Comments on: 82 year old grandmother tries pop rocks for the first time

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:14:00 +0000

did she died?

By: LogrusZed

LogrusZed — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:43:00 +0000

Whoever said “you need to get them in your mouth to taste them” should be slapped.

By: Doug Nelson

Doug Nelson — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:07:00 +0000

Now I know I’ve seen too much porn, cuz that just reminded me of the moneyshot from every porn scene in the last 5 years (and not in a good way). Esp. when she opened her mouth to prove she’d eaten some.

By: gothevole

gothevole — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:17:00 +0000

The fact that this video was even made and posted speaks volumes about our dismissive attitude towards older people and women in general. They are the next lolcat craze. See granny try some new food. See granny do something everyone else does—but let’s film it and make a big deal about it.
This society has a problem with age. We don’t treat older people with the same degree of respect as we do younger people. They are either overly admired or made into caricatures. People aren’t even comfortable with older people’s sexuality–see the disgusting snarky comment about blow jobs and tongue kissing on a later post.

My point was simply that it does older (and younger ) people a disservice to treat older people as “cute” and not as the whole person they really are.

I do relax and play, but hopefully not at someone else’s expense.

By: msbpodcast

msbpodcast — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:29:00 +0000

Hey, what the Hell?

She’s over 80 years old so the fact that its no good for her is probably going to elicit a shrug and a sigh.

THAT’S the kind of people PopRocks should be advertising to … your kids, not so much….

By: Kosima

Kosima — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:24:00 +0000

The woman in the video was 46 when pop rocks became ubiquitous. Kind of amazing that she just encountered them for the first time. Doesn’t this video fit under the rubric of: aren’t old ladies hilarious in their cluelessness? Oh and they have to be “grandmothers,” too. Can’t be elderly scientists or authors. Nope. Cuddly old grandmothers. What a laugh. As one commenter indicated above, it’s scary and unappealing when elderly women are still part of the life of the world, part of an Occupy demo, for instance. Shudder.

By: Labbit

Labbit — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:55:00 +0000

Or a handful of Mentos washed down with Diet Coke :)

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:33:00 +0000

You forgot to add the video where they gave her pop rocks and a can of soft drink.

By: calf

calf — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:09:00 +0000

My internal responses while watching this video—emotional, intellectual, mnemonic—were a few orders deeper and richer than your dismissive, narrow, and shallow interpretation of both the video and how people are reading it. That you used the phrase “laughed at” tells me how distorted your lens is. Relax, yo, and maybe learn to play again.

By: neurolux

neurolux — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:30:00 +0000

I was amused thinking of this as going back in time 60 years an introducing Pop Rocks to a young woman for the first time. Her reaction might be the same.

By: EH

EH — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:24:00 +0000

Soooo, people who aren’t allowed to own pets are now turning on the elderly?

By: creativehumanoid

creativehumanoid — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:34:00 +0000

Oh my, I just had the most amazing overlap of Boing Boing stories.

I was watching this video and mistakenly left the V-12 engine video running in the background. The “wonders of discovery” music from the V-12 video was playing as grandma was discovering the joys of Pop Rocks. Start the grandma video about 15 to 30 seconds after the V-12 video and check it out.

(I keep making edits.) Don’t let the V-12 music drown out the grandma video – you need to hear her laughing.

It’s Disney-esque (or Pixar-esque).

(Reminds me of the Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon effect, which I still haven’t tried.)

By: แอ็ะปปี้

แอ็ะปปี้ — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:51:00 +0000

My 80-year-old grandmother tried Mountain Dew for (supposedly) the first time last week. It was EXTREME. (No, we did not film it.)

By: Muscato

Muscato — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:30:00 +0000

So have I missed something until now – are Cute Old Lady videos now a thing, like small animals falling asleep and children falling off things? I don’t suppose I’m surprised; if anything, it’s kind of nice to see a real old-fashioned old lady (as opposed to a terrifyingly active Senior heading out on an Elderhostel holiday or joining the OWS kids or whatever…

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:26:00 +0000

Is there a gap in the language?

Per Wikipedia a psychoactive or psychotropic is “a chemical substance that crosses the blood–brain barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it affects brain function, resulting in changes in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, and behavior”.

So what is the technical term for substances that don’t cross the blood-brain barrier, like pop rocks, hot sauce, and cupcakes?

By: mguffin

mguffin — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:20:00 +0000

She doesn’t need really to try arson because there’s an arson the other end of the camera already…

By: gothevole

gothevole — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:01:00 +0000

Oh jeez, another “look how cute granny is” video. As if being older than 70 (or older than the creator of the video) makes the subject something less than a person — something to be laughed at and treated as entertainment.
And this makes the pages of boingboing?

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:47:00 +0000

It’s a nice video, no doubt, but they seem a bit pushy – like they’re trying to get her hooked, or I dunno, very anxious to have a Funny Grandma Video for posterity.

By: semiotix

semiotix — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:39:00 +0000

The possibilities here are endless. I look forward to a whole series of “82 year old grandmother tries _____ for the first time” videos, including

• ecstasy
• Wu-Tang Clan
• Craigslist “casual encounters”
• hentai
• arson

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:12:00 +0000

Hey, something went wrong with the headline; it should read: “82 year old grandmother tries pop rocks for the first time, dies”

By: thisbikeisatardis

thisbikeisatardis — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:09:00 +0000

Oh, how delightful. I miss my grandma.

By: mguffin

mguffin — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:59:00 +0000

At about 1.50ish: Grandmother: “Don’t take pictures of me doing this..” Grandson “I’m not…” (That’s “Grandson” as in “bit of a mannerless douche”, no?)