It may also seem like I enjoy unconventional videos.  Videos about weird and crazy things that don’t make sense.  This is not really true but sometimes it is.

So, I have decided to share with you some of the stranger videos I have found on YouTube.  You may have seen some of them before, but I hope after watching them you will have discovered at least one new reason to weep for humanity.

Number One:  How to grill steak without a grill

This is was put up by the user masaokis, and is just one in a long line of videos that offer helpful everyday tips.  He does have some witty banter during the course of the video, but your real focus as a viewer should be put on the absolutely disgusting state of his apartment.  I watched all eleven minutes of this with my face scrunched in disbelief.   About halfway through I started laughing at how ridiculous it was.  He literally lives in a dumpster.  It is a dumpster with two bedrooms and a kitchen.

His other videos are just as good and I highly recommend them.

Number Two:  The biggest advantage of the electric cigarette

Don’t ask me how I discovered this because I honestly do not remember.

This guy knew how to create a work of art.  I think it is the culmination of the choice of music, his singing, the shaving cream on his face, and his reaction after inhaling the nicotine that makes this thing WORK.  I love it.

Number Three:  peanut butter man

I found this one when I was searching for peanut butter-related videos for my article on George Washington Carver.

I don’t know if this is some sex fetish I don’t know about, but something about it is oddly alluring.  I assume there was a cameraman otherwise he would have gotten peanut butter all over his camera.  And those chomping noises he’s making…AH.

Number Four:  Iced Tea:  That Magical Elixir

This video was actually deleted a few months ago, but some die hard fans were able to retrieve it from the Internet Recycle Bin and put it back up.

It’s a simple premise.  The guy shows you all how to make a good iced tea.  But..errr….just watch it.

Number Five:  Weird Cartoon gives insight about reality

This video is differs from the others in that it is actually really dark and creepy and weird.  Watch it with the lights off or something.  I stumbled across this some time ago and it has never left my thoughts.  Claymation by itself is creepy…you don’t have to bring demons into it!

Youtube Profiles that deserve some recognition for being strange

When I posted the videos A Fork in the Eye and We Tied Up Nathan a couple years ago, I didn’t realize it would attract people from underground S&M and choking societies.  I have gotten numerous emails and video comments discussing how hot the choking in my videos is.  Of course I was creeped out, but I also delved into this underground world of strangeness to investigate.  Here are some of the stranger YouTube profiles I’ve encountered.

stranglingme

I found this guy through another guy named “PleaseBeQuiet” who friended me on YouTube after watching A Fork in the Eye.  Unfortunately, PleaseBeQuiet deleted his profile (which consisted of nothing but movie clips of women getting strangled).  Stranglingme, luckily, follows suit, and his videos consist of men wearing leather gloves strangling each other.

conradcigarspipes

This guy is awesome.  He has over 6,500 videos of him smoking a pipe.

He rarely says anything, and when he does, it’s just the name of the video.  All he does is smoke tobacco pipes!  You should peruse the collection if you have time.

AlexanderRodchenko

This is the most puzzling YouTube channel I’ve ever come across.  This guy has uploaded more that 24,000 videos, which has to be some sort of record.

The thing is, the videos aren’t really videos.  They are just four minutes of solid color with a tone buzzing in the background.

Make sure your speakers aren’t on very loud.

Every single video is like this.

That is Logical Conclusion #26504.  Personally I like Logical Conclusion #13007 better.

I figured it has to be a robot doing all of this nonsense.  No person could do this.  I hope.

However, the other day at the union there was a table set up with HUNDREDS of pamphlets, and the people working at this table yelled at me to come over and take some.  ”Everyone else is taking free pamphlets!” the guy shouted at me, “so should you!”  I giggled at the idea of these social workers using peer pressure to win me over and I quickly made my way over to see if there were any pamphlets funny enough to warrant an article on my website.

I was actually pretty disappointed, because a lot of the information was about rape, AIDS, or rape and AIDS combined.  Those subjects don’t make for humorous blog entries.  Luckily, after ten long seconds of searching I finally spotted a pamphlet that made my trip to the table worthwhile.

Exploding the myth:  The Truth About Cigars.  The cover is what sold me because it paints a very accurate picture of what a person looks like when they smoke a cigar.  From what I saw, there were no pamphlets attacking cigarettes.  Only cigars.

I’m going to hunt and peck out my favorite lines.

“TV, movies and magazines push cigars as one of life’s ‘finer pleasures.”  What the heck is this?  You don’t see hot celebrities on television ever smoking cigars, or anything for that matter.  The only people you see smoking cigars on TV or in the movies are badass generals with eye patches who are fighting in a war and hungry for blood.  Is this article suggesting that war is one of life’s finer pleasures?

“As you smoke, your heart rate and blood pressure increase.”  This isn’t really a con.  This happens if when you go running too.  It’s a side effect from the nicotine which is a reason why people smoke cigars in the first place.

“Notice all the glamorous women in cigar ads?”  I don’t remember seeing an ad for cigars ever in my entire life, let alone the glamorous women supposedly in these ads.

“Do you like what you see?  Is this how you want others to see you?”  Cigars are manly and make you look cool.  This is a scientific fact proven in many different science laboratories.  Sixty percent of the time, you look awesome all the time.

“Secondhand smoke can give you and the ones you love coughs, cold, sore throats, even cancer.”  Probably 90% of the time you see someone smoking a cigar it’s an old guy sitting in a rocking chair on his porch by himself.  Let the old man do what he wants, he’s not hurting anyone.

It just occurred to me that the cigar smokers featured in this pamphlet are all African-American.  WHAT WERE THE MAKERS TRYING TO GET AT?

- jack