No, it’s not another election post. It’s just a baby panda sneezing. And it’s well worth your 16 seconds.

I was watching a clip on The Daily Show today, and heard a nice little slip from a Romney speech in which he accused the liberals of promoting “promiscrewity.” It has a nice ring to it.

In any case, Jason Jones’s short piece on Romney from that same episode is well worth watching:

I received a hilarious video this morning from my friend and longtime trainer, Simon.

Boxing and Thai-boxing are ridiculously superstitious sports—mostly because the stakes are so high. While I swear up and down that I don’t believe in luck in the slightest, I’ve always put my left glove on before my right—for the inane reason that nearly twenty years ago, someone told me that to do otherwise is bad luck.

It’s also said to be bad luck to go under the ropes when entering a boxing ring. Most people simply create a gap for themselves (or for someone entering before or after them) and step right through. Showier fighters will plant one or both hands on the top rope and swing their legs over, hurdling the uppermost rope in a sort of cartwheel. This last technique is a bit risky, and I’ve seen it backfire on a few occasions, much to the amusement of the crowd.

That said, in the countless boxing and Thai-boxing matches I’ve seen in person, I’ve never seen a ring entrance and exit close to this one. Be sure to watch until the end.

Sometimes even amateurs have been in the game far too long.

Nothing like making a mockery of a mockery. A guy in a hat that reads “I Love Famous People” plays Flavor Flav to an OJ defense attorney’s Chuck D. Stick with it—it’s well worth the two minutes.

(via chris)

We’ve been in the U.K. for the week, hence the lack of posts recently.

Last night we came across a street hustler in Covent Garden who had a great little game going. £1 bought two attempts to ride a bike from one line to another (about a ten foot span) without touching the ground. Anyone able to do this would win £10. The hustler glided across the distance with ease, then handed off the bike, which immediately turned into wet noodles when anyone else hopped on for their turn.

Here’s a quick clip of Ilan (Pump’s UK Director of Sales), Becky (my sister-in-law), and me giving it our best shot. I’m convinced that the guy has some hidden lever on the bike somewhere, as I know the first rule in street games is that they are 100% unwinnable. We knew this going in, but still had a great time trying….

HBO has another home run in Flight of the Conchords. It’s a brilliant little comedy featuring two New Zealanders as struggling musicians living in NYC. The show is pitch-perfect, and the occasional little digs at the NZ/Oz one-sided rivalry are particularly great.

I found this clip of the Conchords doing “The Humans Are Dead” from one of their earlier live shows. It’s hilarious, and I’m stunned at the perfection of Jermaine’s Mac computer voice impersonation, which kicks in about halfway through.

(via schneider)

If there’s anything dumber than breaking a board with your head, it’s not breaking a board with your head. (Over, and over, and over again.)

He must have been trying to do this… right???

No words can do this justice. Just watch.

(thanks emma jane)