American English as seen by non English speakers. I didn’t know we sounded so… groovy.
‘Trololo’ Singer in Critical Condition After Suffering Stroke
Eduard Khil, the Russian baritone better known as “Mr. Trololo,” is in a coma after suffering a stroke and is thought to have suffered brain damage. Doctors say there are “no guarantees of recovery.”
The 77-year-old Khil was a Soviet stage performer whose charismatic singing career had faded by the 1990s. But one performance would live on to rejuvenate his stardom: ‘The Trololo Song,’ recorded in 1976, found a new life on YouTube in early 2010, making Khil an in-demand personality again.
The 34-year-old tune is titled Я очень рад, ведь я наконец возвращаюсь домой (roughly translated: “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home”), but you don’t need to know Russian to understand it. That’s because, to paraphrase Fox News talk show host Bill O’Reilly, “There’s no words on it.” Indeed, the lyrics are unintelligible in any language, but needing something to call it, the Internet latched onto “Trololo,” a close approximation of its yodeling chorus.
READ MORE…
(via socialistexan)
The ‘C-1’ uses electronically controlled gyroscopes to keep balanced at a stop, remaining upright even in the event of collision (via designboom)
Segway or the highway.
Also, Trontastic.
“you can’t do this, mom!” i was furious. She was travelling faster than the speed of light and consuming all energy in the universe
(via jpegartifacts)
This is where I throw up anything of interest.
