You can fold a fitted sheet just gotta use that brain. And also your standard wooden spoon will fit he was using an abnormally large handled spoon looking like it was made for Micheal fox
Your WRONG abt the fitted sheet. A little old lady @ laundromat in Marquette, MI showed me how. Altho my impatience usually turns them into rectangles. Edit: Don't need a wooden spoon either!
i know Im asking the wrong place but does someone know a way to get back into an instagram account?? I was stupid lost the account password. I would love any assistance you can give me
@Chase Arjun I really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and I'm trying it out atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
he's wasting a fortune recording this shit in a studio when he could be doing it in his own kitchen. you think he cares about a laptop that someone else likely payed for? lol. its just a crapple anyway.
drwhoeffect yeah u can just use a corner of something like a table and hit the lid with the palm of ur hand, or use a lighter or anything that u can put the lid firmly on and hit it, you could even use a sheet like an a4 and open it
Watching him try to do some of these life hacks is like watching your dad play video games with such lack of coordination and then your dad says “it’s impossible to play video games.”
Before he told the guy to go to the kitchen, he had wet spots on his shirt. Several hacks later, he opened a jar with tape, creating the wet spots we saw earlier. This leads me to believe we are dealing with a Time Traveler!
A few of your "fails" were due to the fact that you failed to complete the hack properly. Such as the sunglass phone stand. Look at the picture you linked again. You set them inside the sunglasses. You don't prop the phone against them. You're welcome.
+Angela Merkel I mean, for ice cream the problem wasn't really the knife, it was more that if you wanted to eat ice cream out of a tub, you could just take the top off the tub and eat it.
With the sound "amplification" hacks: the design of these hacks is not to actually amplify the sound, but to direct it so that you can hear it better. It's the same idea as cupping your hands around your ears in the direction of the sound you want to hear. Also, I just folded my fitted bed sheet into a square. The trick is that you are supposed to start by folding it backwards.
To the thing with the two toasts in the toaster: make sure you are around when it pops out. Because it's likely that it wont jump out completely and the toasting will not stop. So if you miss it for just 2-3 minutes there is a chance your kitchen is already in flames. -Experience...
It’s been 10 years?!? I come back to this video every time I forget how to do the chip bag hack. I also still use the freezer hacks to this day; I forgot this was where I originally saw the ice water hack
blackkittyfreak learnt this fact about doritosnwhen I was camping when I was about 15, got to the point in the night when we were prettt drunk and just burning anything we could, and discovered doritos burn really well
Two things about the life hacks. The water with pizza thing was wrong about keeping the crust crispy, but it does keep it from getting leathery or overly chewy after you microwave it. The same goes with other bread products (like sandwiches). The popcorn one works better if you open it at the bottom (where most of the unpopped kernels are).
What's the point any way... With a sharp knife and some practice will cut 10 cherry tomatoes one by one a lot faster than taking the trouble of putting them carefully together in between two lids and slifing them in half carefully... That's a bit like taking 10 min. to reaarrange your dishwasher to put one more glass when it take sabout 30 sec. to wash it up by hand.
***** This trick also works well for things like grapes, I mainly use the trick when cutting large numbers of small round things. Also with the size of those tomatoes he was cutting doing them one at a time would be faster.
***** When you have to cut cherry tomatoes or grapes by the hundreds, scooping them onto a lid, plonking the other lid on top and slicing through takes half the time. Until you get to 50 the time spent on digging out those lids and finding the right knife outweighs the time gained ;)
"He didn't even try." "You did it wrong you idiot!" "Number ___ TOTALLY does work I did it!!" I really think these videos are to entertain rather than teach us the secrets of life. Maybe dial back the anger a little?
Is there a proper technique to shaking something? Does he have to shake it at a perfect 73 degree angle while singing Wrecking Ball for it to be a normal shake?
Steven Seaneiros I could write you a parabolic function simulating the necessary positive and negative acceleration in a bidirectional loop, but I could also just say "up and down". Ass.
Steven Seaneiros no he just has to actually, you know, shake it. More than half an inch and more than once. He called it a fail and I was wondering why he didn't even try. I do this too, it works absolutely fine.
He's an author, not a chef, jeez. We can't all be perfect at everything. You must also remember that sometimes these "life hacks" aren't the most comprehensive in terms of information and details.
Write me a novel that get turned into a movie real quick and lets see how you take his criticism of the work of "an idiot who probably has never written in his life"
1) It is entirely possible to fold a fitted sheet into a perfect square, I have to do it all the time at work. 2) The cup amplifier trick amplifies in one direction (towards the opening of the cup) so of course it doesn't amplify in his direction...so yes someone didn't go to school for acoustic engineering...just not the guy who came up with using the cups... 3) Using the sunglasses as a stand does work, so long as the phone is seated On the glasses. 4) It isn't a nail and hammer, but a screw and a hammer that you need. the normal screw acts like a cork screw and you use the hammer or pliers to pull the cork out. 5) The wooden spoon does fit in the hanging hole of some pans... 6)Cutting grape tomatoes using two plates or lids does work and is faster, it just requires a knife the width of the plates used. 7)Chewing gum doesn't stop you from crying when chopping onions. You cry because the aromatic smell released by onions is actually made up of Propanethiol S-oxide which when it makes contact with the eye creates sulfuric acid. He didn't cry because the onion he was cutting was old enough to have converted the Propanethiol s-oxide into baser components or to have had it leached and thus it didn't release the gas when cut. Lastly: Yes, the dogs do "understand" each other. Dogs, like many animals, have distinctive sounds they make which is almost a pseudo language or even proto-language. While there isn't an exact sound that means an exact phrase, as is the case with our languages, dogs communicate aggression, friendliness, and other emotions and intent through their barks. Barking is an extension of the hunting sounds made by wolves in packs which would signal through growls, howls, barks, and so on while hunting to direct the pack on where to go to catch prey.
+Carin Archer you can put a phone in any box and it will amplify the sound. it bounces off the walls more and also makes it sound alittle more bassy. I do this with the cupholder in my car to redirect my phones audio towards me.
ellieban not really a rookie thing, more of a common sense thing where you KNOW that you HAVE to have a knife length EQUAL to the size of the plates,..
5:33 you did the ice cream thing wrong, John :P You cut a line around the base of the ice cream horizontally, so there's only around a centimeter at the bottom. Then cut a line intersecting that one vertically, and peel the container off of the Ice Cream, so you have a big hunk of ice cream left with only a tiny bit of the container at the bottom for you to hold.
I use a wooden spoon and it works great, i try to have the widest part of the spoon over the pot, not just the handle spanning across, this give more wood surface area to the water, seems to work better. If you put the spoon on at the last second with mostly the handle over the pot, you will have a fail.
Yeah, my mom does it all the time. You have to put the spoon on it earlier. ( FYI don't use a metal long spoon, it burns when you grab it...) Also, roll works, we did it in class, and proved it with" Science" or devil magic... You have to make the hole small, and other one you have to use aviators to make your iPhone stay. I also do that all the time in class. The bed sheet one... I only own one lol... Fuck folding it, but I believe you can fold it, they have to fold it when they package it right?
Simply not being coordinated/smart enough to successfully perform a task does not indicate a "fail". Several you failed are indeed useful if you're coordinated/smart enough to do them.
The one with the Pizza and Glass of Water one is incorrect. It's not supposed to keep the pizza crust crispy, as you said, it's just supposed to keep it from drying out and turning hard as a rock. That Glass of Water trick also works for pasta and I found that it also helps with keeping chicken moist if you want to use your microwave to thaw it out and cook it a little bit before tossing it onto a grill or a pan.
You did the sunglasses one wrong.. For the wine bottle you're supposed to use a screw. not a nail. For the wooden spoon on the pot handle - you're supposed to use aluminum foil to tie them together. For the tomato one, you have a tiny knife
Personal experience: I have personally folded fitted sheets into squares. It's obvious they can be folded since they're SOLD folded :P Also, you can cut cherry tomatoes between two lids, it's just takes practise and a sharp knife.
As many have mentioned already, you're simply not doing some of these life hacks properly. I saw more than a few that you've listed as fails that shouldn't have failed, if done right. And others where you almost seemed to work against it (the wooden spoon fitting into the pan holder for example.. there isn't one standard pot handle hole size/shape, or wooden spoon size/shape) I really hope you make a fallow up video correcting the misinformation in this video.
***** Try them, watch other videos, search them; he was lazy and didn't try some of them like they were supposed to. Don't trust him, he's a good guy and I like this channel but he does a lot of mistakes in a lot of his videos :(
***** Really?? Wow, I'm not even the one that discovered that this guy can't cut some tomatoes or fold a fitted sheet and gives the fault to the internet :D I want to thank all my friends and of course you, because you gave me this incredible news :*
The rules are.... "If these life hacks dont work in 10 seconds it's a fail" MOST OF THESE THAT YOU SAY IS A "fail" WORKS also those arent red onions (theyre the ones that make you cry)
The toilet paper roll is supposed to prop up your phone when you're using it as speakers, not amplify the sound. The wooden spoon is supposed to be wet (which works to temporarily cool the water when it starts to boil over - good temporary solution). Obviously you're not going to cut through all the cherry tomatoes using a 2" paring knife. Not sure if the cups work but if they could amplify your speakers, you probably have to have speakers on that part of your computer first.
other option, use a screw, and then use the claw on the hammer to pull the screw out GENTLY.. had to do it that way when we lost the cork screw, and dont have nails.
Don't forget, you should pull it out in the direction opposite the angle. Say this [/] is the cork and nail. Pull it out left. Otherwise, it will still slide out, like in the video. Also, a longer nail.
I love how the guy just barely tries on many of them. Like the one for the cork and nail. A lot of them take a little finesse and he was not honestly trying for many of them.
It annoys me that he didn't even use a long enough knife to cut all those tomatoes and then said the hack didn't work because he only cut a few of them. Duh! Use a long sharp knife.
I’d never heard of Mental Floss and only clicked on the thumbnail cuz I wanted to watch a roasting of “life” hacks, and did a double take when I saw John Green on the screen. I thought at first I was hallucinating or clicked the wrong video. I’m glad I clicked; now I have hours of binge watching to do.
The gum trick worked by having a closer smell to your nostrils. Your eyes water because of the slight burn in your nose from the onion juices. The smell of the gum cancels that out.
Actually your eyes burn because a chemical in the onions causes a chemical reaction with the saline in your tears that literally turns your tears into sulfuric acid (source: chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryfaqs/f/onionscry.htm). I have no idea why chewing gum works, but it does. *shrug*
Actually the "gum trick" doesn't work.. It only "worked" because he was not sufficiently exposed to the irritant anyway. This shows problem with not having a control group.
Your logic doesn't entirely make sense unless you _only_ use the charger to open bottles or if opening bottles breaks the charger. Which is possible, I suppose, but I don't know that it's likely.
Guys it's not his fault he's doing them wrong. The website he got them from obviously didn't tell him how to do it correctly. And before you say "well he should have researched them more!"- the point of life hacks is that they're fast and easy, so you shouldn't have to research them before you do them.
The glass of water in the microwave thing works great for keeping your soft pretzel soft when you reheat it. It also works for reheating burgers & bagel sandwiches. I've tried it.
Obvioulsy there are many factors in each of these 30 life hacks. For example the glasses would work fine for a phone stand if the surface was different. And then again some are just useless. My fav was the yoke extraction with the empty water bottle :)
David Stocking No offense but im not talking about just twisting it off, if you NEED a bottle opener, try toughening up. Been drinking for to long and travel everywhere, Haven't come across a beer that i couldn't open myself.
Your methodology is flawed for some of these. #4 use a screw or maybe try pulling on the nail at an opposing angle so the nail doesn't just pop out. #8 while not perfect doing this will break the surface tension of the bubbles, and will prevent it from boiling over for a bit, but when the spoon gets coated by the liquid it will not break the surface tension. So this works for a little bit, but not for to long. #9 that is the biggest wooden spoon ever. Some will fit others will not, obviously this isn't a fail for everyone. It depends on the size of the hole, and the pot. #10 seriously you got a guy to try and fold a sheet? Definite fail. #11 That's not a knoif this is a knoif. Everything else was fine I thought.
Great video! I have two interesting additions: Open a jar: 1. Slide a knife between the lid and the glass. 2. Lever until you hear a click from the air exchanging. 3. Open without effort because there is no more difference in pressure between the inside and the outside of the jar. (Only do this right before opening the jar because the content will rot faster otherwise) Cool a beer quickly: This has probably nothing to do with the wet paper towel. If anything, I expect the towel to hinder the cooling process because it shields the beer from the cold air within the freezer and thus has to be cooled first. Would you put in two beers - one with and one without it - and see which one is colder after some time?
It's very easy to start a fire without gasoline (or Doritos,) provided proper placement of the wood/logs, and some newspaper (or any paper) to get it going. I just happened to have Doritos on hand that night, and wanted to test the life hack for myself, it worked better than the paper method.
If you wanna open up a jar, hit the side of the lid with a spoon/fork all the way around the lid and then open it. It opens up super easy and quick!!! :)
Except tapping around the edge with silverware may chip the jar leaving glass in the product. Just hold just the metal lid in both hands for a minute or two and it will warm and expand making it easier to open.
And the wooden spoon does help stop water from boiling over it takes much longer to boil over with a wooden spoon across the top than without one. Of course it's not going to cover the top of the pot with a magical forcefield and stop all water from ever boiling over the pot's sides it just slows the process down. You didn't even properly test this, you should have boiled two identical (that means same size and material, so just use 2 of the exact same pots) pots of water, one with a spoon on top and one without and compared the amount of time it took for the water to boil over.
Nevertheless, you put forth a lot of effort constructing a paragraph to try to prove something that has no significance. I think this show focuses more on comedy than even scientific fact.
Mitchell Sansone I wouldn't call comedy and entertainment the same thing, I mean they're separate words for a reason. Some people find football entertaining, but that doesn't make it comedy. .____.
Ronnie B That does work. Certain nails work too despite what he says. Ring-Shank nails by example sort of work... Standard wood screw, deck screw, or particle board screw works best though.
John you should learn how to cook, especially if you are carnivorous; and microwaving usually isn't cooking, it is reheating or finishing the final step.
Right, so if you're desperate and camping with a bag of Doritos, and you feel too lazy to find kindling, light them on fire if you don't want to eat them. Uh yah...
He also did the hammer and nail wrong, and the wooden spoon has to be thin not thick. This video seems really lazy and low quality, they should re-do the entire thing and actually investigate these hacks doing all of them properly.
Two tips: 1. To chop onions without tears, perform the chop on a cutting board that is also under your stove top exhaust fan. The running fan will take the volatile organic compounds that cause tears away from your face. 2. To mitigate foaming over from pans when you are cooking rice or other similar carbs, just add 1 tbsp of olive oil. It will help break up the bubbles.
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You can fold a fitted sheet just gotta use that brain. And also your standard wooden spoon will fit he was using an abnormally large handled spoon looking like it was made for Micheal fox
Your WRONG abt the fitted sheet. A little old lady @ laundromat in Marquette, MI showed me how. Altho my impatience usually turns them into rectangles.
Edit: Don't need a wooden spoon either!
i know Im asking the wrong place but does someone know a way to get back into an instagram account??
I was stupid lost the account password. I would love any assistance you can give me
@Emerson Wilson Instablaster =)
@Chase Arjun I really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and I'm trying it out atm.
Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
He did a lot of these things dangerously close to his laptop.
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he's wasting a fortune recording this shit in a studio when he could be doing it in his own kitchen. you think he cares about a laptop that someone else likely payed for? lol. its just a crapple anyway.
That laptop charger bottle opener seems like a really terrible idea...
One of these costs 60€. Think of all the bottle openers you could buy for 60€
drwhoeffect yeah u can just use a corner of something like a table and hit the lid with the palm of ur hand, or use a lighter or anything that u can put the lid firmly on and hit it, you could even use a sheet like an a4 and open it
drwhoeffect kumsa
+drwhoeffect My dad says that he can open a bottle like that with anything.
+drwhoeffect Yeah seems like an easy way to break your charger.
You can definitely fold a fitted sheet into a square/rectangle. Martha Stewart showed how to do it years ago on her show and is fairly simple
Yeah, my mom taught me before Martha Stewart and I've done it all my life. Not hard to fold (they didn't even try in the video). :P
Lol, I just posted that...then saw your comment.
You suppose to use a screw
i learnt on grade six camp how to fold them properly
They're two guys. What do you expect? We're complete idiots when trying to fold anything made of cloth.
I MISS these videos 😭 they were always my favorite. I return to this one, in particular, often.
Omg I can't believe John just tried to spear the cookie part of that Oreo😂😂
Cheyenne Marie 😂
it works even better if you just set it on a spoon to dunk it.
Does John intentionally do some of these wrong?
No he is just a moron.
Nicolas Gleason-Boure yes, that is part of his joke!
I actually fold my fitted sheets into a perfect rectangle all the time, he's just not doing it correctly.
Did he take glasses off for cutting onions??!! No way that shit has any truth to it
David Clinging perfectly possible, I do it all the time.
"The failiest pass of all time!"
take a shot everytime he says apparently
Lol
+Avbitten I just posted that! I didn't see your post. Totally agree!
I counted 16
i dont drink..but i smoke shit loads of weed and dabs..so I'm gonna smoke a dab every time he says apparently..
My friend tried this and blacked out halfway through the video 😂
Watching him try to do some of these life hacks is like watching your dad play video games with such lack of coordination and then your dad says “it’s impossible to play video games.”
Jokes demeaning older people, shoving them between layers of false stereotypes, is profoundly offensive.
SO NOSTALGIC for me. I used to watch your videos when I was 5 or 6 and I loved them. Love it!
Before he told the guy to go to the kitchen, he had wet spots on his shirt. Several hacks later, he opened a jar with tape, creating the wet spots we saw earlier. This leads me to believe we are dealing with a Time Traveler!
A few of your "fails" were due to the fact that you failed to complete the hack properly. Such as the sunglass phone stand. Look at the picture you linked again. You set them inside the sunglasses. You don't prop the phone against them. You're welcome.
Rachel Scott Not to mention using a knife suited for Cheese or Vegetables to cute ice-cream that wasn't properly frozen solid.
+Angela Merkel Or trying to cut cherry tomatoes with what is clearly a paring knife. Even if you tried cutting those tomatoes one by one you'd fail.
+Angela Merkel I mean, for ice cream the problem wasn't really the knife, it was more that if you wanted to eat ice cream out of a tub, you could just take the top off the tub and eat it.
Yes thank you for saying that this dude is annoying he always never dose the hacks right check out the other hack video like this
Well yeah that's why there called straw Berries
Mind blown
Julian Anthony HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!!
good pun
Altiar Ibn-La`Ahad THEY ARE
how can you possibly confuse they are and there? Negates all the brownie pints you got for that comment
How can you not get that
Altiar Ibn-La`Ahad badum tsssss
With the sound "amplification" hacks: the design of these hacks is not to actually amplify the sound, but to direct it so that you can hear it better. It's the same idea as cupping your hands around your ears in the direction of the sound you want to hear. Also, I just folded my fitted bed sheet into a square. The trick is that you are supposed to start by folding it backwards.
To the thing with the two toasts in the toaster: make sure you are around when it pops out. Because it's likely that it wont jump out completely and the toasting will not stop. So if you miss it for just 2-3 minutes there is a chance your kitchen is already in flames. -Experience...
I've seen all of these life hacks videos a dozen times and they always cheer me up :)
It’s been 10 years?!? I come back to this video every time I forget how to do the chip bag hack. I also still use the freezer hacks to this day; I forgot this was where I originally saw the ice water hack
Moral of the story: ALWAYS take Doritos when you go camping.
blackkittyfreak learnt this fact about doritosnwhen I was camping when I was about 15, got to the point in the night when we were prettt drunk and just burning anything we could, and discovered doritos burn really well
Better yet, don't go camping. Why sleep outside when you have a house or apartment that you pay to sleep in?
I fold all of my fitted sheets all of the time. It amazes my husband, but it's not difficult.
I think it amazes most men lol
I do too.
Two things about the life hacks. The water with pizza thing was wrong about keeping the crust crispy, but it does keep it from getting leathery or overly chewy after you microwave it. The same goes with other bread products (like sandwiches). The popcorn one works better if you open it at the bottom (where most of the unpopped kernels are).
the tomatoes between the lid works with a longer knife with a sharp serrated edge and saw and all corn chips burn well
What's the point any way... With a sharp knife and some practice will cut 10 cherry tomatoes one by one a lot faster than taking the trouble of putting them carefully together in between two lids and slifing them in half carefully...
That's a bit like taking 10 min. to reaarrange your dishwasher to put one more glass when it take sabout 30 sec. to wash it up by hand.
***** This trick also works well for things like grapes, I mainly use the trick when cutting large numbers of small round things. Also with the size of those tomatoes he was cutting doing them one at a time would be faster.
***** When you have to cut cherry tomatoes or grapes by the hundreds, scooping them onto a lid, plonking the other lid on top and slicing through takes half the time. Until you get to 50 the time spent on digging out those lids and finding the right knife outweighs the time gained ;)
And I think the tomatoe one would have worked better if he had pushed with his entire hand instead of just his fingers
Nate Tanguay
You are right, the people i have seen do it use their whole hand and press hard
Lmao you never used a knife in your life... And that's not a knife to cut so many vegetables
TaxusQc as soon as I saw him trying to cut those tomatoes I wanted to cry. thing was closer to a nail file than a knife.
TaxusQc It looked like a butter knife. LMAO 😂😂😂
You need a longer knife DUM shit
Yeah, ability to weald a knife is a prerequisite to knife-related hacks.
@@justins8802 Especially if you're likely to get excited about onion cutting and vigorously wave it next to your right eye 3:41
Dude fot the wine glass you gotta use a screw not a nail
Elvings92 Yeah, and then you use the hammer to pull it out.
Elvings92 no you can get use a line of like 4 nails Buzzfeed did it in their 16 ways to open a wine bottle
AlfieT27 well Buzzfeed are a load of clickbaity liberal God-complex shitheads so nah
My husband used a nail before. It took a long ass time, but he did it.
So you say. Yet you guys haven't shown any way that you are better than people on the right.
"He didn't even try." "You did it wrong you idiot!" "Number ___ TOTALLY does work I did it!!" I really think these videos are to entertain rather than teach us the secrets of life. Maybe dial back the anger a little?
I was about to say this. Thank you
Fair enough, but I'm pretty sure he didn't take his glasses off before cutting that onion and that just makes the test redundant.
The popcorn kernel one totally works. I do it every time. Though you don't need to open it a tiny bit, it already is. You shake things weird.
Is there a proper technique to shaking something? Does he have to shake it at a perfect 73 degree angle while singing Wrecking Ball for it to be a normal shake?
Steven Seaneiros I could write you a parabolic function simulating the necessary positive and negative acceleration in a bidirectional loop, but I could also just say "up and down". Ass.
Nick Isabelle The smaller more dense objects will fall to the bottom in a free flowing environment. Not super complicated.
Steven Seaneiros no he just has to actually, you know, shake it. More than half an inch and more than once. He called it a fail and I was wondering why he didn't even try. I do this too, it works absolutely fine.
Steven Burton The science on this one isn't exactly perplexing. Small, dense objects fall to the bottom. There's a hole. They fall out the hole.
Use a sharp knife for cutting tomatoes between lids and you won't have that problem. We do it all the time in the restaurant industry.
Also, that's a steak knife you tool.
I've personally done this with a chef's knife and it works great. This guy is just an idiot who probably has never cooked in his life.
He's an author, not a chef, jeez. We can't all be perfect at everything. You must also remember that sometimes these "life hacks" aren't the most comprehensive in terms of information and details.
Write me a novel that get turned into a movie real quick and lets see how you take his criticism of the work of "an idiot who probably has never written in his life"
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At the end I thought he said "menopause" instead of "mental_floss"...
Maybe he's trying to be crazyrussianhacker
RougePenguin77 CrazyRussianHacker is handsome and sexy, with a great accent, but he takes way too long to demonstrate his hacks.
paxtoncat Cannot unhear
paxtoncat nope, he said mental floss
yeah it sounds like he's saying menopause in like every video i've seen so far lol.
1) It is entirely possible to fold a fitted sheet into a perfect square, I have to do it all the time at work.
2) The cup amplifier trick amplifies in one direction (towards the opening of the cup) so of course it doesn't amplify in his direction...so yes someone didn't go to school for acoustic engineering...just not the guy who came up with using the cups...
3) Using the sunglasses as a stand does work, so long as the phone is seated On the glasses.
4) It isn't a nail and hammer, but a screw and a hammer that you need. the normal screw acts like a cork screw and you use the hammer or pliers to pull the cork out.
5) The wooden spoon does fit in the hanging hole of some pans...
6)Cutting grape tomatoes using two plates or lids does work and is faster, it just requires a knife the width of the plates used.
7)Chewing gum doesn't stop you from crying when chopping onions. You cry because the aromatic smell released by onions is actually made up of Propanethiol S-oxide which when it makes contact with the eye creates sulfuric acid. He didn't cry because the onion he was cutting was old enough to have converted the Propanethiol s-oxide into baser components or to have had it leached and thus it didn't release the gas when cut.
Lastly: Yes, the dogs do "understand" each other. Dogs, like many animals, have distinctive sounds they make which is almost a pseudo language or even proto-language. While there isn't an exact sound that means an exact phrase, as is the case with our languages, dogs communicate aggression, friendliness, and other emotions and intent through their barks. Barking is an extension of the hunting sounds made by wolves in packs which would signal through growls, howls, barks, and so on while hunting to direct the pack on where to go to catch prey.
So many of these were done wrong lol
Lol yeah...limp wristed
you can fold a fitted sheet. theres a certain way. yall just gave it a half ass attempt
GradyRho92 i know arint they doing some of them wrong
I'm going to debunk 30 Life Hacks by proving that half work and doing the other half obviously wrong!
#1 was done wrong... The ends of the roll were not sealed so the sound could escape that way instead of amplifying.
+chdreturns where would the sound go if the ends were sealed? Not being rude just wondering
+Carin Archer you can put a phone in any box and it will amplify the sound. it bounces off the walls more and also makes it sound alittle more bassy. I do this with the cupholder in my car to redirect my phones audio towards me.
joshs dkytre oh cool
+joshs dkytre you cant amplify the sound like that. you can focus it, so it reflects the sound toward you. bit it doesnt actually get louder.
The soda tab “trick” is the intended use.
Every Mental Floss video outro:
"Menopause is brought to you by these nice people..."
J R I heard menoplause haha
The cherry tomatoes thing works if you use a decent knife, glass plates and even pressure.
Agreed. Also works on olives and grapes. But not if your knife is too short. Rookie error.
Seems obvious enough to anyone with a brain. He even catches his own mistake but still rates it a fail.
ellieban not really a rookie thing, more of a common sense thing where you KNOW that you HAVE to have a knife length EQUAL to the size of the plates,..
As in many situations in life, I still favor the two-handed sword. Though it is heavy and bulky, it is very versatile in the kitchen.
***** depends on how many you are cutting. My kids eat a ton of grapes, and cutting a bunch of them in half is a pain...
30 life hacks debunked....Where half don't get debunked....
And the other half are just executed incorrectly
5:33 you did the ice cream thing wrong, John :P You cut a line around the base of the ice cream horizontally, so there's only around a centimeter at the bottom. Then cut a line intersecting that one vertically, and peel the container off of the Ice Cream, so you have a big hunk of ice cream left with only a tiny bit of the container at the bottom for you to hold.
That makes more sense! Although I prefer it in a bowl with chocolate syrup! Mmmm... So good
Kieth11 you take the big hunk of ice-cream and put it in to bowls
Every time I boil water in a pot I put the wooden spoon over it. It works for me every single time.
Why/how does this work?!?!
The spoon pops the bubbles. Kind of like when you pour a fountain soda and get that bubble head, you can make it go down by putting your lips to it
it all has to do with surface tension of the foam and the wooden spoon upsetting that surface tension by lessening the viscosity of the liquid
I use a wooden spoon and it works great, i try to have the widest part of the spoon over the pot, not just the handle spanning across, this give more wood surface area to the water, seems to work better. If you put the spoon on at the last second with mostly the handle over the pot, you will have a fail.
Yeah, my mom does it all the time. You have to put the spoon on it earlier. ( FYI don't use a metal long spoon, it burns when you grab it...)
Also, roll works, we did it in class, and proved it with" Science" or devil magic... You have to make the hole small, and other one you have to use aviators to make your iPhone stay. I also do that all the time in class.
The bed sheet one... I only own one lol... Fuck folding it, but I believe you can fold it, they have to fold it when they package it right?
i don't know john, my mom can fold a fitted sheet into a square.
the wooden spoon works if its the right type
Can we just take a moment for John Green's reaction to spilling the jalapenos?
Simply not being coordinated/smart enough to successfully perform a task does not indicate a "fail". Several you failed are indeed useful if you're coordinated/smart enough to do them.
You actually did a lot of them wrong, but still great video.
***** The iPhone speaker is on the bottom.
The one with the Pizza and Glass of Water one is incorrect.
It's not supposed to keep the pizza crust crispy, as you said, it's just supposed to keep it from drying out and turning hard as a rock.
That Glass of Water trick also works for pasta and I found that it also helps with keeping chicken moist if you want to use your microwave to thaw it out and cook it a little bit before tossing it onto a grill or a pan.
You did like 13 of these wrong by count.
Sapien at least
You did the sunglasses one wrong..
For the wine bottle you're supposed to use a screw. not a nail.
For the wooden spoon on the pot handle - you're supposed to use aluminum foil to tie them together.
For the tomato one, you have a tiny knife
4:01 Get it? .....Straw-berry? :D
oh god how did I not notice that
I love how he has these honest reactions...
Personal experience: I have personally folded fitted sheets into squares. It's obvious they can be folded since they're SOLD folded :P Also, you can cut cherry tomatoes between two lids, it's just takes practise and a sharp knife.
As many have mentioned already, you're simply not doing some of these life hacks properly. I saw more than a few that you've listed as fails that shouldn't have failed, if done right. And others where you almost seemed to work against it (the wooden spoon fitting into the pan holder for example.. there isn't one standard pot handle hole size/shape, or wooden spoon size/shape) I really hope you make a fallow up video correcting the misinformation in this video.
There's a knack to the popcorn one. Open it less and shake it up and down holding onto the tab on the other side, works perfectly.
Nothing like watching John Green hurt himself.
Actually ALL of them work, don't trust this guy, he just half-assed some of them; cool demonstration though ;)
***** Try them, watch other videos, search them; he was lazy and didn't try some of them like they were supposed to. Don't trust him, he's a good guy and I like this channel but he does a lot of mistakes in a lot of his videos :(
***** Really?? Wow, I'm not even the one that discovered that this guy can't cut some tomatoes or fold a fitted sheet and gives the fault to the internet :D
I want to thank all my friends and of course you, because you gave me this incredible news :*
some of them not all.
Sergio Amesty All of them do, free to try them...well, try them properly, not like he did ;)
Darkus45 Tried them, they don't.
The rules are....
"If these life hacks dont work in 10 seconds it's a fail"
MOST OF THESE THAT YOU SAY IS A "fail" WORKS
also those arent red onions (theyre the ones that make you cry)
a month late but life hacks are supposed to make you do stuff faster not take longer than taking like a real tool for it
Pretty sure Barry from SORTED Food did that cherry tomato between two plates thing with a bigger knife and it did work. Hahaha.
Easily the greatest and funniest series on Mental Floss
That time at 3:42 when John almost stabs himself in the face with a knife while making explodey noises
The toilet paper roll is supposed to prop up your phone when you're using it as speakers, not amplify the sound. The wooden spoon is supposed to be wet (which works to temporarily cool the water when it starts to boil over - good temporary solution). Obviously you're not going to cut through all the cherry tomatoes using a 2" paring knife. Not sure if the cups work but if they could amplify your speakers, you probably have to have speakers on that part of your computer first.
with the nail in the cork, you didn't do it right.pull at an angle (more of an angle than how you put the nail in) it will work that way.
other option, use a screw, and then use the claw on the hammer to pull the screw out GENTLY.. had to do it that way when we lost the cork screw, and dont have nails.
Don't forget, you should pull it out in the direction opposite the angle. Say this [/] is the cork and nail. Pull it out left. Otherwise, it will still slide out, like in the video. Also, a longer nail.
Here's an option. Buy a fucking corkscrew.
Jerome Tomasheski II It's for if you don't have ready access to a cork screw. not like you'll have one in your pocket 24/7.
arose92795 So you're telling me that it's more likely for you to have a bottle of wine in your pocket? I think someone needs an intervention.
I love how the guy just barely tries on many of them. Like the one for the cork and nail. A lot of them take a little finesse and he was not honestly trying for many of them.
I say this not meaning they all work, but that he doesnt necessarily fully disprove them either.
John, you opening that jar with the duct tape is the hardest I've laughed at a youtube video in my 10 years of being on youtube. XD
On the contrary, I've added a bag of doritos to my emergency survival kit that I keep in the trunk of my car.
contrary to what?
That we should not be lighting doritos on fire.
Awesome username.
It annoys me that he didn't even use a long enough knife to cut all those tomatoes and then said the hack didn't work because he only cut a few of them. Duh! Use a long sharp knife.
Not only that the knife was not long enough, he couldn't even cut straight... not to mention the cutting "technique" of the onions...
#14 Heat your knife in boiling or hot water. Cuts through goat cheese like butter and makes the slice all shiny and shit (Gordon Ramsay hack)
I’d never heard of Mental Floss and only clicked on the thumbnail cuz I wanted to watch a roasting of “life” hacks, and did a double take when I saw John Green on the screen. I thought at first I was hallucinating or clicked the wrong video. I’m glad I clicked; now I have hours of binge watching to do.
The gum trick worked by having a closer smell to your nostrils. Your eyes water because of the slight burn in your nose from the onion juices. The smell of the gum cancels that out.
Actually your eyes burn because a chemical in the onions causes a chemical reaction with the saline in your tears that literally turns your tears into sulfuric acid (source: chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryfaqs/f/onionscry.htm). I have no idea why chewing gum works, but it does. *shrug*
Ah, thanks for correcting me. I would have ended up making that mistake again.
Actually the "gum trick" doesn't work.. It only "worked" because he was not sufficiently exposed to the irritant anyway. This shows problem with not having a control group.
$90 charger to open a $2.50 bottle of coke.
Just buy a bottle opener.
Your logic doesn't entirely make sense unless you _only_ use the charger to open bottles or if opening bottles breaks the charger. Which is possible, I suppose, but I don't know that it's likely.
Dude these chargers are so fiddly, they break from the friction of your skin.
What monster came up with the idea to waste doritos like that?
Is it bad I said that like rainbow dash
Emily Deason Haha I can totally picture that in Dash's voice.
Guys it's not his fault he's doing them wrong. The website he got them from obviously didn't tell him how to do it correctly. And before you say "well he should have researched them more!"- the point of life hacks is that they're fast and easy, so you shouldn't have to research them before you do them.
The 2th Live Hack you did wrong!
And 11
"2th" I do believe you meant to type 2nd. Have a good day.
Sydney Gil Sry German :D
Totally cool w/ it, glad you're trying in English *thumbs up*
Sydney Gil
xD
Could've used spaghetti to light the Doritos
if you set Dorritos on fire, will the smoke smell like the flavor of dorritos?
I wanna know really bad but I feel like I would burn my house down...
Emma nem Do it outside then maybe?
I'm so gonna try it
Emma nem ... AND?????
The glass of water in the microwave thing works great for keeping your soft pretzel soft when you reheat it. It also works for reheating burgers & bagel sandwiches. I've tried it.
Obvioulsy there are many factors in each of these 30 life hacks. For example the glasses would work fine for a phone stand if the surface was different. And then again some are just useless. My fav was the yoke extraction with the empty water bottle :)
Didnt know guys needed a life hack to open a beer bottle, just use your hands....
Some beer bottles can't be twisted off and NEED a bottle opener. You'll slice up your hand a fair bit before you notice the difference.
David Stocking No offense but im not talking about just twisting it off, if you NEED a bottle opener, try toughening up. Been drinking for to long and travel everywhere, Haven't come across a beer that i couldn't open myself.
ashdragon1 You make a valid point but some people don't have hands made of hardened rhino hide.
Remy Clarke
lol i like that, that was funny.
ashdragon1 Apparently you can use your hands to open a beer bottle..
PASS!
Your methodology is flawed for some of these. #4 use a screw or maybe try pulling on the nail at an opposing angle so the nail doesn't just pop out. #8 while not perfect doing this will break the surface tension of the bubbles, and will prevent it from boiling over for a bit, but when the spoon gets coated by the liquid it will not break the surface tension. So this works for a little bit, but not for to long. #9 that is the biggest wooden spoon ever. Some will fit others will not, obviously this isn't a fail for everyone. It depends on the size of the hole, and the pot. #10 seriously you got a guy to try and fold a sheet? Definite fail. #11 That's not a knoif this is a knoif. Everything else was fine I thought.
Haha
Haha
Great video! I have two interesting additions:
Open a jar:
1. Slide a knife between the lid and the glass.
2. Lever until you hear a click from the air exchanging.
3. Open without effort because there is no more difference in pressure between the inside and the outside of the jar.
(Only do this right before opening the jar because the content will rot faster otherwise)
Cool a beer quickly: This has probably nothing to do with the wet paper towel. If anything, I expect the towel to hinder the cooling process because it shields the beer from the cold air within the freezer and thus has to be cooled first. Would you put in two beers - one with and one without it - and see which one is colder after some time?
Nice Drp Pepper/ Doritos/ Oreos/ Hersheys/ TicTac/ Guiness ads
I hosted a bbq/bonfire in the Summer, and used Doritos to start the fire.
Most people I know use about a pint of gasoline...
Yonkage Most people you know are apparently idiots
It's very easy to start a fire without gasoline (or Doritos,) provided proper placement of the wood/logs, and some newspaper (or any paper) to get it going. I just happened to have Doritos on hand that night, and wanted to test the life hack for myself, it worked better than the paper method.
Did It taste oh so cheesy?
4:38
Click several times in a row.
You're welcome!
Not So Pro Gamer awesome
@@johnssff Nothing like commenting on a 4 year old comment xD
I feel like you got “That’s not a knife, THAT’S a knife” and “We’re gonna need a bigger boat” mixed up! 😂
which is funny because you have the Jaws quote wrong
Dee G oopsie! 😳
i've heard that instead of using a nail with the wine bottle, you r supposed to use a screw and pry it out with a hammer
If you wanna open up a jar, hit the side of the lid with a spoon/fork all the way around the lid and then open it. It opens up super easy and quick!!! :)
poke a tiny hole in the lid with a knife. werd.
Or that too... Lol
Step 1) Aquire [glass] jar
Step 2) Slam jar against table/counter
or just have some muscles to open a jar bare hands
Except tapping around the edge with silverware may chip the jar leaving glass in the product. Just hold just the metal lid in both hands for a minute or two and it will warm and expand making it easier to open.
The algorithm brought me back here after all these years and I am not upset in the slightest
4:35, "the fault in our jars."
And the wooden spoon does help stop water from boiling over it takes much longer to boil over with a wooden spoon across the top than without one. Of course it's not going to cover the top of the pot with a magical forcefield and stop all water from ever boiling over the pot's sides it just slows the process down. You didn't even properly test this, you should have boiled two identical (that means same size and material, so just use 2 of the exact same pots) pots of water, one with a spoon on top and one without and compared the amount of time it took for the water to boil over.
That moment when someone on UA-cam types an entire paragraph about a wooden spoon and a pot... And then spends extra time editing it.
Keegan Monceaux The edit was because I noticed a grammatical error, which took all of 2 seconds.
Nevertheless, you put forth a lot of effort constructing a paragraph to try to prove something that has no significance. I think this show focuses more on comedy than even scientific fact.
Keegan Monceaux Wait, this video is supposed to be funny!?
Mitchell Sansone I wouldn't call comedy and entertainment the same thing, I mean they're separate words for a reason. Some people find football entertaining, but that doesn't make it comedy. .____.
popcorn one does work...
Tried it multiple times, worked. This guy has a smaller sample size, I win.
This is one of the funniest I’ve seen. I miss this guy!!! Bring him back!!!!
Can't find a corkscrew, but can find hammer and nail???
Basic home repairs require hammer and nail. Not everybody drinks.
Priscilla Wilson, yep, and if you had a screw and hammer, I'd bet it would work. Just turn the screw in and pull it out like a nail.
Ronnie B
That does work. Certain nails work too despite what he says. Ring-Shank nails by example sort of work...
Standard wood screw, deck screw, or particle board screw works best though.
John you should learn how to cook, especially if you are carnivorous; and microwaving usually isn't cooking, it is reheating or finishing the final step.
Right, so if you're desperate and camping with a bag of Doritos, and you feel too lazy to find kindling, light them on fire if you don't want to eat them. Uh yah...
Thanks John -my son is still obsessed with the soft-crunchy toast thing a couple of years after first watching this.
you did the glasses stand wrong
and the spoon in the ho;e is only for specific ti the pan
He also did the hammer and nail wrong, and the wooden spoon has to be thin not thick. This video seems really lazy and low quality, they should re-do the entire thing and actually investigate these hacks doing all of them properly.
and the toilet paper roll speaker
Rose BPOS yea
I agree
You where wearing your glasses when you cut those onions
That dosnt make a diffrence just saying
In fact, it keeps the fumes in between your eyes and the glasses, no joke, it hurts.
the sinnaces are what makes ur eyes water not eyes.....it's a fact
If you chew a gum while cutting onions, it will not make you cry... I've tried it..
Lily Ober
No it isn't.
My mother can fold a perfect square out of a fitted sheet. Mark's just a pleb.
Two tips:
1. To chop onions without tears, perform the chop on a cutting board that is also under your stove top exhaust fan. The running fan will take the volatile organic compounds that cause tears away from your face.
2. To mitigate foaming over from pans when you are cooking rice or other similar carbs, just add 1 tbsp of olive oil. It will help break up the bubbles.
A screw works with the cork, though.
the popcorn kernal one actually works. I use it all the time
"Menopause is brought to you with the help of..."
It really sounded like he said that.
A part of me died when he drank ICE COLD Guinness RIGHT OUT OF THE BOTTLE!!!