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Actor Chris O'Dowd is backing an audacious plan to constuct an enormous flying 'nad sack - an "impossible to ignore" hot-air-filled scrotum designed to "combat the ignorance of testicular cancer". Here's The IT Crowd man himself giving the background to the Male Cancer Awareness Campaign's "Skyballs": As you can see, the …

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  1. Ragarath

    Goodness Gracious Great Balls...

    Filled with hot air via fire.

    A noble cause as young men and us slightly older ones do tend to take these things for granted and shrug them off.

  2. ChrisM

    Fire up the pun-o-tron

    This story is nuts! It must take a giant pair of balls to float in the air like that!

    Lots more but don't want to shoot my load so early...

    1. Code Monkey
      Coat

      Re: Fire up the pun-o-tron

      I fear you'll attract a load of old bollocks here.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Fire up the pun-o-tron

      Truly a seminal moment for ballooning and El Reg commenting.

      1. LinkOfHyrule
        Paris Hilton

        Re: Fire up the pun-o-tron

        I don't know about you but I'm just "itching" to comment on this...

        Probably the biggest load of bollocks I have seen on El Reg for a while!

        1. Thomas 4
          Coat

          Re: Fire up the pun-o-tron

          A brief but potent charity event.

          Spheres today, gone tomorrow.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    If you can't grow a pair

    You can always buy shares. Someone should tell the ICO.

    1. LinkOfHyrule
      Joke

      Re: bollock shares?

      I'm pretty poor - I wonder how much a pubes worth would cost?

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Embedded YouTube clips

    Unfortunately El Reg continues to use embedded links to YouTube to illustrate its stories.

    Not very clever I'm afraid, because those of us working on in large corporates only get to see a 'blocked site' placeholder which reads something like -

    "Your request was denied because the requested URL is listed in the < name of a corporate blacklist > of banned URLs. If you believe this site should be permitted, then please contact the < corporate helpdesk name > for further assistance. "

    1. Steve Knox
      Childcatcher

      Re: Embedded YouTube clips

      So? What are you waiting for, man? Contact < corporate helpdesk name > immediately and get them to unblock YouTube, as you have a clear business need!

      I mean, it's not like you can wait to watch the video from home when your employer isn't paying you to work. That would just be foolish. No, stand up, Stand UP, I say, for your right to watch giant balls on your employer's dime!

      1. jai

        Re: Embedded YouTube clips

        In fact, there's an argument to made here that it's a health&safety issue. If we can't watch this clip on YouTube, we may be putting ourselves at risk. So if we suddenly find we have said cancer, we can blame the firm and sue for £cha-ching£!!!!

        1. Don Jefe
          Joke

          Re: Embedded YouTube clips

          That's it! You can set the record for the first lawsuit related to the project!

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Embedded YouTube clips

      And you don't have a smartphone of some kind to view said clip on??

  5. I think so I am?
    Thumb Up

    Is it...

    a bird.....is it a plain.......NO.......Balls, What?......Massive floating balls?

    Wonder if they will make them hairy for realism?

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Prototyping

    Any chance LOHAN can be lifted to stratospheric glory by a pair of scaled down bollocks?

    1. Grikath
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      Re: Prototyping

      Don't know how it would affect predicted burst-time but it really is a must-do, isn't it?

      Wouldn't be the biggest, but certainly the loftiest set of tackle in the world..

  7. Haku
    Coat

    What's newsworthy about this?

    Everyone knows people only talk bollocks on YouTube.

  8. Steve Knox

    A full pound minimum?

    In days past, they'd have started the donations at two bob!

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Careful there...

    You might want to take extra care not to take this protest into the US. Because if you do chances are high you'll get arrested and thrown in jail for indecent behaviour; and if you happen to have the misfortune that there were also some minors looking an optional: "endangering the welfare of a child", which can easily end you up in jail for a few years.

    1. phuzz Silver badge
      Facepalm

      Re: Careful there...

      Surely 50% of the population already own a set of testicles, and most of the other 50% have at least some familiarity with their appearance?

      Ah, no, I'm using logic again aren't I? oops.

      1. Ace Rimmer

        Re: Careful there...

        We believe you just made a rational and well thought out comment. We find this highly offensive and intolerant of our religion.

  10. peter 45

    Tagline

    I do some running to raise money for testicular cancer research. I always run n a teeshirt with the tagline, Saving the Boys......for the Girls. Its probably raised me more money than the running sponsorship. Please feel free to use.

  11. Gavin McMenemy

    I've paid in

    And now I want my ball themed mug.

    I hope to have lots of special moments in the office as I walk around telling everyone how hot my balls are in my hand.

  12. jai

    oblig IT Crowd quote

    "What OS are you running?"

    "Vista!"

    "We're all going to die!!!"

  13. TeeCee Gold badge
    Coat

    "We're hoping SkyBalls lives up to its claim....."

    Don't worry, it'll be the bollocks.

  14. Chris Miller

    Buster Gonad and his unfeasibly large testicles

    Sponsorship opportunity for Viz magazine?

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    What, not a giant pair of eyes to draw awareness to the struggles of the boss-eyed?

    1. John Bailey

      Well. It was one of the options, but the sponsorship form was on the internet, and someone dropped it.

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    And in other news...

    And in other news, a charity for cervical cancer is hoping to fly a balloon in the shape of David Cameron...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: And in other news...

      have a +1 for that ..

  17. Martin Budden Silver badge
    Go

    You really must get an eyeful of...

    The Skywhale

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