Dec 21 2011

You’ve got to love technology

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Technology, Weirdness

by PZ Myers

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PZ Myers

21 December 2011 at 7:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I want one. For faculty meetings.
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Sandiseattle

21 December 2011 at 7:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Maybe funny if you know who the speaker is. More info, PZ.
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PZ Myers

21 December 2011 at 7:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It’s a flying dildo. That is all you need to know. I’d laugh if I were the speaker.
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Sandiseattle

21 December 2011 at 7:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

idk the speaker kinna looks nonplussed by the interruption.
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'Tis Himself, OM.

21 December 2011 at 7:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Some guy knocked down the flying penis. Killjoy.
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Brother Ogvorbis, OM: Reading Comprehension Fail Warning!

21 December 2011 at 7:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I want the name of the guy who knocked the flying dildo out of the air. I mean, that’s got to be a resume topper!
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csue

21 December 2011 at 7:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

IIRC, this is at least a year old; wasn’t it at a Putin or Medvedev press conference?
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Sandiseattle

21 December 2011 at 7:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Meh. I guess it’s one of those, yeah-amusing-but-i’m-not-gonna-even-chuckle type things.
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PZ Myers

21 December 2011 at 7:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yeah, that guy was a real cockblocker.
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Sandiseattle

21 December 2011 at 7:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

C’mon PZ after all the work you’ve done with the fishes and tanks, you can’t figure out how to rig up an RC dick? :-)
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Brother Ogvorbis, OM: Reading Comprehension Fail Warning!

21 December 2011 at 7:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yeah, that guy was a real cockblocker.

Bad pun! No donut!
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Sandiseattle

21 December 2011 at 7:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Brother Og, so disagreeing with ya, it was the perfect pun.
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adamcolley

21 December 2011 at 7:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Hihi

It wasn’t Putin, the flying phallus was controlled by members of his youth party though…

The speaker was the well known grand master and recently political activist Garry Kasparov…

From memory, the translation of his response there on seeing it was something like “That is a mighty penis, not as mighty as my penis but much mightier than Putin’s penis”
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vltava

21 December 2011 at 7:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yes it’s Kasparov, who tried to run for president. Putin showed how much of a sham Russia’s democracy is, by pulling strings to prevent Kasparov from being allowed to have an official candidacy.
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crissakentavr

21 December 2011 at 7:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It’s like an argument or meeting in Second Life.

…I’d already seen it, ’cause spouse works for Linden Lab.
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yurishirman

21 December 2011 at 7:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Actually, aside from the flying dildo itself nothing seems funny. This looks like a press-conference by Garry Kasparov (a former chess world champion turned opposition politician; while I am not following Russian politics, I think he is one of the good guys trying to bring a level of democracy to the country). So the dildo is apparently an attempt by, let’s say, “hooligans” to interrupt the event.
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chigau (mrmee, mrmee, mrmee)

21 December 2011 at 8:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You can get a flying FUCK at thinkgeek.
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StevoR

21 December 2011 at 8:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

But can that flying dildo go a mile high then be used as a club?
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anchor

21 December 2011 at 8:35 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Wait till some enterprising modeler builds one that can fire ejaculatory rounds.
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grumpyoldfart

21 December 2011 at 8:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I remember decades ago when they had one of those big assemblies in Red Square. The reporters couldn’t get any close-up pictures so somebody sent in a camera on a model helicopter and it casually flew back and forth between the ranks of soldiers on parade. You could just tell by the look on the faces of those on the podium, that heads were going to roll.
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csue

21 December 2011 at 9:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Ah! Kasparov, then. My memory stands corrected.

But you can be sure Putin had a hand in it. *ba-dum-TISH*
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csue

21 December 2011 at 9:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’d just like to add that “dongcopter” is a multiple-suggestion search term in Google. :>
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paulwiklund

21 December 2011 at 9:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

dongcopter: See helicockter.

I love urban dictionary
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No One

21 December 2011 at 9:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

This is a religious meme in the making…

The miracle of the flying penis. Someone call the vatican.
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jaybee

21 December 2011 at 10:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

They asked the prankster about the difficulty of making it.

“It was very hard,” he replied. “Once it is aloft it flies OK, but getting it up can be a chore.”
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robro

21 December 2011 at 10:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Why hasn’t this happened during the Republican nomination campaign, particularly at one of their so called “debates”? It seems fitting and would be far more interesting than listening to them talk. And the look on their faces…unparalleled.
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scottjordan

21 December 2011 at 11:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

“We cum and piss! Take me to your breeder!”

Sorry.
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bcskeptic

22 December 2011 at 12:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oh my god! I’m laughing my ass off.

I want one of those for the next company meeting.

Perhaps one can be arranged to fly over the pope-mobile.

Thanks PZ!
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petrander

22 December 2011 at 1:08 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

“Caralho Voador” – The flying cock. Wasn’t that a “Faith No More” song?
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Rev. BigDumbChimp

22 December 2011 at 7:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Just think if that Iraqi who threw the shoe at Bush had one of these
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Rev. BigDumbChimp

22 December 2011 at 7:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

This of course makes one wonder when the vaginacopter will show up
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huntstoddard

22 December 2011 at 7:36 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That’s the latest Sikorsky.
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huntstoddard

22 December 2011 at 7:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The PNUZ-1, I believe.
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carolw

22 December 2011 at 10:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m rolling! I just showed two friends at work, and they both said, “that’s a flying dildo!”
I SO want one!
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The Sailor

22 December 2011 at 3:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Who gives a flying fuck!?
++++++++
scottjordan @ 27, no apologies necessary, that was funny.
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a3kr0n

22 December 2011 at 5:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Do you want a flying penis, or a flying squid? Since I like to fly my R/C airplanes in the park, I’ll choose flying squid. The other one would land me in jail, get my picture in the local paper, and 63,000 people pissed at me.
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WMDKitty

22 December 2011 at 10:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

*can’t stop giggling*
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kristopherspencer

22 December 2011 at 11:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

This is the culmination of hundreds of years of technological advancement.

*sheds a manly tear*

This… this is what we’ve been working towards.