Make mine a Double Jointed.
January 17, 2008 9:07 PM   Subscribe

C'mon, you've been staring at that staring girl FPP for way too long. Let's get up and stretch. Ready? Aaaand ONE! ... aaaand TWO! ... aaannd [[POP!]] Ohmygawd are you allright? Hey... hey, what are you doing? Whoa... umm... EeeeAWW, for the love of jesus, Cut that out. I mean it. I'm going into the other room to read. posted by not_on_display (23 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
That very last one would make for a great mug shot.
posted by C17H19NO3 at 9:11 PM on January 17, 2008


Oh man, I think that last one was from the tom cruise/kidman/kubrick film. eeeewww.
posted by mecran01 at 9:13 PM on January 17, 2008


Also...he doesn't have any teeth.
posted by C17H19NO3 at 9:16 PM on January 17, 2008


Human snakes on a post.

More seriously, ouch.
posted by Memo at 9:25 PM on January 17, 2008


More seriously, it reminds me I should stretch more often. I'm ergonomically shite.
posted by not_on_display at 9:36 PM on January 17, 2008


I like how Santa shows up at the end of the "Hey... hey" video.
posted by Pants! at 9:36 PM on January 17, 2008


Is that Mike Myers in the Cut that out video? He's fucking creepier than that creepypasta post. They all give me the willies.

Except balloon girl. She can stay.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 9:51 PM on January 17, 2008


The rhythmic gymnast is great. She's not just obscenely flexible, but she's a really good dancer.
posted by empath at 10:18 PM on January 17, 2008


Oh, I've seen this thread before.

This is the one where jonmc gets yelled at for suggesting that someone might want to have sex with one of those girls.

These hyper-flexible people occupy a very fine line between sexy and creepy. In fact I think they oscillate over it rapidly from moment to moment.
posted by Ynoxas at 10:21 PM on January 17, 2008


She doesn't look that buch to me.
posted by Rarebit Fiend at 10:27 PM on January 17, 2008


I anticipated a similar scenario; many links I didn't include here were way too, ...umm... yeah, I wasn't gonna put'em on here. Nothing quite NSFW, but very... curoius and creepy, yeah.
posted by not_on_display at 10:28 PM on January 17, 2008


Drei Luftballoons mit dem Rücken zerdrücken?? Mein Gott!!
posted by neckro23 at 10:29 PM on January 17, 2008


That would have been cooler if her eyeballs suddenly exploded into a misty vapor and then her bloody sockets continued to calmly stare into the camera.
posted by rhizome23 at 10:46 PM on January 17, 2008 [2 favorites]


Wrong thread. Whoops.
posted by rhizome23 at 10:49 PM on January 17, 2008


See also gurning.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:46 PM on January 17, 2008


If someone were to point a time-lapse camera at my bed on one of the nights when I can't sleep, it would look exactly like the rhythmic gymnast's routine.
posted by Ritchie at 12:27 AM on January 18, 2008


Tried the 360 armtwisting thing on my desk this morning. That guy o youtube is doing it real smooth but I don't see whats so special about it.
posted by uandt at 1:24 AM on January 18, 2008


So wach warst du noch nie. [Untoten Blau]
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:27 AM on January 18, 2008


Did I mention that hyper-flexible people are very likely doomed to a life of joint related problems? Because they are.

*not marijuanaist*
posted by asok at 5:20 AM on January 18, 2008


"This is the one where jonmc gets yelled at for suggesting that someone might want to have sex with one of those girls.These hyper-flexible people occupy a very fine line between sexy and creepy. In fact I think they oscillate over it rapidly from moment to moment."
posted by Ynoxas

I was sitting up late in London a few years back - curing jetlag with late night TV, when I found myself watching a stripper contortionist on what appeared to be a pretentious sex talk TV show.

The stripper was, I'm pretty sure, from Essex - she was wearing knickers but nothing else - had "assisted" blonde hair, a sweet face, an oddly wholesome personality, and an incredible body.

She performed every single manoeuvre the most filthy-minded here could imagine (yes, one could easily "slot in" an imaginary partner), she was an ex-gymnast who had decided to branch out more artistically after not making the national grade.

The interviewer asked her after the performance about the sex question.
She rolled her eyes a bit and said, yes, her boyfriend was at first very keen on trying all the most pretzel positions she was capable of.

But that, honestly, she - and he - got far more physical pleasure from the traditional happy positions, thankyouverymuch.

She seemed very plausible.
posted by Jody Tresidder at 5:32 AM on January 18, 2008


Is it just me, or does the twisty-armed guy's dog look a little ashamed of him?
posted by nebulawindphone at 6:36 AM on January 18, 2008


That rhythmic gymnast was absolutely amazing, though if I saw it in a video-game I would question the abilities of the designers to implement a realistic physics engine, and if I saw it in real life, I would doubt my sanity.

People aren't supposed to bend like that. And doing it to music just makes the entire thing more surreal.
posted by quin at 9:50 AM on January 18, 2008


Did I mention that hyper-flexible people are very likely doomed to a life of joint related problems? Because they are.

You phrase it as if the problems are a result of being flexible, or practicing that flexibility. But they're both two sides of the same coin and neither a cause nor an effect of each other, but both symptoms of the same genetic defect (which is maybe what you meant, but may not be clear to someone else reading that).

I have some hyperflexibility from my mother, who has had a life of joint-related problems. I can't do any of the stuff from those links though, at least the links that I wasn't too scared to watch. But it does make it really easy to practice aikido!
posted by artifarce at 7:41 AM on January 19, 2008


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