Althouse: It's funny because it's a man.

April 20, 2020

It's funny because it's a man.

"A California TV reporter got into a hairy situation while filing a report from her bathroom – when her naked hubby was caught in the shower, according to a report" (NY Post).

27 comments:

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: If there isn't a naked man at the end of this, I'm going to be really upset.; 4/20/20, 10:00 AM
daskol said...: Nah, that's just funny.; 4/20/20, 10:00 AM
MayBee said...: It makes no sense.; 4/20/20, 10:01 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: Situational Awareness.....get some!!!; 4/20/20, 10:08 AM
Automatic_Wing said...: Eh, you could barely see the guy.; 4/20/20, 10:08 AM
stutefish said...: "It makes no sense."

Exactly this.

It's difficult to imagine how something this stupid could happen by accident.; 4/20/20, 10:10 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: full nude, in misty haze. eh.; 4/20/20, 10:11 AM
tcrosse said...: Wasn't there a season of Dallas that opened with a guy who had died in the previous Dream Season suddenly appeared in the shower?; 4/20/20, 10:19 AM
Will said...: This was on purpose. By either the man, the woman, or both. I know kink when I see it.; 4/20/20, 10:28 AM
PM said...: I love my brothers-in-law but they can't stop sending inane, cornball videos, as if they just discovered the interwebs.; 4/20/20, 10:29 AM
DanTheMan said...: >>This was on purpose.

Yep. Click bait. It worked.; 4/20/20, 10:33 AM
AlbertAnonymous said...: This is goofy for so many reasons.

First, are the ranks of journalists so full that they need to deploy them on “how to cut your own hair in the great C19 crisis” stories?

Second, do they not have any professionalism? I guess they always had “others” doing the work to make the scene/shot look right. But seriously, no attention at all paid to what’s in the shot? Even if it’s just security and self preservation, like make sure your tax returns, social security number, home address, banking info aren’t laying around where someone can see them?

Third, why would anyone shoot this in their bathroom? Set up in an open room with a natural background like it’s a Skype job interview.

Fourth, it just reminds me of the funniest “news” story ever...

“We have the names of the pilots from that plane crash at SFO: captain Sum Ting Wong, Wei Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk....; 4/20/20, 10:41 AM
rhhardin said...: Bathroom acoustics is the best, for various stringed instruments.

Australian songwriter Tiffany Echhardt recorded her first album "Girl Guitar" in a laundromat for the acoustics.; 4/20/20, 10:47 AM
Bill Peschel said...: Yup, done on purpose, and it succeeded.

"Made ya look."; 4/20/20, 10:52 AM
stevew said...: Staged, for sure.; 4/20/20, 10:54 AM
JohnAnnArbor said...: Fair question implied by our host's title: if it were a lady, this would be a different conversation.

And if the NYPost had called THAT a "hairy situation," we'd be in for a lot of op-eds about sexism for a while.; 4/20/20, 11:19 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The Sound of Silence was written in the bathroom.

From the Wikipedia page... "Simon stated unambiguously in interviews, however, "I wrote The Sound of Silence when I was 21 years old", which places the timeframe firmly prior to the JFK tragedy, with Simon also explaining that the song was written in his bathroom, where he turned off the lights to better concentrate. "The main thing about playing the guitar, though, was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream. And I was always happy doing that. I used to go off in the bathroom, because the bathroom had tiles, so it was a slight echo chamber. I'd turn on the faucet so that water would run (I like that sound, it's very soothing to me) and I'd play. In the dark. 'Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again.'" In a more recent interview with Wynton Marsalis, Simon was directly asked, "How is a 21-year-old person thinkin' about the words in that song?" His reply was, "I have no idea." According to Garfunkel, the song was first developed in November, but Simon took three months to perfect the lyrics, which he claims were entirely written on February 19, 1964. Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."; 4/20/20, 11:25 AM
Matt said...: Why are there so many retarded f'ng people in influential positions in this country? A nation of absolute buffoonery from top to bottom, from side to side.

Such an embarrassing time to be alive.; 4/20/20, 12:23 PM
Earnest Prole said...: Fair question implied by our host's title: if it were a lady, this would be a different conversation.

Funny coincidence just the other day: When working from home goes wrong: Woman forgets to turn the camera off as she goes to TOILET during a video conference call

For those too lazy to click, it's funny despite the fact that she's a woman.; 4/20/20, 12:24 PM
mikee said...: I stopped falling for these sort of clickbaits ever since learning PT Barnum used a sign saying, "This Way to the EGRESS!" to hurry people out of his sideshow.; 4/20/20, 12:29 PM
tcrosse said...: Here's how it was done in 1986 with Patrick Duffy on Dallas; 4/20/20, 12:54 PM
Lucid-Ideas said...: One of my favorite scenes of all time is in "The Big Lebowski".

I would link it except the combination of scenes takes place at two widely separated segments of the movie, but you have to be sharp to catch it.

Oh screw it...here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs3OWJ53rHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgUlx28ao3k

The entirety of the comedic irony in Western Civilization is that the phallus is comedic while the vagina is sacred. It's actually the opposite if you go back in time and read the original greek and latin. It is the vagina that is comedic. The 'vessel' is the subject of much abuse and maligning.

So many men have allowed themselves to be womanized. In ancient Sparta young girls were brought to the exercise grounds (where men would exercise naked) to malign the men in an effort to motivate them and also weed out the psychologically unconfident (an essential ingredient in battle). We live in that society now. It has done quite a bit of damage.; 4/20/20, 1:04 PM
madAsHell said...: The high standards of social workers??; 4/20/20, 1:12 PM
hstad said...: I thought it was funny! Put up, probably.

But this question from - AlbertAnonymous said..."...do they[journalits] not have any professionalism?..." - really surprise me.

My friend, since the advent of the .www, making vanity press available to virtually all, journalistic professionalism has all but vanished. The disappearing act began at least a decade earlier, when advertisers started calling the shots as to what was published. Now it is the editors and publishers calling the shots, in response to demands by the financial stakeholders. As a general rule, there is no "professionalism" in journalism, publishing, and the media in general. Even so-called peer-review journals are subject to the directives of the money-makers.; 4/20/20, 1:46 PM
Witness said...: "It's funny because he's a man."

Fact check: true.; 4/20/20, 2:49 PM
JPS said...: Matt, 12:23:

"A nation of absolute buffoonery from top to bottom, from side to side."

Availability bias. There are some thoroughly impressive people too, and a whole lot of people at every point on the spectrum between the two. Not to mention with most people it depends over time.; 4/20/20, 2:59 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: I wonder how many blunders of this type are of the accidentally-on-purpose variety.; 4/20/20, 3:15 PM

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