If you watch the video as a factual investigation by a skilled analyst, hopefully you’ll notice that he does many things terribly wrong/poorly.
If you watch the video as entertainment you’ll see a person who is bad at various basic life skills/motor skills attempting life hacks and flailing. This is why it’s worth watching.
When my friends and I were younger and poorer, we tried taking rotgut vodka and running it through a water filter 5 or 6 times.
Indeed, it makes awful vodka into pretty good vodka.
Unless that lifehack was among the ones debunked. Then please disregard.
I don’t know your ethnic area but I learnt to love this cake in the absolutely not mono-ethnic region in the triangle Austria/Switzerland/South Germany.
I did notice the presenter was displaying terrible skill, but I figured that was part of charm of the video series. However, I don’t think this excuses him, or the series, to get facts flat out wrong.
The title of the show is ‘Life Hacks Debunked’, implying that the show takes information floating around the Internet and proves, or disproves, the factuality. If the presenter is getting the facts wrong, then this series just adds to the misinformation floating around the Internet, which is in opposition to the implication derived from title of the show. Isn’t there enough bad information on the Internet already and enough gullible people to believe as truth?
There’s no reason the presenter should be adding to the misinformation to the Internet, while maintaining his bumbling delivery. Simple fact checking prior to filming would suffice. Then he could display his total lack of life skills, which in its own way is charming, but still get the facts correct.
These YouTube videos are made by/for Mental Floss, and seem designed to elicit comments. There are droves of them on their site/the video of people saying “hey, you did [unimportant thing] wrong, it actually works!” The stakes are low since the “life hacks” are either common knowledge or absurd things. It works for ad revenue and for the entertainment value the comments themselves. Still, if you’d like John Green to be more responsible with his bumbling through life hacks, don’t tell me, tell John Green.
Actually it’s really funny that you posted that, because the expression “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” was originally an idiom for something that was impossible.
I have a bottle I use for mild disinfecting and cleaning. I always manage to run out of isopropyl, but vokda can last years in my house!
I had never heard of this aside from a family recipe that came over ‘From de Ault Country. Mit de shickens, und de cabbaches.’ /terrible German accent. Even the local German bakery didn’t know about it. It was Dad’s favorite birthday cake.
Over here in Austria, that plum cake (Zwetschkenkuchen) is really common. For whatever reason, the german area where I saw it the most was Cologne. Go figure.
Mark… Headline says 30 hacks debunked, body says about 40% of them work.
The value is that you’ve just demonstrated that you can rip an apple in half with your bare hands, typically after letting somebody else try and fail. It’s an old carny strong-man trick, just like ripping a phonebook in half. And like the phonebook, it’s more about knowing how to do it than it is about being particularly strong.
I’m told it doesn’t go away. I checked because hand cut onions (by someone else, hours prior) can cause me to tear up painfully. Although I have no particular reason to suspect that the “no to onion tolerance” crowd was correct. Other than that cutting lots of onions has not improved things for me. (AKA anecdotal.)
There are definitely some varieties that are less tear inducing. In my stores, sweet onions (which look like yellow onions but based on tear production must not be) induce less tears for me.
I think I’ll stick to watching grav3yardgirl test pinterest stuff but I did have a fun time watching John Green attempt to injure his hand on the watermelon. (I also enjoy watching The Slow Mo guys injure each other. I guess it’s my The Three Stooges.)
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