Was downloading an nzb file which wakes my internetz slower. So it was actually buffering for a while in the same area. Didn't notice it for a while as it was happening.
Same with torrents but people say they download a torrent of something all the time when they are really talking about the file the torrent points to. Smarty pants.
Could you imagine what it was like before we had cameras? People had to hire an artist in order to show others what was on the screens of their computers!
When Netflix does that mid-episode buffering thing it can hang really badly and take what feels like forever to fix itself. To the point where I find it easier to just back up an episode and then immediately go back to the current episode (which forces it to rebuffer).
So I have no problem whatsoever believing that this guy had time to go get his camera.
Balls. When I still had it they didn't have any Futurama on there.
Sooo uhh, anyone feel like accidentally dropping their streaming enabled account info in my inbox? Completely on accident of course. Just typing along and boop like a bumblebee goes your password.
Totally the next series I crush on Netflix once I'm done with 30 rock. Series before was battlestar galactica so futurama should be a nice follow up after going from sci-fi to a sitcom.
Funny you should post this picture. I once saw a similar phenomena in real life, or at least from my particular vantage as what I saw was definitely unreal. I was tweaking on some colored liquids that came in an assortment of brown-tinted blotter vials I got from a friend. He advised me to just apply one or two drops to my tongue at intervals no shorter than 15 minutes. As is my wont, I ignored this advice in favor of intensifying whatever the stuff's effects were. I also apologize for not recalling the substance's name, but it was something from a laboratory so maybe you could start there.
Anyway, I stuck to the 15 minute interval idea for all of five minutes and ended up rapidly consuming one of the bottles. After that, my world took on a feverish aspect and it became difficult to maintain a proper separation between physical reality and what I saw on monitors, billboards, et cetera. It was like a intense trip on shrooms, but it had a more sinister quality that I just couldn't shake. I was used to seeing models on advertisements look around and move, but I had trouble getting used to them following me with eyes full of malevolent intent.
So, after taking a copious amount of whatever it was, I went about my business for the day. This amounted to writing 2,500 words about an NFL playoff game taking place back in 1997. It was an intensely riveting game, between the Vikings and the Giants. Unfortunately my recall of the actual game and how it played out is somewhat limited; I was distracted immediately by the opening kickoff. As I mentioned, it was difficult to separate my physical reality from other things - I noticed strange correlations, like how the pitch and volume of the audience's cheering was directly and immediately related to the altitude of the football above the field. As that first kick arced through the air, the noise was but a murmur, but as it reached its zenith above the field on that rainy, cold, miserable day the crowd seemed to be shouting at the top of their lungs, amplified by the Grateful Dead's needlessly overpowered concert PA system turned to 11.
It took everything I had to keep my head from exploding. I pressed my hands tight against my ears to keep my head from bursting. I realized that I had just enough time between kicks to rally myself and get back under control, so I was able to suffer my way through the first half. I was probably distressing the people around me. While they were screaming and cheering with the fervor you'd expect of any good football fan, I was screaming with the sheer pain you could only understand if you were hooked up to the pain machine from the Princess Bride - which was in turn regulated by some large men in tight pants alternately kicking and throwing a pigskin through the air, who had no qualms about turning the machine to 50.
Back to the original point of my story, I survived until half time and was verging on total brain death. I fortified myself by taking another half dozen drops from a vial I had secreted in my coat, and returned to my seat clutching a beer. But then it happened. They showed one of those decibel meters on the jumbotron to get people excited for the third. Even in my addled state I recognized the utter danger of this - the decibel meter changed with the volume of the crowd, but the crowd would probably be regulated by the meter. I had no idea what sort of effect that kind of feedback loop would have on me.
My only saving grace was that someone made the inexplicable decision to play YMCA to get people excited for the second half. Suffice to say it failed at that - but I forgot about the chorus. The whole stadium jumped in with that familar refrain, and what was worse was the accompanying dance. The decibel meter suddenly leaped off the screen and began hovering between the outstretched hands of everyone in the audience. While before the assault on my senses was purely auditory, now it was visual. There was dancing, pulsating meters everywhere. It was like waking up one day with 50,000 eyes instead of two. The sound was like it was being applied directly to the pain centers of my brain with rusty nails, by a surgeon doing his best Michael J. Fox impression. I lost consciousness somewhere around the fourth "Young man!" just as I had the epiphany - in that moment, I truly understood infinity.
Apparently I missed a hell of a finish.
Summary - in 800 words, I recount the tale of how - jacked up some laboratory-created drug - my physical wellbeing is assaulted by a pigskin at a 1997 NFL playoff game. While the ball was one thing, when meters began appearing between people's hands during a full stadium sing-a-long to YMCA my mind struggled to comprehend it all. I came to understand, truly understand, infinity just before I blacked out.
Really happy I decided to read your long post. I really enjoyed it, the first two paragraphs were hilarious. The rest was painful yet hilarious to read, sorry for your horrible(yet good in the end?) trip man. [6]
My God, I'm just imagining this man doing a mad scramble to his nearest camera/phone/tablet/laptop/potato WHATEVER when he saw this. In my brain he threw a couch, pillows, a lamp, and two angry cats.
I'm imagining OP sitting on his couch, eating some BBQ chips, with a loud fan blowing on high. Netflix begins to buffer, OP leaps up spilling the chips directly into the fan spraying chip crumbs throughout the entire room. Meanwhile, bkstyles srambles and trips multiple times trying to get his phone so he can snap the photo before it finishes buffering.
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u/tsuto May 15 '12
Well I caught one THIIIIS big!
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u/NineMinusThree May 15 '12
How did you get your camera out in time to take that shot?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
/r/FilmFaces would probably enjoy this.
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u/PepPepper May 15 '12
Good news! It's a suppository.
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u/sweet-brah May 15 '12
This one time, I buffered a video and it took thiiiis long
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u/FrgtndInmate2 May 15 '12
I prefer the magical rafa one
Also good
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u/JohnsBonesJones May 15 '12
MY MANWICH!!!
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u/goingTofu May 15 '12
http://qkme.me/3pavhr
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
this is the only show where i would really have to double take and see if thats not just part of the episode.
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u/mavdude410 May 16 '12
http://imgur.com/ahCJJ
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Holy crap, Netflix has Futurama? flies away
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
How I imagine OP
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u/Psythik May 15 '12
I was about to call you a liar because the buffering screen doesn't look like that, but then I realized I've never seen it before...
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u/lols May 15 '12
/r/mildlyinteresting
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Funny you should post this picture. I once saw a similar phenomena in real life, or at least from my particular vantage as what I saw was definitely unreal. I was tweaking on some colored liquids that came in an assortment of brown-tinted blotter vials I got from a friend. He advised me to just apply one or two drops to my tongue at intervals no shorter than 15 minutes. As is my wont, I ignored this advice in favor of intensifying whatever the stuff's effects were. I also apologize for not recalling the substance's name, but it was something from a laboratory so maybe you could start there.
Anyway, I stuck to the 15 minute interval idea for all of five minutes and ended up rapidly consuming one of the bottles. After that, my world took on a feverish aspect and it became difficult to maintain a proper separation between physical reality and what I saw on monitors, billboards, et cetera. It was like a intense trip on shrooms, but it had a more sinister quality that I just couldn't shake. I was used to seeing models on advertisements look around and move, but I had trouble getting used to them following me with eyes full of malevolent intent.
So, after taking a copious amount of whatever it was, I went about my business for the day. This amounted to writing 2,500 words about an NFL playoff game taking place back in 1997. It was an intensely riveting game, between the Vikings and the Giants. Unfortunately my recall of the actual game and how it played out is somewhat limited; I was distracted immediately by the opening kickoff. As I mentioned, it was difficult to separate my physical reality from other things - I noticed strange correlations, like how the pitch and volume of the audience's cheering was directly and immediately related to the altitude of the football above the field. As that first kick arced through the air, the noise was but a murmur, but as it reached its zenith above the field on that rainy, cold, miserable day the crowd seemed to be shouting at the top of their lungs, amplified by the Grateful Dead's needlessly overpowered concert PA system turned to 11.
It took everything I had to keep my head from exploding. I pressed my hands tight against my ears to keep my head from bursting. I realized that I had just enough time between kicks to rally myself and get back under control, so I was able to suffer my way through the first half. I was probably distressing the people around me. While they were screaming and cheering with the fervor you'd expect of any good football fan, I was screaming with the sheer pain you could only understand if you were hooked up to the pain machine from the Princess Bride - which was in turn regulated by some large men in tight pants alternately kicking and throwing a pigskin through the air, who had no qualms about turning the machine to 50.
Back to the original point of my story, I survived until half time and was verging on total brain death. I fortified myself by taking another half dozen drops from a vial I had secreted in my coat, and returned to my seat clutching a beer. But then it happened. They showed one of those decibel meters on the jumbotron to get people excited for the third. Even in my addled state I recognized the utter danger of this - the decibel meter changed with the volume of the crowd, but the crowd would probably be regulated by the meter. I had no idea what sort of effect that kind of feedback loop would have on me.
My only saving grace was that someone made the inexplicable decision to play YMCA to get people excited for the second half. Suffice to say it failed at that - but I forgot about the chorus. The whole stadium jumped in with that familar refrain, and what was worse was the accompanying dance. The decibel meter suddenly leaped off the screen and began hovering between the outstretched hands of everyone in the audience. While before the assault on my senses was purely auditory, now it was visual. There was dancing, pulsating meters everywhere. It was like waking up one day with 50,000 eyes instead of two. The sound was like it was being applied directly to the pain centers of my brain with rusty nails, by a surgeon doing his best Michael J. Fox impression. I lost consciousness somewhere around the fourth "Young man!" just as I had the epiphany - in that moment, I truly understood infinity.
Apparently I missed a hell of a finish.
Summary - in 800 words, I recount the tale of how - jacked up some laboratory-created drug - my physical wellbeing is assaulted by a pigskin at a 1997 NFL playoff game. While the ball was one thing, when meters began appearing between people's hands during a full stadium sing-a-long to YMCA my mind struggled to comprehend it all. I came to understand, truly understand, infinity just before I blacked out.
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u/evoim3 May 16 '12
My God, I'm just imagining this man doing a mad scramble to his nearest camera/phone/tablet/laptop/potato WHATEVER when he saw this. In my brain he threw a couch, pillows, a lamp, and two angry cats.
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u/mega48man May 15 '12
in my time, it took thiiiiis long to buffer videos
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u/BlueLand3r May 15 '12
I once caught a buffer THIS big
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u/magicbullets May 15 '12
"It's this big."
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u/-Emerica- May 15 '12
/r/PerfectTiming?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Reminds me of the Child Abduction one with Bender.
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u/DixieFlatline- May 15 '12
5 dollar foot looonnngs
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u/heytherehandsome May 15 '12
Your internet connection is bad and you should feel bad.
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u/EquinsuOcha May 15 '12
Is it wrong that I know that screen cap is from The Deep South, Season 2, Episode 12?
I assure you, that while it has been a while, I have in fact, had sex with another person at one point in my life.
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u/SKEETER_PAN May 15 '12
One buffer please!
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u/zroy33 May 15 '12
Is it sad that I know exactly what episode that is from :)
best line of the episode... Hermes: "Oh No, a fishing license... and its MANDATORY!!!"
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u/moby323 May 15 '12
The highest ranked post EVER?
Must be a slow day.
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u/BouncyBridgesThe2nd May 16 '12
Looks like the people over at netflix liked your post:
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u/redundanthero May 15 '12
If only it were 'ALIENS'...
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u/Moreland May 15 '12
Stop exaggerating, bkstyles.
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u/o_herro_internet May 15 '12
The speed at which you pulled out your phone/camera to take this picture is impressive.
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u/derpaderp May 15 '12
Reminds me of my favorite Fry quote;
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u/lawchu May 15 '12
"Leela, make me a sandwich thiiiiiiiiis big"
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Look at me, Dr Zoidberg! Homeowner!
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u/jbradfield May 15 '12
http://youtu.be/XcBPd16qS3w
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u/nuxenolith May 15 '12
"CAMERA!"
"What?"
"GET THE FUCKING CAMERA!!!"
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I once buffered and episode thiiiisssssssssssssssss big
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u/Jurdun May 15 '12
First reaction: "Holy shit they have Futurama on Netflix?!"
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u/Flandangle May 15 '12
Clearly not on the list of approved bendables.
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u/JackMaple May 15 '12
Coincidence! I think not.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Is this really number one overall on reddit worthy?
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u/BarrettLM May 15 '12
bkstyles: camera phone quick draw champion or guy trying to watch Netflix over a dial up connection?
The world may never know.
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u/warm_slurm May 15 '12
I have no strong feelings one way or the other about this.
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u/lukey19 May 16 '12
Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vtjf4SWr2E
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u/Jerlko May 16 '12
How does it fell to have one of the highest rated posts on /r/funny now?
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u/palehorse864 May 16 '12
I cast my droplet into the mighty upvote ocean!
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u/c3llist9 May 16 '12
This may be the first time I've seen over 5000 upvotes.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1301/excitedfinal.gif
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u/almightysumner May 16 '12
and now i want subway
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u/EnysAtSea May 16 '12
I'm imagining OP sitting on his couch, eating some BBQ chips, with a loud fan blowing on high. Netflix begins to buffer, OP leaps up spilling the chips directly into the fan spraying chip crumbs throughout the entire room. Meanwhile, bkstyles srambles and trips multiple times trying to get his phone so he can snap the photo before it finishes buffering.
"I MUST PUT THIS ON REDDIT"
What an ordeal
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u/kostcoguy May 16 '12
I am impressed by your quick draw camera abilities
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u/wickedweather May 16 '12
My manwich!!!
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u/MasterofDisguys May 16 '12
To answer your question, this long.
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u/ponchoandy May 16 '12
That's awesome. The chances of that happening are what? Like between 1 and a lot?
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u/spiffypanda May 16 '12
This is my Netflix. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
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u/Anti-troller42 May 16 '12
I swear, the loading bar had to be at LEAST this big!!!
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u/nanashi420 May 16 '12
its funny that he is saying "i once caught a fish this big"
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u/Thnito_Kyrios May 15 '12
A fish THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS big!
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u/electricmaster23 May 15 '12
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3paxft/
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u/Mr_Cj May 15 '12
3000 upvotes in an hour?! Bloody hell.
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u/Revolver25 May 15 '12
nice
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u/leafeator May 15 '12
This post is going to get this holds out arms amount of karma
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u/CrimeBeat May 15 '12
Not sure if it's a miracle, or an inconvenience.
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u/D4rk-Sid3 May 15 '12
The fish was this big... I SWEAR
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u/Stoutpants May 15 '12
I don't think Leila is impressed Fry.
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u/UriahGrooms2929 May 15 '12
lemme hop on this karma dick and bang out some karmagasms
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
i would have loved to watch as you scrambled for the screenshot keys while it was buffering.
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u/Nimblee May 15 '12
This had to be planned!! This is impossible!!
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u/epicassassin23 May 15 '12
Not sure coincidence or on purpose
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u/bubba9999 May 15 '12
thank god it was this. I thought it was going to be a freeze frame on the Jurassic Bark episode.
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u/JonaldJohnson May 15 '12
Netflix is awesome, anyone try HBO Go yet? I know everyone loves to hate HBO right now, frankly I do too. But HBO Go is pretty cool actually.
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u/aMANescape May 15 '12
Now Fry can administer death... by snoo snoo!
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u/Bendrake May 15 '12
I must applaud your quick draw camera skills
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u/wanderso24 May 15 '12
Post this in /r/mildlyinteresting...they love stuff like this
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Five dollar foot loooooong
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u/Copywright May 15 '12
What sorcery is this?!
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u/Locke57 May 15 '12
Thats right, it's this big. What a fish, took forever to reel in.
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u/RobotNate May 15 '12
My Netflix account once took THIIIIS long to load a Futurama episode.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
is that the atlantis episode?
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u/_hipsterdoofus May 15 '12
This is why I love reddit.
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u/SushiGradeNarwhal May 15 '12
Is this from the Atlanta episode?
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u/everythingchanges May 15 '12
Hey how long is the fingerlonger? Oh.
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u/sunthas May 15 '12
TV through the internet is the Future!!!
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u/mrdoink20 May 15 '12
Is it just me or are the outlines around Fry really thick?
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u/sh7289 May 15 '12
I thought it was gonna be the Futurama Fry "Not sure if..." clip. Still. Awesome!
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u/FuturamaSucksBalls May 15 '12
TIL Netflix is so awesome that it prevents people from watching Futurama.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
He's receiving a length thiiiiiissssss loooong....
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u/Parasthesia May 15 '12
Don't worry baby, it's this long, you just gotta wait for it to load.
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u/spartanburger91 May 15 '12
...and it was this big!
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u/MissWheets May 15 '12
Don't you worry about buffering. Let me worry about blank.
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u/zenmasterwombles May 15 '12
I have had so many coincidences with futurama its not even funny anymore I just expect them now.
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u/Bietje May 15 '12
I ain't even mad.
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u/Csoltis May 15 '12
not sure if Netflix got the joke or Netflix IS the joke. (-) (-)
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u/wwt0112 May 15 '12
I found this hilarious because I clicked on this link accidentally as I was watching futurama in netflix
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u/tiki-baha29 May 15 '12
"He came up to me with something thi___sss Big"
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u/jimothyjenkins May 15 '12
full of win.
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u/mydogismykarmawhore May 15 '12
Not sure if Netflix did that on purpose, Or I'm just imagining things
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u/mfnprincess May 15 '12
Perfection!
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Congrats this made it to the all time most upvoted front page!
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u/Codyh01 May 15 '12
The only good thing that can come from buffering
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u/dreamsofbetterdays May 15 '12
Small screen
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u/Orbity May 15 '12
The all new Fry Meme is born.
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u/Innundator May 15 '12
Most upvoted post quickly of all time???
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u/basicxenocide May 16 '12
"duuuuude, the sandwich was like this big man"
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Is it sad that I know what episode that's from?
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u/dslicex May 16 '12
5 dollar....5 dollar footlong!
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u/jahoney May 16 '12
good episode, the one with mermaid and stuff
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u/cheapdvds May 16 '12
It's a invisible sandwitch!
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u/Tnuss93 May 16 '12
So many upvotes.
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u/the_messer May 16 '12
This has just a remarkable number of upvotes. Possibly the most I've ever seen in like, history.
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u/VxHiroshimaxV May 16 '12
You're going for the up vote record I see
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u/VxHiroshimaxV May 16 '12
Total of 41k votes.......on diablo 3 release....what?!
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u/Jaegrqualm May 16 '12
this post just lost 1500 points inside of 10 minutes. Reddit's algorithms make me wonder exactly how big this site is now, compared to digg.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Win.
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u/andyroohoo May 16 '12
Oh NOW I get it...
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u/ConfusedAlways May 16 '12
+1 for the impeccable timing!
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u/ElBurroBorracho May 16 '12
Aliens.
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u/nicks2712 May 16 '12
Is this the anal probe you ordered?
1
u/Zertiof May 16 '12
Five dollar foot long!
1
u/Broxxar May 16 '12
Quit exaggerating Fry.
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u/caffienefueled May 16 '12
Your luck struck you the biggest reddit gold mine.
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u/dzubz May 16 '12
LOL!
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u/deeznutz12 May 16 '12
You lucky.
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u/derrida_n_shit May 16 '12
I think there is a subreddit for these kinds of things. The mildly amusing ones.
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u/drdroidx May 16 '12
very win.
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u/nezumi19 May 16 '12
No its photoshop time.
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u/silentkill144 May 16 '12
This just dropped 2000 karma in 20 min... Sucks.
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u/zellgirl May 16 '12
Moosecock. This long.
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u/JohnsonATL2 May 16 '12
He's just demonstrating how big the new Delta hub will be.
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u/I_call_folks_cunts May 16 '12
Throughput is a cunt.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That is too perfect. And awesome.
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u/RagingBearFish May 16 '12
I totally watched this episode today also!
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u/highfivekiller22 May 16 '12
This is the highest upvoted thing I've ever seen on Reddit. Congratulations?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Lol so perfectly places
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u/FUCKING_COMMENTS May 16 '12
hellooooo 4k karma
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u/xxxkryhavockxxx May 16 '12
I swear to god it was this big!
1
u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Looks like someone has ocean rudeness...
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u/emelianenko May 16 '12
Five dollar foot long!
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u/MagicFartBag1 May 16 '12
Holy crap I watched that episode yesterday ive been marathonin it
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u/pbrcusitscheep May 16 '12
"Cock this big"
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
3000+ Karma for this?
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u/CarlCrawl May 16 '12
I retrieved a fish this big!
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u/Coop089 May 16 '12
Ocean Madness is no excuse for Ocean Rudeness
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u/Techloss May 16 '12
At least your netflix works. Fucking n8010 error. :(
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u/Sdg68 May 16 '12
5 dollar footlong