So I looked up why and how this happened, and it turns out Weird Al hired a company called Birdhouse Skateboards to provide some “skate/punk” extras for the video. Birdhouse Skateboards is a company started by Tony Hawk, so not only did Weird Al end up putting Tony Hawk in his video without realizing it, he actually hired Tony Hawk’s company without realizing it! And then Tony Hawk just decided to go along as one of the extras himself.
BTW, he’d already won like 40 contests already, some of them international skateboarding contests. So it’s not like Weird Al cast some unknown skateboarder who ended up becoming World Famous Skateboarder, he was already well known and was running his own Skateboarding company.
Think of it this way. This wasn’t ‘Weird Al got Tony Hawk to be in his video’, this was ‘Tony Hawk found a way to be in a Weird Al Video.’
The chance that Tony Hawk has infiltrated your location or piece of media is low
I feel like politicians’ insults about each other have really gone down hill. These days it’s all “moron” and “loser”, so childish. Think what you will of Paul Keating, but he gave us such gems as “he’s a shiver waiting for a spine”, “debating him is like being flogged with warm lettuce”, “he’s like a lizard on a rock: alive but looking dead”, “he’s all tip and no iceberg”.
Where’s the creativity these days?!
Some of my favourite Paul Keating insults for your enjoyment:
You boxhead, you wouldn’t know. You are flat out counting past ten
I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman’s hair, like his intellect, will recede into the darkness
He’s wound up like a thousand-day clock! One half more turn and there’ll be springs and sprockets all over the building. Mr Speaker, give him a valium
Oh, look, it’s just Howard being Howard, isn’t it, you know? The little desiccated coconut’s under pressure and he’s attacking anything he can get his hands on
The Opposition could not manage a tart shop
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he’s dug for himself over the last decade
And my personal favourite:
If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours
Blue State leftists will be like “my elected official’s endorsement of minority rights was insufficiently enthusiastic, both parties are the same!” Meanwhile in a Red State your Facebook chats can be subpoenaed to convict you of the crime of accessing medical care.
Old coworker: “I was born in North Dakota, so I can say that Minnesota is no different!”
Me: “Then why live in Minnesota? North Dakota is way cheaper.”
OC: “Uhm, as a person with HIV, I wouldn’t be safe living there or have access to medical care.”
Oh damn, that seems like two important differences!
Citing how devastatingly uncomfortable it makes people feel, a new report released by the Stanford University Sociology Department revealed Wednesday that it’s never okay to just start talking to someone you don’t know.
The report, which analyzed numerous conversations that took place over a nine-month period from September of last year through May, states that approaching a complete and total stranger and saying “Beautiful day,” “That’s nice, where did you get that?” or “Hello” is, under no circumstance, acceptable.
i do this to my friends sometimes because what the fuck are they gonna do? what are you supposed to say in response to that? your shitty little roast is a tree now bitch. what are you gonna do about it
genuinely partially agree with the people on twitter
nobody NEEDS a pillow collection that says “live laugh love”, especially when they are never used as actual pillows
it’s like buying an off-road car as a farmer and keeping it in the garage to only be looked at and admired
having things with form over function in mind is a luxury problem that wouldn’t be a thing in a not classist environment in which you constantly compete with everyone else about who has the perfect life
i also think that if you still disagree, you probably have lost control over your own life choices, or may have never had any
brands usually try to choose transliterated names that have nice poetic connotations, like Google (??/guge/“valley song”), but not all brands will bother to come up with a transliteration, so they get auto-assigned one by The Public, which doesn’t care about PR and also has a sense of humor, and thus the official unofficial names include:
Trader Joe’s – ???/quede jiu/“rotten uncle”
Whole Foods – ???/hou fuzi/“monkey father and son”
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