Here's the original comment thread for that, Ogged.
I know I shouldn't laugh at the grape-stomping mishap—really, I do—but it never stops being funny. I may have to turn one of those moans into my system beep.
Do you think it's Tourette's? Maybe he knew he was getting fired and he wanted to go out with a bang. That post-cursing "stand there and smile" was pretty damn weird.
I shouldn't laugh at the grape-stomping mishap
That one's hilarious. That's what you get for cheating! But seriously, I think it sounds much worse than it is (I have no evidence for this belief).
I've seen in comments (maybe even at my place, though I can't find the post at the moment) where somebody wrote to the station and asked whether she had been hurt. The person who wrote back said she was okay and hadn't been hurt. It sounds like she had the wind knocked out of her.
Do you think it's Tourette's?
Internetical research says that the spot was almost certainly not live and didn't air. They tape the previews, so he probably just felt like cursing. Still...
Here's the dude, at a different station now.
You people are awful; that's totally not funny. Except that the studio people's complete lack of concern is funny in a black sort of "god, tv news is awful" sort of way.
But after the "and he's gay!" link, the weatherman freaking out about the cockroach clip is a lot funnier than it would otherwise be.
I can't find the post at the moment
And whaddayaknow, it was you that left the comment. Bruised ribs and the wind knocked out of her.
You people are awful; that's totally not funny.
Only the first of those two assertions is true.
The blind mountain climber seems to have a good sense of humor.
The grape thing not so funny, though perhaps b/c I could see it coming. It seems like a really stupid way to arrange it. Teh gay clips made my sides hurt, though. It looks like the not so vaguely gay weatherman is based in Florida? You think he'd be used to it. :-)
And whaddayaknow, it was you
Now that's funny. Let's you and I just laugh at the same falling people every year or so.
Bwhahaha. See, you and I followed the same links, because I was watching that about twenty minutes ago.
What are you, Kurt Vonnegut's sister?
Even this guy says, "Kurt Vonnegut's sister thought falling down in public was a laughing
matter." Does Vonnegut write about this in a book? I've read a good amount of Vonnegut, and I don't remember this bit.
Ebaum is where the really painful looking faceplants are to be found.
http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/bikewallsmash.html
The bike section in general has some pretty spectacular wipeouts.
http://ebaumsworld.com/tags/bikes/
I don't like the really painful looking ones, or the snow accidents that often break necks and backs. But a good old-fashioned fall is inexplicably funny.
20: Timequake. I'm convincing myself it's Timequake. He writes a lot about his sister in that one.
21: Ouch. Wear helmets, people.
The really painful looking bike ones I show my kids to scare them into wearing helmets.
The kid in 21 is pretty tough. He even kept his feet. I face-planted once when we were jumping bikes as a kid, and started gushing blood from my nose, but I cried like a ninny.
I was young! [That's no excuse. -ed. I know.]
Totally. He's way composed for a kid who just broke his jaw, and has at least one tooth in the grass. I dislocated a knee when I was 15. No crying, but a great deal of swearing. Not calm at all.
Thinking back, I think that face-plant was the last time I cried over an injury--I was even embarrassed about it at the time, particularly because one of my friends said "I thought you were laughing." Never again! (I was about seven or eight, by the way.) [That's still no excuse. -ed. I know!]
Crying over injuries isn't half so bad as crying over being called a sexist, you wuss.
Gotta go hang out with family for a bit. Happy wound nursing.
18: The best part is at :51 where the kids are apparently reenacting a scene from Gummo in their Xmas pageant.