So that Shin Lim dude did a second routine on Penn and Teller after a serious hand injury and it was even more impressive. Just totally clean and inscrutable. It seems physically impossible on its face.
But Willow is a dreadful host
Oh shit, I need to watch that.
You're right about Alyson Hannigan, though. It's especially bad because she took over for Jonathan Ross, who was an excellent host. She's a fine actress she's just....not a good host, good lord.
I fucking love Fool Us, though. Fortunately Penn and Teller's libertarianism never really shows itself on the show, so it's easy to ignore all their Bullshit bullshit.
So that Shin Lim dude did a second routine on Penn and Teller after a serious hand injury and it was even more impressive. Just totally clean and inscrutable. It seems physically impossible on its face.
But Willow is a dreadful host
She has no wonder or amazement or love of magic, but she also refuses to just do some kind of deadpan/gravitas thing, so she just comes across as absurdly insincere.
She was also definitely skeeved out a couple of times she was a participant in people's acts.
VH and Zampanov showed me this while they were in town. It's fucking nuts. It's not just that the guy is incredibly proficient at his act, it's that it's a really lovely aesthetic experience. I love Penn's heartfelt praise at the end. His politics are silly, but he is not a dumb or a bad man.
also I love that Jonathan Ross was randomly hosting. I didn't know he'd done any work in America and I love him for being a giant awkward nerd who is interested in cool things.
VH and Zampanov showed me this while they were in town. It's fucking nuts. It's not just that the guy is incredibly proficient at his act, it's that it's a really lovely aesthetic experience. I love Penn's heartfelt praise at the end. His politics are silly, but he is not a dumb or a bad man.
also I love that Jonathan Ross was randomly hosting. I didn't know he'd done any work in America and I love him for being a giant awkward nerd who is interested in cool things.
Well, the first season of Fool Us was done in Britain. The second season was in the US, and he stuck around for season 2, but he does a fuckton of stuff in Britain (panel shows and hosting and whatnot) so I imagine it was really tough for him to do a full season in the US while keeping up with his responsibilities in Britain.
It's a shame though because he really was fantastic. Just the right amount of humor, and the perfect balance of "dumb foil for amazing card tricks" and "taskmaster that keeps Penn and Teller honest when they're hemming and hawing about how a trick was done".
I mean, Alyson is definitely terrible in her own right (unfortunately) but having to follow Jonathan Ross wasn't doing her any favors.
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And @Zampanov didn't show you shit, that video came straight off of my favorites list.
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If you want to see how great Jonathan Ross is, just watch this trick from the very first magician on the very first season of Fool Us, especially the part where he tells Jonathan what to do with the extra envelope.
studies seem to argue cats have at least the intellect of a preschooler, they're just aloof as all get out
evolutionary speaking compared to dogs they deffo went for the least effort maximum reward route
instead of all "we work out some kind of mutually beneficial hunting tactics with these tall monkeys, and then they start breeding us for behavioral traits that make us kind of like fucked up subservient puppies and then they get really weird with our shape. Like, you have no idea." they were just like "go up to those tall monkeys and make baby noises and they give you food and scritches, forever"
VH and Zampanov showed me this while they were in town. It's fucking nuts. It's not just that the guy is incredibly proficient at his act, it's that it's a really lovely aesthetic experience. I love Penn's heartfelt praise at the end. His politics are silly, but he is not a dumb or a bad man.
also I love that Jonathan Ross was randomly hosting. I didn't know he'd done any work in America and I love him for being a giant awkward nerd who is interested in cool things.
Well, the first season of Fool Us was done in Britain. The second season was in the US, and he stuck around for season 2, but he does a fuckton of stuff in Britain (panel shows and hosting and whatnot) so I imagine it was really tough for him to do a full season in the US while keeping up with his responsibilities in Britain.
It's a shame though because he really was fantastic. Just the right amount of humor, and the perfect balance of "dumb foil for amazing card tricks" and "taskmaster that keeps Penn and Teller honest when they're hemming and hawing about how a trick was done".
I mean, Alyson is definitely terrible in her own right (unfortunately) but having to follow Jonathan Ross wasn't doing her any favors.
Yeah its basically no contest
being a host summarizes pretty much everything jonathan ross does, so it stands to reason that he's got it down to an art
but if cats stayed kittens we'd get exhausted after a while. Both because that much adorable is taxing and because they are pretty high maintenance compared to a grown cat.
Cats are good, is my conclusion. They are good when they are kittens and they are good when they are grown cats who are just like, around. Hanging out, doing cat stuff. Saying hi to a cat is like a nod hello to a friend in passing. Dogs get all intense if you say hello.
if any of you get kittens you should start lifting them by their paws
my uncle did that with all his farm cats and the payoff is that you get the absurd sight of a cat being held aloft by its front paws and not trying to murder anyone, just hanging there, looking bored and not caring, instead being mildly interested in a speck of dust in the middle distance
the largest* surface combat vessel in the world, Pyotr Veliky, along with about 50 other russian vessels, are in the waters outside Vardø, on exercise. It's part of the military exercise Zapad 2017, which NATO expects to be the largest military exercise since the cold war.
The exercise involves belarusian and russian troops, in the barents sea, the baltic sea, kaliningrad, and other russian and belarusian areas. Russia claims around 12 000 soldiers are involved, NATO believes as many as 100 000.
NATO already has placed troops in the baltic sisters, if they hadn't, they probably would have in response to this. Sweden is holding a large joint military exercise with finland, Aurora 2017, with the scenario "sweden gets invaded by a foreign power, allied countries assist". Subtle. Largest of its kind in several years.
*shared with its three sister vessels of the Kirov class
I can't for the life of me remember the names of the factions in the NATO exercise I was in, but it was some real LARPy shit. It imagined there being two countries in northern norway, where one invaded the other, yugoslav wars style, and NATO assisting them (it would have been way more LARPy if all the other countries had gotten imaginary names as well but it would have been way too hard to remember I guess.)
anyway sweden is very much not doing an especially abstract scenario
in local news, pretty much fuck all is happening besides the cycling world championship, which is blotting out everything else. Seems like literally everything that is happening is happening to or because of the cycling world championship. The tone is, as we say, convulsively excited, while a lot of people are going "why, honestly, do we give a shit"
But, due to the cycling world championship, the firemen [moved out/scrambled/deployed] from Skansen Brannstasjon, the white tower at the top there looking down at the heart of downtown, for the first time since 1969. Which they thought was quite nice.
Skansen brannstasjon was built in 1903, used until 1969. Due to the roads that are blocked, the fire brigade put a vehicle and a team there, which, as previously mentioned, they thought was quite nice because history and shit.
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Oh shit, I need to watch that.
You're right about Alyson Hannigan, though. It's especially bad because she took over for Jonathan Ross, who was an excellent host. She's a fine actress she's just....not a good host, good lord.
I fucking love Fool Us, though. Fortunately Penn and Teller's libertarianism never really shows itself on the show, so it's easy to ignore all their Bullshit bullshit.
She has no wonder or amazement or love of magic, but she also refuses to just do some kind of deadpan/gravitas thing, so she just comes across as absurdly insincere.
She was also definitely skeeved out a couple of times she was a participant in people's acts.
Redheads, I'm telling you
if anything it'd come off as patronizing
I had a crush on Amy, wished she was in more episodes.
Her attempts to sound excited when she isn't do come across as patronizing.
https://youtu.be/46d6TuEkLc0?t=633
really gross photos
now I want to die
i'm going to bed
What
What is
What is a pimple party
no
why
pus filled fun for all
VH and Zampanov showed me this while they were in town. It's fucking nuts. It's not just that the guy is incredibly proficient at his act, it's that it's a really lovely aesthetic experience. I love Penn's heartfelt praise at the end. His politics are silly, but he is not a dumb or a bad man.
also I love that Jonathan Ross was randomly hosting. I didn't know he'd done any work in America and I love him for being a giant awkward nerd who is interested in cool things.
watch this while you eat breakfast
Well, the first season of Fool Us was done in Britain. The second season was in the US, and he stuck around for season 2, but he does a fuckton of stuff in Britain (panel shows and hosting and whatnot) so I imagine it was really tough for him to do a full season in the US while keeping up with his responsibilities in Britain.
It's a shame though because he really was fantastic. Just the right amount of humor, and the perfect balance of "dumb foil for amazing card tricks" and "taskmaster that keeps Penn and Teller honest when they're hemming and hawing about how a trick was done".
I mean, Alyson is definitely terrible in her own right (unfortunately) but having to follow Jonathan Ross wasn't doing her any favors.
that's the dream, mojo
that's the dream
(for reals tho big kitties are awesome too it's just that kittens are like some kind of fuzzy WMD of endearment)
evolutionary speaking compared to dogs they deffo went for the least effort maximum reward route
instead of all "we work out some kind of mutually beneficial hunting tactics with these tall monkeys, and then they start breeding us for behavioral traits that make us kind of like fucked up subservient puppies and then they get really weird with our shape. Like, you have no idea." they were just like "go up to those tall monkeys and make baby noises and they give you food and scritches, forever"
Yeah its basically no contest
being a host summarizes pretty much everything jonathan ross does, so it stands to reason that he's got it down to an art
but if cats stayed kittens we'd get exhausted after a while. Both because that much adorable is taxing and because they are pretty high maintenance compared to a grown cat.
Cats are good, is my conclusion. They are good when they are kittens and they are good when they are grown cats who are just like, around. Hanging out, doing cat stuff. Saying hi to a cat is like a nod hello to a friend in passing. Dogs get all intense if you say hello.
my uncle did that with all his farm cats and the payoff is that you get the absurd sight of a cat being held aloft by its front paws and not trying to murder anyone, just hanging there, looking bored and not caring, instead being mildly interested in a speck of dust in the middle distance
the largest* surface combat vessel in the world, Pyotr Veliky, along with about 50 other russian vessels, are in the waters outside Vardø, on exercise. It's part of the military exercise Zapad 2017, which NATO expects to be the largest military exercise since the cold war.
The exercise involves belarusian and russian troops, in the barents sea, the baltic sea, kaliningrad, and other russian and belarusian areas. Russia claims around 12 000 soldiers are involved, NATO believes as many as 100 000.
NATO already has placed troops in the baltic sisters, if they hadn't, they probably would have in response to this. Sweden is holding a large joint military exercise with finland, Aurora 2017, with the scenario "sweden gets invaded by a foreign power, allied countries assist". Subtle. Largest of its kind in several years.
*shared with its three sister vessels of the Kirov class
While cats fall on the Actual Varmint -> Adorbs But Still a Shitty Roommate scale
It's just science
anyway sweden is very much not doing an especially abstract scenario
cats are way better roommates than dogs
But, due to the cycling world championship, the firemen [moved out/scrambled/deployed] from Skansen Brannstasjon, the white tower at the top there looking down at the heart of downtown, for the first time since 1969. Which they thought was quite nice.
Skansen brannstasjon was built in 1903, used until 1969. Due to the roads that are blocked, the fire brigade put a vehicle and a team there, which, as previously mentioned, they thought was quite nice because history and shit.