Flagrant Censorship

The idea censorship can be a controversial subject. Used by the conservative as a means of protecting innocent minds; the stereotype goes that, as students, it should offend our liberal sensibilities. But what if we reversed the idea of censorship, and rather than hide the bad things, we use it to create offense and vulgarity where there was none before. I think it would be ingenius because it would please neither the conservative or liberal, but create laughs for the flagrant like you and me.

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P.S. FUCK YOUTUBE! They remove one of their own 'director' movies?!

Bower Birds.

Bower Birds are cool.....really cool. They set an example for all males when trying to seduce females. They practically invented the idea of the "Batchelor Pad".
To attract mates, Bower birds build incredibly complex nests (called Bowers) which are adorned with flowers, fruit, nuts and beetle shells for decoration. Instead of using bright colours which most of the paradise birds are born with, Bower Birds opt for being creative about things and so they design and decorate perfect living conditions for themelves. They are obsessive about how their bowers look, and if you mess up their bower by say, putting flower petals that are a different colour in the bower, they will immediately fix things back to the way they were. These birds are tidy, and they like to co-ordinate everything. If they believe that females would prefer pink flowers to blue, they will decorate the bower with only pink flowers. Even objects of the same colour are used to decorate the nest, like pebbles, plastic or glass. Its all about their personal choice.

Now that is flagrant living. Check out this clip from David Attenborough.
Unfortunately embedding ths video isn't alowed, so heres the URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbWJPsBPdA

Stop putting shit on our bodies David Blaine!

I know this is a really popular video on youtube but I only found it the other day, so maybe some of you haven't seen it either. I think its a pretty funny impression of David Blaine.



and the sequel:

More Beatboxing Flagrancy

Even though I have already posted about this guy, it wasn't enough. At the time of my last post I didn't realise that the guy in the video is the current UK beatboxing champion. His name is "Beardyman" (as he used to have a beard) and he sometimes joins up with an MC and together they are "The Gobfathers". He has been on the BBC show "When Will I Be Famous" and some channel 4 documentary.

Even though this video doesn't show his ridiculously flagrant beatboxing skills (such as doing accurate reverses, and singing and beatboxing at same time), it shows the humour he always puts into his routines which is what I like so much.



Search "beardyman" in youtube and you'll get some other videos, but definitely visit his cool website. For a perfect example of just how good he is, go to this page and listen to "Tim Shaw Audio". It is amazing.

Flagrant Beatbox Entertainment

I found this video on a site called The Fame Game. It seems to be an interesting site where people upload videos of themselves performing various talents, and cash awards are given out to the best videos every month.

I haven't looked around the site much yet. But I found this and thought it was cool:

Flagrant Fans.

This is fan dedication at its best. The guy who made this is a belgian Star Wars fan and a member of the 501st Legion, an international community of Star Wars fans who are connected by the internet, they do charity functions and other events to help out where they can if you ask them and in my opinion I think that they are a bunch of nerds, but nerds that I absolutely respect. They are the people who go to a Star Wars movies wearing a stormtroopers outfit, and people hurl abuse at them for being nerds, but they just wash it off and keep doing the same thing because it's what they love and who are we to criticise them.

Damn.....I just went on a bit of a rant there, well, sorry, but its so needless when people find it ok to make others feel like shit just because they dont like or understand the other persons hobby.

I will not lie to you, I have been visiting the 501st website for months, ive read about the events that they help out in and how members meet up with everyone in their region whatever country they are in.

Well i got totally side tracked there, I was just supposed to talk about the hot air baloon. The idea of making a vader's helmet into a hot air balloon was just a passing thought by region leader Nicolas Lelong TK-2054 (oh yeh, they have numbers), but Benoît Lambert delighted at the idea, and wanted to display his creativity and knowledge of hot air balloons.

This is incredibly impressive, he designed and funded the creation of the balloon by himself and then sent it to Cameron, the worlds largest manufacturer it out of his own pocket, he even asked for permission from LucasArts (like it mattered). Anyway, theres no video footage of the Vader balloon, maybe some other time.

Flagrant Dribbling

Barcelona's Argentinian player Lionel Messi has had a lot of hype surrounding him over the last 18 months. Even though hes still only 19, there has been lots of talk about how he is destined to be a great player, and how he could be the next Maradona. Infact, even Maradona himself made that claim.

In the last 12 months he's had a fair amount of injury problems, and I didn't hear much about him, he kinda disappeared off the radar. I figured that maybe he wasn't all that he had been cracked up to be, as happens a lot with football players. Then, last month, he was back in the news again after the brilliant game between real madrid and barcelona which finished 3-3 with Messi getting a hat-trick.

Last night Barcelona were playing Getafe in the Spanish domestic cup, and Messi scored a goal of such ridiculous flagrance that it has led to a bizarre number of Messi/Maradona comparisons being uploaded to youtube. Can you figure out why?

Maradona (vs England)



Messi (vs Getafe)



By the way, youtube sucks so much now! They remove so much content but it still appears in the search results, how retarded...

Flagrant Graffiti

I hate graffiti. If you are in the business of tagging walls then you are, unfortunately, an inbred scumbag. Its a good thing I'm not in charge because there would be a good few lashings in Stephens Green for that particular crime.

I'll admit though, my mind would be changed if all graffiti was of the flagrant quality of that done by "Banksy" in England. This guy is very good. He uses stencils to spray these cool and unique pictures. Despite the guff political messages behind his art, theres no denying they look really cool. Most of his work can be seen around Bristol and London. In the last couple years he has started selling some of his art and it has been going for a lot of money.

According to Wikipedia

In February 2007, the owners of a house with a Banksy mural on the side in Bristol decided to sell the house through an art gallery after offers fell through because the prospective buyers wanted to remove the mural. It is listed as a mural which comes with a house attached.

If you like the look of this guys work, you can see more at his site: www.banksy.co.uk

Engrish

Isn't it fun and flagrant to laugh at foreign people trying to speak english? Yeh it is! And nobody speaks funnier english than Asian people. That's why one of my favourite websites is www.engrish.com. Its basically just a site with pictures of signs and products, mostly from Asia, which have unintentionally hilarious Engrish transrations. See for yourself!

Flagrant Flushing.

I'm not sure whether the story that goes with this video is true, but apparently and radio DJ asked his listeners to all flush their toilets at the same time. Even if thats not the truth, it does'nt take away the coolness of a sewer erupting on a fairly busy motorway. I would hate to be the guy who got stuck in the video, not only is there damage to his car, but he and his car got completely swamped in sewage....Twice!

Fighting Footballers

Stevie G's tackle is quite horrendous! Also, Adrianos double punch (very start) is extremely flagrant and I love it. The very last punch in the video is just dirty and mean.

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Football Compilations

Continuing on the theme of footballing flagrancy, here are a couple of football compilations I found. I decided to post them because they're a little bit different to the usual youtube fare. The first one is a compilation called "The Art of Defense", the second one is of brillaint teamwork goals. Check them out they are good, shame about the robbie williams music though.

Double entendre?

This comic book panel is supposedly from a more innocent age when the writer was unaware of what other meaning the word "boner" would take on in the future. I'm not sure if I believe that or not, but the fact that it was published is fucking hilarious.

I wonder what gadget Batman has on his batbelt to deal with the Jokers boners...

I found these pictures in an article called the "Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels". Check the rest of them out here.

Do Your Dance

This blog has been running for just over a month and by now some of you are probably thinking "How do David and Barra manage to stay so flagralicious all the time? Well the answer is simple, we were born in the 1980's.

For me it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what I feel about the 80's. It's quite the paradox, on the one hand there was Don Johnson, Pac Man, The Karate Kid, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rubik's Cubes, but on the other hand there was (that fucking cock) Boy George, and Bono's hair. I think possibly the paradox can be explained by saying that the 1980's in the U.S was good, but in the UK and Ireland it was bad, very bad.

The only thing I can say for sure though is that the 80's was a period of over-the-top, never-say-die flagrancy. Although sometimes the power of flagrancy was used by dark forces (Pet Shop Boys), it was certainly not all bad. And playing on radio stations when Barra and myself came into this world was one of the finest examples you'll ever find of positive flagrancy: "Word Up!" by Cameo.

Cameo are my idols and Word Up! is their synthesized masterpiece. I mean come on, the guy wears a red codpiece for fuck sake! It's ridiculous!

I realised this blog would not be fulfilling its duty without a tribute to Cameo. So put on your codpiece, sit back, and enjoy...


Now that my tribute is over, I also want to show you a rather good site I found. If, like me, you like to hear different covers of songs, then check out The Covers Project. It contains covers of a pretty wide range of songs. The covers seem to be done by proper musicians/bands so its not karaoke stuff. There's not a whole lot of songs on it just now, but the site still describes itself as a beta version so it will probably grow in future. Keep an eye on it.

To get you started, you can check out the rather good cover of Word Up by Willis by clicking this link. Hope you enjoy it.

Flagrant Firepower.

Thats right people, Miniature Warfare has arrived! A man named David Manson has finally done it, he has created a toy thats really worth owning. It's a 2.5 scale Sherman Tank that works perfectly. It can even fire paintball shells (or if thats restricted in your area, infrared lazers could be used, but they are not half as cool as paintballs). Click Here to find out how to build one for yourself. David Manson has various clips showing you how to do it.

This could be one of the coolest toys ever if it had similar tanks to fight against in an open field. Mini-Tank paintballing is the new paintballing. Take that you lousy Pacifists!

Flagitious Family.

You may have heard of the journalist/documentary maker Louis Theroux from his old show 'Wierd Weekends" where he spent some time with various groups in american subcultures like Nazi Skinheads, Pornstars, Swingers and many more. His most recent documentary is probably the best because he trys to find out more about the Westboro Baptist Church. A very controversial group of christians who protest at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. (IED's are 'Improvised Explosive Devices')


Don't let that Lickabletypes ad throw you at the start, I'm not trying to fool you into watching porn, however, I wouldnt be upset if someone tricked me into watching porn.....wait, getting sidetracked again. This documentary is titled "The Most Hated Family In America", it's really good, Louis Theroux always has interesting shows.

Westboro Baptist Church Wiki will tell you more about this strange cult if you want to know more. The video that I have posted is only the first ten minutes of the documentary, but it gives you a strong taste of how strange these people are and it shows you thier Flagrant disregard for human decency and moral fibre. I could go on an entire rant about this, seriously, I dislike religion, all religions but I'm not going to bore you with what I think at the moment, just watch the documentary and think for yourself. I'm tired of making your decisions for you, goddamn, you never know when to quit do you?! Now if you don't mind I'm going to listen to some christian rock while I watch some BBW. (google it in images)

You've seen it, you can't unsee it.
While you are at it, google Flagitious because you probably don't know what it means......I didnt.

Anyway, Here is where you can watch the rest of the documentary.

UPDATE: Well,I'm and idiot, i spent all this time making this post, connecting all the links externally, but what I didn't do was check my other friends blogs. Mullane recently posted about the exact same topic. I would take this down, but it took too long to make and Mullane's video doesn't work at the moment, but mine is running so check it out.

Flagrant Photograghy.

I know what you are thinking, thats just another insignificant X-ray photo right?....... Wrong, I dont post just any crap on this site, I post important crap that you need to know about.
Anyway, i got a little side tracked, this isn't just any X-ray photo, it's the first X-ray photo. It was taken by Nobel Prize winner Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen. The hand in the photo is his wife's hand (hence the ring), in absolute Flagrant fashion, Wilhelm had enough sense not to use his own hands in case he damaged them, instead he used his wife for experimenting on, Old Wilhelm knows exactly how to impress the ladies. The photo itself was taken in 1896, and was a major leap for medical technology because it allowed doctors to see inside the human body without surgical intervention.

If you want to know more go to this site Worlds Famous Photos....or not, I don't really care what you do with your time, is it really that valuable? You know what? Just forget it ok? You never know when to quit do you?

Eau De Toilette

The Essence of Flagrance

Thanks to Luke for spontaneously making this picture. He truly understands the meaning of Flagrancy.

Flagrant Communism!

Without meaning to start a trend, I couldn't resist posting about communism again.

The above picture is from Chongqing, China, where a woman resisted pressure from developers and government officials to allow them demolish her home. She claimed that the compensation offered was below market prices. Unfortunately, this hasn't stopped them from demolishing the 280 other buildings that once surrounded her house, excavating the site, and therefore leaving her unable to access her property. One of the sad things about the whole saga is the fact that the only reason the woman has even been able to resist for so long is the fact that she has political family connections, and the media interest that the story has gotten. According to a quote in the NY Times:

“If it were an ordinary person, they would have hired thugs and beat her up,” said a woman dressed in a green sweater who was drawn by the throng. “Ordinary people don’t dare fight with the developers. They’re too strong.”

After more than two years of battling, the house has since been demolished as the woman finally accepted a new offer of compensation which has allowed her to buy a similarly sized apartment in a different area of the city.

In the past month

"...the National People’s Congress passed a historic law guaranteeing private property rights to China’s swelling ranks of urban, middle-class homeowners, among others. Some here attributed Ms. Wu’s success to that, as well as her knack for generating publicity."

China's innovative integration of communism and capitalism is bound to lead to problems such as private property rights etc. But this is an example of the kind of flagrant corruption that is endemic in every communist system. Even though communism is supposed to benefit the people, a citizen in a communist system has nearly no civil rights. In urban China, it is a case of Chinese people being constrained by communist laws while being exploited by a capitalist system. Civilians can get bullied into accepting shitty compensation so that a PRIVATE developer can build high density condominiums to SELL and PROFIT from.

I'm not naive enough to believe that a similar case can't happen in a capitalist country, and of course not all capitalist countries are democracies, but I just feel there is an element of deceit in the Chinese system, and I don't really like it.

I'd like to know what others think.

Flagrant Football

I'm sure most of you will have seen it but how could I NOT post about this?!

Manchester United 7 - 1 Roma

This game was the second leg of the Champions League quarter final. In the first leg United lost to Roma 2-1, so who could have predicted that the second leg would be an exhibition of such footballing flagrancy! Uniteds biggest win in Europe since the 1950's. Romas biggest loss in Europe. Biggest win ever in a European quarter-final.

And I have to say, the quality of the goals was pretty excellent too. See for yourself....

Entourage

Some of you guys may have heard me talk about this TV show Entourage recently. Anna had been telling me about it for ages, but I only started watching it in the last few days and now I'm fucking hooked!

Entourage is about an up and coming A-list actor and his 3 best friends who work for him and live off of him. Its really really funny, I cannot understand why no channel is showing it over here. The cast are all cool, but Jeremy Piven and Kevin Dillon are just fucking hilarious.

Whats cool is that in real life Kevin Dillon is Matt Dillon's brother and his character in Entourage is the older brother of the movie star, so there are loads of semi-inside jokes about how shit he is compared to his brother.

There is a guest celebrity in nearly every episode, the women in the show are usually incredibly hot, and the show is a good example of how go about living a truly flagrant lifestyle. I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't watch this, so just go and fucking do it!

You can easily watch all the episodes here: http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/1/28

*NOTE* There is a continuous story so start at the beginning.

Flagrant Fishing.

I dont know if you know this, but i love Bill Dance. He is a fishing presenter on his show Bill Dance Outdoors, But he is no ordinary T.V presenter, heck, he's no ordinary person, because what you don't know about Bill Dance is that he is the unluckiest person alive and it just so happens that we get to see his misfortunes caught on camera time and time again. I'm sure that his own clumsiness plays a small part in his accidents, but even my friend Ronan can testify that you can't be clumsy all the time, you have to be unlucky too. Here's a small taste of his work:


Its hard to find any normal clips of Bill's show on Youtube because when you type in Bill Dance, only a large list of bloopers will come up. Go ahead, try it!

Here is a Compilation of his bloopers (the snake bit is a testament to his absolute lack of luck), enjoy:


Seriously, who would've thought that fishing could be interesting, well Bill makes it interesting heres more:

Thats right, a goddamn tree fell on him!

See what I mean? They are all like this, Here's another (unfortunately some idiots decided that the clips weren't gold enough themselves they had to ad stupid sound effects. Oh well:


I would love to shadow Bill Dance for a day, he gets more popularity for his mistakes then he does for his profession. The man is an accidental comedic genius. I'm sorry that there were so many video posts just in this blog, there's just too many Bill Dance clips that I like, check him out on Youtube for even more of his talents. Bill Dance is his name, Flagrant MisFortunes are his game.

Flagrant Floorshow.

Korea, where do I start. What a country! We never really get to see what goes on inside North Korea, and so we suspect the worst. Recently I found out exactly what Kim Jong IL has been up to and it is far from threatening, its possitively Flagrant.

100,000 North Koreans have been training for the last year to perform at the Arirang Festival (The Mass Games). This is a Flagrant display of Culture at its best. It is also a rare time when foreign visitors are allowed into the country. Thousands of performers hold coloured placards to create and immense back drop which looks amazing, while these Human Pixels operate, more performers...... um....perform an amazingly choreographed dance. This is what Totalitarian states should be really used for. Take that you lousy capitalists.

Here is a clip of the show live (nice camera work...however, I'm sure that if camera operator had been caught they would cut off his hands just as a precaution):



And here is the Official Government TV Advertisement:



I would probably be too crap at being a pixel, my excellent fighting skills would come in handy for the fight-dancing. People can pull together to do some truely amazing things when you scare them enough to do it. haha, just kidding, I'm sure that all of the performers consented 100%.

Interesting Theory

While reading an article forcasting a further fall in the value of the U.S. Dollar in 2007, I stumbled across the following theory regarding the invasion of Iraq, and possible future invasion of Iran:

Chapman's Dec. 30 newsletter documented that the international move away from the dollar has already begun:...

....Iran's switch to euros is the greatest threat yet to dollar supremacy. The usage of the euro is now universal in Iran and it will spread to other Islamic oil-producing countries as well. The share of dollars as a percentage of OPEC foreign reserves has fallen from 67 percent to 65 percent in the first half of 2007.

Iran's decision to hold only Euros may prompt a U.S. decision to launch a pre-emptive attack, Chapman speculated, with the public argument being Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons in defiance of the U.N. Security Council.

"Saddam Hussein signed his death warrant," Chapman argued, "when he got the U.N. to agree that he could hold his oil-for-food reserves in euros. Ahmadinejad appears determined to go down the same path."

Is this a further example of international flagranomics at play? Indubitably!

Google your music

If you don't have any peer-to-peer programs/can't find what you're looking for, then you might aswell try this shizzlenitch:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Nirvana"

Paste that code into google. Just substitute the term "Nirvana" for any band or singer you might be looking for, and your search will lead you to open indexes that contain downloadable music files.

Taken from here

Perhaps not the most flagrantly stylish means of getting your music, but it definitely works. Remember, once you find your song, right click on it and click 'Save Target As', not that you needed to be told.