Being sacked

Which one is better: being sacked by six to eight mermen or befriending one?
The answer is: befriend easily.
Why? Because there are problems in being sacked?
"If I got sacked by 6 to 8 mermen? That doesn't sound like something I could go to the police with. I'd have to seek out a bloody revenge by sponsoring a fishing tournament."
-Aquadementia
"And that happens very rarely outside of Low Tidings, so meh."
-RandomMe (that's me)
"If you wanted the predictable response for what to do when sacked by a gang of mermen you could have found it on answers.yahoo.com."
-Aquadementia
"Especially the manly ones from Flapjack."
-RandomMe
Legend tells it that the mermen have different styles. The ones from Flapjack don't eat candy and are tough and are known to look similar.

LONDON TOTIMORPHUS - Schedule for July 28th, 2014

16:30 - Khyber Gets a Hallucination
When a merman called Khyber gets a hallucination, he is allowed to make weird feats with his head. (Producer: Khyber Waterman)
17:00 - Tom R Toe
Because we're allowed to air. (Producer: madcatlady)
18:30 - Evening Gnus
Mammalian update with Gnu Edwards. (Producer: David Attenborough)
19:00 - Walk on the Un-Wild Side
Badly dubbed footage from wildlife documentaries as they are supposed to imitate things humans do. (Producer: the slightly cheaper David Hattenborough)
19:30 - Herman Geographic: The Life of Ajdar
Who is Ajdar Anik, a Turkish singer which is considered to be the country's hyper-star thanks to his amateur-looking music videos filmed with two cameras?  David Vaittenborough explains how. (Producer: David Vaittenborough)
20:00 - Who Are You?
Serious gameshow where people try and throw buckets of water to various contestants into sharp relief. (Producer: uh... what?)
21:00 - Nine O'Clock News
With Kyle Hunt-Geris.
21:25 - Badger Watch
Day 6 in our endless search to find the rarest badgers in existence. (Producer: Bob Fleming)
22:45 - Bathroom Utilities
Double bill of the ongoing bathroom drama series. Kyle Hunt-Geris tries to find the culprit of the murder of a harmful bloke which was murdered at a public bathroom at a mall in Stoke-on-Trent. (Producer: Kyle Hunt-Geris)
23:45 - Lymesworld
Live from the Lymesworld theme park, various contestants try to eat the most lymeswold cheese as possible. (Producer: Richard Honma)
01:00 - One O'Clock News
Repeat of the news bulletin from twelve hours ago. With Richard Hunt-Geris.
01:30 - Cervia Playoffs
Live from Italy.
02:00 - Experimentalist shorts
Uh, why?
02:30 - Tom R Toe
Until 6am or so. (Producer: madcatlady)

When Things Go Wrong in South Korea

First seen on SBS on May 15th, 2014:

International stardom

Well, who knows that I wanted to make the first English-speaking post about Canale Test, and a few Italians have been visiting this blog.

My next step: download the complete first and second season of Il Presepio and put it on my Youtube channel (when I want to make this).

All about Canale Test

For those who don't know, Canale Test is an Italian YouTube channel which has been around since 2005. The channel's slogan is "Where useless becomes more useless". Here's the backstory:
The creator of Canale Test, Andrea Tagliabue, founded a website called Deconstruction 3000 (still viewable here), whose first spoof was an illegal spoof of Pimp My Ride followed by "Il Presepio", the first reality show set at a nativity scene. In reality, according to a recent interview by Andrea for Poliradio's NERD, Pimp My Ride was the first to be filmed, however, Il Presepio was the first to be uploaded.
At the start of 2006, Canale Test launched on YouTube (as bandosbando). The name Canale Test wasn't used until July, when the first video involving the channel appeared, consisting of an add for a "find out what animal you are" mobile test and an ad for Special K featuring Oscar Wilde, with sweepstakes in order to win the 1768 bestseller "The Special K Diaries" and implicating that Oscar Wilde ate Special K, thanks to a TTS program (Voice5).

Thanks to an ad on Rai 1 for Lidl, he created the first Diddle ad (the first were Lidl ads before he found out that he was using those brands illegally).
His popularity skyrocketed when FLUX/QOOB aired his videos, considering that the channel accepted videos from anywhere on the internet. Later we get to know more about the channel's schedule:
TG TEST, whose 2006 editions were at 12:05. At one point it was made by Ervrivrio Vrovrio, famous for making a report on Yu-Gi-Oh matches held at schools, and that the stolen cards were used by the people who punished the school players. Other features include METEO, which is a weather forecast, GOSSIP (at one point), LEGGO SPORT (no prizes for guessing), CANI (which is about dogs), at one point a traffic update and at the end, the olbigatory plug for Luciniolo Bellammerda at 21:00, a spoof of Lucignolo Bellavita, focusing on random themes, mostly celebrity scandals and weird happenings, like dancing to literary poems at Planet Atmosfera 51, before it's revealed to be a repetitive sound effect.
OBESOPOTAMO, an animated series made "a long time ago", whose first episode references Sheep in the Big City. Each episode involves the titular character, a gray hippo, as he meets a zebra at some part of the world and then they dance to very old piano music. One episode was a spoof of Will and Grace (Obesopotamo & Zebro).
All Obesopotamo episodes are non-verbal, consisting of sound effects, music and text intertitles. Obesopotamo & Zebro breaks the convention by putting word ballons on the characters and Obesopotamo e la vacanza da un milione di dolari breaks another convention, as it features an anthropomorthic coffee machine from an ad for Hascell instead of Zebro.
LO SAI COME, a documentary series. It was revived in 2013 with new episodes. It's considered as a spoof of Rai 3's Lo Sai Perchè?
CAROSELLO (TAROCCO), a spoof of the Italian ads show of the same name. All ads feature Lanselmo and Bertoldo in spoofs of classic Italian ads. It was revived in 2013 for a spoof of the FIAT 400 (or, in this case, the FIAPETASBIT 400). Coincidentally, not too long after this premiered, Rai announced the return of Carosello as Carosello Reloaded.
OPERATORI ECOLOGICI 9, a spoof of Carabinieri. Only part of the intro was shown and it may have involved ecological operators in a junkyard.
EXTREME MELKIOVRE HOME EDITION, spoof of Extreme Makeover Home Edition. It was followed by a sequel, spoofing the Italian version of the show.
DMARX, the Marxist spoof of DMAX, considered as being "the real alternative to Western channels". The channel's schedule is a communist take on DMAX's schedule.
TROUT BOSS: IL BOSS DELLE TROTE, spoof of Cake Boss: Il boss delle torte. Once again, a spoof of what a typical Italian can watch on channels like DMAX or Real Time.
In the past, most Canale Test videos were preceded with ads for dubious brands:
HASCELL, a spoof of all those Planeta DeAgostini collection ads. These include ads for nonsensical language courses, wood collections and other stuff.
I PIRLEY, a spoof of I Finley. Consisting of Fedro, Khali, Erve and Kappa, this boyband is known as "today's band revelation". Famous for releasing Diventirai un frigobar and Citrosodina as well as their famous Khalifornication tour in 2007, it seems that the band that spoofed them had the same fate: no more albums and tours.
FRATELLI ZINGHERI, a financial group which does random stuff since 1978, like taking your money to Romania and let anyone get in your own house.
SAHARA, a car manufacturer, famous for releasing the Sahara Fry and Sahara Fry GPL models, The logo depicts a camel.
DIDDLE ads are posted separately. Generally the products are sold at nonsensical prizes and they sell nonsensical products as well.
In March 2007, Canale Test's official website was launched. It initially contained the Inutil-area inherited from the former website and a working forum. When Canale Test rebranded in 2012. both the Inutil-area and the forum were removed for unknown reasons.
The video format changed as well, which means that the show spoofs are no longer preceded by ads.
Anyway, I'll leave you with the interview he had at Poliradio's NERD, which has some more info on Canale Test:
With songs
Without songs:

Eurovision Song Contest 2015 - What to expect

THEME: 0891 50 50 50
VENUE: Somewhere abandoned in Vienna
PRESENTERS: Conchita Wurst and a woman whose alter ego is a man
COUNTRIES:
PORTUGAL will be represented by someone who's barely literate and can't make it past the final.
FRANCE will not take part because TWIN TWIN set a new low for the country.
ISRAEL will be represented once more by Dana International, as there has been a wildcard decision from the country.
Due to a severe lack of budget, ROMANIA will sing the same song from last year.
INTERVAL ACT: All interval acts are performed by Dana International, with her performance of DIVA on the final.
TOP 3: Estonia's cringeworthy song at third place, some rave song from Slovakia in 2nd place and Ákos Abonyi from Hungary at 1st place.

Arcos de Valdevez vs. St. Louis

THIS is St. Louis, the largest city of Missouri.

THIS is Arcos de Valdevez, a city located in north-western Portugal.

Which one of them is better?

Now on Facebook

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Facebook account and Dream World later this morning

My Facebook account will be registered later this morning. Also, I will finally launch Dream World, which happens to be the first blog focusing about the author's dreams.

Azerbaijan found me

It seems that my picture of a Ben 10 card (in Spanish) from CN PT's Facebook page was found by some Azeri bloke on Google Images.
Now Azerbaijan can find out who is Darwin Waterman.

New blog from RandomMe Entertainment coming this Friday - Dream World

Starting this Friday, RM Ent. will launch a new blog focusing on my dreams: Dream World.
Or later, depending on how I am.

Another CN PT fail

This time they said alguna. Viva el rey otra vez!

Change log - 10/07/2014

I finally worked out on how to add links.

An important message for Brazil

So today's July 7th

And don't comment on All About Darwin. I'll finish it later on.

All About Darwin

Get ready for a long post, because it will explain more about Darwin the Merman and his origins.
The year is 2011. I recovered from my "I hate Cartoon Network" symptoms and the schedule was improving. I was the channel's biggesat fan (but I didn't talk too much to friends about that) and I had the following in my mind:  if there are cartoons where the main character is a mermaid, why not make one where the main character is a merman?
Anyway, Darwin the Merman was born from a dream I had before waking up on the morning of November 1st, 2011. That dream had nothing to do with what would be Darwin.
I was leaving my school and I noticed that there was a weird arcade nearby. I entered and turns out that it was purple and had some cabinets and some weird stairs. I got up those stairs and I went to someone else's house in turn. I had to rest in a bed.
That morning, and without any relationship to the dream, I imagined myself. As a merman. Named Darwin. Living with a younger brother. And a merman from Flapjack.
And then I started thinking on what would the show be like. I already had an idea for the theme song:

A full minute of a theme song would work for a CN song, but that would actually be shortened becuase of their policies to shorten up their theme songs.
Initially, Darwin was supposed to have a look inspired by Flapjack if he was a merman (as the final episode, Fish Out Of Water, clearly evidences), but then I changed it to a different look with a square nose.
In late December, someone on Deviantart under the name of kmy1205 posted what could end up being the best design for Darwin. I picked up a humanization of Flounder ar a merman. Let me explain: he has blue and yellow hair, his head was round, he was wearing a yellow shirt (which my design refuses) and his tail was blueish-gray with the tip being blue and yellow. Days later, I went to cut my hair and when they put hair gel on me, I felt like I was Darwin because I had the idea that his "hair aroma" was just like some hair gel they put on me. Darwin the Merman's popularity grew from mental level to personal level.
I started to think on his sister. I thought on a red and yellow color scheme on her hair, seashell bra (half-red and half-yellow) and her tail, with a significant part of it being peach colored. Initially her name was supposed to be Eivlys, because of this:

Eivlys. Yes, Eivlys. Star of a poorly animated music video that aired only and exclusively on our Nickelodeon during commercial breaks. This was originally intender to be her theme. It was dropped, for no aparent reason whatsoever.
Anyway, Darwin needed someone stronger. An older brother. I called him Kevin because of the character on the various Ben 10 shows.
Not too long before Darwin's older brother was created, I had to use chats to express my ideas twice. Considering that I already recorded with Vocaroo, I decided to use Chatfoo considering that it was being advertised on Vocaroo for some time. Only recently I knew that Chatfoo closed. If you tpye "Chatfoo" on  Google, you'll see my two chats. That was one of the best days of my life with my fake cartoon.
I started to pick the best design for Darwin: the aforementioned drawing of what would Flounder look like as a merman posted by kmy1205. I imagined him without any shirt.
I expanded my expressions on the awful blogs I had in 2012: that fall, I posted a lot of what remained of that wonderful artwork: now it existed in smaller sizes. I started to give ideas for more characters. I also renamed Eivlys to Bea, because Eivlys wasn't a good choice.
I joined Toonzone in late December 2012 and slowly wanted to give Darwin some "focus" on some forums nobody wants to read. In late May/early June, I published a partial script, but no one answered me.
But anyway, Darwin the Merman was inspired (in a way) by Fish Hooks, and it probably served as a demented idea that will come true one day.
Please comment.