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Imponderable #65: Clayton Cubitt

19 Oct

October 19, 2012

Going against the tradition of The Imponderable, Clayton Cubitt is not a place, he is a man. Read on.

And now, purely in the interest of science and research, are his videos.

WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
And please, be over 18. While there is NO nudity or profanity here, this is not for kids.

I decided that it was in the best traditions of journalism that I present all four videos. And how about that Alicia? If those girls don’t make you a fan of literature I don’t what will. And if you are a true cosmopolitan bibliophile, follow the links at the end of the videos for foreign versions.

And as far as mocking a Victorian theory of hysteria in women, give me a break. Some guys will say anything to get a woman to do some things. The man, btw, lives in my neck of the woods, Brooklyn NY. I would love to run into him some day.

I did some research into this (in the name of journalistic integrity) and the women are either burlesque performers or adult movie stars, and what is going on below the table is probably just what you think is going on below the table. This is real.

But what is it? Art? Well, I guess it is, if only in the sense that everything today is art. Is it a statement? The artist seems to think so but I don’t believe him.

Is this simply the extreme that a man will go to just to get a sexual thrill?

The question is Imponderable. But the answer is probably yes.

You watched all four of those videos, didn’t you? 😉

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YouTube Turns People Into Idiots. (Classic Repost)

29 Aug

August 29, 2012

This ran two years ago and nothing has changed. Things have only gotten worse.

from October 18, 2010

Actually, what YouTube does is take idiots and give them a forum. That gives the idiots carte  blanche to act stupid in public.

Case in point:

I was shopping in ShopRite tonight and I came upon this scene:

  • A large display of mousetraps, knocked over and  scattered all over the floor.
  • A man, obviously a store manager, wearing a crisp shirt and tie, on his hands and knees scooping up the traps into a shopping cart.
  • A woman, holding the hand of a young child with her left hand, and filming the mess with her cell phone camera in her right over the man’s shoulder not two feet away. She was smiling and in a hoarse, cigarette-ruined voice, narrating into the phone and laughing.

“See this mess? (ha ha ha) This is the mess my baby made. (turns the camera to the child, who is laughing and playing with a rat trap, and pans back.) This shit is all over the floor and this guy (ha ha ha) has to clean it up! This is going up tonight! (ha ha cough rasp ha)”

You could see from the look on the manager’s face that he was seething and wanted to at the very least kick the crap out of the woman, but he kept his professionalism and ignored her. I really don’t know how he did it.

But this woman thought it was great! Just great! that her son knocked over the display, felt no need to help clean it up, and thought nothing of embarrassing the poor guy so she could post the whole mess on YouTube. And on top of it all, there was nothing funny about any of it. It was all really sad. That woman needs to have her kid taken away if that’s how she’s raising him.

I don’t blame YouTube for turning her into an idiot. She must have been an idiot long before that site came along. But if it weren’t for YouTube she wouldn’t have been filming over the poor man’s shoulder and coughing into his ear and he would still have some of his dignity.

And on a related note, someone needs to tell ShopRite that it isn’t appetizing to have a mouse trap display right next to the fresh produce aisle.

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