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July 19, 2015 3:14 AM Subscribe
This is the best thing I have ever seen.
I can die happy now.
Es ist zu Ende.
*rolls gold wheelbarrow down stairs and flips into heaven.*
posted by missmary6 at 3:41 AM on July 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
I can die happy now.
Es ist zu Ende.
*rolls gold wheelbarrow down stairs and flips into heaven.*
posted by missmary6 at 3:41 AM on July 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
I was really hoping from the title that someone would be riding in the wheelbarrow. But this was fun, too.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:33 AM on July 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:33 AM on July 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
I like this a lot. The tone and level of the irony is beautifully judged.
posted by howfar at 4:45 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by howfar at 4:45 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
I didn't know there were so many Germans in Portland.
posted by ZaneJ. at 5:32 AM on July 19, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by ZaneJ. at 5:32 AM on July 19, 2015 [6 favorites]
Sorry, but if he did what I do with my Landscaper model TrueTemper wheelbarrow with that flimsy looking wheelbarrow, he wouldn't have much of a barrow left. And if he did that stuff with my TrueTemper, he'd actually have some muscles. So get off my (landscaped) lawn.
posted by tommyD at 7:15 AM on July 19, 2015
posted by tommyD at 7:15 AM on July 19, 2015
It's that polite clapping at the end. That is what makes this the best. That and the wheelbarrowing.
posted by Fizz at 7:30 AM on July 19, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by Fizz at 7:30 AM on July 19, 2015 [5 favorites]
And if he did that stuff with my TrueTemper, he'd actually have some muscles.
24 carat gold dude. Pretty heavy shit.
posted by howfar at 7:35 AM on July 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
24 carat gold dude. Pretty heavy shit.
posted by howfar at 7:35 AM on July 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
I don't want to get all patriotic and 'bloody Germans' but the Red Barrows always brings a tear to this proud Englishman's eye.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 7:41 AM on July 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 7:41 AM on July 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
Finally! A truly macho sport!
posted by ivanthenotsoterrible at 7:41 AM on July 19, 2015
posted by ivanthenotsoterrible at 7:41 AM on July 19, 2015
Aside from not having him bailing hard over 20 stairs, and no darkslides, brilliant.
posted by Jack Karaoke at 7:49 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Jack Karaoke at 7:49 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
Spray paint? Doesn't seem likely. I'm sure it's solid gold.
posted by ian1977 at 7:50 AM on July 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by ian1977 at 7:50 AM on July 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
Zolit golt veelbahrow, svipe lefft!
posted by Oyéah at 8:29 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Oyéah at 8:29 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
Nice to see the classic 305 tires in the standard mount getting some attention. Since Hans Gelächter got disqualified in Munich last year for tricking out his 305 with a pivot mod, most serious competitors have moved to to the 315s, which uses a silicone polymer blend to allow more bounce under higher PSI. But 305 is the traditional choice and I think the Commission will name it as the standard in years to come.
posted by mochapickle at 8:43 AM on July 19, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by mochapickle at 8:43 AM on July 19, 2015 [9 favorites]
NO SKATEBOARDING
NO WHEELBARROWING
posted by double block and bleed at 8:44 AM on July 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
The satire is delicious. However, part of me wonders if during the process of putting this together he really began to enjoy this new sport. Presumably it took some significant reps to develop that level of talent.
My favorite part comes at the ~2:15 mark, when an innocent bystander panics and runs out of the path of the oncoming wheelbarrow.
posted by batou_ at 9:40 AM on July 19, 2015
My favorite part comes at the ~2:15 mark, when an innocent bystander panics and runs out of the path of the oncoming wheelbarrow.
posted by batou_ at 9:40 AM on July 19, 2015
I just wish the video had included some tricks with it loaded. Because I am never satisfied and always want more out of things I get for free.
posted by ckape at 9:43 AM on July 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by ckape at 9:43 AM on July 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
Love it. This is a perfect example of how the idea can be just sort of an amusing thought, but the commitment, sincerity, and skill of execution really make the whole thing. I mean, the wheelbarrow could have been anything, really, to make the joke work, but the wheelbarrow is the perfect thing. You could say to yourself, that's funny, I'm going to do the same thing, but with a ______. Yeah, not as funy. And you wouldn't do it as well.
posted by ctmf at 11:14 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by ctmf at 11:14 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
Since Hans Gelächter got disqualified in Munich last year for tricking out his 305 with a pivot mod, most serious competitors have moved to to the 315s
The funny thing is if you hang out with the street kids on the fringe-y forefront of the scene, a lot of them are still using 305s but they've painted a 1 over the 0 as a sort of ironic protest of the Gelächter ruling. But then you see a lot of kids running one-railers or no-bottom barrows and all kinds of other weird shit, so really the 305/315 debate is old men yelling at clouds.
There's a handful of Japenese high schoolers in Munich doing shit with square-wheeled shopping cart conversions that you wouldn't fucking believe.
posted by cortex at 11:56 AM on July 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
The funny thing is if you hang out with the street kids on the fringe-y forefront of the scene, a lot of them are still using 305s but they've painted a 1 over the 0 as a sort of ironic protest of the Gelächter ruling. But then you see a lot of kids running one-railers or no-bottom barrows and all kinds of other weird shit, so really the 305/315 debate is old men yelling at clouds.
There's a handful of Japenese high schoolers in Munich doing shit with square-wheeled shopping cart conversions that you wouldn't fucking believe.
posted by cortex at 11:56 AM on July 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
WHEELBARROWING IS NOT A CRIME
posted by Mister Moofoo at 12:06 PM on July 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Mister Moofoo at 12:06 PM on July 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
WHEELBARROWING IS NOT A CRIME
Unless you are running out of a bank with your wheelbarrow loaded with bags marked with big $ signs and you are wearing a domino mask.
Even then, I guess wheelbarrowing is just an accessory to the crime.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:22 PM on July 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
Unless you are running out of a bank with your wheelbarrow loaded with bags marked with big $ signs and you are wearing a domino mask.
Even then, I guess wheelbarrowing is just an accessory to the crime.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:22 PM on July 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
There is FUN in life. Thanks for the reminder to live it fully, wheelbarrowman.
posted by mightshould at 4:22 PM on July 19, 2015
posted by mightshould at 4:22 PM on July 19, 2015
This being metafilter, I fully expected someone to complain that he was probably chipping the edges of those nice marble surfaces.
posted by Rhomboid at 6:16 PM on July 19, 2015
posted by Rhomboid at 6:16 PM on July 19, 2015
I expected something with two guys where one guy grabs the other's ankles and that guy runs with his hands. I was disappointed.
posted by kinnakeet at 8:03 PM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by kinnakeet at 8:03 PM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
be the tandem quadrupedal parkour video you wish to see in the world
posted by cortex at 8:16 PM on July 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by cortex at 8:16 PM on July 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
I like this a lot. The tone and level of the irony is beautifully judged.
posted by howfar at 7:45 AM on July 19
You know I thought that too, but then right there on the right side of the screen is video after video of other people doing tricks with their Wheebars. Now I don't know what to think. I do think I've finally figured out the exact amount of whatever it is that my brain lacks to determine whether or not my leg is being pulled, and it's right there, in that youtube link. This fpp, it broke me.
posted by mcrandello at 10:00 PM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by howfar at 7:45 AM on July 19
You know I thought that too, but then right there on the right side of the screen is video after video of other people doing tricks with their Wheebars. Now I don't know what to think. I do think I've finally figured out the exact amount of whatever it is that my brain lacks to determine whether or not my leg is being pulled, and it's right there, in that youtube link. This fpp, it broke me.
posted by mcrandello at 10:00 PM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
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