Alright, I have come up across this weird video and I thought I would share it with you guys hoping that someone might have an explanation for it. Well it’s about a “magic broom” in Alabama that stands on its own, at first I thought the bristles were strong enough and well organized to the point where it could hold the weight of the broom, but on a second glance I noticed that the broom was standing on an angle which is kind of weird...Anyways here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAzgDKL9_44
09-17-2009 at 02:19 PM
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it's the disney ghosts!! soon mickey will run out with an axe and the broom will multiply.. :|
09-17-2009 at 02:21 PM
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Leave it to Alabama to lower the national IQ Average.
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09-17-2009 at 02:54 PM
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it's the disney ghosts!! soon mickey will run out with an axe and the broom will multiply.. :|
There is actually a live-action version of that coming out in the next year or so.
With people, though.
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Alright, I have come up across this weird video and I thought I would share it with you guys hoping that someone might have an explanation for it. Well it’s about a “magic broom” in Alabama that stands on its own, at first I thought the bristles were strong enough and well organized to the point where it could hold the weight of the broom, but on a second glance I noticed that the broom was standing on an angle which is kind of weird...Anyways here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAzgDKL9_44
A number of things a) The Floor is most probably not Flat b) The Bristles are a flat and even surface which leads to C) Gravity!
@Gregory, I know I am biased as a sociologist but such silly incidents and superstitions are very much a result of "culture" more so then IQ! (I'm on the fence regarding the IQ theory for now!), The Southern States have a lower rate of literacy and their schools always score in the lower rungs of education standards. The classic North Vs underprivilged historic Southern Divide. I know basic physics hence I had a laugh at that video and knew it was gravity/flat surfaces! Maybe if they had the same level of education attainment?
Talking of superstitions this one is *facepalm*
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HAHHAA...look at the bristles...those kinds of brooms can be made to stand since the bristles are rigid enough.
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A number of things a) The Floor is most probably not Flat b) The Bristles are a flat and even surface which leads to C) Gravity!
@Gregory, I know I am biased as a sociologist but such silly incidents and superstitions are very much a result of "culture" more so then IQ! (I'm on the fence regarding the IQ theory for now!), The Southern States have a lower rate of literacy and their schools always score in the lower rungs of education standards. The classic North Vs underprivilged historic Southern Divide. I know basic physics hence I had a laugh at that video and knew it was gravity/flat surfaces! Maybe if they had the same level of education attainment?
Talking of superstitions this one is *facepalm*
HAHAH wow, NEWS AT 7: KIDS MADE A DOLL OUT OF MUD AND BURNED IT
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A number of things a) The Floor is most probably not Flat b) The Bristles are a flat and even surface which leads to C) Gravity!
@Gregory, I know I am biased as a sociologist but such silly incidents and superstitions are very much a result of "culture" more so then IQ! (I'm on the fence regarding the IQ theory for now!), The Southern States have a lower rate of literacy and their schools always score in the lower rungs of education standards. The classic North Vs underprivilged historic Southern Divide. I know basic physics hence I had a laugh at that video and knew it was gravity/flat surfaces! Maybe if they had the same level of education attainment?
Talking of superstitions this one is *facepalm*
Wow. So here we have a tiny living humanoid being running around, and what is done? Poke it with sticks; tease it; set it on fire.
Wonderful.
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Alright, I have come up across this weird video and I thought I would share it with you guys hoping that someone might have an explanation for it. Well it’s about a “magic broom” in Alabama that stands on its own, at first I thought the bristles were strong enough and well organized to the point where it could hold the weight of the broom, but on a second glance I noticed that the broom was standing on an angle which is kind of weird...Anyways here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAzgDKL9_44
Wow, this made me laugh out loud! Things like this frighten me a little, because it shows how many people there are out there who can't think for themselves.
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Wow, this made me laugh out loud! Things like this frighten me a little, because it shows how many people there are out there who can't think for themselves.
Kind of reminds me of the video of the woman who "turned into a fish" because she "played games with the Qur'an"
YouTube is full of stuff like this.
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Wow. So here we have a tiny living humanoid being running around, and what is done? Poke it with sticks; tease it; set it on fire.
Wonderful.
ROFL YEAH hahahah Since I can understand that language the way they narrate it; like they 100% believe it is true! I Lol'd for 5 minutes at this!
Putting it in a bottle then throwing it on burning bricks!
It is after all from a city which is Pakistan's version of an agricultural Southern USA!
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