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World Cup Fever! SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE! Right, guys? SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE! Get it? Sports talk. Has anyone been watching? I really like watching the World Cup, but I haven’t been watching this year. What a sad, but very interesting, story. Although, just because I haven’t been watching the World Cup doesn’t mean I haven’t been privvy to the Internet’s borderline-racist obsession with the vuvuzela. We get it, Internet! You find unusual (not that unusual) foreign traditions to be hilarious and/or annoying! “Those South Africans should shut up!” (1948-1994, 2010) No wonder the Internet loves Betty WHITE! (Haha. Dumb.) Anyway, soccer, you guys. And Fridays. And comments. Make some noise! (Get it? Vuvuzela reference. Your favorite. You racist.)
After the jump, the week’s Highest Rated Comment, as voted on by you, the Lowest Rated Comment, the winner of this week’s Omar from The Wire and Gabe Caption Contest, and the Editor’s Choice:
This Week’s Highest Rated Comments
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Notsewfast | Jun 15th | Score:85 |
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“I have a picture of a Jewish person in my wallet” -Omar |
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| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: Gabe And Omar From The Wire | |||
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explainer guy | Jun 15th | Score:90 |
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139 characters…and 1 dead one. |
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| Posted in: What Should The Tagline Be For Don’t Text Mom The Babysitter’s Dead | |||
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Max Silvestri | Jun 14th | Score:93 |
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Maybe you misunderstood. What I was actually saying was that Gabe has a girl pussy. |
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| Posted in: Gabe And Max’s 100 Seconds Gabe And Max Read Some Fan Mail | |||
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werttrew | Jun 15th | Score:107 |
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“Why do I keep smelling prune juice and Werther’s butterscotch candies?” |
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| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: Gabe And Omar From The Wire | |||
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Steve Winwood | Jun 16th | Score:107 |
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I’m actually not attracted to this woman at all. |
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| Posted in: The Only Thing Worse Than Ke$ha Is A Ke$ha Rip-Off | |||
Ed. Note: Does anyone own a pizza parlor in San Diego?
This Week’s Lowest Rated Comment
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yue.chloe | Jun 16th | Score:-36 |
| Who cares!!! My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He- is eight years older than me, lol. We met online at an age gap dating site [A_g_e_m_i_n_g_l_e @ c.//o.//m]—a nice and free place for Younger- Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends | |||
| Posted in: Duh Aficionado Magazine: Perez Hilton Belongs In Jail | |||
Ed. note: Sure. Worthy of downvoting. We do our best to get rid of the spam comments but some of them do get through. That being said, if a stray spam comment is the worst addition to the debate we’ve got going these days, we are doing great!
This Week’s Caption Contest Winner
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wwwest | Jun 15th | Score:122 |
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“Something something, BP. Something something AT&T something. Betty White, something.” – Gabe “Are we done here?” – Omar |
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| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: Gabe And Omar From The Wire | ||
Ed. note: Congratulations, west. You earned it!
This Week’s Editor’s Choice
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Gladvillain | Jun 17th | Score:48 | |
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The McNulty Professor |
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| Posted in: Best New Party Game 25: The Wire Mash-Ups | |||
Ed. note: Oh man, I would just like to congratulate everyone who participated in the The Wire Mash-Ups Party Game thread. I wasn’t really sure what to expect with that one because it was a game with a limited number of movable parts, but you guys went above and beyond. Honorable Mentions: The Herc Locker, Invasion of the Bodie Snatchers, The Stringer Bell and the Butterfly, and Proposition Joe Versus The Volcano, and Dude, Where’s My Carcetti.
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WHAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!???? Aw come on you guys, that’s not fair! I didn’t want Best Comment of the week, I wanted the second best and editor’s choice.
PSYCHE! My bad just kiddin’. I don’t seriously give a care about any of these monkeyshines and/or whimsy. Yall obsessing about your little commentator popularity contests leaves me no choice but to take yall to the FLIP SIDE, where I will make all yall my musical slaves… FOREVER!!!!
I bet this Kidd Videogum guy knows what I’m talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YzChZTqxDU
With his #1 comment, Steve Winwood now has earned Lowest Voted, Top Five, Caption Winner, and Editor’s Choice, making him the first monster to hit all four official categories. Congratulations on your videogum EGOT, Steve Winwood!
Now all that’s left to claim is the Full EGOT, which is all the above PLUS each of the five slots in Top Five.
In cricket, that’s called “hitting for the lorry.”
HOW DID he get NUMBER 1 THOUGH when you had THE SAME amount OF VOTES? 1 POINT EACH!
ok. i am grumpy (I was already grumpy, blah blah work). i actually WANT an egot (blah, blah, obsessive need to collect them all, blah blah, pokemon). I haven’t got lowest voted comment even though I’ve tried SOOO hard. That is all I need…(and #1 i guess….but i have had top five and that is good enough for me) and blah, blah, some people haven’t made the ball at all…and “I don’t care” – Winwood. SO I GUESS WHAT I’M SAYING IS: Shut up Winwood. and shut up Hausfrau. Videogum is just for fun. Keep it fun, nerds.
#hausfrown.
Forget it, Emma. It’s Hausfrown.
I love it when you call me a nerd. do it again, please.
You kinky tramp.
here:
put these on and meet me in the basement of the library…near the microfiche cabinets.
I’ll wear my suspenders.
Wait, so do i downvote this to help you on your quest or upvote? : OR LEAVE IT ALONE! Too many choices Haus! #GangySmile
Just as this Cat is frightened by a gag in a bag that isn’t real,
So too am I by this EGOT development.
Steve Winwood has finally taken us to a higher LOL.
I can’t wait for the new Steve Winwood album. These songs are already classics!
She’s Pretty
Psyche
Lost Sucks
Lowest Rated Comment
Plagarist Commenter
I Don’t Even Care
You Can’t Spell
If That’s Your Name
Noooooooo!
Godsauce (Is the Worst) feat. Gabe
Trollin’
That’s Not Your Meme
Dated References Give My Age Away (bonus track)
Excuse me, but I’d just like to point out that you misspelled “plagiarist” above. I’m sure it was just an honest mistake, since you seem like an intelligent young woman. Sorry to bother you, and have a nice day!
Also, the preferred term is “commentator.” Like such as one who commentates.
ARE YOU FUCKIN kidding ME? ARE we joking that GODSAUCE IS the worst? BECAUSE FUCK that noise. FUCK THAT noise hard.
Shellbomber is my buddy, Patriot. She doesn’t think I’m the worst (I hope). She’s just riffing on Winwood’s early fanfic and Gabe’s intolerance of my political positions. I think that Shellbomber is a great monster and do not take any offense. Still, I do much appreciate that you have my back.
I GUESS I took that WRONG. I APOLOGIZE deeply to BOTH OF you. I was CONFUSED AND hurt as Shell HAS ALWAYS BEEN a favorite. GLAD THAT’S cleared UP.
I was hoping/assuming Godsauce got the joke and was cool with it. If anyone ever wants to get beaten to a pulp in Words With Friends, play Godsauce.
i remember when the patriot didn’t suck….thats was also when da cake eatur existed
With special iTunes bonus track: “Thanks, Friend.”
the secret track is:
So I know it’s 8:00 on Sunday, but I’ve been playing golf/watching the Open all weekend. Anyway, upvotes for this. Serious genius.
If you don’t give a care then shut the fuck up about it.
ME UPVOTING this fucking comment IS GOING to be the plot of THE NEXT The Neverending STORY.
Preach, Godsauce. Winwood: if you didn’t actually care you wouldn’t tell insist on telling us how much you don’t care ALL THE TIME.
))((
Damn it, html! Back and forth forever, is what I was getting at.
You mad.
Congrats on the EGOT, steve.
you deserved it?
PSYCHE!
I want to meet Steve Winwood in real life so very badly. I bet he is either totally rad, or mildly retarded and incredibly deranged. It is one or the other, no way he exists anywhere in the middle of that spectrum.
IRL he’s Tim James. Unmasked!
This was the reason I joined the site:
Winwood, please stay out of trouble. also +1 werttrew, shellbomber and godsauce.
This is for you Stevie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46sWCdmees
Oh and Duncan deserved Monster Balls more.
Steve Windbloom’s forging his very own Bloomusalem
I don’t know what a Bloomusalem is, but I upvoted anyways because it sounded funny when I imagined someone saying it with a British accent.
upvotes forever
I think you mean you don’t seriously give a rip. -Alabama
My question is: How did Steve afford the $10,000 filing fee?
DS3M: With Winwood being the first commenter to achieve the Videogum EGOT, this blog is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Gabe: What do you mean, “biblical”?
An AmPat: WHAT HE means is OLD Testament, Gabe, REAL WRATH of God type STUFF.
DS3M: Exactly.
An AmPat: FIRE and BRIMSTONE coming down FROM THE skies! RIVERS and seas BOILING!
Werttrew: Forty years of darkness! Gifs of earthquakes, volcanoes…
Godsauce: Da cake eatur rising from the grave!
DS3M: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!
So, let’s see if I’ve got this right:
DS3M= Venkman
Gabe= The Mayor
AnAmPat= Ray
Werttrew= Egon
Godsauce= Winston
Does anybody want to photoshop this? Notsewfast? Hausfrau?
No offense, guys, but I’ve gotta get my own lawyer.
So…who is Walter “Dickless” Peck in that scene? I’m guessing Carrie?
know what really sucks? when the combined score between algeria and slovenia world cup game is higher than the rating of most of your comments… (pandering for upvotes here)
oh man, what does a girl have to do to get recognized for worst comment? do i have to spoil the season end to treme for y’all! it has something to do with (GUNSHOT)
I like your style.
Are there at least 30 minutes of jazz performances? God, I hope so.
It’s hard, right? I posted a firstie. A FIRSTIE! It got upvotes! Damn spammers, stealing all my glory.
Ending a comment with a gunshot is hilarious every (GUNSHOT).
You should really start watching the World Cup Gabe, the past few days have been awesome, just some super great football (not soccer).
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Telling people why you’re downvoting them is overt and pretentious.
Upvoted!
Really? Review a bit closer. I’ve mentioned the fact I’m Scotttish quite a lot.
Upvotes for the Darkplace reference!
I think you mean “Scotch”. Don’t you, Dag?
k thx bye!
Yeah, its been action-packed
“ew ew ball gross ew ew ew”
-Slovenia goalkeeper
“I’m the worst and obviously on the take.” – Malian referee
“I’m going to go down to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat. I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat. And then, one night, I will steal away into your home and punch you in the face.”
-Lux, to Malian referee
Holy cow this is the funniest picture I’ve seen in a long time.
“Yickkkkk!” – that goalie
I desperately care about upvotes and have never been in any monster’s balls (ATGSTTS). I’m like the opposite of Steve Winwood. A “Losewood”, if you will.
this cheap trick worked for me last week..
kind people, upvote this man!
Agreed. I’m a sucker for disappointed marsupials.
That crow is suck a dick
So, how many times are YOU GUYS going to see Toy Story 3 this weekend?
Off topic, but I just realized I won the Monster’s Ball two weeks back. So late thanks from me, everyone!
How I feel about the whole vuvuzela thing:
As someone who only started paying attention to soccer two weeks ago, I didn’t realize that the vuvuzela was a South African thing. I thought it was just a soccer thing.
See, that’s the worst part of those goofy plastic horns. When I first started watching soccer one of the highlights was hearing the crowd singing and chanting in unison. It’s usually really cool and gives the games an amazing atmosphere that was unlike anything I’d seen in American sports. In South Africa, though, all you hear is this constant wasp nest buzz sound. You can’t even hear a crowd reaction to goals half the time. Just a constant horn roar.
Yeah, I didn’t know it was a Seth Efriken thing. I just saw it on the internet, played the Vuvuzela game [for 28 seconds] and then blew my brains out.
I think a lot of what Gabe is attributing to some unconscious racism is probably more like “Why does everyone love this thing that is super annoying.”
Yeah, I don’t get the whole claim of racism. It’s not like the vuvuzela is some long standing, meaningful tradition in South African culture that’s been passed down through the generations. They started doing it like twenty years ago and it’s annoying as fuck. It’s a musical instrument, people! At least learn how to play it!
Yep, nothing to do with race. There was a backlash against those thundersticks that took over baseball for a while. Anytime you have entire stadiums of plastic noisemakers going non-stop through an entire games, for weeks on end…it’s going to start pissing some viewers off.
You can say what you want but we all know the white man stole those “sticks of thunder” from the native Americans.
Who is that, Kesha?
I honestly don’t think the focus on vuvuzelas have anything to do with racism. I love soccer & there is a noticeable and irritating difference when watching a regular match and watching one with vuvuzelas buzzing in the background. Hell, at my house we’ve even been muting the sound & using the closed captioning while we watch.
Even the coach for the Dutch team has complained that it’s difficult to coach his players because of the noise.
lol, “even the Dutch coach.” The Dutch can’t be racist! Oh, wait….
“I have a picture of Geert Wilders in my wallet.” -Zwarte Piet
No, I didn’t mean “they’re Dutch, so they can’t be racist”- that would be a generaliztion & a stupid one at that- I meant vuvuzelas are not just the fans’ problem/ complaint. Both soccer coaches and players have said they are distracting. Vuvuzelas turned up at a recent Yankee game and some tennis matches and have been banned at both Yankee stadium & Wimbledon.
If they were playing real tribal instruments I’d be fine with it. In fact, that would be really, really, awesome. It’s not racism to say I’d prefer to hear singing over the blowing of these stupid plastic horns. The unity derived from singing at sporting occasions was a huge part of the fight against apartheid in South Africa, and I think it is a shame that that has been usurped by these horns.
Racist How? To Whom?
“The vuvuzela was first used in Mexican stadiums since the 1970s.[8] Originally constructed using tin, the vuvuzela became popular in South Africa in the 1990s. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela
Hahaha I was just poking fun and looking for an excuse to post Zwarte Piet, because he’s the one of my favorite hilarious/horrifying real things. Although now that yall are being so defensive about it, I have to wonder…
Also lol at singing > vuvuzelas “It’s such a shame these South Africans like something I’m annoyed by, they should do this thing I like instead.” Jus sayin…
And DS3M, Mexicans don’t have racism directed at them? Really?
Admitting that something you feel/think/believe may have racist undertones/implications doesn’t make you “a racist,” or the worst thing in the world. People get so anxious when the subject comes up, it really prevents people from discussing race and racism constructively and taking honest looks at themselves.
So you just wanted an excuse to post that Andy? OK, you are not racist at all. Care to post some more racist irrelevant pics? You racist cat painting.
OMG guys! I didn’t get specifically called out but I still feel honored to represent the Wire movies thread. This is a momentous day!!
I guess I’m a racist.
um no one is posting cute animals and I’m not sure I understand what’s going on?
that is completely adorable but I can’t tell whether it is a cow or a hippopotamus
also, here!!
Oh my god oh my god oh my GOD IT’S A BABY HIPPO! Taking a bath!
What could possibly be cuter? A baby zebra learning to walk?
Maybe.
Ok that’s really big. Anyway. Baby animals you can find in Africa, because of our world cup fever. Although I mostly want to take pictures of my cat because she is being insane.
i’ll see your baby zebra and raise you a chubby baby meerkat!
My cat is cuter. JUSSAYNE. #proudcatmommy
That giraffe is creeping me out.
http://tinypic.com/r/2mngk6h/6
Oh, damn.
Now that’s definitely something I could peep.
Fucking miracles, man.
Peep the capybara
here you are
and i am failing at the picture post
Take two:
All I want to do is share a cute gif. Why do you hate me internet?
Just downvote me.
Oh hello. Haven’t had the opportunity to comment lately because I’ve been working my tits to the bone the last two weeks and I’m really pissed off that you guys have been having so much fun. I would have loved that Wire mash ups thread and I expect you knew that. I expect you were all sitting around thinking “I bet batteredgnome would have loved this”. Anyway, keep a chicken warm for me to fuck when I get back. (It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure I’m using that particular meme right, right you guys? Right, you guys.)
The internet’s obbsession with large funny sounding horns that have been available at every sporting event in America for the past 15+ years is bordering on racist, Gabe?? HOW??
Take a vacation man.
Hi guys,
Just wanna take a moment to really sincerely apologize to a few people on here (and I think you know who you are), so I really want to do that, and hope we can still all read Vgum without getting up in each other’s faces.
Peace is what I am asking for… so I hope that’s what we all get.
Hopefully & Sincerely,
NP
To give you an idea of what I’m going through: dump a bunch of mozzarella cheese on your counter and then try to wipe it up with your hands, and as you do so, the pieces don’t completely go away – they just keep getting smaller and smaller as you wipe more frantically and more frantically to get the frigging cheese up, but you realize it’s futile without a wet rag or something, but yet you keep doing it for some reason, hoping against hope that your kitchen will still be clean so your child can benefit from it. It’s frustration, guys, or maniacal self-denial of some sort. Anyway! Cheerio! Nice weekends to you all!
You gotta watch the vid I posted, It will make you feel better about your counters!
I have been traveling, haven’t kept up with the fun, though having fun myself! Too cool, the steve winwood sweep. Oh, oh, this is a must watch, I can’t stop laughing, kevin costner is in it too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM
How is “vuvuzela hate” racist? I guess the same way the Hallmark Black Whole card was? NO, it isn’t even THAT racist. Arguments like this delegitimize actual thoughtful conversations about race. The vuvuzela may be a African soccer tradition, but I see a lot of white people using them in the stands. Further, I think the tradition is specific to South Africa, what most dumb racists think as the “white” African country. Don’t be a knee jerk liberal Gabe. Sometimes loud plastic South African horns are just annoying.
It’s not the annoyance with vuvuzelas so much as the intensity of dislike expressed for them, and the many calls for bans, that is at least a little tinged with racism. Personally I think it’s important we recognize the small racism too, because it’s more pervasive and less obvious.
Making a distinction of “small racism” is overt and pretentious.
Well played.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpXN8BvGp_o
Now try listening to this for 90 min a match for a month of matches. It’s not racism. It’s complete & utter irritation and distraction
I don’t think it’s hating the vuvuzela, it’s the meme, some of the 4chan images that are circulating that definitely are. I don’t think Gabe is saying if you think the vuvuzela sounds annoying you are racist. We would all be racists.
The face of racism: