[HN Gopher] How to Open a Door (1979) [video] ___________________________________________________________________ How to Open a Door (1979) [video] Author : miohtama Score : 21 points Date : 2021-12-26 23:12 UTC (23 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com) | teraflop wrote: | In a similar vein, here's a guide to the proper etiquette at a | Japanese sushi restaurant: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDL8yu34fz0 | andrewfromx wrote: | if party of one you should feel a little shame! wow. | appwiz wrote: | Order sushi like a CEO https://youtu.be/-gdjieGyB5s | lillesvin wrote: | Aw, man! I'd forgotten this existed. My gf and I used to do the | "mah mah mah mah", "oh toh toh toh"-thing when pouring drinks | for each other. Thanks for posting it and reminding me. | aflag wrote: | What does that actually mean? Is it a reference for something | people do in Japan? | yboris wrote: | Related: Japanese Door Prank (Shimura Ken (Zhi Cun ken)) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-2USGVoEE | nahuel0x wrote: | Remembers me of a short text by Julio Cortazar (Argentinian | writer) titled "Instructions on how to climb a staircase" (1962): | https://doarchstairs2016.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/arch-25... | throwaway81523 wrote: | This works for me: | https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3IXMTpWcAAPEQG.jpg | daneel_w wrote: | Just to settle any speculation: it's one of several funny skits | from a Finnish comedy group (whose name escaped me) which was | active in the 1970s. Most of what they did was Monty Python-esque | and sometimes with a sprinkle of satire over typical | societal/informational videos coming out of the Nordic countries' | social services departments of that time. | Nuzzerino wrote: | The show "Burn Notice" does a lot of this as well, but with | James Bond spy antics. Lots of which involve different ways to | open doors. There was one episode where he explains that when | you have to walk through a door in a hostile area, you have to | assume someone is hiding behind the door ready to ambush you | (but such a hiding spot would be a bad idea since you can just | slam the door open and hit them with it, which he does). | tuukkah wrote: | Seems to have been from the show Hepskukkuu in 1979. Here's a | link to the broadcaster's archive: | https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2007/03/28/hepskukkuu-kuinka-a... | cf100clunk wrote: | http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/doors.html | rapnie wrote: | And then there's Norman Doors.. | | https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qtCEoGyfsxk | jimothyhalpert7 wrote: | I've heard from a person that they like purposefully slam the | door (not pull the handle down and close it silently) in order to | alert other people that someone walked in/out. Is that not | abnormal? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-27 23:00 UTC)