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  • @Just_a_commenter
    @Just_a_commenter Рік тому +56

    For something to go extinct, I gotta agree with Hank on *ticks.* would gladly see this world ridden of them.

    • @YtWuff
      @YtWuff Рік тому +1

      Hi again

    • @YtWuff
      @YtWuff Рік тому

      @@spectrieal3527 they are

    • @Just_a_commenter
      @Just_a_commenter Рік тому +1

      @@YtWuff Hello to you too, friendly Snivy pfp user!

    • @YtWuff
      @YtWuff Рік тому +1

      @@Just_a_commenter :D

    • @YtWuff
      @YtWuff Рік тому

      @@Just_a_commenter how many channels now? I keep getting new videos and the top comments have you in them

  • @kirstygunn9149
    @kirstygunn9149 Рік тому +13

    When our kids were little we used to call McDonald's "The Farm "( old MacDonald had a farm )as to not get them over excited if they overheard us talking about where we were going for lunch. but one afternoon out of nowhere our eldest who was 7 at the time , said 'we know you mean McDonald's when you say the farm ' but we still say the farm just as nick name now even though , our kids are now 17& 15 years old.

  • @amberkat8147
    @amberkat8147 Рік тому +4

    For anyone who has bedbugs: Diatomaceous earth is your BEST FRIEND. Make sure it's food grade- you should be able to find it in any big hardware store. Keep it DRY- it won't work if it gets damp. Sprinkle it around all your base boards, under and around the furniture, under your mattress, on top of your mattress under the mattress pad and sheet, on top of the mattress pad under the sheet, etc. Buy covers for your mattress and pillows that bedbugs can't get through- they're worth it. You'll need to keep them on for probably around 2 years to make sure the bedbugs have starved to death, I think, but I'm not an expert, don't quote me on it. Buy cinnamon sticks and powdered cinnamon, sprinkle cinnamon in your shoes, put cinnamon sticks in your clothes drawers. Use either mint or cinnamon oil in areas where sprinkling cinnamon or diatomaceous earth won't work. Be careful of getting it on your skin- undiluted essential oils can often burn your skin. I think you can use lavender oil too, but I don't because I hate the smell of lavender. Also, at least one species of spider apparently loves it, so there's also that. If you use diatomaceous earth and you have pet insects or arachnids they will die. Sorry. Bedbugs can't get purchase on plastic, so laundering all the bedclothes, spare clothes, etc. that you won't be using right away and tying them inside 2 layers of trash bags works well for keeping those cloth items bedbug-free until they're dead in the rest of the home. Anything you dry on high heat will be free of bedbugs, they are very sensitive to heat. You MIGHT be able to bake books, but be very careful about that. You can also freeze books and clothes, even your wallet and/or purse. Just don't bake or freeze electrical items, and I have no idea how makeup would react. Bedbugs also will die if you freeze them for about 48 hours. Even overnight in a deep freeze will probably work- the extra time is just to make certain. You probably shouldn't waste money on chemical treatments, bedbugs are resistant to the chemicals. Heat treat if you can afford it, otherwise do the slower but cheaper diatomaceous earth and heat, cold, plastic, cinnamon & mint stuff.
    I beat them this way and so can you. Best of luck in your war against the annoying little fricks!

  • @addiepiper7786
    @addiepiper7786 Рік тому +4

    One of the wildest and not so distant beliefs like still in the 50s or something PEOPLE THOUGHT BABIES DIDNT FEEL PAIN. SURGERY. NO SLEEP OR PAINKILLERS.

  • @coolest10293
    @coolest10293 Рік тому +8

    For the crush one, it’s because I found out that they like to almost constantly be in physical contact with partners (ie: hugging, arm around, etc), while I really don’t enjoy that. It wasn’t hard or anything, just a difference in how we would show affection. We never actually were dating, I just found out because they had started dating someone else before I came forward about my crush, and so I got the chance to dodge a relationship that I would not have liked. Also she’s a lesbian now, so it kinda wouldn’t work anyway, as I’m a guy (even though I accept any pronouns to be used for me and don’t have any preferences)

  • @zacharysiple629
    @zacharysiple629 Рік тому +7

    30:23 The Wizard of Oz came out in 1939.
    It still plays on TV every year and is beloved by many. And the effects are pretty good for a movie from 84 years ago. It looks better than some movies from the 50s and 60s.

  • @yamairad1
    @yamairad1 Рік тому +5

    It's not easy to lie in lie detector tests. It measures your emotions. The problem is that to many criminals lack emotions. THEY can pass it without issues. It could also give a "false" read because it shows you are stressed out. In reality it's because you are being accused of a crime while the cop could interpret that you are stressed because you are getting caught.
    So, it just doesn't work for this purpose.

    • @jwalster9412
      @jwalster9412 Рік тому +3

      I think it's more to get people's nerves up, and if they lack empathy that won't happen. Whereas if they are not guilty they will likely be more nervous because they have more empathy for the victim.
      It's somewhat reverse sociology.

  • @Kim-dl2uk
    @Kim-dl2uk 10 місяців тому +1

    I knew a lady whose entire head and face were covered in tattoos. She lost all her hair due to chemo. Her reasoning was "I can either look like a cancer patient and have people think I look sick or I can look like a freak and have people think I look *sick*

  • @amberkat8147
    @amberkat8147 Рік тому +1

    I'm also part of the "this is why we think/know this plane crashed!" thing. It didn't give me a fear of planes, because I already had one. I think all that's changed is that I have some idea of what exactly could go wrong instead of just fearing someone would have done an oops and we'd plummet out of the sky to our deaths. I also know where on the plane is statistically safer to sit, so that might help. Honestly, if I ever am desperate enough and rich enough to fly again, I'd need some serious anti-anxiety meds anyway, so no change worth worrying about.

  • @victorvaldez8869
    @victorvaldez8869 Рік тому +3

    "NOT" was in use pre-Borat (2006,) see the 1992 movie "Wayne's World" & previous Saturday Night Live sketches with the character (Mike Meyers.) That is when "NOT" was really big in the cultural zeitgeist.
    The drivers who won't let you merge into the highway when you use your signal encourage people NOT to use their signal when they change lanes.

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    8:58 a truck so big you need a step-stool to comfortably get in.

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    1:43 "Capitalism breeds ingenuity"

  • @ZA-mb5di
    @ZA-mb5di Рік тому +1

    12:54
    "Doggerland was an area of land, now submerged beneath the North Sea, that connected Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6500-6200 BCE. The flooded land is known as the Dogger Littoral." -Wikipedia

  • @freckledandred
    @freckledandred Рік тому +4

    People believe that Einstein lie because he really did have trouble in school. But it's wasn't his grades it was his behavior and lack of focus. Sounds kinda neurodivergent tbh

    • @erraticonteuse
      @erraticonteuse Рік тому +2

      The schools he went to at the time were basically just pipelines to funnel young men into the military and/or government bureaucracy (there's a reason he was a patent clerk for a time). Not the best environment for a genius, neurodivergent or not.

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    6:29 any plauge horror film. Humanity is, evidently, NOT that competent.

  • @billysmith5409
    @billysmith5409 Рік тому +1

    I love Arsenic and Old Lace it’s hilarious! “I’m not a cab driver I’m a coffee pot!” Is the best line in movie history!

  • @ginabell694
    @ginabell694 Рік тому +5

    He started doing that thing where u suck ur snot back into ur nose, constantly. Would not blow his nose. Even when the class president finally broke and ask him to. He said no cuz then his nose would be dry. Unfortunately a "friend" had already told him I liked him. Not sure why she felt the need to do that.

  • @PastelScoops
    @PastelScoops Рік тому +2

    Something that made me lose a crush on someone? I was dating him, he was new to the school and seemed to vibe well with one of my friend groups. I found out he was bullying one of my autistic friends by hissing at them (which would cause my friend to start hitting themself), and I dumped him immediately. Then, weeks later, he called me a whore and I turned around and kicked him in the head 🤭 Over a decade later and my mom still has the referral hanging on her fridge.

  • @christophergroenewald5847
    @christophergroenewald5847 Рік тому +2

    0:47 Water is the only detox drink that I think would actually work.

    • @zakosist
      @zakosist Рік тому +1

      Was thinking the same. But usually when people drink tea or juice or something, it does come with a lot of water. If you drink enough to not be dehydrated it will naturally detox you (but not save you from all toxins, depends on how bad/much it is, and what type of toxin). But it can also be bad to drink too much, it can thin out your blood and deplete minerals

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    17:42 We need REM sleep to survive and don't know why.

  • @holdenross
    @holdenross Рік тому

    the fact that the black belt thing isnt real scares me. black belts absolutely know how to kill people with their bare hands, and in seconds in some cases

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    13:57 I would say Racism, but that rage is COMPLEYELY rational. I think it's justified that every time I think about police brutality on my fellow human just for skin color and the HORRIBLE economic dosadvantage black communities in america are subjected to TO THIS DAY I have to mute my emotions like a sociopath or break whatever I'm holding and punch something while screaming at the top of my lungs because that level of SOCIETY-WIDE INEQUALITY for a reason THAT AFFECTS NOTHING is so infuriatingly wrong that I think it deserves the extreme rage it induces in me.
    I'm a middle-class white man, BTW, and racial inequality has infuriated me since I learned about it.

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    0:08 That the government actually does anything other than enforce its rule. Same for 1:43

  • @havanadaurcy1321
    @havanadaurcy1321 Рік тому +1

    17:06 The Stanley parable, but a prequel or sequel where the narrator narrates his own life story.
    29:16 WHAT DOES THE HUMAN SAY?????
    30:25 The Dark Tower, if you didn't have a phobia of circuses before, you will after
    31:21 Suburra Blood on Rome. Have Samurai as a zombie kill everyone who betrayed him. Including the politican.

  • @EveryChaoticSoul
    @EveryChaoticSoul Рік тому

    33:13
    At that, I also learned fairly recently that cockroaches EAT bed bugs.

  • @renammartinez
    @renammartinez Рік тому

    7:58 Brazil just calls it "Mac", but due to our customary accent in English it usually sounds like "Mackie". McDonalds even went so far as spelling it as "Méqui" (same pronunciation as Mackie) in some of their restaurants and advertising

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    15:17 Asking the government for help in a catastrophe.

  • @dedhampster4730
    @dedhampster4730 Рік тому +2

    I feel like I technically won the life lottery. I have a loving family, we have good jobs and have gone from living on min wage with a combined school dept of $70k to being debt free and investing over the last 20 years before reaching age 40. It is sickeningly amazing how many people in our social circle think we are rich and just came by our money and stability out of luck. I am open about finances and try to hard to share budgeting and the skills and austerity steps necessary for anyone to go from well below the poverty line to stable and even being able to take cruises and plan for nice things. But no, some people just want to be toxic, jealous and demand handouts. I will teach you, feed you, clothe you and give you a place to sleep.... i will not give you straight cash.

  • @skoopdewoop
    @skoopdewoop Рік тому +1

    fun fact: you don't have to wait any time to report someone missing

    • @zakosist
      @zakosist Рік тому

      Good. I thought that having to wait a long time could greatly decrease the chances of someone actually being saved. It should be from "when you seriously suspect that something is wrong", but its not an objective time limit and really depends on what the norm is in each case

  • @omgtatercat
    @omgtatercat Рік тому +1

    The anime Wolf's Rain. It's so gorgeous, but it only had that one season. Like, I'm fine with the anime not being extended, I just want something that explores that world more! That anime is all there is! No light novels, no OVA, not spin offs... Bah

  • @Snow_Sailor
    @Snow_Sailor Рік тому +3

    For an animal to go exitinct.. pandas. I'm sorry but the only reason they're not extinct is humans. Even ignoring the things humans have caused to them, they would probably have been on the road to extinction.

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    18:00 Oh yeah I got that once when I was bored in my dad's office because I had ONE game on my ds, and I saw a note spike on his desk and even though I REALPY didn't want to and knew it was a horrible idea, my brain kept urging me to smash my DS on the Note Spike.

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    20:42 Guster Carlington

  • @ItsYaBoiV
    @ItsYaBoiV Рік тому +1

    When it comes to games I want to make a comeback, it's Jet Set Radio, 10000%

  • @jonmendelson1104
    @jonmendelson1104 Рік тому +1

    "Booyah" - I've been saying this a decent amount recently because it's a running joke with my group of friends. I'm a fan of a hockey team that's really bad right now and at this point it benefits them to lose games because of how the draft order works. Because of this I'm actively rooting for the team I like to lose games so when they score a goal I have mixed feelings - them scoring hurts their chances of losing the game/getting the best draft pick so I want to boo, but I'm happy to see the team I like score goals so I want to cheer "yeah!" We combine that into "Booyah!"

  • @zacharysiple629
    @zacharysiple629 Рік тому

    5:37 It took me half a second to remember that was from Juno- LOL! :)

  • @wfcoaker1398
    @wfcoaker1398 Рік тому

    Pick a dietary trend. Paleo. Keto. Gluten "sensitivity". Lactose intolerance. Detoxing. The list keeps growing.

    • @beatsbycrey5461
      @beatsbycrey5461 Рік тому +1

      Lactose intolerance isn't a trend, I will violently shit myself if I drink even a cup of milk, just cause you don't personally experience it doesn't mean its not real.

    • @zakosist
      @zakosist Рік тому +1

      Are you saying its a myth? I dont think "detoxing" are at all in the same category as food intolerance's). Paleo is probably somewhere in the middle, healthier than how the average person eats, but maybe a bit unnecesary fanatic on what you "can" eat. Some people do really have intolerance or allergy to gluten or/and lactose, and get sick from it. Keto can actually work against seizures, but probably isnt ideal for most people and also harder to do properly than many people realize. If someone personally gets better health for trying out a diet, thats all good for them, and not everything is for everybody. But the "trendiness" of it could be bad and make people follow things too blindly

    • @wfcoaker1398
      @wfcoaker1398 Рік тому +1

      @@zakosist Not that they're myths, just that for every person with, for instance, celiac disease, there's a bunch who say they're gluten intolerant because they got short taken once after eating a bagel.

  • @erraticonteuse
    @erraticonteuse Рік тому

    "Gaylord Buttram" reminds me of that bit on Mad Men where instead of paying the phone company to unlist their numbers from the phone books, they just changed the listed name to something obscene (see also: McGroin, Pat).

  • @zakosist
    @zakosist Рік тому

    27:05 I think it should be anonymous when someone wins. Not only will a bunch of people ask for the money, but some may even try to rob them. It should be the winners choice who they share it with

  • @_JoyceArt
    @_JoyceArt Рік тому +1

    Where I’m from, McDrek, Dutch and it translates to McCrap/McDirt. But I’m not sure of only my family said it or if more people in my province use it.

  • @amberkat8147
    @amberkat8147 Рік тому +1

    Religion. Any organized religion, that has a holy book, prophets, people who claim to speak for their god, etc. That's the dumbest myth, and sadly one of the most pervasive.
    I'm not a completely non-spiritual person, but I don't believe in gods or organized religion. If any deity is real and wants me to believe in them, they're gonna have to tell me that themselves and so far none of them has. I believe in spirits, in the elements, in the natural world, in reincarnation, in an afterlife we stay in between reincarnations, all of that. But any specific god? That's still up in the air. And since most organized religions were founded as scams or ways to control people, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, and Scientology, I'm simply not going to believe any of their claims. I basically have my own self-crafted religion that as far as I know is unique to me. Is it probably at least partially false? Probably. I'm just guessing here. It could be all false. But I like it and it works for me. If that's all any religion was that would be fine, but they keep trying to force their rules on others, including making or trying to make legal codes based in their religious laws and forcing their religion on their children, and I don't think any of that is right. They also deny anything that conflicts with their beliefs, including science, and shamelessly redefine things in order to make their arguments seem somewhat credible, assuming you don't mind circular reasoning or arguing from the conclusion. They even share lies that make their rules seem sensible. I am not a fan of any of that. I believe in spirits because I can see them. I believe the elements have their own energy because I can sometimes feel it. I believe in reincarnations because a., all those stories of kids remembering things from past lives that they had no business knowing, and b., it is convenient for me. I am not ashamed to admit that part. I'm not claiming it was revealed to me by the structure of a flower, by any perfect and eternal Holy Word, by any direct divine revelation or by any prophet. I just found certain evidence to be persuasive enough and have a personal bias towards it.

  • @pleasegivesoup
    @pleasegivesoup Рік тому

    to answer your ark question, yes there are guns

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

    17:04 Pokemon. The last decent one was X/Y, everything else has been CRUD in comparison. Come on, where's gen 4 and 5? Platinum, Heartgold/Soulsilver, THE ENTIRE Unova region, ALL of it was SO good, but nowadays you're lucky to get ONE new pokemon that isn't SHIT, much less a whole REGION as AMAZING as gen 4 and 5, or the Hoenn Region. You can tell they stopped putting ANY effort in at Sun and Moon.

  • @beatsbycrey5461
    @beatsbycrey5461 Рік тому

    Never thought I'd see chilliwack in an emkay video lmaoo

  • @alrecks619
    @alrecks619 Рік тому +1

    0:13 i can attest to that being 100% fuddy duddy, bull schmidt, if you will.

  • @brandongovreau9218
    @brandongovreau9218 Рік тому

    Winston coffee commercials inspired some desert people is my explanation for how Kermit being born caused 9/11

  • @genxrants
    @genxrants Рік тому

    "Not!" actually started in the 90s. We used to say that a lot in elementary school.

  • @CakeofRage
    @CakeofRage Рік тому

    im still not over Sense8 being cancelled 😤

  • @glorywr
    @glorywr Рік тому

    Wow I feel old. Not was not spawned by Borat, it was in Wayne's world

  • @IlGreven
    @IlGreven Рік тому

    "Not" is a little older than Borat, Brandon...Try Wayne's World.

  • @IlGreven
    @IlGreven Рік тому

    14:07 UA-cam recommending videos I've already watched.

  • @Jackie_XIII
    @Jackie_XIII Рік тому

    The worst name I can think of is my cousin Throckmorton

  • @fluffyraichu9706
    @fluffyraichu9706 Рік тому

    22:03 It depends. Some face tattoos are cultural and very important to that person. And even if it’s not cultural they can look cool. I only start judging when I see certain things that indicate that they are a shitty person (like hate symbols and other bad shit like that). Otherwise I don’t really think about it. It was their choice to get them.

  • @realcanadian96
    @realcanadian96 Рік тому

    Don't like McDicks much, good fries and apple juice though.

  • @sh4rds0fgl4ss
    @sh4rds0fgl4ss Рік тому

    it annoys me everytime an American pronounces maccas wrong. First I heard "mahcahs" then I heard "moccos" and now I've heard "maacaas"

  • @niles8576
    @niles8576 Рік тому

    in finland we call mcdonalds mäkki or mäkkäri

  • @janiexoxo
    @janiexoxo Рік тому

    NOT definitely predates Borat

  • @lVideoWatcherl
    @lVideoWatcherl 8 місяців тому

    Question is which is the dumbest myth people today believe, and the top comments don't contain religion? I mean, come on.

  • @Skrimbi
    @Skrimbi Рік тому

    30:29 I have watched arsenic and old lace every year for like 10 years, to conclude. Mid

  • @havanadaurcy1321
    @havanadaurcy1321 Рік тому

    Pardon the double post but to answer the question at 20:42:
    Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronunciation of Albin)

  • @Vexxel256
    @Vexxel256 Рік тому +1

    E