1. Detailed calligraphic artwork.
2. Gifting the Italian husband with Italian snack foods.
3. How to style your hair. (For men with hair.)
4. "Going for a hoon in the Austrian Alps." (I had to look up "hoon.")
5. Now that's a wetsuit.
6. Crossing a difficult footbridge with a goat.
7. "She's a rat girl, and you just fell in love."
8. A funny use of "Jump Around" (with a red scarf and a freckly horse).
9. "Are there dating sites out there for people that just don't...."
10. "... a new attitude towards life...."
11. The kid that just wanted to hear the same three U2 songs over and over in the car.
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'Hoon' is easy to remember because it's 'Nooh' backwards...
I think I liked 2 of them, several were, meh, and a couple were just, no. But I still love Althouse.
Thumbs up on Caligraphy, and horsenip saturated blanket. Hoon was pretty cool to watch, though.
The calligraphy was absolutely incredible.
I would go insane doing that.
Footbridge with a goat made me laugh out loud! The goat chastising her lol!
Maybe if you post twelve tomorrow.
Years ago, I ran across the word "hoon" online. It didn't refer to the activity, but to the person who was driving recklessly.
That goat situation is insane.
Wetsuit made me laff; also the goat and the girl with three U2 songs.
I had to chaperone my teen sister to a U2 concert back in the day so it was personal.
The U2 one reminded me of when my boys were little on a long car drive. We all loved Vertigo by U2 and I told them if they said "again, again" the song would play again. I used the little steering wheel control to re-start the song on CD and they were blown away! This was well before voice-controlled tech ... such a great memory! Thanks for finding and sharing.
#4.
By coincidence I just learned the word hoo a few weeks ago in Peter temple's crime novel Truth.
The book includes a glossary for those not familiar with Austrian slang:
Hoon Once, a procurer of prostitutes, but now any badly behaved person, usually a young male. Irresponsible young drivers are hoons who go for a hoon in their cars. Mark Twain uses the expression as drunk as hoons in Sketches Old and New, where it presumably derives from “Huns.”
It is hard to see what this has to do with the parasailng video.
Yeah, yeah, I know austrian/Australian. It's the same language, isn't it? Presidentish Brandon says so, doesn't he?
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I couldn't figure out where the hooner's camera is mounted. There's a shot of him from another camera with it mounted on his head, but there's no visible connection otherwise.
"Absolutely not!" Hahahahaha
4 indeed
I was expecting #3 to end with the pretty boy taking off a toupee. Alas.
The hoon one was fun. It's also my understanding that "hoon" is also the noise manatees make.
Q for Ann: How did irrelevant Fearby comment get posted?
This is an awesome collection! Goat on bridge is one of the best ever! The Italian husband is finally treated kindly! Kiss kiss kiss! Amazing parasailing! Ecstatic horse! Mindbending Irish guy!
"How did irrelevant Fearby comment get posted?"
I mistook it for something in the café, which is where it was probably aimed. Fearby is welcome to republish in the right place.
"This is an awesome collection! Goat on bridge is one of the best ever! The Italian husband is finally treated kindly! Kiss kiss kiss! Amazing parasailing! Ecstatic horse! Mindbending Irish guy!"
Thanks for being on my wavelength today!
If you ever decide to do a TikTok Hall of Fame set, I nominate the Italian husband as one of its first members. Those TikToks are always good and this one did not disappoint.
The horse and the hoon were great, but my favorite was "rat girl".
#5 seems like some dry suit without a proper neck dam. Looks like it's for surfers. Wetsuits work by a layer of water between the suit and the body, if you are in and out of the water they give cheap thrills as the cold water rushes in.
A proper dry suit has tight seals with a neck dam you roll in to provide a good seal after simulating birth getting your head into it. And require proper training so you don't get upside down with an air charge and shoot to the surface. On my check out dive, I had demonstrated getting flipped chest up, but hit the inlet instead of the exhaust valve. Immediately went from boring to real emergency. Hit the exhaust, spread eagled, exhaled like mad as I rose in the tank and got it under control. Once at the top, the instructor simply said, "Well, you know how to handle that for sure".
Now a survival suit, donned in the water, they fill with water like that and have integral feet. They have a slow one-way valve at the ankles, and straps so you can keep your feet at the bottom of the suit and control the water pulling the suit down by the feet preventing you from getting into the raft.
"... but my favorite was "rat girl"..."
Yay! Somebody got "rat girl." I almost didn't include it because I thought maybe everyone would just be what the hell is that supposed to be...
I at least like them all, but I love the "U2 girl" story
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