DINGO!! I watched you on a different account and couldn't remember your name and i heard your voice and.... like.... HIIIIII!!!!!! I feel as if I just found my lost dog.
I just wonder what the other gifts were to make a giant ham look like the least attractive option. What were they, gold bricks? Tickets to a major concert or sports event? What could outdo a giant ham? What?
@@thediamondsword1510 No, the ham wins. You'd have to eat the burrito right away or else it wouldn't be good anymore. Ham, even after being cooked, can last for days.
@Joseph Perry - In the UK we have really hot, really cold and rain. The first two can happen in the same week (a couple of weeks ago actually - >20° then snow fell two days later). That said, the default climate here is "Soggy". Anything outside the usual 0 - 20° range is a total shock to the system & usually ends up with someone doing something incredibly stupid (like sunbathing for 12hrs, swim in a canal or trying to ski off a roof)
"The future? what do think I am Merlin? I don't even know what pants I'll be wearing tomorrow. Probably the same ones I wore today because I'm a deadbeat with no direction in my life" why does that resonate with me but also make me feel attacked
What are you passionate about? You know... eating. Uhm living indoors. Heat is the best. Oh and running water. So basically any job that helps provide those things I... am.... really passionate about.
"We don't have snow, we have fire. Lots of fire" And believe it or not it, while MOSTLY California's fault for not setting controlled burns, it's also very heavily AUSTRALIA'S FAULT. See back in the 1910s some investors wanted to import some trees into California, and somehow they settled on the eucalyptus tree from Australia. The Australians were thrilled, and gladly sold them tens of thousands of trees while leaving out 2 important bits of information about the eucalyptus tree. Fact 1.) Eucalyptus trees take about 100 years to grow, so dozens of investors lost their shirt when the trees didn't grow as fast as they thought they would. Fact 2.) Eucalyptus trees produce HIGHLY FLAMMABLE AND EXPLOSIVE OIL THAT WILL IGNITE DUE TO HIGH HEAT. This is a natural part of their lifecyle, due to them taking so long to grow they evolved a method to ENCOURAGE forest fires. The fires don't harm the Eucalyptus trees seeds, which are helped by the fire clearing the underbrush allowing eucalyptus sprouts to get plenty of sunlight and hell half the time the fire doesn't even hurt most of the eucalyptus trees which wind up re sprouting after the fire anyway inspite of the fact that they'll look completely charred. Eucalyptus oil is so flammable that giant jets of flame have been seen as high as 20 meters in the air coming off of burning eucalyptus trees. These jets of fire are extremely dangerous because they tend to just shoot fire all over the place catching more treetops on fire. Other nations that got turned into fire hazards by eucalyptus trees bought from Australia is Portugal and Israel. The Australians are systematically attempting to burn the world in revenge for being sentenced to live in Australia.
Fact 1) I did not know that about eucalypts being imported. Fact 2) BHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA X'D fkn drongos should've ASKED before buying X'D Fact 3) the trees also take advantage of the ash that's left behind after a bushfire, the ground is saturated with vital nutrients and minerals, that's why they come back to life so quickly.
gotta say that makes alot of sense, I always kinda wondered why that place was so flammable... well coulda been worse they coulda decided to import alot of The Sandbox Tree, and trust me the deaths by impalement would be highest they'd ever be if that happened
Apparently something like 57% of California’s forests owned by federal agencies? According to the report linked below the state of California only owns about 3% of the forests in California (at least during 2005 or so). www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr763.pdf So does the federal government block controlled fires? Honest question, got mixed information when googling it.
Dum da- Dum da- Dum da da ra ta Dum da- Dum da- Dum da da ra ta Cali's like a hurricane, it's a- fire storm flaming cars and no snow it's a-bum-mer. Lets show him winter in all its glitter Snow days, a woo hoO! every day its out there lying Snow men, a woo hoO! Tales of freezing ice and hot co-co, a woo hoO! D-D-Danger sits below you its a patch of dark ice out to get you! What will you do with a broken backbone? a woo hoO! Man its really freezing up here Cana- a woo hoO! Canada is great with weed but Snow, man, a woo hoO! Thank you, I'll be here all winter, in my igloo, happy holidays from Canada, sorry for the long comment
PA resident here. There are 3 roads that take me to work, and on any given day 1-2 of them are under construction. It's the worst guessing game ever :'(
Paine Sales exactly, i mean there’s a literal giant ham in my fridge right now and i’m literally always looking at it and wondering, damn, when are we eating that!?!??!
As a person who has lived in both California and Colorado I can Confirm that the weather is exactly as described so remember to bring your puffy jackets and to wear your fire retardant clothing so that you get immunity to thermal damage.
As another fellow Californian I've only seen it fully snow a few times, I was lucky enough to get 2 snow days in a row once in highschool. Later in college I was surprised to hear people from other states complain about getting too much snow. I would snap at them of course because like been said, all we have is fire over here, which one is safe to play with kids?
As a fellow Californian I can say it snowed once in the central valley, and we all just threw snow balls with rocks in them at each other. Because we don't know what joy is.
It's an insane system utilizing metaphysical d20, set in a dystopian future where everyone plays as a NPC, game sessions usually last 80-100 years if you're lucky. Unique world building potential but too many rules imo.
As someone who ALSO grew up in Southern California, I was equally enamored by snow when I first moved to the East Coast at 18 (it was the first time I saw it in real life) Now that I've lived well over a decade in NYC I can finally say...I STILL FUCKING LOVE SNOW!! It's awesome!! I love how silent the city gets when it's heavy snow and I actually LOVE putting on snow boots and bundling up to trudge through a blizzard. It never gets old Ben! IT NEVER GETS OLD!! PS: I also do NOT miss Wildfire season. Now, when I smell BBQ, I know it's actually BBQ and not a giant fire causing me to evacuate my house.
I've got eyes on the target, team alpha is on extraction while team bravo will cover the retreat. The boss believes the target will be heavily guarded. Operation Ham is a go go go.
When I get asked by a cousin or family guest "So, what do you do?" I say "Oh gosh, as little as possible." It works as a brush-off joke but also I say it with _just_ enough conviction that they think "Hmm is...this guy actually serious?" and they generally drop the subject. 😂
Remember Ben, your younger ones will eventually find out you're a youtuber with nearly 500k subscribers, and thats just something you'll have to deal with eventually.
White Elephant story: I worked at a road venue while I was in college. My last year there, we had a white elephant game in the office. Our master electrician, Dana, picked a box at random and opened it. It was a snuggie. Dana's eyes lit up. "I have actually always wanted a Snuggie!" Dana exclaimed. The next person, Brenda, immediately stole the Snuggie from Dana. He was beside himself. For the rest of the season Brenda became "The Snuggie Bitch." Toward the end of the season Dana announced he had found a new job and would be leaving. We had a going away party for Dana. Brenda hands Dana an innocuous small box to open. Dana shakes it. He looks at her. "Is it my Snuggie?!" He asks with faux outrage. He opened it and discovered that Brenda had had the Snuggie embroidered with our theatre's logo. Had always intended to give it back.
as you scan amongst the complete bedlam that is the white elephant tourney,you see something out of the corner of your eye that pulls your attention towards it,a giant ham held aloft in someones hands,you think about the ham and the potential of future flavor,the smell of spices & the the feeling of drowsiness after having a meal replete with succulent porcine nourishment.but that pleasant daydream washes away when you make eye contact with the man holding the giant slab of ham, disheveled yet determined to keep others at bay he locks eyes with you and says "the lot of you best keep walking,ive got plans for this slab of ham",he lowers into what appears to be some kind of fighting stance,roll for initiative....
@@vicb1248 There was an old Twilight Zone episode like that once---someone killed somebody else with a frozen piece of mutton then cooked and served it to the police investigating the case. I hear muttons an acquired taste though, that if you never had it before then its kinda gross.
@@Perid0tStar This is also the plot of both a Hitchcock short film and a short story by Roald Dahl. No idea which one was first. In both the crime is committed by a wife on her husband for no real reason but to break monotony.
I proceed to steal the snow man cutting board and throw it at Ben so that he is tackled by the two women who were fighting over it. In the chaos I steal the ham and make my get away as he struggles to get out from the middle of a heated death match.
As someone from Arizona, I entirely understand the "we have only three seasons" bit, however Arizona only has 2, hot and sunny, and slightly less hot and sunny. Anyways, happy holidays, and all glory to Ham!
Hey! You forgot about FIRE season. It's a big old long season that bookends Roasting season and Swampy, Wet Rainy for Five Days season... At least I don't have to deal with my joints turning to stone and hurting like a failed torture session and shoveling out the driveway. Yeah, thank goodness Phoenix only gets snow once every 25 years... Oh Gawd! We're due for snow!
@@HeckleJeckle87 A divination wizard can use those spells too. He can cast them on himself and use his Portent to ensure he doesn't become exhausted during the trip. Since, he is at least a 7th level caster he knows the teleport spell and since he has a full year to prepare he can store teleport scrolls or magic items that store teleport and put all of that into his Endless Bag of Holding.
aw man I love white elephant, my family has been playing every christmas eve for like 15 years now. We have loads of fun with it, that may have to do the fact though that all of our gifts are junk/funny gifts. every one shows up with a pile of tat they found at the dollar store or cvs and we have a laugh. plus we have a rule for it that a gift can only be stolen twice, so if there is actually something you really want you got to be tactical with it lol. it's great fun
White elephant cane be fairly decent, as long as no one breaks the rule of "no good gifts". I mean if every one else is getting candy, toilet plungers or sponge bob bubble bath sets it's fine. But if there is that one guy that puts in a Nintendo Switch into the pool... heads will roll.
@@JustaGuy_Gaming Putting in something expensive is fine, just as long as all the things are around that area. Putting in a switch with candy, that’s a bad idea. But if it’s all things that cost like, about £15, then I could see it just being a high stakes game
Still trying to sort out whether they simply failed their perception check to understand the versatility of ham, or if they are Paladins/Vegans, whose oath prohibits them from consuming pork produces?
I too am jealous of your ham. I ran into a different situation where I entered the SECRET SANTA gift exchange. NO ONE TOLD US THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES BEFOREHAND. So I went into it blind. I, thankfully, was given a hint that my likes were similar to the person I matched with. I don't think I will be as lucky though since i am new. Merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate)!
Fellow SoCal's let me hear your voice! We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it
In my experience I’ve found that Monopoly is better suited for tearing apart families than friendships. Although I recommend Sorry as a universal relationship destroying game.
@@christiansmith804 that is a fantastic question and the answer is we got it all we got bonfires,forest fires,house fires,trash fires big or small fire can come in any size here in cali
@@christophercrafte Fellow Cali person here, can confirm. We have so many kinds of fire that we even got trolled by the universe where a giant wildfire was called the Camp Fire (due to where it started). So its like 'oh a little campfire huh? ....Oh crap!' I hope we get back to normal someday where its mostly earthquakes. A lot of them aren't as bad as people think, your chair jiggles gently for a few seconds then its over.
In all of my short films, Jimmy is my generic guy name and Susie is my generic girl name. Unfortunately, this translates into my D&D game where my friend who plays Susan has a character named Sue, while I have an npc named Susan...and they work together. To make matters worse, my friend Sam plays Sue and my friend Grady plays Gregory. Anyway, I laughed a little too hard when Jimmy and Susie were the kids getting presents.
Moving from Australia (where December is national bushfire month) to England I totally understand you. First day of snow, I took the day off of work and just run around and played. My wife, who grew up in snow, thought it was insane. But SNOW! It was so WHITE! And FLUFFY! And I made snowballs, and I made a little snowman, and my footprints were in the snow and there was snow on cars so I traced christmas trees in their windshield from snow and I put snow on my wifes head and made a snow angel and IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!
Why didn't they want the giant ham? Have they not had maple glazed ham before? Are they them Vegans those don't last to long in the cold usually fixes them right up after the second week of frozen fire.
@@funnyblog100 There's also a card game called "White Elephant" that would make a very meta present at a white elephant (although it would be even better if the game had a porcelain white elephant as one of the gifts in it, I think they missed that trick).
@@robertnett9793 Yeah, I work in a park, all my bosses are Law Enforcement. Things get interesting during the White Elephant gift exchange. I have only stolen a gift once in the 4 years I have been there, and it was because the person obviously did not want it.
Yes, I can reinforce this statement, California has three seasons and is constantly on fire. We don’t have snow days off from school, we get smoke days.
Smoke days off is not a joke. Went to a highschool on the beach so smoke wasn't a problem, but middle school just a little bit inland, I got more smoke days off than some people get snow days!
I think I'm going to watch this every day until Christmas. So many great quotes. "Don't gimme yo sass, Jimmy!" "3 seasons!" And serious dude, the ham? WHY WOULD THEY NOT WANT IT?!?!? Happy holidays, Puffin, and you too, Dingo. You both have made my life brighter.
"whoever decides to pay me to do stuff for them is the stuff I'm going to do." God, I feel that. Somehow I ended up doing report creation and low level data analysis for a logistics company??? I was trying for a political science degree!
Thanksgiving, the holiday where you pretend you're thankful and content with everything you have and then littery the very next day we fight each other to buy more stuff on black Friday.
@@canadiankirby9508 I see what you did there 😋It only seems like a month and a half, and only if you're one of the suckers who still actually goes to a store on Black Friday instead of buying online.
I totally relate to the Californian seeing Snow thing, but like, in the EXACT opposite way. You see, I'm from Oklahoma, and I have a friend from New York who came down to visit for Thanksgiving. I have never seen a man more disappointed, then when he realized that A) we do in fact live in modern times, B) that we're NOT all cowboys and indians, and C) that he *WASN'T* essentially coming to an old west settler style thanksgiving.
46... I've gotten 46 pictures of snow............so far...
XD Maybe if you make it snow regularly in the winter in California, you won't get any more.
BTW, you were probably the best part of the video.
DINGO!! I watched you on a different account and couldn't remember your name and i heard your voice and.... like.... HIIIIII!!!!!! I feel as if I just found my lost dog.
There will be more...
Your suffering will continue until his phone runs out of memory
"The real world?" Haven't heard of that Dungeon . . .
its the only dungeon you can't win
Its really open world and all the npcs screw you over alot. Very unbalanced, and need to be updated
The problem is, the Gm seems to not give a damn. XD
@@darkesch9502 But i'm winning it right now!
@@llanfairpwlgwyngyll7331 I was taking a shot at it but some how I got a 1 for every stat
"its like, ice-cold." said the BIO-CHEMIST.
The WHAT?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 that's his day job.
@@tyrant-den884 dear gods
Sounds better than, “it’s like, got a temperature below or equal to 273.15 Kelvin.”
@@QualityPen or just 0 celsius.
You're not crazy for taking the giant ham! Everyone else is crazy for NOT taking it.
Eh, the pompous creme filled box of chocolates are a better gift. He can have the Ham.
@@jackielinde7568 Do you know him or something IRL...?
I just wonder what the other gifts were to make a giant ham look like the least attractive option. What were they, gold bricks? Tickets to a major concert or sports event? What could outdo a giant ham? What?
I mean a giant burrito might be better maybe?
@@thediamondsword1510 No, the ham wins. You'd have to eat the burrito right away or else it wouldn't be good anymore. Ham, even after being cooked, can last for days.
“Whoever decides to pay me to do stuff with them, it’s the stuff I’m going to do”
Just found my senior quote
Aw darn you're right. Well it's too late for me I already locked in my quote this year as a Stormlight archive quote.
As an adult, This checks out as the course in life of everyone I know.
That sounds like a hooker's motto, so while it's funny right now you might not want to look back on that in 20 years
Thankfully nobody gives a fuck about highschool immediately after you graduate.
Mine was "King's don't have friends, only subjects and enemies!"
Ben trying to find a job is just him playing every class. How Abserd!
Hahhaahh ABSARED
This comment deserves to be pinned.
aCtUaLlY iTs SpElT aBsUrD
"We have fire where I'm from. A lot of fire!"
"Where are you from?"
"The Elemental Plane of Fire."
Aka California
@@turma8eacOh, Noo, Not California!!!
“Sunny, muggy, and car accidents!”
Man I love it when it car accidents.
Dancing in the car accidents!
He almost forgot the fourth weather condition: state-wide firestorms
Mhmmm tasty death of organics
@@leobrad2199 Yeah especially during the summer and fall more often in fall though. For some reason, it likes drowning Ventura in a sea of flames.
I felt that description, it is very close to what we have in MN: Winter and Road Construction.
"I'm from Southern California, we have three seasons. Sunny, muggy, and car accidents!"
Just like in Vegas there's sunny, cloudy, and blackout drunk
@Joseph Perry - In the UK we have really hot, really cold and rain. The first two can happen in the same week (a couple of weeks ago actually - >20° then snow fell two days later).
That said, the default climate here is "Soggy".
Anything outside the usual 0 - 20° range is a total shock to the system & usually ends up with someone doing something incredibly stupid (like sunbathing for 12hrs, swim in a canal or trying to ski off a roof)
You could be classified as a *_hamburgler_*
wow 😮
U sure are a legendary
Omg yesss
I’d say he is more of a HAMlet
That pun was
*HAM*azing!
Heh, as an Australian I know that snow does not really exist, you can't trick me.
You can't trick me, I know that Australia isn't real
Says the non-existent person from a non-existent country
I know right, next they'll tell us that Christmas is in winter. Could you imagine?
If the snow was upside down would it be more believable?
Much like the outdoors to anyone who lives on the internet.
"The future? what do think I am Merlin? I don't even know what pants I'll be wearing tomorrow. Probably the same ones I wore today because I'm a deadbeat with no direction in my life" why does that resonate with me but also make me feel attacked
Because it's such a good set of lines
"whoever pays me to do stuff, thats the stuff i want to be doing" damn straight, exactly how i keep finding my next passion
@@toasthead Jokes on you I was going to do that anyways
What are you passionate about?
You know... eating. Uhm living indoors. Heat is the best. Oh and running water. So basically any job that helps provide those things I... am.... really passionate about.
I don’t seem to do passion. I mean, okay, I’ve got some stories in my head I’m passionate about, but getting them on paper, not so much.
"We don't have snow, we have fire. Lots of fire"
And believe it or not it, while MOSTLY California's fault for not setting controlled burns, it's also very heavily AUSTRALIA'S FAULT.
See back in the 1910s some investors wanted to import some trees into California, and somehow they settled on the eucalyptus tree from Australia. The Australians were thrilled, and gladly sold them tens of thousands of trees while leaving out 2 important bits of information about the eucalyptus tree.
Fact 1.) Eucalyptus trees take about 100 years to grow, so dozens of investors lost their shirt when the trees didn't grow as fast as they thought they would.
Fact 2.) Eucalyptus trees produce HIGHLY FLAMMABLE AND EXPLOSIVE OIL THAT WILL IGNITE DUE TO HIGH HEAT. This is a natural part of their lifecyle, due to them taking so long to grow they evolved a method to ENCOURAGE forest fires. The fires don't harm the Eucalyptus trees seeds, which are helped by the fire clearing the underbrush allowing eucalyptus sprouts to get plenty of sunlight and hell half the time the fire doesn't even hurt most of the eucalyptus trees which wind up re sprouting after the fire anyway inspite of the fact that they'll look completely charred.
Eucalyptus oil is so flammable that giant jets of flame have been seen as high as 20 meters in the air coming off of burning eucalyptus trees. These jets of fire are extremely dangerous because they tend to just shoot fire all over the place catching more treetops on fire.
Other nations that got turned into fire hazards by eucalyptus trees bought from Australia is Portugal and Israel. The Australians are systematically attempting to burn the world in revenge for being sentenced to live in Australia.
Fact 1) I did not know that about eucalypts being imported.
Fact 2) BHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA X'D fkn drongos should've ASKED before buying X'D
Fact 3) the trees also take advantage of the ash that's left behind after a bushfire, the ground is saturated with vital nutrients and minerals, that's why they come back to life so quickly.
gotta say that makes alot of sense, I always kinda wondered why that place was so flammable... well coulda been worse they coulda decided to import alot of The Sandbox Tree, and trust me the deaths by impalement would be highest they'd ever be if that happened
Apparently something like 57% of California’s forests owned by federal agencies? According to the report linked below the state of California only owns about 3% of the forests in California (at least during 2005 or so).
www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr763.pdf
So does the federal government block controlled fires? Honest question, got mixed information when googling it.
Of cause Australia has a tree of burning death.
@@FreeOfFantasy Australia, if the animals aren't trying to kill you then it's the plantlife
Oak Tales, a woo hoo!
Every day they're out there making Oak Tales, a woo hoo!
Ummm ... I think I broke the thumbs up button. It won't let thumbs up this anymore.
Dum da- Dum da- Dum da da ra ta
Dum da- Dum da- Dum da da ra ta
Cali's like a hurricane,
it's a- fire storm
flaming cars and no snow
it's a-bum-mer.
Lets show him winter
in all its glitter
Snow days, a woo hoO!
every day its out there lying
Snow men, a woo hoO!
Tales of freezing ice and hot co-co, a woo hoO!
D-D-Danger sits below you
its a patch of dark ice
out to get you!
What will you do with a broken backbone? a woo hoO!
Man its really freezing up here
Cana- a woo hoO!
Canada is great with weed but
Snow, man, a woo hoO!
Thank you, I'll be here all winter, in my igloo, happy holidays from Canada, sorry for the long comment
Ho. Ly. Shit.
This needs like 5,000 times more thumbs up than my original comment. I'm amazed.
Now the first question that needs to be answered before the tale begins
Are you a boy or a girl
Boy Girl
^ ^
DAMMIT! Beat me to it!
Well up in Pennslyvania we have two seasons. Winter and road work.
depends. east philly or west pittsburgh?
those are the seasons in most of the midwest too
Up here in Alaska we have one season, winter.
Western PA
PA resident here. There are 3 roads that take me to work, and on any given day 1-2 of them are under construction. It's the worst guessing game ever :'(
"I don't want your sass Jimmy!" Laughed so hard the cat moved off of my lap
Puffin, what you don't realise is that California is where the portal to the elemental plane of fire is, so good luck closing that bad boy :P
If California contains the portal to the elemental plane of fire than North Carolina contains the portal to the elemental plane of water.
I'm pretty sure "Wildfires" is a season in California. Right between "No Clouds Whatsoever for 3 Months" and "Light Rain."
California needs a good hurricane to quench the fires in my opinion.
And then every 20 years there's EXTREME DOWNPOUR for no reason whatsoever
Most parts of the world call it Summer. Cali calls it "the great purge of the unholy forests."
That makes way too much sense...
So how is it affecting postal services?
"I DON'T WANNA HEAR YOUR SASS JIMMY!"
Came to the comments for this.
The giant ham was hilarious. WHY DIDN'T THEY WANT IT? It's hammy goodness.
It must be one of those Kosher Biomedical Research Facilities I've heard so much about.
Paine Sales
exactly, i mean there’s a literal giant ham in my fridge right now and i’m literally always looking at it and wondering, damn, when are we eating that!?!??!
As a fellow Californian I can confirm the weather ben described
As a person who has lived in both California and Colorado I can Confirm that the weather is exactly as described so remember to bring your puffy jackets and to wear your fire retardant clothing so that you get immunity to thermal damage.
As someone who moved from california to illinois i can confirm the wonder of "is snow suppossed to be this cold?"
As another fellow Californian I've only seen it fully snow a few times, I was lucky enough to get 2 snow days in a row once in highschool. Later in college I was surprised to hear people from other states complain about getting too much snow. I would snap at them of course because like been said, all we have is fire over here, which one is safe to play with kids?
As a fellow Californian I can say it snowed once in the central valley, and we all just threw snow balls with rocks in them at each other. Because we don't know what joy is.
Florida’s weather is like god rolling a d20 every day
The people just don't recognize a good ham when they see one. Such a shame
The Real World? I'm not familiar with that system. Is it d20 or dice pool?
d12 based.
and highly dependent on your starting stats
It's an insane system utilizing metaphysical d20, set in a dystopian future where everyone plays as a NPC, game sessions usually last 80-100 years if you're lucky. Unique world building potential but too many rules imo.
No it’s actually played via roulette wheel that you exchange for a new one every 5 years.
You use 20 d4 actually
As someone who ALSO grew up in Southern California, I was equally enamored by snow when I first moved to the East Coast at 18 (it was the first time I saw it in real life)
Now that I've lived well over a decade in NYC I can finally say...I STILL FUCKING LOVE SNOW!! It's awesome!!
I love how silent the city gets when it's heavy snow and I actually LOVE putting on snow boots and bundling up to trudge through a blizzard. It never gets old Ben! IT NEVER GETS OLD!!
PS: I also do NOT miss Wildfire season. Now, when I smell BBQ, I know it's actually BBQ and not a giant fire causing me to evacuate my house.
I live in southern California now, i when i was young, i lived on the East coast
Yes but then when the snow disappears and all you got is cold, dry, dead weather it really gets out my bitching
Burn California burn
Really up here in Canada we have tons of snow
Would you like to borrow some?
One day California will break away and float off into the pacific... burning... like a viking funeral.
I've got eyes on the target, team alpha is on extraction while team bravo will cover the retreat. The boss believes the target will be heavily guarded. Operation Ham is a go go go.
When I get asked by a cousin or family guest "So, what do you do?"
I say "Oh gosh, as little as possible."
It works as a brush-off joke but also I say it with _just_ enough conviction that they think "Hmm is...this guy actually serious?" and they generally drop the subject. 😂
P.S. I am serious, tho....heh.
I love you man, I'm stealing that one.
Yoink
Or just say well you know working
Family: like what
Just stuff you know trying get through life is all
Imma steal that
Those love-tackeling doggos are perfect!!!! Never change you two.
:)
Remember Ben, your younger ones will eventually find out you're a youtuber with nearly 500k subscribers, and thats just something you'll have to deal with eventually.
600k
650k
@@laimonasu.8274 655k
664k
@@thegremlin2822 666k
All that was missing was Absurd accent
No one wants the ham that is Absurd
Hold on isn't it "Abserd"
I think it was a limited run and you had to preorder it months in advance. I heard it's pretty boring though. Everyone plays an elf.
gyp me that that would be
Abserd
NO ONE WANTED THE HAM?!? What the hell is wrong with them?!?
I know, right?!
Maybe the joke was he was supposed to get the ham. (the first person.) Because it was the worst gift.
I Giant slab of meat is their joke gift? Sounds nice to me.
There are people in this world that don't make much sense.
Did they know it was ham?
I went to one of those white elephant things, it was just like the incident with the ham, except it was a size 17 tire, and everyone fought for it
White Elephant story: I worked at a road venue while I was in college. My last year there, we had a white elephant game in the office. Our master electrician, Dana, picked a box at random and opened it. It was a snuggie.
Dana's eyes lit up.
"I have actually always wanted a Snuggie!" Dana exclaimed.
The next person, Brenda, immediately stole the Snuggie from Dana. He was beside himself. For the rest of the season Brenda became "The Snuggie Bitch." Toward the end of the season Dana announced he had found a new job and would be leaving. We had a going away party for Dana. Brenda hands Dana an innocuous small box to open.
Dana shakes it. He looks at her. "Is it my Snuggie?!" He asks with faux outrage.
He opened it and discovered that Brenda had had the Snuggie embroidered with our theatre's logo. Had always intended to give it back.
You just gave me diabetes.
What is a snuggie?
@@noxouphe4370 snuggiestore.com/
@@malcolmcampbell3912 Oh ok, thanks.
That is adorable.
We all want to be a raptor, We all want to be a raptor puffin
pft raptor, dream big, be a t-rex!
@@scienceguy8888 puffins are birds, birds evolved from dinosaurs, puffin is already raptor
I do not want to be a raptor
Don't be silly, Adrian. Of course you do.
Thank you puffin, thank you. I have been thinking it sense I was six.
Silly, everyone knows the 4 seasons of California: Wind, Fire, Mud, Earthquakes
but everything changed when Fire nation attacked...
@@anon2447
Send in the Avatar!
OH GOD, NOT- NOT CALIFORNIA, WITH THAT AWFUL CITADEL ELL AYE
Ryan Wesemann but when the world needed him most, he got into a car accident on I-15.
He’s just lucky I wasn’t at that White Elephant game because I would have actually fought him for that ham.
as you scan amongst the complete bedlam that is the white elephant tourney,you see something out of the corner of your eye that pulls your attention towards it,a giant ham held aloft in someones hands,you think about the ham and the potential of future flavor,the smell of spices & the the feeling of drowsiness after having a meal replete with succulent porcine nourishment.but that pleasant daydream washes away when you make eye contact with the man holding the giant slab of ham, disheveled yet determined to keep others at bay he locks eyes with you and says "the lot of you best keep walking,ive got plans for this slab of ham",he lowers into what appears to be some kind of fighting stance,roll for initiative....
Take the ham and smack someone upside the head with it. Delicious and Murderous.
@@vicb1248 There was an old Twilight Zone episode like that once---someone killed somebody else with a frozen piece of mutton then cooked and served it to the police investigating the case. I hear muttons an acquired taste though, that if you never had it before then its kinda gross.
@@Perid0tStar This is also the plot of both a Hitchcock short film and a short story by Roald Dahl. No idea which one was first. In both the crime is committed by a wife on her husband for no real reason but to break monotony.
I proceed to steal the snow man cutting board and throw it at Ben so that he is tackled by the two women who were fighting over it. In the chaos I steal the ham and make my get away as he struggles to get out from the middle of a heated death match.
Oooh cool, Dingo!! I like when these peeps team up on stuff.
I know I love how they're friends now and are teaming up. Makes my heart happy
@@TimidTracker Yeah it is absolutely fantastic!! Haha
Ben: I want to be a velociraptor.
Me: Is that a jojo reference (part 7)
Just thought he was a furry or something.
That video proves that you are a good story-teller, that was pretty cool, D&D or not i had a good time, thank you :)
As someone from Arizona, I entirely understand the "we have only three seasons" bit, however Arizona only has 2, hot and sunny, and slightly less hot and sunny. Anyways, happy holidays, and all glory to Ham!
Hey! You forgot about FIRE season. It's a big old long season that bookends Roasting season and Swampy, Wet Rainy for Five Days season... At least I don't have to deal with my joints turning to stone and hurting like a failed torture session and shoveling out the driveway. Yeah, thank goodness Phoenix only gets snow once every 25 years... Oh Gawd! We're due for snow!
Well here in south texas we have tree hot ,hotter, and normal
As an Albertan the city that I’m from has 2 seasons winter and construction
@@jackielinde7568 fire season? The air is fire and I love it! Couldn't imagine living anywhere else.
I can cook my burrito on the asphalt.
I'm from Australia. Half of our country floods and the other burns, often at the same time!
australia doesn't exist, it's a lie to cover up britain's practice of executing criminals.
@@JooJingleTHISISLEGIT Shuddup! You're gonna get me fired!
@@williamlockhartnelson8873 Don't forget the bit in the middle that's basically the bastard offspring of Hell and Limbo.
Fireflood season! Whooo! It sounds so epic when I don't have to be in the middle of it, personally! Whoo!.....
I just have to say...Santa is clearly a wizard....A DIVINATION WIZARD >:3 ... with a few levels in rogue
Tackling dogs are the best.
Revan pretty much
PLEASE! Santa is obviously a Transmuter who uses a combination of Haste and Time Stop spells. How else is he going to get around the world so fast?
Y'all are acting like santa isn't a greater lawful good deity of fate. dO yoU EvEn PraISe The CLAUSE!?!?!?
@@Noah-kd6lq lawful good my rear. He breaks into people's houses. He is clearly neutral good.
@@HeckleJeckle87 A divination wizard can use those spells too. He can cast them on himself and use his Portent to ensure he doesn't become exhausted during the trip. Since, he is at least a 7th level caster he knows the teleport spell and since he has a full year to prepare he can store teleport scrolls or magic items that store teleport and put all of that into his Endless Bag of Holding.
Why would nobody else want the ham!? I mean what else was in that treasure hoard that made the ham seem like a gag gift?
Pft. Ham is normal in my family.
You know what's a gag gift? Sponges.
I seriously don't understand not wanting the ham. You can make so many delicious things with ham! Or just like eat it plain, still delicious!
Maaayyyyybe they were all vegetarians/vegans? IDK
The best thing with the ham is that you can start eating it when the game is still running.
I got a pet rock once. Now THAT was a gag gift.
. . . Though part of my wonders how long the ham was out.
"Hope you enjoy it, Jimmy."
"My name is Stan..."
"I don't wanna hear any of your sass, Jimmy!"
aw man I love white elephant, my family has been playing every christmas eve for like 15 years now. We have loads of fun with it, that may have to do the fact though that all of our gifts are junk/funny gifts. every one shows up with a pile of tat they found at the dollar store or cvs and we have a laugh. plus we have a rule for it that a gift can only be stolen twice, so if there is actually something you really want you got to be tactical with it lol. it's great fun
Didn't know you watched puffin forest Kottabos
I got punched in the jaw over a white elephant
I remember doing a white elephant with family when I was 15. Two relatives almost got into a fistfight over lottery tickets.
White elephant cane be fairly decent, as long as no one breaks the rule of "no good gifts". I mean if every one else is getting candy, toilet plungers or sponge bob bubble bath sets it's fine. But if there is that one guy that puts in a Nintendo Switch into the pool... heads will roll.
@@JustaGuy_Gaming Putting in something expensive is fine, just as long as all the things are around that area. Putting in a switch with candy, that’s a bad idea. But if it’s all things that cost like, about £15, then I could see it just being a high stakes game
This is all to relatable. Most people talk about there loving family and you talk about ham
Looking at California during Christmas:
“That’s where we put the Yule log...”
"Instead of the drink"
See, that's your problem right there.
7:30 this feels like 90 percent of ben's games he DM's
Lol
DM,s its called dungeon Master
We got the new game Boys we got the pogo sticks we get the bats we even got your children😂
Still trying to sort out whether they simply failed their perception check to understand the versatility of ham, or if they are Paladins/Vegans, whose oath prohibits them from consuming pork produces?
Michael Giovinazzi perfect reasoning.
for me it ain't a code, i just don't like meat
@@alexd6327 - My philosophy has always been a simple one. If you don't want it, that is fine. More for me.
Plot twist: It was a late Hanukkah party.
@@MrThewooter - Touche!
I too am jealous of your ham. I ran into a different situation where I entered the SECRET SANTA gift exchange. NO ONE TOLD US THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES BEFOREHAND. So I went into it blind. I, thankfully, was given a hint that my likes were similar to the person I matched with. I don't think I will be as lucky though since i am new. Merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate)!
I celebrate the Roman celebration of Saturnalia.
The ham story made cry from laughing. The fact that you and your family were all confused just made it one of the funnest thing iv'e ever heard.
How long was that ham out of refrigeration though...?
If it's cured well it doesn't have to be refrigerated, the high salt content kills bacteria on contact.
@@XSFx5 oh so thats why some people never get sick
@@stevenmichel7270 Don't be salty. /s
Um, I think you missed the fact that it was a massive ham. When massive ham is on the line, risks are acceptable.
Refrigeration doesn't matter here in Cali, everything's constantly being cooked.
Wait, snow is cold? I live in Arizona so I've heard legends of such things... but it's more of a fairy tale
Lucky, I live in Iowa and it snowed around two weeks ago and we got six inches. The snow still isn't completely gone and we are due to get more.
I was raised in az.
my first snowfall in mo was something else
@@jeffjeff3132 Oh my sweet summer child...
Canadian Winter...15-20 cms of snow dumped more or less regularly
I live there too
That's how fog was for me until I was 14. IDK why they get fog in Idaho, but never in Utah...
“I wanna be... a velociraptor! There I said it!” That is my goal in life.
Those were some pretty good adventures. I bet the dislikes on this video are just people who want your ham :P
Wait one sec, gotta change my like to a dislike now.
Fellow SoCal's let me hear your voice!
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didnt start the fire
We didn't start the fire. It was always baking since Andreas' shaking.
_Points to the eucalyptus trees_
*I BLAME THE AUSSIES!!!*
@@philipgutierrez2999 *THEN WHO DID!?*
@@MasterZebulin Someone else
"yes, we have snow in canada."
Yah and a hole lot of it to
Here in California, we don't get snow days, we get fire days. And instead of the white stuff on the ground being frozen water, it's ash
Void Concept
so true, so very very true.
I use to live in Southern Cali, and there are 4 seasons actually, fire, flood, earthquake, and landslide.
Did the Fire Nation attack this year?
If only there was a game to make your friends disappear
Ummm that's called monopoly
Or Uno
In my experience I’ve found that Monopoly is better suited for tearing apart families than friendships. Although I recommend Sorry as a universal relationship destroying game.
Mario Party
as a Californian I can confirm we have fire
christopher crafte
hell yeah we do man, lots of fire, lots and lots of it.
i miss snow.
but like do you have big fire or small fire and is it worm fuzzy make smores fire or hot burn your face of fire
@@christiansmith804 that is a fantastic question and the answer is we got it all we got bonfires,forest fires,house fires,trash fires big or small fire can come in any size here in cali
Anyone who watches the news lately knows you got fires. And Smith, its the burn down entire towns kind.
@@christophercrafte Fellow Cali person here, can confirm. We have so many kinds of fire that we even got trolled by the universe where a giant wildfire was called the Camp Fire (due to where it started). So its like 'oh a little campfire huh? ....Oh crap!'
I hope we get back to normal someday where its mostly earthquakes. A lot of them aren't as bad as people think, your chair jiggles gently for a few seconds then its over.
In all of my short films, Jimmy is my generic guy name and Susie is my generic girl name. Unfortunately, this translates into my D&D game where my friend who plays Susan has a character named Sue, while I have an npc named Susan...and they work together. To make matters worse, my friend Sam plays Sue and my friend Grady plays Gregory. Anyway, I laughed a little too hard when Jimmy and Susie were the kids getting presents.
Your reaction to snow, and Dingo's half snark response, gave me laugh and the biggest grin of today.
Tattoos ryyuiuhhgggffrtfffddddx
Moving from Australia (where December is national bushfire month) to England I totally understand you. First day of snow, I took the day off of work and just run around and played. My wife, who grew up in snow, thought it was insane. But SNOW! It was so WHITE! And FLUFFY! And I made snowballs, and I made a little snowman, and my footprints were in the snow and there was snow on cars so I traced christmas trees in their windshield from snow and I put snow on my wifes head and made a snow angel and IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!
I don't know what's wrong with those people. I would have taken the ham too.
I lost it at the "car accidents" part.
Almost spit out my food.
That was gold.
I don't understand the ham thing either. How could you not want ham? YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH HAM!!!
Vegetarians.
@@MachinatedGames I'm vegan but even I eat ham during he holidays. Too good to pass up
@@MachinatedGames Oh right, people who don't eat meat exist, I always forget that.
Why didn't they want the giant ham? Have they not had maple glazed ham before? Are they them Vegans those don't last to long in the cold usually fixes them right up after the second week of frozen fire.
Rayclaw Icefire my sister hates ham and I don’t understand it
Well I didn’t until the doctor confirmed it was a food allergy
But ham is soo gooood
The last segment about Cali being on fire and seeing snow being exponentially more magical hits right at home
Wha? Why didn't anyone want that ham? That's insane.
I don't know, all I know is I would go
Ham over it
DUDE, THEY DIDN'T WANT THE HAM!?!?!?!?!
Coming back years later to rewatch this… it‘s a classic.
Hope you got to see snow again in the years since… 😇
I have a white elephant tomorrow. The good news is, its with my co-workers. The bad news is, it is with my co-workers.
Pray for ham.
Bring a small porcelain white elephant and giftwrap it. You can have a white elephant as a gag gift in white elephant.
@@funnyblog100 There's also a card game called "White Elephant" that would make a very meta present at a white elephant (although it would be even better if the game had a porcelain white elephant as one of the gifts in it, I think they missed that trick).
Are weapons allowed? Or is it one of them boring legal white elephant games?
@@robertnett9793 Yeah, I work in a park, all my bosses are Law Enforcement. Things get interesting during the White Elephant gift exchange. I have only stolen a gift once in the 4 years I have been there, and it was because the person obviously did not want it.
Nice to see you branching out. Good vid man.
Sunny, muggy, and car accidents is CRAZY relatable omg. Your snow reaction is the exact same as mine (also a SoCal native).
Now even MENTIONING Maple Story makes you sound old 😂
"I was surprised, No one wanted my ham!"
I would only give my ham to women. Men can go get their own.
Puffin Forest: Can you stop being on fire..
Puffin Forest to Southern California: FOR FIVE MINUTES?
Yes, I can reinforce this statement, California has three seasons and is constantly on fire. We don’t have snow days off from school, we get smoke days.
The correct 3 seasons of California are summer, cloudy, and fire.
Smoke days off is not a joke. Went to a highschool on the beach so smoke wasn't a problem, but middle school just a little bit inland, I got more smoke days off than some people get snow days!
*gasp* "You guys get SNOW? In CANADA?"
"..."
"Yes.Yes, we do."
Dingo is a gift to all the world.
Also, yeah, who WOULDN'T want a giant ham???
I think I'm going to watch this every day until Christmas. So many great quotes. "Don't gimme yo sass, Jimmy!" "3 seasons!" And serious dude, the ham? WHY WOULD THEY NOT WANT IT?!?!? Happy holidays, Puffin, and you too, Dingo. You both have made my life brighter.
I don't need your *SASS* Jimmy!!!
"whoever decides to pay me to do stuff for them is the stuff I'm going to do."
God, I feel that. Somehow I ended up doing report creation and low level data analysis for a logistics company??? I was trying for a political science degree!
I love how you and Dingo are slowly putting together the Tabletop Animated Universe. Step aside marvel.
"I want to be a Velociraptor!"
Me: >.>
In England we have Rain, cold, cold rain and 2 days of smouldering heat 90+*F without air conditioning and back to rain
Scotland about the same but 1 day of heat then back to rain and cold winds owww and snow but not this year sadly
@@CommanderM117 scottish summer is my favourite day of the year.
Thank you, Ben, for creating and posting stories. They make me smile and bring a bit of joy.
Thanksgiving, the holiday where you pretend you're thankful and content with everything you have and then littery the very next day we fight each other to buy more stuff on black Friday.
Unless you're me.
I did a black Friday sale once. That was all it took for me to swear never again.
Thanksgiving and Black Friday are like a month and a half apart
@Alexeon Notice his name
@@canadiankirby9508 I see what you did there 😋It only seems like a month and a half, and only if you're one of the suckers who still actually goes to a store on Black Friday instead of buying online.
I totally relate to the Californian seeing Snow thing, but like, in the EXACT opposite way.
You see, I'm from Oklahoma, and I have a friend from New York who came down to visit for Thanksgiving.
I have never seen a man more disappointed, then when he realized that A) we do in fact live in modern times, B) that we're NOT all cowboys and indians, and C) that he *WASN'T* essentially coming to an old west settler style thanksgiving.
It's that time of year again...time to watch the puffin forest Christmas episode!
Did you actually send Dingo multiple pictures of NE Snow???😂😂
I actually sent my GF pictures of snow once. When I was just an hour away. After I'd left the house the day before. And the same snow was there too.
Ne is Nebraska
@@mikestrouse Ne is Nebraska, NE is North East.
@@theed365 thanks for saying it for me lol
@@theed365 My first thought was Neutral evil, but that makes way more sense..
The things I'd do to be a raptor
raptors were small. a normal person with a bat would have no trouble with them. do things to become a bat.
@@lucasbiermann257 Prolly meant velociraptor.
@@lucasbiermann257 "Bat-man vs The Velociraptor" sounds like the next DC movie. I'd watch it.
Merry Christmas you two! You both rock!
SoCal’s seasons are....a lil different than the rest of the world.
Fall (Winter)
Summer (Spring)
Hell (Summer)
And Spring! 😊 (Fall)
I am so jealous of you and your giant ham.
"Where I'm from we don't have snow we have fire.", the line that almost killed me as I was taking a sip of my drink.
The cheaper way to lose friends is to play Monopoly.
A less cheap but more entertaining way is to play Mario Party.
Or Smash.
Don't forget about sorry tho
all wonderful suggestions!
Uno
Or uno