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some of the stuff models have to wear (like the cat in the hat's hat outfit, wtf?) especially shoes can be a challenge to walk in, not to mention the added difficulty of lights, slippery walk way and possible gauntlets. I don't envy them in anyway. I'm dying if I wear anything more than 3 " for a hour. I can't imagine having to do what they do. Idk what makes a girl want to do this, but I can't imagine there's a lot of brain power behind it knowing what is going to be required of them.

I feel a bit bad for these girls.
Walking in massive heels is a bitch, and I can say that I have fallen on my ass once or twice.

Just waiting for the occasional upskirt.

I have nothing against models, and they don't make me feel particularly badly about my own looks or about my personal wealth, but that was hilarious. I realize this may make me a horrible person, but watching people fall down cracks me up. As much as it sucks that their job involves not getting to eat and having to wear stupidly high heels, it's still funny to see someone get hit by a giant pendulum.

I'm sure it's horrible, but I laughed. More than a couple of times.

Oh god, oh god . . . the woman in the red dress 40 seconds in . . . watching her ankles flop from side to side is just horrifying.

I don't particularly want to see people falling.

But you'd think watching trained (? semi-trained) professionals falling on their asses while wearing those ridiculous shoes would persuade the "designers" to put some kind of reasonable fucking limit on the height of shoes. Guess not.

I laughed, I'll admit it. Not because they're models, but because other people getting hurt (but not seriously) is a funny thing. And some of those falls were amazing.

by the way, that model in the header pic is beautiful-- I'm willing to bet that in even in breaking her fall she looks prettiers and more graceful than the commenters who are taking joy from watching a bunch of pretty girls injur themselves.
If someone posted a video of fat rich women falling while trynig to balance on high-heels most of the commenters here would be offened and sickened. But its fair game as long as the person is prettier than you...

Did the new Disqus software come with a fresh batch of internet scolds?

I would love to see that video. Also: people at Walmart crashing their motorized shopping thingies. All I ever see are people falling down subway stairs. And that's too truly injurious to derive pleasure from.

But where is that cats knocking over toddlers montage someone mentioned? that sounds like gold.

The pendulum was from an episode of "America's Next Top Model." ANTM usually has at least one challenge a season where Tyra is blatantly trying to kill or injure one of the contestants. Other seasons have had a catwalk suspended three stories high, a catwalk across a swimming pool with the models walking inside giant hamster balls, a catwalk that was actually a crosswalk in an intersection, etc.

I'm reminded of one of my favorite commercials, for Corelle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Oh, and the pendulum thing was straight out of "America's Next Top Model" and it was a glorious moment. Because you KNOW that Tyra had that built just so it could whack one of them in the head, so that the dumb wannabes would get it through their heads that they'll never be as good as Tyra.

Aside from the aforementioned hilarity of watching these idiots fail--and the BRILLIANT non-reactions of their fellow models-- I think what kills me the most is how well this proves that no actual human can walk in those awful death traps they call shoes.

You really shouldn't be expected to walk on stilts when you live on a diet of Chick-lets and cocaine.

I never thought of "worker's compensation" together with "runway model", but yeah, it makes total sense!

Never thought of "worker's compensation" together with "runway model", but yeah, it makes total sense.

"Paid millions of dollars to walk down a stage?" I don't think so. More like paid in peanuts and starving themselves in order to stay at 0% body fat to hopefully get booked for further work.

Don't particularly feel like laughing at any of them. They don't make me feel bad about myself when I stare at their stick-like frames, but I will feel bad about myself if I sit here and mock their falls as though they had it coming.

Kinda working extremes here. Millions to peanuts? I'm sure it's somewhere in the middle and likely 'work' enough to suck just as much as everyone else's 'work'. Cry me some more fucking rivers for more sad beautiful people making money off nothing but said beautifulness.

I'm not laughing because I think these women deserve it one bit, but because I find falling really funny, though I agree with your point that laughing because they had it coming is kind of an asshole move.

honestly. People that ease their own insecurities by watching underaged, un-represented and most likely exploited teenagers from poor countries fall while walking in torturously high heels makes me sick. If you feel fat or insecutre its not the model's problem- she too has likely starved herself for the months leading up to her job so that she can take a 3% cut of what ever is paid to her- if even that, since alot of the unknown ones get paid in clothes or purses from the line.

I'm confused as to how that works out for their agents, since the agent cut is 10%. What good is 10% of a pair of shoes?

I feel the same way watching those old black and white short films featuring nothing but three clearly simple men severely injuring themselves while attempting to work at a near endless stream of menial jobs. All they want to do is earn money to live off of, and people are just laughing at their failures and pain. To make matters worse, they called them "stooges." Stooges!!

+1-age.

most models are not paid "millions" of dollars to walk down a runway. Nowdays its mostly girls from underdeveloped countries, such as Ukrain, who are getting raped left and right (financially and physically). Don't let the shiny veneer and your own insecurities about being fat/ugly etc fool you.

Aw, sad hat at the end...

This all made me much happier than it probably should have, but still not as funny as cats knocking toddlers over.

Hate to be the downer, but to be fair, most of these models make jack shit. Some work on the stripper pay model, and essentially pay a fortune up front to their agency to cover costs since they are independent contractors. They have a short career. They are "attractive" for the limited purpose of being human clothes hangers on the runway, but otherwise grew up akward, taller than most men...

It isnt the easiest or most fulfilling of careers.

Ok. Now that I got that out of the way, fire up the Yakety Sax.

The swinging pendulum one was from America's Next Top Model. They design the runway so it is more likely the models will fall over/off. I think the stairs scene was also from ANTM.

Looks like somebody went a little overboard with the floor wax...And did I see a swinging clock obstacle course? I've watched American Gladiators, and that ain't no joke.

hooooly crap that's delicious. The one chick in the pink who walks on the outside of her feet for 15 yards will probably never walk again. Falling through the stage is total BS though, I'd be pissed. But not as pissed as the girl that got taken out by the FUCKING PENDULUM WTF?!?!?

I don't normally find the sight of people falling over to be all that amusing. And then there are people like runway models.

These are people whose entire living is based on making other people feel inadequate. Either it's because they have an unnatural physique that make girls have an unhealthy body image and unnecessary shame on their own self-worth, or because they showcase clothing that normal people couldn't dream of affording, or that the clothes themselves regardless of price are so ridiculous that it's like seeing an annual convention of the Emperor's New Clothes practiced en masse, or just that they are being paid to do something that doesn't amount to a hill of beans yet put on airs as though they are so much the superior. When I see these primped and painted ostriches turn an ankle and go ass over teakettle, I gleefully find it shatters the asinine illusion for a moment and shows these women for what they really are; just a bunch of starving coat hangers made to look absolutely silly with gobs of makeup, cans of hairspray and a few scraps of material that few normal person would ever desire to hear even if they had the means.

So ladies, while most of you might not have a size -2 waist and can't wear a fuchsia dress consisting of a weed-whacked napkin, a birdcage and two Band-Aids for $8K and call it fashion, you do however have at least two things going for you that those birds don't; the ability to rock some curves and to be able to claim you know what chocolate tastes like.

Shoes that don't fit, trains that tangle, poor lighting, slippery walks, and heels so high it's just not logical. That one woman's ankles look like they sprained over and over. Models are definitely "meat" to designers. I feel more empathy than anything.

you forgot temple of doom runways

Right, that poorly conceived pendulum. Well, props to all the bystanders (models, stage hands, audience) who actually go to their assistance. Who knew show business could be so deadly?!

everyone Charlie Sheen has ever had sex with that's who

I hope no boobs were harmed in the production of this montage.

I think the boobs were left at home for safe keeping by the looks of it.

I get squeamish when their legs go all wobbly like that! Why does that happen? Are catwalk heels so treacherous that a wobbly, slow-motion wipe out is always a risk, in which case maybe they SHOULD be well-paid, like stunt drivers in movies? Or are models not allowed to develop the muscles that keep their ankles straight?

That would make sense if stunt drivers in movies were actually paid well. But sadly, people who do actual real jobs never get the compensation they deserve.

I definitely get the schaudewhatzis.
But I cannot help cringing, because I keep expecting their pitifully malnourished leg bones to suddenly snap and be left bent at right angles. (Who gets to shoot them when that happens? Is there an application form I can fill out?)

It's actually a pillow smothering that puts them out of their misery. But the pillow is filled with cocaine, which means that as they feel the last gasps of life slipping away from them they smell the only substance that was giving life to them for so long. OH THE IRONY!

That really made me laugh. Schadenfreude, indeed.

However, I blame most of it on the shoe designers. The models all have to be the same size, so that the clothes are interchangeable between the models, but they can't control their foot size. So, these ridiculous high heels show up, which they might not even be able to wear if they fit, and they probably are not the models size, and they have to wear them anyway. Sure, it's only for about 30 seconds. 30 seconds of hell.

Then the rest just seemed to be problems with the props. Pendulums? Pools? Ceiling lights used as flooring? Who thought those were a good ideas?

Oh hell, it made me laugh. Let me go watch it again.

I have no words to describe the size of the smile on my face right now.

I LVL!

Poor girls have no leg muscles.

It's like two lovers running toward each other in slow motion in in a flowery meadow. Then, just as they're about to join and celebrate their long lost love, a fucking gorilla shows up and tears them both limb from limb in a rage and all that's left is an aerosol of blood and bits of tattered ass hanging from the goriila's majestic brow. Magical.

To me, the wobbly legs are more like a wide eyed baby gazelle before it gets destroyed by a ravening pack of jackals.

I was going with hyenas, but jackals work...

Talk about poetry!

I've always had a thing for small children falling over. There's something about the fact that, for them, disappointment isn't really a tangible thing yet. They've not lived long enough to know that life has a way of spitting all over most of your dreams. No, for a small child it's still all good. They NEED to run, RIGHT NOW, and they'll DEFINITELY make it to the end of this curb! I mean, why the hell not?! It's not like there's been some sort of precedence as to why this might not work ou-.. BLAM! Dreams and ideals spilled all over the pavement.
It's like visual poetry.
But this? This beats that by a country mile. It's like a watching a smug coat hanger suddenly snap under its own weight.

Heh. I like watching little kids with ice cream cones on warm days. A
drop of ice cream falls to the sidewalk and the little kid will stare at
it all like, "What ... what ... how did that get away? How can I get it
back? I must ponder these questions for five minutes," oblivious to the
fact the rest of the ice cream is slowly sliding off the cone.

At least I used to like watching little kids with ice cream cones, but
now I'm not allowed within 1,000 feet of the Dairy Queen, so ...