Videos, Audio, Poetry, Paintings etc., that send a message

[2020hindsight]

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I would be eating an icecream and a tooth would fall out .
Every US family currently pays USD 1500 per year in taxes to combat illegal drug use .
"Meth sneaks in and spreads like a virus - with Meth there is more stealing , violence, domestic abuse" , Deberah Durkin, Missesota Dept of Health
etcetc

 

[2020hindsight]

Monty Python - Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1

message? - who needs drugs when you've got Monty Python lol

 

[2020hindsight]

Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

My kids thought this was "great! - you gotta see" etc - lol - I pass it on without comment

PS both "daft" and , to his/her credit "deft" as well

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/daft
deft : Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous.
daft : (english slang) 1. senseless, stupid, or foolish.
daft : (scottish slang) 3. merry; playful; frolicsome.

PS my guess is he/she's Scottish.

Another by the same author:- (pretty clever for a school project)
C is for Catastrophe

 

[2020hindsight]

At LAST, some ads that might make the kids tidy their rooms !! lol – and ladies take note!! lol
Tidy UP

Commercial with vibrator
Grandma found my vibrator

"anti blushing pills - do they work? read our exclusive in Womens Health Mag" lol

 

[2020hindsight]

Slam Poetry
What Do Teachers Really Make? Taylor Mali Explains...

High School Teacher & Slam Poet Taylor Mali on "What Teachers Make"

Check out Taylor's website here:
http://www.taylormali.com/

Or add him on MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/taylormali


What is Slam Poetry?

Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that occurs within a competitive poetry event, called a "slam", at which poets perform their own poems (or, in rare cases, those of others) that are "judged" on a numeric scale by randomly picked members of the audience.


Taylor Mali is considered to be the most successful poetry slam strategist of all time, having led six of his seven national poetry slam teams to the finals stage and winning the championship itself a record four times before anyone had even tied him at three, Mali was one of the original poets to appear on the HBO original series "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry." He was also the "golden-tongued, Armani clad villain" of Paul Devlin's 1997 documentary film "SlamNation," which chronicled the National Poetry Slam Championship of 1996, the year of Mali's first national team championship.


~ SPEECH ~

What Teachers Make, or
Objection Overruled, or
If things don't work out, you can always go to law school

By Taylor Mali
www.taylormali.com


He says the problem with teachers is, "What's a kid going to learn
from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?"

He reminds the other dinner guests that it's true what they say about
teachers:

That those who can, do; those who can't, teach.

I decide to bite my tongue instead of his
and resist the urge to remind the other dinner guests
that it's also true what they say about lawyers.

Because we're eating, after all, and this is polite conversation.

"I mean, you're a teacher, Taylor"
"Be honest. What do you make?"

And I wish he hadn't done that
(asked me to be honest)
because, you see, I have a policy
about honesty and ass-kicking:
which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

You want to know what I make?

I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional medal of honor
and I can make an A- feel like a slap in the face.
How dare you waste my time with anything less than your very best.

You wanna know what I make?

I make kids sit through 40 minutes of study hall
in absolute silence.
No, you can not work in groups.
No, you can not ask a question (so put your hand down)
Why won't I let you go to the bathroom?
Because you're bored and you don't really have to go, do you?

You wanna know what I make?

I make parents tremble in fear when I call home at around dinner time:
"Hi, This is Mr. Mali, I hope I haven't called at a bad time,
I just wanted to talk to you about something your son did today.
he said, "Leave the kid alone. I still cry sometimes, don't you?"
And it was the noblest act of courage I have ever seen.

I make parents see their children for who they are
and who they can be.

You want to know what I make?

I make kids question.
I make them criticize.
I make them apologize and mean it.
I make them write, write, write.
And then I make them read.
I make them spell definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful, definitely
beautiful
over and over again until they will never misspell
either one of those words again.
I make them show all their work in math.
And then hide it on their final drafts in English.
I make them realize that if you got this (brains)
then you follow this (heart) and if someone ever tries to judge you
by what you make, you give them this (the finger).

Let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true:
I make a difference! What about you?

 

[2020hindsight]

here's a great light one lol
man's a comedian - as well as a teacher
The Impotence of Proofreading By Taylor Mali
The the impotence of proofreading
By Taylor Mali
www.taylormali.com

Has this ever happened to you?
You work very, very horde on a paper for English clash
And still get a very glow raid (like a D or even a D=)
and all because you are the liverwurst spoiler in the whale wide word
Yes, Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence.

This is a problem that affects manly, manly students all over the word.
I myself was such a bed spiller once upon a term
that my English torturer in my sophomoric year,
Mrs. Myth, she said I would never get into a good colleague.
And that ¹s all I wanted, that's all any kid wants at that age
just to get into a good colleague.
Not just anal community colleague,
because I wouldn ¹t be happy at just anal community colleague.

I really need to be challenged, challenged menstrually
I needed a place that would offer me intellectual simulation,
I know this makes me sound like a stereo,
but I really wanted to go to an ivory legal colleague.
So if I did not improvement
or gone would be my dream of going to Harvard, Jail, or Prison
(in Prison, New Jersey).

So I got myself a spell checker
and figured I was on Sleazy Street.

But there are several missed aches
that a spell chukker can ¹t can ¹t catch catch.
For instant, if you accidentally leave out word
your spell exchequer won ¹t put it in you.
And God for billing purposes only
you should have serial problems with Tori Spelling
your spell Chekhov might replace a word
with one you had absolutely no detention of using.

Because what do you want it to douch?
It only does what you tell it to douche.
You ¹re the one with your hand on the mouth going clit, clit, clit.
It just goes to show you how embargo
one careless little clit of the mouth can be.

Which reminds me of this one time during my Junior Mint.
The teacher took the paper that I had written on A Sale of Two Titties
No I'm cereal, I am cereal
she read it out loud in front of all of my assmates.
It was the most humidifying experience of my life,
being laughed at pubically.

So do yourself a flavor and follow these two Pisces of advice:
One: There is no prostitute for careful editing.
And three: When it comes to proofreading,
the red penis your friend.

Spank you

 

[2020hindsight]

Like_youknow

Lol, reminded me of this poem by Pam Ayres (already posted elsewhere,. but you know what the heck)

A Slight Howsyourfather

Never mind! a poem by Pam Ayres

 

[2020hindsight]

An Incredible smart Baby

incredible!!! baby can do sit up

This one is still my favourite .... when it comes to "nature versus nurture" , this one is all the evidence you need

4 happy babies

 

[2020hindsight]

9 Darts finish Raymond van Barneveld
wow lol . message ? - well if I did that , it would be like .......... you put some monkeys in a room full of typewriters, sooner or later one will type the complete works of Shakespeare
sheesh - here's another one - bludy jagger lol (John Lowe)

 

[2020hindsight]

Here are two youtubes by potholer54 - about stars and creation of the earth - an aussie (allegedly) - brilliantly presented , again imo.
History of the Universe Made Easy (Part 1)

History of the Universe Made Easy (Part 2)

 

[2020hindsight]

lol - what can you say ?- anyone done a bradbury lately?
Speed Skating 1,000 Meters - Steven Bradbury 2002 Olympics

 

[2020hindsight]

Hundreds strip naked on glacier in global warming protest

mankind and melting glacier ( cause and effect?)

 

[2020hindsight]

Grow Up, Cool Down
Melting Himalayan glaciers

Happy World Enviro Day! Official theme is "melting ice". Recently a Greenpeace expedition went to the Himalayas to document glacial retreat there - something that could affect the water supply of millions.

 

[2020hindsight]

A Boy Like Me - Bill Cosby Breaks It Down

Nia singing Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday at age 4


Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

STRANGE FRUIT Lewis allen

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit

"Strange Fruit" is a song most famously performed by Billie Holiday that condemns American racism, particularly the practice of lynching and burning African Americans that was prevalent in the South at the time when it was written.
..........
The "strange fruit" referred to in the song are the bodies of African American men hanged during a lynching. They contrast the pastoral scenes of the South with the ugliness of racist violence. The lyrics were so chilling that Holiday later said "The first time I sang it, I thought it was a mistake. There wasn't even a patter of applause when I finished. Then a lone person began to clap nervously. Then suddenly everyone was clapping and cheering."
.......
Oscar Wilde's 1898 poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" mentions a gallows tree as having a hanged man for its fruit:

For oak and elm have pleasant leaves
That in the spring-time shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Before it bears its fruit!

An opera "Strange Fruit" was commissioned and premiered on June 15, 2007 at the Long Leaf Opera Festival [3]in Chapel Hill. Chandler Carter was the composer and Joan Ross Sorkin was the librettist. The opera was inspired by the novel of the same name by Lillian Smith.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Hundreds strip naked on glacier in global warming protest

mankind and melting glacier ( cause and effect?)

I wonder if the participants................. wore any clothes made from a factory , traveled in an internal combustion driven vehicle , traveled in a turbine driven plane , took photographs/film made with plastics made from hydrocarbons , used paper made from trees chopped down , ate food from restaurant or kept warm with a heater?

p.s....had a hot shower?

 

[2020hindsight]

I wonder if the participants................. wore any clothes made from a factory , traveled in an internal combustion driven vehicle , traveled in a turbine driven plane , took photographs/film made with plastics made from hydrocarbons , used paper made from trees chopped down , ate food from restaurant or kept warm with a heater?
p.s....had a hot shower?

wys
of course they didn't, lol

PS maybe they drive smaller cars though
see kennedy RFK2 thread - he suggests (from memory) that USA was heading the right direction with smaller cars back in the late 80s - got fuel (inverse of) "consumption" up(/down whatever) to 25 mpg - I think he said they're getting back around 15 mpg.

the days of the big 4WD cars are gone yes? - resale value will surely come down - and sharp - won't be able to give em away in 3 years (IMO, lol)

we need to eliminate dependence on foreign oil
back in the 1979 we went from 18 mpg to 25.5 mpg in 6 yrs
we reduced oil import from mid east by 87%
if we left those standards intact we wouldn't have had to import a drop - would have avoided 2 gulf wars
we would be propsperous
wouldn't be tied down in iraq etc

btw rule of thumb ..
fuel consumption should be in litres per 100km ...
17 mpg = 17 lites per 100km
18 mpg = 16 lites per 100km
16 mpg = 18 lites per 100km

Y mpg = Z lites per 100km
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y54vvXJ52gU&mode=related&search=
where Y.Z = 17^2 = 289 approx

 

[Wysiwyg]

wys
of course they didn't, lol

PS maybe they drive smaller cars though
see kennedy RFK2 thread - he suggests (from memory) that USA was heading the right direction with smaller cars back in the late 80s - got fuel (inverse of) "consumption" up(/down whatever) to 25 mpg - I think he said they're getting back around 15 mpg.

the days of the big 4WD cars are gone yes? - resale value will surely come down - and sharp - won't be able to give em away in 3 years (IMO, lol)

Does that not come back to the powers that be.It`s like a perpetual merry-go-round.Only the clown running the machine changes.Id est , voting the candidates in.

p.s. would a green s candidate make it to P.M.?....No `cause the system would grind to a halt.(I don`t vote due to lack of choice)

 

[2020hindsight]

Does that not come back to the powers that be.It`s like a perpetual merry-go-round.Only the clown running the machine changes.Id est , voting the candidates in.

p.s. would a green s candidate make it to P.M.?....No `cause the system would grind to a halt.(I don`t vote due to lack of choice)

there's always the fishing party - "1 fish 1 vote glub glub"

adios amigo I'm off to bed

 

[2020hindsight]

Does that not come back to the powers that be.It`s like a perpetual merry-go-round.Only the clown running the machine changes.Id est , voting the candidates in.

p.s. would a green s candidate make it to P.M.?....No `cause the system would grind to a halt.(I don`t vote due to lack of choice)

wys, comment from the peanut gallery ...
in the old days the democrats had balance of power in the senate - (and the greens could equally fill that role in theory - might even happen who nose ?) personally, I think johnny howard would be less unpopular today if that was still the case.

But my post was about glaciers retreating - and that's not speculation that's FACT!

 

[noirua]

"Sunday Bloody Sunday" by the Wolfe Tones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtsRhAxrfYI&mode=related&search=