GoFundMe can be a dark place. Sometimes, it’s your pitiful friends asking you for money so that they can take a European vacation and finally tackle that.
The World's Best Go. Fund. Me Involves Poop, Firemen, and a Tinder Date Gone Horribly Wrong.
Go. Fund. Me can be a dark place. Sometimes, it’s your pitiful friends asking you for money so that they can take a European vacation and finally tackle that “research project” they’ve been wanting to do. Other times, it’s truly tragic circumstances, like a stranger asking for help with medical bills. But today, dear reader, one Go. Fund. Me campaign showed the world that misfortune can be hilarious—and even heroic. The story starts with a guy named Liam Smyth and an unnamed Tinder date in the picturesque seaside city of Bristol, England.
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It ends with a crowdfunding campaign for £3. Here’s a clue about what happened in between: That’s the unnamed Tinder date wedged behind the window, by the way. And honestly, it’s best to let Liam’s description of the events explain how she got there. Again, it starts with a Tinder date. As Liam writes on Go.
Fund. Me: After our meal, we repaired back to my house for a bottle of wine and a scientology doccumentary. About an hour in to Louis Theroux and chill, my date got up to use the toilet. She returned with a panicked look in her eye, and told me she had something to tell me.“I went for a poo in your toilet”, she told me “and it would not flush. I don’t know why I did this, but I panicked”, she continued “I reached into the toilet bowl, wrapped it in tissue paper, and threw it out of the window”. We’ve all done that, right!? Okay, maybe not everybody’s scooped a turd out of a toilet and thrown it out the window to avoid embarrassing ourselves on a date. But we’ve all thought about it.
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The problem, Liam explains, is that his bathroom window doesn’t actually lead to the outside. It’s just an empty shaft that goes nowhere. As Liam went to get a hammer to break the window, so that they could retrieve the bag of human shit, his date tried her own method: Being an amateur gymnast, she was convinced that she could reach into the window and pull the poo out, using the tried and tested “inside out blag as glove” technique. Unfortunately she couldn’t reach. She climbed further in and had the same problem. Eventually I agreed to give her a boost up and into the window.
She climbed in head first after her own turd, reached deeper into the window, bagged it up, and passed it out, over the top and back into the toilet from whence it came. She called out to me to help her climb out from the window, I grabbed her waist and I pulled. But she was stuck. Stuck fast. Try as we might, we could not remove her from the window. She was stuck fast, upside down in the gap. You can see where this is going.
At this point in the evening, Liam and his Tinder date are no longer dealing with an errant turd that might fester in the breeze- free airshaft next to his bathroom. The Tinder date is stuck in the window upside down and backwards. That’s her face smashed against the glass above.
This part is where the firemen get involved: Unfortunately for my date, at this stage I could see only one way out of our predicament. She had been upside down in the window for around 1. I was starting to grow concerned for her health.
I called the fire brigade. Liam explains that the firemen arrived a few minutes later and, once they stopped laughing, freed his date from her poop- powered nightmare with their “special fire tools.” Unfortunately for Liam, the special fire tools completely destroyed the window, and as a tenant, Liam was responsible for fixing it. The £3. 00 expense is roughly equivalent to an entire month’s budget for Liam, who describes himself as a postgraduate student.
Thus, the Go. Fund. Me page was born. Liam only asked for £2. The good news is that Liam blew through his goal within a couple of hours. The internet loved the poop story so much that the Go. Fund. Me page went viral. At the time of this writing it’s over £7.
Liam says he’ll donate the money beyond the cost of repairing the window to two charities: one for toilets and one for firemen. Download Whole The Wild Cartoon. As is always the case, there’s the chance that Liam’s Go.
Fund. Me page and the rollicking saga are some sort of elaborate hoax. However, since Avon Fire & Rescue Service shared the Go.
Fund. Me page, and Liam presents multiple photos of the ordeal (including one featuring multiple firefighters), that seems unlikely. Heck, if it is fake, maybe the money can go towards Liam’s writing career, since it would take some valiant creativity to come up with a story like this. Of course, there are far bigger problems in the world today—if you’d like help out those affected by Hurricane Harvey, here’s a good place to start—but Liam’s Go. Fund. Me is probably the only crowdfunding campaign I’ve ever considered donating to without any hope for a return. The story behind it is excellent, involving little tragedy, and the money will supposedly go to a good cause. Some days the internet is good, I guess.[Go.
Branded in the 8. Remembering what it was like to be a kid! Long Time readers might remember that I used to have a lot of fun participating in a weekly pop culture project called the League of Extraordinary Bloggers, or just the League as I preferred to call it. The project was spearheaded by Brain over at Cooland. Collected. com, as a way for folks to find new sites and share inspiration. I met a bunch of cool folks through the exercise, and though I didn’t participate every week, I always had a blast when I did. The League has come and gone a couple of times, and finally Brian is giving it another go, though this time a bit rejiggered for a more modern content sharing community. With the rise in folks ditching traditional sites for Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook he wanted to make sure that everyone felt they could participate no mater how they interact with the pop culture community, so the Project is now been re- dubbed the Pop Culture League and has a spiffy new logo to boot…The first new assignment is up which is simply, Shelfie. So to answer the call and jump back in the saddle with the folks who are participating I present my most recent obsession, my Dead Media collection of copies of the 1.
Fred Dekker flick Monster Squad on VHS from all over the world! This is actually not literally on a shelf, they’re currently giving me inspiration on my desk, but you get the idea. I’ve made no secret that Monster Squad is one of my favorite films and even though there isn’t a ton of merchandise floating around for the film, there’s enough to keep a true fan busy for awhile trying to pick it all up. Since I don’t have the wall space for the various movie posters I’ve mainly been concentrating on acquiring Squad ephemera (press kits, photos, international programs and fliers, and magazine articles), but this past year I decided to challenge myself by trying to hunt down copies of all the various releases of the film on VHS. What I really wanted was a way to display my love for the film literally here at Branded HQ and this seemed to be a fun way to do it. Not only do these tapes feature a lot of the alternate poster art, but it’s just really cool seeing all of these together. So what do we have in that picture above? Going from left to right we have…The CNR Video, ex- rental VHS from the Netherlands…Next up is the Australian Filmpac ex- rental VHS in that snazzy red clamshell case…This one is a little worn, but I kind of like that. I imagine it was rented a bazillion times which makes me happy. Next, a couple of releases from the UK, an Braveworld/World Vision ex- rental and the Braveworld/World Vision mass market releases of the film on VHS… Note the altered Craig Nelson poster art and the alternate UK log on the ex- rental (and Horace’s rad Monster Squad shirt!) Also, I love that red tape cover on the ex- rental as well, it reminds me of the green on that was on all of the E. T. VHS releases…Moving right along, here are a couple of German releases. First is the VPS Video mass market release of the VHS (where the film was re- titled Monster Busters!)Then here’s a German ex- rental from Videoplay- Spielfilm that has the most boring VHS tpae stickers ever…Now let’s jump over to Spain for a couple more releases. Here we have the Record Pictures ex- rental VHS with some of the gaudiest cover art ever (and a re- titling of the film to Una Pandilla Alucinante), as well as an Action Time Video ex- rental release of the Beta version of the film… Staying in and around the area of Spain, here’s the Transvideo ex- rental release of the VHS from Portugal (re- titled Deu A Louca Nos Monstros)…Next up was a very hard VHS to find, and I wasn’t even sure it existed until I had it in my grubby little hands, this beautiful Italian ex- renal from Gallery Panarecord (the Italian subsidary of Worldvision) complete with the most bizarre poster for the film (re- titled Scuola Di Monstri, Monster School)…Next, let jump to a completely different continent with my absolute favorite VHS release of the film all the way from Japan, this Hearld Videogram ex- rental that is appropriately Halloween- y! The next release came out a little later, but it’s still cool all the same, it’s Danish VHS where the film was re- titled Monster Klubben. This is also the only international paper sleeve release that I’ve found…Rounding out the international releases of the film that I’ve been able to source is another rare one, this time from Mexico. I am super intrigued by this Videomax ex- rental (from Blockbuster of all places), because this is the only release of the film that has a longer running time than the standard North American release. Most versions of this film are 9. But this Mexican release is 1.
I’m working on getting a new VCR set- up so that I can figure out what exactly is in those extra 7 minutes of film…Last, but certainly not least, is the US/Canadian release of the film by Vestron Video. This copy came from my favorite Mom & Pop video rental store in Duluth, GA, Home Video, and it’s teh absolute gem in my collection. I’ve personally watched this copy at least 2. I bought it from the store when it closed…So there you have it. There are at least two more international copies of the film that I have yet to get my hands on, one from Turkey and another from South Korea. If anyone out there has any connection that could help me get copies of those two I would be eternally grateful! If you dug this tour of my pop culture shelfie and would like to see more posts in this vein, or if you want to join in on the fun, then here are some links to other sites participating this week as well as to Cool and Collected, who hosts the League…Here’s the collection of Chris over at Stunt Zombie…The collection of Brother Midnight at Green Plastic Squirtgun is insane…Linz over at Pop Rewind loves her some Terminator collectibles! Cody at Copyright 1. And finally Brian over at Cool and Collected short a great video of his Batman shelf….