/ Xeni Jardin / 4:32 pm Mon Aug 16, 2010

Toddler fails at hula hoop, but remains blissfully ignorant of said failure

In this uncredited, random video, a toddler fails at hula hooping, yet succeeds at the art of making you and millions of other strangers he will never meet laugh. [Thanks, Tara McGinley!]

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  2. Yup, I know people like that, full adults even.

    From the Hacker’s Dictionary:

    happily /adv./

    Of software, used to emphasize that a program is unaware of some important fact about its environment, either because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it doesn’t care. The sense of `happy’ here is not that of elation, but rather that of blissful ignorance. “The program continues to run, happily unaware that its output is going to /dev/null.” Also used to suggest that a program or device would really rather be doing something destructive, and is being given an opportunity to do so. “If you enter an O here instead of a zero, the program will happily erase all your data.”

  5. The only part about this that’s a bummer? These wonderful, wild critters are stuck in a house.

  7. “…millions of other strangers he will never meet…”

    But he might well meet some of them!

    (How do you do those fancy quote boxes here?)

    1. Thad, you can use the view/source function of your browswer to see which tags were used on a page. For example:

      (How do you do those fancy quote boxes here?)

      You use <blockquote>!

    1. Also, in order to write out <blockquote>, you have to replace the tags with a character entity, otherwise it’ll just use the tag. So in the comment-field, you have to write &lt;blockquote&gt;.

      Of course, in order to write that last sentence, you have to write &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;, otherwise the character entities will just be replaced, so instead you make a character entity out of the ampersands.

      And, of course, in order to write that sentence, you have to write &amp;amp;lt;blockquote&amp;amp;gt;.

      Isn’t HTML fun :)

  10. I just like the fact that his family let him go on, encouraging him all the time. If I heard correctly, even his sister was cheering him on. That’s great support for the effort.

  11. @littlebone #11-Yes!

    How weirdly shallow is it that anyone would label this a “fail”. I’ll put that sad moniker down as a lack of original thought. I guess it’s always easy to go with the crowd. IMHJ, whomever posted this on NOOB has clearly failed to grasp the beauty and even sublimity of this child, who is clearly meta-hooping.

  12. Testing, 1 2 3, Testing, 1 2 3 …

    Thad, you can use the view/source function of your browswer to see which tags were used on a page.

    Thanks to everybody for the explanations!

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