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  6. 6.

    max

    @PurpleGirl: He could’ve been a Darwin Award contender.

    Too clueless to be dumb enough to manage to immolate himself.

    max
    [‘Sad.’]

    ETA: Come to think of it, maybe he’s just a reenactor! He’s reenacting the Southern side of the Civil War! Yeah! It’s performance art! It’s all a metaphor for slavery and the defense thereof! Yeah!

  8. 8.

    MobiusKlein

    So do I go to heaven if my fondest wish was for the flag to catch on fire too, and immolate him with it?

  10. 10.

    Kerry Reid

    “Dude, my hair’s fucked up!”

    Um, I think maybe the problem might be below the follicles, sir.

  14. 14.

    Suffern ACE

    So, while President Obama has spent Labor Day weekend raising money for Democrats, is it any wonder why some lawmakers and political analysts, including Red State’s Erick Erickson are asking: “Can we borrow David Cameron?”

    My memory serves me poorly these days. But the last time the press was all hot and bothered about how David Cameron is a man of unique vision and action, we got involved in Libya. A war which still doesn’t make any sense, that is deeply unpopular, that has spiraled out of control.

  16. 16.

    Dog On Porch

    Someone once said that Jerry Lee Lewis epitomized everything America fears about the white southern male. But Jerry Lee was blessed with a supreme talent that he made the most of, and his music did more to further civil rights advances than all the Billy Graham crusader rabbit rallies combined. Rather, it’s always been Jethro’s like that clown that disturb the sensibilities of non-southerners. And that, if only because it seems you can’t swing a dead cat down there without hitting one and all his kinfolk.

  20. 20.

    FlipYrWhig

    So this seems like it was deliberately stupid/playing to caricature–the initial dialogue is very rehearsed and not natural IMHO–but it got stupider in the doing when the flaming bandanna didn’t go out from the dousing with water. Right?

  22. 22.

    Steeplejack

    @Cole:

    All this needs is a pick-em-up truck, some chewing tobacco, and a shotgun, and this would be the perfect video.

    Maybe an explicit “Now watch this!” as the cherry on the sundae.

  23. 23.

    Southern Beale

    Saw something somewhere (found it, it’s Gawker, ‘natch) about a person doing the challenge and nearly drowning because their “bucket” was a firefighting plane.

    Can we just stop doing this stupid ALS shit, please?

  24. 24.

    Uncle Cosmo

    “Dude, my hair’s fucked up!” Jeebus Cripes, nimrod, be glad you didn’t double down on the Brylcreem beforehand or the local hospital would be peeling skin off your wrinkled redneck arse to patch over top your pointy flambeed skull…

  25. 25.

    shelley

    All this needs is a pick-em-up truck, some chewing tobacco, and a shotgun,

    Shotgun? You need a whole gun-rack for the back window. And don’t forget the nudie-girl mud flaps.

  28. 28.

    shelley

    OMG, I posted that above before watching the video. What the fu….???

    He ends with saying ‘Dude, my hair’s fucked up!” Your hair? The way that fire was going, he’s lucky his face didn’t melt down like those Nazi’s at the end of ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark.’

  29. 29.

    skerry

    A man in Texas (natch) dumped ice water on his 10 month old grandchild. He’s been reported to Child Protective Services by the child’s father (who is in a nasty divorce with the mother).

  31. 31.

    cmorenc

    Alas, there’s an inexhaustible supply of redneck goobers even more flamboyantly stupid than the dude that set his hair on fire doing the ice-bucket challenge.

    For example, there’s Diamon Dave – Kung Fu Hillbilly – assisted by his girlfriend, who appears in the clip and adds to the um, ambience.

  32. 32.

    Dog On Porch

    “I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point — race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything”.

    Molly Ivins (RIP) of Texas

  37. 37.

    shelley

    Dying to know what accellerent he put on that head scarf to have it go up so spectacularly. And the dumped water only made it worse.

  39. 39.

    Villago Delenda Est

    As someone who volunteered as a 2LT for a dunk tank for some charity drive, and half of my platoon eagerly forked over their hard earned money for a chance to send the LT into the cold water, I think ice bucket challenges can be fun and raise fund for worthy causes.

    Even the pie in the face thing (which I also did at a charity auction) can be a good thing.

    However, this guy is, as others before me have pointed out, a moran.

  43. 43.

    Dog On Porch

    @Villago Delenda Est: One of my proudest moments as a kid came when my years of playing baseball paid off one night at a carnival in Salem, Oregon. “Hit the button with a baseball, and dunk a coach”. I was maybe 12, but had played BB for seven years (sandlot & little league). The guy no sooner took his seat again than I dunked him again. It was a blast.

  44. 44.

    Scamp Dog

    I hope the upcoming godson proves to be as photogenic as his predecessor. Who we haven’t seen pictures of in some time, come to think of it. Baby pics are a valid alternative to pet pics!

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    Maybe my ears need rebooting, but idiot’s accent didn’t sound like a “Southern drawl,” unless you’re talking about South Dakota. And there are plenty of Northern assholes who proudly wave the Stars’n’Bars.

    @Professor:

    Christ on a bike, does this American have a vote?

    What kind of question is that? He’s white, ain’t he? If he were darker (and I don’t mean “tanned”), then you could keep him from voting.

  54. 54.

    raven

    @SFAW: I can go to the bait shop and they never know I’m a Yankee.

    eta There’s plenty of folks here that wouldn’t agree with you characterization!

  56. 56.

    Dog On Porch

    @FlipYrWhig: I lean towards the “actual dumb ass” side myself. And, of course, the original Jethro Bodine was none other than the son of the great heavyweight and good guy, Max Baer.

  60. 60.

    Seth

    “Dude, my hair’s messed up.”

    What about your brain the allowed this to happen in the first place? Your hair is the least of your concerns.

  64. 64.

    PurpleGirl

    Nothing can excuse the moron.

    And while the ice-bucket challenge has become over-the-top at this point, the initial stage of it has been an exceedingly good fundraiser for the ALS Foundation. From the increased awareness of ALS, the Foundation has raised something like 2000% more this year than any time in the past. Don’t know what they can do to keep interest up in helping them, though. And I hope that other organizations do not try to repeat this campaign. (I still think David Gerrold’s use of a bucket of Tribbles was the most fun I’ve seen.)

  65. 65.

    Mnemosyne

    @PurpleGirl:

    I’m really surprised by how far it’s spread among ordinary people, honestly. There are people at my office who have done it and challenged their friends to do it. I haven’t been challenged yet, but would either write the check or have something else dumped (a bucket of yarn, perhaps?)

  70. 70.

    daryljfontaine

    The only way that could have been better is if he’d somehow managed to catch the traitors’ flag on fire as well.

    D

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