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Windy City Heat

26 points by luu 4y ago

BuckyBeaver 4y ago
What about it?
shushcat 4y ago
What a horrible, mean thing to do to someone.
- plasticeagle 4y ago
  All practical jokes are essentially bullying. There are no exceptions to this rule.
  - mbg721 4y ago
    I wouldn't call the gentle deception of something like temporarily taking a plastic apple from a close co-worker's cubicle shelf and replacing it each day with a larger and larger apple "bullying". The premise of this movie is absolutely trashy, but I think good-natured practical joking is at least possible.
  - Doxin 4y ago
    While a lot of practical jokes are, it's for sure possible to do practical jokes that I'd file under harmless fun. The tv program Just for laughs is --somewhat surprisingly-- really good at this. Excuse the awful laugh track and jaunty music, but a good example is how they turned an air horn prank into something fairly harmless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb2VZ6lp8f0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb2VZ6lp8f0
- EZ-Cheeze 4y ago
  Watch the movie. I just did and what you are saying is not accurate at all. Reality matters, go familiarize yourself with it before being so authoritative.
stevehawk 4y ago
what in the world is this doing on the front page of hacker news.. This movie was hilarious. The The Big 3 Podcast podcast is hilarious. Particularly if you're a fan of say, Ron and Fez, and that line of comedy.
- EamonnMR 4y ago
  (explained in my top level comment before I saw this)
neighbour 4y ago
Strange topic for hacker news but with that aside, I loved the film. Really funny stuff.
- toiletfuneral 4y ago
- EZ-Cheeze 4y ago
  Instant favorite that I will probably rewatch a few times
loganc2342 4y ago
I’ve never seen this film but I gotta say this seems like a pretty cruel prank. Considering Jimmy Kimmel, the one behind the “lie to my kids about eating all their Halloween candy and make them cry” prank, is a producer on this, I’m not surprised.
EamonnMR 4y ago
Interesting, I think this is here because the guy in it was in a video by a prankster who slaps magnets on people's cars when they don't return shopping carts (and causes aggressive confrontations) which made the front page of Reddit's 'public freakout' sub.
TheRealPomax 4y ago
Fun fact, it's not the windy city, named after wind, it's the windy city, named after winding up screw jacks to raise a significant amount of the city by several feet. Yep: you've been saying it wrong your whole life.
- BuckyBeaver 4y ago
  You don't actually believe that, do you? It's not about natural wind; that part is true. But "windy city" refers to all the hot air expelled by the promoters of Chicago as host of the 1893 World's Fair.
mdrzn 4y ago
Heard about it first from Kill Tony a few years ago when they had the movie stars as guests of the podcast. Great movie, great episode.
EZ-Cheeze 4y ago
this is the single best thing i have ever discovered on hn i just finished watching it and i urge anyone reading this comment to do the same

Windy City Heat

26 points by luu 4y ago

BuckyBeaver 4y ago

What about it?

shushcat 4y ago

What a horrible, mean thing to do to someone.

plasticeagle 4y ago
All practical jokes are essentially bullying. There are no exceptions to this rule.
- mbg721 4y ago
  I wouldn't call the gentle deception of something like temporarily taking a plastic apple from a close co-worker's cubicle shelf and replacing it each day with a larger and larger apple "bullying". The premise of this movie is absolutely trashy, but I think good-natured practical joking is at least possible.
- Doxin 4y ago
  While a lot of practical jokes are, it's for sure possible to do practical jokes that I'd file under harmless fun. The tv program Just for laughs is --somewhat surprisingly-- really good at this. Excuse the awful laugh track and jaunty music, but a good example is how they turned an air horn prank into something fairly harmless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb2VZ6lp8f0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb2VZ6lp8f0
EZ-Cheeze 4y ago
Watch the movie. I just did and what you are saying is not accurate at all. Reality matters, go familiarize yourself with it before being so authoritative.

stevehawk 4y ago

what in the world is this doing on the front page of hacker news.. This movie was hilarious. The The Big 3 Podcast podcast is hilarious. Particularly if you're a fan of say, Ron and Fez, and that line of comedy.

EamonnMR 4y ago
(explained in my top level comment before I saw this)

neighbour 4y ago

Strange topic for hacker news but with that aside, I loved the film. Really funny stuff.

toiletfuneral 4y ago
EZ-Cheeze 4y ago
Instant favorite that I will probably rewatch a few times

loganc2342 4y ago

I’ve never seen this film but I gotta say this seems like a pretty cruel prank. Considering Jimmy Kimmel, the one behind the “lie to my kids about eating all their Halloween candy and make them cry” prank, is a producer on this, I’m not surprised.

EamonnMR 4y ago

Interesting, I think this is here because the guy in it was in a video by a prankster who slaps magnets on people's cars when they don't return shopping carts (and causes aggressive confrontations) which made the front page of Reddit's 'public freakout' sub.

TheRealPomax 4y ago

Fun fact, it's not the windy city, named after wind, it's the windy city, named after winding up screw jacks to raise a significant amount of the city by several feet. Yep: you've been saying it wrong your whole life.

BuckyBeaver 4y ago
You don't actually believe that, do you? It's not about natural wind; that part is true. But "windy city" refers to all the hot air expelled by the promoters of Chicago as host of the 1893 World's Fair.

mdrzn 4y ago

Heard about it first from Kill Tony a few years ago when they had the movie stars as guests of the podcast. Great movie, great episode.

EZ-Cheeze 4y ago

this is the single best thing i have ever discovered on hn i just finished watching it and i urge anyone reading this comment to do the same