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Studio@Gawker · 08/31/10 10:59AM

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The Best Military Recruitment Commercials From Around The World

Gene Delsener · 08/30/10 02:47PM


Advertising about enlisting in the military is tricky business; a balance between agitprop and national pride. America's approach is standard, but what about the rest of the world? The international community uses robots, explosions, crazy camera angles and battleships!

The Drunkest Guys Ever Caught On Video

Eleni Crush · 08/28/10 03:00PM

Drinking is great! Drinking is fun! And YouTube is full of dudes just chilling and doing ridiculous things while intoxicated. Still, there's a difference between being drunk and being drunk. Here are ten of the drunkest guys ever videotaped.

The Daily Show's Profile of a Bigoted Anti-Muslim Leader

Matt Cherette · 08/25/10 10:31PM

Tonight, The Daily Show switched gears for a bit and decided to discuss a different mosque controversy: a proposed one in the heart of Tennessee. The highlight? The profile of Laurie Cardoza-Moore, a ridiculously bigoted, anti-muslim member of the opposition.

Providence Mayoral Candidate Gives Worst On-Camera Interview Ever

Matt Cherette · 08/25/10 01:05PM

Chris Young, running for mayor of Providence, recently appeared on the local FOX station for a disastrous interview. The worst part? Choose: a) Young bringing/reading notes, b) saying that he attends church for fun, or c) serenading the befuddled interviewer.

Jon Stewart Points Out the Hypocrisy of Sarah Palin's Dr. Laura Defense

Matt Cherette · 08/24/10 10:23PM

Tonight, Jon Stewart tackled Dr. Laura Schlessinger's reprehensible, racist comments (listen here). Specifically, Stewart called out Sarah Palin for blindly/stupidly/hypocritically defending Schlessinger's vitriol when she'd called for Rahm Emanuel's firing last year for essentially the same thing. Video inside.

Woman Caught on Video Throwing a Cat into a Garbage Bin

Matt Cherette · 08/23/10 03:06PM

This is truly sick: here's surveillance footage from outside of a school in Coventry, England that shows a woman walk up to a cat, pet it for a few seconds, and then pick it up/throw it into a garbage bin.

Cee-Lo Green's "F*ck You" Should Have Been the Song of the Summer

Matt Cherette · 08/20/10 06:54PM

The Internet's been buzzing all day about "Fuck You," a new track from Cee-Lo Green. The only negative here is that it didn't come out in time to be dubbed "Song of the Summer," because it's criminally catchy. Listen inside.

Inebriation Is the Best Inception Parody Yet

Matt Cherette · 08/19/10 01:09PM

This is fun, and surprisingly well done. Here's a trailer for Inebriation, about a man who specializes in "a very specific type of insobriety—unconscious insobriety." Then, he steals stuff from drunk people. Or something like that. Video inside.

The 12 Movies with the Most F-Bombs in Them

Matt Cherette · 08/18/10 08:37PM

Sometimes, movies contain no utterances of "Fuck." Other times, they contain a fuckload of them (hah). Have you ever wondered what the Top 12 movies, as measured by their "Fuck" frequency, were? The answer—via an awesome infographic—inside.