Height: it’s my middle name (well, Hite anyways). But despite it, I’m still terrified of them, so China’s ‘Flying Kiss’ attraction in the Wulong Baima mountains near Chongqing is probably not for me. But maybe it’s for you. FaceTime me from the top so I can live vicariously through your
In other sports bloopers, this is a video of Polish National Chess Champion Pawel Teclaf making a game-losing move during the World Blitz Chess Championship and instantly becoming so upset with himself he falls out of his chair. Who knew chess was such an action sport? For reference, I would
This is a short slow motion video of a San Luis Obispo, California high school basketball player attempting to dunk over the heads of four young fans lined up in front of the basket. Unfortunately, he makes contact with the first kid and things quickly spiral downhill for him from
Note: Some colorful, albeit appropriate language following the explosion. This is some dashcam footage of a couple driving along in Beaumont, California when an entire manhole and concrete surround are briefly blasted up out of the road in the lane next to them. You can see a couple pipes by
This is a video of Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin accidentally knocking over a fan’s beer during practice, feeling absolutely terrible about it, and having $20 sent to him to get another. Sure I’d argue this was more than half the fan’s fault for resting his beer on the
This is a video of Māori (the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand) weather reporter Oriini Tipene-Leach smoothly pronouncing Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which, at 85-letters, is the longest named place in the world. It’s a hill in southern Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, and its name translates to “The summit where Tamatea, the
This is a full concert video from 1989 of Nirvana opening for fellow Washington-based grunge rock band Tad at Fahrenheit in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. This was after the release of Nirvana’s first studio album Bleach, but obviously prior to the band’s 1991 Nevermind and subsequent mainstream success. It also features Chad
This is a video of bird lover Alex Sally providing a little trick to help prevent birds from flying into your windows and hurting themselves, or worse. The solution? Using a fine-tipped white pen made for writing on glass to draw vertical lines on a window narrow enough (around 4″)