing Musical Rhythm in Color. — Read the rest