never knew this was an enviable thing to be able to do. read your post, tried it for the first time; success on both hands. I’m spindly and flexible, though. I can do legs behind the head and what have you, so not too surprising. I’d rather be able to play the piano, though.
also, duckroll’d
I’m beginning to wonder if the whole Boing Boing enterprise was just an elaborate, long-game to get us to this point.
I can make my index finger cross my tiny, short little pinky finger behind my hand without too much difficulty.
I can also squish my palm together, like a hand sandwich.
I have really teeny tiny squishy hands that can get out of handcuffs (I have tested this!). I don’t have to make my hands bigger by flexing them. I just have to wait while they are being put on, and then fold them in half to get out of the cuffs, one handed even if the cuffs aren’t on very tight. I think they invented zip ties for people like me.
Actually, I type 130+ WPM because I started to teach myself to type back in the late 80’s RIGHT after I stopped taking piano lessons. So instead of a great piano player i became a really super fast typist. Joke is on me.
I can’t believe I fell for this.
Sometimes you just need to roll. nam khoa
The facebook comments are priceless - a good number are attacking the article they obviously never read. some of them responding quite huffily to people noting they couldn’t possibly have read the article.
One more reason I limit my browsing on mobile devices. It feels a bit like using that “free” USB drive you find in the parking lot.
Congratulations, you finally got someone to watch the whole thing.
He’s fairly obviously cis… one would assume. Hey what 80’preppy frat boy. You don’t know the rules, and without movies and literature from the era, people wouldn’t.
Rules can be anything. Over time they may change. If this were sung by a lady or in drag, it would be praised.
Hmmm perhaps he’s just kinky and left his leather at home.
Its beautiful story about loyalty, responsibility. Perhaps a little pushy of cis norms only as assumed by narrow context of the era. I would love to see a king or queen, as well as a leatherman sing it.
I like. A perfect response.
Recode the wetware, brah.
Okay, so am I the only one who falls for Rick Rolling on purpose? I mean not this time. This time I was actually fooled. BUT SOMETIMES I RICK ROLL MYSELF.
Sadly so has mine
Funny thing is, all it would take to neutralize us paranoid link-checkers would be switching ‘article on medium’ on the description to ‘Ted talk’ or ‘video essay’ or something. It’s not like the url jumble after youtube.com/ is meant to be parsed by humans.
Funnier still, it didn’t seem to make a difference at all.
I didn’t even click on the link (sometimes it pays to wait until other people have read/clicked on stuff and left comments), but even reading about rickrolling has caused the song to get stuck in my head.
Thanks Obama Rob.
I see your Atari 400 and raise you…
This article makes some interesting points, but it fails to fully consider the impact of white privilege on Rickrolling. Heteronormative cultural appropriation depends on white privilege.
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