You're really huge now, Knut

October 6, 2015 12:24 PM

Bodybuilders Go To This Tiny Town To Cheer Themselves Up When They're Feeling Sad (slyt)

meet Lilleputthammer, the tiny village in question.

posted by poffin boffin (31 comments total)

Okay that's hilarious.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:27 PM on October 6, 2015

Should be; it's satire.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:31 PM on October 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

That shot on the rollercoaster at the end totally reminds me of Muscle March.
posted by The Tensor at 12:40 PM on October 6, 2015 [3 favorites]

Came for the muscles, stayed for the laughs.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 12:41 PM on October 6, 2015

Should be; it's satire.

You don't say.
posted by bondcliff at 12:42 PM on October 6, 2015 [10 favorites]

This is fucking delightful.
posted by nerdfish at 12:47 PM on October 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

Løvely.
posted by ChuraChura at 12:52 PM on October 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

in the real world
we could lift anything
except our spirits
posted by a halcyon day at 12:52 PM on October 6, 2015 [16 favorites]

LOVE. THIS.

A friend who lives in Bangkok, and has often urged me to visit, recently seemed to reconsider. "Among Thais," he said gently, "you would be a giant."
posted by kinnakeet at 1:05 PM on October 6, 2015

There's a much smaller model village in Bourton-on-the-Water, UK, which you might remember from the end of Hot Fuzz. Of course, because it lies inside the village it models, there's a model of the model inside the model, and a model of that model in the model model, and yet another model inside that one, and so on until you reach the miniature village where the speed of light is infinite and all matter and energy coexists within a single point.
posted by theodolite at 1:05 PM on October 6, 2015 [8 favorites]

bondcliff : Should be; it's satire.

You don't say.


Poe's Law has been extended to the entire internet at this point. It's useful to point it out.
posted by IAmBroom at 1:09 PM on October 6, 2015 [8 favorites]

Poe's Law

Quoth the raven "Such muscles. Tiny letter. Wow."
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 1:29 PM on October 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

"Among Thais," he said gently, "you would be a giant."

He might be right (Spiller is like 7'0, so, uh, a proper giant or something).
posted by lmfsilva at 1:30 PM on October 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

Big necks and big hearts.
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:31 PM on October 6, 2015

the bit where they rollercoaster off into the sunset flexing is the finest piece of cinema the world has ever known
posted by poffin boffin at 1:40 PM on October 6, 2015 [7 favorites]

watch your head around those electric lines; they're live.
posted by not_on_display at 1:44 PM on October 6, 2015

Oh no I wanted this to be real so I could go there and offer kind words to the large men with huge problems.
posted by The Whelk at 1:45 PM on October 6, 2015 [15 favorites]

Sure, but how would they fare against the Terror of Tiny Town?
posted by BWA at 1:45 PM on October 6, 2015

I'm just glad there is someplace in the world for bodybuilders to rest their thick necks.

There's a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we're halfway there.
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow,
Some day,
Norway!
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:48 PM on October 6, 2015 [4 favorites]

This really lived up to my expectations, which is saying a huge amount.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:35 PM on October 6, 2015

I love this for many reasons, but especially for the way they say "minigolf."
posted by oh.ghoulin at 2:37 PM on October 6, 2015 [9 favorites]

and so on until you reach the miniature village where the speed of light is infinite and all matter and energy coexists within a single point

okay but how much can i deadlift in this most miniature of villages
posted by poffin boffin at 2:47 PM on October 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

The last time someone named Knut got huge, it didn't work out so well for him.
posted by J.K. Seazer at 2:49 PM on October 6, 2015

That's exactly what I love about sardines. Just for a moment I know what it feels like to be a giant who can eat a fish in one tiny bite.
posted by peeedro at 3:12 PM on October 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

I deadlift a flea,
Who is deadlifting a flea like me
Who is deadlifting a flea
And so on into infinity
posted by The Whelk at 3:24 PM on October 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

Infiniflea.
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 3:28 PM on October 6, 2015 [3 favorites]

But where's this guy?
posted by lagomorphius at 8:06 PM on October 6, 2015

Be right back, going out to frame stamps to hang on my walls.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 10:07 PM on October 6, 2015

Little Bits
posted by yoHighness at 1:45 AM on October 7, 2015

Yeah, you wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village!
posted by Stark at 3:33 AM on October 7, 2015

Did you know that once you can deadlift your own bodyweight you can tie ropes to your feet and deadlift yourself into space.
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:20 PM on October 11, 2015 [2 favorites]