This is a video of PBS Otherwords host Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D (previously: sailor jargon) discussing the origins of our words for different colors. Did you know humans can see more shades of green than any other color, but have fewer words to describe them? That was news to me. Not
This is a video of Adrian Marquez Jr.’s graduation from the University Of California Berkeley when the announcer provides an Americanized pronunciation of the name after his (I believe Yuang Shi) very similarly to “You ain’t sh!t.” She really puts some heat on that ball too. This reminds me of
NOTE: Colorful Lil John language. This is another musical mashup created by There I Ruined It (previously), this time featuring Lil Jon’s ‘Get Low’ to the tune of Burl Ives’ classic Christmas tune ‘Have A Holly Jolly Christmas’. Listening to the words so slowly really made them stand out. Now
This is a video from Youtuber Zac Alsop, who teamed up with Hector, who raises bulls in Madrid, Spain for the sport of bull-leaping (an ancient non-violent form of bull-fighting in which participants leap and dive over the charging animals) to see how a real life bull would react in
From the Otherwords series produced by PBS Digital Studios, this is a video of Dr. Erica Brozovsky discussing some of the many English expressions that came from sailor jargon and nautical terms, and how they all came to be. I actually thought it was a really interesting watch, and not
This is a video of TikTok user sanxyra providing the correct pronunciations for a handful of road names in Iceland, which all look suspiciously like they were chosen by pouring out Scrabble tiles. Because I have a curious mind, I went to Youtube to find a video of a GPS
I’ve been meaning to post this for the past week but it got unjustly buried in tabs, but I just unearthed it again, so here it is, a great end to the week. This is a video of Wheel Of Fortune contestant Tavaris Williams guessing “Right in the butt” for
PROTIP: Do not listen to at work if you like your current job. If you’re looking for a career change, go full volume. This is a video from a Renaissance Faire unlike any I’ve ever been to of a beer wench pouring a cold one down some poor peasant’s throat