He's good. But it's only because Algerians have special muscles in their legs.
How does he palm the ball well enough to do all that whirly crap? The advantage big people have in dunking is not just being closer to the rim, it's having big hands so you can hold on to the ball. Algerians must have big hands as well.
Be more impressive on 10' hoops.
Ye gods, not only is Peretz an asshole, but he phones in his assholicity as well. Is he trying to sound like a stupid teenager?
That Peretz post reads like it was written from a blackberry by a one handed retarded chimp.
Someone just recently posted something responding to Peretz, noting that the French govt. investigation indicated that it wasn't a Muslim riot, but an underclass riot, and that some people believed that the attention to the potential Islam problem had led the govt. to take it's eye off of necessary social services, the lack of which in turn sparked the riots.
7: I'm just saying that lots of people have dunked on baskets set at the elementary school height. Still impressive, for an Algerian.
Was it a joke, or is he really claiming that the hoops are short.
(That response was at CT.)
All the dunks are more-or-less impressive, but my favorite is a simple one (no Evel Knievel-style clearing of teammates) where he looks to be actually throwing the ball down into the rim from, like, waist height. I mean, he can't have done (7' vertical leap?), but he's not just reaching up to dunk - he literally throws that ball down.
The moment when I lost childhood adulation for my 6'-4" dad was when he told me he couldn't dunk. Thank Jeebus I never topped 6-2, so I can pretend it's just those last 2" that are holding me back.
That, and the nation of millions.
Well, it's not w-lfs-n, so we have no reason to think he's being a little bitch....
11: It was a joke, though the perspective makes the hoops look short. Plus, Muslim=liar. I'm assuming proper height because (a) some of the dunks were in gyms, and (b) it seems like a lot of work to find proportionately diminutive people to jump over.
I have to say that I like finding out that ogged's two sore spots are "Persian" vs. "Iranian" and whether some Algerian guy can really dunk. I think more of you for finding those two issues to be equally important. Maybe you're right about Kwame.
Now let's see him dunk without travelling.
I'm a simple man, SCMT. And now, I'm going to out you.
15: Those dunks are impressive. This dunk is amazing. And this one's a close second (the white guy is 7'2").
22 - It is OK if you are gay, SCMT. Gay people can have happy lives, like normal people.
There's no such thing as "gay", just guys who happen to find other guys messing with and in their personal areas. Statistically, if we lived long enough, we'd all converge to the statistical mean for personal-areas-being-messed-with.
I saw the 5'6" Spud Webb dunk at a Blazers game a few years back, and the crowd at the Coliseum laughed. Like, Hey, look at the freak. I'm still pissed off about that.
just guys who happen to find other guys messing with and in their personal areas
No, seriously, why do all these fags keep sucking my cock?
Emerson comes out as bi-theoretical, and stays in mcmanus's "crazy old man" good graces.
"Now let's see him dunk without travelling."
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that while watching the video. Would that actually make a difference in his ability to dunk?
Would that actually make a difference in his ability to dunk?
A huge difference, but no one cares when all you're really doing is dunking.
Is anyone else able to comment over at Ygles/ias's place? I'm getting some sort of message saying that there's a wait b/c he's trying to cut down on spam? Are my comments now considered spam? Why did it take so long to figure that out? And what's the fastest land animal?
The fastest land animal is Labs' cock.
A 5'6" guy named Franklin Jacobs held the world high jump indoor record for a brief period in 1978. He's apparently disappeared from the face of the earth since.
When we were setting up for tournaments, skinny Asian black belts (5'6" - 5'9" ish) used to regularly entertain themselves by running, jumping, kicking the basketball rim, and landing on their backs. It was fun to watch, but not even so unusual that we would gather round.
Are my comments now considered spam?
Now?
Cheetah.
You'd think it'd be the other way around.
and landing on their backs.
Why? That sounds painful.
(read: white guy)
WTF? Algerie is in Africa, dude. Ziani is if not black, at the very least Mexican.
Surely you aren't saying that it's impossible for someone to be both African and white? Cf.
In Europe Algerians are considered black.
BPHD is right. Just ask George Allen.
The US government itself declares North Africans are White. The standard form used to classify its own employees says so.
White: "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa."
The defintions are interesting and have holes. How'd you classify Borat?
The US government probably says that Ogged is white, too, but they're fucked.
If Mexico is in the Middle East he's white.
Me, I doubt my ancestors were any of the "original peoples of Europe." Heck we don't even qualify for the DAR and we sure as shit don't have any certificates from the First Families of Europe.
What a weird classification schema. All of Central Asia is excluded.
Not necessarily excluded, depending on how far you stretch "the Middle East" or "the Indian subcontinent." It's a little odd that "black" is defined recursively, though.
You'd have to stretch pretty far though. I can't understand why they didn't include Central Aisa in Aisan.
I know this thing was hammered out in a bunch of committees over a few years and I have to think they decided the Khazakh's (et alia) were unclassifiable.
I think the Black definition might have said somthing like "the original people of sub-Sahran Africa" but then they realized that we ALL could claim it.
Another one I like is that American Indian has an AND that could be tricky: "and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment."
The whole notion of letting people choose mulitple ethnic categories, as the new form allows, befuddles some HR folks that I've worked with. I watched in horror as one changed all multiples to single ethnicities (for an official report) and did so to improve the representation of more disadvantaged groups. My protests went nowhere.
Well, given that Mexicans, by definition, have origins in Europe *and* North America, the question of whether they're white or not is an open one.
I'm a bit horrified at the thought of a lurker reading this conversation and getting entirely the wrong impression.
Peretz would probably find it offensive that the first 20 seconds of that song is vaguely Holocaust-ish. Besides, it's obvious that Ziani is just practicing shoving Jews into the oven. Special Jews shaped into spheres 30 inches around, and special ovens 10' high. I was frightened by this display and how utterly shameless Ziani is in engaging in this dark act. He is so base, that he almost looked like he was having fun doing this! (Btw, anyone who doubts this scenario is objectively pro-Hitler and has forgotten the appeasement at Munich.)
Ah, but the Borat thread should clear things up.
Worse yet, Yuri! Ziani has already set up a website with a mission statement, which is pretty hilarious, if you read art-pretentious French.
The apocalypse begins! Check out the Times of London. Right now on the front page there is a picture of an actual mushroom cloud with headlines like "Six Arab states to go nuclear," "On the brink of the most fearful era yet," etc. Not joking.
Not that I believe the Times of London as a general rule, but Algeria?! Saudi Arabia, sure, Egypt and Morocco, okay, I get the logic, but Algeria?
Christ.
All want to build civilian nuclear energy programmes, as they are permitted to under international law. But the sudden rush to nuclear power has raised suspicions that the real intention is to acquire nuclear technology which could be used for the first Arab atomic bomb.
Yep, most fearful era yet.
As Tom Lehrer sang, "Who's next?" Eventually it will be Samoa.