UK Ministry of Defense Broken by Spoof Video 574
An anonymous reader submits "It seems that the Royal Dragoon Guards in Iraq decided to make a spoof of a Tony Christie video, which was recently re-released by Peter Kay for Comic Relief. However, the video file was over 50MB and it took out various e-mail systems, including those at RAF Strike Command. Despite the inadvertant denial of service attack, the MoD said the spoof was 'brilliant.'"
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Which is good, because the video is hilarious. They showed bits of it on the BBC news last night.
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The Way to Armadillo [bornsloppy.co.uk]
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If I was the IT guy, I'd say "I've put it on our webserver. Tell the squaddies to send quote this: 'http://video.mod.uk/Christie.wmv' to their families and everyone can get it without melting down mail servers across the country."
Real anecdote: I o
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Duh.
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In 2003 it was my job to fix the innumerable bandwidth problems in our department's email system. Daily we were going through hundreds of MB of data (sometimes gigs) when the amount should have been in the range of 10MB a day.
It turns out several of the managers had subscribed to an MP3 distribution mailing list, which is bad enough. One in particular would send out forwards of mailing list posts with the mp3 attachments to everyo
Where can we get it now? (Score:2, Informative)
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Original video (Score:2)
If I find bigger versions, I might reply to this post.
Re:Where can we get it now? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:NON-Torrent links, mac friendly? (Score:2)
Come on now, can't/would rather not mess with ? Just take a few moments to go here [sourceforge.net] and your mac will work just fine thankyouverymuch.
Now your full length video is mac friendly, plus, it doubles the amount of porn you can view.What the hell? (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:What the hell? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, imagine for a moment that you're an angry male teenager midway through puberty. And imagine that you're too spineless to become a real vandal, or a skate punk or something.
One option that is open to you is to join an IRC channel and prattle on about how 31337 you are and how you will h4x0r t3h w3b.
Unfortunately, you don't have any coding skills. You can, however, download some network scanner with instructions on how to scan for ports that web proxies like squid use. Normally these should be closed to everything but internal networks, but nobody's perfect.
Once you've found one you update your browser settings to use said proxy and post stupid messages on slashdot. Since they're all coming from the ip address of the proxy server, the ip will be banned along with all the people who connect to the web with that proxy server. Then you go back to your IRC channel where you are the toast of the town for the next five minutes.
Sadly, deep down you feel sad and unfufilled and, as the months go by, you realise that you are unlikley to ever have sex in your entire life.
The video was on the Channel 4 news last night (Score:2, Funny)
No one fell over though. (joke that americans wont get)
Re:The video was on the Channel 4 news last night (Score:2, Informative)
Seems like big news... (Score:2, Insightful)
I have seen the video a few times as the news stations have been airing it too. Its mildly amusing and probably a more productive endevour for the squadies than shooting people (IMHO).
I do advise agaist searching for the vid though. Its one of those songs that gets trapped in your brain and remains there for the day.
Just reading this story has put it back into my head! Thanks!
Re:Seems like big news... (Score:3, Funny)
Doctor says, "That's OK, every cunts singing that at the moment."
Re:Seems like big news... (Score:4, Funny)
She gives him one, and he throws it on the floor and starts stamping on it and singing "is this the way to harm a Brillo"
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Oh, I've heard worse... [weebls-stuff.com]
The above managed to stay in my head for the best part of a week, and should be capable of displacing absolutely anything. Amarillo has nothing in comparison.
And I've heard worse (Score:3, Funny)
mushroommushroom
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/25/ [weebls-stuff.com]
Re:Seems like big news... (Score:2)
Simple really. The MOD needed to distract everybody away from that pillock Galloway showing up our country.
He may be a lying thieving crook prepare to exploit sick children from the 3rd world, but his oratory makes him a very credible lying thieving crook.
Re:Seems like big news... (Score:2)
But, a friend sent me a link to a torrent of the video. It's interesting just to see the conditions they are living in:
Windows media, 640x480, 26.7 MB [tjworld.org]
MPEG, 640x480, 29.0 MB [tjworld.org]
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I was going for the angle that in its first incarnation, the frog in the adverts had his knob and nuts clearly on display. Later on, they had a little black bar on the screen to hide them.
I would think if I sent an email to the lads in Iraq asking them to wave their dicks around on camera, the only thing I would get in return is 10 squaddies at my front door with the singular intention of beating me senseless.
Re:Seems like big news... (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps those manning Abhu Ghraib should have been spoofing pop videos as well?
Er ... Can I suggest perhaps one or more of the following ...
Hit Me Baby, One More Time
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
These Boots Are Made For Walking
Flash Bang Wallop What A Picture
Girls On Film
Stayin' Alive
bugger me (Score:2)
on another note - the " im an open proxy, ban me " things are irritating me now
brilliant (Score:5, Funny)
Which can not be said about the person who put a 50Mb attachment in his email.
Re:brilliant (Score:5, Insightful)
One way to do that is to allow them to send lengthy video messages back home to their families.
In such cases, it makes sense for compassionate considerations to trump technical considerations (and after all, it's only this freak occurence that's buggered it. The systems worked pretty well for the last two years.)
A lesson in the right thing to say. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:A lesson in the right thing to say. (Score:2, Interesting)
I shudder to think what fate would befall yanks that did the same... probably get themselves locked up right next to the promoters of the gitmo girlie shows.
Re:A lesson in the right thing to say. (Score:3, Funny)
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Thanks. Now I have the mental image of a squad of SAS storming the RIAA building.
Actually, that's a movie I'd like to see :)
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Which can not be said about the person who put a 50Mb attachment in his email.
Or the mail admin who allowed 50MB attachments.
Kosovo (Score:3, Insightful)
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I don't know if it's taken down as the site is blocked from where I work:(
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wget http://media2.big-boys.com/bbmedia/kosovo1.wmv [big-boys.com]
I went diving into the source for that page to find the real link...
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Tsktsktsk.... (Score:5, Insightful)
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It appears to be a service that allows people to send large files to each other, with no advertising, or other cost attached.
As the saying goes... if it seems too good to be true...
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Not funny? (Score:2)
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Download the full version, it's very funny. Had me in stitches.
When I saw the BBC cut down version yesterday i thought the same as you
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Right... (Score:5, Funny)
1. Start at London Heathrow Airport.
2. Catch flight from London Heathrow to Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
3. Hire car at Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
4. Start going toward the "Airport Exit" on "International Parkway South" - follow for 0.2 miles.
5. Bear left onto the highway toward "Terminal East Parking" - follow for 0.3 miles.
6. Bear left onto "International Parkway North" toward "North Airport Exit" - follow for 2.9 miles.
7. Take the "Highway 114 west" exit toward "Fort Worth" - follow for 29.2 miles
8. Then continue on "US 287 North" - follow for 91.1 miles
9."US 287 North" becomes "Interstate-44 east" - follow for 0.7 miles
10. Take left fork onto "US-287 North" toward "Vernon" - follow for 104.0 miles
11."US 287 north" becomes "Avenue F (US-287)" - follow for 2.8 miles
12. Continue to follow "US 287 North" - follow for 104.9 miles
13. Take left ramp onto "Interstate 40 west" toward "Dumas" - follow for 7.8 miles
14. Take "Exit 70" onto "US 60 east" toward "Dumas" - follow for 0.5 miles
15. Take the "Buchanan Street" exit toward "Dumas/Pampa" - follow for 1.7 miles
16. Turn right onto "Old Route 66 (Interstate 40)" - follow for 0.1 miles
17. Arrive at the centre of "Amarillo, Texas"
That's the f*cking way to Amarillo
SO CAN EVERYONE PLEASE STOP SINGING IT NOW!!!!!!!
Re:Right... (Score:2)
Actually, I don't know the point of that song. Amarillo is a fairly non-descript town. The only notable thing about it is there is a nuclear weapons storage facility there, plus a Bell-Textron facility where (at least a couple of years ago) they had a couple of Osprey powered-lift aircraft.
Re:Right... (Score:2)
The Bell-Textron facility you are talking about has more than a couple of Ospreys. They make them there.
I know these things because I grew up nearby Amarillo (about 50 miles away) and did a summer internship at the nuclear weapons facility you mention (Pantex). They do mo
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I agree. I shook a stick at it and it took my arm clean off!
Bad canyon!
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Armadillo
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Maybe, but just west on I-10 is Sweetwater, home of the annual Rattlesnake Roundup. Cue the singers: "O whacking day, o whacking day, Our hallowed snake-skull cracking day..."
Those poor birds! (Score:2)
Couldn't they use jet engines like everyone else?
Re:Those poor birds! (Score:2)
-- I'm going to Scotland in September - what must I not miss?
Depends whereabouts you're going to be. I'm a northern scot myself, so I'll give you some ideas for this end of the land
Inverness makes a pretty good base to explore the highlands from. If you want to see the kind of stuff that usually gets portrayed in movies about Scotland - the moors, heather, rolling hills, all that kind of stuff, then you'll want to head to the west coast - the Inverness/Dingwall to Ullapool drive is nice and
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Southwest Airlines flies out of Love Field (DAL), not DFW. So, a traveler would have to make their way from DFW to DAL (about 30 minutes, if the traffic is light) to catch a SWA flight.
American Airllines operates regional jets from DFW to Amarillo. But, I doubt that would have been modded +5, Funny.
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No, but I can tell you how to get to Sesame St.
Correction (Score:5, Informative)
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Don't be so poduntic.
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And, for the record, it is The Ministry of Defence, not The Ministry of Defense. I'm British, but I'd never refer to the US's equivalent, the DOD, as the Department of Defence. It's called respecting other cultures, you know?
Re:Correction (Score:2)
(repeat after me UK
Whose bloody language is it anyway?
If it was meant to be spelled the American way it'd bloody well be *called* American, not English.
Ah, the hours of fun I have at home, seeing as my wife is both American and a sociolinguist and so has some rather diverging views from the above...
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There you go again! It's spelt felching!
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It's called respecting other cultures, you know?
Yup, it's all about respect. Good thing nobody in Britain would every do that [bbc.co.uk].
From ruling the waves to whining about disrespectful spelling. How the mighty have fallen...
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Please, don't start the "my country is better than your country" shit. It's a game that neither of us can truly win.
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Riled up? Because I'm mature enough to point out that we all have faults that makes me riled up, does it? OK, if you say so.
I'm British, and I'm also a big fan of American football. But when I'm talking about the game I don't talk about defence, I talk about defense. It's the small things like this, as much as the bigger things, that are true signs of how much
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I'm a native English speaker and my Spanish is pretty good, but the butchery of Spanish that I've seen by most people with similar backgrounds, and the complete disdain they show when someone clearly can't understand what they've said is a sight to see.
How much respect you show someone else's language and
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Not yet it isn't ... see also party!
Modern tactics... (Score:5, Funny)
The way to amarillo? Step out my front door. (Score:5, Funny)
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Blind soldier (Score:2)
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At least... (Score:3, Funny)
At least the Message of the Day wasn't lost!
Obvious question (Score:2)
Kids, grannies, soldiers, what's the difference?
Re:Mail Servers (Score:2)
Re:Mail Servers (Score:4, Interesting)
"Shit, the mail servers are down. Quickly boys! Pack up and go home, we need the money being spent on our reason to exist to upgrade support equipment."
Re:I suppose you had to be there ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Brilliant
You had to be there
Let me guess - You're not from the UK, and you've never seen the video that this is a spoof of?
Re:well not being a killjoy or anything but.. (Score:2)
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Re:well not being a killjoy or anything but.. (Score:2)
(Doh!)
Re:52mb email attachments? (Score:2, Redundant)
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