'Fail' videos on YouTube
Don't get me wrong; in order to find something good, you first have to wade through a vast tide of shit. A poonami, if you will. (bindun, surely)
Most of them fall into the following categories:

- 'oops i failed at doing a simple thing' - Yes you did. Not funny though.
- 'oops my dumb idea didn't pan out' - No it didn't. See above.
- 'HOLY SHIT I JUST WATCHED SOMEONE DIE' - self explanatory

The ones I crave a beautiful moments of sheer happenstance and simple elegance. Actions that were dumb to begin with, but turned into something greater than hopes and dreams dared to tread.

Some examples include:

- Two men face each other with linked hands, as if to catch someone falling. Man 3 then conveniently falls onto their linked hands, dragging them down and making them headbutt each other.

- A remote-control buggy is being drive around a skate park with a bowl; like a hole, but with rounded sides you can skate up and down on. The car zooms up the side, hops off the edge and hits a kid square in the man package.

- A man launches a 4-foot wide glider in a country field. The plane leaves his hand, soars up into the air... does a complete 180 and disintegrates against a gate, a mere 4 feet from where it was launched. The whole ordeal lasts about 3 seconds, not including the pilot's dumbstruck silent stare.

Of course, these things have to be seen rather than described. Is it worth watching hours of people falling through roofs or laughing because they didn't expect to slip on a platform of solid cunting ice?

Yes, it is. In fact, I would argue that the effort makes the reward all the sweeter.
(Rollerbone The sauciest opossum, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:22, 8 replies)

Yes... most of them are appalling, but the few good ones are real diamonds in the rough.
My favourite (cat) fail video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g85wBkhFhjo
(I know, it's not exactly the same thing, but there is something so compellingly inevitable about the outcome)
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:26, closed)

Ah yes, the patented 'supercat' fail
Amazing how few of them accurately gauge the traction of their rear paws.
And (slightly unrelated) how when a harness is put on a cat, the cat just gives up.
(Rollerbone The sauciest opossum, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:31, closed)

I didn't know that about harnessed cats.
Is it something to do with that scruff of the neck thing, where they go limp so their mothers can carry them?
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:35, closed)

I like the one where
a guy takes his pride and joy M3 roadster to the Nurburgring, does all the grinning buildup, and then stuffs it in the crash barrier opposite the pit lane entrance 3 seconds after setting off.
(katie hopkins telling it where its at, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:36, closed)

this one
I would like to see...
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 18:30, closed)

I quite like the Russian truck
crashes, but only if nobody gets killed (or at least I can't see it).

Train crashes are good too.
(username failed moderation, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:38, closed)

best cat accident vid ever, IMO
is this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZxG9gc6Uc&feature=related
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:42, closed)

OK, if we're doing links.
My daughter, aged 2 or 3, would watch this one 50 times in a row, hooting with laughter every time.

No cats.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6cZjCPfBR0
(username failed moderation, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:44, closed)

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the Quest For The Weakest annual Dull Off.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 19:17, closed)

"Of course, these things have to be seen rather than described."
If only there was a way of linking to external content. This whole "internet" fad will never last.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:44, closed)

b3ta.com/links/
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 17:53, closed)

'Let me tell you about a picture I like ... '

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 18:47, closed)

Could you hold your arms apart to give us some idea of its size please?

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 28 Jan 2014, 19:03, closed)

Well, the thing about pictures...
...is that I can only describe them via the medium of dance.
(Rollerbone The sauciest opossum, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 20:05, closed)

What can you describe dance by? is there a universal dance markup language or something?
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 20:53, closed)

Oh god
there actually is. I didnt know.
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Tue 28 Jan 2014, 22:03, closed)

Cannot find it..
There is one that rates above all. Man running to streak across a tennis court.

Runs into glass court surround. Utterly perfect moment of comedy.
(Strump striving for imperfection since, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 18:31, closed)