Riding on a Sword

By Saturday January 1, 2011

Found by Cinàedh.



19 Comments
  1. Mr Fog says:
    1/1/2011 at 7:07 am

    Boring.

  2. Bozillian says:
    1/1/2011 at 7:28 am

    Now I see what the Three Stooges went through..

  3. nyc2malibu says:
    1/1/2011 at 9:19 am

    worst video post ever on this site …is this what 2011 is going to be like ?

  4. bobbo, people who vote Republican are not necessarily stupid, but enough stupid people vote Republican to keep the party alive says:
    1/1/2011 at 10:35 am

    I didn’t have a preconception of what the video would be–I liked it. 2 minutes was enough, I get it. Reminded me of Einstein and “relative motion.”

    As I think everyone must think the same way I do, I opened the comments just to see if others had a different take.

    Ha, ha. “Anything new is bad.”

    And yet, they are allowed to vote.

    Enjoy the new, approach the odd. Consider a fresh idea once a month? ==== Nah, just vote the way I’m told by the ray de oh.

  5. sargasso_c says:
    1/1/2011 at 12:13 pm

    Powerful is The Duct Tape, young Skywalker.

  6. George says:
    1/1/2011 at 12:30 pm

    At least swing it at a side of beef or something. I want to see some meat being cleaved.

  7. hhopper says:
    1/1/2011 at 1:34 pm

    I thought the camera point of view was interesting. It was not what I had expected.

  8. deowll says:
    1/1/2011 at 1:34 pm

    They stuck a camera on the end of a crap sword and filmed themselves swinging it. This is supposed to be a thrill?

    Crap sword = rolled steel blade sliced from a plate with some sort of edge ground on it that may or may not be sharp enough to cut something.

  9. Tippis says:
    1/1/2011 at 1:55 pm

    #8 “Crap sword = rolled steel blade sliced from a plate with some sort of edge ground on it that may or may not be sharp enough to cut something.”

    Of course it’s not sharp enough to cut something. That would be stupid. They’re fencing, not slicing each other up. What they want is something with the right weight and balance which is what that thing will get them (well… except for the camera at the end, obviously).

  10. jobs says:
    1/1/2011 at 2:13 pm

    I liked it, cool perspective. Just ordered a GoPro for motorcycling this spring… think I’ll be sticking it on all kinds of things and be posting a lot more useless (hopefully interesting) youtube videos.

  11. Rick Cain says:
    1/1/2011 at 10:06 pm

    It needed a japanese guy swinging a katana, now that would have been interesting.

  12. MoronIdeas says:
    1/1/2011 at 11:58 pm

    No ducts were injured during the making of this video.

  13. Publius says:
    1/2/2011 at 2:14 pm

    oooh I don’t feel so good now

  14. theBadSteveO says:
    1/2/2011 at 2:38 pm

    It’s really weird how the sword doesn’t move, but the guys hanging onto it get flung about. There must be some powerful magic in the thing!

  15. Faxon says:
    1/2/2011 at 7:55 pm

    DUCK tape. DUCK tape. Not ducT tape, people. Duck tape was invented by the US ARMY, using DUCK cloth. DUCK cloth is a heavy canvas somewhat water resistant, like a duck’s back.

    I used to install heating ducts. We never used an adhesive tape. We used cornstarch soaked asbestos strips.

    DUCK TAPE.
    I also use many rolls of GAFFERS tape in my broadcast job. That is not DUCK tape, either.

    Thank you very much.
    Any product labeled DUCT Tape is manufactured by fools who don’t even know what they are making.
    There is no such thing as DUCT tape.

  16. Uncle Dave says:
    1/2/2011 at 8:00 pm

    Duck tape is a brand name of a duct tape, although…

    From Wikipedia:

    Duct Tape:

    The origin of the name of the product, “duck tape” or “duct tape”, is the subject of some disagreement.

    One view [16] is that it was called “duck tape” by WWII soldiers either because it resembled strips of cotton duck or because the waterproof quality of the tape contributed to the name, by analogy to the water-shedding quality of a duck’s plumage. Under this view, soldiers returning home from the war found uses for duck tape around the house where ductwork needed sealing. Other proponents of this view point to older references to non-adhesive cotton duck tape used in Venetian blinds, suggesting that the name was carried over to the adhesive product. The Oxford English Dictionary says that perhaps “duct tape” was originally “duck tape”. This view is summarized most notably in a New York Times article by etymologist William Safire in March 2003. Safire cites use of the term “cotton duck tape” in a 1945 advertisement for surplus government property.[17] The Oxford English Dictionary gives a 1902 quotation for “100,000 yards of cotton duck tape” being used to protect the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.[18] Thus a fabric duck tape was available to which an adhesive could have been added.

    In any case, whether it is an error or a preservation of the original usage, the term “duct tape” is used for the product today.[19] Duck Tape is also a brand name for this product in some countries.

  17. voxelman says:
    1/3/2011 at 6:48 pm

    I believe that code now prohibits the use of Duck/duct tap on ducts in favor of aluminum foil tape. “A 1.5 Mil (38 micron) dead soft malleable aluminum foil coated with an aggressive, high temperature acrylic adhesive system. This type of foil tape conforms well to both fibrous and sheet metal ducts, providing an excellent vapor seal; also conforms well to irregular surfaces.”


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