So_Cynical
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I posted this earlier to a different thread but then found this one. [Sorry about the duplication].
This gave me a really good laugh and reminded me of times long gone by...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydj2sjGT2rU&feature=plcp
aliens must land and take our debt
keiser exceeding himself.....is it poss ?
Dumb Ways to Die. Funny ad or serious? Whatever...it's a big hit.
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2013/01/23/Gritters_Elvis_spoof_an_online_hit_838147.htmlA comedy video made by council gritters in Wales about their battle with the snowy elements has become an online hit.
In The Depot features Elvis impersonator Darren Graceland Jones singing about the trials and tribulations of clearing the roads in Torfaen, South Wales, to the tune of Presley's 1969 song In The Ghetto.
Since last Friday, the Welsh valleys have been covered in snow - and on Tuesday the Met Office upgraded the weather warning for Wales after heavy snow brought disruption to roads and nearly 500 schools.
So council bosses in Torfaen decided to come up with a light-hearted yet informative way of offering advice to members of the public - with a helping hand from the King of rock'n'roll.
A snow-covered Pontypool Park, Cwmbran bus station and Torfaen Council depot all feature in the two-and-a-half-minute music video spoof - which has so far proved a hit with YouTube users.
It was filmed in just one hour last Friday, when parts of South Wales were subject to a rare red warning of snow, and saw Elvis impersonator Mr Jones give up his time free of charge.
A Torfaen Council spokesman said: 'We are bombarded with queries about the weather and anything we can do to make the message stick we'll try.
'The reaction we've had to it has been brilliant.'
Work this one out -
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vwRPERT3iqI&vq=medium[/video]
Why would you assume anything else other than it is a set-up.
I kinda guessed he couldn't fly.
What I thought suss when looking at the video is that his feet were static relative to each other as he moved through the air. This indicated to me that he was actually standing on a glass sheet or some other fixed object when the footage was taken and then it was superimposed over the background. If he was not standing on a fixed object and truly moving through the air, you would expect some independent movement of his feet relative to each other.
Apart from the video I posted debunking his acts, I have seen similar videos exposing the same sort of tricks. It usually boils down to several videos being sewn together to give the impression that, for instance, looks of astonishment are because of what was just shown immediately before, when in fact they may be because of something completely unrelated.
Many of the bystanders are in on the act and the TV studios that produce this stuff are well aware that it is all a fake, but ratings is what they are after. The same goes for the so called psychics like John Andrews (?) where the live footage is severely edited by removing all his false "readings" so that what is shown gives the impression of a hit rate far in excess of random chance. If you look up James Randi on YouTube, you will find lots of stuff where he exposes these types of frauds.
Work this one out -
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vwRPERT3iqI&vq=medium[/video]
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