That was my understanding of the phrase. It's pointless because they're already dead and as long as your aiming for the barrel you are bound to hit one of them
Not sure if that was staged or not, but the elephant checking out Adam and Jamie and moving into petting distance while they were doing their bit to camera is just too cute. And a little scary ... :)
The elephant and mice myth is pretty interesting. In a few cases cartoons are right. Love the Chili Test. Lol i never hear about the "shoot fish in a Barrel" slogan.
I don't think elephants are afraid of mice, they are just afraid of small animals popping up in their path out of nowhere. I'm not afraid of mice but if I would enter the kitchen tomorrow and out a nowhere a mouse pops up from under the sink, I might also freak out for a second before I realize what's going on. Same goes for insects. I remember I once ran out of the room as a big and loud bug entered it through an open window, just to realize that is was only a Melolontha. They are big and they are loud but they are as harmless as it gets; they can neither bite nor sting and up to the mid 20th century they were even eaten by humans in parts of France and Germany (they were roasted and added to a soup) or used as chicken feed.
12:47 😆😅🤣 Proper surprised how the elephant reacted to the mouse 😯 Really curious why... And 47:10 that is just wasteful. Killing a fish but not eating it.
40:10 no tablespoon of plain sugar?? And the elephants coold have been tested with multiple tiny animals.. Maybe the elephant wouldn’t hurt the tiny mice
hmm they said there is NOTHING more american than going fishing. in my personal experience here in finland, i would argue that fishing is even MORE popular in MANY countries outside the usa.
I thought the saying "Shooting fish in a barrel" meant that something is so easy its like shooting fish in a barrel because you cant miss, not the other way around.
@@philbob9638 call me a liar for a 5% error lol🤗 thanks for the name I was just laying on the couch drunk off my ass with one open. But at least I remembered he was old🍻
@@philbob9638 sorry for the confusion it's a turn of phrase my friends and I use when we're only off by a little bit. Tone is difficult to convey through text it's funnier when you say it person
@@philbob9638 also no where in the history of time does telling somebody who's angry to calm down actually make them calm down. I also said lol🤗 and thanked you then gave a cheers 🍻 and you thought that meant I was angry? Perhaps you should calm down 🤔
Just for the record, for the Hot pepper remedy you guys missed the most effective one, HONEY! I can't believe it was not on your list. I tried milk, beer and water, but when I heard and tried the honey, it's many times better, more soothing, effective reliefe🌶️🍯🐝
Honey is very good, especially because of its high sugar content. Banana milkshake is a very good second due to the high potassium content which nutrifies capsaicids. The only qualm I have with this episode is that apparently the Trinidad butch T is 8 billion Scovilles.... Unfortunately it's not it caps around 1 to 1.4 million.
Maybe the elephants just dont want to stomp on the mouse, elephants have always been called gentle giants and that's probably why, that's my guess anyways.
Personally I go for bread (the more coarse the better imo), together with fatty milk. But to be honest I never tried, like, orange juice. Maybe that's even better.
I think that the expression “shooting fish in a barrel” is not about shooting live fish in a barrel. Fish used to be salted and packed in barrels, so the barrel was full of dead fish, so shooting them was easy. You can’t really miss unless you miss the whole barrel and they are packed in there like sardines, so you can’t miss. So easy pezzy. I think you guys missed the historic content of the saying.
The milk thing is all wrong, it's nothing to do with fat. It's about a specific protein in it. Because spice is fat soluble, apparently the fat part makes it worse. Something acidic or with a soaping effect shuts it down way sooner because it cleans you off, but it does burn much more intensely in the short term.
While that's true, specifically it's due to a protein called casein...this episode was produced in the mid 2000s. At the time, while doctors and food scientists knew about casein, they also thought the fat had an effect. Actually, when you say it's fat soluble and makes it worse, that doesn't make any sense, since if it's soluble it should help absorb and wash down the spice. That's what they believed, but more recent studies have shown that fat doesn't seem to make a difference either way, it neither helps nor makes it worse.
Its simple, the elephant is verry intelegent. Been aware of your seroundings is part of intelegence. The elephant knowing if it stepped on a mouse would cause pain, suffering and death. That is also intelegence. That prouves only one thing to me. The elephamt is more intelegent then us human. Just like all animals i have encountered up to date.
There's that but also one of the elephants definitely recoiled. Which makes me think it may be similar to someone walking upon a spider and being scared, maybe a more disgust issue
lol the bhut jolokia, or as it's better know, Ghost Pepper, has been overtaken as the hottest by now. The Carolina Reaper can reach double that of the Ghost Pepper.
11:04 Words cannot express how much I love the narrator for this show. But this moment sums up why. 18:57 The key is to swish the milk around in your mouth, instead of instantly swallowing it. Swish it around and get it in every nook and cranny of your mouth, then swallow. Don't gargle it, though. That's disgusting.
it's estimated that you would have to consume 1/50th your body weight in ghost pepper to die from consumption of hot pepper lol. so a 68kg (150lbs) person would need to consume 1.3kg (3 pounds) of ghost pepper. (again estimated)
41:45 Elephants are not afraid of mice - they are aware of them ;) and wild animals don't hunt/kill for fun or in carelessness, since it makes them vulnurable, attackable when they expose themselves or the victim exposes them by squeaking or roaring. Unlike humans, horrendously stupid animals don't survive long, most don't even last a full term/4 years. They don't die their gray hair or "bronze" their face-skin with orange glue either.
Jalapenos are not spicy. Habanero I can eat like snacks. It is not affecting him because he has built a tolerance to the chemical. It is all about training yourself. Further, the Scoville scale is linear, so 100k is just 10x 10k. Thus, when 10k is not very spicy it is not going to make 100k deadly.
I'm pretty sure that the shock wave that broke the barrel on the first test would also have killed the fish. So, in that way, the idiom is confirmed. Ok. I should probably have watched the whole video before commenting. Who knew?
it's 2:07 in the morning, and I am watching 2 adults playing around with a mechanized dead fish - an absolutely wonderful way to spend your night!
Shooting fish in a barrel of water is actually very tricky cause you have double refration.
@@MrMarinus18 yes, indeed.
@@MrMarinus18 Well, not really.. Even if you miss, they still die.
You should comment this on every video you watch
@@flibbidyx2 I might actually do that :)))
Jamie's maniacal laughing at the obliterated fish at the end is hilarious.
Hahahaha just imagine telling them years later that there is a hotter pepper XD
Ya I got some pepper x hot sauce 😂 probably wouldn't be so good
"... I'll bring it back to life. My way...."
And the scariest part of that is that you KNOW that Jamie means exactly what he says.
Who said anything about there being water in the barrel? Shooting fish in a barrel might just mean a barrel literally full of dead fish
That was my understanding of the phrase. It's pointless because they're already dead and as long as your aiming for the barrel you are bound to hit one of them
I don't think so, regardless, none of the fish in these examples dodged the bullets, their movements were negligible.
The saying would be 'as easy as shooting a barrel of fish' instead if that was the case
@@PlatoonGoon thank you xD
Keep those episodes coming! =D
Slingshot... I nearly died laughing!
I really need the flying guillotine episode. It was hilarious.
42:03 adam closes it on the mouses tail lol
Adam certainly like jokes about wild Hynemann )
Thanks for the download. Love this show.
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Not sure if that was staged or not, but the elephant checking out Adam and Jamie and moving into petting distance while they were doing their bit to camera is just too cute. And a little scary ... :)
The elephant and mice myth is pretty interesting. In a few cases cartoons are right. Love the Chili Test. Lol i never hear about the "shoot fish in a Barrel" slogan.
I don't think elephants are afraid of mice, they are just afraid of small animals popping up in their path out of nowhere. I'm not afraid of mice but if I would enter the kitchen tomorrow and out a nowhere a mouse pops up from under the sink, I might also freak out for a second before I realize what's going on. Same goes for insects. I remember I once ran out of the room as a big and loud bug entered it through an open window, just to realize that is was only a Melolontha. They are big and they are loud but they are as harmless as it gets; they can neither bite nor sting and up to the mid 20th century they were even eaten by humans in parts of France and Germany (they were roasted and added to a soup) or used as chicken feed.
43:00 a big favor, of the President xD
28:50 sugar? In toothpaste? Wtf
Murica
Go ahead make my chili and said it like clint eastwood dirty harry," go ahead make my day" 😂
6:49 That's really at the bottom of the barrel XD
17:14 Unfortunately it somewhat did albeit not from chilli
38:32 I almost threw up just thinking about vaseline in my mouth…
12:47 😆😅🤣
Proper surprised how the elephant reacted to the mouse 😯
Really curious why...
And 47:10 that is just wasteful. Killing a fish but not eating it.
40:10 no tablespoon of plain sugar?? And the elephants coold have been tested with multiple tiny animals.. Maybe the elephant wouldn’t hurt the tiny mice
😂😂that chillie dude is wearing chillie shirt🤣🤣🤣
hmm they said there is NOTHING more american than going fishing. in my personal experience here in finland, i would argue that fishing is even MORE popular in MANY countries outside the usa.
Try Australia
Pope of peppers, 😂. Never noticed that before.
I feel like the machine gun was like the viking funeral for fish. Holy moly.
Problem is, elefant did not see something like this before. White mouse in africa? So elefant just trying to be safe to unknown.
I thought the saying "Shooting fish in a barrel" meant that something is so easy its like shooting fish in a barrel because you cant miss, not the other way around.
I loved the old mythbusters. Growing up watching them. sadly if they try some of these stunts now, they'd be cancelled.
Seems crazy the amount of jokes they wouldnt get away with these days but they couldnt even use live fish😂
"..I've seen them on the discovery channel." - Jamie about elephants. Dude, you are on the Discovery channel!
I'm 100% sure this guys would survive the zombie apocalypse
- Hey Jamie, how do you think the zombies would react to this?
- Umm... I dunno. Why don't we try it out?
BOOM!!
naaaaah, they'd go down in a BOOM as they couldn't resist testing ALL the zombie myths. Science takesits victims... :(
The man who invented petroleum jelly would eat a spoonful of it every day he lived to be over 100
He (Robert Chesebrough) was 96 when he died
@@philbob9638 call me a liar for a 5% error lol🤗 thanks for the name I was just laying on the couch drunk off my ass with one open. But at least I remembered he was old🍻
@@dillon5285 Calm down, no one called you liar.
@@philbob9638 sorry for the confusion it's a turn of phrase my friends and I use when we're only off by a little bit. Tone is difficult to convey through text it's funnier when you say it person
@@philbob9638 also no where in the history of time does telling somebody who's angry to calm down actually make them calm down.
I also said lol🤗 and thanked you then gave a cheers 🍻 and you thought that meant I was angry? Perhaps you should calm down 🤔
Slingshot.
That got me too! 😄
Just for the record, for the Hot pepper remedy you guys missed the most effective one, HONEY! I can't believe it was not on your list. I tried milk, beer and water, but when I heard and tried the honey, it's many times better, more soothing, effective reliefe🌶️🍯🐝
honey rules!🍯🐝
Honey is very good, especially because of its high sugar content. Banana milkshake is a very good second due to the high potassium content which nutrifies capsaicids.
The only qualm I have with this episode is that apparently the Trinidad butch T is 8 billion Scovilles.... Unfortunately it's not it caps around 1 to 1.4 million.
send more mythbusters
Should tested with natural color mouse, it may been unnatural white that scare elephant.
Still a bunch of pussys were that the case.
Elephants doesn`t have to be "afraid" of mice, maybe they circle around Not to accidentally hurt them.
Maybe the elephants just dont want to stomp on the mouse, elephants have always been called gentle giants and that's probably why, that's my guess anyways.
I've actually found that acidity does a better job than fat at neutralizing capsaicin
weed works great aswell especially on the really hot ones like the scorpion or the reaper where milk just wont cut it
Strong alcohol is all you need
Personally I go for bread (the more coarse the better imo), together with fatty milk.
But to be honest I never tried, like, orange juice. Maybe that's even better.
@@jumpman8282 Try cutting a lemon in half, bite & suck the juice out. Vinegar works even better
@@gubbel91wub I think weed makes it worse.
a bit of baking soda in water does the trick right away.
02:59 Maggi in the Background! German!! X3❤
Cucumder slices!!!
That elephant totally got spooked by the piece of dung "falling over" not by the mouse
Ok apparently not. I wrote that before watching all of it :D
I think that the expression “shooting fish in a barrel” is not about shooting live fish in a barrel. Fish used to be salted and packed in barrels, so the barrel was full of dead fish, so shooting them was easy. You can’t really miss unless you miss the whole barrel and they are packed in there like sardines, so you can’t miss. So easy pezzy. I think you guys missed the historic content of the saying.
Nah I think they got it right and it's just an exaggeration
The milk thing is all wrong, it's nothing to do with fat. It's about a specific protein in it.
Because spice is fat soluble, apparently the fat part makes it worse.
Something acidic or with a soaping effect shuts it down way sooner because it cleans you off, but it does burn much more intensely in the short term.
While that's true, specifically it's due to a protein called casein...this episode was produced in the mid 2000s. At the time, while doctors and food scientists knew about casein, they also thought the fat had an effect. Actually, when you say it's fat soluble and makes it worse, that doesn't make any sense, since if it's soluble it should help absorb and wash down the spice. That's what they believed, but more recent studies have shown that fat doesn't seem to make a difference either way, it neither helps nor makes it worse.
there is sugar... in toothpaste?
a fish has reflexes
Its simple, the elephant is verry intelegent. Been aware of your seroundings is part of intelegence. The elephant knowing if it stepped on a mouse would cause pain, suffering and death. That is also intelegence. That prouves only one thing to me. The elephamt is more intelegent then us human. Just like all animals i have encountered up to date.
There's that but also one of the elephants definitely recoiled. Which makes me think it may be similar to someone walking upon a spider and being scared, maybe a more disgust issue
was it possible the elephant didnt want accidentally harm the mouse
So why did they use a white mouse? A mouse that is not found in the wild?
This can not be concluded as scientific evidence.
i think the mouse elphant mythe is based on sounds
27:05, 28:13, 38:38, 39:34 their taste bud is destroyed aight
lol the bhut jolokia, or as it's better know, Ghost Pepper, has been overtaken as the hottest by now. The Carolina Reaper can reach double that of the Ghost Pepper.
Ed just got the title of hottest chili in the world with Pepper X.
they forgot that they do not need to hit it, it will float up for sure
32:00 that woman knows nothing of animals. Poor elephants.
fish in the barrel of the gun
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME !
(Visit a friend)
11:04 Words cannot express how much I love the narrator for this show. But this moment sums up why.
18:57 The key is to swish the milk around in your mouth, instead of instantly swallowing it. Swish it around and get it in every nook and cranny of your mouth, then swallow. Don't gargle it, though. That's disgusting.
Confirmed
17:18 "my head doesnt explode"
R.I.P. Grand, who died to a head aneurisma
I thought the myth was for bow and arrow...
it's estimated that you would have to consume 1/50th your body weight in ghost pepper to die from consumption of hot pepper lol.
so a 68kg (150lbs) person would need to consume 1.3kg (3 pounds) of ghost pepper. (again estimated)
as long as you don't die from the anaphylactic shock like symptoms..
you can drink several kilos of water and still drown in a puddle :D
wait you can fish with sound
Not sure why they had to use real fish after all that
Habanero? Woosies… try scorpion, carolina or trinad and then talk
I Love Chillis ! Yummy Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
😂😂
I'm eating chili bacon bones boil up right now ! 😋 Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Not a seabass, its a Corvina. Just saying.
It's season 5
But what if they stamped the mice?
jamie got cod out..............
"thank God for that" about a minigun...wtf.. its a human killing maschine only.
Why does Karie move her arms so much every time she speaks?
41:45 Elephants are not afraid of mice - they are aware of them ;) and wild animals don't hunt/kill for fun or in carelessness, since it makes them vulnurable, attackable when they expose themselves or the victim exposes them by squeaking or roaring. Unlike humans, horrendously stupid animals don't survive long, most don't even last a full term/4 years. They don't die their gray hair or "bronze" their face-skin with orange glue either.
Jalapenos are not spicy. Habanero I can eat like snacks. It is not affecting him because he has built a tolerance to the chemical. It is all about training yourself.
Further, the Scoville scale is linear, so 100k is just 10x 10k. Thus, when 10k is not very spicy it is not going to make 100k deadly.
It seemed the method of Adam and Jamie appealed to one group of people and the build team was a different approach with flamboyance. Am I wrong?
I'm pretty sure that the shock wave that broke the barrel on the first test would also have killed the fish.
So, in that way, the idiom is confirmed.
Ok. I should probably have watched the whole video before commenting. Who knew?
*puts mouse in dung then mouth*
Nothing more american than fishing? Pretty sure the whole world fishes... 🤔 Though... There's nothing more Canadian than breathing, so... 🙃
Cultural appropriation! I am offended for other people!
Does anyone else think it's crazy how many times they shot guns in the city? Always in a safe manner, but still