Boy is that uncomfortable to watch.
Her success rate, I will bet, is quite low.
1: what makes it uncomfortable to watch?
I really liked the first one where theguy thought she was a prostitute.
7: The knowledge that all of those men are dead. See 6.
[redacto]% success rate asking random people on the street (including couples!), where most of the "nos" seemed to be either the couples or (legitimate) fears that she was either crazy or they were about to be robbed. If she repeated the same experiment in a bar or club on a Saturday night, would her success rate would be in excess of [shazam]%?
most of the "nos" seemed to be either the couples or (legitimate) fears that she was either crazy or they were about to be robbed
Or (also legitimate) concern that she was a prostitute.
I'm going to respectfully redact your spoiler, urple.
but let's assume it's accurate for the purposes of baseless pontification.
I will only pontificate if I'm assured of at least getting to second base.
So spoilers aren't allowed in the thread? What are we supposed to discuss?
I feel like using Isla Vista as a setting for making inferences about human behavior, or even American college student behavior, is probably going to skew the results.
It's a good question but 1) it's a little early for spoilers and 2) it's possible to discuss the rate with other people who have seen it without specifying it.
If this happened to me I would definitely assume it was a set up for either a) something criminal, whether simple robbery or some urban legend style you-wake-up-the-next-morning-missing-a-kidney thing, or b) some sort of candid camera stunt, as this in fact turned out to be.
I guess I'm just not open minded enough...
Yuppie dude in fact said "Where's the camera?" to which she had a canned reply: "It's at my house."
it's a little early for spoilers
But anyone who would be viewing comments before viewing the content of the OP is fundamentally disrespecting the blog and so deserves what's coming to them.
7: I'm not sure - at various points, either the feeling that the guy is about to feel foolish, or that she's feeling foolish, that there's a whole lot of dishonesty and not seeing the part off-camera where she dis-entangles herself from the situation and reveals the camera. Or maybe she has a lot of sex.
not seeing the part off-camera where she dis-entangles herself from the situation and reveals the camera
I was curious about that and would like to have seen at least one of those.
Right- Oh, hey, not really sex, I'm just making a video that will be posted on youtube and linked by eclectic web magazines showing that you're the kind of guy willing to have sex with random strangers. Have a nice life!
I was wondering about that also. If some of those guys are concerned about video game journalism, they're going to be extremely angry.
Yeah. I hope she gave them a chance to laugh it off, because boy, could that be an awkward moment.
Also, the OP would be quite a bit more work-friendly if the video were below the fold, so that "SEX" wasn't showing up in 72-point font on my screen every time I opened the front page.
25: I think I'll wait until I get home to watch it.
As I mentioned here before, albeit pseudonymously, albeit with an incompetently crafted pseudonym, I was once IMing with someone who asked me fairly abruptly if I thought we should have sex, which took me somewhat aback and I knew her and had just been on an is-this-a-date-who-can-tell with her. If someone I didn't know walked up to me and posed that question, in a random walking down the street context, I'm … very unsure how I'd respond.
s showing that you're the kind of guy willing to have sex with random strangers.
I assume this is what drove nearly everyone's reaction - "I'm sure there's a catch. At the very least, I'm being watched/recorded. If I say yes, then I want the world to know that hell yeah, I'm the kind of guy who says yes to a good time! If I say no, it's because I don't want to be documented doing so." Plus maybe some in committed relationships.
urple, you high-maintenance little flower, I put it below the fold, just like you like it.
Better than your usual homepage SEX WITH REPTILES
I just watched a little before getting bored but an even slightly non-zero success rate surprised me because how could you think this wasn't a scam of some kind. Would have been better if she'd tried a tiny bit of half-hearted flirtation first. Also she either got releases from these dudes or (if she or whatever production company she works for has any money) is an attractive lawsuit target.
because how could you think this wasn't a scam of some kind
Massive self esteem/slow cognitive processing
I'm surprised that none of the couples she approached (that made it into the video) assented.
30: A video of a reptile randomly asking guys for sex would be more entertaining.
Motorhead has already recorded the perfect song for the soundtrack.
I'd like to tweak a few variables in this experiment: make her a little less trashy-looking, and dress her so she doesn't look suspiciously like a prostitute.
Knecht, you are not in touch with the masses.
I think instead of asking about sex, she should try being just a little indirect. "Would you like to see my etchings?" or something.
She didn't look like a prostitute to me, unless you mean dress her in such a way that she doesn't look suspiciously like a prostitute despite the fact that's she's asking strangers for sex, which I guess would mean maybe thick layers of heavy clothing covering her full body, or maybe one of those inflatable fake sumo wrestler outfits.
A clown suit would also work, as long as it wasn't any kind of Halloween 'sexy clown' thing.
Urple, you are not in touch with the masses.
She doesn't look remotely like either of the prostitutes who have approached me, one of whom was similarly cute but obviously a heroin addict.
Most people prefer their heroin addicts to be subtle about it.
42: Hard to pull off when you're standing on a street corner asking a guy on a bike if he wants to go hook up.
Given that bicycles make you impotent, she should have stuck to pedestrians.
Yeah, what 41 said. She looks too clean and healthy for street work. I'd assume it was either hidden cam or a trick roll (robbery). And usually a trick roll with that good looking a girl is going to be done with a Backpage ad.
Here, have a low-hanging fruit basket.
You so rarely see streetwalkers anymore, though I feel like I've seen more in recent years (maybe b/c of an internet crackdown?). I can remember when you'd get out of a movie on Hollywood Blvd at 9 pm and it was just hundreds of prostitutes everywhere. Anyhow this girl didn't seem remotely dressed like a prostitute, also they don't say "hi, do you want to have sex?"
I don't think I've ever been approached by a prostitute.
Instead of "Hi, do you want to have sex?" she should have asked "Hi, do you want to get in touch with my masses?"
I am a little confused about the intent of the video. Was it just supposed to be pointless entertainment, or did the producers think they were proving some point, or even, god-forbid, doing Science?
You so rarely see streetwalkers anymore
If that scene down south is anything like here you might think that because loads of them are dressed so normally. Up here it's a big handbag, not walking with a purpose, and looking at way too many of the cars driving by to see who catches their eye, gives them the nod, and then goes around the corner. And of course because I'm in certain areas all the time I get to know a lot of the regulars.
I think I either look very moral or very risk adverse.
53: Maybe you look like you have no cash or are a serial killer.
I was approached by prostitutes when I was 18-years old in Bangkok. I was with my mother.
57: Did she get one too or just pay for yours?
I think all of those are fair as possible descriptors of your appearance, although not all at once.
I hope I'd say no in this situation, but no matter what I'm sure I'd feel awful afterwards.
got releases from these dudes
Apart from making this joke, what's the legal issue behind it? Is street video like street photography?
Based on a SNL spoof of Taxicab Confessions, I thought you needed a release to air a video interview even if it is taken in a public place. Of course, that's probably a dated legal precedent as it had Chris Farley in it.
I used to work in a part of Glasgow where a lot of the street prostitutes touted for business. I don't think I ever got propositioned. I must have looked too cheap, or too young, or too likely to not be in need of their services. One of my colleagues used to get propositioned all the time, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderston#Twentieth_century
In the early 80's I would regularly walk from Grand Central Station to the Port Authority bus station in Manhattan. It's about five blocks of 42nd Street that include the New York Public Library adn the New York Times building, and in those days, a whole lot of peep shows and stripper clubs. I'd average about one proposition per block for sex and two for drugs. Around 1985 the whole section was bought out by Disney and equivalent, and the peep shows and prostitutes disappeared. I miss those days.
4: for the record, I assumed it would be much lower than it was.
The OP is basically how they made that Scarlett Johansson movie where she was an alien who ate dudes or whatever.
A friend of mine knew a guy who would go around and ask every woman he met if she would have sex with him. He said he got a yes once every two or three days.
Also the OP seems to be based on an actual (famous) psychology paper where undergrads (of both genders) went out and propisitioned other undergrads and recorded the results.
60 -- it's obviously more complicated than this and varies some state to state, but, basically, it's OK to videotape people in public doing public things that they would ordinarily be doing in public without your involvement without a release. It's not OK to deceive random strangers into doing something affirmative for your project, especially but not limited to a Candid Camera like project where they do something potentially humiliating, without a release.
So if I expect a Candid Camera kind of thing, I can expect (a) to see a release eventually or (b) to be humiliated on YouTube, but to be able to sue them for something. I suppose that's not nothing.
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My uncle, high ideals inspire him;
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Except with YouTube, wouldn't it be pretty easy for them to avoid giving a name of anybody who wasn't judgement proof?
So if I expect a Candid Camera kind of thing, I can expect (a) to see a release eventually or (b) to be humiliated on YouTube, but to be able to sue them for something.
Don't forget: (c) oops you were wrong it's really a robbery, or (d) no I guess that person is just legitimately insane.
yessssssssssss is all I have to say to 70.
72: (c) and (d) are orthogonal to both (a) and (b) and each other.
65: I just saw that other ScarJo movie that came out about the same time, and it's as profoundly stupid as a movie about being ultra-smart could possibly be.
65: As far as "scifi movies that warn against hooking up with random women who proposition you" go, I believe Species has priority over the ScarJo movie.
76: maybe, but I'm pretty sure when making Species they didn't have Natasha Henstridge actually drive around in a van picking up random dudes off the street.
But, my fanfic supposes, what if they did?
The most disturbing thing about the original video is that the douchebag-looking yuppie walking down the street talking on his phone 1) is talking to him mom 2) immediately recognizes what's going on and 3) has the most classy dismissal. Time to fundamentally reevaluate our prejudices, I guess. Except the one about guys being pathetic horndogs; I think that one's safe.
is an attractive lawsuit target.
Sexism is rampant in the American tort system.
77: Maybe she didn't pick up random dudes, but I heard that she actually did turn into an H.R. Giger-esque monster. Because she's a method actress.
and it's as profoundly stupid as a movie about being ultra-smart could possibly be.
What on earth possessed you to go see that? I could barely make it through the preview.
There was some video many years back where a porn star was picking up random dudes at an adult video store (based on what I saw and read about it, it was for real) and holy moly, that was some depressing stuff.
Knecht is totally going to ask me for the title.
It was on somebody's cable, so seeing it didn't entail going anywhere. Also, pot may have been involved.
I knew "as profoundly stupid as a movie about being ultra-smart could possibly be" had to refer to Lucy. I kind of adored it.
There was some video many years back where a porn star was picking up random dudes at an adult video store (based on what I saw and read about it, it was for real) and holy moly, that was some depressing stuff.
The related scene in Boogie Nights was also depressing. And ended with a beat down, if I'm remembering right.
85: I kind of liked it, too, even as part of my brain was screaming, screenwriter! Could you at least make some small effort here?!
Time to fundamentally reevaluate our prejudices, I guess.
I thought that guy was probably a little older than most of the guys she was approaching, though maybe the more formal clothing contributed to that impression. I attributed his response to greater age.
That's why I like Slugterra. It never, ever makes me wish the writer tried harder.
even as part the other 90% of my brain was screaming, screenwriter!
82: Which movie are you talking about?
My sister looks very young. She went to college at one of the Claremont Colleges. She was in Pomona when she was 19 or 20 out for a run, and some dude asked her how old she was. He then asked her if she was interested in being in a porn film. I think that this was aiming for the legal kiddie-porn look-a-like market.
91: I didn't achieve 100 percent by the end of the movie, obviously, or I'd have gone back in time and submitted the script to the blog for editing.
84: "I was high" is totally an acceptable answer. I don't know if sweet sweet gin has the power to get me to watch that movie.
Cheese it, Jesus, the fuzz!
Almost legal here! Not that that ever stopped anyone.
My favorite "looked the other way on weed" on a call might be the time we went into an apt. to clear it (I forget the exact original call, fight? domestic?) and we found out the reason they'd taken so long to open the door. One of the toilets was totally clogged with a good sized pot plant. The original call turned out to be unfounded. The other cop and I laughed like hell, told the people they'd ruined their weed for nothing, and left.
There's probably a long German word for the mixed emotion that comes from ruining your weed and having the cops mock you but not book you for having it.
And further to 98, wow—I hadn't even read the details of the measure last year. Come July, you can carry an ounce, have 8 at home and grow four plants. Unless your kids are sharing it with their friends, that should be more than enough.
As big as they can get, I assume. Just four individual plants.
You can have a half pound of weed at home? That does seem like plenty.
I know. The measure might as well have read, "Marijuana? Fuck it, we don't give a shit anymore." Except for taxes, but everyone is just going to use their usual dealers anyway, because the proposed taxes are high.
I have very vaguely heard that Seattle legal pot is down around the price of good black market pot, now that the first harvest has come in from the second wave of growers.
I would prefer a law that allowed home growing - half a pound, hah, medical users here wind up with plants that look like commercial Christmas trees.
The only thing I've heard about the pot market up there is from a friend who recently went into an upscale pot boutique on Main Street in Bellevue. She reported astronomical prices for large, display-worthy buds and showed me some lozenges in a very attractive tin.
This place. They have "friendly Cannabis coaches".
I have seen hemp plants over 7 feet tall. Don't know how tall pot plants get, but I have the vague impression that they're large.
Well, Bellevue.
They get taller than me, and dense as a spring spruce regrowing deer-browsed tips. Probably smelled interesting but the surrounding garden was all fragrant plants as cover.
That success rate was way higher than I expected
Don't know how tall pot plants get, but I have the vague impression that they're large.
This is my one edgy transgression! I fell in with some growers in Humboldt about 15 years ago. The plants were very big. One friend went out of town. My boyfriend-at-the-time was watching her plants while she was gone. She got robbed completely clean - thousands of dollars worth of plants, taken wholesale. There was that very weird feeling of wandering around an empty room that is SUPPOSED to be full, and you can't quite wrap your mind around why it's empty.
Gswift, tell us again how there's nothing to see here.
112: So a guy with 27 years on resigned and there's no additional information beyond some of the original accusations that are sorely lacking in corresponding evidence. Compelling stuff.
One friend went out of town. My boyfriend-at-the-time was watching her plants while she was gone.
I misread this as the friend going into town, like for a sundae at the ice cream shop, and I couldn't figure how all that pot got swiped.
107: Looks absurd, but I did notice Orange Kush for 15 a gram, so I am not sure what is going on there. Checked Seattle, and 9-13 is in range of good Denver prices.
Maybe I am a wuss, but as you know Bob, I nostalgia'd in November with mid-to premium range Colorado pot.
7 grams (oh, $100) lasted two of us a month, and I was smoking hard, more than I wanted a few times. Got too high. The rest, I was as high as I could want. I would presume slowing down after the first rush, so 1 gm a week, $20
So a pound looks just ridiculous, unless you are seriously partying.
This is my one edgy transgression! ... She got robbed completely clean
Robbing a pot grower completely clean IS pretty edgy. You're Omar from the Wire, if Omar had a Ph.D. in Math.
114: In case you've forgotten, the thrust of the Spackerman article, as per the lead paragraph.
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
AFAICT it was a hugely stupid and over the top comparison and I've yet to see anything to change my mind on that.
Oncology patients can apparently consume a pound a week no problem. Well, no problem compared to dying of cancer; the woman I'm remembering may have been getting most of her food from that pound.
If you want the breakdown, 3 gram jars for 11, 1 1/8 for 33, both specials onsale, and an gram of preroll top shelf for 28.
Okay.
But if you are growing your own, and the whole plant counts, a legal pound isn't nearly enough. The law should account for that.
The risk is scary, I look like a aged hippie in a banger, do not like driving ten miles, and I fucking hate places like Amarillo, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Hate them like hell. But mostly it is the gas and one night's lodging, $250 in travel expenses for $100 in pot feels wrong. More pot is a possibility, turkey bags are good, but then we are talking a $500 investment for an ounce from four shops. Maybe if gas goes down, or the law looks iffy. Like after 2016.
Yeah, I think about it fucking constantly, have for forty years. But don't care enough to go hustle and gamble. Desire is a weird thing, can sustain a person indefinitely, whereas satisfaction never lasts.
(A DFW phone number to my email might tempt me mighty. Maybe even Austin)
The market and how much is recreational, medical, or under-the-table is probably going to take some time to shake out, with high taxes, up to a point, outweighed by the legality premium. Colorado, at least, is seeking tax revenues start to rise steeply.
I keep thinking the title is "Mom, Can I Call You Mom?"
But a guy who responded that way probably wouldn't sign the release.
These folks also made a couple of videos where a guy asked women for sex: 100 in the US, no one said yes; 200 in Europe, one woman said yes. Half yes is really amazing; whoever noted the location upthread is surely onto something: in a college town, there's going to be much more of a presumption that someone around your age is one of your people, so to speak, so it probably doesn't feel so different from a party hook-up. I'd like to see the results in other kinds of places.
IV isn't just "in a college town".
For serious.
Specifically, wandering the streets of IV is very much more like wandering around a big college party, only you're mysteriously also outdoors, than anywhere I've ever been, even by daylight (as in the video). If you add in nighttime and/or Halloween, whoa Nelly.
whoever noted the location upthread is surely onto something
I'd missed that the first time around. Yeah, so weird how high the success rate was in an area where literally 85 percent of the population is aged 18-24. Next up, let's try in in Ft Lauderdale during spring break for some highly random and reliable results.
I keep thinking the title is "Mom, Can I Call You Mom?"
Me too!
My dad has started growing again after man, many years. Getting diagnosed with cancer is a legitimate reason to up your weed smoking from 7x a day to...I dunno, 11x a day? His gardening skills have been honed on fruits and vegetables, and his mad science bent on putting up preserves, and now he is all in, with banks of LED lights, a grow chamber and a flowering chamber with different light/dark cycles, and everything hidden in an innocent-seeming, custom-built shed. I honestly did not know people could grow that kind of High Times-centerfold stuff at home for real. I almost didn't believe those massive rainbow crystals were a real thing; I thought it was for illustrating Andrew Sullivan posts about legalization. In the spirit of old home week I did smoke up with my brother when I was there last and I have to say I got obliterated stoned. Annihilated. Maybe-going-to-fall-out-of-a-chair stoned.