Chris Lesinski

Thanks, CollegeHumor. We already knew that there are tons of mediocre faceplants on the Internet. Little kids falling over. People getting hit in the face with a ball. People tripping. People falling off their bikes. It's all run-of-the-mill.

The thing is anyone can splice together clips of found faceplants from the Internet.  But it takes a big Hollywood television show to hunt these people down and give them a chance to redeem their spine-crushing ways.

And that's exactly what we do with one unfortunate backyard wrestler in tonight's web redemption.

Catch a new episode of Tosh.0 tonight at 10pm / 9c to see this misfit backyard wrestler go pro, and watch the original video right now.

There are these virtual worlds and online games through Facebook, MySpace and Second Life. They scare me. They are the subject of dystopian movies like Gamer and Surrogates. Bottom line: Bad shit goes down when people live in virtual worlds.

Well, as VentureBeat reports people will have spent a billion dollars on "goods" in these virtual worlds by the end of 2009. Yeah –- you can buy items in these virtual worlds. No –- you don’t use virtual money. You use actual money. What’s that about?

It gets worse. When you buy things in these virtual worlds you don't even get anything real in exchange. They are "digital goods." Not a movie file. Not an MP3. A small image of a teddy bear that just represents a teddy bear in the virtual world.

So, let’s say you’re about to go to a coffee shop. You can either be an ethical consumer and go to a local coffee shop –- thereby investing in your local economy. Or, you can go to a Starbucks, which will export your money from your community into a multinational company -– but at least it contributes to U.S. consumer spending. Or, you can go to a digital coffee shop, which will turn your money into digital nothing and give you a little icon with a coffee mug on it instead of a real coffee. I think I’ve figured out where a billion dollars of our economy went last year.

No wonder the economy is in the crapper. People are buying and selling things that don't even exist.

You think it’s chaos when the internet goes down in your office? Try the internet going down in your whole country. That's what happened in Sweden this Monday. According to the Daily Telegraph, “The internet connection for the whole of Sweden went down for almost an hour when routine maintenance broke every single .se address.”

I bet the office IT departments there were going nuts. Every single IT worker was getting harassed with phone calls from every single person in every single office in the whole country. I wonder if that’s the first thing on IT’s internet connectivity troubleshooting checklist: “1.) Make sure internet isn’t down in whole f'ing country.”

If that happened in the United States, it would be worse than the subprime mortgage crisis. They'd call it The Great Internet Outage of 2009 and make October 12th a national holiday. Luckily, the web breakdown in Sweden had no impact in the United States unless you were assembling a complicated piece of furniture and you lost the instructions.

This video of a few Brits splashing some kids in their car went minorly viral over the past few days, culminating in Monday's news that this guy might actually get prosecuted for "inconsiderate driving." People complained to the police after seeing the video online.

"Inconsiderate" doesn't seem accurate to me. An inconsiderate person does this sort of thing by accident. This guy's done a great deal of "considering." He knows exactly what he's doing. He's videotaping it. He's being so thoughtful that he's actually narrating his considerations. And he was very considerate by putting it on YouTube for all of us to enjoy.

[via Arbroath]

If you think this is bad, you should see how they make hot dogs.

One of the editors over at BuzzFeed tacked up this video the other day. It's a recipe walkthrough for probably the most disgusting macaroni salad I've ever seen. The ingredients are pretty gross, but I've got a better idea for a viral video: How about someone eating this macaroni salad? Oh wait, that happens four minutes in.

I wonder how many people watch this video past the "pint of mayonnaise" instruction — because that means they might actually intend on making this dangerous macaroni salad. Nothing in this world should have a pint of mayonnaise in it unless it needs to kill a whole village.

Lately, we've had Macho Man Randy Savage on the brain here at Tosh.0. Naturally, when a friend over at Buzzfeed noticed that Macho Man was being ripped off by Justin Timberlake, we had to post about it.

Years ago, Macho Man wrote a ballad about his late friend Mr. Perfect. Even a casual listening of "Perfect Friend" along side Timberlake's "What Goes Around Comes Around" reveals an uncanny resemblance. Is it plagiarism or just another inappropriate impression? Listen to both songs and tell us what you think after the jump.

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Every so often, a video of a fat kid falling over will go viral. But that's only every so often. Why should I have to wait for that to happen if I need my fat person falling over fix right now?

It’s easy to lose your balance when you’re top-heavy and have no muscle — which made it that much easier for someone to start a site all about it: Fat Kids Falling.

[via The Daily What]

Awkward Family Photos always follows through with… awkward family photos. But rarely do they nail something that's so simultaneously "awkward family" and "Internet geek."

"Where's the 'family' here?" Don't give me that shit. People like me and Harold Ramis* here are wed to Internet — this is clearly a family photo.

The best part of being married to the Internet is that she always helps you dress in the morning. Here's a tricky one that young Egon confronted that morning: khaki jeans. They're khakis but they're jeans. He wanted to wear black shoes, but black shoes don't go so well with khakis. What to do? Compromise. Wear a black belt to match the black shoes but wear tennis shoes instead. And wear white socks and flood the pants.

*Not actually Harold Ramis.

Why wouldn't he just jump belly first on to his opponent? Isn't that somersault shit all show anyway? No — the "moonsault" uses rotational speed for a more intense smack down. How could he pass that up? Unfortunately for Lee, the smack down went all over his face and spine.

Despite the video's opening title card, Lee is still alive. And that's a good thing because it makes him the perfect web redemption.

Catch a new episode Thursday at 10pm / 9c to see Lee's second attempt at the move he failed. And until then, check out all of our Web Redemptions.

Two weeks ago, I saw this video of a kid doing the monologue from the movie Miracle linked on Twitter. I didn't watch it.

Five days ago, I saw it on BuzzFeed. I didn't watch it.

Yesterday, it appeared on Reddit, with this headline: "Watch this kid and then try and tell me he is not awesome." I watched it, and now I pose the same challenge to you.

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