They didn't kill humans in the Netherlands I bet. It's nice to see a country who's people cares more about even the life of a bird than some stupid TV show. But yeah, what else could the TV station do? They tried, they were up against it, they shot the bird before they knew it was endangered. I too would not be happy with that but it doesn't call for death threats.
@@LionelSoccer Fuck that guy, how's that? Why is his life more important than the birds? See where people come from? Finding common ground with those you don't agree with is important especially today. I can see where both sides were coming from and both sides made mistakes lol. Birds also can't be underhanded backstabbing monsters, they can only be birds. See, a lot of human beings grow up and see how utterly irredeemable a lot of humans are so it can be easy to just think most people are like that. It's hard to imagine a guy who shoots birds for a living is an especially great fellow, but by no means was this situation on him, he was just doing his job.
As a german, its as if they made up a fantasy language by pronouncing german words in french and mixing in some gibberish. Id need to be a lot more drunk to make out what the announcer said
Bet most of them never bothered to put out bird feeders and bird houses to help the sparrows either. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if many had free roaming cats as pets (cats are a living, breathing ecological disaster, in case people don't know).
But God saw that it was unjust, and he sent a plague of locusts so the people wept, and disrespected their elders and he SAW THAT IT WAS UNJUST and he sent the second rider upon them, its skeletal hand poured forth SARS, while they wailed and built their homes on sand, for which God did shake the earth in anger, sending cruel leaders to snatch organs from their children, but the people built several coalpower plants per week with no filters or regard for sulphur content of fuel, and their tears flowed, and they did build poor drainage systems, and God was furious and he said let their be a final message and a pale horse thundered down upon them, a golden mane and lightning wind did howl with stars bright against a blue sky and clouds of white, and the blood began to fall in thick crimson curtains and the people knew they chosen poorly, their false idol this Chairman Meow 😸
@ The show in Germany actually WAS this dutch event. RTL was the broadcasting TV station and bought the german TV rights for it. They often cooperated with Endemol back then and still do, for example with the German version of "Who wants to be a Millionaire".
I thought the whole joke of this one was just going to be that a bird knocked over the dominoes during the event, but no. It just HAD to be an endangered bird, which they then killed. That's a tragic yet hilarious extra layer to the story.
Who's going to tell that redditor about the live action tv show about literal gnomes Speaking of which, it's theme song still goes hard lol Kabouter Plop in case you're wondering
I remember some commentator saying that Dutch is German if the speaker is abominably drunk (in the same comment he said Danish is German if the speaker has a potato in their mouth while speaking)...
@@pooki-dooki Incorrect; homonyms are both homographs *and* homophones _in one;_ i.e., both spelled and pronounced identically, but distinct in meaning. It's even right there in its etymology. Really kicks the irony of that hyper-condescending _"I love it when people make needless, but nevertheless confident corrections"_ up a notch. [edit: I was replying to a not-so-nice post that's since been deleted, so without that context it looks like I was just hammering the OP (@BlooMule), but I totally wasn't. Context below if you're curious. 2025-01-25 02⫶25 @pook-dooki wrote: _"I love it when people make needless, but nevertheless confident corrections. Homophones are a specific subcategory of homonyms (the other being homograph), and therefore the original statement is true."_ They nuked that ↑ after I replied 🙄]
@@storytimewithunclekumaran5004 Sorry; the dude I replied to deleted his message, so it looks like I'm just needlessly hammering the OP (@BlooMule), but I totally wasn't. Context below if you're curious. @pooki-dooki wrote on 2025-01-25 02:25: _"I love it when people make needless, but nevertheless confident corrections. Homophones are a specific subcategory of homonyms (the other being homograph), and therefore the original statement is true."_ After I replied, he deleted that message 🙄
@@storytimewithunclekumaran5004 Sorry; the dude to whom I was replying baleeted his snarky comment, so it looks like I was just hammering the OP (@BlooMule), but I totally wasn't. Context below if you're curious. 2025.01.25 02⫶25 @pook-dooki: _"I love it when people make needless, but nevertheless confident corrections. Homophones are a specific subcategory of homonyms (the other being homograph), and therefore the original statement is true."_ [After I replied, he nuked his comment 🙄]
the same people sending them threats would 100% call exterminators if there were rats in their home instead of seeing them as hopeless animals who need a place to stay. people value an animals life on how cute they are
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Rats spreading disease is different from upsetting children's toys.
House sparrows are a non-native species in the US, and are incredibly invasive and harmful to our native birds. It's so strange hearing that it's an endangered, protected species in Europe.
@@demonorca9539 Pretty sure someone else would have seen it or picked it up. I doubt they had every domino stacker file an NDA. The complaints probably came from there, even though it was ruining their exhibits. Just spend a few hours around 'artsy' types and you'll understand.
@ because a random dude with an air rifle hired by a pest control company is gonna know an endangered bird by sight... Regardless, he doesn't deserve death threats.
@@silverbeach1557 my guess would be they killed them off bc of some of their famous flowers or something? idk, as a german i see sparrows a lot but they usually just eat insects so idk.
If Qxir ever gets world famous, no-make that culturally relevant, we'll come back and do a fact-check on those death threats. I still wonder does he have a cousin in the Bronx
2:03 I was dying laughing when the Dutch announcer was going through the all the well known fairy tails, then: And the goggle tortangle gaigen and smottle sortget of schmeddle droop. Of coooourse everyone in the world knows that tale haha.
Hi Qxir, can you please do a Tales From the Bottle episode on Thad Roberts stealing a safe full of moon rocks from NASA? I really think it would make for a good video, and I'm sure you could apply your sense of humor quite well to the subject matter. Keep up the good work!
Well, to be honest, sparrows are little flying psychopaths. They hunt down birds like swallows and literally crush their heads with their hard beaks to take over their nests.
What? Where did you hear that? Swallows build cup-shaped nests on walls, sparrows nest in holes. Sparrows are ground feeders, swallows pick off insects at altitude. The two species almost never interact.
@@unclenogbad1509 every year a pair of swallows breeds in our shed, if they don't want you there they shoot by your head about 40 mph. No way a sparrow would mess with them swallows are a bit bigger. Guy is confused withe cuckoo or something
@@johnm3907 There are 86 species of swallow and 43 species of true sparrow (plus over 100 species of new world sparrows) in the world. Not all of them are going to be the same physically or behaviorally. For example, a quick Google search shows that house sparrows will usurp nests from other species, including various types of swallow.
A great recounting as always. It's amazing how small actions can set off big chain reactions. As regards the poor bird, just after I moved to England from Ireland and thought I had the measure of the place, something similar happened where the BBC were doing an outside broadcast from one of the ubiquitous small village Churches dating from shortly after the Norman Conquest. You guessed it - a song bird had snuck in but it's contributions to the harmony were not appreciated in the rehearsal. Attempts to chase it out were unsuccessful, as it took shelter high up in the eves, benefiting from excellent acoustics. The Reverent didn't want a special day for the village sabotaged by one small bird, and so asked his son to persuade it into the after life with his rifle. Afterwards the situation got so heated that the the family had to move to a different parish.
A small action sets of a big chain reaction. Almost like those little bricks, you know, the ones people line up in a row and push them over. Like those. Even though they have no relation at all to this video, I'm sure. 😁
So let me get this Straight , a radio host publicly announced to Pay anyone to trespass and ultimately cause damage and was not put in front of a judge But meanwhile, a bird got inside A indoor facility and was shot and put on trial Meanwhile, he received death threats, and the owner of this private property had to increase security A woman takes in an injured wolf to her house and it’s a surprise once the wolf is healed. He eats her children.
I worked in a food production factory with super high ceilings. A bird somehow got in and my manager comes in in a panic like get it outta here! throw shit at it! bang pots! I thought he was maybe over reacting as some kind of moral building fun. Hours later there's people up on scissor lifts chasing it around throwing Frisbees at it yelling while im trying to run my machine. Eventually a peaceful resolution was found
@@adrianneill5014 Yeah, was kind of a huge oversight leaving the shipping and receiving doors wide open most the time lol. I get the healthcode violations. Just it was after we were done making soup and we were just packaging it. I was on the Toyo. Super unlikely the bird would have contaminated anything. There was a pretty well known rat problem but nobody freaked out about that lol. They followed the rules and threw anything out that was contaminated in that case... Sometimes whole pallets of food. But OH SHIT A BIRD WE CAN SEE better go nuclear on it. Eventually it got bored and just flew out the way it came in. A long time ago I worked on a cherry orchard for my dads best friend that owned the farm. The robins were a major issue for him and it wasnt even good for the birds... they would get soo fat they couldnt fly and would all die out every winter. After work I'd go out with an airgun. I prolly killed a couple hundred over the course of a month or so. I didnt feel great about it. I got zero death threats. There were baited traps to catch and release them elsewhere but "animal rights activists" kept sabotaging the traps letting them back loose into the valley to gorge themselves to death and then the air guns come out instead... I also helped refuel the bird cannons. I was a Bill Murray type of character just birds instead of one gopher.
@@TubeOfLaughes I was hoping to give those vibes because that was what it reminded me of... My job is hard enough now Im dodging stray frisbees because of this bird... It's just taunting us at this point... In hindsight I wish I would have put up a wanted poster in the breakroom. The whole time I'm thinking ok what would look more absurd if the USDA or OSHA showed up... them maybe noticing the bird or people driving scissor lifts around playing some weird version of extreme frisbee. Was a Japanese company. They did some things very strangely there. Sometimes they did stuff with forklifts where I'm like ok yeah I'm just gonna stand way back and watch
The fact that a bird got in isn't really surprising. Any place with doors that open multiple times a day, open bays for extended periods of time, etc... Is bound to have a bird or two fly in eventually. When I worked at walmart, it was a normal sight to have a bird just flying around the rafters. They never bother the customers cause the ceilings are so high, but they were there for a while. Tbh, idk how long or even how we got them out or if they ever did.
Ej. Never tought my home town would be mentioned. Greetings from Leeuwarden. I remember the hunter getting death treats. Really crazy. Many crazy people here. Many where appaled by that. My sister and many friends where in the audience of this event a few times. I never cared for dominos so i never attended. Shame they stopped though.
The fact that they snuck a "to be our not to be" in there gives it that authentic "I don't know this language, but can recognise certain words and phrases" feel
In Dutch: Reynaerde. Funny thing: the story's origins are Dutch, so he pronounced it correctly :) Also, Don Quichot in Dutch. Don't know why we turned the Spanish X into a SH sound, especially since it's a normal sound in our language.
I would understand the outrage if house sparrows were endangered globally, but these things are all over the place in the US. Seriously, Netherlands, you can just take some if you're that worried.
I absolutely loved the ending where you edited in your mess ups! Lol I had to replay it at first cuz my volume was low and I kept hearing "thanks to this decision, thanks to this decision, thanks to this decision" and was like ok wtf is going on here? I always loved bloopers.
Sounds like unemployed behavior from those losers, yes it was a birds life, yet, that was the income for many of the ones taking part on the production
After seeing Sweden greenlight halving its wolf population, which is already endangered over there, earlier this year, the killing of a single sparrow seems trivial by comparison.
Well if a certain species actually causes issues even when their population is so low it is perfectly understandable to want to get rid of them atleast partly. People love saying that you just "have to take more defensive and preventative measures" but that only works so and so far.
Yeah. wolfes that were extinct 100 years ago and only recently returned over the border. not to mention that they are are hevaily inbreed. I am not a wolf hater but i live near them and know the damage they can cause. As this video presented they reality is always more complicated.
Sometimes to preserve something you need to keep it hidden from people. If the government has tons of land in protected areas far away from civilization is better for them to be isolated and far away from humans
@ In Sweden all people have a right to access the woods. And wolfes live in the same areas as humans. there are wolfes just 30 kilometers from Stockholm.
It's wild that house sparrows are an endangered species in other parts of the world; in America they're an invasive species that outnumbers and easily outcompetes our native birds.
FFS its just a sparrow! My cat has brought two sparrows, two tits, a robin and even a sodding blackbird home as presents for me in the last month or so. I'm waiting the the day he tries to squeeze a kestrel through that fucking flap!
Did you miss the endangered part? My cats have killed a lot of animals too but that's different than being a human being who should know better than to shoot an animal without making sure it wasn't endangered. I mean, it was a mistake but also willful negligence, I don't blame people who were upset with it but it didn't call for death threats.
@@adamg7984ah, yes, the famous 2005 hunters who had the ability to instantly determine what species a bird is and instantly connect to knowledge banks to instantly check if it's endangered. Besides, it's hard work of dozens of people against one small animal which isn't even endangered anymore. On a side note, if you had rats in your home, would you call for exterminators to get rid of them?
It never ceases to amaze me that people value animal lives much more than they do other humans. I bet that hunter received more death threats than a dutch serial killer.
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endangered is funny cause house sparrow is considered an invasive pest in the states
I love these damn pictures 😂😂😂 a punk sparrow with a knive😂
Can we seriously get Internet married no homo ?!
thanks to this decision
There are people who have killed humans that haven't received as many death threats as that hunter
crazt rright? he was doing his job, imagine how the life of people who kill rats for a living have to go through
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Fr f that bird, i find it Crazy how people can care so much about birds
They didn't kill humans in the Netherlands I bet. It's nice to see a country who's people cares more about even the life of a bird than some stupid TV show. But yeah, what else could the TV station do? They tried, they were up against it, they shot the bird before they knew it was endangered. I too would not be happy with that but it doesn't call for death threats.
@@LionelSoccer Fuck that guy, how's that? Why is his life more important than the birds? See where people come from? Finding common ground with those you don't agree with is important especially today. I can see where both sides were coming from and both sides made mistakes lol. Birds also can't be underhanded backstabbing monsters, they can only be birds. See, a lot of human beings grow up and see how utterly irredeemable a lot of humans are so it can be easy to just think most people are like that. It's hard to imagine a guy who shoots birds for a living is an especially great fellow, but by no means was this situation on him, he was just doing his job.
killing 23000 dominos with one bird
New idiom unlocked
You absolute wordsmith.
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I will never forgive Qxir for making me listen to almost 1 minute of uniterrupted dutch.
we hebben een serieus probleem
As a german, its as if they made up a fantasy language by pronouncing german words in french and mixing in some gibberish. Id need to be a lot more drunk to make out what the announcer said
@@zeux5583🤣
@@zeux5583 As an American, German is like they took the wonderful Dutch language and made it a thousand times more angry
LMAO. I won't lie, I had to skip forward it was driving me nuts. 👀
I'm willing to bet 99% of the people sending death threats did not know that sparrows are considered an endangered species prior to this either.
Did not know that either. You learn something new every day!
They're definitely not endangered in the USA. They are an invasive species and you can get rid of as many as you want.
I highly doubt any death threats were sent. Carnists are the violent ones, not those of us who defend victims.
@@thevegandragon_ PETA?
Bet most of them never bothered to put out bird feeders and bird houses to help the sparrows either. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if many had free roaming cats as pets (cats are a living, breathing ecological disaster, in case people don't know).
Now I see why Mao waged war on the sparrows
lmao... best comment
The Domino Effect
Mao was a fuckin eejit.
But God saw that it was unjust, and he sent a plague of locusts so the people wept, and disrespected their elders and he SAW THAT IT WAS UNJUST and he sent the second rider upon them, its skeletal hand poured forth SARS, while they wailed and built their homes on sand, for which God did shake the earth in anger, sending cruel leaders to snatch organs from their children, but the people built several coalpower plants per week with no filters or regard for sulphur content of fuel, and their tears flowed, and they did build poor drainage systems, and God was furious and he said let their be a final message and a pale horse thundered down upon them, a golden mane and lightning wind did howl with stars bright against a blue sky and clouds of white, and the blood began to fall in thick crimson curtains and the people knew they chosen poorly, their false idol this Chairman Meow 😸
@@BoycottChinaa very true!!
Domino day was my childhood, glad to see it featured here!
Wasn't it only a "once a year" event?
@@FriedrichHerschel Not everyone got to enjoy year-round childhoods like you did in your fairytale bouncy castle. Check your privileges.
@@FriedrichHerschelyou onlu had like 3 years of childood? This was a tv event. We had a similar show in germany.
@@Monkey.D.Pression it existed since 1988 till 2009.....
@ The show in Germany actually WAS this dutch event. RTL was the broadcasting TV station and bought the german TV rights for it. They often cooperated with Endemol back then and still do, for example with the German version of "Who wants to be a Millionaire".
I thought the whole joke of this one was just going to be that a bird knocked over the dominoes during the event, but no. It just HAD to be an endangered bird, which they then killed. That's a tragic yet hilarious extra layer to the story.
Saw someone on reddit respond to a Dutch comment calling it "actual gnome language" and that really stuck with me.
Who's going to tell that redditor about the live action tv show about literal gnomes
Speaking of which, it's theme song still goes hard lol
Kabouter Plop in case you're wondering
I remember some commentator saying that Dutch is German if the speaker is abominably drunk (in the same comment he said Danish is German if the speaker has a potato in their mouth while speaking)...
It's not the most pretty language, but it's our language dammit
Een beetje respect tonen mag dus wel, flapdrol.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Its also American English if the speaker is on crack and has a swollen tongue
@@tienusm2339You speak a muppet language. My condolences.
6:01 “You either domino, or you domi-don’t know.” My favorite quote. I love you ❤️🙏
I came here to see if someone had already posted about this before I did.
This caught my attention, too. I thought it was brilliant and hilarious!!
@ facts!!
The person being tossed off the edge didn't know I guess.
I cannot get past the irony of an endangered species being killed on the orders of a company that is a homonym of 'end em all'
homophone* 🙃
@@pooki-dooki Incorrect; homonyms are both homographs *and* homophones _in one;_ i.e., both spelled and pronounced identically, but distinct in meaning. It's even right there in its etymology.
Really kicks the irony of that hyper-condescending _"I love it when people make needless, but nevertheless confident corrections"_ up a notch.
[edit: I was replying to a not-so-nice post that's since been deleted, so without that context it looks like I was just hammering the OP (@BlooMule), but I totally wasn't. Context below if you're curious.
2025-01-25 02⫶25 @pook-dooki wrote: _"I love it when people make needless, but nevertheless confident corrections. Homophones are a specific subcategory of homonyms (the other being homograph), and therefore the original statement is true."_
They nuked that ↑ after I replied 🙄]
@@Vindsvelle I learned something..
@@storytimewithunclekumaran5004 Sorry; the dude I replied to deleted his message, so it looks like I'm just needlessly hammering the OP (@BlooMule), but I totally wasn't. Context below if you're curious.
@pooki-dooki wrote on 2025-01-25 02:25: _"I love it when people make needless, but nevertheless confident corrections. Homophones are a specific subcategory of homonyms (the other being homograph), and therefore the original statement is true."_ After I replied, he deleted that message 🙄
@@storytimewithunclekumaran5004 Sorry; the dude to whom I was replying baleeted his snarky comment, so it looks like I was just hammering the OP (@BlooMule), but I totally wasn't. Context below if you're curious.
2025.01.25 02⫶25 @pook-dooki: _"I love it when people make needless, but nevertheless confident corrections. Homophones are a specific subcategory of homonyms (the other being homograph), and therefore the original statement is true."_ [After I replied, he nuked his comment 🙄]
6:39 getting stuffed and put on display doing the thing that got you killed goes way hard
You have to make an example of that bird, otherwise the next time you line up some dominos, you'll be swarmed with them
I want to see this with 1 guy 1 horse
the same people sending them threats would 100% call exterminators if there were rats in their home instead of seeing them as hopeless animals who need a place to stay.
people value an animals life on how cute they are
Rats spreading disease is different from upsetting children's toys.
bird flu
@@melvineatsmangos Was that the motive for shooting the bird? Rhetorical question. Do not answer.
this is america ill do whatever i want. 🐦🔫🇺🇸
Yet there is no shotage of people who spew threats against people who have pest control channels here on youtube. Some people are indeed that stupid.
plot twist: the production company snuck the bird in for marketing
Not... Impossible.
As an American, hearing that someone got death threats for shooting a sparrow with a pellet gun almost sounds made up. Like damn.
Its just a bird and he wasnt hunting I feel like thats where ppl start having a problem and in the US a lot of em are protected
House sparrows are a non-native species in the US, and are incredibly invasive and harmful to our native birds. It's so strange hearing that it's an endangered, protected species in Europe.
They're invasive in the United States. Many bluebird enthusiasts take them out, they kill bluebird adults and chicks.
I agree, it was a really excessive reaction. If I was the hunter, I would've lied and NOT tell anyone what species it was to avoid the whole mess.
@@demonorca9539 Pretty sure someone else would have seen it or picked it up.
I doubt they had every domino stacker file an NDA. The complaints probably came from there, even though it was ruining their exhibits.
Just spend a few hours around 'artsy' types and you'll understand.
the stuffed bird's side-eyed expression at 7:05 is priceless
Should have been mounted on a falling stack of dominos by the taxidermist.
oh yes, the mature response of threatening to kill someone who was doing his job and quite possibly didn't know that the sparrow was endangered.
It’s also his job to know whether the animal he’s killing is critically endangered or not
@sheasmith4283 honestly he was probably just some guy one of the people that was working there knew that had an air rifle.
@ because a random dude with an air rifle hired by a pest control company is gonna know an endangered bird by sight... Regardless, he doesn't deserve death threats.
Enlightenment
@@sheasmith4283 yeah, he's going to know if a bird is endangered with one look and a small time before it destroys more dominos 😂 great job dumbass
House sparrows are an invasive species in Latvia btw
that's why I was rooting for the hunter at the start, my ex from Latvia really made me hate sparrows
Horribly invasive in the U.S. and Canada too.
What was happening in the Netherlands that they were threatened, and how do we replicate it???
More urbanization... cleaner cities is basically what i'm getting at from europe's main difference to north america@@silverbeach1557
@@silverbeach1557 my guess would be they killed them off bc of some of their famous flowers or something? idk, as a german i see sparrows a lot but they usually just eat insects so idk.
@@silverbeach1557
Extreme urbanization and a dense population
The illustrations never miss 10/10 😂
It's a shame that the bird was criticly endangered, but those sending death threats don't sound like mature adults.
If Qxir ever gets world famous, no-make that culturally relevant, we'll come back and do a fact-check on those death threats. I still wonder does he have a cousin in the Bronx
Sparrows are not critically endangered.
Sparrows are a dime a dozen
i assume its different in the netherlands. there are other places on the planet
@r0guepix3l50"Everywhere is the same as where I live" 🤡
2:03 I was dying laughing when the Dutch announcer was going through the all the well known fairy tails, then: And the goggle tortangle gaigen and smottle sortget of schmeddle droop. Of coooourse everyone in the world knows that tale haha.
In dutch this sparrow is known as the dominomus. I always liked that word, it looks like some ancient latin title.
At first I thought you were saying that was the Dutch word for sparrow and I was like "what are the fuckin' chances?!?"
Roblox bird
@@dyingscarletI mean the name of the Dominus is quite literally the Latin word for Master or Owner
wait
1:52 a guy shitting in the woods, this truly is the domino controversy of all time
That bird had it coming.
The lawyer for a million cats stand by that assumption
They gave that bird the sacred bird while it was doing the same to them!
🐦⬛🦜🦅🐥🐤🐓🦤🦢🦆🪿🦩🦃🐧🦚
Yup
Hi Qxir, can you please do a Tales From the Bottle episode on Thad Roberts stealing a safe full of moon rocks from NASA? I really think it would make for a good video, and I'm sure you could apply your sense of humor quite well to the subject matter. Keep up the good work!
That was a really good pronunciation of Leeuwarden
Nice to see one UA-camr in a million have a bit of respect for foreign names!
@@andrewdunbar828 not really a surprise that a channel of an irishman could read and speak the names ofdutch places relatively well.
…..I would be so ticked off if a freakin’ bird made me re-stack 20k dominos.
Love your videos man 😂
Well, to be honest, sparrows are little flying psychopaths. They hunt down birds like swallows and literally crush their heads with their hard beaks to take over their nests.
OH MY GOD! I never knew that, what a bunch of monsters.
What? Where did you hear that? Swallows build cup-shaped nests on walls, sparrows nest in holes. Sparrows are ground feeders, swallows pick off insects at altitude. The two species almost never interact.
@@unclenogbad1509 every year a pair of swallows breeds in our shed, if they don't want you there they shoot by your head about 40 mph. No way a sparrow would mess with them swallows are a bit bigger. Guy is confused withe cuckoo or something
@@johnm3907 There are 86 species of swallow and 43 species of true sparrow (plus over 100 species of new world sparrows) in the world. Not all of them are going to be the same physically or behaviorally. For example, a quick Google search shows that house sparrows will usurp nests from other species, including various types of swallow.
No they don't!
Ahhh yes, ruin the work of dozens or hundreds of volunteers because someone else shot a bird. Humans are weird
Ruud the Wild is hated in the netherlands. He is a crazy guy with extreme politics.
Is it work though?
@@jonnawyattYes? Literally what else would it be?
@@jonnawyatt Yes, they had to put in effort laying out millions of dominos. They performed physical labor, also known as work, for a TV show
Oh boy it's Friday! Time to listen to a funny little tale told by an Irishman
yeahhh man lol. Im on the dominoes side
0:57 Crazy good pronunciation
Oh man, I loved this show. Have a lot of good memories of it.
I remember when you had like 3k subscribers. You really have come far.
Cats all over Holland be placing dead sparrows outside every house with a dog. Then pointing the paw of blame.
The Sparrow was an agent for Pizza Hut.
Hey, good job on pronouncing Leeuwarden! It’s a pleasant surprise to hear a native English speaker not horribly mangle our language :)
I guess you could say that the bird nearly caused a domino effect (badum tsss)
how he made this into a 8 minute long video I still can't begin to comprehend
A great recounting as always. It's amazing how small actions can set off big chain reactions.
As regards the poor bird, just after I moved to England from Ireland and thought I had the measure of the place, something similar happened where the BBC were doing an outside broadcast from one of the ubiquitous small village Churches dating from shortly after the Norman Conquest. You guessed it - a song bird had snuck in but it's contributions to the harmony were not appreciated in the rehearsal.
Attempts to chase it out were unsuccessful, as it took shelter high up in the eves, benefiting from excellent acoustics. The Reverent didn't want a special day for the village sabotaged by one small bird, and so asked his son to persuade it into the after life with his rifle. Afterwards the situation got so heated that the the family had to move to a different parish.
A small action sets of a big chain reaction.
Almost like those little bricks, you know, the ones people line up in a row and push them over. Like those. Even though they have no relation at all to this video, I'm sure. 😁
4:51 😂 the bullring on the "activist." How accurate
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Another awesome vid as usual. Your illustration of the Hunter is so awesome, he should have regular cameos in your vids. Name him "Elmer". 😎👍
Nobody wants to admit they ate 9 cans of ravioli but I did and i own up to it
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Trailer park trash, shame on you
Thanks
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I greatly appreciate your honesty in owning up to your past actions
I love these outtaket😂 ❤ you are my favorite source of pop culture history
So let me get this Straight
, a radio host publicly announced to Pay anyone to trespass and ultimately cause damage and was not put in front of a judge
But meanwhile, a bird got inside A indoor facility and was shot and put on trial
Meanwhile, he received death threats, and the owner of this private property had to increase security
A woman takes in an injured wolf to her house and it’s a surprise once the wolf is healed. He eats her children.
leftist morality in action
they"d only bemoan her children not existing when that poor wolf goes hungry, not when she killed them before birth.
Europe and human right😂
Couldn't stop laughing at that death threat note from Big Bird.
I worked in a food production factory with super high ceilings. A bird somehow got in and my manager comes in in a panic like get it outta here! throw shit at it! bang pots! I thought he was maybe over reacting as some kind of moral building fun. Hours later there's people up on scissor lifts chasing it around throwing Frisbees at it yelling while im trying to run my machine. Eventually a peaceful resolution was found
I also worked in food production, they had a licence to shoot birds, squirrels....
We had to cover everything...
I waited outside...
@@adrianneill5014 Yeah, was kind of a huge oversight leaving the shipping and receiving doors wide open most the time lol. I get the healthcode violations. Just it was after we were done making soup and we were just packaging it. I was on the Toyo. Super unlikely the bird would have contaminated anything. There was a pretty well known rat problem but nobody freaked out about that lol. They followed the rules and threw anything out that was contaminated in that case... Sometimes whole pallets of food. But OH SHIT A BIRD WE CAN SEE better go nuclear on it. Eventually it got bored and just flew out the way it came in.
A long time ago I worked on a cherry orchard for my dads best friend that owned the farm. The robins were a major issue for him and it wasnt even good for the birds... they would get soo fat they couldnt fly and would all die out every winter.
After work I'd go out with an airgun. I prolly killed a couple hundred over the course of a month or so. I didnt feel great about it. I got zero death threats. There were baited traps to catch and release them elsewhere but "animal rights activists" kept sabotaging the traps letting them back loose into the valley to gorge themselves to death and then the air guns come out instead... I also helped refuel the bird cannons. I was a Bill Murray type of character just birds instead of one gopher.
@@dannnmerkle7930The second part of your story made me chuckle. Very loony toons vibe to something like that.
@@TubeOfLaughes I was hoping to give those vibes because that was what it reminded me of... My job is hard enough now Im dodging stray frisbees because of this bird... It's just taunting us at this point... In hindsight I wish I would have put up a wanted poster in the breakroom. The whole time I'm thinking ok what would look more absurd if the USDA or OSHA showed up... them maybe noticing the bird or people driving scissor lifts around playing some weird version of extreme frisbee. Was a Japanese company. They did some things very strangely there. Sometimes they did stuff with forklifts where I'm like ok yeah I'm just gonna stand way back and watch
@dannnmerkle7930 Hey, magical things happen by those with the power of forklift certification. They are beyond comprehension by us mere mortals.
That bird woke up and chose violence.
The fact that a bird got in isn't really surprising. Any place with doors that open multiple times a day, open bays for extended periods of time, etc... Is bound to have a bird or two fly in eventually. When I worked at walmart, it was a normal sight to have a bird just flying around the rafters. They never bother the customers cause the ceilings are so high, but they were there for a while. Tbh, idk how long or even how we got them out or if they ever did.
They would be a problem if you stacked the products like those domino stones.
i always watched domino day every year as a kid it was always a big thing for me and i loved every second of it
Can't believe I've been on UA-cam for like 15 years and only discovered this channel today.
"Endemol."
🐦 *"As you wish."*
Thank you so much for getting the pronunciation of my town’s name right 👍, when so many people living in the south of The Netherlands fail .
Ej. Never tought my home town would be mentioned. Greetings from Leeuwarden.
I remember the hunter getting death treats. Really crazy. Many crazy people here. Many where appaled by that. My sister and many friends where in the audience of this event a few times.
I never cared for dominos so i never attended. Shame they stopped though.
Hoi Segert
How does it feel living in a town that got a mention by the finest music group that ever came out of Merseyside?
@ What music group?
Id like to think that the volunteers who were repairing the sparrows carnage have kept a stalwart vigil protecting that hunter ever since.
My favorite is the mosaic of the guy taking a dump in the woods 1:57
Time stamps are helpful.
It's an 8 minute video, your attention span can't be that badd @@SlickArmor
@@Charlie-jl2jd Sorry. I do blink at times.
@@SlickArmor If you missed that by blinking I hope you don't drive a car
@@Charlie-jl2jd So you don't blink while driving? Interesting.
Imagine getting death threats over a single bloody sparrow.
One bird and a lot of adult children.
Back then domino day was a yearly must watch for the entire family. We all loved it.
Dutch sounds to like what English sounds like to people who don't speak English
The fact that they snuck a "to be our not to be" in there gives it that authentic "I don't know this language, but can recognise certain words and phrases" feel
This one is a gem. Your edits cracked me up
7:45 purple burglar alarm
Dude you're are one of the funniest people on UA-cam.😂🤣😅 I am a massive fan.🤟
the way he said renard got me cracking 1:40
RE!nahrdé 🥴
for me it was how he said Don Quixote
In Dutch: Reynaerde. Funny thing: the story's origins are Dutch, so he pronounced it correctly :)
Also, Don Quichot in Dutch. Don't know why we turned the Spanish X into a SH sound, especially since it's a normal sound in our language.
Den Vos Reynaerde is old Dutch. And it's correctly pronounced. He didn't say "renard", which is French BTW.
Quasimodo predicted this
Oh man, I used to absolutely love Domino Day. Would get excited to see every new broadcast.
3:21 Rorschach pigeon carrying a used condom, changing the first word to “Puke” in the shadows. Classy logo.
What do we do about the sparrows? Endemol! All of them? Yes! END EM OL!
My ex wife better not be in this comment section, she has a restraining order against me
Wheres my money greg
Im your baby googoogaga, give me money
what did you do?
@@poisondrinker343 he left for milk
I uh, don't get it
I would understand the outrage if house sparrows were endangered globally, but these things are all over the place in the US. Seriously, Netherlands, you can just take some if you're that worried.
I can’t believe people think the Netherlands is real
I absolutely loved the ending where you edited in your mess ups! Lol I had to replay it at first cuz my volume was low and I kept hearing "thanks to this decision, thanks to this decision, thanks to this decision" and was like ok wtf is going on here? I always loved bloopers.
I would if I wasn't already married, you handsome ❤
Ditto lol
I'm single ;-)
Cringe comment
There is no other channel that I've liked more times than Qxir's. Keep up the good work.
Sounds like unemployed behavior from those losers, yes it was a birds life, yet, that was the income for many of the ones taking part on the production
animals have no rights.
That sparrow knew exactly what it was doing, and I love it for that.
Can you imagine getting that worked up about a sparrow?
Yah?
If we had that mentality earlier we might have had dodo's today
"Her life was so much more meaningful than that of the chicken i had for lunch!"
A bird should not be more valuable than a human life. Don’t send death threats. Just don’t.
I counter your proposal, and raise you one sparrow.
After seeing Sweden greenlight halving its wolf population, which is already endangered over there, earlier this year, the killing of a single sparrow seems trivial by comparison.
Well if a certain species actually causes issues even when their population is so low it is perfectly understandable to want to get rid of them atleast partly.
People love saying that you just "have to take more defensive and preventative measures" but that only works so and so far.
Yeah. wolfes that were extinct 100 years ago and only recently returned over the border. not to mention that they are are hevaily inbreed. I am not a wolf hater but i live near them and know the damage they can cause. As this video presented they reality is always more complicated.
Sometimes to preserve something you need to keep it hidden from people.
If the government has tons of land in protected areas far away from civilization is better for them to be isolated and far away from humans
@ In Sweden all people have a right to access the woods. And wolfes live in the same areas as humans. there are wolfes just 30 kilometers from Stockholm.
We don’t need to replace hunters with wolves, despite what the environmentalists say
It's wild that house sparrows are an endangered species in other parts of the world; in America they're an invasive species that outnumbers and easily outcompetes our native birds.
FFS its just a sparrow! My cat has brought two sparrows, two tits, a robin and even a sodding blackbird home as presents for me in the last month or so. I'm waiting the the day he tries to squeeze a kestrel through that fucking flap!
Did you miss the endangered part? My cats have killed a lot of animals too but that's different than being a human being who should know better than to shoot an animal without making sure it wasn't endangered. I mean, it was a mistake but also willful negligence, I don't blame people who were upset with it but it didn't call for death threats.
@@adamg7984ah, yes, the famous 2005 hunters who had the ability to instantly determine what species a bird is and instantly connect to knowledge banks to instantly check if it's endangered. Besides, it's hard work of dozens of people against one small animal which isn't even endangered anymore.
On a side note, if you had rats in your home, would you call for exterminators to get rid of them?
We had a dog that used to do that, rabbits mostly, a large tom cat once. Didn't even eat them
Damn, Domino Day was a fucking BLAST when I was younger. 6 - 10 year old me was glued to the television from the second the first domino fell
What a joke that this 1 bird has more value than this huge work of art. The hunter was more a cultural protector than anything else tbh.
What a joke that we value a bunch of dominos over a living being.
I think my last comment was unclear. A bird's life is more valuable than some dominoes
The visuals (drawings and animations) are top notch! Wasn't expected it!
I love the outtakes at the end, thank you.
Birds are real
They could have just asked us for a replacement bird. We have plenty of house sparrows over here.
I mean, we eat birds in the form of chicken, so this shouldn't be too much of a big deal
It never ceases to amaze me that people value animal lives much more than they do other humans. I bet that hunter received more death threats than a dutch serial killer.
Birds and sports are never a good combination
What about golfing has birdies?
Or bowling and turkeys?
@@BlighterProductions I’ve seen birds getting killed by gold many times lmao
house sparrow? *endangered? HOUSE SPARROW?!*
this is like saying the humble pigeon is endangered wtf
We all know you don’t fuck with animals 😂
That would be called zoophilia.
I see Tales From the Bottle, I watch.
Birds are not real
Neither are cats
True!
You aren’t real
I feel pretty real!
only madrid is real
I just want to genuinely Thank you for making these consistent basis and giving me very good entertainment
Love to see your channel get the attention it deserves. Impressive numbers in an hour - keep up the good work, man!
4:40 What the hell Netherlands!? This was based AF, damn Sparrows deserved it. 😤
You nailed the pronounciation of the city. I have lived here for 15 years and still cant do it properly
When something puts their life between me and my property, their life is worth less than my property.
Are you American? I am. Many Americans unironically agree with you. I find that belief system incomprehensible.
Don't worry. America has millions of slightly tarrifed sparrows to replace that one.