Althouse: Since I began the morning with the story of an unsuccessful crossing of a river, let me give you this.

July 28, 2019

Since I began the morning with the story of an unsuccessful crossing of a river, let me give you this.

Go here to see video with full image.

ADDED: The embedded video from Reddit cuts off the lower part of the video and misses the whole point! I've had to replace it with a link.

AND: As long as I'm sending you to Reddit, here's a nice subreddit: Accidental Wes Anderson.

11 comments:

gspencer said...: I'd be mightily impressed if that dog did that jumping the stones at Cahill's Crossing,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2rNav3ka_Y; 7/28/19, 9:10 AM
Fernandinande said...: I don't like pitbulls, or waddling dogs, but this is impressive -

Jumping Dogs: Champion Pit Bull Can Leap Up Four Metre Walls
(The wall has carpeting on it, so it's not just a jump).; 7/28/19, 9:38 AM
Temujin said...: Great link, great photos, great colors. Thanks for that.; 7/28/19, 9:43 AM
Phil 314 said...: I don’t use Reddit but every time I’m linked to it I feel like I’ve entered this world of 21st Century cults.

-virtual cults.; 7/28/19, 10:01 AM
Phil 314 said...: I thought you were going to post something like this (link below). The southwest view of a river.

https://youtu.be/vcf4xQkI_Y8; 7/28/19, 10:16 AM
Michael K said...: My basset hound can outsleep your dog any day,; 7/28/19, 10:18 AM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: Interesting part is at the end, the level to which animals predict future moves. Blond dog is first across, faces water to watch progress of black dog. Black dog arrives near enough to shore that no delay or problems are anticipated. Blond dog turns around to face original direction of travel. Turn is away from black dog, so blond dog looses sight of black dog in the turn. To turn in other direction would have interfered with black dog's progress. Dogs continue on route, with blond dog in lead.

But perhaps in current times it is important to examine the racist aspects of this video, and what social attitudes can be inferred of the original poster. Clearly the white dog is leading the black dog; black dog is too dumb to take the stepping stones, or has a short attention span drops the task at hand to take a swim.; 7/28/19, 11:44 AM
dustbunny said...: Thanks for the link to Accidental Wes Anderson. Love the Fiat Factory.; 7/28/19, 11:59 AM
Bill Peschel said...: The AWA folder on Reddit shows how hard it is to do Wes Anderson. Only the dog in the canoe looks like it came from an Anderson movie. The rest were not level, or were tilted.; 7/28/19, 12:18 PM
gilbar said...: who's Wes Anderson? Was he that irritating kid on ST:TNG? the one that went on to the Big Bang Theory?; 7/28/19, 3:52 PM
Paul Mac said...: A River in Darkness is another worthwhile river crossing. Finishing it one day and then going to eat at Olive Garden felt a lot like peak capitalism privilege but the great thing is it is rather capitalism conventional, like grocery store selection.the wide variety of options for each type of food in most grocery stores.; 7/28/19, 7:10 PM