Wonkette
Did you know that you can help reduce carbon emissions simply by standing with your hand on a ketchup dispenser for two minutes? It’s true! New video footage proves it! Witness the stunning impact a squadron of brave mimes had yesterday on the denizens of the Longworth Cafeteria, who spent upwards of several seconds wondering why some dude was just STANDING by their table before returning to their very important conversation about baseball or whatever. Somewhere in heaven, Al Gore is smiling. [YouTube]
Lick the frozen peoples. They taste like irony.
I’ve had more of an impact on climate change by changing my underpants. For real.
I don’t get it. Is climate change going to turn us all into pillars of salt, like Lot’s wife?
bitchincamaro: This says something truly awful about the state of your underpants. And crotch.
Good job Millenials! Problem solved! You’ll never be as annoying as the Boomers, but close enough!
Hate clowns and mimes. Something about guys wearing that much make up that freaks me out.
YOU SILENT MOTHERFUCKERS!!
This beats the shit out of my 3 hour rock opera about climate change.
So they froze for warming. That makes about as much sense as anything else I’ll run into today.
Hopey dont play that game: Wasn’t that most recent album Green Day shat out a 3-hour rock opera about climate change?
I would have reduced my carbon footprint by planting each of my feet in one of their asses.
Somebody should just tell mimes to STFU.
ManchuCandidate: Ugghh, me too, they terrify me. Squeaky, oversized shoes also.
Put them in one of those invisible imaginary boxes and then throw the imaginary box into a real river.
That video made my day - it was effing hilarious. Thanks, SKS.
Couldn’t you just see the tremendous effect they had on everyone there in the cafeteria? Huzzah! Success!
ManchuCandidate: Coulrophobia. Which btw is another word Obama did not use in his press conference.
I’m organizing a “fleshmob” in the back of my van to protest grade school-issued restraining orders. Who’s with me?
I’ve got cannndddyyy!
The cameraman cheated. He moved.
Next week, the Flash Mob is going to Union Pool in Brooklyn, getting sloppy drunk for about six hours, then staggering outside and puking on the sidewalk to STOP THE GENOCIDE IN DARFUR!!!!
Flash mobs are the teabaggers of liberal fascism.
I froze in place in the congressional cafeteria. Now I know exactly how Dubya felt responding to 9/11.
SayItWithWookies: That made me engorged. Thank you.
It’s fun to mock these guys, but I’ve always loved shit like this. Back when we were young rascals, my friends and I used to do the thing where three of us would enter an elevator, and not turn around, just face the back wall.
Ah yes, the 80’s. Fun times, messin’ with minds. I guess you could call us flash mobbin’ pioneers. We were so proud of our contrarian selves.
Cleopatra Schwartz: Been meaning to go there; now I have a reason.
Lascauxcaveman: In the ’70s, we called that “performance art”.
OMG, at first I thought it was art in a public place, possibly funded with public monies, and ignored by the public whose place it was in. Then I saw it was in fact a pointless, powerless, pious political protest making even less of an impact than would an artistic event, and I just felt all warm and fuzzy all over. Pass the ketchup, please!
Beyond pointless, truly. Not just the action (or lack thereof), but the location. Longworth cafeteria? Why? And on farm lunch day, when someone might assume there would be localish produce involved? Again why? I mean really, WTF?
Lascauxcaveman: Same here, only it was the late 70’s. I was in college band, and a group of us would walk around whatever city we were visiting (in matching band jackets, no less), and one person would call out, “1, 2, 3, gawk!”, and, as a group, we would stop dead in our tracks, drop our jaws, and stare at a landmark.
It was simpler time, people.
Lascauxcaveman: Well, I used to order four foot-long sandwiches from Subway, give them $20, then yell FUCK YOU and bolt without taking the sandwiches. And that’s why the Berlin Wall collapsed.
And that, my friends, is the visual definition of “Libtarded”.
Min: Oooooh yeah! Band uniforms make inherently more funnier.
norbizness: You have expensive tastes, my friend. Or maybe you were just trying to lose weight? Either way, you have out-Jereded Jered.
Mimes scare me almost as much as Midgets (Little People) and Clowns (Fucking Stupid People)
ManchuCandidate: Eddie Izzard?
as someone who actually cares about climate change, this embarrasses me.
If people could fix global warming simply by being huge douchebags in public, the hipsters in Williamsburg would’ve accomplished that years ago.