Comments on: Best. Harlem. Shake. Ever.

By: Aravind Suresh

Aravind Suresh — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:59:00 +0000

Get a load of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjxLyxYRR84

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:44:00 +0000

I look forward to that comparison. This one would have Eisenhower’s familiarity with Energy Star compliance. That said, it’s been a reliable, leakproof workhorse that has produced squeaky clean laundry for a generation.

Though maybe my jeans shouldn’t actually squeak.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:56:00 +0000

Before you do that take a look at your water & electricity bills before and after you get a new machine.

By: noah django

noah django — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:57:00 +0000

yes. noted Harlemite Austin Powers.

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:50:00 +0000

Lowe’s both delivered and picked up. They’re sold for scrap, they told us. But now I suspect they went to Dr. Horrible’s laboratory for rejected pup…er, appliances. **stink-eye**

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:26:00 +0000

It all depends on where you sent them. The Daisy Hill Retired Laundrette Farm? Or Cap’n Sparky’s Mad Science Prop Shop?

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:47:00 +0000

We bought a new washer and dryer six months ago. Our old appliances still worked fine, but they were not ‘high efficiency’. I felt bad about sending them away for no more reason than they were old. Now I feel like I put them up for adoption, only to find out they’ve had experiments conducted on them.

By: Gerald Mander

Gerald Mander — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:37:00 +0000

Washist.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:18:00 +0000

I liked it in 2010, still like it today. I have a Reagan-era Kenmore that’s not much longer for this world. I’d send it out in this fashion, only since it’s a toploader I suspect it won’t be quite so much fun. But what the hell, maybe I’ll give it a shot.

When its day comes, I’ll make sure to let y’all know.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:08:00 +0000

I’m racist against old washing machines.

By: Atomicpanda

Atomicpanda — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:11:00 +0000

It’s almost March, and as someone who hasn’t even been able to scrape together February’s rent yet, I also found the video funny.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:48:00 +0000

Now I’m waiting for someone to complain that ‘they’re allowing dubstep on BB now’

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:45:00 +0000

If it doesn’t survive on wiki, add some shipping and put it on tvtropes.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:39:00 +0000

Jane Rothstein got put ON BLAST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ql5zSVmEY

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:29:00 +0000

That is so INSENSTIIVE! All you have to do is package it up and ship it to one of those places in India where all the cute and hungry little Indian kids cut apart those ships and they’ll strip this to parts like a pack of grade-school pirhanas. That can survive in salt-water. On a polluted beach. With feet. anyway.

To find HUMUR in such a waste is RACIST!

By: s2redux

s2redux — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:58:00 +0000

Spot on! Just for the [first-world] sport of it, read the comments from when this video first appeared on BB in 2010 and enjoy the deja vu. Won't someone please think of the zinnias!

By: ravenlunatick

ravenlunatick — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:08:00 +0000

As a person who could not afford this appliance, I can confirm that it’s still funny.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:50:00 +0000

Duh, of course it was. If wikipedia is the source of all knowledge, it would be dumb not to put things in it, wouldn’t it? :)

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:29:00 +0000

Is this Harlem Shake thing a homage to Austin Powers?

By: SumAnon

SumAnon — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:27:00 +0000

This was my first thought

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yEAcFGqid4

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:01:00 +0000

Did someone order a jumping shark?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8n8Pm8Ergw&feature=player_embedded

By: noah django

noah django — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:56:00 +0000

before he threw the brick in, you didn’t notice the smoke billowing out of the back of it? it’s been a long time since that beast was worth several hundred dollars. or even a single dollar. if you wanted to spend several hours stripping out all the wiring and plastic, you could get maybe $20 for the steel from the scrap metal guy. probably more like $15.

it’s worth lies not in resale value, but in comedic value. though a sense of humor *is* a prerequisite.

By: Tim Drage

Tim Drage — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:38:00 +0000

No idea why destroying a broken appliance with no resale or practical use value to speak of in a spectacular and amusing way is worthy of petty boring handwringing concern-trolling. Must be EVERY BOINGBOING COMMENT THREAD.

By: Jane Rothstein

Jane Rothstein — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:21:00 +0000

No idea why destroying an appliance worth several hundred dollars that lots of people couldn’t even afford to buy in the first place is funny. Must be first-world humor.

By: dnebdal

dnebdal — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:54:00 +0000

Who is an all-around fantastic guy. He’s basically the 50s car mechanic “we’ll just weld this on here and bolt another air intake on top and it’ll be better than new”-type, except in the field of high-voltage equipment.

By: AttackHamster

AttackHamster — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:41:00 +0000

Credit where credit’s due, originally by PhotonicInduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVMDccHqN4

By: Mark Duanburge

Mark Duanburge — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:15:00 +0000

Looks like it was you who made Wikipedia.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:49:00 +0000

Already in the Speedy Delete pipe.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:41:00 +0000

Cory, you made Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctorow%27s_Law

(Until the wiki nazis kill it, the bastards.)

-jeff

By: Lithi

Lithi — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:12:00 +0000

Harlem folks getting rather sick of it. http://www.crunktastical.net/2013/02/19/stop-shit-harlem-residents-reacts-harlem-shake-madness-video/#more-263192