Awesome Videos

When you’re out on a date, do you intentionally wait for several seconds before you respond to your partner so they won’t think you’re too into them? No? Then why the hell do we think that way when it comes to texting?

(NSFW: Language) In celebration of Thanksgiving, the Official Comedy channel has pieced together a brief reel to school us on the proper use of the term “jive turkey” – just in case you were planning on using it on your relatives.

When you hear the phrase “fluid dynamics simulation,” you’re probably think about how they make water look so real in CGI movies and games. But in Yusuke Endoh’s case, we get an 80×24 computer terminal, spewing out ASCII.

Mental Floss dishes out little known facts about the popular American holiday. Actually it’s more like a Thanksgiving episode of Mythbusters, revealing that many things associated with the holiday are entirely false or unfounded.

Breaking news: cats take care of you. And not just in Soviet Russia. Ze Frank uses his hypnotic baritone voice and hilarious wit to come up with alibis for the annoying habits of cats. And also to sell kitty litter.

An in-depth look at the people, the technology and the “highly organized chaos” behind Fox Sports’ NFL broadcasts. Amazingly, a lot of the equipment has to be assembled and then torn down every weekend. More on The Verge.

Ward Miles was born 3.5 months premature. But with the help of medical staff, he fought to stay alive. He’s now a healthy boy. Ward’s dad Benjamin Scot Miller made this video for his wife’s birthday and to celebrate Ward’s first year.

One of the numerous entries for Doritos 2014 Crash the Super Bowl commercial contest, Thomas Noakes’ spot is equal parts hilarious and disturbing. We won’t give away the punchline, but you can quickly guess where it’s headed.

Mario and Fafa set out to create the absolutely worst top ten list of all time, somehow managing to fill five minutes of our time explaining their favorite numbers between 0 and 9, inclusive. Our fave? We plead the Fifth.

Upscale UK retailer Harvey Nichols launched this tongue-in-cheek holiday campaign which suggests you spend your money on awesome gifts for yourself, leaving your family with such prized items as paper clips, toothpicks or gravel.

Highlights of UFC 167 captured using a Phantom high-speed camera. Watching the fighters’ faces distort and ripple as they are pounded with punches made us flinch at the sheer brutality of these MMA matches.

wow. so animation. much soundtrack. Weebl’s Stuff takes a page out of Nyan Cat’s book, creating an infections little video featuring the Internet’s favorite shibe doge. Nope, it still makes no sense, but we love it anyway.

Collective Cadenza gives us a concise history of the bass guitar, with none other than the group’s co-founder Michael Thurber handling the instrument’s various incarnations. A lesson as entertaining as it is educational.

While we don’t like to spend time washing dishes by hand, this restaurant dishwasher takes speed-washing to the extreme, as he scrubs 50 plates in about 10 seconds. We didn’t say they were clean, necessarily.

Comedian Gavin McInnes shows us how to take on the most vicious of opponents in the ring – babies. While some of the moves are effective, we’re pretty sure they wouldn’t work on Dragon Baby. (Thanks Thomas!)

YouTuber whatever and his friends were giving away clothes to homeless people in NYC when they came across Jaroslav, a Czech miner who tried his luck in the States but got robbed of his possessions before he could get a job.

Kyle Clark of Colorado news channel 9news has a message to his fellow Coloradans: stop taking pictures of patios each time it snows. Yeah folks, why not take pictures of your laser-eyed demon horse instead? Regardless of the weather?

A hungry llama sees a very juicy bush in the middle of the desert, but there’s an electric fence in the way. Caminandes is a series made by the folks behind the free 3D animation program Blender. Watch the first episode here.

(NSFW: Language) Dead Parrot cast two old men to recreate an online argument that erupted in the comments section of a One Direction music video. Sadly the mockery will probably be lost on the very people who made these statements.

Improv Everywhere drops by a neighborhood Starbucks to order a venti strawberry Frappuccino, take in some free wi-fi, and also to recreate a classic moment from Stanley Kubrick’s epic Spartacus.

(NSFW: Language, Gross) Seth Rogen and James Franco did a shot for shot remake of Kanye West’s intentionally(?) generic and cheesy music video for his single Bound 2. You can see both videos side-by-side here. Jesus wept.

Say farewell to the previous generation of video game consoles with this upbeat track. YouTuber liltommyj made it using the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware as instruments, along with sounds from their user interface.

Artist Tobias Gutmann travels around the world with his portrait-making booth. The cardboard booth has levers that people can move to indicate the style of their portrait, then Tobias draws it Face-o-mat prints it out. More here.