Well, I thought these videos were funny...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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…because one of the best weapons there is when dealing with that kind of people is ridicule.

These are links to videos currently available on YouTube. The first three are videoclips crafted by taking newsreel footage of a very famous individual and setting it up to famous songs. The other five tell an ongoing story of pathos, drama and tragedy by putting new subtitles to scenes taken from a movie related to the above-mentioned individual (of course the subtitles have NOTHING to do with what is actually being said; if you actually know the language of the original, you will have to either filter it out in your mind or mute it).

What can I say? I may have a warped sense of humour, but I found all of these absolutely hilarious in an evil way… And I enjoyed them enormously. As I mentioned earlier, ridicule is one of the best weapons against these individuals.

And now, the links!

First, the amazing videoclips. Who could have imagined he had that sense of rhythm?

And now, a tragic story of failure and betrayal. With pathos (N.B.: Not yet finished by its author! But what there is, appears to be good.)

First part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYvZnTFpip0

Second part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtLCEfWnnGA

Third part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LJFE4IGjb4

Fourth part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLeMqhC2m4U

Fifth part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETJ8isKxkc

(…to be continued…)

Some people may think that those videos are controversial, in bad taste, politically incorrect or what you may have. I think that they cut to the quick by making fun of the individual, and not of what he did.

Just my 2 eurocent!

JoseB

(who, being a Spaniard, grew up in a country who knew someone not unlike that guy and still remembers a lot of things that were told in whispers to trusted friends to laugh at that someone’s expense).

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I gotta say, I loved those last ones.
Freakin’ hilarious!
And i’m not even a gamer.
I still have tears of laughter in my eyes!
Great stuff!

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So by how many years did your whispered jokes hasten Franco’s downfall?

Peter Cook said his “Establishment” satire club was modeled on the Berlin cabarets which, as he dryly remarked, “did so much to prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler”.

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Not a day, but that is not what those jokes were for. Let me tell you, they made life much more bearable.

“Laughter through tears” helps you face the next day when your phone is bugged, your father (a doctor) is an ex-political prisoner in a government blacklist that prevents him from working in any hospital in the land and you have secret police watching your home.

They gave us what was most precious at the time: Hope. If we were still able to laugh, if we were still able to make fun of the tyrants, then we were still alive and there was a future to look forward to.

Maybe it is difficult to understand for those who haven’t lived under such circumstances. But it was one of the most important things for us. Humour and the ability to laugh at them was one of the very few things they could not take from us. And we treasured that very much. Besides, it was what kept alive a little spark of rebellion and defiance that allowed many people to imagine a Spain without Franco.

Without those whispered jokes that you appear to think were so useless, we would have been truly dead and hopeless. They kept us alive.

Just my 2 eurocent!

JoseB

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I thought they were pretty funny, too.
Fuckin’ Himmler and his Gamerscore.

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Hitler could also rap:

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Hitler jokes, when well-done, are always funny. Here are some of my favorites:

“I’m sitting in my bunker” by a German cartoonist:
German
English
(the original German version has some funny jokes during the end credits that are missing from the English version)

More Rapping Hitlers:
Mel Brooks
Whitest Kids U’Know

And, of course, there’s Springtime for Hitler.

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Not to Godwinize, but . . .

:smiley:

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Those are pretty funny. Anyone know what the movie is?

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The first link said it was from Downfall, or Der Untergang.

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Here’s another funny one, back when the Muppets were owned by a German company…