January 2011
35 posts
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-25: Gone with the bins.
Monday night is bin night and I forgot one of the bags, so here is me rectifying the error. There is no speech so no transcription. The music is Just Jack with Writer’s Block, a track that I was hitherto unaware was in my collection.
Carry on.
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WatchOriginal video 2010-01-05: High time for a clean-out.
My room has been rather more of a mess lately than usual. This is me stretching over and recovering the cat litter from it. There is no speech so no transcription, but the music featured is Afroman with Because I Got High.
Carry on.
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-27: Who the bleep is Alison?
I officially know a pop star, or at least a folk star, who’s about to hit the charts with a single called Alison. Mind you, I refer you to Louis Armstrong who observed, “All music is folk music, I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song.” Further details and Web links in the transcription:
“In the bottom of my...
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-25: Lady Gav Gav answers her fans.
Once again, Flickr has chosen an unfortunate frame to represent this video.
Transcription:
“People sometimes ask me, ‘Lady Gav Gav? Do the curtains match the rug?’ and I think, ‘What a strange question.’ I mean, there’s the curtains, and this is the rug.
“I don’t know why you want to know...
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-25: Get out, you’re Bard.
Flickr automatically chooses a random frame from each video to represent it, but the one in this entry makes me look like the cheese is about to slip off my cracker.
But I’m not angry, just in a bit of a hurry.
Transcription:
“Evening. You’ve just caught me at a slightly awkward moment here. As you may be aware from my...
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-23: Title here.
Despite appearances, I’m not in purgatory, just taking advantage of the daylight coming into the room.
Transcription:
“Sarah and I were watching The Biggest Loser on ITV1 today and it prompted me to weigh myself, which I’ve not done for quite a while actually.
“But I’m pleased to report I’m in at 106kg which, according...
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WatchOriginal video 2010-01-19: It’s that winker again.
Sleep is an activity whose length is uniquely measured in winks. You don’t say, “I’ll just be two winks,” or, “You can collect this in 300 winks.’ time.” Simply nothing else expressed in that way.
But I’m feeling a bit tired today so I think therefore I am that I’ll have forty of them...
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First National City Bank (now Citibank) tested an early version of the ATM in the 1960s. According to a write-up of the experiment, “It seems the only people using the machines were a small number of prostitutes and gamblers who didn’t want to deal with tellers face to face.” Two of…
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-10: If you seek Amex.
When I’m shooting these videos, I try to do it as quickly as possible. I generally make only one or two takes and give them the minimum of editing, just so you don’t see me switching the camera on and off.
This one had to be done in one take because I was opening a letter, and I genuinely didn’t know what was inside. When I saw that...
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-15: Going underground.
This video is a homage to Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds, one of my favourite films of 2010.
Transcription:
Gavin: “[Panicked noises] Help! Hey! Hey! [Panicked noises] Help! Jesus! Jesus God!* [Phone vibrates] Huh? Hello?”
Voice: “You give us five million dollars…”
Gavin: “What?”
Voice: “… by...
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mentalflossr:
Eleven years before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white passenger, Irene Morgan did the same on a Greyhound bus bound from Virginia to Maryland.
It was a hot and humid July morning in 1944, and Morgan had been visiting her mother…
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-12: Content warning.
The transcription says it all:
“This video comes with a content warning. If you don’t like fairly disgusting things, I advise you to hit that Stop button now. There it is, right at the bottom, that’s the one.
“I’ve got some old soup to get rid of. We’ve had some of it but it really won’t keep. The trouble is,...
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WatchOriginal video 2010-12-24: Who let the cats out?
A very straightforward video showing our cat Tabitha being let out the back door. She doesn’t leave the house much now because of her age but even if she did, we can’t get a catflap because of the steel doors.
I can scarcely believe that catflaps had to be invented because they seem such a simple and basic idea, but they are indeed...
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It’s so utterly dull, yet engrossing.
Carry on.
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WatchOriginal video 2010-12-24: Iron like a lion in Zion.
Wow, I can’t believe that this will be my fiftieth post already. Of course, I can’t take all of the credit because some of them are reblogs, but it will also be my landmark twentieth video. Of course, the outlay for a camcorder is not cheap and I think I’ll have to introduce a pay-per-view system soon, so enjoy it while you...
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-08: Gym armada.
Time for another trip to the gym. Our school was so posh that we had a James instead. Because I’m posting remotely, it’s very difficult to do a transcription, so that’ll have to wait until I’m at my PC. I went on to have a phenomenal workout, including two goes on the cross-trainer and walking home afterwards.
Transcription:
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WatchOriginal video 2010-12-21: It all comes out in the wash.
I paid attention to the label on the washing machine and checked my pockets before starting it. There is no speech, so no transcription, but you do hear Eminem’s Cleaning Out My Closet.
Carry on.
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WatchPlanely, the Social Network for Strangers Flying Together. What?
Ever wanted to strike up a conversation on board a jet? Nope, me neither.
Carry on.
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WatchOriginal video part two 2011-01-01: The hurt locker.
Carrying on, or go back to first video.
Transcription:
“I can’t go on like this. I might never… I’m starting to think I might never sleep again. We went to bed at half-past-one, it’s now nearly four o’clock, and I haven’t got a wink of sleep, tho’ it should be a blink because it’s both...
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WatchOriginal video part one 2011-01-01 : The hurt locker.
My teeth have been hurting for a short while now, new year’s morning was no different. I decided to record my thoughts on camera. I have a very good dentist, so I should have it sorted by later this week.
Thanks to Flickr’s ninety-second video limit, I’ve had to split this one in half, but here is the second part. Also,...
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No telescope? No problem. You live in the twenty-first century, remember.
Carry on.
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WatchOriginal video 2011-01-01: Burning the midnight oil.
We took this video just after midnight at new year, and we’re drinking the champagne that I opened in the last video. The bagpipes in the background are on television not, as it may sound, right next to us.
Transcription:
[Gavin] “Well, it’s just turned midnight, first of January 2011. It’s the future! Hey!...
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WatchOriginal video 2010-12-31: All fun and games until somebody loses an eye.
We started the champagne a while before midnight. It was just a matter of getting it open.
Transcription:
[Sarah] “Ah now, remember the QI anecdote about champagne corks.”
[Gavin] “I don’t know if you got that on the microphone but remember the QI anecdote about the champagne corks. So I’m...
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I can’t decide whether these chat-up lines are so good that they’re bad, or just plain bad. Let me know if any of them have worked for you.
Carry on.