If Stuntmen from the old movies don’t have your full respect then I just don’t know what to say to you
l tried really hard not to reblog this
Yeah, it is indeed really hard not to reblog a fucking thing.
Can we all agree that the man in the first gif is the manliest man in the world?
Are we just going to all silently acknowledge that the last guy is clearly dead and that we just saw him die.
HOLD UP FOR A SECOND
ALL OF THESE GIFS ARE ONE MAN
THE SINGULAR BUSTER KEATON
WHILE FILMING THE GENERAL
HE SNAPPED HIS NECK ON THE RAILROAD TIES AND WENT HOME AND ICED HIS BODY
AND CAME BACK FOR WORK THE NEXT DAY
HE ONCE GOT HIS HIP RIPPED OUT OF ITS SOCKET BY A MALFUNCTIONING ELEVATOR AND WAS DISAPPOINTED WITH HIMSELF FOR BEING INJURED
HE ONCE HAD TO FALL 100 FEET DOWN A WATERFALL INTO A NET
A STUNTMAN TESTED IT AND BROKE BOTH LEGS AND DISLOCATED HIS SHOULDER
BUSTER DID THE STUNT ANYWAY AND LANDED WITHOUT A SCRATCH
IN ‘THE HIGH DIVE’
BUSTER DID A TRICK DIVE THROUGH A CARDBOARD DECK THAT WAS CAMOUFLAGED TO LOOK LIKE THE REAL DECK
ONLY HE COULDN’T TELL FROM 100 FEET UP WHERE THE CARDBOARD STOPPED AND THE REAL DECK STARTED AND THERE WAS ONLY LIKE A THREE FOOT MARGIN FOR ERROR
AND WHEN HE HESITATED A SUDDEN BREEZE LITERALLY KNOCKED HIM OFF THE DIVING BOARD AND HE HAD TO JUMP ANYWAY
AND HE MISSED THE REAL DECK BY LESS THAN A FOOT BUT HE MADE IT
IN THE SECOND GIF HE’S RECREATING SOMETHING THAT THE ACTUAL GENERAL PURSUERS HAD TO DO IN THE CIVIL WAR
IF HE MISSES THAT TIE
THE TRAIN WILL BE DERAILED AND HE WILL DIE IN THE EXPLOSION
IN THE THIRD GIF AN ENTIRE HOUSE IS FALLING HE HAS ONE TAKE AND IF HE HAS NOT DONE THE CALCULATIONS CORRECTLY HE WILL BE CRUSHED
HE HAS AN INCH-WIDE MARGIN ON EACH SIDE
AND THE HOUSE LITERALLY BRUSHES HIS LEFT SHOULDER ON THE WAY DOWN
YOU CAN SEE HIS LEFT ARM JUMP BECAUSE HE’S FLINCHING FROM THE PAIN
THAT LAST GIF
HE WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE THAT JUMP
HE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO FALL AND THEY HADNT PLANNED FOR IT
BUT HE SURVIVED
BUSTER KEATON SURVIVED 100% OF THINGS THAT WOULD HAVE KILLED LESSER MEN INCLUDING WWI, TORNADOS, HOUSEFIRES, ALCOHOLISM, BROKEN NETS, CRUSHING DEPRESSION, THE DEPRESSION ITSELF, THE MCCARTHY WITCHHUNTS, THE END OF SILENT CINEMA, AND ABOUT 900 MORE OF THE STUNTS YOU SEE ABOVE
BUSTER LIVED TO BE 70 YEARS OLD
FATHERED LIKE FOUR KIDS AND EIGHT GRANDKIDS
HE CAME OUT THE OTHER SIDE OF ALL THAT
THINKING THAT LIFE WAS GOOD AND PEOPLE WERE WONDERFUL
BUSTER KEATON IS NOT JUST A STUNTMAN
HE IS A GODDAMN SAINT
BUSTER KEATON’S PARENTS WERE PART OF A TRAVELING SHOW.
THEY WERE ACROBATS.
THEY TOOK BABY BUSTER UP HIGH IN THE AIR WITH THEM.
THEY DROPPED HIM.
LUCKILY SOMEONE WHO WAS STANDING UNDER THEM CAUGHT BABY BUSTER.
THAT MAN WAS HARRY HOUDINI.
HARRY HOUDINI SAVED BUSTER KEATON’S LIFE.
if you don’t think that’s the coolest shit you can get right out.
he was blessed by houdini oh my god
This whole thing is so rad.
Reblogged once for the clips, reblogging again for the history. Keaton was known as “The Great Stone Face”; his trademark was to never show emotion, no matter what happened to him or around him. And there was a lot to not react to…
The Beast of Bray Road (or the Bray Road Beast) is a creature reported in 1936 on a rural road outside of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The same label has been applied to other sightings from southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Bray Road is a quiet rural road near the community of Elkhorn. The rash of claimed sightings in the late 1980s and early 1990s prompted a local newspaper, the Walworth County Week, to assign reporter Linda Godfrey to cover the story. Godfrey was initially skeptical, but later became convinced of the sincerity of the witnesses. Her series of articles later became a book titled The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin’s Werewolf.The Beast of Bray Road is described by purported witnesses in several ways: as a bear-like creature, as a hairy biped resembling Bigfoot, and as an unusually large (2–4 feet tall on all fours, 7 feet tall standing up) intelligent werewolf-like creature able to walk on its hind legs and weighing 400-700 pounds. It also said that its fur is a brown gray color resembling a dog or bear. - Wikipedia sourced.
Article from netpol.org that I am going to copy paste in its entirety because it is amazing:
The campaign launched by Netpol last week, which is
seeking to challenge attitudes towards greater protection of protesters’
privacy, has sparked considerable feedback about the ethics of wearing a
face covering or mask.
Some have argued an established position
that protest is fundamentally about making a public stand in support of
individual beliefs. Wearing a face covering therefore removes, not
least in the eyes of the courts, a level of personal accountability for
how you act in support of those beliefs.
Others, notably some anarchists, have insisted the option to ‘mask
up’ is hardly new and there is little evidence to suggest a wider group
of protesters, who have repeatedly resisted ‘black bloc’ solidarity
tactics and are unwilling to actively frustrate oppressive policing,
will suddenly embrace it.
There are merits in both of these positions, but both assume that
face coverings are intrinsically linked to public disorder – either as a
protection against police violence or, conversely, somehow emblematic
of the use of violence by protesters. We think, however, that the growth
of police surveillance has made the need for greater anonymity a much
bigger issue, for everyone who takes part in any protest.
It is certainly true that part of the philosophy of protest is
standing up to be counted – but for many, this is becoming a choice
about whether to risk attending a public protest or not. The increasing
unpredictability of aggressive police tactics and the way mass
surveillance now enables the targeting of individuals within a crowd,
for intelligence-gathering or the prospect of sudden arrest, has
weakened the collective sense of safety and solidarity that a rally or
demonstration provides.
So too has the narrowing of what is deemed ‘acceptable’ protest
(almost always a pre-negotiated march and rarely any forms of direct
action or civil disobedience) and the division of protestors into ‘good’
and ‘bad’, isolating particular groups to make it easier to control
crowd behaviour.
It is important to remember that public order intelligence gathering
by the police is carried out with a deliberate purpose: what some
criminologists have called ‘strategic advantage’ and ‘strategic
incapacitation’.1 Intelligence is used to
understand the structures, sustainability and strengths of protest
groups, in order to develop ways to undermine them.
This is why, in incidents of harassment we have repeatedly highlighted,
so-called ‘domestic extremists’ have faced visits or letters to their
homes. This is why Forward Intelligence Team officers have been known to
follow individuals for hours, even days, sometimes when they are with
their children or families and even to their workplace. This overt
intelligence gathering is undoubtedly also used to identify possible
targets for undercover policing and to help ’embed’ undercover officers.
In the face of concerted attempts to undermine political protest
movements, it is entirely legitimate to actively resist police
surveillance. However, it is also important to remember, in rebuilding
and promoting solidarity between protesters, that anonymity is not just a
way to avoid becoming an entry on the ‘Crimint‘ or National Special Branch Intelligence System databases. There are many other reasons why individuals do not want to face constant surveillance.
We
have spoken to protesters who are international students and who are
worried about the possibility that their participation in a
demonstration might impact on their studies. Education and youth workers
have told us about warnings that their participation in anti-EDL
demonstrations would have a detrimental impact on their careers, or even
lead to dismissal. People awaiting the outcome of asylum claims may not
want immigration services to know they have been politically active
and, for similar reasons, young people (especially young Muslims) may be
understandably wary of unwarranted attention from the government’s
‘Prevent’ programme. Others may have concerns that their faces might end
up on a far-right website. In some cases, people participating in
protest may worry about negative consequences for relatives in their
country of origin (something Congolese protesters told us, for example, in 2011).
Rather than acting as a barrier, anonymity may in fact represent the
main deciding factor for many about whether they are able to ‘stand up
and be counted’ at all.
Whatever the reasons, it remains true that as long as the decision to
cover up is taken only by a tiny minority, wearing a mask as a way of
maintaining some degree of anonymity does increase the risk that the
police will pick people out for arrest (and, on occasion, to try to deliberately fit them up).
Officers do so precisely because they know the courts by default seem
to perceive masked protesters as inherent “troublemakers”.
We want to change this – and we think one of the few ways to do so is
to normalise the wearing of a face covering, so that it no longer
perceived as a symbol of a minority.
If face masks become commonplace at protests, a choice made by an
increasingly larger number of people, this can help make it more
difficult for magistrates and judges to view covering your face as an
aggravating factor, or as a legitimate indicator of impending
disorder. Equally, the more people wear them, especially in ‘peaceful’
circumstances, it becomes harder for the police to justify a mask as
‘reasonable suspicion’ for using stop and search powers.
We have no expectations that this will happen overnight, but we also
see no prospect of change unless we start to shift attitudes within UK
protest movements towards greater concerns about privacy and anonymity –
in ways that protesters elsewhere in the world seem to understand
instinctively.
That is why we are not only crowd funding to produce hundreds of free
face coverings, but also planning to hold a ‘Privacy Bloc’ at a future
demonstration to highlight the issue. We hope it will become the first
of many.
Ultimately, we hope that even the fluffiest, most peaceful
demonstration will involved people covering their faces, often for no
other reason than an act of solidarity with others who have a greater
need for anonymity. We hope protesters will do so not because they are
not prepared to stand up and be counted, but because they are not
prepared to sacrifice their rights to privacy to a growing surveillance
state in order to enjoy fundamental freedoms of assembly and
expression.
May 1, 2019 - Once again Joey Gibson’s Patriot Prayer is allowed to randomly assault people by Portland police, sucker punching people and assaulting random people with batons. They attacked a May day party, but got more than they bargained for, including an “anti-communist action” hoodie-wearing fascist losing embarrassingly after demanding a one on one fight against an antifascist. [video]
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