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You are here: Home / Music / Open Thread – You must make a friend of horror

Open Thread – You must make a friend of horror

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  January 28, 20122:00 am| 45 Comments

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I give you due warning – the sight of cute Russian boys in their undies is not adequate compensation for the boyband/Christmas acoustic horror that will overwhelm you if you press that play button.

I suspect Poe’s law may also apply to bad europop.

Sometimes the youtubes take me to scary places.

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  1. 1.

    Suffern ACE

    January 28, 2012 at 2:11 am

    Oh, please. Not even close to winning the award for europop boybands in underwear.

  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    January 28, 2012 at 2:15 am

    Eurovision entry. It’s inevitable.

  3. 3.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    January 28, 2012 at 2:17 am

    @Suffern ACE:

    Jesus. Just, … Jesus.

    It’s on, bitch.

  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 28, 2012 at 2:22 am

    You people scare me, and I am going to go to bed.

  5. 5.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    January 28, 2012 at 2:23 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You people scare me, and I am going to go to bed.

    Wuss.

  6. 6.

    John M. Burt

    January 28, 2012 at 2:27 am

    Gee, and here I assumed the audiovisual horror would be coming from one of the Republican debates.

  7. 7.

    Suffern ACE

    January 28, 2012 at 2:29 am

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: Had I known I would have to produce a 2nd one, I wouldn’t have started at the top. But I will note that you’re response has no underwear.

  8. 8.

    Yutsano

    January 28, 2012 at 2:35 am

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: You made me do this. And no I’m not just sucking up to eemom.

  9. 9.

    John Cole

    January 28, 2012 at 2:37 am

    Which episode of Glee was that?

  10. 10.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    January 28, 2012 at 2:39 am

    @Suffern ACE:

    No, really, you won. Nothing I can come up with comes close to that thing you made me watch.

  11. 11.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    January 28, 2012 at 2:41 am

    @Yutsano:

    What the holy living fuck was that?

  12. 12.

    Yutsano

    January 28, 2012 at 2:43 am

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: Bad spanakopita.

    (Don’t worry. I got more. Though this one is a touch catchy.)

    @Suffern ACE:

    Ageanime.

    Win.

  13. 13.

    Suffern ACE

    January 28, 2012 at 2:43 am

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: Ageanime.

  14. 14.

    freelancer

    January 28, 2012 at 2:57 am

    @Yutsano: @Suffern ACE:

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: You made me do this. And no I’m not just sucking up to eemom.

    Christ. And I thought Jesus was big in Italy and America!

  15. 15.

    Origuy

    January 28, 2012 at 3:00 am

    I should have logged out of YouTube before I started reading this thread. Now it’s going to think I want to see more like those.

  16. 16.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    January 28, 2012 at 3:01 am

    @Yutsano:

    Though this one is a touch catchy.

    So is herpes.

    I do worry about you sometimes.

  17. 17.

    Suffern ACE

    January 28, 2012 at 3:03 am

    @Origuy: Sure. But your Google imputed age probably just dropped 20 years.

  18. 18.

    freelancer

    January 28, 2012 at 3:07 am

    I was just thinking, apropo of this thread that this is ripe for a take from Sasha Baron Cohen, but then I realized I haven’t seen the Bruno movie.

    I will get back to you, if I can get through it.

  19. 19.

    Yutsano

    January 28, 2012 at 3:11 am

    @Sarah Proud and Tall:

    I do worry about you sometimes.

    I less than three you too hon.

  20. 20.

    PanurgeATL

    January 28, 2012 at 3:14 am

    Feh! You call this cute? (And people complained about glam-metal hair bands in the ’80s.)

  21. 21.

    jeff

    January 28, 2012 at 3:40 am

    …the barbaric language and fat heads negate whatever hotness is there. (Except one of them, who may have a Croat grandparent or something.) Plus, “Hepatitis” is a terrible name for a boy band.

  22. 22.

    Citizen Alan

    January 28, 2012 at 3:42 am

    @Sarah Proud and Tall:

    It’s on, bitch.

    So at 1:40, is that what Mitt Romney really looks like beneath the magic underwear?

  23. 23.

    BJ

    January 28, 2012 at 4:00 am

    A couple of things I learned from watching this video, and response videos from the comments: 1) I need to puncture my eardrums, move to eastern Europe and become some kind of music video producer. 2) My gayness and body condition are seriously deficient.

  24. 24.

    Down and Out of Sài Gòn

    January 28, 2012 at 4:06 am

    So where’s Simo Häyhä when you need him?

  25. 25.

    mac

    January 28, 2012 at 5:40 am

    Truly moving. Seldom has music literally brought tears to my eyes. I am still quaking with emotion.

  26. 26.

    jeffreyw

    January 28, 2012 at 5:57 am

    This is horrific if you empathize too closely with fish. We are all monsters from someone’s point of view.

  27. 27.

    amk

    January 28, 2012 at 6:34 am

    The birther drama in GA was hilarious.

    During closing arguments, as Taitz began referring to documents that were not in evidence, Malihi pointedly asked, “Counsel, are you testifying?”

    Taitz abruptly halted her arguments, took the witness stand and began testifying. Malihi soon cut her off.

    nucking futs all.

  28. 28.

    Raven

    January 28, 2012 at 7:37 am

    hilarious article about the Pats

    nyti.ms/yHtGgy

  29. 29.

    BO_Bill

    January 28, 2012 at 7:45 am

    It was nice of these boys to warm Yutsano up for me.

  30. 30.

    wormtown

    January 28, 2012 at 7:48 am

    @John Cole: that’s very good.

  31. 31.

    Lojasmo

    January 28, 2012 at 8:30 am

    Since we have an underwear thread, my sister-in-law’s wife owns a foundation’s business. They’re mostly sold at high end stores like Barney’s etc.

    So if any of you ladies want to pay outrageous prices for cute under stuff, check out Sloan and Tate

  32. 32.

    Perfect Tommy

    January 28, 2012 at 8:44 am

    Did they expect a different number?
    Another Look at the State of the Union Address: 27% Turned Away After First 5 Minutes

    At least they are consistent…

  33. 33.

    Rook

    January 28, 2012 at 8:52 am

    EVIL!

    This is
    PURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    You are my Goddess, Sarah.

  34. 34.

    Mino

    January 28, 2012 at 8:56 am

    GOS linked to this amazing short of the 9/11 Boatlift, narrated by Hanks. Guess I, too, never thought of Manhatten as an island in that connection.

    youtube.com/embed/MDOrzF7B2Kg?rel=0

  35. 35.

    Stickler

    January 28, 2012 at 8:57 am

    A slight correction, in the name of East European nationalism: the under-wearing boys in question are Ukrainians, not Russians!

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 28, 2012 at 9:04 am

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: A man’s gotta know his limitations.

  37. 37.

    Dekabrist

    January 28, 2012 at 9:18 am

    FYI: Ukrainian, not Russian.

  38. 38.

    rea

    January 28, 2012 at 9:44 am

    Not bad, as long as you keep the sound turned off.

  39. 39.

    Ken

    January 28, 2012 at 10:51 am

    I suspect Poe’s law may also apply to bad europop.

    Edgar Allen Poe, maybe. Or H.P. Lovecraft.

    And amk @27: Do you think judges ever look back on the good old days when they could order someone committed for psychiatric evaluation?

  40. 40.

    kideni

    January 28, 2012 at 11:47 am

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: I kind of liked the parody response. Gettin’ down in the snow with Rune.

  41. 41.

    kideni

    January 28, 2012 at 11:49 am

    @Yutsano: This is Icelandic music, dangit. Just a bunch of nice girls who are all getting married.

  42. 42.

    Bruce S

    January 28, 2012 at 1:03 pm

    Newt’s billionaire angel loves Israel and…uh…the Chinese “Communists”:

    titanicsailsatdawn.blogspot.com/2012/01/newt-gingrich-right-wing-billionaires.html

  43. 43.

    Kola Noscopy

    January 28, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    Hey, I LIKE this video!

    Does that make me a bad person?

  44. 44.

    jon

    January 28, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    Christmas and underpants? Kiss my ass!

  45. 45.

    Nate Dawg

    January 28, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    Wrong. The cute Russian boys in their underwear is MORE THAN enough compensation for the horror of having to press the mute button. Yum.

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