How to Open a Door (1979) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38

by miohtama • 5 years ago

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teraflop• 5 years ago

In a similar vein, here's a guide to the proper etiquette at a Japanese sushi restaurant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDL8yu34fz0

andrewfromx• 5 years ago

if party of one you should feel a little shame! wow.

appwiz• 5 years ago

Order sushi like a CEO https://youtu.be/-gdjieGyB5s

lillesvin• 5 years ago

Aw, man! I'd forgotten this existed. My gf and I used to do the "mah mah mah mah", "oh toh toh toh"-thing when pouring drinks for each other. Thanks for posting it and reminding me.

aflag• 5 years ago

What does that actually mean? Is it a reference for something people do in Japan?

daneel_w• 5 years ago

Just to settle any speculation: it's one of several funny skits from a Finnish comedy group (whose name escaped me) which was active in the 1970s. Most of what they did was Monty Python-esque and sometimes with a sprinkle of satire over typical societal/informational videos coming out of the Nordic countries' social services departments of that time.

celdon25• 5 years ago

The show "Burn Notice" does a lot of this as well, but with James Bond spy antics. Lots of which involve different ways to open doors. There was one episode where he explains that when you have to walk through a door in a hostile area, you have to assume someone is hiding behind the door ready to ambush you (but such a hiding spot would be a bad idea since you can just slam the door open and hit them with it, which he does).

xtiansimon• 5 years ago

Not exactly opening the door, but the 2002 book “Inside Delta Force” by Eric L. Haney spends some time describing the problems of entering a room. Not joking.

tuukkah• 5 years ago

Seems to have been from the show Hepskukkuu in 1979. Here's a link to the broadcaster's archive: https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2007/03/28/hepskukkuu-kuinka-a...

cf100clunk• 5 years ago

http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/doors.html

jimothyhalpert7• 5 years ago

I've heard from a person that they like purposefully slam the door (not pull the handle down and close it silently) in order to alert other people that someone walked in/out. Is that not abnormal?

blitzar• 5 years ago

My neighbours do this. I guess I should appreciate them alerting the nearby residents that they have returned home or are entering or exiting a room in their house.

micromacrofoot• 5 years ago

I do this so people know I’m in the bathroom

cafard• 5 years ago

In a house where I lived long ago, one guy would pull doors closed with a wrist snap. His girlfriend did this too, so if they were shuttling in and out of bedroom and bathroom, it could sound like a toy-gun fight. But then there was the winter night when the door (wooden) bounced back a little before it could latch, and eventually came all the way open.

rapnie• 5 years ago

And then there's Norman Doors..

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qtCEoGyfsxk

nahuel0x• 5 years ago

Remembers me of a short text by Julio Cortazar (Argentinian writer) titled "Instructions on how to climb a staircase" (1962): https://doarchstairs2016.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/arch-25...

throwaway81523• 5 years ago

This works for me: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3IXMTpWcAAPEQG.jpg

xarope• 5 years ago

I've seen a cat hit a sliding door with its body, which was enough to push the latch up and off, and then squeeze through the gap, thus opening the door.

It was such a casual gesture, that I figured I was dealing with a higher life form...

yboris• 5 years ago

Related: Japanese Door Prank (Shimura Ken (志村けん）) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-2USGVoEE

vertere• 5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_td1X_c5Gg

11thEarlOfMar• 5 years ago

Gramps used to say, “You can always tell a Finn by the way they enter a room.”

It’s real closure for me to finally understand why.

wombatmobile• 5 years ago

The doorway troubles me. The raised threshold is a trip hazard.

swader999• 5 years ago

Most effective way to keep the heat in the sauna which is relevant over there.

How to Open a Door (1979) [video]

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