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/r/videos/comments/q4o3xj/very_strange_interaction_between_kristen_stewart/
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[
"What",
"This feels like a Vic Berger edit. Can anyon confirm this clip hasn’t been manipulated?",
"This can’t be real lol",
"Definitely, strange…",
"Just two people vibing man",
"It's part of a video series called [The Talk](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFGVR9NwGc5cc79j48MfNdA)",
"Someone add Oblivion music to this.",
"> THE TALK \n> A fictional talk show with people who never met and conversations that never took place.\n\nThe super boosted room tone really give away the gag. I'm assuming these are clips from the Hollywood Reporter roundtables."
] | 8 |
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Very strange interaction between Kristen Stewart & Harrison Ford
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJmAphT0e8
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/r/videos/comments/q4ob2h/the_dinosaurs_tv_show_was_darker_than_i_remember/
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[
"The last episode is fuckin ROUGH",
"George Jefferson at his finest. LOL",
"The Honeymooners as Dino’s",
"[This is actually how it ended](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9b9aoINXzk)"
] | 4 |
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The Dinosaurs tv show was darker than I remember it being as a child
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https://youtu.be/udNXMAflbU8
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/r/videos/comments/q4ocds/holey_plugs_batman_but_what_are_they_for/
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[
"Knew this was technology connections just from the thumbnail. I love this guys videos.",
"1. Increases contact and grip onto little bumps inside the socket. \n\n\n2. Lock out tags. eg. Zip tied safety notice. \n\n\n3. Tiny manufacturing savings on raw materials.\n\n\nIts optional and basically doesn't even work. \n\n\n#20 minute video",
"> Increases contact and grip onto little bumps inside the socket. \n\nExcept... it doesn't. Did you watch the video?\n\n> Lock out tags. eg. Zip tied safety notice. \n \nThat can come in handy, but that isn't by design it seems.\n\n> Tiny manufacturing savings on raw materials.\n\nBut a slightly more complex production process so no cost savings. Also the drilled out holes make for some scrap metal wool / shrapnel... not worth much.",
"can anyone tell me why he has yellow stains coming off his mouth ?\n\nI cant be the only one seeing this yellow stain on his mouth and chin.............",
"Yeah sorry man, but I'm going to trust the National Electrical Manufacturers Association over a *YouTuber.*\n\n\n\nThe *intent* was to increase contact and grip to help stop the plug falling out, but the standards actually don't care about this anymore, which would explain why no one really puts in the effort to ensure their holes line up perfectly with *every type of outlet there is.* He says nothing about this. The NEMA says the holes are optional and mostly for \"manufacturing convenience\" \n\n\nI'm not wasting anymore time on this. If you want to believe a YouTuber over the actual people who make the standards to build these things then fine.",
"> The NEMA says the holes are optional and mostly for \"manufacturing convenience\" \n\nWhich is what he literally quotes in the video...",
"Its not like what he is saying is wrong. You are saying what I said is wrong. But its just semantics over intent vs actual use. He says one thing the NEMA says. Good for him. What about the rest? You know like the actual answer? No, let's waffle on for 20 damn minutes. Again, I'll trust what NEMA has to say on the entire question, not him. \n\n\nIt could be easily explained in under 2 minutes with plenty of detail. \n\n\n\nIt's just so ridiculously annoying. People are sick of this. Which might explain why your boys video has been sitting at 0 upvotes since it was posted.",
"He doesn't. Those are shadows. Light transmits through skin differently depending on thickness, amount of fat and muscle, etc. Those are just minor variations of how his skin tone looks, not yellow stains.",
"Both he and NEMA are pretty clear the holes are there to allow the prongs to be gripped by machinery while manufacturing, not for a practical purpose in the end product. The 20 minutes are addressing the assumed purpose of the plugs by actually testing them with a variety of outlets to see if any at all actually grip the holes.",
"No one, *not a soul* wants to watch a man put plugs into sockets for 20 minutes when they clicked on a video expecting a quick and simple answer to a simple question. Its everything people hate about modern YouTube. \n\n\nHe isn't wrong. Its just incredibly annoying.\n\n\nIts not even a matter of \"Oh you would *think* this is a simple thing but it isn't because *insert super interesting and unexpected content here*\"",
"20 minutes video to answer a question. That’s a hard pass from me, dog",
">e are shadows. Light transmits through skin differently depending on thickness, amount of fat and muscle, etc. Those are just minor variations of how \n\nhuh ya either that, or spaghetti stains",
"It's not about the question, it's about the history. Try your middle school textbooks if you're looking for the answers to your pop quiz.",
"I have to be honest. I normally watch these videos with my wife but this one I skipped through and when my wife was going to watch it I told her it's not worth it."
] | 14 |
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Holey Plugs, Batman! But... what are they for?
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https://youtu.be/zDIs180rXqw
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/r/videos/comments/q4ovjy/old_timey_truck_driver_rant/
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[
"These children don't understand how easy it is for them compared to what we did back in my day!",
"Participation trophies are more for the psychotic parents than the kids.",
"Nice!"
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Old Timey Truck Driver Rant
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUMcJltEXQ
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/r/videos/comments/q4ox5n/man_vs_woman_strength_vs_technique_a_jiujitsu/
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[
"is that Eve Torres from the WWE?",
"Yes. She is Eve Torres Gracie now.",
"So long as your attacker just stands there and does nothing it's very easy to get away from them. Let's see how that works when the attacker actually attacks.",
"You can see how it works at any BJJ tournament. Fighting to maintain or break wrist control is a constant battle. This was just a simple example of leverage.",
"Self defence is about building an arsenal of moves. The video shows mere handful (pardon the pun)."
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Man vs. Woman, Strength vs. Technique (A Jiu-Jitsu Experiment)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAVtx7EKVtM&ab_channel=SeanSevestre
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/r/videos/comments/q4pa1g/how_i_made_this_3d_model/
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"Pshh let me know when you can make real 3D models like the Utah teapot.",
"very cool character dude. is it available anywhere?",
"Nice, is it part of a game or animation?"
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How I made this 3D model
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q4pa87/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/q4pa87/deleted_by_user/
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"Comedian: *(talks)*\n\nTwitter: “You can’t say that.”",
"Chappell is a legend",
"Who’s this incel?\n\nEdit: Not Dave, the guy running whatever talk piece this is",
"Chappelle the 🐐",
"That man can slap my dead mother and as long as he has a good punchline to go with it I would laugh historically",
"Congratulations on being part of the problem I guess",
"Nah, I agree with chappelle sentiment on this. But the dudes take on this is extremely biased. Like the “woke” cancel culture crowd and “patriot” boycott crowd are any different. I’m mainly focusing on yellow flash and not dave",
"Hey that's great comrade, but I've found that anyone who un-ironically throws the word incel around to any man they find contemptuous isn't worthy of the time of day and can basically go fuck themselves, that *anyone* being you.",
"He even said they would do that and they still did it",
"If you don't roll your eyes at these manlets throwing temper tantrums all over YouTube, it's probably because you're one of them.",
"And that’s fine and you can believe what you will. Maybe could’ve gone about and described him in any other way, but doesn’t take away from the fact that this guy thinks he’s doing something when he’s just as guilty of what he’s complaining about. Getting bent out of shape for someone using words like incel, commie, fascist, is just the internet. Dave’s take says he doesn’t give a fuck about what others think, and that’s been common knowledge for decades. But talking heads like this guy and other who opposite of him are insufferable",
"Twitter simultaneously has every opinion at every time. It's a cesspool. Why do people still pay attention to random voices on Twitter?",
"Exactly",
"lol shut the fuck up.",
"wow destroyed with facts and logic",
"Nah. Just perspective.",
"Woke is the new redpill for redpillers.\n\nThe \"Patriot\" Redpillers put the RedPill shit out all over the place on themselves and everyone else. Wake Up Sheeple!!\n\nThey also project the 'woke' shit on everyone else trying to get everyone to hate anyone trying to be any bit of progressive.\n\nIt's all bullshit coming from the most regressive of the regressives.\n\n\"Yellow\" Flash is a Proudboy through and through. Cancerous to the core.",
"I would tell Twitter to Fuck off too. Twitter brings out the worst in people",
"In his latest special Dave says \"Go back and watch all my Netflix specials an listen to what I'm ACTUALLY saying\"\n\nI have. Dave Chappelle had his heart broken by a trans woman and is using these specials to disguise therapy as jokes.\n\nIt's clear as day. Watch them through that lens and it makes perfect sense",
"I'm not sure how he is an incel if he has a wife and kids.....",
"Later in this thread I did touch on that. The over generalization I used is hypocritical when I could’ve easily said the commentator is minimalistic and hypocritical himself. I choose not to delete it on the sole fact that discussion and discourse are better solutions than deleting and hiding my comments like most will do",
"damn you really got me with that, I'll let your wife's boyfriend know you really hurt my feelings",
"I love him.",
"\"Fuck Twitter\" is something that more people should say more often",
"They think their opinions are 100% correct and backed by history and empirical truth but they're always missing nuance and general social skills.",
"Yeah but what if he's like, \"Reminds me of an encounter I had at Jiffy Lube\" and tells a story about some random weirdo and what he didn't actually say to her. And now your mom is slapped for nothing.",
"black VS trans\n\nwho is higher on the opression totem pole?"
] | 29 |
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[deleted by user]
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q4pfcp/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/q4pfcp/deleted_by_user/
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"He had a point.... I'm not mad at the store owner/manager.",
"This is bullshit. The SCOTUS has ruled about places where “there is an expectation of privacy”. A store which serves the public is not your bedroom, Skippy. \n\nThe store owner had every right to kick the streamer out. He had zero right to detain him, and there was absolutely no crime committed by the streamer. \n\nIf anything, the store owner should be arrested for criminal confinement, or possibly be subjected to a lawsuit. \n\nNow - all of that being said, I have zero context to WTF the streamer was up to. If he was harassing or disrupting while streaming, this complicates things.",
"Yeah I thought he seemed knowledgeable of his rights and pretty calm in how he was talking. +1 for the store manager (probably the owner)",
"I also have to add - locking me in is likely to result in a violent response. Potentially a *very* violent response, because I’m GTFO and you can let the police come talk to me somewhere else.\n\nThe store manager needs to choose his battles more wisely.",
"Don't know why you're getting downvoted since your response seems reasonable and measured.\n\nThe streamer was a being a colossal dick, and the employee is within his rights to ask the streamer to leave or escort him off the property, but he is not allowed to detain him.",
"It’s Reddit. I don’t expect objectivity or reason, I just accept it as a surprise when someone shows it."
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[deleted by user]
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https://clips.twitch.tv/SourFancyAsparagusM4xHeh-7laAT_N-3hry4TWJ
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/r/videos/comments/q4pfz3/artist_painting_in_the_park_when_some_kids_get/
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[
"oh! but when I film kids in public the cops come... this world!",
"Ketchup kid needs his own stream.",
"But how did the picture turn out?",
"\"Go to McDonald's and subscribe the channel\"\n\nI mean, the kid has boiled down streaming to it's purest, most essential form.",
"Looks more like a canal, but ok",
"ＳＵＢＳＣＲＩＢＥ ＦＯＲ ＴＨＥ ＫＥＴＣＨＵＰ",
"\"Suscrite the channel neow!\"",
"...What is going on with that painting?",
"You would get killed for mistake like that in my line of work.",
"Without having seen the final product, it looks like she's just applying the base colors.",
"*DEH KETCHUP",
"can confirm, subscribed and a lot of sauce now on my screen",
"Do you captain cargo ships?",
"“It’ll fit”",
"Nah he's an Iraqi preschool teacher.",
"Painting is an additive process. You must build the base colors and shapes first and then refine later.",
"The PERFECT balance of intrusive and adorable. If only we could weaponize this power.",
"Had to reread your comment, damn it just makes so much sense",
"I was having a bad day and this instantly made me smile",
"Yeah, the Evergreen",
"Hmm.",
"Good contribution to discussion",
"You would know if you just go to McDonald's and subscribe the channel.",
"Ya but exploiting people is so profitable.\n\nHard to pull a fast one on an intellectually mature society",
"Definitely can't have a canal inside of a park",
"Yes. And stupid people are profitable when exploited. You read my comment right?",
"sad part is those kids are going to have a tough future the way this planet is going. I hope they turn out rich and successful unlike me.",
"Most idiotic and most wealthy",
"Hi, can you paint me?",
"I got a million dollars. I got a thousand dollars",
"Is she really painting looks like she’s not",
"jesus dude you okay? You don't have to be rich or successful to live a good, fulfilling life. Appreciate the smaller things.",
"nah you do, higher food prices, higher cost of living, its getting more and more expensive if you want to live a good life. we're all fucked.",
"You are missing the point. It is in the best interest to the people capable of educating and nurturing children in such a way to no do that very thing.\n\nKeeping the people poor and uneducated makes them easier to exploit. If we start nurturing children then they might grow up to be intelligent adults with critically thinking skills, and that's bad for the bottom line.\n\nHaving compassion is a weakness when it comes to profit",
"Lol, I was just asking a fucking question.",
"> Destroying perception of the young isn't done consciously.\n\nMy third grade teacher proves you are wrong. \n\nI later found out she had to take medical leave for cancer of some type when I was in high school. I sent her a card with \"I hope the cancer wins for the sake of the children\" and when asked 15 other students who were in my third grade class all signed it. It might have been more but I was only able to track down fifteen people who had been in that class.\n\nFuck you Mrs. Stackpool, I hope the cancer hurt.",
"nah Sarah--this is a great time to be alive! the establishment wants us to overthrow it, gonna be stellar.",
"That offer went from a million to a thousand so fast, I better take it!",
"Suscribe to canal",
"Entirely impossible!",
"Good luck not completely collapsing the incredibly massive house of cards billions of people are living on in your glorious revolution.",
"I'm sold. Just subscribed...wheres my ketchup?",
"Hmm.",
"They clearly know more than you on this subject so don't \"hmm\" them.",
"Do you not know that **\"Hmm.\"** on it's own reads as if you don't believe them?",
"He probably does understand.",
"But the big heads don't want you to work well. They just want you to work enough to make them a profit, but not well enough that you want things.\n\nCompassion will increase productivity, but hurt profit. You lose money on vacation time, benefits, PTO, Sick leave, all types of things. If you treat people like numbers you make ALOT of money (Amazon for example)\n\nDo you have any idea how much money Amazon would lose if they allowed compassion? Bathroom breaks whenever you want? Benefits? Full time? Millions of dollars lost instantly because.. you felt compassionate...",
"No shit, dipshit.",
"Lol, what do I care what it reads as?",
"“we need to keep the kids off the canals”"
] | 50 |
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Artist painting in the park when some kids get curious about her stream
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https://youtu.be/N4Y4LiVhOOg
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/r/videos/comments/q4povv/thunderstorm_lightning_video_shoot/
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[
"Just gonna mention one of my favorite photographers in that context.\n\n[Pecos Hank](https://youtu.be/ebxOTBwTZHM)",
"Why is the exact same sound effect used over and over lmao.",
"Their is no sound effects only real sound"
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Thunderstorm lightning video shoot
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSd8V-kb6Ro
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/r/videos/comments/q4prqh/fastest_gun_that_ever_lived_at_the_start_the_guy/
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"Agreed that some fast shooting",
"You see both balloons pop before the sound of the report(s) reach the camera 15-20 ft(?) away?! That’s incredible. I agree he sounded a cocky ass, but damn if he doesn’t back up his swagger.",
"A moose once bit my sister.",
"No, realli!",
"He's still arrogant and full of himself. But, yeah... pretty amazing...",
"Just imagine:\n\nYou're a mugger, you encounter a guy walking alone in a dark alley, no other person for a mile around.\n\nYou pull out your knife and demand his wallet and his watch.\n\nThe man turns to face you and says \"Ok buddy, just give me less than a second\"\n\nAs soon as he finishes that sentence you feel yourself start collapse, then you here the gunshot, but that can't be right.\n\nYou look down, to see what the problem might be, and notice both of your kneecaps are missing, still only having heard 1 shot you check behind you, maybe someone with a shotgun from behind that you didn't see?\n\nA quick glance reveals that at least you hadn't been stupid enough to not notice someone approach from behind.\n\nYou fully collapse now, and from your position on the ground you can see it, the holster, did this man really just blow out both your kneecaps with 1 shot and have you not notice it?",
"He does sound cocky, but then so does Michael Jordan. If you're the best, I see no reason why you shouldn't state it. Other than, of course, people less talented that want you to just shut up for once.",
"I dunno. There's a way to say your the best without coming off as an ass.",
"Me reading the title: okay but it's just a dude pulling a gun out of a holster, how fast can it be?\n\nMe after watching the video: I have yet to accomplish anything in life.\n\nWonder if there's any 4k60fps video of 2021's fastest gun. I can't come to terms with this.\n\nEdit: Best I could find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTspzONOomw",
"Agreed. Doesn't seem to happen often with competitive athletes though ;)",
"Did he ever end up shooting his dick off?",
"He is a bad ass with that thing",
"Really makes you wish they had a high res super slow motion camera. It would be nice to see the movement in more detail.",
"My only question is why is the camera/ camera guy standing directly in front of the gun / right behind the 2 balloons. I mean yeah it looks like he’s between the 2 balloons but still…",
"You’re gonna get sacked",
"The slow-mo shot at the end detailing his draw as well as his beer gut was pretty great.\n\nNo denying it though, man's a talent",
"What's incredibe is that the camerman agreed to stand on the other side of the balloons",
"They are blanks, the camera is about 40 feet away. Danger zone on blanks is about 20 feet.",
"But did he say that his draw is *faster* than the speed of light?",
"He earned it.",
"He was shootin blanks, hence why he had to be so close to the balloons in order to pop em",
"No he said that was the closest comparale thing to it, but speed of light is \"way faster\". Basically he was saying he's closer to the speed of light than he is to the next fastest thing.\n\n\nMach 10 jet ---------------- his speed shot ------ speed of light",
"\"Now son, I'll warn you I hold 18 of the world records for gun slinging\"\n\n\\*shot the guy twice before he even said this, and is just noticing now.",
"We had to wait until 2021 for the light to catch up so we could finally see this footage. Crazy fast.",
"He’s no Ned Nederlander.",
"What is he gonna do, shoot him?",
"Twice actually",
"This is prime example of talking the talk, and walking the walk. Shit, dude straight Texas two steps the walk in this video",
"he's basically just popping the balloons with little pieces of gunpowder that are flying out, there aren't any actual bullets in there as far as I'm aware",
"for all the people saying he sounds cocky, he doesn't sound cocky to me. He sounds like a showman, like he's been giving this same spiel for quite some time for shows and the like.",
"The people watching are straight from a the 1800s west.",
"it ain't bragging if it's true",
"Lol anyone good at something and confident in their knowledge is going to 'sound cocky/full of themselves' to a redditor who's only achievements are on a switch and in a binder full of Pokemon cards. Competing takes risk and the victors are entitled.",
"They are blanks. Danger zone on blanks is about 20 feet.",
"Nobody has ever seen his \"3500 trophies\". But he is fast.",
"Which is just objectively false, but he's a showman so I'll let it slide",
"Honestly he just sounds matter-of-fact.. and he was",
"He didn't sound like an ass though... Just sounded like he was informing the guy that he was in fact the fastest hand in the world in 18 separate events",
"Tell me you're two months behind on millennial slang without etc...",
"No it isn't. He's shooting blanks, not bullets. 1/10th the recoil, and 1/100th the accuracy required to pop the balloons.",
"Bob was better!",
"He stated that he's using blanks today, which makes it sound like he shoot live rounds also. \n\nMaybe because of safety concerns for the media crew, and the slow motion shot.\nBut I'm just guesstimateing, he might use live rounds in competitions, where its more safe.",
"Yeah, but humble badasses are way cooler than arrogant ones.",
"You paint a beautiful picture with words!",
"There's room for both! Too humble all the time kills personality and grows boring over the long haul.",
"\\[Edit: it turns out I am totally wrong - blanks in these competitions are indeed 100% gunpowder. Credit to /u/cardface2 [https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q4prqh/comment/hg31bin/?utm\\_source=share&utm\\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q4prqh/comment/hg31bin/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) \\]\n\n​\n\nBlanks are wads of paper propelled by gunpowder. All of the gunpowder is combusted in the revolver when it fires, none of it leaves the barrel.",
"But it looked like it was just one shot.",
"Yeah and live rounds have never been accidentally loaded instead.",
"I'll never roll my eyes at the *teleports behind you* anime scenes ever again.",
"oh i've always heard that some of it flies out while it's still burning and thats why you can see little sparks leaving the barrel in slowmos and stuff, and people can get \"powder burns\" on them from close range shots. Is that all TV nonsense?",
"This is still impressive",
"I doubt this guy has ever done that. He's not exactly your average gun user.",
"This is a goddamn cartoon. What the fuck.",
"**Brandon Lee has entered the chat**",
"OK, sounds like you understand enough that 'none of it leaves the barrel' is a little too simplistic. No uncombusted gunpowder leaves the firearm. A gunpowder explosion is the process of very quickly turning solid gunpowder into heat and gases. The heat causes the gases to expand, which is what propels the bullet out of the gun.\n\nThe flame you see coming out of a barrel when a gun is fired is that gas escaping to the atmosphere. Burns from shooting are either from the same gases escaping around the breech (which is where you insert a bullet into the chamber), or from the ejection of the hot cartridge (the container for the bullet and gunpowder) after the gun fires.\n\nGases escaping from the breech seal was much more a problem in early guns, but as machining improves the seals are getting better and better. The goal is to stop any gas whatsoever from escaping around the breech, because that' can burn the shooter (like you know) and because that also robs energy which is intended to be propelling the bullet out of the barrel.\n\nYou're right that there may be some really little sparks you can only see on slow-mo, but that's not really gunpowder anymore in the same sense that ash and sparks floating away from a bonfire is no longer the same as \"wood.\" And gunpowder particles are not the objects which are actually popping the balloons.",
"I'm colder with the deadeye, psshhh.",
"The guy's name is Bob Munden. Look him up on YouTube.",
"[ **Jump to 01:24 @** Fastest Gun that ever lived](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSd8V-kb6Ro&t=0h1m24s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: Don Hamilton, Video Popularity: 98.76%, Video Length: [03:24])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@01:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSd8V-kb6Ro&t=0h1m19s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"Bob did shoot live rounds in his shows as well, he was an extremely impressive shot with them too. There's old footage of his shows out there, he also sold tapes of some of his trick shooting.\n\nThe fast draw stuff like this is almost always done with blanks though. Because of the way they draw, it's quite possible to shoot yourself in the leg doing it if you mess up, and that's no fun.",
"Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Famous Swedish soccer player) used to get on my nerves but honestly it's just fun showmanship. \n\nThink professional wrestler \"larger than life\" persona except he's actually playing a real sport and amazing at it and not some performer for retarded white trash",
"I think he compared himself to the speed of light was a touch too much.",
"That's a cool video in principle, but I wish they showed more slowmos, without cutting between different angles etc. Considering they had the people and the tech right there.",
"Haha no, yes you're right there",
"Sort of. The reporter specifically asked him for \"something that is close, but not as fast\" as him, and he responded \"speed of light.\" He did then correct it by saying that light is actually faster, though.",
"The arrogance just ruins it for me.",
"Folks in the comments really just don’t know how incredibly super human Bob was. I’ve been to his shows and met him and his wife twice. He is “arrogant” because he can be. He’s that good. The best. He can do things that no one else comes close to. Even his wife can out shoot most everyone you’ve seen. They were life long professional trick shooters.\n\nIn this particular video, because of the cameraman he’s using blanks but he shoots all his shows and matches with real dull powered ammunition using period guns. He’s not just fast but crazy accurate. Example: https://youtu.be/pE1AKixLXO8",
"He does use live rounds, just not for this particular video. And he’s faster than Miculek who’s using modern revolvers with light loads (NOT taking a thing away from Jerry; met him, shot at a match with him. Not only amazing but downright friendly as can be)",
"Both balls",
"Ouch.",
"I see Bob Munden pop up every once in a while.\n\nBack in 1982 I was an impressionable 8th grader and was at Six Flags Great Adventure here in NJ with my dad and just happened upon Mr Munden doing his thing live. \n\nYes, they were blanks, yes they were balloons, no they weren't modern weapons and targets. But, he was a real showman and the confidence came off as folksy when he was working with the crowd.\n\nThe guy was so blindingly fast and it was such a fun show. My father no longer recalls the day, but it really is one of my favorite memories.",
"Underrated comment",
"It's his brand and really its a good fit for the activity hes doing.\n\nAlso i still cant wrap my head around that speed.",
"Maybe its that self belief and extreme will to become the best at something which helps them achieve it and also come across cocky.",
"He has a license to talk shit seems like xD",
"You think you can get anywhere close to that with blanks?",
"I don't see how those and being able to show a bit of humility are at odds with one another.",
"Hell I'd start tossin' em after so many. Who's got the space for all that?",
"The guy has skill, but please note: he and most other quick draw artists use [snake shot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_shot) in their guns.",
"They don't have to be, but i think in many cases there would be a correlation between extreme arrogance/cockiness and being the best in the world. People like jordan, Ali, all those billionaire CEOs.\n\nI think in competitive fields thats a thing. Although i've seen some exceptions too.",
"Years ago when I was in high school a stuntman made a presentation in an assembly. (I have no idea why) He said that when they use blanks they always aim a bit off to the side of whoever they are 'shooting' as a safety precaution, because sometimes bits of gunpowder come out the front and that someone had died because of this.\n\nIs that BS?",
"So again, blanks are just bullets made out of paper instead of metal or lead. That means they are softer and slow down a lot faster while traveling through the air, but can still be lethal at close range. It's not the gunpowder that's killing anyone, it's the solid wad of paper fired at a similar velocity to a real bullet.\n\nOne of the rules of handling guns is to never point it at anything you don't intend to 'kill' (including targets), no matter what you think it's loaded with. There have been a bunch of freak accidents, and a few famous cases mostly of actors dying from blanks:\n\n[https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/the-bizarre-afterlife-of-tv-actor-shot-dead-in-on-set-accident/](https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/the-bizarre-afterlife-of-tv-actor-shot-dead-in-on-set-accident/)\n\nBruce Lee's son, Brandon Lee, died in another really weird freak accident where a real bullet got stuck in the barrel of a handgun while filming, and afterwards a blank shot had enough energy to fire that bullet at a lethal speed\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon\\_Lee#Death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee#Death)",
"Probably loads his own ammunition and with a real light black powder charge for low recoil and a good smoke show. When it's your livelihood you don't leave anything to chance.",
"> Jerry Miculek\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pic_C6Adt3Q\n\nVery cool stuff, ty for the name",
"Kind of; In October of 1984 [Jon-Eric Hexam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum#Death) stupidly killed himself with a revolver with blanks in it. The fired wadding killed him.",
"Thank you for the chuckle.",
"World class camera man goes by the name Tri Pod. True professional.",
"Bless thank you.",
"I think he's just being a showman. This guy is from a time when people like this would put on shows with their talent in a grandiose way. This isn't some random guy at a gun range showing off.",
"I loved the crow but the situation was a little different, they used dummy rounds so the gun looked like it had live ammo but didn't remove the primers, at some point a round was fired and even though there was no powder charge the primer propelled the bullet into the barrel, later blanks were used for a scene which propelled the bullet with enough force to be lethal basically as if it were a live round.\n\nRIP Brandon Lee",
"I think everyone at the top of any field has an arrogance and that fuels them to get there. Some are just better at acting humble. But it's still acting.",
"That's was Bob's thing. You'd like to hate how cocky he was but, he deserved it. Damn that dude was fast.\n\nIf you've ever read \"The Gunslinger\" by Stephen King and he describes how fast The Gunslinger (Roland) is, he's slower than Bob. By a mile. Bob was so fast that you have to watch this video to understand. If you put it in a movie, it would take you out of the movie because it's too fast.",
"I honestly think he meant that the speed of light is far beyond what he can do, but it's the only thing 'close' to how quick he is. Like nobody else can do anything even close to the speed of his draw, like he's almost as fast as light.",
"I think he’s actually quite modest compared to his skill level",
"He’s quite humble for his skill if you ask me",
"Nothing personnel, kid.",
"ALL bragging is true, otherwise it's lying.",
"I thought this was totally phoney when he first showed shooting 2 targets in a draw.\n\nUntil I saw the slowdown with 2 separate smoke plumes",
"I don't think it's him comparing himself to the speed of light, he was saying that the speed of light is the next fastest thing after himself, whilst clarifying that its still way faster than him, so speed of light is the fastest thing, and he's the 2nd fastest by a long way. Still bragging, but not exactly calling himself as fast as the speed of light.",
"Here's the thing, if you're going to start expanding the list to include simply anyone at the top, it becomes even more apparent that it's just needless asshole behavior.\n\nWhile I understand the belief in oneself, the need to have a strong sense of self, desire to be the best, and a work ethic to take natural talent and rise to the top, but none of those things require one to be an egotistical ass to people.\n\nBut there are plenty of guys who reach the top and don't come off like that. Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, Peyton Manning, Tim Duncan, Kris Bryant, the list goes on for guys who were or are some of the best at what they did, or the best all time, who don't come across as egotistical asses.\n\nI get why it's a common occurrence with some, but I don't get why people are acting like it has to be some unfortunate side effect of greatness. It doesn't.",
"I think he sounded very much like an ass. There are ways to inform someone of how skilled you are without sounding like a dick. He sounded like a dick.",
"-Man who was shot",
"It's a robot holding a camera",
"Old af",
"Honestly he sounds to me like a magician.",
"Unless what he's showing off is *dope as fuuuuck.*",
"The fact that you just listed Bird and Barkley under “don’t come across as egotistical asses”…",
"I don't think he sounds arrogant at all. Lots of people in an interview get their medals and awards listed, usually by the interviewer or show host before they come out, this happens to be the man himself telling you, but he's just stating what he's achieved in the sport he's being interviewed on.. and he deserves to brag a little anyway.. 18 world records, 3,500 medals/trophies, 800 championships, and the ability to back it up? he has every right to be proud",
"It is. If it was false it would simply be lying.",
"Competitions like this use different types of blanks to other (e.g. military training) applications, and it is accurate to say that gunpowder leaves the barrel and pops the balloons.\n\nhttp://www.fastdraw.org/fd_faq.html#a2",
"Well shit, turns out I was totally wrong. Thanks for the correction.\n\n​\n\n/u/Luffing \\- despite my confidence, what you heard was absolutely right. Turns out the blanks used for this competition are actually 100% gunpowder. My bad.",
"I know! How are you supposed to win 3500 competitions, 800 major championships and hold all 18 world records in the sport and then sound \"modest?\"",
"\"At age 68 Bob Munden appeared in Stan Lee's Superhumans. In it, it was found out that his hand is withstanding 10 Gs of force when his weapon is drawn.\" \n\nI don't know if that's a lot of Gs, but that sounds like a lot of Gs.",
"Most gunslingers I’ve met have been very modest about their craft…",
"The people responsible for sacking the commenters have been sacked",
"I'd imagine the blast cone is negligible at the 8 feet of distance he's shooting.",
"It's The Waco Kid",
"Means he's only seen old bird and barkley.\n\nI wasn't even there for young bird but all those stories.",
"Should the camera man have been standing near the targets like that?",
"I never said it has to be a side effect. I literally said it doesn't have to be and there are exceptions.\n\nBut to deny the correlation completely is just as bad as suggestion it HAS to be.\n\nAs for expanding the list, like someone pointed out, the fact that you list about 6 people and 2 of them were already known as having huge egos in their playing days is very telling.\n\nI think if you did expand that list to include the very best you will find a lot more examples, we can come out of basketball to combat sports: Floyd mayweather, mike tyson, roy jones jr, tyson fury, Jon jones, adesanya, henry cejudo, dominic cruz. \n\n\nThe list will go on and on. A comprehensive list of the top guys (and i mean no.1) i'd guess you'l find well over 50% have these traits. But don't get me wrong, i don't think being cocky makes you great at all. Other factors like hard work, intelligence, genetics, coaching etc. are what really make a difference in setting you apart. If you lack those and try to achieve success through being an asshole you'll just be known as an asshole and a loser. But it does seem to be a side-effect for many top guys.\n\nAlso i thought of a huge counter example, Roger federer the greatest tennis player of all time. Maybe tennis is less competitive/cut throat. There's also Fedor and GSP in MMA, Pacman in boxing, i certainly respect these guys who reach the top while maintaining their humility.",
"Fun fact: Everyone is full of themselves at a ratio of 1:1.",
"Exactly. Not sure how anyone was confused other than due to his accent. It was very clearly stated to this yankee's ear.",
"[waves] hello from 1982 Six Flags NJ. I can't prove we sat on Lightening Loops together, but no one can prove we didn't ;-)\n\nETA: and i still have scars from Action Park and I wear them proudly!!!",
"Truth! I went on it twice that day. Could have happened.",
"I suppose this is where you have to trust their professional expertise. Planes have crashed before but people still trust pilots everyday.",
"How could you tell??",
"thats exactly what I was thinking lol, right in between the 2 targets",
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"Well the camera man was shooting me!",
"It’s obviously cgi.",
"This gets reposted every week.",
"Bob Mundon\n\n> He is most well known for holding 18 world records in the sport of Fast Draw and having the title \"Fastest Man with a Gun Who Ever Lived\" bestowed upon him by Guinness World Records.\n\nNow, this is just sad\n\n>The Guinness Book of World Records listed Bob Munden in the 1980 and previous editions as the “Fastest Man with a Gun Who Ever Lived\",[6] but they discontinued publishing Munden records in later editions so that the book could be approved as a reference source for school libraries.",
"Jerry's probably the fastest today, but it's hard to compare. He does styles where you start with the firearm drawn already, so that's a big aspect of Bob's that's not in the equation.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/WzHG-ibZaKM",
"Maybe he has the same quirk as Bruce Lee did with martial arts?",
"[Denny Crane!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WTgq0w_hKs)",
"Because Barkley didn't wanna be a role model and threw a guy through a window means you think he was always an egotistical jackass?\n\nOr because Bird was the biggest shit talker in basketball?\n\nOr because you actually don't know about them besides the blurbs you remember as a child? \nNeither of which are what we're talking about.\n\nThis thread is like the twilight zone, I swear",
"He was firing blanks",
"Cockey son of a bitch. But he really seems that fast so it’s fine",
"I bet the 2/100ths of a second number is bullshit. Just to move you hand, not even holding a gun much less shooting one, as far as he moves the gun from the holster to the firing position, in 2/100ths of a second is probably impossible.\n\nMy back of the envelope calculation is that to move your hand from a resting start to being 4 inches away within 0.02 seconds requires moving your hand at like 50 times the acceleration of gravity.",
"Hey many of us also did well in school then promptly achieved nothing else of value.",
"this dude can kill two people and you wouldn't even know it. also... how many times has he shot his leg while perfecting his craft.",
"Lmao",
"You know one G? That's the force from gravity. 10g is 10x the force of gravity",
"what does that mean though I'm not a gun guy, I thought blanks meant no projectile was shot",
"Shot it clean in half twice, now its only 8 inches long.",
"That patter sounds like is has been honed by doing 100s of demonstrations at county fairs, tourist attractions etc. \"I'm the best, and I'll prove it.\"",
"Get a load of the little house one the prairie extras in the background.",
"Did it hurt bad?",
"Camera man dead or what",
"Yeah but anyone with that much experience should know not to take that chance.",
"[For example this slow turn with the smug-ass half smile with the little indian head bob has more personality in a moment that lasts 0.3 seconds than some sports champions display over the course of their entire careers.](https://youtu.be/DSd8V-kb6Ro?t=75)\n\nI found that moment in particular hilarious and very endearing. Giving that little shit eating grin after you know you just did something awesome and everyone is staring at you dumbstruck is great and anyone who gets salty and hates you over something like that is just being insecure and jealous imo.",
"dude had less than a 20ms ping to draw and shoot a target.. crazy.",
"Half as many Gs on a roller coaster is enough to make most people pass out.",
"It means he can't have kids. :(",
"I don't know why, but it makes me so happy when people use the original wrong spelling of the meme/copypasta",
"that's Bob fucking Munden right there",
"This is actually why interviewers are generally trained to introduce and hype up their interviewees accomplishments.\n\nOne of the cardinal sins of introducing people is to ask them to explain who they are or what they have achieved, the interviewer should always be the one who does that and the interviewer should generally skew quite heavily towards overhype rather than underhype.\n\nHere's why. Imagine these three common scenarios:\n\nScenario One. What an interviewer is usually trained to do.\n\nInterviewer: Hey I'm here with \\[Athlete\\] holder of \\[Trophy\\] and the greatest \\[Sport\\] player of the last 50 years! \\[Segway into question\\]\n\nAthlete: Thanks very much that's incredibly kind, though I think \\[Other player\\] was incredibly good 20 years ago, I don't know if I could truly say I live up to their achievements. \\[Proceeds to answer question\\]\n\nThis is desirable, the audience is well informed, the Athletes accomplishments are built up and if some overpraise slips through the Athlete is free to correct and challenge that with dignity and grace, and usually seems extra endearing and humble for giving the correction. If the intro was factual, there's no need for further bragging, the Athlete can simply thank them for their intro, then answer the questions. It doesn't matter if the intro is not perfect as the correction is simple, graceful and not a problem at all.\n\n​\n\nScenario Two. This is what happened in this video.\n\nInterviewer: Hey I'm here with \\[Athlete\\] holder of \\[Trophy\\] who has won more \\[Competitions\\] than almost any other player in \\[Sport\\]. \\[Segway into question\\]\n\nAthlete: \\[Is forced to give One of two responses.\\]\n\n2A: Actually I have won more \\[Competitions\\] than any other player period. Nobody has won as many \\[Competitions\\] than me. \\[Proceeds to answer question.\\]\n\n2B: \\[Chooses to ignore it and let the factually incorrect information slide, proceeds to answer question\\]\n\nHere the Athlete either has to correct the misinformation but seem like an asshole or a braggart for doing so, or let it slide to not seem arrogant but allow the facts of the interview to be misleading to the viewer. Any correction here is far less graceful and many athletes will simply choose not to make one in this situation, while those who do will end up judged harshly for doing so by a portion of the audience.\n\n​\n\nScenario Three. This is what interviewers are usually trained not to do.\n\nInterviewer Hey I'm here with \\[Name\\] first off, can you describe to the viewers who you are?\n\nAthlete: \\[Proceeds to have a difficult time, chooses one of two options\\]\n\n3A: Trying not to list their achievements out of humility and the fact that people often find it embarassing to just state a list of cool things they've done and ends up underplaying how successful they've been.\n\n3B: Factually lists their accomplishments and seems like an asshole simply because they are forced to do the interviewers job of explaining to the viewer why they are important and special and they should want to hear what they have to say about the sport.\n\n​\n\nFundamentally when you're interviewing an athlete, and particularly a champion, the audience needs to be convinced of how god damn good they are at what they do, and that's why the audience becomes interested in hearing what they have to say. However the interviewer can take on this responsibility of doing so without having to also balance humility and grace. While the athlete is forced to sacrifice something or another if they have to shoulder some of the interviewers load of convincing the audience they are worth listening to at the beginning of the interview.",
"Incredible!",
"I followed this conversation and it's so annoying to read \"gunpowder leaves the barrel\".\n\nIt's gas. It's the gas form the ignition and explosion of the gunpowder. The balloon is not getting peppered with actual gunpowder granules. For fuck's sake!",
"But that is because your heart cannot maintain enough blood to your brain at that force. Having high Gs in other parts of your body won’t make you pass out.",
"He fired blanks at the targets? Maybe I don’t understand how blanks work?",
"Cool explanation, I enjoyed reading it.",
"If there's a Guinness World Record for oozing douchiness, he would've won that, too.\n\n\"Ooziest, Douchiest Gunslinger in the World.\"",
"Honestly just sounds like a dumb fact to mention to make it sound cool for the show, like you'd get a decent amount of Gs slamming your hand into anything. Could be wrong though!",
"I believe it was Kid Rock who once said, \"It isn't bragging motherfucker if you back it up\"",
"There is a really weird cultural norm that you can never honestly state your abilities if they're better than normal. It's really weird. Even just saying you're funny is too much.",
"Pretty good self-hype man."
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Fastest Gun that ever lived - At the start, the guy sounds like he is arrogant and too full of himself, but he's actually incredibly fast. Mindblowing
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"McAfee wrote them ,released them in the wild and then sold a new version to remove them..",
"Anti-malware programs have no business if there is no malware I guess.",
"What I don't understand is how such complicated programs can have such a small footprint, as in only a couple mb but it can destroy a nuclear power plant??",
"Very true. Back then it was a joke about McAfee but I really think it was true."
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"Their technique is absolutely fucking beautiful.",
"Reminds me of Kaufman's Antkind.",
"These guys possess every single toxic trait and bad habit an artist can possibly have, perfectionism, myopia, ego, pride, fear of the new, dogmatism, disorganisation, over ambition, inability to let go, defensiveness, priority blindness, cyclic revision, inability to delegate... It's no wonder the film will never be completed, thus rendering all of their neurotic control utterly pointless. Incredibly sad.\n\nOne of the very first things we were told at art school was \"Don't be so precious about your work\" and \"All of the skill and genius in the world means nothing if you never produce anything\".",
"Even if it remains unfinished, it's still more of accomplishment than what you and most artists will ever produce and finish. What's utterly pointless and incredibly sad is your comment.",
"This isn't a happy documentary, these people are undeniably suffering by their own hands, I was empathising with their problems and the cause of them, you're just a jackass looking to lift yourself up by putting others down. Notice the difference?\n\n\"True art requires suffering\" is exactly the type of archaic toxic nonsense mindset I was talking about.",
"You act like perfectionism is a problem. It's not. Maybe it would be if those \"toxic\" traits you listed produced anything less than average\n\nEDIT: Nice ghost edits",
"Perfectionism *is* a problem. It inhibits an artist's ability to produce work and is one of the worst things an artist can be. Because an artist that can't produce art for fear of it not being perfect is no artist at all. \n\nYou'd know that if you'd ever experienced it, it's not a pleasant place to be and is ultimately the undoing of many.\n\nThese two have *wasted their entire lives* on a project that will never see the light of day due to perfectionism. That's tragic.",
"I guess the trick to being a great artist is to have low standards. Which school did you go to? The art school of Hanna-Barbera?\n\nPerfectionism is subjective. Sometimes it takes an hour or sometimes, in this case, 40 years. And from the impression I got from the artists in the documentary, I don't think they're working to finish it.\n\nEDIT: What's tragic is your inability to appreciate their work. And for the record, it has seen the light of day. We are commenting on a documentary on it for God's sake. I remember hearing about this project years ago and the public and myself are still fascinated about it. I believe around 45 minutes of the overcoat has been completed and do you think it will all be destroyed after they're gone??",
"The trick to being a great artist is to know when you're wasting your own time on something to the detriment of the work. The trick to being a great artist is to not spiral into self destruction chasing impossible self imposed boundaries. Something these two clearly failed to do. \n\nPerfectionism by definition is an excessive obsession with perfection. Nothing is perfect, nothing ever will be, it's a fools errand.",
"You've obviously never dealt with perfectionism in your own life or in the lives of people around you. It's debilitating and a lot of people seek some type of intervention to help fix it. My advisor always had to remind me that perfection is the enemy of good, and that's very true.",
"Actually, perfectionism by definition is refusal to accept anything less than perfection and perfection is subjective. We wouldn't be here talking about them if they had your high standards.",
"No the trick is to know that nothing you produce will ever be perfect in your eyes so you have to accept it for what is it and move onto the next piece. That individual you are replying to is 100% correct and you seem like some mouthpiece redditor that glorifies self destruction \"for the sake of art\". PUKE.",
"Perfectionism definitely can be a problem for people and those around them. But there can be exceptions and to how perfectionism is applied. There's evidence DaVinci was always working on the Mona Lisa up until the end of his life. Was that a fool's errand?",
"And in this case, it's called moving on to the next frame. Great attitude you have. (sarcasm)",
"We're here talking about what a trainwreck their unfinished project has been. That's their main point of notoriety. Think about what they could have achieved if they hadn't built themselves a quagmire to drown in. If they had finished this film in the six years alotted, moved on with what they had learned, and produced more great works wiser and more experienced. Instead they've stuck to a single project that won't ever be completed, wasted 40 years, and doomed themselves never make anything again. They could have rivaled Disney and instead will die obscure, destitute and irrelevant. The last relics of a dead medium.",
"Wrong.",
"Fantastic rebuttal. Great chat.",
"Depends on how much time he actually put into it. If it was every day for 10 years then yes, I would say it was a fools errand. That would be a complete waste of his talents on a single painting. I feel like at this point you are just being deliberately obtuse and argumentative over something you don't actually believe, seeing as you agree that perfection can be debilitating.",
"It was to the point which I thought would be easiest for you to understand. I didn't feel it was necessary to give long-winded rebuttals to absolute falsities such as claiming he's obscure when we're talking about him and your capitalistic sense of success such as claiming he could have been a Disney. There's nothing to be gained for continuing this debate.\n\nEDIT: Grammar.",
">I feel like at this point you are just being deliberately obtuse and argumentative over something you don't actually believe\n\nI feel like there's some strong projection going on here since I clearly mentioned there are exceptions but not in this circumstance. Also, like DaVinci, they have produced more than one project. Apologies if my disagreement gives you the impression of being obtuse and argumentative.",
"Lmao. I'm a communist. Disney's success isn't solely measured in dollars, but in contribution to the arts. Like it or not despite all the shitty things they've done, Disney are cultural and historic behemoths. These two beat them out at animation awards back in the day and yet have still failed to be significant due to their own mismanagement. Sad, but that's reality.",
">Lmao. I'm a communist.\n\nHow convenient.\n\nThankfully their significance, legacy and contribution to the arts isn't dependent on being contrasted to Disney. If that was the case, all artists would be failures. That's the reality.",
"Feel free to check my post history for plenty of anti-capitalist sentiment chief. \n\n>Thankfully, their significance, legacy and contribution to the arts isn't dependent on being contrasted to Disney\n\nKind of is though. That's what happens with rival contemporaries in the exact same niche. These guys have gone from making arguably the best animated film of all time to making a few short TV ads, Disney have consistently evolved the entire medium for over a century. Like I said, you can be mad about it all you want but it won't change history.",
"I'm sure they're regretful of not having the significance of Disney.",
"They probably are considering how intensely obsessive they are about how the quality of their work is percieved, and how they egotistically make their own lives torture rather than accept any small forms of assistence at all. You don't act that way because you're *not* prideful and *don't* want recognition. Did you miss the part of the documentary where they fought to attend the award ceremony for their victory over Disney?",
"And they're allowed to be prideful due to the quality of their work. The significance of Disney is irrelevant because they're two completely different things. The only thing they have in common is they work in the same industry. Two independent artists against a major company founded decades before and they won. What's the problem here? If they were only interested in awards, they would have moved on from The Overcoat years ago.",
"They're were directly competing contemporaries in the same niche category no less. Hardly worlds apart.\n\nYou're basically saying the only thing these two companies have in common is that they sell the same products and compete with each other for the same customers and awards. \n\nSo yes, they are enormously significant to each other. You're trying to make it sound they aren't even in the same league, when they were directly competing and the two independents actually won over the major company on occasion. And they could have continued to do so if they had they not been woefully inept at managing their own creative process.",
"I reiterate. For a self-described communist, you have a very capitalistic sense of success. They aren't competing for box office revenue.\n\n>Hardly worlds apart.\n\nNo but aren't in the same league either. Intentionally or not.\n\n>And they could have continued to do so if they had they not been woefully inept at managing their own creative process\n\nYou mean they could have continued to do so if that's what they wished. If you've noticed, they aren't making projects to complete with Disney FYI.",
"How to win an argument on the internet:\n\nStep 1: Claim the other person is just projecting.\n\nStep 2: ??????\n\nStep 3: Win\n\nYou've cracked the code. I applaud you 👏",
"I'll reiterate too, artistic success isn't measured in dollars, and despite that Disney are still a million times more successful in their endeavours than these two who've failed to complete a single work in close to half a century. \n\n>You mean they could have continued to do so if that's what they wished. If you've noticed, they aren't making projects to complete with Disney FYI.\n\nSo your argument is now that they're failing on purpose because they *don't* actually care about how their work is recieved? Laughable. They're absolutely *paralysed* by fear of mediocrity, which is a self fulfilling prophecy.",
"If that was the case then they would never be able to finish a frame. Instead, they finish it when they feel it's done and move on to the next. I don't know what you would call that but maybe it's their own standard of perfection?",
"And yet, Disney can't compete with them for artistic recognition when they decide to release a project. Despite them being a million times more successful in their endeavors. They already won those battles. The only thing that's missing are their lack of theme park ticket sales.\n\n>So your argument is now that they're failing on purpose because they don't actually care about how their work is recieved?\n\nWorking on a movie is failing? Great rebuttal.",
"Oh I guess I was wrong.",
"What project? *They haven't made anything in 40 years*. This movie isn't getting completed. They're done. They failed. \n\nDisney on the other hand have since made thousands of historically significant works, and achieved all the artistic recognition they could possibly dream of.",
">What project?\n\nDo you need an education on the past tense?\n\n>They haven't made anything in 40 years. This movie isn't getting completed. They're done. They failed.\n\nAs I already said, their success isn't dependent when contrasted to Disney. They don't need to beat them annually at the award shows because they already won those battles and it would be unrealistic as two independent artists can't produce same volume a major studio can. They don't make the same content even though it's in the same medium or even the same audiences for that matter. So they might as well be worlds apart.",
"I understand but please don't project your own anecdotal mental illness on another person's standards. Especially if it works for them such as this case.",
"Winning one award 50 years ago doesn't make you eternal victor. \n\nYou're missing the point entirely. You're right, they can't compete with Disney anymore. They *could* have and had all that cultural relevance if they hadn't bungled their studio catastrophically on this pipe dream and their dogmatic insistence on not accepting help or embracing modern methods. \n\nAt the end of the day an artist's job is to make art. It's the work that's important. These two have done everything in their power to prevent themselves from doing that, and have destroyed any chance of making any work. \n\nIf they had only gotten over themselves they could have made so many wonderful things, things people around the world could appreciate. But they haven't, and in doing so they've utterly failed as artists.\n\nHappens all the time.",
">Winning one award 50 years ago doesn't make you eternal victor.\n\nAnd you don't need to be an eternal victor to be successful.\n\n>It's the work that's important. These two have done everything in their power to prevent themselves from doing that, and have destroyed any chance of making any work.\n\nYet they've been making some of the best animation ever made for the past 40 years. But you don't think they're working because they haven't finished and/or you haven't seen it yet.",
"Did you even watch the video? It's not getting finished. They keep going back and to the beginning and updating \"finished\" frames because it's taken so long and they've become outdated. And they're so old now they'll be dead before it's anywhere close to complete. \n\nAn unfinished movie isn't a movie. They've produced nothing. \n\nIt might have been \"the best animation ever made\" if it was released 40 years ago. But things have changed so much since then what they've done so far is at best an archaic curiosity.\n\nThere are no accolades for half finished artworks. Incomplete work isn't work at all.",
"have sex",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeum_Portrait\n\nGo back to school. \n\nI'm not angry and I don't hate you as you do for these people for their work. I pity you. I truly do since you can't appreciate it. Finished or not. \n\nI hope you enjoy your Disney films, fresh off the assembly line.",
"Imagine thinking only in art school boxes.",
"Good is the enemy of perfect.",
"Don't mind If I do.",
"Oh look it's the painting that's only famous as a historical curiosity for being unfinished. Much like this movie will be. No accolades there either, thanks for proving my point. \n\nWhere did I say I hate these people? I don't. I think they've wasted a lot of potential and that's sad, but that's about it. Apart from that they arent particularly noteworthy because they haven't actually succeeded in making much. An interesting footnote in animation history maybe and a great cautionary tale for young artists.",
"The boxes saying \"Don't put yourself in a box\" and \"Actually do something\"? Yeah imagine.",
">Oh look it's the painting that's only famous as a historical curiosity for being unfinished.\n\nThat's the *only* reason. (sarcasm)\n\n>No accolades there either\n\nYeah, no significance whatsoever. (sarcasm)\n\n>they've wasted a lot of potential and that's sad, but that's about it.\n\nDo you really think we would here talking about their masterpiece had they been making average or slightly above average animation consistently every few years? I'd much rather see the full length footage of what they'd managed to have completed once they're gone. \n\nAnd even if it will only be appreciated as an historical curiosity, it will have had significance and contributed to the arts. Which has been my main point from the very beginning. Thank you for proving it. They aren't failures because it is some of the best animation ever produced. I'd love for you to show me an example of superior animation that also has the significance of Disney. Because that's the only way not to be a failure according to you.",
"Again we're only talking about them because they've somehow managed to fuck up a project so badly they've wasted a collective 80 years, which is quite an achievement. \n\nIf you consider being one of the greatest failures of all time \"a significant contribution to the arts\" then sure.",
">If you consider being one of the greatest failures of all time \"a significant contribution to the arts\" then sure.\n\nI thought success wasn't measured in dollars? It's one of still the most beautiful animation ever made. I love how you can all dismiss that because they potentially can't finish the last 15 to 20 minutes. And you think future generations will be laughing at their animation and for incompleting while being astounded by the animation style box office returns of Pixar's 'Soul'? \n\nAt least they didn't make Bambi 2.",
"> I thought success wasn't measured in dollars?\n\nWhere did I say it was? They've failed to created work. They've failed to complete their film. They've failed to evolve and produce. They've failed to remain relevant.\n\n> It's still the most beautiful animation ever made\n\nThe most beautiful animation *never* made. A portion of raw footage means nothing if the film is never completed or released. Also it's horrifically outdated at this point. \n\n>And you think future generations will be laughing at their animation and their failure for incompleting while being astounded by the animation style of Pixar's 'Soul'?\n\nI think future generations might actually watch soul, and will never have heard of the overcoat because it was never released. A few art historians will read about it in the context of being the greatest production failure in animation history. That's it.",
"gross",
">I'll reiterate too, artistic success isn't measured in dollars\n\nThat's your quote from six comments ago. Please don't participate if you can't keep up with your own bullshit.\n\n>They've failed to evolve and produce.\n\n>They keep going back and to the beginning and updating \"finished\" frames because it's taken so long and they've become outdated.\n\nBoth quotes are from you. Very contradicting.\n\n>The most beautiful animation never made. A portion of raw footage means nothing if the film is never completed or released.\n\nIt means something for those who can appreciate it unlike you. How am I able to view and appreciate it if it hasn't been released? Oh wait, it has. Portions of a portion. It would definitely be a superior experience if it was completed but it's irrelevant to appreciating the animation in the meantime.\n\n>I think future generations might actually watch soul\n\nPlenty of kids won't even watch a movie 20 or 30 years old. Do you really think that CG is gonna hold up? Their consoles will have better graphics. \n\n>the greatest production failure in animation history.\n\nAre you referring to Bambi 2?",
"You brought it up.",
">That's your quote from six comments ago. Please don't participate if you can't keep up with your own bullshit.\n\nYou've correctly identified where I said it *wasn't*, I asked you to show me where I said it *was*.\n\n>Both quotes are from you. Very contradicting\n\nI didn't say they succeeded. \n\n>It means something for those who can appreciate it unlike you. How am I able to view and appreciate it if it hasn't been released? Oh wait, it has. Portions of a portion. It would definitely be a superior experience if it was completed but it's irrelevant to appreciating the animation in the meantime\n\nSo let me get this straight, you think art is nothing more than the sum of it's parts? Interesting. \n\n>Plenty of kids won't even watch a movie 20 or 30 years old. Do you really think that CG is gonna hold up? Their consoles will have better graphics.\n\nYou understand that adults watch animated movies too right? And that kids grow up? You also seem to think the art of animation = graphic fidelity, which tells me you have absolutely *no* idea about the art of animation. Embarrassing.",
">You've correctly identified where I said it wasn't, I asked you to show me where I said it was.\n\nYou said they weren't successful because they failed as artists because it hasn't been fully finished (irrelevant) and released (some has). So I assumed you thought their success as artist was dependent on box office returns.\n\n>I didn't say they succeeded.\n\nI didn't say you did. I said you contradicted yourself.\n\n>So let me get this straight, you think art is nothing more than the sum of it's parts?\n\nHave you ever heard the expression, \"every frame a painting\"? Are you sure you went to school?\n\n>You understand that adults watch animated movies too right?\n\nYeah. And are lots of them watching Bambi 2?\n\n>You also seem to think the art of animation = graphic fidelity\n\nI mean, you're the one saying that The Overcoat's animation is so archaic. Which, who are you really fooling with that? Again I ask for an example of superior animation in that medium with an equal running time.",
"> You said they weren't successful because they failed as artists because it hasn't been fully finished (irrelevant) and released (some has). So I assumed you thought their success as artist was dependent on box office returns.\n\nWhat a stupid thing to think. Let me put it in an easier to understand way. If they were carpenters, and they had failed to produce a single piece of furniture in half a century because they just couldn't get a nice chair done, would you consider them successful carpenters? No. And money has nothing to do with it. They've failed at the very task of capentry. They've failed to make their chair. They made a really nice leg that was in style 40 years ago but thats it. \n\n>I didn't say you did. I said you contradicted yourself.\n\nAnd I didn't. \n\n>Have you ever heard the expression, \"every frame of painting\"\n\nThe phrase is \"Every frame **a** painting\" (not of) but yes and it's a metaphor, it's not literal. What kind of idiot would think it was?\n\n>Yeah. And are lots of them watching Bambi 2?\n\nHave you had a stroke?\n\n>I mean you're the one saying that The Overcoat's animation is so archaic\n\nIt is, when a film is a released is very important to it's significance, although films can be appreciated by future generations despite being dated, films that are already old hat when they're released lose a lot of artistic significance. Novelty, originality, these are the markers of historically significant work. The overcoat is a remake done in an extremely archaic style with comically inefficient tools. It's lost all relevance already and it hasn't even been completed. So it's not really important as art.",
">They made a really nice leg that was in style 40 years ago but [that's] thats it.\n\nIf you really want to use that analogy, I think they would have completed a little more than a leg. If it took 40 years to make a chair. (even if it was in the style 40 years ago) I think it would be an historic curiosity and people would still appreciate it for what it is. As a carpenter he would have failed but as artists, they would have succeeded in this case. Do really think that art is the sum of all its parts?\n\n>And I didn't.\n\nYou said they failed to evolve yet they go back and update finished shots. Sounds very contradicting to me. Excellent rebuttal. (sarcasm) What would they need to \"evolve\" in your opinion that didn't involve shortcuts like digital editing and CG?\n\n>it's a metaphor, it's not literal. What kind of idiot would think it was?\n\nThe A.S.C.? And yes, it is an expression. Congratulations you've heard of it. Except in this case it's actually literal. What do you think it's a metaphor of? So what you're saying is we can't appreciate frames and shots at all without seeing the completed product?\n\n>Have you had a stroke?\n\nWhat are you not understanding?\n\n>films that are already old hat when they're released lose a lot of artistic significance.\n\nExactly. But it doesn't lose **all** of its artistic significance. \n\n>The overcoat is a remake done in an extremely archaic style with comically inefficient tools.\n\nIts animation still beats all modern animation with its efficient tools. Because that's all modern animation is; efficient.",
"Try that philosophy with any highly complex multi-year project and see how it goes.",
"That's been my life, yes. Thanks for your concern, I guess.",
"Lol should have just used flash.",
"Apparently these guys think that if something isn't completed in 5 minutes with modern tools - it's completely worthless. Let them enjoy their highly processed trash.",
"Your experience is irrelevant since you can't diagnose it. That would be like a cancer patient saying \"oh, you definitely have cancer.\" Not maybe.\n\nIn this case, the artists created an environment for themselves where they *can* go back and improve upon it.",
"I guess, but it's sad.",
"The cultural significance of hedgehog in the fog is enormous and these two artists are admired and known throughout the post soviet countries. Their legacy is also well embedded in Russian language with many popular expressions being used in a day to day language even by people who are unaware of their work. They have achieved success not in monetary terms but in terms of fame as much as it was possible during the soviet era. It is unfortunate but a well known reality that artist’s compensation during soviet era was negligible and artists were hardly able to not starve with their allowances.",
">These guys possess every single toxic trait and bad habit an artist can possibly have. . . . \n\nI think that's interesting, but your assertion appears to assume the truth of a strong theory of aesthetics. Could you explicate your assumptions and give a sketch of how you hold aesthetic values to be consequences of the behaviour of individual artists, please.",
"Perfect is impossible lol",
"The comment was responding to a product that has been unfinished for **FOURTY YEARS** lmao you’re hyper exaggerating with that “5 minutes” bullshit",
"We aren't talking about 5 minutes. We are talking about 40 years. And personally, I'm drawing from my experience working in software research and development. Scope creep is a very real thing. Any project can always be made better but at some point you have to draw a line in the sand and accept that it won't be perfect. I would have never finished my masters degree if I didn't accept that it wasn't going to be perfect. Aiming for perfection is good but not accepting anything less than perfection is just self defeating.",
"Of course.",
"I'm not makng any aesthetic judgements at all. It's an issue of practicality and practices.\n\nIf you want to say there's aesthetic reason to the method that's fine but when it reaches a point that it's hindered the very act of creating the intended art to the degree that nothing is produced it's entirely self defeating. From what we hear of them describing their own work we also *know* this isn't performance art where the struggle is the piece, especially considering the film was comissioned. They very much intended to make a film but haven't been able to due to their poor practice habits. These aren't unusual shortcomings either, they're fairly common bad habits and pitfalls that interfere with the creative process of most artists at one point or another. These two seem to be suffering a particularly bad case of it though.",
"How dull."
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"I wonder how it feels for them to find them selfs so \"outclassed\" technologicaly speaking. They seems to be in good spirit but the first impression on the elder/older dude seemed to be close to \"wth is this sorcery?\" for a few seconds",
"Like when your older brother pulls up on a motorcycle and you really want one",
"Never had one(brother or motorcycle) but get the point:P Had a spoiled sister",
"It’s probably similar to seeing someone with a super fancy pickup truck. It’s nice to look at, but you know your old beat work truck gets the job done too.",
"They probably thought he was really strong to be able to hold full draw for so long.",
"It’s like when your sister rolls up with a hitachi wand and you’re still using a hairbrush",
"O",
"Depends in what you mean by outclassed. How simple is it to manufacture a bow like that, or just fix if it breaks, by yourself in the wilderness compared to what the tribe were using?",
"Outclassed as in much more effective. outclassedc have nothing to do with easy of construction or maintainas. Or else a ak-47 would be outclassed by a sharpened stick becase you can get them everywhere and sharpen it by rubbing it against a rock",
"that bitch, still remember it as if it was yesterday...",
"This was strangely wholesome. I love it.",
"The hitachi is old now, the shiny new toy is the clit sucker machines.",
"When they offered him the option to shoot with it you could see the hesitation turn into excitement. “Wtf this magic … ok hold my bow!”",
"The last time someone posted this there were comments saying this tribe is just playing it up for the camera. They use those bows because of tradition, not because they’ve never seen compound bows or firearms before.\n\nSorry to rain on everyone’s superiority parade.",
"That’s a stupid comparison. You wouldn’t bust out the power drill for something you only needed to tighten with your fingers, even if the power drill is technically more powerful and effective.",
"Reddit will romanticize these primitive cultures then shit on Alabama for not being developed enough",
"Power drill outclass your hands and more. Ask your wife.",
"no but you could use a ak to hunt, as you do with bows. And the guys in the clip is most likley been using bows to hunt even to the day it was filmed.",
"Are there more kinds of videos like this? I'd love to go down a rabbit hole.",
"Why would they need an AK that they have to buy and buy ammunition for when their traditional bows have done the job for like 2,000 years?\n\nYou know these people have access to modern technology, right?",
"And they never seen a composite bow which we(or atleast i) are talking about",
"I may be cynical, but this just feels like a white guy trying to sell shit to someone lol",
"These are the Hadza people and they’re not some ultra isolated “lost” tribe. Some of them still live very traditional lives but they’re not completely ignorant of modern technology or society.\n\nThey’re playing it up for the camera and some of these individuals might not have used a compound bow before but they’re not like “OMG white man magic!”. I haven’t used one before either and I’d be just as excited to try one.",
"Fucking your sister =/= not being industrialized",
"This isn’t a party. It’s just an irresponsible social media site. Color me skeptical of “white man shows primitive tribe what they’re missing” types of videos.\n\nThese people aren’t some ultra isolated tribe that’s never seen modern technology before.",
"I always admired the old guy who would show up to the job site to hang crown moulding, window trim, baseboard, etc with just a skil saw...put the other dipshit with the Festool Miter saw to shame.",
"They truly possess such a fascinating culture, anyway, now let's rekt these noobs.",
"Did those people just say it, or did they back that up with any source?",
">no but you could use a ak to hunt, as you do with bows. And the guys in the clip is most likley been using bows to hunt even to the day it was filmed.\n\nI live in Germany and never had a composite bow in my hands either or see one myself. Sure, on Pictures, Movies or so... but never in real life. \n\nWhat is your point?\n\nAlso, a fucking composite bow is the last piece of tech you would call your own while living a hunters life.\n\nWhy? \n\nBecause the thing is far too delicate and complex to go hunting with it in the long term. Sure, going hunting with it every now and then would be no problem. Nice with the car to the hunting area, shoot a bit and then back home. \nBut if you had to carry the bulky equipment around for days, maintain it day in and day out, and go to a specialist store when the string breaks, you would know that a modern composite bow makes as much sense for a tribal man as a Ferrari does for a farmer in the cornfield. \nAnd then there are the arrows. Of course they are better than those of the tribal men.... but here too: if something breaks, you can't just repair it around the campfire in the evening. \nThese are four-leaf arrowheads. Very sharp and very sensitive. If one side breaks off (e.g. because you hit a stone or a bone), then you can experience how \"technologically\" advanced the crap is.",
"I grew a beard after reading this.",
"These are the Hadza people, so idk look it up.",
"This is very wholesome. How soon can we teach them java script",
"I hear that in Ron Swanson's voice.",
"Now show them firearms!",
"why? Because you would be much more efficient if you didn't have to take time sneaking in range and hope you don't mistime it by just a second so now the animal is running away (injured or not)",
"That being said, Ive seen plenty of Ferarris, nobody ever asked me if I wanted to take theirs for a spin around the block.\n\nJust because I know something exists doesnt mean I wouldnt be psyched to actually see or try one.",
"Reminds me of a bud spencer movie but i can't remember the name right now.",
"“Anyways, I’m off to kill an endangered African animal. I paid 10k to shoot that lion and I sure as hell ain’t missing it”",
"i hope they left them one or two bows for them to hunt with. \n\nimagine the level difference",
"I was kind of hoping he would give them one. I know I'd have to send a couple their way.",
"I dunno, an ak is very sturdy and can be used to beat the shit outta things. The stick would break before the AK.",
"Right? Hey guys take these 100 bows and 1,000 reusable arrows. Not just, isn’t this cool? Well, see ya later!",
"neat",
"YouTube cocoa farmers tasting chocolate for the first time",
"I mean, its much better than trying to teach them about \"the way of Christ\"",
"that's quite sad. It's slamming the result of their own exploitation and misery right in the face",
"It’s not uncommon for tribes like these to do incest",
"This is awesome",
"Then I challenge you to a 1v1 to the death, you and your ammoless AK and me and my long sharpened stick. Who wants to take bets?",
"There's a fairly interesting 5 part documentary series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTYB_-NSbLM. Basically just has representatives of a tribal group visiting different places in the US, and meeting different people and experiencing various things. It's an interesting watch.\n\nThere's also this reaction channel that has villagers from India reacting to things they'd normally never be exposed to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2OBxx-y_gQJMu5XuaWGpCA\n\nAnother reaction channel, tribal people trying things: https://www.youtube.com/c/TribalPeopleTryOfficial/featured.\n\nThis one has reactions from North Korean defectors if you want more modern secluded group reactions to things: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqD7wgVS7jjJcJ8u0W9tt-Q/featured.",
"You know when they pay a bunch of money to kill some old animal that tends to be doing more harm than good that money goes to pay for helping the conservation effort in the local area? Those people you are shitting on do more than you and all your worthless Facebook posts to help the situation. Of course you don't know, you're just some uneducated virtue signaling keyboard warrior.",
"UK Channel 4 docuseries The British Tribe Next Door\n\nhttps://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-british-tribe-next-door\n\nIt caused a bit of controversy though",
"Interesting how you start out saying you've never seen or held a composite bow but are completely comfortable talking about how durable they are and what they should be used for",
"It reminded me of The Gods Must Be Crazy.",
"Jfc slow down satan.\n\nAt least let them learn c++ or python before you send them straight to hell.",
"If the ammoless AK has a bayonet, I'll take the AK.",
"If they really cared about conservatism, they could've donated the money without actually killing the animal. Even if it's old and was dying, why not let it die in peace for natural cause? Or even better, let wild animals hunt that old elephant, at least they'll eat its meat.\n\nTrue, the money is helping the governments protect endangered animals from poachers but they're just wealthier poachers who found a way to kill a beast with a sniper from a safe distance while someone is luring it to them.",
"Sometimes that’s the case, but often it is not.\n\nYou’re just some aggressive dickhead",
"have an upvote, you bastard",
"It's like, I like visiting my rich uncle's cabin, but I don't need it. And even if I had the means to own it I would never be able to justify the cost and upkeep.",
"It also wasn't mentioned if it was a stick of balsa wood or a stick of oak. That would change the calculus a bit, wouldn't it? \n\n\nFrankly, you have one shot to take someone down with a long sharpened stick, which is basically a pike. An AK-47 can be easily swung as a club. You miss your opponent on the charge, you're done. \n\n\nAll in, I'd honestly lay odds on the person wielding the club, as if they come in at even a remotely controlled pace, and dodge your initial thrust with the stick they can close to bludgeoning range. You then either drop your useless stick or try and fend them off with an unbalanced weapon.",
"An answer thats not completly up the arse, thank you",
"Yeah, but no one would be posting videos of you sitting in a Ferrari suggesting it was the first time you had seen a car.",
"JS? We want to help them progress, not regress..",
"This is a weird episode of Deadliest Warrior",
"\"So anyways, here's a gun\"",
"I wonder how they keep their teeth in such good order. Every one of them has like white straight teeth",
"Was waiting for him to 360 no scope at 200m",
"I don't see these people trying to force their primitive ideas on the entire country like the people of Alabama do with their stone age way of thinking.",
"Might be a really bad bet for you if that guy is much bigger than you…\n\nEven with a sharp stick, a 6-6 280 lbs dude is gonna beat you to death with an ammoless gun.",
"> If they really cared about conservatism, they could've donated the money without actually killing the animal\n\nSame could be said for charity streams. If anybody who donates to a charity stream really cared, they would have given the money on their own.",
"After watching the first minute of this, it's REALLY obvious that most of these tribesmen have never used a bow.",
"Actually, cost and ease of manufacturing are perhaps the biggest factors in any tool. The AK47 needs mags to fire, and those can't just be made anywhere, plus it may jam and if it breaks you're fucked.\n\nMeanwhile my string on a stick shoots other sticks and that's how I eat deer.\n\nYou might end up keeping the AK for emergencies, but for day-to-day activities you'll want something you can always go to. Imagine getting used to the compound bow then it breaks, and you have to go back to your more primitive bows...",
"Natural causes for an animal is getting mauled to death and disemboweled. If anything, hunting it is more humane than anything else.",
"Go on...",
"Nobody says underdeveloped countries are bad. Countries like the USA or some european countries claiming to be developed and obviously struggle with the most basic things in some regions is really just pathetic",
"I kinda feel like yes, the modern bow is a lot more advanced, but the \"primitive\" bow would take more skill to use effectively.\n\nDisclaimer: I'm just assuming. Never held a bow in my life.",
"To people who's culture doesn't even understand currency? Capital idea, chap.",
"A-10 Warthog go *brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*",
"You could also probably sharpen one by rubbing it on a rock, and then you'd have a sharp metal stick, with a handle.",
"He has a name, you know...",
"After the American leaves, they go back to their office to do some programming, and get a drink on his dime.\n\nSeriously, they probably live the modern life and it's all for show.",
"I was waiting for the part when they pull out 2 or 3 new bows in cases to give to the elders or something.",
"Natural diet high in meat, milk and plain veggies. A grain based diet like we have in the west is terrible for teeth. They probably barely eat sweets or sugar.",
"I'm more interested in state enforced homosexuality on Africans, maybe then we'll achieve true equity",
"I always wished there was a show or series where a group of people took something that had been completely replaced by another technology and created a modern version with current materials and designs. What would a horse drawn carriage look like if there was no combustion engine? Or what would a modern suit of armor look like if we still fought with swords? Seeing the crazy innovations in that compound bow compared to that tribe's traditional hunting bow is pretty awesome and it's only possible because archery remains a sport and hobby.",
"The Tribal people episode on VR made me laugh and maybe cry a bit, not gonna lie. I felt a very similar sort of joy watching this.",
"Highly abrasive low sugar foods.\n\nGenerally teeth issues are a somewhat modern thing, due to modern more processed foods.\n\nWhy old skeletons often have better teeth.\n\nThe wear down also helps teeth fit in so often teeth were neater and straighter because of this too",
"No refined sugar in their diet.",
"10 years later, another video, guy shows tribe how to press the Easy button for the AI-driven .50 caliber rifle... \"and that's it, you press this, then leopard for dinner...\"\n\n20 years later... \"you press the button and the drone hunts the leopard for you and carries it home...\"\n\n30 years later... African tribe teaches white man how to first build then hunt with a bow after he begs for food since the supermarkets were wiped out in a drone overthrow of humanity...",
"Those systems are usually a relic of colonial conservation, aka the idea that nature exists primarily for wealthy game hunters. It’s an outdated and discredited concept",
"You can throw an AK-47. You can also point it at someone and get them to do what you want even if they don't know you're out of ammo, typically.",
"Suggested video: https://youtu.be/H_ps9iMH1N4",
"Seems like these people are from the Hadza tribe. They live in Tanzania, and the language being spoken here by the translator is Swahili, although they have their own tribal language as well. Their own language is really cool to listen to, they have 5 different click phonemes. I have *personally* gone hunting with them, and they legitimately do hunt with those bows. They coat the arrows in a poison from a local plant, and they're accurate enough to shoot birds and squirrel-like animals with them. They do have some contact with the modern world, as evidenced by some of their clothing, although they do also live in natural huts.",
"Oh you sweet summer child... nothing in the wild dies of old age and the journey to that death is far from peaceful. Not sure where you live, but hunting pays for 60% or $3.3 billion of state wildlife agencies’ conservation funds in the US. Maybe know what you are talking about before spouting off in the comments.",
"Hold on, don't give the History channel any new reality show ideas.\n\nBut if they do, I vote for \"Pimp my Tribe\"",
"Lol capital",
"Most tribal nomads today are people who are very aware of the modern world but refuse to enter it; Here's a story a missionary told me, they refuse to enter it because most of the exist in poor countries where \"dead end job\" has a whole 'nother meaning of shittiness, those who go out of the tribe find themselves just working for a living, not advancing to any posiiton that allows them to really enjoy the fruits of industrial society. Being lonely because of their new schedule and moving so they end up back at their tribe where they have things that are essential to the human meantal health such as community and simple living.",
"This was awesome to watch, and it made me really happy to see this kind of interacting.",
"As a traditional archer who used to use a compound bow the speed and power difference not to mention the consistency of a modern bow is massively different than a traditional bow.",
"Here's 30grands worth of equipment, good luck maintaining it.",
"Reporters barley holding back",
"Of course I couldn’t possibly understand that fact while making my comment. Stupid me just felt like it was a sales pitch without understanding that the people were literally untouched from society for their entire lives. How could I be so stupid??",
"I’d watch the fuck out of this",
"What the fuck are you smoking?",
"That compound would destroy their wood arrows and likely drive a broken arrow shaft into an arm.",
"Yep, all these archers are now gonna need to get a job at a local BlockBuster so they can afford competitive bows.",
"Pretty much. A lot of the benefits of modern bows are comfort so you can focus on aiming. The sights definitely make aiming require way less skill. \n\nThe wheels on the modern bow mean that it has a hard pull, but once you have pulled it there is very little draw. You can see when they pull how he has to yank hard at first, then suddenly it's loose. The wheels also allow for a much heavier pull, thus more powerful shot. \n\nThe little wrist guard thing is so you don't hold onto the sharp drawstring with your fingers. These two factors mean you can draw the bow and hold steady for quite some time. This is handy as it gives you time to wait for the perfect moment for the animal to be in the right position, or to aim without less fatigue building. \n\nWith a traditional bow you really have to draw and shoot in one movement, which is much trickier.",
"we should also give them iMacs so they can put them in school children's desks",
"It is almost always necessary to cull populations and if they can get some rich yahoo to pay 10k plus for the pleasure there is literally no losers.",
"What's a charity stream?",
"I find it hard to believe a scenario where a truly wild animal will die in peace. Disease, violence or sarvation seems like the most likely outcome than simply falling asleep and never waking up.",
"The older dude has been hunting with a primitive bow his whole life to feed himself and his tribe. 100% he's thinking \"how do I get one of these\".",
"\"why didn't this random guy who i know nothing about pull thousands of dollars worth of equipment from his anus and give it to them???\"",
"Buzz buzz",
"The lions and elephants that get sold to rich people to kill are tagged as old or sick and dying. [edit: most of them are actually raised to be trophy hunted] \n\nYou seem to ignore the other part of letting the animal be hunted by other wild animals, naturally. \n\nOther than dying on its own or get hunted, what are the other ways a wild animal can die?",
"They’re probably blown away thinking about how much easier their life just became. “You mean I can hit any shot accurately from 4x the distance as I could before?? Dinner’s on me guys”",
"I wonder if any of them went back to the village with the idea of making one....\n\nvery cool vid.",
"There have been lots of tv shows like this with Amish people",
"Maybe he knows he can fix or replace his own bow with his own two hands and survive on that skill. As soon as fancy-bow-boy breaks his string or a part snaps off he would starve.",
"It's not just the bow though. The bow, the cams, the string, the arrows, arrow heads, etc. Every component is designed to work together. Take one out and the system doesn't work as intended or at all. As another person mentioned, their wooden arrows would get shredded with the power of that compound bow, which could cause injuries. You'd end up needing to leave a whole bunch of stuff, and even then they wouldn't know how to maintain it - it's not like there is a sporting goods store they can pop on into for supplies. \n\nThat doesn't even get into the other factors like effect on society, competition for the superior technology, potentially other tribes getting involved and starting some kind of feud, etc. There was an excellent documentary about this, called \"The Gods Must Be Crazy\", you should watch that as a reference.",
"Like sci fi with the removal of tech rather than the introduction of new?",
"Ohh welll that exists. You are in luck. \n\nLook up weapon masters. They add a tank gyro to a chariot with a cross bow. \n\nIt’s a cheesy history channel or something show but they do some cool shit.\n\nEdit: discovery channel",
"Of course there’s North Korean mukbang. Never change, the Internet",
"Very, which is why I'm really wondering why there was a woman moaning in the song...? :P It wasn't like, constant, but it really felt out of place in the video, lol.",
"This guy teaches a tribe to play basketball. They get pretty good at it. It's fascinating watching them progress\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiYbIyOYCG0",
"I can see death on those tips. Incredible technology.",
"I'm so glad I'm not the only one that had that jump out at them. In the last 10 seconds or so of the video when the music slowly got louder I was like \"Did I just hear what I thought I heard?\", and then it happened again. What a weird choice of song...",
"If you had to be killed by a hunter, would you rather be shot with an arrow or a bullet?",
"I mean I'm a white dude and I've only seen a compound bow up close once and I had a similar reaction as the short whistling guy seeing it in effect. So that tracks.",
"Sounds like you’re a glam hunter just like this guy. How can an animal living its natural life cycle do more harm than good in its natural environment? Isn’t that just nature taking its course? What kind of self aggrandizing bullshit are you on about thinking people who pay to do that shit aren’t just giant assholes with even bigger check books at the end of the day. If those animals were really harming their environment so severely local conservation would solve the problem, not have some millionaire fuck with oakleys drive out to set up a blind outside it’s den so they can take some vanity shots with the corpse of a fuckin beautiful creature.",
"on the handpiece for the compound bow, is it just like a little button or clip you press to release?",
"I heard it early on and I was like, wtf, I know I don't have any porn up, what in the hell tab is making a woman moan?!? And I backed up the video and heard it again and I'm like, wtf who puts that in a song randomly?\n\nThe song choice was fine otherwise!",
"These people seem so kind and happy. I really envy their humble and genuine lifestyle.",
"And the elderly? Were just gonna kill 'em! \n\nWere just gonna kill' em!",
"The suit of armour thing doesn't quite work.\n\nSwords during the time of full, well made plate were very close to useless and only seen as a backup and ceremonial weapon. Don't get me wrong, against a bunch of unarmoured peasants, a sword was a fantastic choice. Against armour, it was very difficult to use, effectively. A pick, mace, poleaxe or warhammer was a better choice against armour.\n\nThe primary weapon, for most forces (though I can only really speak as a European) was the spear and later one of the many variants of polearm.\n\nArmour was phased out with the rise of gunpowder and swords, such as the rapier or sabre made a comeback with a lot of forces until firearms were just too bloody good.\n\nSo then armour beats sword, older firearms beats armour and modern firearms beats swords. \n\nI could see it as a concept, but you wouldn't need a \"modern\" suit of armour to beat a sword. They were doing it in the 14th Century.",
"found the city folk!",
"Fun fact: I was in Tanzania during the month of July for my honeymoon. We went to visit the Hadzabe in the bush outside of Karatu (I think that's how you spell it). They were very inviting and they showed us how they hunted and made things. \n\nWe followed 4 younger boys around the bush until they managed to kill a small bird with their bows. They threw together a quick fire, cleaned the bird and ate it - and my wife and I got a small taste. \n\nThen, after that, they took us to shoot bows with them in virtually the exact same environment seen in this video, except with a tree trunk. I was the only tourist to hit the target. What an amazing trip that was. \n\n10/10 recommend going to Africa.",
"Ive heard of Papua New Guinea tribes having never seen machinery before being hired by the mining company that just started operations.\n\nThey learn to ride a motorbike immediately. Must be a real mind blower.",
"Not a hunter at all actually but im sure you're use to being wrong. \n\nhttps://www.cnn.com/2015/05/21/opinions/rhino-hunt-is-conservation/index.html \n\nThere's a link for you, I know reading can be a challenge but it's pretty short.",
"I see a lot of you are fooled.",
"I mean, that's all well and good, but wait until you see an old guy who **also** has all the right tools for the job.",
"Yes I would agree. With the you are cynical part.",
"If he has the money to afford all that stuff, what would a hunter/gatherer tribe have to offer in return?",
"That's part of the reason the Amish live as they do as well. Self-sufficiency is valuable and worthwhile, no doubt.\n\nIf he did feel that way, I wonder how those feelings would change if he knew that the Amish also completely outclass his tribe technologically.",
"Yeah you're absolutely right. It was two weird choices combined. That sound effect put in the song, then that song chosen for the video considering they HAD to have noticed the moan. It's too high in the mix and in-your-face apparent to not notice it.",
"Teach them C, let them live in blissful paradise for a while before they eat from the tree of knowledge and are cast out of the garden into the barren wasteland of OO, damned to split into warring tribes, forever divided by the sword of inheritance…",
"I think there are advantages and disadvantages to the compound bow the guy was using. I feel that the recurve bow might be lighter and faster to draw, even if you have less distance and power than the compound. Please correct me if I'm wrong.",
"No sugar! (or very little)",
"Yeah button or trigger so you get a nice precise release.",
"Kinda. It'll be high-tech versions of antiquated equipment. So maybe body armor made to stop swords, but with composites and new alloys, or a trebuchet but with a more advanced mechanical system, better aiming devices and an improved projectile for greater range and accuracy.",
"The modern bow makes you skill go further. \n\nIt raises the skill floor and the skill ceiling.\n\nEdit: No, it doesn't raise the skill floor. I phrased what I was trying to say in a dumb way. I was trying to figure out how to say that the general spread of skill with a compound bow would be higher.",
"Not the same but along the same lines is a series from a while back called \"The Day the Universe Changed\". It takes world-changing events and discoveries (the evolution of scientific reasoning, the invention of the printing press, the rise of astronomy and the impact on us as humans, etc) and shows how it changed humanity. I just saw some parallels between this and the idea for a show you had. I would watch your show, it sounds fascinating.",
"Dune has a lot of this. Lots of sword fighting and it’s set in the very far future",
"That's also why he said American \"bad\" archers. I don't think he was using it as a compliment but trying to explain why the compound bow even exists.",
"40 years later... *Nothing but silence and animal sounds*",
"It does not raise the skill floor. You can be way more accurate with a compound bow because you can adjust your aim without having to maintain the tension of the drawstring.\n\nIt lowers the skill floor.",
"Warring tribes based on tabs or spaces.",
"Yeah... correct. I was thinking that the worst person is better with a compound than traditional and the best is better.\n\nBut yeah... you are correct.",
"Get a bayonet. Problem solved.",
"I hope he left them the bow as a gift. That would be nice.",
"rekt is past tense",
"Teach them Java instead",
"Okay so let's say guns never became a thing - alternate universe, gunpowder doesn't explode with enough force to be useful. What's the best modern armor you could build to best resist hammers and pole arms?\n\nIt's tough to answer because you'd have centuries of advancements to consider, aimed at distributing the force of an otherwise lethal blow while maintaining maneuverability, agility, strength, and comfort for the wearer. Throw in improved donning times and make it doable without assistants.\n\nSimilar deal with horse drawn carriages. Oh no, the ICE doesn't work in the alternate universe for whatever reason. Modern carriages need to be lightweight, ergonomic, comfortable, and stylish. Fun to design!",
"The TV crew was a pretty strong giveaway they have contact with the outside world! (Sorry)",
"It definitely lowers the skill floor",
"Later during dinner: \"Man, we gotta get us some of that \"technology\" stuff.\"",
"So you don’t hunt and you believe hunting for glamour is conservation based on \n*checks notes* \nan article posted by a company owned by millionaires/billionaires who participate in glamour hunts. Got it.",
"We’d finally get our LightSabres",
"The best armour? \n\nModern combat armour can stop bullets so im sure itd be able to pull up a pole arm blows too. Some type of aramid based panneling with comfortable, breathable modern textiles.",
"I bought an old vintage bolt-action rifle many decades ago, and it has sat in a closet ever since. Never bothered to buy ammo. So, from a weapon standpoint, I spent $130 on a very complicated club. Its big, heavy, and has pointy bits, so i could definitely mess someone up with it, but I also coulda spent $10 on a 2 x 4 studded with nails.",
"We want them to trust us, not learn that all we say about portability is a lie",
"I'm not a physicist in the slightest and I'm no expert or anything, but I heard that the kinetic force of a bullet is the same as its recoil which generally seems quite manageable. I know they can still hit hard (break ribs even though a bulletproof vest) but I have to imagine that getting hit by a polearm, sword, mace or other melee weapon has a much higher kinetic impact (even if only because the area of impact is bigger).",
"The thing about technological advancements is that they're very tightly intrinsically linked. For example, it was the invention of the mechanical cannon boring mechanism that allowed the \"great leap forward\" of efficient pistons for steam engines, which powered the industrial revolution, which effectively lead to the modern world.\n\nYou pull one thread out of that tapestry and the consequences would be very hard to judge.\n\nBut I will accept your \"alt universe\" premise. \n\nWe have modern materials including plastics and ceramics. We hydraulics, electronics, batteries, servos and computers. We have engines (jet?), generators and dynamos.\n\nBut no explosives, rockets, firearms or missiles.\n\nI suspect depending on what you're after, a modern APC for getting about the place with something like powered armour with melee weaponry designed for penetrative or concussive characteristics would be the order of the day for the actual fighting.\n\nI mean, until someone invents a portable railgun or similar method for getting pointy bits of metal through armour.",
"It's not a video, but there was the time Reddit introduced a tribe in Africa to internet porn:\n\nhttps://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4uhtwj/ask_the_maasai_warrior_tribe/d5pt906/",
"People livestream a game or some other content and donations from viewers go to their charity.",
"Read Dune (kinda). But yeah read Dune.",
"The fact it’s a default subreddit?",
"Or semicolons vs implicit line termination",
"imagine showing them a composite recurve bow or a crossbow and then being like yea...that is technology from thousands of years ago",
"There's a huge difference when you're talking about a super luxury thing like personal transportation... and the tool you use to hunt food to feed your family/village.\n\nA more expensive vehicle will get you to your destination more comfortably, that's the only real difference between a base Tacoma and a Ford XL Cowboy Yeehawer 5000. It's not appreciably faster due to traffic/lights, it's not more fuel efficient (probably worse). A bow that can shoot twice as far though? Now that has serious implications to the quality of your life, as you don't need to close as much distance on your quarry.",
"50 years later… Winds of Winter is released.",
"Low level vests stop handgun bullets but can be penetrated by arrows (sharper, more mass behind them).\n\nAnd blunt force damage is a whole other question again.",
"Stepping on a splinter, and getting an infection.\n\nTripping and breaking a bone.\n\nEating an infected animal/corpse.\n\nParasites.\n\nAmoeba from dirty water.\n\nBirthing.\n\nShit, the ways are endless. These are things that are solved when human caretakers and veterinarians are introduced. Even humans rarely died of old age until the last hundred years or so.",
"Love this vid and their reactions",
"For the carriage thing it would depend on the use, but I imagine it would be like a modern SUV but without the engine and as light as possible. If it’s like a sport carriage probably a single carbon fiber piece and suspension. \n\nIf carriages were still a thing I’m sure that we would have better horses due to selective breeding.",
"It also wouldn't break by being dropped or caught in a snag.",
"did you just show up in Tanzania and be like \"can I hunt with you\"?",
"I guess he could be trying to sell them his religion. They might buy that.",
"PETA approved?",
"They don't really \"suck\", at least the pressure-wave ones don't. They work by changing air pressure, basically \"pulsing\" the clit. They apparently are quite nice (my sub loves her womanizer) but it isn't a \n replacement for a hitachi.",
"Yep it's pretty much the basis of steampunk, such an amazing aesthetic.",
"I mean, they're impressed, but they practice a very different style of archery.\n\nThey're using something called decurve bows, which are a low-tension design meant to be strung constantly. Decurve bows don't have a lot of power and are really only meant to penetrate the hide of an animal, which is why they're almost always used in conjunction with a paralytic poison. The idea is they shoot an animal with an arrow, wait for it to seize up, then kill it with a quick stab to the vitals.\n\nBy contrast the American dude's compound bow is meant to pierce an organ as deeply as possible, destroying it and usually killing the animal by shock & blood loss.",
"So if I switch to meat, fruits and vegetables I won't need to brush my teeth anymore?",
"If the hunter is actually competent, the bow will get the job done equally quickly as far as I know.",
"I think the distance over which they reliably hit that block suggests they do know what they're doing, although they're clearly using different techniques \n\nQuite a few of their techniques looked like they wouldn't work well for competitive shooting, but it's quite possible that they're better for hinting.",
"So if you were being executed by firing squad, you'd have no preference.",
"Tanzania is a friendly place to visit. There are many places in Africa that are NOT friendly to visit.",
"I feel like if you're using the bow to hunt for food to survive, vastly superior versions of that tool become much more desirable. This is like seeing a nice new pickup truck, while you drive to a construction site with a geo metro you cut the back off of",
"horseback crossbow? Easily able to penetrate full plate and horseback to get distance if needed. The only thing you need to figure out is how to reload and charge the crossbow.",
"Sounds like they’re being discriminated against.",
"One of the drawbacks to this line of questioning is it ignores the second order effects of technological developments. \n\nSo for example, modern steel and metallurgy developed out of the requirements of making stronger boilers during the industrial revolution. It's not that we lacked the ability to make stronger and lighter things beforehand, but rather we didn't have the necessity and the supply chains to allow innovation to take place. \n\nIt's an interesting question to say, how well could we build plate armor if guns never developed? But I think a more interesting question is how would armor be obsoleted without guns? \n\nAnd that answer I think comes right out of the Battle of Hastings, where it turns out the best way to get someone in a suit of armor to die is to make them run through mud",
"American rich guy on big game safari (with personal chef) shows his modern weapons off.",
"He rekt, he reks, he will rek, he will have rekt, he would have rekt…",
"Could have given them the bow,would have been a nice touch.",
"I feel like few cultures would say no.",
"I am ready to see for when cheap Chinese outdoor good is accessible for these guys. Everything in the sporting section of Walmart <3",
"> Oh no, the ICE doesn't work in the alternate universe for whatever reason. Modern carriages need to be lightweight, ergonomic, comfortable, and stylish. Fun to design!\n\nMany of the first automobiles were electric with batteries. When gasoline became cheap those electrics (with primitive batteries by today's standards) took too long to charge and held too little energy.\n\nSo if you want to see what a modern world looks like without internal combustion engines, I guess you'd be looking at a Tesla car.",
"No, that just sounds like regular ol' life for the great majority of people in the \"civilized\" world.",
"I’m surprised they are so accurate shooting his arrows with vanes off of their bows since I’m assuming they are really only designed to work with feathers. I was really expecting a bloodbath when he started messing with those broad heads.",
"Nope! I was there for work, but then I took some time for vacation and did a safari in the Serengeti. Seeing the Hadza was part of my trek. I don't think it was a popular \"destination\", but it was like being in a real-life national geographic article.",
"Well, in a way, that's what all of our tech is, modern version of ancient devices. We've gone from yelling at each other to smoke signals to wireless communication around the world. All just variations of \"I want to communicate with you from further away\".\n\nOr spear to trebuchet to ICBM, all variations of \"I want to kill you from far away\".",
"Probably not. A lot of places in the world are very isolated and lack the infrastructure needed to have a modern lifestyle. They probably benefit from better steels and modern textile manufacturing, but if they lack resources and live remotely it is a whole different world.",
"Tribal People Try and Common Man Show are both great channels, Reactistan is another good one. Manzoor and Mehboob are such a great duo hahha.",
"one of the african guys:\" thats voodoo, man!\"",
"You've gotta keep in mind that they use bows themselves all the time, but the speed of compound bows are like orders of magnitude faster than what they are used to. It would be like being a really good pilot in WWI, then you see a modern jet fighter for the first time.",
"Fun fact: The nuclear bomb was invented and developed before the compound bow",
"And since no one has commented on straightness, a modern diet involves a lot of mushy foods. Everything is pretty soft. The lack of heavy or frequent mastication results in smaller jaws, which creates crowded teeth.",
"If the job was accomplished and completed correctly then the \"right\" tool was used.\n\nIf the truck gets someone where they need to be the task was accomplished, regardless of a rusted 22RE or a lifted Ram 2500.\n\nIf the prey was killed and meat was harvested then the task was accomplished whether that was through a modern compound or handmade bow.\n\nIn my example above, the user with the festool did not know what he was doing but his tool said, \"I'm the biggest badass in town.\" Mr Skil saw let the finished product do the talking.",
"Driving motorcycles where there isn't many cars is one of the best experiences.",
"Humans have \"brushed\" their teeth for 1000's and probably 10's of 1000's of years.\n\n>Babylonian chew sticks from 3500 BC are probably the oldest oral hygiene artifacts on record. The first bristle toothbrush was invented by the Chinese during the Tang Dynasty (619-907) and was most likely made from the coarse hairs of the cold-climate hog.",
"You typically want a smaller area of impact. The smaller the area for the same force, the higher PSI on that one spot. It leads to more organ and muscle trauma, and broken bones. \n\nThe effect of a bullet is that the force back into the shooter, is spread over the areas of the hands and shoulder that contact the gun. On the other hand, the bullet hits a spot MUCH smaller in area with just a bit less force, and it typically causes penetration into the target’s body. \n\nFor edged weapons, and even clubs, you want it to hit with as much force, in the smallest area possible. The blunt force trauma alone, can daze and incapacitate.",
"idk about everyone else in this comment section, but this video moved me so much. The pure happiness and the mental picture they were bringing forth on their faces felt so pure. I haven't been moved this deep by a video i barely understand any words in, the tribesmen were all in total awe. I think the moment when he said one arrow and thousands of years of technology passed in an instant felt the most climatic.",
"Being a hunter gatherer in a small tribe is basically what our brains were designed for. It's probably better for our mental health",
"Sterling?",
"In other words why would they choose the modern world over theirs? The assumption tends to be that the industrial revolution was a step forward in our evolution as a species but if you take a look around right now you would be hard pushed to explain why. \n\nThe book of Ishmael is a good read on this topic if it sparks your interest",
"> just working for a living, not advancing to any posiiton that allows them to really enjoy the fruits of industrial society\n\nSo like most of us Americans",
"How many times? Isn't most modern armour basically one-and-done? Johnny Warhammer isn't going to stop after the first strike.",
"There's actually a well documented phenomenon of tribals rejecting \"civilized\" life around the world.\n\nIn the early United States settlers very quickly found out that attempting to bring the native population into their way of life wouldn't work at all. Those that they tried to \"civilize\" ended up quickly rejecting the European way of life and moving back to their tribes. Those that they enslaved would escape easily and do the same thing. And to make it worse, the natives would occasionally \"adopt\" European settlers, typically either by kidnapping them or by rescuing them when orphaned. The United States authorities made it a mission to collect these white tribals and bring them back into society, typically by giving them to whatever surviving relatives they had. Soon after 'repatriated' to their families though, these tribal adoptees would flee back into the wilderness. Even those who's families were rich.\n\nBecause it was never about wealth, or comfort or luxury. Its about belonging. Tribal societies tap into that in a way that modern societies don't.",
"what is shiprekt",
"In the beginning he says his bow is for bad archers, implying, in my opinion, a level of respect for how skilled they are. He rolls around on the dirt, jokes with them. Idk he came off friendly and humble.",
">Interesting how you start out saying you've never seen or held a composite bow but are completely comfortable talking about how durable they are and what they should be used for\n\nI spent at least 5 mins googeling the pro and cons of these bows. you know... it's called \"educating yourself\". Also, just by having a LOOK at it and after learning what it is made of: common sense\n\nSomething you obviously don't understand",
"Yea I think it was on askhistorians one of the posts was talking about how the full plat armor we see in pop fiction wouldn't have even been used when swords' were the primary means of warfare in Europe, they were more ceremonial pieces that nobles would don and watch their gunpowder troops fight.",
"Its the push towards automation. Short term goal profit, long term goal a mostly self running society.",
"Honestly as someone who’s been a software developer for 10 years I could see myself being very happy living the Hunter gatherer life.",
"Now show them a glizzy",
"Been in the trades all my life. I really hate the assumed binary attitude between \"the old-timers\" and the young technically minded new people. Both groups would be well served by listening to the other.\n\nThe experienced worker should accept that just because it was learned out of a book, doesn't mean it is wrong. Knowledge gets refined. Industries evolve. Younger tradespeople entering those careers are likely more professional and knowledgeable than the crop of newbies 20 yrs ago.\n\nThe younger people should realize that their instructor who talked so much shit about how the industry is full of stubborn old hacks might not be the absolute authority on the subject. In most situations, those \"old hacks\" make a hell of a lot more money than a vo-tech instructor. Those teachers aren't all going to be independently successful experts who just love teaching so much they retired their career. Many were either failures at running their own business or just didn't want to work that hard. \n\nThere are plenty of dumb and stubborn old-timers. Plenty of arrogant young people who think they are far better than what they are. They aren't the majority. Tradespeople trend to the pragmatic. They are like farmers. Prove a new way is more efficient and they will adopt it fast. They just have also seen a thousand fads, new approaches, and products get hyped up and then fail and disappear. Good newbies lose the arrogance pretty damn fast when they realize some of the stuff the book made sound very clear is actually a muddy mess with far more variables than they would have ever expected.\n\nJust like the internet, the loudest of both sides make the perceptions. They are usually the worst examples.",
"Maybe it's just me, but that music bed was unnecessary and added nothing but distraction from the interactions. It broadcasts a 'don't worry, everything works out ok' vibe, whereas we should be ensnared by the scene. Without the music, the situation is fraught with the possibility for offense, accidents, misunderstanding, etc. We'd be much more invested in the clip without the happy-go-lucky corporate ambient soundtrack. \n\nPerhaps this is just my personal quibble, and everyone else doesn't care, but I had to express it.",
"That's not true. The momentum is the same, but the smaller object has much more kinetic energy.",
"Seems like cheating to use that wrist attachment. At least do what the Mongols did and use a ring.",
"You're being a bit generous there",
"thats actually really fuckin cool! thanks for sharing",
"Thank you free market capitalism for allowing such innovation.",
"Kinetic energy can be calculated as such: KE=1/2*M*V^2\n\nThe mass of an object is a linear increase, but the velocity is exponential. Even when it comes to a very small object, the huge disparity in velocity more than makes up for any differences in mass. Then consider that this amount of energy is being applied to a tiny area, and that it doesn’t have to impart all of its kinetic energy to cause damage - which is when the design of the projectile comes into play for how it pierces a target, if it hits anything vital or not. You can still be seriously injured from sheer concussive force of a bullet that doesn’t Pierce body armor (and why plate armors old old wore padding underneath). \n\nIn regards to recoil, much of that energy is absorbed by the mass of the gun; a heavier weapon will produce less recoil, and as you see heavier and larger weapons (artillery, naval cannons) they start to incorporate methods to reduce recoil. Older style cannons were on wheels and allowed to roll backwards when fired rather than break its mounting or fixtures. Modern navy ships have barrels that have heavy spring dampeners to absorb recoil so that the ship remains steady.",
"i wanted him to gift them the bow",
"Check the Instant Legolas videos for some crazy bow tech. They couldn't have invented them back then because they lacked rubber bands iirc.",
"if you're just trying to resist the warhammer, you might have to do what tank armor does, where you angle the armor so when the warhammer strikes you it'll be deflected, or if it hits right on the point at least it's working against effectively much thicker armor, because of the angle. but then you'd lose a ton of mobility, then maybe the sword makes a comeback because you could stab it into the joints or eye slits.",
"BOOM HEADSHOT",
"That \"oh wow this is cool\" whistle might well be part of a universal language. I fully understood it the first time I heard it.",
"steampunk",
"I think you mean Agincourt tather than Hastings.",
"Dunno if this is real, some of these tribes make a living by pretending to be impressed by modern inventions for tourists.",
"Do you mean that this is the reason to favor the industrial world over a nomadic lifestyle? \n\nIf so then I ask why? Why is a self running society beneficial on an individual or societal level? I’m not a nihilist, I’m just interested what people see as the end goal to technological ‘progression’ in a deeper sense. Will it make us happy? \n\nThe vast majority who live in the industrial world have not yet reached the level of comfort it is supposed to provide. Most have to endure terrible hardship. But it seems our advancement does not address this issue, it only widens the gap between the rich and the poor.\n\nBut those who live very simple, nomadic lives and have not joined the battle of industrialized society, I would argue are much more connected to the things that can really bring happiness. Appreciation of the land and the skills to use it sustainably, appreciation of nature and the hierarchy of living things and close knit community where everyone has an important role are all synonymous with this type of living. I think these are hugely under-rated values for a species who have, in evolutionary terms only recently deviated from that way of life.",
"Much like how the classical Romans may have developed plastic, or how the ancient Greeks designed a steam engine. \n\nBoth were useless for their time period, and seen as little more than 'neat'; only because as you said, there just wasn't the supply chains nor materials to make either in any real industrializing quantity. \n\nMy brain just gets froze over when I hear someone say that the Romans or Greeks were super close to industrializing but \"just didn't.\"",
"Here is a video with the tribe he talks about.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/U2Szbfq9IA4",
"Jess bezos got archery skills.",
"As other's have said, the force of polearms and maces doesn't equal the force of a small bullet - but it's disingenuous to think a mace wouldn't hurt someone in Kevlar. \n\nBullets and maces are made with completely different philosophies. Bullets are made to penetrate, maces are not.\n\nTaking a mace to someone in body armor 9/10 will be more deadly than shooting them with a bullet that it is designed to take. The bullet can break ribs, and cause massive bruising - yes - it could even penetrate and now your bleeding externally. But the mace? Oh fuck. \n\nMaces, hammers, and similar weapons were made to *collapse* the armor, not penetrate it. \n\nSo someone hitting you with a warhammer or mace, even with Kevlar, would still definitely have the same effect - of caving in your chest and rupturing internal organs.",
"Yeah, even C would blow their minds. I be they're still just writing asm directly. But you know what? I wish I could do that.",
"Assembly? Nah, binary instructions direct to punch cards by hand ;)",
"Agincourt, Crecy, Poitiers, longbows became the medieval version of the machine gun during the 100 Years War.",
"Yes the reason is to increase productivity to support a more complex society.\n\nIt doesn't always work out for the individual especially since we're so early into this change but the societal goal will be to combine the advantages of the industrial world (modern medicine, longer lives, healthier bodies, wider array of opportunity, tools, artistic expression, access to knowledge bases, ect.) with the advantages of community and simple living found in tribal living.\n\nThe rat race the revolution ramped up will kill itself.",
"So that's how the jeep got up the tree.",
"As someone who has spent quite a bit of time doing traditional archery with longbows, I'd say you're right. It's a lot easier to shoot a 70-pound compound with sights and an arrow rest and a trigger than it is to shoot a 90-pound long bow with nothing but a leather grip and a shooting tab.\n\nBut the guys who can shoot as accurately as the compound with the longbow? They're far better archers. They're more in tune with their own bodies, because more muscle memory is invovled.\n\nAnd just for shit talking aspects, compound shooters kind of balk when you pull out the 150-pound *Mary Rose*-replica war bow. Compounds don't get up to those pull weights.",
"Are they really that outclassed though? Their weapons can be repaired and sourced from the local environment, where the modern bow is useless if any part breaks out in the bush.",
"Yeah ok, that… is a pretty good answer. And I hope that we are heading in that direction. My fear is that many of us have lost track of that goal through our natural, human drive to advance. You’re right though, it is very early stages, especially in terms of the internet and connectivity. \n\nI guess we will see which way of life survives the tests that are coming for all of us in the near future. And whether one can out-live the other or if the actions of one will destroy both.",
"Is this the original video? Because it was uploaded this year in 360p. \nIt looks MUCH older.",
"that is super cool!",
"But how does bigger jaw size affect reproduction? There has to be some sort of evolutionary pressure for it to result in smaller jaws right?",
"This is like an Epic Purple item to them.",
"There's also a much older BBC show called \"Meet the Natives\" where a group of men from the Prince Phillip cult in Tanna visit Britain to experience British life and eventually meet Phil himself. It's not available anywhere officially now, but if you look on youtube or dailymotion you just might find it.\n\nAlso, the name was supposed to be a bit of a cute role reversal. The idea was that the tribesmen were coming to \"meet the natives\" of the distant and exotic land of Great Britain. Most people didn't read it that way though, and the series was... controversial.",
"Flying between continents is worse for the planet than eating meat for a year",
"You want them to work out interfaces with structs of function pointers? Might as well just leave them with the bow!",
"It's not a tough answer; it's steel.\n\nModern materials have come a long way, but not in regards to lightweight personal armor. Modern armor is kevlar, it's great for stopping small high velocity objects - not great at distributing large scale forces. A mace still can cave in your chest.\n\nThere just isn't a light weight high-tensile material that is both strong and light like steel, and even steel is very fucking heavy. \n\nHonestly the only difference modern armor would have is the refining and manufacturing; and that alone would be a big difference.",
"There was an ask reddit thread few days ago about the phrase boys will be boys and i feel like this perfectly displays what it means. Having a passion for a craft/hobby has no language barriers. Just genuine and pure excitement and interest for something these people have in common for a tool that both cultures use.",
"I think he just means a buggy with modern alloys, suspension, and other amenities. Which, they DO. Today, in modern times. Just nobody has made a show that goes to a modern buggy factory to see how these designs have been implemented. The buggy's in new york city take into account many modern design ideas. Amish market wagons maybe don't innovate, but nobody else has these self-imposed limitations.",
"I'm confused by your comment. The difference in jaw sizes are not inherited traits, but rather acquired. \n\nBorn into a different global content, you and I would have developed much larger jaws because of the intense chewing required to eat different leaves, tubers, or other fibrous and starchy foods. All that chewing would have resulted in a more developed jaw, which in turn creates more space in the mouth for teeth (and also, would make wisdom teeth really useful), leading to a greatly reduced chance for crowding (and therefore crooked teeth).",
"I was wondering why I could understand the translator but not the tribal guys",
"In regards to hammers I bet we’d have some crazy light dense foam shit that would look ridiculous but be pretty effective outside of headshots. Even then. Idk how you’d even explain modern foam products to a medieval era person",
"Yeah, of course. Almost all technology is meant to close the skill and labor gap, thats the point. People also hunt with rifles instead of smooth-bore muskets because it's much easier and exponentially more accurate. People drive pick-up trucks instead of ride horses because its much easier and more capable.",
"That's pretty damn crafty and hilarious if true\n\n\"Alright fellas, everyone put on your shock and awe face to stroke the white man's ego and he'll leave us some nice designer shit.\"",
"What plebians chose tab over spaces?",
"That would've been cool, but as soon as it needs maintenance or repair it'd be useless.",
"I think there are fair advantages to a low-tech recurve, but the advantages of the compound bow are undeniable. While a little heavier and slower, the compound bow is vastly more accurate and capable at ranges exponentially farther than the homemade recurve.",
"The problem is not the average person flying between continents or eating meat. But by all means, stop living your life because you believe that and watch as corporations and governments drive the planet into dust all the same.",
"Wholesome until you start putting together that this is an American gone out there to kill wildlife for sport. They're wearing camo and brought a bow.",
"Ye, KE of bullet is larger than gun by the ratio of their masses.",
"> A pick, mace, poleaxe or warhammer was a better choice against armour.\n\nThe armor cost as much as a house. Someone wearing it was very rich, so the goal was often to capture them alive and then ransom them off.",
"There's a modern version of the trebuchet called the Floating Arm Trebuchet, which applies modern understanding of physics to make a more efficient energy transfer. Doesn't really do anything a historical trebuchet couldn't, but you can make smaller ones with the same power. Also it just looks cool.",
"Depends on if I have a trebuchet or not",
"We never stopped yelling at each other.",
"Ive heard that discolored teeth and cavities is something of a modern problem, caused by modern diet. Tribes in Africa, even without dentists or modern toothbrush/cream generally has better tooth health that western people.",
"Same reason some street fighters in like Hong-Kong started using bows and crossbows. A sand bag stops bullets, but bolts and arrows go right through",
"Indeed for the regular soldiery polearms to unseat a rider and roundall daggers to drive into \"slits\" was a common tactic if they didn't surrender, of course.",
"That’s a really cool idea and you have a neat brain. I guess that’s sort of the idea behind steampunk and diesalpunk and all the -punks.",
"Compound bows were developed after guns, rocketry, and even atomic/nuclear technology. Crazy!",
"Wait, so can thry launch a 90kg projectile over 300 meters?",
"Probably no milk at all",
"Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?",
"And there's nothing wrong with that...",
"It was really equal. The tourist showing appreciation for their skill, them bonding over a bow.\n\nIt was \"rich guy from a developed nation showing off\" but somehow not condescending, which is hard to pull off.",
"And you don't consider those as dying on their own? These are still natural ways of dying in the jungle.\n\nYou seem to keep insisting on the old age example I gave.\n\nActually, after reading a bit further, it seems like most of these lions are raised to be trophy hunted, which is even worse than what I thought.\n\nThis is not taking into consideration the poachers",
"Ok",
"\n>if you take a look around right now you would be hard pushed to explain why. \n\nAre you serious?\n\nHow about triple the life expectancy, food security, higher quality of living, modern medicine, actually understanding the world around you etc.\n\nThis is such a Reddit comment. You are literally on a computer that can conjure up the entire knowledge of mankind, track your position via satellites and allows you to contact almost everyone on the planet in an instant.\n\n\"But what did the industrial revolution ever do for us?\"\n\nCreate the most advanced, progressive, prosperous and secure age in human history you muppet.\n\nDon't look down on these people, but don't run around and tell everyone how little modern life has given you. While dimultaneously enjoying the fruits of that same modern life.",
"Bow hunting can kill a human - not regulated like guns , can literally murder with it",
"I bow hunt, and have been doing it since I was 11. I can tell you without a single doubt that these guys using homemade bows and arrows are better archers. After shooting modern recurve bows it becomes clear that compound bows are cheating, I can’t even imagine what the learning curve is on a homemade bow",
"That's reality of nature, have you ever seen a national geographic photographer shooting a sick animal? No, because they have a code of not to intervene with the wild animals.",
"I’ll start to give a fuck about the planet when you convince China and India to stop killing it.",
"Yelling is like bicycles or spears. They the Pinnacle of their respective applications",
"There’s actually a pretty large amount of historical evidence that modernizing peoples technology without giving them ways to maintain it actually hurt them in the long run. Imagine giving people who walk everywhere a car and a bunch of gasoline, but no resources to change the oil. Sure they use it for awhile, then the engine seizes and they have to get used to walking again.",
"It’s the case 99.99% of the time. You’re talking out of your ass",
"gotcha",
"My buddy and I had a similar conversation the other day about maces and flails.\n\nHumans are fucked up man.... I use a mace to crush plate, but then they use their shield to block, so what do we do? Put the spike ball on a chain so it will swing around the shield and bash people with centrifugal velocity....",
"Have you been to Alabama? Because most of Reddit hasn’t, they just make decisions off of stereotypes",
"I love this with all my heart!",
"The Amish make and use buggies and carriages all of the time.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4exFFJDlkw\n\nThe Amish don't have to \"innovate\" in the way we think they do. Their safety requirements aren't as needed as a car, but newer buggies are incorporating a lot of new technology and safety features. This video goes into it pretty well.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4exFFJDlkw",
"Okay, what's your point? Company policy is their discretion as their job is to document. Conservation groups need to raise money to continue their work, and a good way to do it is to have someone come in and shoot an animal that's near death for a shitload of money. It's a win win for all 3 parties involved.",
"I see it as “showing what has been developed to compensate for lack of skill”. Gotta remember these tribe guys probably use bows for survival. Give the American a tribe bow, he’s probably gonna starve.",
"Carbon fiber chariot with flame decals on it",
"Not quite the same but \"The Natives come to America\" is a great documentary. All episodes are on YouTube. Here is the first one.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTYB_-NSbLM",
"I think they refused. I forgot where I read it \n/saw it but I remember the tribe decided to not take it as the balance between them and nature would tilt",
"Oh look, this again.",
"I love how adorably sweet this is.",
"Awesome, I’m going to check this out.",
"Exactly. Fucking your sister is way more fun in a modern climatized house anyway.",
"You're also talking about something that weighs grams (A bullet) verses a Warhammer that weighs a kilogram or more. \n\nSure the surface area is much larger but it's 1000x heavier, and a human can make that bitch FLY with a good swing. On a healthy sized handle, arc of the arm plus the length of the weapon you get a massive translation boost to power via velocity. \n\nThis is why slege hammers have massive handles, verses the same hammer-head on a 1-handed 'mini sledge', ignoring space constraints for use, the 2-handed classic sledge hammer can be so much more destructive.",
"This brought a huge smile to my face.",
"[My thing is how do these people shooting arrows not just turn towards the crowd and let one go into people?](https://youtu.be/qpaue3Jhn1o)",
"Can you say cognitive dissonance",
"Halfway through this comment I skimmed to the end to make sure it wasn't gonna end in 1998 in Hell in a Cell",
"They chew a lot and they have proper tongue posture",
"And some communities just don't want a modern lifestyle.",
"They don’t seem to care just happy to be part of it like if I walked into a Tesla store and got into one of the cars and was like woah this shit’s cool then left perfectly content with not actually owning one lol",
"Are they gonna save up for some of their own? They look pretty impressed.",
"Depends. Steel body armor panels, while essentially obsolete from a military perspective, could easily handle a whack from a mace without denting or anything. \n\nThey're still available since the cost-protection ratio is pretty good for handguns.\n\nI bet you'd break your mace before you put more than scuffmarks on a sheet of 3/8\" hardened steel plates.",
"lol, I do love shittymorph but I'd never rip off his/her style! No, my comment was 100% sincere, and it was an incredible experience.",
"They key is a small community (dunbar's number) otherwise you'll feel just as meaningless",
"They should if they're offered the luxurieso f it without the caveates, people dying all around you all the time from preventable causes is no fun, either, having upwards to 10% child mortality rate is also devastating to people, it means everybody goes around with the trauma of losing a brother/sis",
"Well, the title says they are \"hunters.\" So the video infers that they are bow hunters. When I was 12 I went to a scout camp. After about 10 minutes, every kid in archery was better at handling a bow and arrow than these guys were.\n\nPlease watch the first couple minutes again. One of them keeps saying \"ouch\" when he shoots. Another one throws his arm forward as he releases the bow string. These men have never used a bow and arrow before. This is very obvious.",
"You’re right, the industrial revolution gave us all of those things. But we are not living in harmony with the planet or it’s eco systems. Our progress is wondrous but not sustainable. It provides me great luxury as a privileged individual but provides hardship to billions of others. \n\nI’m not looking down on nomadic people, I’m asking if we should be looking up at them.\n\nJust to get back to the point of my comment. It was being discussed that tribal nomads normally reject the modern world, when given the chance to live in it.\n\nDaniel Quinn, in his book, ‘Ishmael’ pulls at the seems of our culture and questions if our path, as spectacular an achievement as it has been, is really capable of providing us the deeper contentment we seem to crave, and at what cost? \n\nI think it’s a fair question and one worth exploring. I certainly don’t think it makes me ungrateful, much less a muppet. I simply read a philosophical view point of modern culture vs nomadic culture, found it interesting and raised it in a discussion about a similar topic.",
"I am curious to know what payment they got. Was it arranged through a tour company?",
"The payment was based on the tourists. At the end of the \"tour\" (which mind you, was more like them just tolerating us hanging around their day to day), they take you to a little section of their camp with hand made things you can purchase. All of the money you spend on the things they make goes to them. \n\nBasically the process was simple, our tour guide, who was with us every day and responsible for us, asked us if we wanted to visit local tribes. We did, so he made time in our day for that. He pulled up to a small hut where around 5 people were sitting. He chatted with them and then one of them came with us in our car. That person was our tour guide with the Hadzabe and another tribe that made blacksmithing items like bracelets. \n\nThe only form of outside help they get as far as I know is the money from us buying gifts. Hope that helps.\n\nAs a side note and fun fact of the Hadzabe: citizens and tribes of Tanzania aren't allowed to hunt in the Bush. However, the Hadzabe are allowed to because the government doesn't have an alternate plan for them, so they continue to be hunter gatherers.",
"its the wasps favorite to show africans how advanced the US is \nreally wholesome, yeah",
"Reddit progressives are fucking in love with their notion of the \"noble savage\" and \"magical neg.ro\".",
"Do you just enjoy spreading misery? Like, maybe you think that there is only so much happiness in the world and in order to get some you have to take it from someone else?\n\n&#x200B;\n\nSeriously, spend your time trying to improve things. Right now you are doing exactly the opposite.",
"Yeah, the chocolate video from Sierra Leone or whatever also makes the rounds regularly.",
"Like how they drove out all the white people and now all the infrastructure like railways is in complete shambles. It *would* benefit them immensily if they weren't too incompetent to take care of it or just flat out destroy it. That's why it's so easy for the Chinese to take over the continent. All they need to do is build roads and the the whole country is in their pocket. Of course reddit progressives will ague that the noble savage has no need for roads, so there we go.",
"Nothing must shattter the progressive illusion of the noble savage.",
"No there aren't. Amish people know what a car is. They see them on the daily living in USA. They don't use them because of tradition. If you offer them a car they will refuse. My god redditors are insufferable.",
"So what? YEah, we get it... You are an unemplyed fuck up who is envious of anybody who is more successful than a whiny bottomfeeder on the dole.",
"> Nobody says underdeveloped countries are bad.\n\nYEah, because you romantisize them. Also it's hilarious how you say \"nobody\" when you have spent years complaining about a ficticious \"shithole\" comment from a book. \n \n> ountries like the USA or some european countries claiming to be developed and obviously struggle with the most basic things in some regions is really just pathetic \n \nRiiight... Move to Africa then.",
"Check put the BDE on this guy!",
"OK, murican. Now go loot a wigshop or something.",
"Insults should make sense or at least be funny.",
"Go choke on your pseudoclever smugness, murican. Everybody hates you.",
"Who are you?",
"Somebody who is not a retarded American.",
"That was literally the entire point bud. Read the actual comment chain",
"Are you American, yeah? \n \nAgain, you claim that Amish people don't know what a car is or how it works. They do know. They just don't want to use them. Idiot.",
"What exactly upsets you?",
"Not sure if you were trying to make me laugh but you did so thanks.\n\n\nNo I’m not American. And yes I KNOW the Amish know what cars are. That was the point of my comment. Read the entire comment chain next time so you can understand what you are even replying to. \n\n\nLet me know if you need help figuring it out.",
"What kind of retard are you?",
"I dunno, lived in Africa as a kid - these people are seriously resourceful, they can fix anything.",
"It’s like Santa is a gateway drug to Jesus",
"I cant believe they let you have that name",
"the trebuchet would be a mortor system given a few generations, no?",
"I kinda wished he would’ve given them the bow and a bunch of arrows",
"Good luck trying to walk wearing a suit of 3/8 inch hardened steel plate armor. That would be extremely cumbersome. Unless your DM says it's cool to not bother calculating encumbrance.",
"Oh jeez yeah. Even just the 10x12 chest plates weigh like 20 pounds or something.",
"Let alone fighting back with enough power and stamina to get through the other guys' steel plate. \n\nThe other drawback of super heavy plate mail is, getting back on your feet if you fall. \n\nI still would like to see a full suit. Maybe put one of those ballistic dummies in there, and launch 90 kg projectiles from approximately 300 meters?",
"Actually for blunt weapons I'm sure there are modern plastics or composites that would be light enough to work well and spread out the impact. \n\nUHMWPE is incredible. There are plates made of plastic that can stop rifle shots these days."
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"y'all. call +1 888-592-8241. please. I've done so and it saved my life. help is there.\n\nedit: I've heard from some people that the hotline can be busy. message me and we can chat confidentially.",
"Context??",
"Thank you.",
"he's a chaplain who lost a friend to suicide and is bringing attention to mental health awareness\n\nedit: got deleted from r/humansbeingbros for some reason. wasn't sure where to post so I came here. I feel it's a moving and important video to share for others who are struggling.",
"Love you too.",
"Amen.",
"Ketamine for everyone.",
"yea, covid pulled out the rug from under a lot of people that were walking along the edge",
"It really is tough right now. Single people like myself have lost so much in terms of friendships and social gatherings. Work just feels like something that barely pays the bills. When government lockdowns only allow two households the people I used to spend time with only visit their parents or more social friends. I don’t think I can do another year like this and I REALLY want to loose it at the anti vaxxers (walking fucktards).",
"Good to know, I half thought it was a joke and edited short or something. Something odd about it that gives it an air of a joke to me that I can't quite place.",
"the vibe im getting is this guy is in pain and is having a really bad time.",
"Credulity, I feel, is the root issue.",
"You're nearly there my friend. We've been doing this for a long time but in terms of normality returning it's much closer. Hang in there pal because you've done the hard yards",
"How does it look like a joke? Dumb comment",
"How could it be a greater mental health epidemic than what happened in during the Black Plague? The Holocaust? The reign of Genghis Khan? Come on. Mental health is extremely serious, and plenty of people need help, but that claim that it has never been worse for people mentally is plainly absurd.\n\nedit: If you think that people's mental health in the aggregate is now worse than it was when 70% of the population of Europe was being killed by a pandemic, then I don't know what to tell you. It's worse now than when 90% of humanity lived in extreme poverty? Read a book.",
"I can definitely see it, he was crying, evidenced by the redness of his eyes, he's sad. But I was half expecting a punch line at the end or something, maybe like \"we need to stop constantly fighting over which way the toilet paper roll goes, it could mean our doom.\" The old serious to a complete joke thing.",
"Feels like satire.",
"\"Well that's perfectly normal phrasing that a human would say.\"",
"I think it’s because humankind seems to have gotten over the honeymoon phase of progress and things are tough.\n\nAlso fuck that way of thinking. Wtf does Genghis Khan have to do with anything. You know what IS absurd. Pointing out people have had things tougher. We can assume one guy got eaten by a tiger in the past so fuck any of your problems, you better not complain once.\n\nActually do tell. How was the mental health during Genghis Khan?",
"Then this message wasn't meant for you at this time.",
"Theres no real gauge. It's a personal crisis for them and those around them.",
"Well maybe you should make a sobbing video about how hard Genghis had it, you clearly wanna help people more than the jackass in the video who said something pedantically wrong.",
"Totally... because 0 context makes me stupid for thinking it might have been a joke video. I said I half thought, not THIS IS A JOKE?!?!? Who's comment is really dumb, the one giving his personal opinion about what he thought it was or the person simply calling it dumb?",
"Covid pulled the rug out and social media gave them a push.",
"Haha yeah. Dan Carlin did a hardcore history about that whole time. Worth a listen if you’re into that stuff, he makes it very fun yet dense.\n\nMost interesting thing about Genghis Khan was his apparent change in character late in life.",
">Credulity, I feel, is the root issue.\n\nHonestly I don't think you're wrong\n\nSo many people in America are pumped full of propaganda from a young age, and a lot of these people finally come to the crushing realization that everything they thought they believed in was a lie, and see no way out other than taking their own lives.",
"That kind of thing HAS contaminated a lot of our lives these days.",
"Hey man, I could tell it wasn’t a joke too, BUT…if our world, or even your genuine perception of it, has gotten to the point where a joke video about suicide might reasonably make it to our social media…that one’s not on you.",
"Yeah same. The \"we lost another one today\" almost sounded like a setup line lol",
"It takes a special type of person to fully acknowledge that a message isn't intended for them, and be irritated enough by that to complain about it to everyone.",
"Dude's clearly on the brink of tears. What on earth are you talking about?",
"No where does it mention suicide though... All it states is this is the greatest mental health epidemic.. I don't know who this guy is, you might but I don't, and it's simply in r/videos with the title iterating the exact same thing said in the video. It wasn't until I read the comment I commented on until I understood what it's about. I know it's not a joke now but at first glance there's nothing to indicate it's actually serious, as there's this thing in life called acting and people like to make funny videos, and sometimes the reddit cut of those videos is shorter than the original.",
"I know him. Classmate of mine. He's legit. Chaplain and mental health worker, mostly with vets, PTSD, addiction, and suicide issues. Works closely with men on reinventing a healthy idea of masculinity. He means it when he says he loves you. Reach out. There are people who will help.",
"“We lost another one today…..mental health crisis.” and you can see the guy struggle to not break down in one part. That’s how I knew for what it’s worth.",
"If you are vaccinated then hang out with other vaccinated people. I wouldnt go to a concert or anything but you could eat at a restaurant that isnt packed. Watch a movie at home. Have a game night.",
"Fun fact. Statistics show that suicide decreased during the beginning of the pandemic. It has since returns to a normal level, with only a slight increase in the incidence of suicide attempts since covid started.",
"We don’t have to compare, but it is absurd to say the worst in human history, I agree with that. How about, worst in recent memory?",
"nah, his emotion is genuine. I've lost my son and two granparents in law this year, had plenty of practice crying and being emotional.",
"My comment was ment to have an air of a joke to it..",
"Lets see. We have a country divided by politics, racism, class stratification, poverty, a pandemic...\n\nWe have essentially a tyranical government who cares more about lining their pockets then getting shit done. Shutdowns, mandates, trillions in deficit... but cant seem to agree on not taking a paid vacation...\n\nPeople are being fired, forced out of business, etc. Basic 1st world privledges like entertainment, etc. are being taken away.\n\nPeople cant afford rent let alone dream of buying a home. Everything has inflated in price while wages remain the same. Everything in a supply crisis. Professions are being rendered obsolete.\n\nPeople are given piles of addictive pharmaceutical drugs to cope with these issues and are billed thousands for it.\n\nPolitics and bs is spewed 24/7 on television. Nothing else. People are are now put in front of screens constantly whether its school, work, or leisure.\n\nNo fucking shit its running rampant.",
"I think social media has worsened it and opened our eyes to it more",
">He means it when he says he loves you.\n\nI don't know why but reinforcing this makes it actually adds a lot of credibility to it. Its nice to know there are people out there who genuinely care about others.",
"I'm so sorry. I became an orphan this year. Grief is a language that many of us have become all too fluent in. \n\nI hope you find some peace.",
"Thank you, Yoda.",
"Funny thing is you replied to a comment with context...I didnt say you were stupid, I said the comment was dumb.. I hope you find the air of a joke in this comment 🤣",
"It's especially evident on reddit. There was a video of a man who likely failed to commit suicide jumping off a building, and almost every comment under it was people trying to get those rEdDiT uPdOoTs by cracking puns and jokes. The man obviously in excruciating pain and/or in shock while everyone was practicing their unfunny stand up comedy",
"seeing videos like this is a weird thing for someone who is constantly battling wave after wave of intrusive ideation. i don't want to kill myself, but the overwhelming burden of financial insecurity, 0 social support and utter lack of hope for any sort of joyful future allows for the 'alternative to pain' to creep in.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nseeing people suffer from the losses of their loved ones only drives home how alone i am and how sad it is that no one would really be hurt by my absence except the immediate burden bestowed to my landlord. its very hard to muster the wherewithal to even leave the room, let alone the house, when there appears to be nothing but some empty, hollow existence outside.\n\n&#x200B;\n\njust some perspective from the other side of it, i guess. hope this guy gets a hug.\n\n&#x200B;\n\n&#x200B;\n\n\\*edit: pretty strange feeling to have my most interacted comment be the one i mention thinking about an early exit all the time.\n\nThank you to anyone who said something kind, or reassuring, or offered suggestions or personal connection to these feelings. It's kind of sad that this feeling seems so prevalent among us. I am in the process of waiting for one appointment and scheduling another to try and implement something to help. I am working on letting your kind words trickle down into the soil of my self. \n\n&#x200B;\n\nThose who think that commenting things that basically boil down to 'well, just get better! Just try harder!' have very evidently little to no experience with major depression and anhedonia. It's like in cartoons where someone is trying to run and their legs are spinning but somebody is holding their head to prevent movement.",
"I'm getting there. my wife and i have a really good grief councillor.",
"With an attitude like that, I'm surprised *ANYONE* would.",
"Always has been",
"Oof I know the feeling of only getting to spend time with one other household... I know it reduces the spread but it also makes you hyper-aware when you're not someone's BEST friend",
"When I looked at the data, it showed there was about 1,500 more suicides in 2020 vs 2019. That would be a decrease in suicide when including population increase. I haven't seen any numbers for 2021.",
"My brother killed both my parents and suicided by police a month or so ago. He tried to get help a number of months ago and was told there was a two or three month wait due to Covid. Bummer.",
"I think this is what I hate most about reddit. I'll see a story thats crushing and I read the comments to see what others thought and it's just constant jokes. It's like the people of this website can't take anything seriously unless it has a serious tag. Discussion isn't possible anymore really.",
"Thank you, I've been having a really tough time recently and it's always nice to be reminded that there are people who care",
"Booo!! Stupid",
"how so?",
"In some cases it’s a defense mechanism.",
"The usual media didn't help, either.",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver",
"**[Medical uses of silver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver)** \n \n >The medical uses of silver include its use in wound dressings, creams, and as an antibiotic coating on medical devices. Wound dressings containing silver sulfadiazine or silver nanomaterials may be used to treat external infections. The limited evidence available shows that silver coatings on endotracheal breathing tubes may reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. There is tentative evidence that using silver-alloy indwelling catheters for short-term catheterizing will reduce the risk of catheter-acquired urinary tract infections.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)",
"did you just link a random Wikipedia article or something? im confused",
"For real! That dude had problems before but now will forever be crippled and his struggle will always be so much harder cause of it. If he survives.",
"Got a source for that?",
"Yeah I don't wanna be that guy but ah.. history is full of worse moments for the average human. I hope anyone who is struggling right now gets the help they need, but it's a little insulting to people trapped on slave ships, dying in a plague house or in the Warsaw ghetto to say this is the worst time.\n\n\"Others have it worse\" does not take ones pain away, but sometimes perspective can help. We are all descended from a hundred thousand homonids who did not despair, at least long enough to reproduce.",
"thats true IRL when you are with close friends or family or coworkers crackinga joke can be a way to break tension and help process \n\n\nmaking overly snarky/edgy comments about sad/serious stuff online is not a coping mechanism, its just being an asshole or putting your own shit where it doesnt belong and doesnt help anyone",
"I kind of felt the same. I know it's meant to be serious, but it just didn't feel like it on the first watch. It felt like I was on r/unexpected and something funny was about to happen but it never did. I don't know how to explain it.\n\nI think it's just this detachment and surrealness of genuine pain that we don't often see online that makes you expect a dumb joke. I had to rewatch like 3 times before I really felt what the message was.",
"*some* cases",
"learn to read",
"i already have learned to read. you could at least explain the context of the article rather than just linking one that doesn't seem relevant to me. i didn't see anything about silver in this video",
"I feel this so much. I can't seem to rid myself completely of intrusive thoughts, but staying busy REALLY shuts them the fuck up",
"Don't KMS.",
"Life is suffering, always has been and always will be. It's how you respond to those suffering moments and keep moving forward to make the most of the life you have because you only have one. I understand that everyone goes through different levels of suffering but contemplating that aspect will not help you. I am sorry for your losses and current situation. Instead of giving up, do everything in your power to meet people, learn skills, and create a life for yourself. Hell join a church (not Scientology) at minimum you get a community of people who truly wants the best for each other.\n\nEdit: For the record, not trying to shill religion or churches. It is just a good place of community.",
"Thank you for sharing your perspective",
"https://www.sprc.org/news/global-suicide-trends-during-covid-19-pandemic\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/health/coronavirus-suicide-cdc.amp.html\n\nhttps://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n834\n\nThe information about is about suicides prior to this year primarily. The information I posted about 2021 is based on preliminary data from the psychiatric hospital system that I worked for this year showing local figures, and referencing local figures elsewhere. The 2021 data may not be all encompassing, and it is very possible that suicide rates in 2021 actually decreased. Based on the early data that I have seen though, it appears to have normalized or increased at a very slight level. It's also possible that the increase in 2021 is not pandemic related. There has been a lot of other shit going on this year.",
"I never thought I had issues below the surface, at least not the type that I'd ever need to worry about. This past year of working from home, being cutoff from a majority of the people Bd things I care about...well that pulled those unknowns right up to the top. I swallowed my pride and got a therapist, turns out I really needed this YEARS ago. You might need it too...",
"Damn. I was waiting for the punchline.",
"First, I understand exactly where he is coming from. You are loved and if you need help, reach out. If you think someone might need help, reach out to them. Get in touch with the [National suicide hotline](https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/). Be kind to the fellow people, we don't know what they are dealing with.\n\nSecond. that man has a mustache of champions.",
"After July 2022, all states are required to route 988 calls to the suicide hotline. It was part of the push to move all phone numbers to 10 digits in 2020. The law was a bipartisan effort.\n\nMight make it a lot easier to draw attention to the fact that there resources for people who need them.",
">Works closely with men on reinventing a healthy idea of masculinity.\n\nIf modern day masculinity was going to be the saviour of men i suppose the fact that suicide rates have only risen since we've moved away from 'toxic' masculinity and told men there is something inherently wrong with their naturual self would be an unhelpful statistic.\n\nWhat do you know telling men to be more like women wasn't the answer after all just like, cry man.",
"Yea this is just another dog shit clickbait title that was posted to fit a narrative. There has been more awareness, support, acceptance, and acknowledgement regarding mental health over the past couple years than there ever has been before. And the numbers show that.",
"Come on, does anyone believe that wearing a mask and staying home and watching movies cause anything near the damage ww1 & ww2 did to the mental health of the planet, millions with ptsd, even more millions dealing with losing everything, and even more dealing with death and tragedy around close loved ones?",
"Not really needed for this video. It sums it up enough without giving personal information.",
"Remember in order to change something you need to change something. \n\n\nI'm not saying its easy, but if you're unhappy with your current situation the only way to change it is to do something different. Good luck",
"I feel you. Ive gone through ups and downs throughout my life but I am blessed to have as good of a support system as I do.\n\nSo I know I am just a random stranger, but I would highly recommend going to a drug store or grocery store, buying some vitamin D, and popping 10-20 of those pills for a month.\n\nNot gonna solve your problems, but I promise it will give you a little bit more energy and made you feel a little better, especially as the seasons turn.",
"mental health is important but I am genuinely suprised with Reddit.\n\nAre we not going to talk about this man's incredible moustache?",
"Have you tried cognitive defusion?",
"I am absolutely in agreeance for quality of life. Privledged times breed weak men.",
"Right now having a family meeting about my sister's suicidal thoughts. No idea where to start getting help or if there is room anywhere.",
"Cant tell if this is satire or not lmao",
"Thank you, I love you too.\n\nI needed that today",
"Oh, that's not what I think has caused men's suicides to rise through the roof, that's just the feminists answer to men's suicide rates, to blame men. I would somewhat agree with you, it has something to do with current circumstances, but also to do with how men are treated and made to feel in general.\n\nBut seeing as how men's suicides rates vastly outweigh women's, and you think that's explained by how bleak things are and will continue to be, perhaps we find common ground after all.",
"Thats simply not true",
"Just to add on to this.. Baby steps. Start with small and easy things. And then gradually add new steps to your routine.",
"My comment was dumb because I shared my first thoughts of the video? I really don't get what you're trying to get at...",
"Hearing a fake I love you from a guy who will never even see you in his life and doesn't even address it to you, just tells it to a camera with no one on the other side. Yeah, helps tons.",
"It’s really incredible to consider all that had to be done to get us here",
"Sometimes, art is a good way of telling past people's outlooks on life at the time.\n\nFor instance, during and after the Black Death wiped out a 1/3 of Europe's population there was a massive increase in death iconography. \n\nEveryone thought it was literally the end of the world at the time.",
"Found the toxically masculine man",
"Better safe than sorry",
"dude losing a relationship weeks after my father died to covid was insane. The relationship carried a small weight, but the loneliness that followed while secluded... I genuinely feel like two years of my life skipped without me realizing. Kinda went into hybernation and all of that emotion has swept over me now that I'm in a slightly better place. I've never been diagnosed with depression or anything similar, but this feels like a lot of that.",
"Grow up",
"If there is anything we all can take away from what happened the last 2 years, is that people who have been lonely and isolated - are no longer alone.\n\nFor the first time in a long time in history, regular people have been getting a rare and valuable (hopefully educational) lesson it isolation and what it does to people.\n\nSo when all of this is over - remember that someone you just walked by, didn't say hi to, or that chatty neighbor you didn't have time to talk to - is living what you tested for a few years, maybe his/her entire life.\n\nBe kind - reach out once in a while, when it comes down to brass tax - all we have: is each other.",
"If it wasn't for addicting video games keeping my mind busy, I don't know what I'd do.",
"really? this is not satire. the guy has lost someone he cares about and is clearly upset.\n\nhonestly no clue how this could be interpreted as satire. then again, this is Reddit.",
"My first thoughts of your comment was that it was dumb, that's all. Sorry if that's hard for you to understand..",
"I snapped out of my suicidal thoughts when someone was telling me a story about their friend committing suicide. When they told me the story in my mind I felt a sense of relief for them ( even though I didn't know them) and also said to myself \"I wish I was as brave\" and something came over my body like I felt very proud for them. That's the moment I snapped out of it. I realized at that moment that I felt happy that someone died. That's not normal......I knew then and there that my suicidal thoughts were not normal as well even though 5 minutes ago in my head I thought it was.\n\nIm still not happy BUT I know it can always be worse and I that's all I need to keep moving forward.",
"thanks for sharing your story. better out than in. I appreciate you!",
"Love you too bro, here for you!",
"People being rich and flaunting you is causing mental illness? Tf. Thats a YOU problem.",
"Hey! Just because you have no one now doesn’t mean you’ll have no one in the future! And as for the financial situation there’s a lot of factors that go into that but there are people and communities online dedicated to helping people get the information they need to get out of the burden of debt, if you have the desire to live inside you I believe you can find a way to make ends meet and have a wonderful joy filled future! Remember, the happy moments in life are in the eye of the beholder, appreciate the little things!\n\nEdit: a word",
"Except it hasn't been eliminated at all. You willfully misunderstood what toxic masculinity. It has literally nothing to do with whatever strawman of toxic feminists you built up in your head. \n\nEliminating toxic masculinity is literally more about helping men not women. Feminists like it because it would actually help them as well indirectly. The only people it doesn't help are those who are in power that like manipulating others. If men work together they wont any longer put each other down to reach the top thus eliminating a factor of control.\n\n>natural self \n\nWhat do you mean natural self? I would argue some of humanities greatest hits are from men being non-toxic and forming comraderie to rid the world of its evils. Fraternities can be huge sources of positive change for example too.\n\nMany times the opposite has happened though. Its degenerating into pointless hazing and rape culture and lack of disdain for your brothers and sisters of the world.",
"Because vaccines aren't about YOU. They are about everyone else. They are about the people who's immune systems let them down. They are about the newborns who don't HAVE an immune system yet. They are about the elderly who's immune systems have given up with age. Don't want to get vaccinated but don't have a medical reason why then THAT makes you a fucktard.",
"i don't quite understand what you're saying",
"I don't think so, just someone who is willing to accept the differences between men and women and not torment either men or women for being the way they are.",
"Also, we have been promised much more than the people of the past ever were. There is so much expectation placed on us to have the most epic life imaginable. We are all doomed to fail at that. People in the dark ages just had to get through the day alive. That was a win. A win by today's metric of happiness is much harder to achieve.",
"What? The move away from toxic masculinity was telling men they don't have to be a specific thing or they arnt men, it wasnt that they have to be this other specific thing to not be the bad thing.",
"“A man’s suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus, suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the “size” of human suffering is absolutely relative.”\n\n- Viktor Frankl, *Man's Search for Meaning*",
"This man does not look real for some reason.",
"Yea I don't want to downplay how incredibly hard the last 18 months have been, because they absolutely have been more than brutal, but... \n\n* The constant threat of nuclear annihilation during the cold war\n* The Great Depression\n* Two world wars within 20 years of eachother\n* The Plague \n* The Crusades\n* The fall of the Roman Empire\n\njust off the top of my head.",
"Bro you had so many vaccinations as a kid you don’t even fucking realize. Don’t be a tool.",
"Host a meetup event in your area or attend one if you'd like to make new friends. You can advertise your meetup event free on facebook to local groups. You can also make free facebook events.\n\nThough I've been hosting local events for over a month now and so far only 1 person has shown up :(.",
"Sure, it's not healthy to think that what you see on Reddit is indicative of how people are, in general. There ARE real people on this site, but there are also fake people employed by corporate PR firms, government agencies from lots of different countries, just plain assholes, and worse.\n\nBest to consume it with a gigantic grain of salt, a stoic filter, mindfulness, and a healthy dose of independent fact checking/sourcing, if at all. Some things that are *free to you* are easily not worth the effort it takes to make sure they're *helpful to you* overall.",
"I appreciate the effort you're putting in. it's normal to be discouraged. keep it up. there are people who need what you're doing and it may just take time for them to realize it. you rock!!",
"Those were moments of clear intent. Anyone lost was a sacrifice for a \"great cause\"... winning a world war. \n\nPeople dying from a virus while other people ignore it, and the gov't cant get its act together to make people feel as if society gives two fucks if they live or die... thats another ball of wax and far more damaging to one's sense of place and belonging.",
"It damn near was, too. For humans, at least.",
"I find SNRIs work really well for me. Without them I have constant intrusive thoughts. Generics are cheap too. I managed to really improve my life on meds but it's hard to have hope and find the right one. I wish you the best of luck. Just wanted to say what I said to offer a bit of hope from someone who had really bad mental health for a long time.",
"If it's a personal crisis, then don't says it's the greatest mental health epidemic in history. Say that it's a personal crisis.",
"I'm not engaging in conversation with you. What I said was clear. You didn't get understand it, and your misrepresentation of my view is a red flag.",
"this video made me realize i'm not well",
"You, and your response is exactly what us wrong with what you think it means to be masculine. \n\nThere is nothing feminine about being open about struggling with something. Talking with your bros when you are dealing with shit at work, or at home, and your bros listening and being there for you. Talking about issues in your marriage, working through them rather than letting it build up until you are divorced, is way, way better for everyone. \n\nBottling up anger, depression, fear and pain because shitty people will think you're weak is what is killing men. \n\nYou are, objectively and categorically wrong, and your \"idea\" of what a man is is so phenomenally wrong that you will likely feel a need to spit acid at this rather than actually think about it like a grown human.",
"Do you have a disability or are you a veteran ?",
"Yep. Same here man.\n\nThen you fuck up and play something like RDR2 or The Outer Wilds and catch an existential crsis anyway.",
"It absolutely must be addressed, this is clearly highly emotional for the guy and many others. But hyperbole harms this process. Human beings, particularly those living in the US/Western countries today, have frankly never had it so good. \n\nTo say this is the greatest mental health epidemic in human history is startlingly out of touch. Perhaps I'm wrong, and contextually technologies deliverance is pushing the population to places it has never been before, but it's hard to debate when I think of the hardships our ancestors endured, even 100 years ago.",
"Why does he kinda sound like Heath Ledger Joker though?",
"And when your friends aren’t online.. :(",
"This. I call it Ant steps. They may seem small but when you look back and see that you've made some progress, confidence starts to build up.",
"What are the easy steps? A person with 0 social support probably has some underlying problems that make socializing difficult. I can only speak for myself but sometimes there really is no easy step to take.",
"I'd completely agree with you if the vaccine was actually effective at stopping the spread of covid. Unfortunately even vaccinated people are spreading the disease so it's a bit of a moot point. I'm hoping we'll get a better vaccine at some point that will fix this. And before you ask, yes I did get vaccinated the first chance I could back in March.",
"It’s not though \nPeople are saying this and perpetuating the idea of it just like they do anxiety. \nAttention seekers.. \n\nNote: i am not saying mental health isn’t important nor that anxiety isn’t a thing. Its just that anxiety has become the scapegoat for wayy too much.",
"I love lamp.",
"I took up biking this summer to keep myself sane",
"Dude intrusive thoughts used to terrify me then I just started treating them like this toddler \"edgelord\" that lived in my head and was always trying to start stuff. I started actively laughing at him. In the end it turns out that a serotonin deficiency was why these thoughts were so loud and that deficiency was brought on mostly though a stress induced lack of sleep combined with inadequate diet to provide the precursors for serotonin production.",
"I wish I would’ve done more physical activities this last year. I’ve been practicing guitar only which apparently isn’t that great for your body",
"Drugs",
"His moustache made me assume something funny was going to happen. That was not funny at all. Love you too pal.",
"most media is telling people about covid and telling people that they should get vaccinated",
"I'd say the last election cycle was the push. Social media was honestly the only way to stay connected during quarantine. The problem is that while some people reach out for help when suffering from a mental health problem, a lot of people instead try to spread their mental disorder to others. Lots of mental health issue strive to sustain themselves and make themselves worse. When you are brain sick your brain does the opposite of what your body does when your body is sick.",
"Take a shower, clean something, open your mail, take a walk outside, cook a meal, something. As long as it is an activity and not something passive like watching tv you are doing good.",
"Yeaahhhh definitely toxic",
"try lifting. Helped get me out of my shitty self pity and depression. I didnt leave my room for 3 weeks and never did dishes or anything. Just started buying ramen containers from plastic. Videogames are fun but they do not provide your body with the hormones you need to function after you shut down the game and realize the emptyness thats consuming you.\n\nWorst place Ive been in.",
"I've noticed that my single friends have been hit the hardest. Well, people in the service industry that lost their jobs that were also single. Most of us in healthcare come in a close second to being broken, but at least we aren't suffering for rent. Those of us with companionship (although strained) at least have that comfort as well. It's a mess out there and our country is pretty shit when it comes to treating mental health disorders seriously. The needle has been moving in recent years, but not by enough. I'm afraid we might see the mental health epidemic kill as many or more people than covid if/when it's over.",
"Dude your completion, you need some rouge. Then some love",
"> The law was a bipartisan effort.\n\nNice that we can at least all agree on this.",
"Europe*",
"What's it like?",
"> Social media was honestly the only way to stay connected during quarantine. \n\nThis really frustrates me. I used to call and talk to my friends on the phone. Then they would not answer and just message me on Facebook and stuff. I hate this disconnect.",
"True af. Covid seems far more like a mental health disease at this point. Many people I know and love have had their first true mental health crisis since this started. Luckily people are being more open about it since it seems like everyone has gone through it now we recognize when someone else is and share our stories.",
"The numbers in the studies released this week showing [drastic increases in depression and anxiety since the start of COVID?](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02143-7/fulltext?utm_campaign=gbd21&utm_content=182485674&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292#seccestitle140)",
"This is pure conjecture, but I've often thought about this myself as someone who struggles with mental health. For those that have the most difficult oppressive struggles in life, I would assume that as long as they have some sort of social support system, or they have a strong sense of something to fight for or make things better for themselves or others, the ***less likely*** they feel the need to end things. I would love to hear more on this topic though.",
"Not to be that guy, but none of those are epidemic. \n\nIf we want to be super reductive there must be one single person who had a really, really terrible event happen to them that was much worse than anything we've seen before or since. Comparing everyone's suffering to this person's seems a bit pointless. \n\nMainly it's pointless because this isn't how mental health works. There isn't a line in the sand of trauma/stress/anything that once someone exceeds it they'll 100% develop X disorder. \n\nI think you've actually touched on what might be part of the issue though: generally we're getting pretty good at understanding that people who have lived through a traumatic event need support. I think most people would encourage those who lived through your examples to get help and would provide whatever support they could. \n\nHowever, I also think some of the people who survived the events you've described and didn't feel as if it made too much of a negative impact on them would scoff at the notion of their peers being impacted and needing 'coddling'. \n\nDuring COVID most people have experienced an increase in social isolation and stress, both increase the chances of developing a multitude of mental health conditions. Some people will sail through, but for others it will have created or intensified symptoms. \n \nI also think most people would consider quality of life to be a much more important measure of a life worth living than procreation.",
"That’s way way way easier said than done. Depending on what his issues are he can’t just be like “well my main issue is work and not being financially stable I’m just going to quit and find a better job”. Sometimes people just can’t find something better even if they try hard",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FVlHh1gyCI",
"The 1% undoubtedly props up that average quality of life. I wonder how many people truly live or have access to the average? It can't be as many as you think.",
"Seems like he'd be a good person for me to talk to when I'm going through some shit. I'm a veteran with PTSD, use alcohol to the point that I abuse it, suicidal thoughts, etc. 2019 was a particularly difficult year for me, because I lost 11 of my friends. 3 to vehicle accidents, 1 was murdered, and 7 took their own life. I'm down to 2 friends from my time in service because of this. \n\n\nNot really sure why I'm admitting this here but...kinda wanted to get it out and knowing what he \"specializes\" in and the pain he must feel...it just kinda seemed right.",
"Still it's something fun to do. And listening to music makes you happier. It's definitely good for your brain. Exercise just happens to be good for both your brain and body.",
"Love is something you don't understand?",
"Bro you don't make a livable wage and you still work 40+ hours a week? That's a YOU problem. Find a higher paying job, you plebian.",
"Reminds me of\n\n**The** **Bojack Horseman watching experience**\n\nFirst few episodes: haha goofy horseman drink booze and fuck women. Look at him go!!\n\nThe rest of the series: Damn bro. I'm thinking about some serious shit right now...",
"I needed that",
"He is so close to getting the point lol. \"not torment either men or women for being the way they are\" that is the point dude, let everyone be themselves without having to worry about fitting in the mold of what people think men or women should be.",
">covid pulled out the rug from under a lot of people that were walking along the edge\n\nThat is possible, but overall suicide rates globally [were unchanged or even went down](https://sunnybrook.ca/media/item.asp?c=1&i=2306&f=covid-19-suicide-study) in some areas. More:\n\nhttps://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-suicides-have-decreased-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\n\n>The decline to fewer than 45,000 suicides is the largest annual drop in at least 4 decades\n\nAnd specifically about teenagers:\n\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/04/pandemic-suicide-crisis-unsupported-data/618660/\n\n>But what many news outlets called a rise in claims or an increase in emergency-room visits was actually a rise in the percentage of claims or visits. So, for instance, the number of insurance claims related to intentional self-harm among those ages 13 to 18 did almost double as a percentage of overall medical claims in March 2020 compared with March 2019. But the total number of medical claims dropped by about half that month, likely because people were postponing their less urgent trips to the doctor. Similarly, the total number of ER visits among teens went down by roughly one-third. At the same time, the absolute number of insurance claims related to intentional self-harm among teens decreased by 2 percent compared with the previous year, and the absolute number of teens’ mental-health ER visits decreased by 15 percent.\n\nNot to say that there isn't anything to be learned about mental health from the effect of COVID and associated policies. It just might be the opposite of what we think, though: that the way we were living our lives before was _extremely_ stressful, especially for at risk people, and taking them out of the situations they're forced into can be beneficial. High school is an absolute shit time for lots of kids, for example, and not having to live through that every day might even be better for them.",
"Be careful with that. As someone who can casually say they are addicted to the endless search of serotonin from videogames, find a second source. Gamings going to get real old real quick the older you get, I still love games, but I need to go elsewhere these days because I burnt myself out with one of my favorite things.",
"> Single people like myself have lost so much in terms of friendships and social gatherings.\n\nWe married folk aren't exactly in the best way either. In the last 5 years or so most of my friends have moved away, stopped answering my invites or went off the deep ends politically (left and right.) I legit haven't hung out with a friend of mine more than once in probably 4 years. My wife's friends and stuff are around so I'm somewhat social but its definitely not the same.",
"Volunteer at an animal shelter. Most of them would love to have someone take a dog or two for a walk.",
"Id argue the black plague was worse but I get what he means",
">We have essentially a tyranical government\n\nSo fucking hyperbolic and over the top. Not to mention insulting to the people who have lived under actual tyrannical governments and authoritarian regimes.",
"As a guy with AVPD (avoidant personality disorder) who has suffered from abuse, 3 suicide attempts and a slew of health issues. The easiest steps for me, which were still HARD involved- Go see a therapist. It's ONE HOUR a week for the POSSIBILITY of serious help. Even if you don't THINK it will help. There is a real chance it will. Stick to your meds if you have them prescribed but don't be afraid to speak up with questions and concerns. Medicine can be rough at times and it can take a while to find the right things.\n\nOutside of that- Start to care. Preferably about something healthy/positive. Start to drink water instead of soda, put down the fast food and pick up some healthy homecooked food (you are still free to enjoy McDonald's, but there has to be some healthy stuff as well), start to brush your teeth regularly, shower regularly. Simply adding a healthy routine is a good foundation to build on. If you are poor and can't afford to do much: There are always a few free things you can do alone and for free. I now go to the park and just walk, I spent 30$ on some decent equipment to pick up the garbage and it gives me a sense of accomplishment and pride. Instead of spending 5 hours a day inside my room watching youtube or reading a book, I do it laying in the park for a few hours. Just changing what you see every day and adding in some outdoor stuff. Put down the phone and turn off the computer, pick up a book, an instrument, or any hobby you think you might like. \n\nI have recently started to add meditation to my daily activity. 30 minutes a day. That's all it takes. Practice it. You won't know what makes you happy until you really know your own mind. I know some people have a stigma about meditation because of all the mystical sounding crap- Karma, Chi, and a FUCK TON of terms in other languages that are just representations of something. There are plenty of books out there that will provide you with facts about meditation well stripping away the mysticism and making it easier for a skeptic/secular person to get into.\n\nAnd most importantly is to just not ever give up. I did. Three times. Attempting suicide was less scary than the knowledge that I would have to work my ass off to get better. Now, I know myself better and know that I will continue to find small things to be a better person.",
"Or can do it. Somehow we expect people who can't get out of bed, eat, or work to call up a dozen offices until someone answers the phone that tells you they aren't accepting new patients and/or your insurance.",
"> brass tax\n\nIt's like my grandpa always said, the only certain things in life are death and brass taxes, which is of course an annual tax you must pay on any brass you own.",
"I'm sorry that happened to you. I'm sorry for your friends too. I hope you're getting some support to deal with all that. Please take care of yourself.",
"I mean, there was literally a period called The Great Depression. I guess you could say it's the greatest mental health epidemic in the last 70 or so years. The past handful of generations haven't had to deal with anything this bad, so they don't know. Things were going really well, and it seemed like it could only go up. Then it all came crashing down like it always does.",
"The vaccine reduces hospitalizations and the length of infection. If you get covid your body picks up on it faster so you dont have that 2 weeks where you're just a walking covid factory before falling ill. The shorter the infection is, the less it can spread. Also by reducing the severity of infections we can ease up on restrictions since it will spread much less and cause much less hospitalizations.",
"That's not a baby step, that's actual commitment. Not good advice to people dealing with depression imo. Just putting more pressure on them\n\nUnless I'm mistaken and there are shelters you can randomly pick up a dog to walk with and return them. But that seems quite irresponsible of an idea",
"Literally: Make your bed in the morning if you don't already. That's the one small thing I changed. And I didn't even start with doing it everyday. I would just do it sometimes. Until I worked up to doing it everyday. Don't push yourself too hard or set unrealistic expectations.\n\nBut just adding that one thing to my routine made me feel a lot more productive. I could look at my made bed and think \"I did that\".\n\nI find it hard to socialise, so recently I've been making an effort to just ask one of my friends out for lunch. Not anything big, or for extended periods of time, or too frequently. In the last 2 months, I've met with 2 of my friends for lunch, which is more than I have in the past like, ever. And it's given me a teeny tiny confidence boost. Not much. But a little bit.\n\nThe main thing is to take it slowly. I can't stress that enough. As slow as you need to.",
"Just to add this for everyone without insurance or afraid of the cost. SOME therapists offer working on a sliding scale. I live on disability and am rather poor, I spent 2-3 months working with a therapist who charged me 25$ a session instead of the regular 120. It might not be easy to find but it was worth it. There are also other organizations out there that can help. If you are in college, the school counselors are there.",
"Yeah but they’re still turning the volume up on the whole righteous superiority machine, us vs them. It’s exhausting",
"fair, thanks for the explanation!",
"What's your source for this?",
"Huh? I makr just over 6 figures? I dont get what youre saying",
"When does it become a crisis? When it starts to affect you?",
"The vaccine is more to help stop the viruses spread. The infection is detected much quicker in vaccinated people so it wont last as long and you dont have 2 weeks of just unknowingly spewing covid germs everywhere before feeling sick. That was one of the biggest reasons why covid was so successful at spreading, people simply didnt know they had it yet and continued on with life. \n\nPlus if you do catch it and have a more severe reaction (which plenty of healthy people have had) if can result in long term heart and lung problems. As someone who was born with heart problems, you really dont want that, it sucks.",
"getting the vaccine is superior. hands down.",
"You just summarised my feelings to a T. This is exactly how I feel, thank you.",
"Wait, why did being the executive chef damage your finances? Were you the owner of the restaurant? Or were they just not paying well?",
"That and porn.\n\nLots of porn...",
"My 4 year relationship ended 3 weeks before my father died. I feel you pain.",
"You can post in /r/KindVoice/ and there are always people ready to listen to you.",
"I just start project after project",
"Hey friend. Hang in there! Don't forget to exercise when you can, it does wonders for the body and mind.",
"I don't see how trying something once is bad advice, but whatever.",
"I love you too",
"To the K Hole we will go. Mmmmmm.",
"Often posts like yours are more focused on a personal internal feeling of despair or anxiety, and it is quite taboo to offer my thoughts to those people, as the current psychotherapy/psychiatry meta is that if you feel really terrible then something is different or even wrong with you and you need to be patient with yourself to find ways to fix it with habits, conversations, and maybe medicine.\n\nThose are useful tools and certainly helpful to many, but they make a major assumption: the problem and therefore the solution is contained largely within yourself.\n\nI am inclined to believe that this is not true for the majority of people.\n\nWe are a highly social species with advanced technology connecting us to far vaster resources and more people than ever before, yet we do not guarantee a certain quality of life for all that we easily could. We accept a consumerist model which discourages substance and encourages exploitation.\n\nThere are serious problems out there and most of us suffer empathetically through others. \n\nI struggled with suicidal ideation for a long time and the suffering of others and our civilization at large was as much a contributing factor as the feeling that there wasn't room for me out there.\n\nAt my most honest and lucid point of considering suicide I asked myself: Is there really nothing I want to live for? And it became so obvious to me how untrue that was. I would love to live in a world where people are able to grow and flourish. Where we don't have to step over homeless people or see all of our friends choose between things that matter to them and paying rent. Where powerful people don't get to live with a different set of rules and cannot hoard so much while so many don't have enough. Where the light and vision within the beautiful people we meet routinely becomes actualized. \n\nThere is so much that could be better, so much I would love to live to see, I just didn't see how it could be possible and THAT is what made me want to give up.\n\nSo then I asked myself: If there is a world worth fighting for, have I done all that I am willing to do to fight for it? \n\nAnd now I ask myself this any time that I start to feel the same way.\n\nI don't hide from thoughts of suicide, as it is a reasonable option to choose in a truly hopeless world. \n\nIt is considered inappropriate to think that way, but anything else just feels hollow and dishonest for me personally.\n\nMaybe that is you too. Maybe you refuse to accept that life is worth living in the status quo.\n\nMaybe you shouldn't fight to live another day if you aren't fighting for a path to a better one.\n\nAnd that better day will not be possible unless you and many others who are currently either crushed by this burden or coping with it by blocking it out and resigning themselves to a shallow existence, choose to fight for a better one instead.\n\nI do not have an illness. I have empathy, and live in a system which produces suffering for myself and others. I am fighting for the cure to the illness of that system. If we succeed we could see heaven on earth, and if we fail I will be no worse off because of it.",
"your not wrong that show got dark af!",
"Thats what I mean about my endless search. The right game gets harder and harder to find these days. Just dont ever rely on it too heavily, People burn out like that. I say this as someone who hasnt done anything but game today, lol.",
"Hey I started to play The Outer Wilds and liked it but I disoriented and didnt know what to do after landing on my first real planet.\n\nHave you got any tips?\n\nThanks",
"Hard not to root for a giant asteroid to come our way sometimes, isn't it?",
"Im trying to convey this thought as well, a few comments up. Im an AVID gamer, but it will not sustain you, you need to go out into the real world and be a human sometimes.",
"Americans lmao",
"I really thought this was French Stewart for a while",
"It’s not bad advice in general, but not a great starting point for this particular need. The baby steps needed often to combat depression have to be both easy to accomplish and unlikely to cause feelings that you are letting someone down if you fail at them. The earliest steps therefore usually shouldn’t involve another person until the small successes become more common.",
"I think im done trying. I think the only thing I want to do different from the way things are going now is just not doing it any more. Id rather just not exist, and if I want that to be the case, theres only one way to make that happen.",
"damn based on the video length I thought it'd be a funny vid",
"I feel like the fallout of WW2 might overshadow it. The only difference is that we are living through this and have only read about that.",
"Forgot to add... everyone gets offended by dumb shit.",
">\tgot deleted from r/humansbeingbros \n\nBecause that sub is garbage and this is depressing. Should be deleted here too.",
"Thanks for posting.",
"I can appreciate the emotional tone but it seems selfish to call the Covid pandemic the greatest mental health epidemic in history. I can think of 25 history situations off my head where mental tolerance was likely stretched to its human limits.",
"Why don't you ask the millions of people who were bombed by your tyrannical government?",
"My tip is just to explore. Doesn't matter where you go, just look around and try to piece things together. It's a fantastic game, don't give up.",
"Humans being bros, made me smile, and other subs of their ilk are for people to post dystopic things presented as good, not for people actually being good. So a thread about giving a janitor a flashlight to sift through trash to find food would be highly upvoted topic on humans being bros, but somebody talking about mental health would not be because there's no way to pretend suicide is actually good.",
"why shouldn't depressing things be shared on Reddit?",
">We have a country divided by politics, racism, class stratification, poverty, a pandemic...\n>\n>We have essentially a tyranical government who cares more about lining their pockets\n\n\nReddit in a nutshell",
"*just spend your long, shitty life working for someone else, bro*",
"Was waiting for the punch-line throughout the video.",
"There is no hope. It's hopeless. If you're too fucked up, there's no help, and reaching out leads to further pain. I've worked very hard to simply learn that it's just hopeless",
"Are you saying that the vaccine has no room for improvement? Are you saying that the rate of transmission couldn't be drastically reduced among those vaccinated?",
"Need to start with something like, checking the mail box everyday for a week. Start on a Sunday so you don't disappoint anyone if you don't make it that first day.",
"Because who cares? You’re sad? See a therapist. This website isn’t a sewing circle.",
"Is it because he is on 2d?",
"He’s so close, and yet so far",
"This is really true. Working through desensitization with my dog for his socialization anxiety was my baby steps to working on myself. It was a lot easier to make the effort for someone else. Even that was still really hard and took a long time.",
"It's not an easy step for someone struggling with depression. Start small and with tasks that don't involve other people or creatures. That way you don't give the depressed brain a chance to \"play the guilt game\" and all that stuff. \n\nSure someone that is on it's way with recovery from depression, go to a shelter, get a pup and all that stuff. But this is really to much pressure for someone in the deep of it.",
"/u/monmostly think you could help a brother out and link them up?",
"Your log on your ship is pretty good at telling you what to do. Just o to planets and poke around, scan writing. Eventually you'll get a lot of hints doing that",
"I'm at a stage where even addictive video games are giving me no joy or feeling so I honestly don't what wtf to do.",
"Perfectly said!",
"Take this as you will but your comment affected me. It landed. It sank in. I’m going to wonder about you from time to time. I hope you find happiness, peace, or whatever you need one day.",
"You know how you cant get up and do things? Just get up and do THIS thing! Simple!",
"I'm getting by. I find multiple things to distract me mostly everyday. I break down occasionally, but I have a support team through the VA, and of course family members, who are always willing to get me through anything I'm dealing with. \n\n\nAs much as it broke me to do so, giving up my firearms took the ability away, and my two dogs give me a reason to push through the bullshit and keep going. They're little assholes from time to time, but they always are ready to cuddle when they sense I'm feeling down. One even barks at me if I play certain songs. Heh",
"I swear down, washing the dishes the most goddamn cathartic task known to man. \n\nNot sure about anyone else, but I completely drift off into another world. Clean mind, clean dishes. It's a win win.",
"It's fake. Love requires sacrifice. He has to prove it to people who want to die, he has to meet them and spend time with them, and actually like them as people, words mean nothing. Sorry if that upsets you but that's reality, this fake shit doesn't help anybody.",
"Call *me* if you need to reach out, brother. I wasn’t there for a dear friend in a similar situation and now he’s gone. \n\nSeriously, let me know if you need an ear.",
"Cooking does that for me. We'd make a good team!",
"If you need someone to talk too my inbox is open anytime. Hope you feel better soon",
"Not every form of love does need attachment or knowing someone personally.\n\nBut if you're dismissing even their humanity, them as a person, to digital data, yeah well... I don't even know why you're writing here then - to other digital data.",
"What about the immune systems of elderly people or people with diseases that prevent them from being vaccinated? It's not about you, you selfish, ignorant fuck.",
"I wondered around for a while at first not knowing what to do and just checking out anything that seemed interesting. Eventually you do that enough and you start making connections and feel really smart.",
"Perfect reply.",
"That mustache is an epidemic all on it's own.",
"not everyone is from us",
"I feel sorry for this guy, but to say this is the worst mental health epidemic in human history cannot be even remotely accurate. Our ancestors lived in spartan places in tiny groups under way tougher conditions than we have it. They had to be way tougher than us. If it's this hard for us in the 2021, imagine how tough it was in 1584 or 1832 with no technology. Again, I feel sorry for this guy, but it's definitely inside us to make it through.",
"You would probably play more games.",
"Suicide is a fundamental inalienable right. People need to grow some thicker skin.",
"It's annoying when people use \"change\" like you have because you've completely missed the point, and it's an easily avoidable mistake: not all \"change\" is equal.\n\n> ... the only way to change it is to do something different.\n\n*yes, everyone already knows that.* \"Something different\" is not a solution to a problem. When someone says they want their life to change, it is implied that they mean in a certain way, and that there is no way for them make their life change in that way. \n\nFor example, **there are an infinite number of ways to ride a bicycle wrong and only a few ways to ride a bicycle right.** We could go into more detail, like how it would be better to say that correctly riding a bicycle is defined as a thing that is done within certain parameters, etc. ... but the point is the same: yelling at someone trying to learn how to ride a bike, and telling them to \"change,\" without saying anything about to do it right, is a shitty thing to do, and is not helpful.",
"Don't you people realize that your comments and messaging like this pushes people further away from getting vaccinated? Do you actually want them to get vaccinated or again do you just want the righteous smug feeling?",
"On the 22nd of this month will be 1 year since my wife ended it. Please, for her sake but more importantly for your self and those who love you - ask for help. Think about all that you would miss, and who would miss you. It's more than you think. \n \nFor everyone else, check in with those you know and love. Not only are we in a mental health crisis, but we are also facing a shortage in providers right now. So have each other's back. We will get through this - together.",
"Ah, I was going to use cooking, but then in my mind's eye I looked to my right (where the sink is adjacent to the hob) and I thought \"motherfuck, that's where the party's at\".\n\nBut yeah, I do agree about cooking (and baking). The process of making one cohesive thing out of many little things to keep me or my family fed, that's just rewarding",
"... and eventually your long, shitty life will be in the past, and there's nothing you can do to change it... I'm saying: you should stop complaining about your shitty life.",
"The kicker is every single thing you described was designed to be like that. It is on purpose.",
"yeah i thought this was a gus johnson video or something lol. this guy's weird, something about this video feels off. i guess i'll be the one to say it",
"Faith is the problem here. Reality has shown that what you think isn't true. 85% of the people that are crushing my area's ICU are unvaccinated, the other 15% were infected by unvaccinated people spreading their shit everywhere.\n\nIt's not about you. That is an American attitude that has been infecting my country and I hate it so much. Surgeries are being cancelled. Cancer patients who need to be observed are being sent home.\n\n\"Oh but vaccines aren't 100% effective anyway\" I hope you think that when you or a loved one is being told they have to go on a ventilator and they may never wake up (not that I would wish that fate on anyone).",
"I'm getting by with the system I have setup right now. Appreciate you wanting to look out for me though! It's very much appreciated.\n\n\nEdit: I think I misinterpreted that comment.",
"fake, men aren't allowed to have mental health problems, stop trying to generate solutions",
"I was homeless during my formative teen years, from 15 to 18. In those years, you make lifelong friends wherever you are. My friends were other homeless people, people struggling with addiction and their mental health, and folks who lost their way, their families, everything. \n\nSo fucking many are gone now. I can't even keep count. My trauma brain doesn't even have the power to conjure up the memories of them all unprompted. A few live in my head always... but so many of them, too many, I've pushed back into the annals of memory storage only to be roused when I hear a certain song or smell a particular food. Dozens. Multiple dozens. Just dead. Suicide, drug overdose, suicide, lack of life-saving medication, suicide, alcohol-related accidents, suicide, kidney and liver disease, and more suicides. \n\nEvery year, there's always more than one. Recently it was a young man, very young, named Tony. Before that a mother of two named Kelley. And before her was my best friend's ex Zed. And before him Casey. And before Casey... you get the idea. \n\nIt hurts all the time. Every time.",
"\"if no one has told you they love you, I love you\"\n\ngive it a rest with this shite, seriously",
"I didn't get vaccinated to feel smug",
"PM sent",
"It's not hard to understand, you can think anything you want. I don't think you understand the irony of adding a useless comment calling someone elses comment dumb.",
"I don't know how old you are but before the internet/addicting video games, it was completely normal to lay around and just think about shit. Between playing outside with or without friends or being stuck indoors maybe playing a board game/cards, or drawing/writing your thoughts or listening to music, you just thought up more weird shit. Was a wild time looking back. I kinda miss it.",
"Often, a person will stall after a small number of \"baby steps,\" and the strategy never pays off. \"Baby steps\" is an example of the more the general **delay, distract, redirect** approach to prevent suicide.",
"Then don't do another year of it. Why are you still locked in if you're vaccinated? Nothing is going to change going forward, the virus is never going away.",
"If that's a sickness, I don't wanna be healthy",
"I'm glad you're still here.",
"Sooooo..... You doing my dishes or what?!",
"Nor am I! But life is good mate\n\nwho knows what might happen next. I believe in you",
"No, because those things are not getting the pay off that we wanted in the first place. When do I get to do the things I want to do? That's what \"doing good\" looks like.",
"Hes not wrong. I feel like my head is filled with a gallon of tears waiting to come out most days. Sucks when im talking to people and i get a random thought and start tearing up.",
"Haha, I didn't know that. I just use it because it sounds serious, like \"we mean business\" :)",
"Eh if you can still get it even with the vax I'm still gonna take my chances without it. All the people I know who are double shotted are okay rn and those who aren't are equally happy not getting them.",
"Exactly this... I know they mean well but as someone with bipolar 2 and avpd that knows exactly what I need to be doing regards certain things and yet cannot even get myself together to actually do it and end up staring at the wall / screen / curled up in bed hating myself all because I cannot force my self to do what needs doing, being told \"just go and do xyz\" is even more depressing.\n\nIt's like the advice for poor people to simply be rich, get a well paid job, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.... FFS :(",
"Land on a different planet. Look around. If you see somewhere you haven't been, go there. Look at your ship's computer, see if anything catches your eye. There are breadcrumb trails all over the place, and you will no doubt soon find one. Follow it.",
"Yeah. Crippling social anxiety too and they insist on talking on the phone. Well that's my whole problem isn't it?! The days and hours leading up to the phone call are exhausting and draining just for me to cancel two hours before, or five minutes because I can't deal.",
"Most animal shelter volunteer work is done alone, and usually something unpleasant. You won't be walking dogs, but you'll be picking up their shit.",
"> Sometimes people just can’t find something better even if they try hard\n\nThat's 99% of incels",
"Dude, you just used the word \"wherewithal\" in a sentence, the world needs *more* people like you, not one less.\n\nHang in there, things get better when you least expect it (in my strictly anecdotal experience) and for what little it's worth, feel free to message me to chat any time.",
"Lmao RDR2 didn’t expect I’d need therapy after playing",
"I can't remember the last time I experienced genuine happiness. I sometimes think I never did.",
"Right, you were smug to being with",
"You've been programmed by reddit to be weak, ineffectual crybabies. You've turned subs like /r/2meirl4meirl from just dark humor to literal. Being \"depressed\" has become trendy.\n\nGet off of reddit, go outside once in a while, get some exercise, get as close to proper nutrition as you can, and get a good night's sleep. You'd be amazed at what a difference your mental health will have when your physical health is in order. When you feel like crap all the time, it becomes normal and you forget what feeling good even feels like. Life is not that bad.\n\nBut sitting around wallowing in your own sorrow will not help you. Talking about how \"depressed\" you are all the time, joking or not, will not help you. Doing nothing but consuming media all day will not help you. \n\nFinding the inner strength to get up off your knees and stand tall is what will help you. The world can be a tough place, and you have to cultivate some toughness and resilience of your own. If you don't, you will only doom yourself to a lifetime of misery and unfulfilled potential.",
"I feel this as I’ve been in that mental health crisis. Right before covid I lost my best friend and the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. She died in a car accident and went thru the worst pain in my life. Became an even worse alcoholic. Then covid hit and I just drank myself to the brink. It wasn’t until July this year where I went to the ER and found out I had hepatitis from alcoholism and had 7 weeks to live. I don’t want to die now but it’s been a hard 90+ days since the diagnosis. Just trying to live but the pain I inflicted on myself has done so much damage. At least I’ve now lasted longer than the 7 weeks the docs said I had and I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol.",
"I used to work at a convenience store. There was this guy who came in regularly who ended up killing himself. I didn't really know him, and we didn't talk much. But I had talked to him probably a day or two before it happened and could tell he was having a rough time. That was five years ago, and I still think about him on a regular basis. I just wish I had done more to help.\n\nPoint is, loss of human life will always be felt, even if you think there's nobody out there to miss you.",
"> I now go to the park and just walk, ................., I do it laying in the park for a few hours.\n\nAs someone else with Avpd (plus bipolar 2 in my mid 50's), congratulations on being able to do that, I cannot enjoy being outside knowing that I can be seen, it's really not relaxing / pleasant in the slightest.\n\nDoesn't help that currently all my interests have ended, cannot even listen to music / read a book, do my diy, repair my bike, it's as if life has ended, only get up because I cannot sleep 24/7",
"> Hey! Just because you have no one now doesn’t mean you’ll have no one in the future!\n\nI'm not the person you're responding to, but: that doesn't solve the problem. It's like your financial advice is \"buy lottery tickets.\"",
"I get it. I’m older now and I still game, but now even gaming feels empty. I just game to distract my mind, I don’t game anymore because I LOVE playing the game and I’m having tons of fun playing it. I’m worse and then now, and I don’t really care about them so it’s not as fun.\n\nBut, I have no alternative. I understand what you’re saying, develop a second hobby",
"\"I love you\" from a random stranger on the internet is meaningless.",
"I'm sorry but I don't know what you are trying to say",
"I said it is superior to get vaccinated and *it is*. should we pretend it's equally valid to not get vaccinated? I don't want to play these silly mind games. letting people feel valid in their terrible choices that affect others is how toxic behavior survives.",
"Well there ya go. I think people need to stop being a martyr. If you are vaccinated go hang with your friends.",
"> no one would really be hurt by my absence except the immediate burden bestowed to my landlord.\n\nI feel you and fully understand being in the very same situation, I look at it in that my landlord needs to sell this house anyway and it would save him £400 not having to pay back my deposit and then just the cost for a house clearance firm to clear everything left out, so he would still end up in pocket and get his house back sooner :(",
"Why do you think you get to define what this website is?",
"I don't think that's true at all. Mental health has been an issues for decades. We are just starting to categorize it and notice what it is more nowadays.",
"Guess it's just a nice secondary benefit then. Have fun pushing people away and then complaining about them.",
"Isn't suicide rates going down?",
"Do you know if he works at a non profit that accepts donations? If so, could you link me?",
"the issue with games is: they consume a lot of time and after that you realize you just played 30 hours of videogames on one weekend but the emptiness never left you after you shut off the pc/console.",
"What projects? I feel like I run out of ideas.",
"I wish this video had more upvotes.",
"if a person is pushed away from a choice because someone tells them it's a better choice, then what does that mean for that person",
"That show had an uncanny ability of making me realize how depressed i was/am",
"It’s not superiority, it’s frustration. Go get this free thing that takes like 30 minutes across two weeks and shut the fuck up.",
"I have experience with hotlines, **never call hotlines.** They do not help. They are perfectly happy for you to be tortured for the rest of your life, just as long as you die by something other than suicide ... excluding the methods that take long enough to say it isn't suicide; bad health habits, smoking, drinking, fatty foods, etc.",
"For me it was always more of a passive death wish. I didn't want to take my own life, but I spent every day wishing that circumstances would do it for me. I don't think I'll ever be completely free of those thoughts and feelings, but it sure is better now.",
"How about the media stop portraying fear",
"On top of that (or I guess, just to add to what you've said),\n\n1. It takes a while for therapy to even start having a noticeable difference. It's like going to the gym for 2 hours every single day and not losing a single pound of weight or feeling any better for 6 months.\n\n2. Not all therapists are created equal for everybody. Changing therapists that aren't working is recommended until you find one that \"fits\" for you. Which brings you back to literally square one every single time.\n\nAll this effort for someone who can feel brushing their teeth is too much some days?\n\nYeah, I don't think so.",
"I've wasted thousands of dollars on therapy. At best it didn't help; at worse it made me worse off.",
"I have a friend who I met at work and through our mutual love of running, we really hit it off. Thing is, he was really suffering a couple of years before the pandemic hit, he'd be fine for a few months and then he'd ex-communicate himself and noone could ever get a hold of him (except through work channels).\n\nHe's since left the company and while we've had a few runs together, a lot of my time has been taken up with becoming a dad, so spending time exercising has been way down on the priority list.\n\nRecently, the same happened again - noone can get a hold of him, but he still goes to parkrun, which is a weekly event for runners. We used to go to that religiously.\n\nHe lives alone in his flat and he's a very introverted guy. His family all live miles away from him and he doesn't have a car afaik.\n\nI really wish I knew how I could help him - cutting yourself off from all social interaction is a common mechanism from what I gather? But I don't want to be super pushy like turn up on his doorstep or something. We're good friends but I wouldn't say we were super duper close.\n\nI've been trying to get back to parkrun myself since it restarted so I think the best bet is to see him there and just take it slowly.\n\nSorry for the big wall of text, but barely a day passes when I don't worry about him.",
"Dude, you might not realize it, but there surely are a lot of people who would miss you.\n\nIt sounds like you don't have many friends or family, but there are the people you interact with regularly, like a nice store clerk or a bus driver who noticed you or colleagues at work.\n\nAnd then there are the people you'll meet in the future. They won't know that they're missing something if you're gone, but you have it in your hand to make a future reality in which they DO meet you and get to know and like you.\n\nAnd there's us here at reddit. We don't know you, sure, but you're one of us! Please stay with us. There are harder times and there are better times. If you're having a hard time you can always count on a nice redditor listening. \nAt least that's my experience when I posted \"difficult\" stuff.\n\nI wish you all the strength that you need to carry on and that your hard times will become good times soon!",
"The human psyche can cope with the most heinous circumstances you can think of, but rip away socialization - the most basic core human need of them all, and we lose our shit. At least during times of war people *usually* band together. \n\nI think people really underestimate the toll that covid policies have taken on our minds. Whether it's stunting the social skills of an already socially weak Gen Z, or isolating people from their routines and friends and family, it's like a perfect recipe for depression and anxiety.",
"If it's not that much worse than being single then why not get a divorce? Put your money where your mouth is.",
"What's your new job if you don't mind sharing?",
"That really sucks, man. No shame at all in sharing the things you're going through. I think that's its own kind of bravery. I hope things get better for you and that you get whatever support you need, too. We're rooting for you.",
"It's an absolute load of bullshit platitudes. As you point out, often things are beyond your control to change, which is by no means limited to one's employment. What if you have a physical disability or a condition that causes constant physical pain? How do you change that? Plus, change is by no means guaranteed to be an improvement.",
"Mental Health is the greatest reason why i seriously doubt sometimes if i/we are on the right side of this covid pandemic. Yes we were trying to save lives by shutting down everything and closing things down, keeping kids out of school, etc but how many lives were saved compared to how many lives were destroyed because of what i just mentioned, or how many adults and children developed mental health issues that otherwise would not have, had we just continued on with our lives.\n\nI am not so sure all of these precautions were worth it when everything is all said and done.\n\n(Full disclaimer, this is coming from someone who has taken covid seriously. I had 2 parents who turned 60 this last year and had big plans but ended up just doing a zoom call. We had thanksgiving and christmas outside. We chose distance learning for our kids. But both our kids developed anxiety during covid and this is where i question my decision. Was keeping my parents and grandparents safe from us, worth my kids getting a lifetime of anxiety)",
"Let's ridicule people, that'll make positive change happen!",
"> Therefore the “size” of human suffering is absolutely relative.\n\nComplete bullshit, and sounds like something a sociopath says to justify their bad behavior.",
"I can speak from personal experience, certain hotlines are anything but helpful. They're often understaffed (especially in the middle of the night), and just reading the same scripted prompts over and over again. Unless you're in serious medical danger, they're not very helpful. \n\nIf you are feeling negative thoughts but not immediately about to harm yourself, they don't treat it with the same weight, even though they absolutely should. Every call they get, no matter how serious it is, could be the difference between life and death.",
"Try the supplement NAC. it just stops intrusive thoughts even for stuff like nicotine cravings.",
"I love you.",
"My warning? That runs dry. Figure out what you'll do while you still have it.",
"Yeah. I could not have done this very easily two years ago and it wasn't easy when I started this year. I can manage to dissociate away most the anxiety as long as no one talks to me. I found a park that is rather quiet, and go on days that are quiet at times that are quiet. So, no weekends.\n\nNo one really pays me much mind and as long as I keep my face in a book or mind distracted by music I can handle it. I spent the last ~10 years locked in my tiny apartment by myself. I don't mean this to sound callous about the current world situation but COVID actually helped my mental health. NO ONE was outside in my city for quite a while. I could drive without getting stuck in traffic, the gym was still open but no one would go. I had a ton of anxiety about going to the gym (worried about being seen, worried about using equipment), but once I got my vaccine I found a 24-hour place and just started going when it was empty. After getting control of some of the anxiety I can manage to go even when a few people are there. After several different types of therapy, medicine, meditation, and very small life improvements I am better now than I have been in a long time. Some stuff is nearly impossible for me and might be forever impossible. I have to accept that but try to work within my safety bubble, and try to stretch it where I can.",
"It will be if we allow poisonous influences like christianity and other hate groups like them to take over.\n\nEdit: If you think I'm wrong, the propaganda is working",
"Yeah, turns out lockdowns and forcing people into unemployment aren't so helpful for reducing the suicide epidemic.",
"In all technicality income inequality is at its worse currently. The standard of living has also risen so it may seem like the gap between the poorest and the richest is smaller but it's as big as its ever been.",
"I only have intrusive thoughts when i drink coffee fwiw",
"If you ever feel like talking to another veteran hmu anytime bout anything ;)",
"Source: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8dh88E2/",
"Nah dont do that. Pick up some new hobbies and goals",
"I feel you man. When those same thoughts creep in on me I try to remind myself of something a suicide jumper who survived once said. It was something along the lines of \"All of my problems after I jumped seemed fixable, except the one I just made.\"",
"I wish love was all there was to it. The world is built on brutality and a crushing wheel. You gotta pay rent, so you look for a job, and you find a job, and Heaven knows, you’re miserable now. But you gotta keep at it, so you stay there, and the honeymoon period is nice. And it starts off ok. And then the ennui sets in, so you try and break it up by going out and getting drunk, and that works for a bit, but then time passes and you’re stuck in the rat race. \n\n\nAnd everyone says I love you, but you don’t really feel happy. And time goes on and the money comes in and you occasionally take a vacation and dedicate your life to pop culture, but it still feels hollow. You still feel like you’re treading water. You’re not waving, but drowning. And all around you everyone’s doing well, and everyone’s smiling. And everyone’s having a good time. But the world is burning, and everyone’s mad, and it all feels fake. \n\nSo who knows what you’re supposed to do, and who knows how long it will last. And who knows what the point even is. But at least at the end of the day, everyone says I love you.",
"The government and their corporate masters (surprise, the corporate masters are the government) create all of these problems intentionally so they can sell us the solutions.",
"I already like the hobbies and goals I have. I can't just choose to be gay, for example.",
"Does the included population increase account for age groups?",
"I appreciate the video but I feel like I'm at the point of no return. I have zero reason for living and no social support.\n\nOnce my cat passes, I'm more than likely going with him.",
"> You're nearly there my friend. We've been doing this for a long time but in terms of normality returning it's much closer.\n\nRight. Just two more weeks! If we can just muster the courage to comply harder, the government will give us some play time!",
"I don't get it.",
"See: incrementalism",
"You could choose to be in a gay relationship",
"Why hello feelings, it’s been quite some time.\n\nI’ve sent this to multiple people and told them I love them.",
"Pretty much the entire medical community endorses the vaccine, and it’s not even a debate that’s happening in any real sense within that community. Don’t indulge people that are defending disastrous positions; it only creates more confusion amongst them and everyone watching. If they’re making medical decisions based on their ego, then they probably have a habit of making poor decisions and pretty much no one ever says anything to them.",
"You can still crash with a seat belt on, that doesn't mean it won't reduce your injuries. Just because your cousin Ed got ejected from his drunken rollover and survive doesn't mean a 40mph crash into a tree wouldn't break your neck when your face hits the windshield.\n\nThis is why measles and mumps flair up and kill people every year. It's not about not getting the disease. It's about slowing and stopping the spread and preventing or reducing hospitalization. The MMR vaccine has been proven effective for many years but people still don't get it.\n\nSpread promotes mutation. Mutation usually means faster and more effective spread. Fortunately the newest mutations are still using the protein that we get vaccinated for so while the spread increases, those vaccinated are still protected.\n\nThere have been a lot of people who get sick, don't think anything of it, get reduced breath and just don't wake up the next day because their lungs filled with fluid because their immune system over reacted. A vaccinated person's immune system would know how to handle the infection and react more appropriately.\n\nBut those facts are out there. There are plenty of support groups for people like you on Facebook that love to spread false hope. I know there is nothing I can say that will make this less about you, because that is what you care the most for. People like you march saying that restrictions and vaccine passports reduce your rights. What you don't realize is that you prevent access to hospitals and health care, you endanger those with existing health problems and old age.\n\nIf you did read this whole thing, I do wish you well, I hope your bubble keeps you healthy, I hope your blinders will keep your world view as happy as it makes you. I hope you never have to experience loss because of your decisions.",
"*It's OK to torture people, guys, \"spiritual freedom\" is good enough.*",
"There's a reason why gay conversion therapy not only doesn't work, but makes people worse off. Psychotherapy is similar.",
"The crazy thing is, because of the mental health crisis the intrusive ideation isn't exactly wrong. Death is swept under the rug and a lot of people wouldn't be missed beyond the superficial absence they place in other people's lives. For example, my family has godo intentions but bad interpersonal and emotional skills, and it actually makes it worse that they have good intentions because you can't just say something along the lines of \"I feel blah when you do xyz, I want more support from you, etc.\" they'll take it as an attack on their self worth and get defensive instead of just stepping up to the plate. So because they are so emotionally inhibited I don't actually have REAL relationships with them, and they would just be missing the idea of me, not actual me. And it's super ironic that exactly because I recognize this, and because I fought my way out of living like they do, that I recognize more deeply that lack of connection which drives the suicidal ideation even more. It's not just a thought that I'm not loved, it's a fact. Fucking hurts.",
"What if no one is listening?",
"There are other goals and hobbies aside from being gay \n\n/s",
"Perhaps one may find some solace in the Stoic and Absurdism explorations of philosophy then? This world is wild, and to a degree: I am not sure life would be as meaningful if it was not.\n\nI really do love Stoic philosophy, applied within the scope of reason.\n\nLife is a narrow bridge. And that is really fucking interesting.",
"No it's because you're a smug asshole and they do it to spite you.",
"Modern society has made life easy, yet depression and mental health just get worse. We were not meant for this kind of lifestyle. We get used to our quality of life so having modern day comforts doesnt really being happiness long term. Happiness comes from responsibility and change. We lack real, significant responsibilities that give us purpose in life. We lack hope for the future. \n\nSpending so much time out of touch with nature, our minds evolved for that, and we've created something that the mind is not comfortable in and we don't notice it because it's a slow melting pot but that's the pot we're all in.\n\nThe foods we eat now, well the more I read about nutrition the more I learn how embarrassingly off we've been. The food triangle is bullshit. The mental health impacts are not something we closely and carefully study when it comes to modernizing our eating habits. Not to mention all the health issues that weren't a thing a few decades ago.\n\nSo our body's and our minds were not made for this but we were raised in a way that didn't really challenge and motivate many of us.\n\nThe good news is discipline and mindfulness can essentially fix all of this if you're patient enough but people need to become aware of this and those things are not taught anymore.",
"but am really being smug, or do they just think i'm being smug because they are so far gone that someone telling a simple truth as-is comes off as smug\n\nam i also smug in believe that the earth is round, and we shouldn't be accepting of flat earth as a valid option? the superior belief is the earth is round. right?",
"You know who can also shut the fuck up? Everyone complaining. People are just over this whole COVID being the only topic. Vaccinated + natural immunity probably covers like 90% of the population so just go back to living life normally jfc.",
"I would like to 2nd this. \n\nFor those uncomfortable speaking out to those they are close to. I am happy to listen.",
"I didn't dive deeper into the details.",
"I was there at one point, could not for the life of me find a light at the end of the tunnel and began to lose all hope with darker thoughts creeping in.\nWe all need purpose, we all need love.\nI found my light by connecting with others by helping others.\nSounds counter intuitive, but helping others who were less fortunate than me and seeing how my existence reaching out to them gave them a glimmer of hope, in turn gave me a light to reach the end of the tunnel and continue on.\nBy saying this I do not want to discount the fact that some people will need more than than this advice, and may have situations far more complex that simply helping others, but finding a way to ultimately make others and yourself feel good, if even for a moment, is a step in the right direction to healing.\nThis world has a trend of separating us in our own minds, and we all need to belong.\nRemember this always:\n\nYou are loved, and others need your love. the darkness only wants to hide this fact as that’s it’s nature.\nWe are all in this together.",
"No, this is just a tribute",
"Appreciate you brother or sister. I appreciate you.",
"I hope you continue to get better.\n\nLuckily I've never had problems with my hygiene. I'm very afraid that some day my body will be in the way of getting better, so i try to take care of it. I'm also fortunate enough that I'm doing well financially. I couldn't imagine how hard it must be if both those things compound with the social difficulties.\n\nThe social part is really my only issue. I have a hard time being outside because I feel judged at every step. Just today i had to stop the navigation in my car because I felt like the person behind me was judging me for going to the car wash. It's really stupid when i think about it. When i got there i had to turn around anyway since there was a queue, and i didn't want anyone to see me not knowing how to use it. I imagine you fight the same battles when you go to the park. I remember how scared i was that people could see the YouTube videos i was watching last time.\n\nI was at a therapist once, but I couldn't verbalize my problems. It all just sounds so stupid. Like who fucking cares if the guy behind me knows where I'm going. I couldn't stand how talking about it made me feel. I was disgusted with how pathetic it sounds. I ended up \"attempting to attempt\" as i call it. It turns out that if you divulge your intention they aren't going to let you go through with it.\n\nAnyway, thank you so much for the nice reply. I really hope you're doing better than the other 3 times. I kind of ended up rambling about myself here, but i means a lot to me to hear your story.",
"Things haven't been better for me. I've worked all through the pandemic, money hasn't been an issue, I've got all my family, and I get everything I need and I'm so grateful. But I feel so insecure that the rug is gonna be pulled out from under me at any moment. I miss regular human contact, I occasionally don't sleep well and some days I wanna say screw it all. But there's genuinely good days and really happy moments. I'm so conflicted.",
"Vaccines can always use more improvement, but the only real improvement that can be made is reducing the chances of side effects. Right now serious side effects are extremely low, like most vaccines, but the slight side effects are more common, like flu symptoms and sore arms. Of course that's nothing compared to covid but it is something that can be fixed. But the rate of transmission is reduced among the vaccinated since the virus can get stopped early. However it cant make you fully immune from spreading it yourself, just due to the way in which covid works. You're body will shut it down much faster than others and in most cases you wont even get sick, but in the days leading up to full removal you can still spread it. \n\nThis is largely due to the new variants. With the vaccine you will be almost completely immune to the original strain of Covid 19. The delta variant can still infect you but is similar enough that your body will still recognize it early and stop the virus from spreading. Our bodies are already full of thousands of different viruses, but if they cant spread they are harmless.\n\nAt this point over a billion people have been vaccinated with astronomically small numbers of severe side effects. Theres no real reason to avoid the vaccine unless you have conditions that would disqualify you for it. You are far more likely to both get and die of covid, as a healthy young person, than to have severe side effects from the vaccine.",
"Does it feel good to be technically correct with a point that adds no value to anything? Feel big correcting someone clearly dealing with some very strong feelings over some pedantic technicality?",
"maybe the mustache?",
"Covid didn't do it. Governments did it.",
"I really need someone to talk to.",
"Okay, but why does he look purple?",
"This sounds ridiculous. I know. Firstly you are allowed to feel how you do. Don't judge how you feel. Secondly, even though you didn't ask for advice, I'm going to give some so stop reading if you don't want any. I would say join a communal farm or in some fashion get involved with group agriculture. I know it's way easier said than done. But try to go old time human nature. That sense of belonging and purpose does the soul wonders. I wish you peace.",
"\"In history\"? Yeah that's bullshit lol.",
"if you want to move past covid, then tell more people to get vaccinated and stop orphaning all their kids",
">Social media was honestly the only way to stay connected during quarantine.\n\nText or call people instead. That isn't damaging to your mental health like social media",
"Yeah i’ve got a pretty raging addiction for videogames, and it does help ignore the less than helpful thoughts, but the moment I get off i’m like “ah man, I just sat at this computer for like 10 hours straight, i’m such a lazy piece of shit”.\n\nSo I said fuck it, started going to the gym for an hour or two each day, five days a week, and after about five months of doing that I was starting to look pretty fit, and I didn’t really feel too bad about my excessive gaming habit anymore because it was offset by the physical activity I was doing most days anyway.\n\nUnfortunately once covid came around that was all fucked off and now i’m back to looking like a stick, I just spend my lockdown sleeping for 12 hours a day, and playing videogames for the other 12, and I feel like absolute shit all of the time.\n\nVaccination rates are finally picking up here in Australia however, I’m double vaxxed and am now just waiting around for the rest of Victoria to catch up, and hopefully soon I can get back to pumping iron and making up for lost time.",
"It's not surprising that you don't understand what he is saying. It seems like that must be a common occurrence for you.",
"Absorb some sun too",
"Don't know if you've been keeping up, but people don't really use those to stay in touch with the family group anymore. That's more personal one and one stuff. Pretty much no phone calls unless you are really old, and texting has become an exercise in anxiety for a lot of people who are worried they will come off wrong or worse \"needy\"",
"Thanks. I can honestly say I'll never have a year where I lose 11 friends again. Heh. Things have gotten a bit better since then. I'm a homeowner now. I have two bigger dogs that help get me through a lot, even if they are assholes sometimes. I got rid of my firearms so my only real way out of life is car crashes but I love my car too much to purposely destroy it. It's still hard, don't get me wrong. But I'm learning how to deal with it.",
"Welcome to getting older.",
"But commenting on Reddit making fun of that guy... definitely doing god's work there.",
"If a man with a handlebar mustache is telling you he loves you, your in a bad place.",
"Ah that makes sense. Chefs normally leave at that stage because they get fucked over like you did. Best thing you can do is hunt new restaurants that need to hire a head chef.",
"Lmao fuck those people. I have better things to worry about than some uneducated knob on a ventilator because he thought covid was a hoax.",
"Yeah, when I was going through full on suicidal episodes, one thing ended up helping me: Medication and therapy. I don't hate on people finding alternative ways of treatment, but I just found that anyone that's not professionally trained is well intentioned, but ultimately not knowledgeable enough to help anyone.\n\nI went into therapy in January 2020 and without a doubt if I had not done so, I would have killed myself by now. Get help through the proper channels.",
"How can you love me? You don't even know me.",
"Feel free to ramble! I can sympathize with many of those same feelings. People tend to think AVPD and social anxiety are similar, but AVPD is so much harder to deal with. I get quite anxious driving at times because if I ever do something *I* consider wrong/rude/embarrassing I will have a very bad day. Not noticing a light turned green and someone honks? JFC. Feel like you *might* have cut someone off by mistake trying to merge? OH, GOD. On the positive side, it has resulted in me being a rather courteous and careful driver lol. But I still get massively punishing thoughts when I remember something I did from months or years ago. And as you said- Logically I know it doesn't actually matter. Logically I know most people don't give a fuck about me when it comes to what I do. Very few people will remember if I said something that was *slightly* embarrassing, or if I was talking too loudly, or too quietly If i laughed too much or too little. But the emotions are not in my control. Talking to someone face to face will almost always result in hours if not days of rumination and self-hatred over anything I *perceived* as wrong.\n\nI can't do new things typically, the pure amount of anxiety I get over the thought of trying new things and looking foolish is beyond ridiculous. \n\nFinancially my life is quite restricted, so I have to be very selective of what I try. I want a dog but can't own one since I couldn't afford one. Can't really take classes that have a monthly fee because I don't have the money. All the new things I try have to pretty much be free or SUPER cheap. On the positive side I do have a very loving and supportive family I can call if I need.",
"You aren’t alone! You are welcome to reach out and message! We can setup virtual hangouts. We can always use a friend, I’ve been there before too. \n\nI hope you know that you are valuable and so is every human being out there \n\n*hug*",
"Ill escape when i want. Every life isnt important and the world needs fewer. its painful but im more into nature surviving than myself or someone else suffering. dying sounds devine somdays. dont try to convince me otherwise. you dont know me",
"30 minutes into Dread and I'm loving it.",
"I have never payed taxes on my Trombone and now feel like a gangster.",
"I thought this would have some punchline. It is reddit after all. \nFucking grown man crying over here. \nI have schizophrenia.\nI love you too",
"I love you.",
"I think you may be misread/misunderstood my original post. I am already vaccinated and actively encourage those around me to get vaccinated. My concern is strictly that, unlike vaccines for other diseases, vaccinated people can still spread covid. That's my only point.",
"The only reply I have is that you’re basing that off all your life experiences *thus far*. There are 7 billion people on the planet and hundreds of countries and hundreds of thousands of cities. Just because everything you’ve experienced this far is leading you to believe that just not doing anything is the best alternative doesn’t mean that’s the reality of it. \n\nBegin thinking about radically changing your situation. Take a risk or ten. Move somewhere new, start completely over, including doing something new for money. \n\nThere is no real risk involved here to try some sort of radical lifestyle change and see if it helps, considering what you’re thinking about as the alternative. \n\nIt’s scary and tough, but with nothing to lose now might be the time to try it.",
"Have you ever attempted meditation? It sounds hokie at face value, but it has wonderful benefits for mental health. It's giving your mind a rest. Our brains are neurotic computers that can be brutal taskmasters, if you allow it. For some people, a little chemical additive like cannabis is necessary to get into that state, but it truly is a relief once you get there. Meditation can reframe your perspective and shift your attitude in ways that few others can.\n\nI encourage anyone reading this to give it an honest try, just a few minutes every day, for one year. If you still can't bring yourself to that, just know that even though you may not feel like it, you're loved, and you deserve to be here and happy. Please soldier on. We can turn this world around yet, but we need eachother as humans. At the end of the day, we're all we have.",
"same, even seemed like he was holding back a laugh at one point",
"Hugs, buddy. So many hugs.",
"religion is an incredibly powerful opiate",
"Poor guy , wonder who he lost.",
"I think the difference there is you weren't constantly told you could be a king too if you weren't such a lazy, worthless shitbag. We have a stratified society parading as a meritocracy.",
"It's my opinion after everything I've read that this comes down to community. Our communities are smaller than ever. Modernity is bad for it, but even since the 90s we've drastically reduced the number of friends we can call when we're in trouble. I suggest reading \"A general theory of love\" , \"Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging\" , or \"Lost Connections\" if you want to see where I got my thinking from. I can use myself as an example: my \"tribe\" is incredibly small, and it got even smaller after my dad died from covid. It's miserable and frightening.\n\nCommunity isn't the only factor though. There's lack of sunlight exposure, our distance from nature, our fucked up sleep schedules (partly because we confuse our circadian rhythms by viewing bright light in our eyes after 10pm), and a lack of purpose that seems to be very commonplace. Modernity has solved so many of our problems, but it's given us new ones, too.\n\nThere's also childhood trauma, but I don't think that's a new force, unfortunately.",
"a) he posted it to social media, presumably to his followers, people he knows.\n\nb) maybe it means nothing to you, but it might to other people. I'm sure a lot of the shit you like or think is meaningful is meaningless to a lot of other people",
"But this isn't a matter of opinion. Getting vaccinated is unequivocally the superior choice. Both personally and for the safety of everyone else. There's no gray area here. \n\nIf the vaccine is available to you, get it. If you don't, you are dumb and selfish.",
"I am by no means trying to invalidate peoples feeling of anxiety, despair and depression but 3% of the worlds population died in WW2. I reckon people were pretty bumbed out then too.",
"I thought it was Mario cosplay.",
"The best part of the pandemic is how it left me isolated and alone and withdrawn, just like I've been for 15 or so years before it even started. I've been using the James Franco \"First time?\" meme a lot since March 2020.",
"Gave me chills",
"In WWI there was the Armenian / Greek / Assyrian genocide, and in WWII there was the holocaust. Pretty sure those alone had a greater impact on people's mental health than now. And the 1918 flu pandemic which is analogous to what we are going through today, if not worse given the number of deaths at a much smaller population.\n\n[Then there are all these pandemics that seem much worse than what we are going through.](https://www.history.com/news/pandemics-end-plague-cholera-black-death-smallpox) Pretty sure those created some life long mental issues.\n\nI guess labeling what we are going through as *\"the greatest mental health epidemic in history\"* seems short sighted and wholly inaccurate if not completely ignorant. \n\nHaving said all that I think we are not as hardened to horrible circumstances occurring regularly as our ancestors were, so we feel everything is so much worse than it has ever been when our much more comfy lives are disrupted by terrible events.",
"I agree. I can't imagine what it was like bring a soldier in WW1 or 2. Wondering about being bombed in your house or living in a home where foreign soldiers might just come rape and murder you any day now.\n\nWhat it was like 100s of years ago without a lot of the benefits we have today of medicine and such. \n\nThat said, it does not make anybody's problems null. Your feeling are real, genuine and if you need help please seek it. Help exists and we didn't make it up to help people 100s is years ago, they were meant to help you and I.\n\nThe fact the we recognize mental health more than anything is a great thing! We need to do more but it's still good.",
"Yup, had a very good friend drink himself into liver failure this week. I have been extremely lucky enough to not really have that bad of a time during Covid, but this week has been hard understanding someone I used to be so close with just giving up like that.",
"or maybe this person is fucking tired of existing and doesn’t *want* to radically change their life or take a risk or ten??? perhaps they would like to not be alive lmao",
"I have a lot of people that rely on me and it makes my intrusive thoughts bad. Like the burden is a LOT and I don't see how I will ever have a stable life if I don't give up on my dreams. Some days I'm okay but lots of days, like today, just not doing life anymore seems much much easier than the constant uphill struggle.",
"I haven't heard \"I love you\" in literally years... I even said \"I love you\" to a few people recently and they all went \"Awww\" or \"Thanks\" not I love you too....",
"I think the pandemic brought up stuff that's been bubbling under our collective consciousness for generations. It's all been too much at times. I love you all.",
"I understand exactly how you feel. With that I also want to tell you that I would care if you were gone. I don't even know you in person but that doesn't matter. I would care. I do care.",
"One look at your history shows you dont warrant a response.",
"You got this. Keep trying.",
"Can I buy you a book that may help the way you are feeling? If so, DM me.",
"I feel the same, I hope you can work through it and find peace. I really do.",
"Oof. I feel that",
"We all have a little Bojack inside us, and that show called out each and every damn one of us. It made me want to be less like Bojack.",
"It also becomes one household REAL quick when you're single and have only lived in the area a few years. I got friends but none of my best friends live here so for a solid year it was just work and home until the vaxes started coming in. Things are still tough, but that first year was especially bad",
"Yeah… I don’t understand this modern mental health obsessed society. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, I just don’t get it. I get mental health days off at work and it confuses me. Is everyone’s life that bad nowadays? But, to be fair, I was raised by a Navy seal, who was an alcoholic and a drug addict for a mother. We went days without food and weeks without power growing up. I’m 36 now, and everyone else’s “problems” just seem so… small. That’s poor judgement on my part though. I just don’t have the ability to see where everyone else is coming from. I can’t relate.",
"Ah yeah man you're completely right. We should be trying to stop people who have been dead for hundreds of years from killing themselves instead of people who are still alive. Man I hate hyperbole, but hyperbole from someone genuinely trying to help others? Thanks for taking him down a peg sir!",
"As an educated, relatively stable eventual suicide; reaching out doesn't work.\n\nIt's a buzz phrase/concept to alleviate guilt, because \"if they only would have reached out, I would have saved them.\" When, in reality, they probably did reach out. Know I have, numerous times. But, you are seen as a burden, so it feels better, as the...\"survivor\" to throw out such an egregious statement to alleviate any potential responsibility.",
"I'm in the same boat, friend. For the first time in my 32 years of life (which isn't a lot) I am taking medical leave from work for my depression. I am seeking therapy as a serious source for help. \n\nThings are so bad and so uncertain for a majority of us in this world right now that the future feels dark and hopeless for most of us. And most of us stay silently in that dark. \n\nBeing online has allowed more people to see that our pain is shared and that things aren't good. They aren't fare. And the people in power that could change everything, overwhelmingly try to stop it. \n\nIt's just depressing and tiring and the nightly battles I have with myself as I am in bed are so exhausting. Suicide, although never the answer, unfortunately seems more and more appealing when compared to the alternative.",
"There is no room for intrusive thoughts during a really heavy set of squats. \n\nhttps://www.psychiatrypodcast.com/psychiatry-psychotherapy-podcast/the-best-exercise-program-for-depression",
"I'm a chronic pain patient and super weird fact: people are ok with my overuse of (and the cost of) super hot water for the baths I take to ease the muscle and bone pain in my lower back and hips. They don't mind me spending hours a day reading books. They're even fine with my dependence on morphine (I actually cut my rx back by 2/3 since my complete hip replacement last year)...\n\nBut a lot, a LOT of people are extremely disturbed and upset that I play on my phone. \n\nIt's \"stupid\" and \"silly\". Apparently. \n\nGo fucking figure, eh? The bf I broke up with just before my surgery would have no problem if I spent 4hours reading a book in the bath, refreshing the heat every 20minutes. \n\nBut God forbid I was on my phone. Then I was \"doing nothing\" and \"wasting time\". Mfer, I done read the whole Earth's Children series 4 times already, I'm not curing cancer reading about Ayla and Jondalar *again.*",
"I believe a large part of this is due to the way games are made now. It’s more of a science on how to profit as much as possible than it is an enjoyable experience.",
"This comment chain has been pretty wild. People actually trying to act like being a plague rat is okay and we shouldn't hurt their feelings by pointing out how amazing the vaccine is. Yikes.",
"Is there anything more insincere then telling random people you don't know you \"love them\"? I'm sure someone who feels like they have no one really loves the idea of the only \"i love you\" they get from someone that can't possibly mean it because they have no idea who you are.\n\nHey resident of flat 102 on 5th avenue new york, i love you.",
"Way to go dude, that must be the hardest fight ever. I'm sure she'd want you to live on.",
"I was a point one time in my life where I was numb to a lot of things. It’s a strange thing that before this happened I thought being depressed meant crying and being sad (which is obviously an oversimplification). But recognizing that nothing made me sad or happy or fearful or excited… when you realize that you’re supposed to feel and you just can’t or won’t or find it to be pointless, it begins to feel even worse than feeling sad - as if you could just die and not care. I’m not sure if you’re here yet but it sounds like you are and I’m so sorry to hear that friend.\n\nThere’s no solution for everyone but I’ll tell you what helped me and maybe you can try it.\n\nWhat brought me out of it was just trying to create things. Even if you’re not talented at drawing, try music or sculpting or writing poetry or stories. Find something that can help you build a passion to complete a creation of your own. And even if it’s not a good finished product, it’s yours and you made it and no one else made it like you did.\n\nYou’ll be immersed in learning the process which will consume your thoughts. The trials and tribulations will give you small rewards as you go. And at the end, an immense sense of accomplishment is always there. But finish whatever it is you try so you can hold it up and know it was born of your mind, your hands and your passion. Nothing can take that away.\n\nI also get big into just improving myself with easy skill sets like taking a free programming class or pottery. Or even a simple walk every day towards your health with some easily achieveable goals.\n\nI hope you find peace soon. I hope you get to feel once again. Just so at least one day you can help someone else out of where you are now and know that it was worth it to help even one person.",
"I've begun taking my health more seriously now that I'm in my early 30's and, with this new perspective, I'm noticing more and more just how unhealthy my previous lifestyle has been. \n\nI used to eat garbage (limited vegetables and fruit, a lot of processed food, a lot of sugar, etc), not exercising, not sleeping enough, not taking care of my dental health properly, etc. \n\nI now avoid sugar where possible, eat mostly whole foods, eat a salad for lunch everyday, exercise 4-5 days per week, sleep at least 7 hours per night, and take care of my teeth so well that my hygienist has to pick her jaw off the floor. The thing is, adopting these habits shouldn't be an anomaly (like I feel it is), but rather the norm.\n\nUnfortunately, unless one is willing to do the research and exercise discipline, it's very easy in modern society to fall into a pit of bad habits that will ultimately destroy your well being.",
"I'm with you. I have a lot of people in my life that would miss me a lot, but I just can't help almost resenting that. That I have to keep living and suffering just to spare others of feeling grief when many days just feel like a constant torture.\n\nMy depression is nearly 100% based on financial insecurity. I'm NEVER going to get to retire or relax. I am working two jobs \"temporarily\" but IDK when I can afford to not at this point. I'm so tired.\n\nWe can get through this, I think. Maybe we can make the world worth living in. I kinda wonder if it's possible just to drop out of the economy.",
"I felt alone. I got a dog.",
"For UK residents, the Samaritans number is 116 123.",
"His mustache brought me more joy than words ever could. Thank you mysterious mustache man.",
"I would say that it is probably more likely that low paying jobs and slaving away in an office and wasting your whole fucking life for an income that is not sufficient to pay the bills causes depression, and getting to stay home with one's loved ones, concentrate on hobbies, and a decent income from the government likely cures depression. They're also aren't a bunch of assholes running around posting about how great their life is on social media, and making everyone else feel bad about not getting invited out. Covid kills people. Modern life causes depression.",
"I'm sorry that care is inaccessible to you. I was in that position about 5 years ago. Isolated, agorophobic, binge drinking, crippling depression, jobless and broke, being evicted. I have been very fortunate to get a support network and finally start to get properly medicated. It is a long and slow process that never really stops being hard work but I can tell you from having been at rock bottom that it can get better. I don't know your full situation, but I might be able to direct you to resources if you are interested.",
"It’s been a tough few years but I’m getting through it. I wish she was here but I know I got to keep pushing on for her. She believed in me so I got to believe in myself and that’s been the hardest.",
"This is the weirdest and most juvenile response I’ve ever seen. \n\nI respect all people’s opinions, but have some empathy and grow up. \n\nThe poster said “from the way things are going now”, meaning based on how their life currently is they’d rather just not do it anymore. I’m simply offering an alternative that, before taking an ultimate step, with seemingly nothing to lose, try a radically different lifestyle and see if they still feel the same. \n\nMost people end up in a rut and feel they can’t get out of it. It’s scary, as all change is, but sometimes that change is what rewires a person’s outlook on the simple state of living.",
"Right? I don't understand how anyone gets anything from this. How can this guy \"love\" me if he doesn't even know I exist?\n\nIt's like all those positive affirmation videos on YouTube. I don't understand how people can be comforted by generic phrases being repeated at them with no context. Hearing a voice say the words \"everything will be ok\" doesn't make it so.",
"My point is that it's not hopeless. Things are not as dire as one might perceive them to be. Part of recovering from a mental health crisis is understanding this.",
"This makes me feel better after having a rough year. I lost so much in so little time and there’s so much that keeps happening...",
"I've found them helpful for pulling me out of crisis mode so I can focus on something else. They have a place.\n\nSucks to be put on an hour hold for a text line that doesn't let you navigate from the page (ie open another app on your phone) while you've just chugged a bottle of whiskey to get the courage to drink the bottle of bleach you have in hand while waiting, without the chance of even finding a distraction from the moment because the shitty hotline page is taking your distraction hostage.",
"So here's my question - Where does one find the motivation to even want to change something? At my lowest point I was so apathetic to even my own situation I didn't care anymore. I didn't *want* to feel better, I just wanted to feel nothing at all.",
"The conversation with the nun at the train station ruined me.",
"Hey",
"That's a nice anecdote, but there are just a ton of studies that show the way that we have built society causes depression. Interestingly enough, human beings did not evolve to live in a box away from nature, working a cubicle until their eyes bleed, and then go home to browse Facebook and see how great everyone else's life is. As it turns out, that's not exactly good for the psyche.",
"I don't need a distraction, I need real help, which no one gives. Living crisis to crisis is no way to live. Hotlines literally do not help.",
"When I was suicidal, I remember feeling like all the colour had drained from the world. It felt like this would be the way it was from now on. I thought \"I guess all the good parts are done, why bother continuing with this movie\"\n\nI'm glad I did continue with it, because things have gotten much better for me. The modern world is a dark forest that we must walk through alone. It's very easy to wander off the path and find yourself in a dark place. \n\nBut it isn't helpless. You can find your way back to the path and you can learn how to avoid wandering off next time",
"I hope you find the peace you deserve. Having a lot of vets in my family makes me feel for you so much. This is the right type of thread to share your pain and I hope some of what people comment back to you lifts your spirits some.",
"And hope their hours are compatible. I lost my therapist this year because they are only working during the same hours I work.",
"Boneappletea",
"You think that's bad? In studying history of emotions and ptsd we covered shinto.\n\nThey considered ptsd similar to a haunting by those we've harmed or been hurt by. \n\nCategorization for nuance... we can't treat a thing until we can identify it.",
"I've struggled with suicidal ideations since like 2010. Shits rough and takes a mental toll on you. What hurts the most is that I had people that loved and cared for me, but I still kept thinking that taking myself out of the equation would be s plus for everyone. And there's this struggle between knowing I would devastate my loved ones if I went through with it, and also just wanting to end everything. I'm just lucky that my own self deprecating nature stops me anytime I start getting too into it and start planning it. Usually my thoughts go along the lines of \"Hah, you suck at everything. You think you'll actually succeed at this, pussy? Get fucked.\" It's pretty helpful at helping me walk away from the edge, but the ideations, anxiety, and self hatred really exhaust me. But it's always helpful to know I'm not the only one struggling through this shit, and that there's people that care out there. Good luck to everyone out there and I hope you get through whatever situation you are in.",
"I'm sorry the man in the video's friend died, but this is absolutely not the worst mental health crisis in human history. It's the worst *for him,* I don't doubt. \n \nAnd again, I take no pleasure in this man being in pain, but I find the idea that all you need to do is reach out to -...someone? Who exactly? I have no one - or hear some rando on the internet say \"I love you\" somewhere between laughable and insulting. I have indeed reached out in the past, several times. Not in many years, since never once have I gotten anything but empty platitudes and then a slow lessening of contact going forward. And...I'm sorry man, you do not love me. And if you do, it's not any sort of love I want or that I would care about. This is pretty closely connected to the shit I see on reddit all the time: \"You are loved. People will miss you.\" Uh, you have no fucking idea who I am, and it feels like you're saying that in defiance of the cold, unloving nature of the universe rather than any attempt to comfort me.",
"Well, I do agree that human society was made of hardier stuff in previous generations. You don't make it through 200,000 years bitching and moaning about online bullies and influencers.",
"I don't have a Facebook, and I don't work in a cubicle. A lot of people have no choice but to take whatever work they can find, don't be a privileged little bitch.\n\nIt's great that you have an opinion and all, as it turns out your opinion just is not in any way supported by evidence. Studies of other societies that are not built like ours show a much lower incidence of depression. You are right, depression is not normal. It's almost like there's an underlying cause of depression or something... Like maybe living in a society that treats people like shit. Now there's a thought.\n\nFun fact, I was previously a psychiatric nurse and I happen to have a degree in behavioral neuroscience. I can just about assure you that I have studied this topic more in depth than you have. But thanks for sharing. 🤣",
"Given you responded, that seems unlikely.\n\nSpent the time to go through my comment history and then spent the time to comment, just to tell me that I'm not worth spending the time to comment. Priceless.",
"Join a community of wholesome fans of something obscure. It can be pretty fun.\n\nI'm in a Japanese tv-show/drama community and we just kinda promote our favorite shows/movies or actors/actresses and support each other. When its obscure enough every new fan is valuable to the community and you just kinda chill with people from around the globe. There's also some overlap with Korean drama fandom and Chinese drama fandom so theres a lot of different stories to talk about.\n\nBut yeah you do actually have to enjoy the topic you join a community for.",
".",
"Pointing out that what you said is wrong is not twisting your words, you dunder muffin.\n\nYou can afford school rather than trying to support a family that would starve if you weren't working. Sounds like a privilege to me. A lot of people don't have the option or the finances to go to school. I will gladly let you know how privileged you are. A lot of people can't afford $20,000 a semester. $20,000 is semester is just a ridiculous amount of money to go to school, by the way. People that don't have that kind of privilege tend to go to community college and pay maybe about $5,000 a semester...you know, assuming they can afford to go to school at all. So thanks for making my point for me.\n\nAlso, no offense, but I don't think some little college student really has enough life experience to have an opinion to share that's really worth much salt. Have a nice day. 🤣",
"The whole game is one big puzzle. You have to explore everywhere to put it all together. There's no particular route, just look around, read all the messages, and check the log in your ship if you forget what you've seen. If you see something cool just go investigate it, don't wait for the game to tell you where to go. \n\nEnjoy! It's a fantastic game, a unique experience that I'll always remember.",
"Yeah, you need to have the mindfulness to understand that the temporary happiness from getting a McFlurry three times a week at mcdonalds is not worth the long term impacts on your mental health. And then you have to have the discipline to follow through with acting on that realization.",
"You know what strikes me as the most tragic thing is that you have a good relatable point, you don't seem angry and you seem to be well spoken and compassionate, I really think you have a lot to offer and I hope you get to share that with someone sometime. But I know how you feel. Even though an early exit for you won't impact me in any way I just hope you find some happiness in this life.",
"Ah my bad I thought I you were someone else",
"I think we often don't know the impact we have on other people's lives. I'd be willing to bet that there would be a lot more people hurt by your absence than you realize.",
"I’m not the one who lacks empathy. I’ve been suicidal since I was 9 and every time someone mentions feeling like they’re at the end of their wit, someone comes in who has no grasp on their situation, and albeit with good intentions, it feels aggressive. \n\nI just wish people with suicidal ideation weren’t treated as if they haven’t deeply considered their life position and potential changes at any point. It can be really frustrating, and for me personally, sometimes “ya just try something waaay different” feels lazy and reductive. \n\nI get where you’re coming from, but it’s not like I’m telling the dude to just end it, I’m saying that nobody ever tends to consider that a human being just may not enjoy life/find it absolutely miserable and I wish it didn’t add to the burden of being suicidal that every time you bring it up, you hear the same three things",
"When I went to community college, the tuition alone was about $1,500 a quarter, with about another $1,000 on books every quarter, plus the cost of transportation and food on campus. You're right, I did make a mistake. That's $5,000 a quarter. Sounds to me like you can afford to shell out $40,000 a year just on tuition? Damn, someone has rich parents.\n\nAnd you can afford to take on $40,000 of loans a year? And you don't think that your privileged? The student loan program provided by the federal government doesn't even offer that much money for a 4-year degree, so you are obviously taking out private student loans. And you're trying to convince me that you aren't privileged? Do you even listen to yourself? 🤣",
"Same. I thought it was YouTube haiku and thought there was some old man filter on it or that he was gonna yell at the bird going off. Turns out it’s just a wholesome video.",
">Remember, the happy moments in life are in the eye of the beholder, appreciate the little things!\n\nThis is some live laugh love bullshit.",
"no you dont and no youre not. stfu with your meaningless platitudes",
"Meanwhile, 75% of Reddit treats people who aren't vaxxed, or anyone who questions them, like subhumans and regularly wishes harm or death upon them, to mass upvotes.\n\nRedditors when they read this: \"Well... yeah, but fuck you!\" *downvotes because the truth is ugly*",
"Thanks Bres gonna play it tomorrow again.\n\nIve seen there has been an expansion for the game, how is it?",
"Sir, or madam, I sincerely hope things get better for you and I hope you find the support and kindness you need to make it through. I always feel like a jerk when I read these posts because my first thought is always, and I thought my life was a shitshow, glad I'm not them. Sincerely though, hang in there, and hugs from a random internet stranger, it will get better, it can get better, it sucks now, but, hang in there.",
"Thanks for the reply. I apologize for being crass. I suffered with suicidal ideation as a young adult. Alcoholic mom, absent dad who then died young, no prospects of a future that seemed at all worthwhile sticking around for. \n\nMy turnaround came through chance, and it upended my life and finally gave me a reason to think this life thing might be worth sticking around for a bit. As you said, my intentions were good, and I didn’t mean to imply I was discounting the person’s situation or evaluation of it. Just was trying to push an alternative in the face of the hopelessness I used to live in. \n\nAgain, sorry for being aggressive and antagonistic in my reply.",
"You are just fucking lying if that is what you paid. No community college cost that much. Send me a link. [Here is a link to the one I went to. ](https://www.scottsdalecc.edu/students/paying-college/tuition-and-fees) The only way that is true is if you went to an out-of-state community college, and if you did that you are truly retarded. \n\n>Sounds to me like you can afford to shell out $40,000 a year just on tuition? Damn, someone has rich parents.\n\nAre you actually retarded? I didn't realize my parents are the US taxpayer giving me an unsubsidized loan at 5% interest.\n\n>so you are obviously taking out private student loans\n\nAgain, right you are sport! My parents on top of not being the US taxpayer, they are also not private banks (I don't even know how a private bank could fuck my mom, do they have dicks?).\n\nIf it makes you feel better projecting on me what you think I am because your life is shitty, go ahead! No wonder you are depressed.",
"###You matter to us.\n\nYour words also resonate.\n\n###You are NEVER alone.\n\nThat’s why this is your most interacted comment.\n\n#🙂🙏🏼",
"Yes, so is dressing like a 5th grader haha",
"I also have been in constant crisis and their purpose isn't to cure your mental issues, it's to get you out of the moment so you can breathe long enough to find a therapist or something actually permanent. You're not going to get the equivalent of months of therapy and/or medication from a brief anonymous interaction from a stranger - it's literally not possible.\n\nI've gotten good help in the past (enough to stop cutting at least), I've gotten shit help (someone just told me to talk to my therapist and then just told me to find a new one because mine wasn't available 24/7 at the drop of a hat?), I've gotten worse than that (literally no response at all - during my worst period of crisis in a decade too).\n\nThey CAN help some people. I'm sorry they haven't done it for you, but for other folks out there - don't hesitate to reach out if you're in crisis.",
"That literally makes zero sense.",
"I've made changes, but I've got a health condition that's not gonna get better. I could manage that, maybe. I don't have the money nor brains to go back to school (tried three times), but I work in a field that's experience based. I don't have much in the way of looks or charms but I'm a solitary person so maybe I can handle that. \n\nThe real problem is that's what my life is. Every day is just trying to find the silver linings of my life. Honestly? I'm great at it. I see the humor in anything and love to laugh. God is it tiring. So much work to make the best of a bad situation and I'm still in the bad situation at the end of the day. \n\nIt's not that life couldn't get better, more just that I don't like my odds at all and honestly I don't think it would be worth the effort if I did. It hasn't been thus far, and I'm at the end of my rope. How long does one have to try to draw blood from a stone? Legitimate question. How far is far enough? Surley I don't have to meet all 7 billion people to decide I don't fit in with them.",
"This man looked at us like no one else man, holy shit he’s good.",
"It always amazes me how much depression and misery veterans experience.\n\nIs it all from traumatic experiences during service? Is it also a sensation of feeling adrift and aimless after such a structured lifestyle. The loss of such a tight brotherhood from time in service?",
"if any redditor ever needs someone to talk to\n\nhmu\n\nredditors only",
"Anyone know who this dude is? Seems worth seeing what else he has to say.",
"i love you too",
"> it's to get you out of the moment so you can breathe **long enough to find a therapist or something actually permanent. **\n\nExcept, actually permanent never happens, and therapists don't help either. Therapists are just smoke alarms for suicide.\n\n> They CAN help some people.\n\nNot good enough. \"Technically possible\" is not good enough.",
"Was it?",
"Love your bro too bud. Love. Be strong",
"The cost of community college where I live is $110 a credit. An average course load is 15 or 16 credits. Math isn't that hard dude.\n\nBasically what I'm getting from what you're saying is that you're a privilege little bitch that doesn't believe in data, finds people that are struggling financially pathetic, and gets his jollies fr being a twat on the internet. Let me guess, you're like maybe 19? Well, I don't envy you when you graduate and have difficulty finding a job right out of college, are saddled with that massive monthly payment that you're going to have, have to take a job doing whatever you can in order not to go bankrupt, and get depressed. Come talk to me in a decade or so when you've lived a little more. I found that it's common for college students to get a big head. That's what happens when you grow up with a rich mommy and daddy and the people at the local university tell you you're going to be a star. I watched a whole generation of college students find it impossible to get a good job. So have fun with that.\n\nI'm not depressed. Studies show a ton of others are, And a big part of the cause is the way that our particular society is put together. Try having some compassion. A big teenage college student like you should have realized the importance of following the data by now... But maybe you are just paying $20,000 a semester (🤣) for a totally shit education. In which case, I definitely don't envy you when your employer catches on to your attitude and decides not to keep you on the payroll. Your current attitude is not a good look.\n\nhttps://www.shoreline.edu/apply-and-aid/cashiering/tuition-fees.aspx",
"Bro, this is exactly me in Auckland NZ. Lifting weights regularly was my big primary check to being an aimless gamer whittling hours.",
"It's incredible. Outer Wilds is the best game ever made in my opinion, so having a new beautiful world to explore and getting to uncover a new mystery is incredible. You can play the DLC along side the main game if you want but I think it's best saved for last.",
"This goes against the covid-denier narrative so they are pretending it didn't happen. They spend over a year telling people that suicides were massively spiking and it was worse than COVID. Then the data finally got collected and showed that there was no massive spike and they are just continuing on pretending that it happened because they are in too deep to change their minds.",
"No worries. I'm sure the information you provided will still be helpful for anyone that comes across it. Have a nice night.",
"The main thing stoicism got me to appreciate is that happiness is not a valid objective.\n\nIts only occurs as a byproduct of other pursuits.",
"no worries at all! I have a ton of friends who have gotten better in a variety of ways, but just the way things have gone for me personally and how poorly some of their advice has turned out, the ‘just take a chance on something’ advice can get me going for no reason sometimes. I’m glad you were able to turn it around",
">Literally: Make your bed in the morning if you don't already. That's the one small thing I changed. And I didn't even start with doing it everyday. I would just do it sometimes. Until I worked up to doing it everyday. Don't push yourself too hard or set unrealistic expectations.\n\nThis is a go to for me. It's a small no stress thing you can do everyday. Once that becomes a habit it's only a few steps away from keeping the bedroom tidy. It's incredible how much that clear safe space can change your mental state.",
"I can sympathize. I'm not going to try to argue you, but since the topic is open and I'm always just curious about people in this world... \n\nHow long have you lived where you live now, and worked where you work?\n\nDo you have any friends, close or otherwise? Family? Do you get the occasional social outing with people, even if it seems like you don't really fit in or even really like those people?\n\n&#x200B;\n\nLastly, how long have you felt like you've been in this situation? How old are you, even if just approximately?\n\n&#x200B;\n\nMy childhood sucked, my young adulthood sucked, and I spent a lot of years thinking it could only go one way, downhill, and I had no interest in hanging around to see it. But through some luck and a select friend or two, things slowly turned around. Honestly, I'm still pretty underwhelmed with it all, and I don't like my prospects, but I'm at least curious enough about the future to stick around and see what happens. Which I guess is an improvement.",
"Ideation sucks. Sorry you have that. It's so annoying. Like constantly thinking about it but not really wanting to do it but still it's there. It's awkward to talk about because people get so worried. If you ever need someone to be like \"man i can't stop thinking about it today, so annoying!\" You can message me, cuz i get it",
"Well to be fair talk of someone committing suicide triggers suicide in others.",
"Well they were for awhile. But they started to go up again when everyone had to go back to work.",
"And then sift through the shit ones.",
"Some people also lost their livelihood because of lockdowns and whatnot, some people had to watch their family members die alone either of covid in hospital or for other reason in retirement homes because of social distancing. And some families are still living separated because of border restriction. I'm in the last category. Haven't been able to see my wife in almost 2 years because we were in the middle of moving to a different continent.\n\nSo yeah.. fuck you.",
"Much love back, brotha.",
"Therapists are great, but if it's not working for you you may need a different therapist, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist, or medication too. Everyone is different and it's worth it to explore different methods. I've had diagnosed depression/anxiety for 10 years I've been on 3 different medications, had multiple therapists, and tried a bunch of things. It's not easy, nothing is going to be a quick solution.\n\nIf it doesn't work immediately it doesn't mean it's broken for everyone all the time in every situation.",
"People suffering from a severe mental health crisis are not going to have the same levels of perception and reason as someone who isn't. Pointing out that they have better lives then someone 500 years ago doesn't help them at all in that moment.",
"Worse now than....all those other times in history?",
"You guys are fucking awesome. I had to reach out earlier on during the start of the pandemic. Feeling that low can really drive you further from people. Nice to see random strangers willing to give their time for others.",
"Eat minnows. \nI find myself completely overwhelmed by multitudes of burdens - tasks, responsibilities, and problems that just fucking wear me down. They become stressors and then you learn to tune them out. It’s the only way to deal with the shit. So you ignore the belly you’ve put on and just live with it. And you ignore a couple of credit cards because you just don’t have the energy to deal with that. And you don’t worry about cleaning your car or the stain in your carpet because those are priority #s 17 and 23; there’s much more important things to deal with right now. But the end result of all this is that your life starts falling apart and you know it. That’s why you lose self respect and stop letting people into your life - because it’s a fucking mess. \nSo the problem is twofold: 1) You have some significant, seemingly insurmountable mountain that you can’t seem to get over that is getting in the way of all other priorities and needs in your life, and 2) Your management system is broken. Whatever you’re doing isn’t working. So you stress out or drink or distract yourself or otherwise manage the fallout, but don’t actually solve the problem itself. \nSo here’s what you do. \n1) Figure out what’s holding you back. Make a list of the things you need to get done. Now make a list of the things that you want future -you to have taken care of next year. What is it that you want to be on the other side of? What do you want to go away? \n2) Get help. Talk to your brother or your friend or your therapist. If you aren’t tackling this issue, then offload it unto someone else. Maybe you just need a partner to work through this with. A outside opinion is always going to have clarity on the things that burden you the most. \n3) Stop prioritizing impossible tasks. If it disrupts your ability to get everything else done, then it’s just making the problem worse. Do the little things first. Get them out of the way. You’ll feel better and condition yourself for success, which is what you need, because you’ve been conditioning yourself to fail. Offload the big stuff to a plan that you’ve worked out and get back your day-to-day. \n4) Now that you’ve stopped trying to eat a whale, eat minnows. Take one thing about your life that you want to be different and make a small change. Eat something green with dinner every day. Just that. Don’t go on a diet or try to make some grandiose lifestyle change that is only going to last six weeks. Make one small change and make it a habit. Exercise for 10 minutes a day. Do whatever you want. Play basketball, go for a run, whatever. Just make a new habit. Get out of the house for 2 hours a day no matter what. Go on YouTube and learn to fold clothes like a pro. Take care of that downspout you’ve been ignoring all year. Get rid of all the clothes that you’re not using. Make a list of small, approachable changes that you can tackle and chip away at them. This is the secret of successful people. They are constantly bettering themselves, learning new skills, improving their body, their habits, their finances, their behaviors. \n\n\nWhen you get low, you are often internalizing a sense of failure, and by externalizing all the things that create your sense of self worth and accomplishment, you can control them and define with intention exactly what it is that makes you successful.",
"You can't get hep C from booze, hep c is an infectious disease 🥴",
"Well put.",
"Lmao I know this dude, he’s my high school buddies ex step-father 🤣 Weird seeing his face pop up on the front page of Reddit after all this time lol",
"> you may need a different therapist, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist, or medication too. \n\nI need a girlfriend.",
"I maintain a handlebar mustache because I think it fun and your comments reinforce my decisions.",
"I don’t know why I thought it was C but I have alcoholic hepatitis https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alcoholic-hepatitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351388",
"I've come to terms with \"the meaning of life\" just being to find a distraction. Hopefully that distraction lasts a lifetime and creates a feeling of joy and love but in the end we all leave alone and it was technically pointless. I'm 32 and it's getting harder and harder to find distractions from how pointless life is. I feel exhausted in my heart, my soul is tired and to imagine another 60-80 years of this just makes me cry, genuinely am tearing up as I write this.\n\nIn a certain way I view life as a game, and I'm not sure Im going to make it to the final level but I'm going to keep playing until I lose the game or decide to stop playing. Granted I've always felt a type of existential dread but it went from being teenage agnst to the reality I face every day.",
"Yeah OP stop being so inconsiderate.\n\nE: Are your sarcasm detectors broken?",
"So says the pot calling the kettle black.",
"That is a pretty solid summary of some of the ideas.\n\nHappiness is so fleeting too. Something more akin to joy seems far more impactful and worthwhile. Being happy is awesome. I can often choose to be happy. I have to actually do stuff and things if I want meaning, purpose and existence to transcend beyond happiness and resemble a life well lived. And it is definitely not an impossible task. It is perhaps a purpose of existence.",
"Have you ever tried mushrooms? I'm not even joking. Micro dosing mushrooms was a life saver for me.",
"Thing is, I've changed so much and even when I find joy in life, I always come back to this place in my head that knows I'm just distracting myself from the truth",
"Man I wanna give that guy the biggest hug",
"You don't love me; you don't know me. I'm sorry to bring negativity to this conversation, but as someone who is deeply suicidal all this type of message does is make me angry. I did reach out. To quite a few people. Its either met with, at best, silence until I change the subject or, at worst, accusations of emotional manipulation. If I told my therapist about the depth of my ideation I'd be put in a psych ward. No one wants to hear about it, at least not for very long, and that is entirely understandable, but I wish people would stop telling me to reach out when that's the reality. I don't have the energy to reach out any more.",
"Love you too, buddy.",
"What the fuck are you going on about?",
"I love you to.",
"Is there any way you could share the original link? I’d love to share this on other social media outlets. More people need to hear this now than ever.",
"This so much. I started the process in July of 2020 and was put on a waiting list (I have insurance) and finally got an intake appointment about 2 weeks ago. Now I still have to wait 3 months for an actual therapy appointment. And this is after having to call every single day to wait in a queue to even get scheduled for the intake, and I had a referral from my doctor. \n\nHow they expect people to navigate this even when they can pay is aggravating. Yet at the same time, the company has opened four new buildings in my city, yet they're simultaneously under staffed to where people are waiting a year to even talk to someone. All the while we're just supposed to be hopeful. The whole thing is disheartening and honestly seems to make things worse.",
"This is stupid, but that meant something to me.... that meant alot",
"I haven't spoken to my best friend (who I consider a brother) in so long because I rid of insta. I know for a fact that he will one day ask why I didn't respond to a message to which I'll say that he should've called or texted. But unfortunately that mode of communication is somehow too old school or idk, I'll probably get the whole \"whoa CALLS anymore?!\"\nI do. I call. I text. I even wrote letters. People need to learn to reconnect on a more personal level",
"Hey man. I'm an Iraq vet who understands those same feelings. If you ever need someone to vent to please let me know. DM and we can exchange numbers. Don't let the lack of an ear to listen to you be a reason to suffer. I'm here!",
"He’s 100% correct. While Covid has been a huge part of it due to isolation/unemployment/boredom, it’s definitely not the only thing fueling it.\n\nThere is an obsession with negativity, conflict, anger, outrage, and division these days. Being angry and outraged has basically become a hobby or a lifestyle for many people. They actively seek out shit that they can get pissed about, all while ignoring the fact that those things are far from being the norm. The fact that news media and content producers serve that type of shit up almost exclusively just feeds the vicious cycle. Grabbing people’s attention by satiating their hunger for outrage/anger/fear/negativity is the easiest way of making money in those industries.\n\nAll of that shit has caused so much division amongst family, friends, neighbors, and anyone else who doesn’t share the same beliefs with them. And it’s not just a case of slightly “disliking” those who see things differently; it’s a genuine hatred. \n\nIt really feels like all of it is by design. Now I’m not saying that there is some group of extremely wealthy/powerful people who are pulling the strings in order to accomplish this. If I had to guess I’d say that a bunch of different powerful/influential people (who aren’t in any way linked to one another) have found that facilitating the types of things I talked about benefits them (financially and/or in terms of power/influence). It really isn’t all that difficult to see.",
"It really is. Even the whole \"I'm here if you need to talk\" is getting stale.",
"I mean wouldn't this also have to do with people NOT reporting mental health crisis? You might as well show domestic and child abuse stats because those went down also during covid...because schools were closed and people worked from.home so there wasn't a school teacher or work associate to spot and report the abuse. It's all there, and might be worse, but it's just not getting reported",
"We love you man!",
"I don't really know what to say but I wanted to say something, love you big guy.",
"I still haven't watched the final season because after all this shit, I'm not sure I can handle it. The episode \"Stupid Piece of Shit\" damn near killed me.",
">Those who think that commenting things that basically boil down to 'well, just get better! Just try harder!' have very evidently little to no experience with major depression and anhedonia. It's like in cartoons where someone is trying to run and their legs are spinning but somebody is holding their head to prevent movement.\n\nI would like you to know you CAN beat depression. I'm an idiot. And somehow I did it. You need a plan, you need a way motivate yourself. And you need agood sleep routine. And if you can a simple hobby that make syou go outside. Anything. Even just walks will help.\n\nYou just have to realize a lot of that head holding is being done by you and YOU do have the power to let it go. You just need to find a way to do it.\n\nAll the best and keep on trucking dude.",
"1) about a year now.\n\n2) just quit my job of 3 years a few weeks ago to try and go back to school. \n\n3) a few? I have people I play video games and smoke pot with but it's not exactly the emotional support kind of relationship.\n\n4) yeah, probably about every other weekend. A lot of my friends moved to a city an hour away so it's harder to see them. Used to live with these guys years ago.\n\n5)since I was diagnosed, but i was too young to codify it then. They really shouldn't start training kids on how to manage shitty diagnoses by telling them how it'll look when they fuck it up and die from it.\n\n6)respectfully, privacy, not answering. I'm young enough that you would say I'm too young to think like this, which changes nothing about how I do, in fact, feel like this.",
"Gotta be honest, when some stranger on the Internet tells me they love me, I never believe them. Really, they only say it for personal validation or internet points. Also, the whole \"I'm here if you need to talk\" is getting old.",
"Thank you for this. I'm in a situation that has me lower than low, but these baby steps I'll try my best at.\n\nEvery one of these upvotes you get is a life you're changing for the better. Again, thank you.",
"Is it possible to love a stranger? If you love everybody even if you haven't met them, what is special about the love you have for your spouse or family?",
"So much easier for you to say when you don't live in Florida, the epicenter of the delta strain and home to 9k+ Daily cases? Yeah fuck crowds for a bit, I'd rather my social.life be a martyr than my mother",
">Don't know if you've been keeping up, but people don't really use those to stay in touch with the family group anymore. That's more personal one and one stuff. \n\nCalling and texting is how I stay in touch with family and friends. It is more personal than social media, but my relationships with my family and friends *is* personal. I even use email to stay in touch with certain old highschool/college friends. I'm in the US btw. \n\n>Pretty much no phone calls unless you are really old.\n\nYes I agree that it's more common the older you are, but I'm not that old, I'm a millennial.\n\nI'm not trying to shit on how you choose to communicate with people, but I'm just pointing out that it is possible to keep up with people without social media. You do you. But for me, seeing how social media is known to worsen/cause all sorts of personal issues like depression is even more reason that I encourage my family and friends to ditch all of it",
"Most people don’t kill themselves because they don’t feel loved or because they don’t have people to talk to. \n\nPersonally, if I were going to kill myself it would be because life is a constant cycle of burden after burden and slowly grinding your physical and emotional energy into money just to get by. That, combined with an ever-bleaker future and daily reminders of how stupid the average person is, is what makes life feel like it’s not worth enduring. I don’t plan on killing myself, but not continuing to deal with those things every day sounds pretty nice.",
"Bro. I felt every word if this to a T.. it's bittersweet to know I'm not alone but yet I am.",
"I can't imagine being so central to the mental health of other people and caring so much about them and losing them anyways. The strength this man has is superhuman",
"What happens in 2 weeks?",
"Go fuck yourself.",
"Why is he purple",
"\"If you want people to stop acting superior and smug over their vaccination status, STOP shaming them over being smug. It will only make them do it more.\"\n\nSee how dumb your logic is? Also how you're literally doing the exact thing you're telling others not to do.",
"it just reminds me of Disco Elysium tbh. Either way, makes my heart hurt",
"Oh yes. After my depression peaked I couldn't play any games. Took me ages to get into it. Finally when it went i really got back into Elite dangerous. \n\nUnfortuantely the souless grind that is that game just burnt me out an di realized i needed a proper hobby or two. I could feel myself falling back.\n\nI've not played it now since... February the 10th 2020. Huh i didn't remember that as well. I have 2000 hours in that game and I don't see myself ever playing it again or any other game that isn't just nice and easy and straight in or fun.\n\nI replace d alot of my gaming with boardgames, bass playing and cycling various bikes along with walks and takign picture and recording vids of family. Just a whole load of different stuff that isn't just playing ONE GAME obsessively.",
">a lot of people instead try to spread their mental disorder to others.\n\nWhat on earth do you mean by this? Can you provide an example?",
"Thank you! Just taking it one day at a time. I know future me will be thanking me though.",
"I went back in time. Got an old chipped PS1 and starte dburing roms and collecting games. Got a multitap and have been playign them with family. Its alot of playing those old silly games. They don't ask much of you and just offer a brief window of fun.",
"Hey, seriously, hang tough. I don't care if these are just letters on a screen, you're fucking amazing and you are stronger than the docs thought already.\nYou got this, it's so hard and so Painful, I wish it wasn't but you will come out of this and I can't wait for you to tell people how doctors gave you 7 weeks and you've lasted 7 years (and counting!)",
"I'm a vet. Company commander killed himself. Translator murdered. So many more things that happened in the war. All the politicians want to do is blame each other. Not a word from most about us. Just dems bad or repubs bad. I'm so, so tired and it just won't stop.",
"This may come off as insensitive or out of left field, but get a dog. I mean it, get some thing that you know loves and cares for you and needs you. Something that without you being around would be worse off without you to take care of it. Being a dog, a cat, or just a cool plant.\n\nAnd I say this as someone who just kind of realized how useful having something that needs you to care for it is to help you snap of moments like that",
"Also check your computer occasionally, it'll tell you if you missed anything.",
"May that friend never reached out.",
"I felt this",
"I needed this. \n\nThis week I was dumped over text, my roommate threw up all over the living room chair and rug that I own, a coworker absolutely tore into me on work stuff, I got blood results back that say I have high cholesterol, my boss and I got into an argument on our weekly check-in and she cried and now I have a call with HR on Monday, and this morning I woke up to 17 missed calls. My grandma died. \n\nIt's been a hard fucking week.",
"Gave me chills. Really needed this.",
"Reaching out is the only reason I’m still here",
"The only respite I have is being unconcious. I don't even care if there's an afterlife at this point, if being dead is like before you were born I would be content.",
"I'm sorry. I will do so.",
"When we increased cancer testing rates and effectiveness... Cancer cases went through the roof.\n\nIf you look for something, it's not really surprising when you find it.",
"Fuck man, I can feel this guys pain.",
"I'm right there with you on that.",
"Yeah, I completely agree with this. I've been hanging out with friends a lot more again because I just mentally need it to not lose my mind. I'm cognizant of the risks, but I am fully vaccinated and try to keep the groups small-ish and with other vaccinated people. I still wear a mask when I go grocery shopping and things where I'm exposed to bigger groups of people I don't know. \n\nThere is a whole balancing act to do here, yes covid kills, but so does depression, so you have to manage the risk of the two individually and do what you need to do to survive. It's the anti-vaxxers and people who just don't give a shit that piss me off. Not the people going out because the mentally need to, I totally get and support that.",
"Unless you want to make a show on broadway. \n\nKeep it happy, keep it snappy, keep it gay.",
"Jesus Christ! I wasn't expecting this video and fucking needed that right now.",
"I'm waiting for boosters and the delta wave to die down. I wouldn't be so freaked out if I wasn't in delta town U.S.A. lol I agree whole heartedly",
"The second to last episode is....rough. definitely harder for me to watch than stupid piece of shit. Left me bawling my eyes out",
"Thank you! It’s amazing the support I’ve gotten from family friends and strangers like you. It’s nice to be sober and remembering things. Still dealing with stomach pain and fatigue but it’s night and day from 94 days ago. July 7th was truly my Independence Day from alcohol.",
"There’s loving someone and being in love with someone. They are two different concepts. But love should be the default when interacting with other human beings.",
"Hey",
"Just calm him and ask him how he's doing and say you're worried. It's okay to be pushy or being annoying. Its way better than doing nothing and then regretting it later. Nobody on the planet gonna say what they hated/got annoyed when their friend called.",
"I don’t know you but I have a feeling you’re going to write and publish something one day. Or maybe go on an adventure you never expected. Idk what it is but you are going to do something you haven’t planned for in your life and it’s going to be awesome. I can’t wait for you to experience it! I’ll be waiting to hear back from you!",
"That's actually a great point.",
"The dalai llama communicates a theory through adages and anecdotes; a theory that states that material provisions do not correlate with happiness. Therefore I think your point is not entirely valid. Modern life comes with it's own breed of suffering..it is no less nor more painful than the suffering that came eons before; Simply different. Suffering is part and parcel with our existence.",
"Are you in good shape? The thrill you get seeing your body get in better shape does world's for your mentality. If you are not in shape you must make a personal commitment to feel better and have some blind faith it will work. Do it. Even if you have back problems or anything under the sun there are probably things to do. If you are paralyzed from the neck down, then you've got to study and that's infinitely harder to do when you don't feel good. Best of luck",
"Right now we’re the same person and we’ll never meet or know anything about each other other than the text you just put down. That’s a big step in the right direction, next step is to find someone face to face and say the same thing. What we’re experiencing will most likely never leave us but I’m learning new techniques to cope everyday. You can do it too. I’m pushing forward hard to learn the positive aspects of existentialism through studying. I think about how many people in the past who have suffered the kinda thoughts and truths and realities that keep me up at night and I think I’m gonna be one of the ones that makes it through and finds peace eventually. Don’t give up.",
"Out of the night that covers me,\n Black as the pit from pole to pole,\nI thank whatever gods may be\n For my unconquerable soul.\n\nIn the fell clutch of circumstance\n I have not winced nor cried aloud.\nUnder the bludgeonings of chance\n My head is bloody, but unbowed.\n\nBeyond this place of wrath and tears\n Looms but the Horror of the shade,\nAnd yet the menace of the years\n Finds and shall find me unafraid.\n\nIt matters not how strait the gate,\n How charged with punishments the scroll,\nI am the master of my fate,\n I am the captain of my soul.",
"I’m right there with you. 32 as well and it’s tiring. I think you’re spot on about finding the life long distraction. I hope you find it",
"Being busy doing something productive is even better because it keeps away bad thoughts and benefits you.",
"Dude so so so awesome, what are the docs saying now that you're almost at 100 days? Bud I truly wish you weren't in so much pain, you've already gone through so much, but it's really great to hear how positive you're being! Probably sounds stupid but recognizing little shit like you feel better than you did before is small scale optimism where it counts. You're seeing the positive change, you have to feel SO much better than before. Dude just hearing you were given 7 weeks, like you have no idea how much that's fucking with me to imagine being in your shoes, and that's coming from a guy with 2 purple hearts lol are the days long? Or are you finding enough online to distract the days with? I usually burn though my old favorite shows, xfiles, cheers, friends, etc.",
"Haven’t played that far in and now I’m not sure I want to",
"It's also just such a stupid thing to claim that this is \"the greatest\" in history or whatever.\n\nLike, what exactly do people think the general mental health of people, who lived 10 to a shack, would have been during the bubonic plague, hm?\n\nBut they weren't sitting in a public forum circle jerking each other about how shit everything always is, as is the case on this site.",
"I.",
"Im not the person who you were arguing with, but you are very fortunate to be able to do what you are doing. Not everyone can go to grad school or do any additional education after high school. Some people have to choose between that and working to help their family, some people come from other places and take whatever job they can in the hope that their kids can have a better life, other people have other issues. I'm sure you worked hard to do what you are doing but other people work hard and they are still in terrible life situations. \n\nSaying shit like if someone doesn't want to do a job they shouldn't do it is some ignorant shit. It just shows you have lived a sheltered life.",
"Yup, and no one is talking about it.",
"You're blocked for the personal attack.\n\nGetting details right about whether we're living in the worst mental health crisis in history *seriously* fucking matters, actually.",
"Absolutely know that the level of every person's quality of life has taken a nose dive, we are not 'alone' in, a way. There can be a reunification of appreciation of community in the near future. For now, the US monetary system bought itself at least another year, the status quo is holding, so stay on top of your personal chores, try to budget if it's new for you, and normalize the bleak present reality. I'm sure we can bond over that, eventually.",
"I'm gonna take this opportunity to post a video my friend made the other day. He has struggled with depression and has uncovered a promising path forward. This video isn't directly about mental health, but the ideas in it will help.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY3EC8yKguc",
"Do you see a therapist?",
"I’m sorry but I cannot take a millennial with a mustache serialously",
"love u bros",
"Courier is hectic but it's critical during the current situation. So don't worry about job security, you're doing a great job!",
"Until they actually get to know you, then they \"love\" you less",
"Idk what i was expecting when i started that video but it wasnt that.",
"Please accept my deepest sympathy and support. This must be an impossibly difficult time.",
"Number we’re doing well the last time I was in. I got 10/20 for my next check up. They had to drain me 3 times which really sucked but since my last one I haven’t really been bloated and my jaundice is pretty much gone now. Been keeping busy reading and writing and watching a lot of Diners Drive Ins and Dives lol don’t ask me why I love that show. And wow it means a lot for you to reach out having two Purple Hearts yourself. Besides just resting a lot I’ve been trying to finish my book of poetry and have been working on a horror story that I want to turn into an audio drama. Just trying to find things to keep my mind going. Luckily I’ve been really lucky to\nnot have bad cravings for alcohol. There has only been a few times it hit hard like my birthday last month but the more I stack the days the easier it becomes.",
"Many people said it already, but video games. The many random friendships and sense of purpose you can get from simple games really helps with these times. “New World” just came out its Amazon’s first every video game. Very active and friendly player base if you want to check it out.",
"Does it actually matter, seriously? It matters so much that you need to correct someone clearly going through a traumatic experience?",
"The reason folk say change something or something different is because saying exactly what worked for them is NOT going to work for anyoneelse.\n\nI could tell you what worked for me but it would be pointless as you or anyone else don't have my brain.\n\nBUT teh bit that is true is the change bit. I changed things. No point saying what I changed cos it was a pain in the arse just to work out what would work for me.\n\nI mean i'm really stubborn, I don't idealise suicide cos my wife killed herself due to depression and post natal and I have three kids who need looking after so i was highly motivated to change whatever was fucking me up for thier sake and my own.\n\nSo i changed stuff that worked for me and I won against depression. \n\nSo here how started change stuff.\n\nI dance along to music I enjoy. by myself. There. Sound sfuckign stupid doens't. That was first step.\n\nI knew i could nto break anxiety issues and constant panic attack until i beat the depression. SO i fixed my brain by doing stupid stuff I normally enjoyed doing UNTIL I ENJOYED IT. I stubbornly did it till that fucking emptness and feeling of what seven the point of eating, went away.\n\nWhcih was quite tricky while looking after young kids haha. \n\nSo yeah thats how I did it. I also saw doctors and had therapy for the anxiety whcih took longer to deal with. Its never gone away. But i'm depressed about it. WHat can i say maybe I just got lucky.",
"Fuck man. I don't even know you and I don't want you gone. Such a thoughtful comment. It can be difficult to articulate myself and love when other people are able to explain how I'm feeling. I can't believe how painful this last couple years have been. I've lost so many friends in such a short period. Ugh.",
"View from half way down is extremely hard to watch. Stupid piece of shit is what I show people to explain what the talking parts of my brain is like. Free churro is the most cathartic on a personal level and how I don't have to forgive my shitty parents.",
"Idk how you are physically, or where you are like location wise, but nature has been a big help. I've taken on SO many hobbies to distract myself, but admittedly when I always default to this \"wtf am I even doing\" mentality towards my life. Weed and other things help, though I get sad knowing I need to drug myself heavily just to get through the day. I'm.scared of my own bed sometimes because of how horrible my anxiety attacks get, and when I finally sleep I have nightmares from the war. I'm just so tired man. To quote Mac Miller \"so tired of being so tired\"",
"Fully agreed, no this isn't the \"greatest epidemic in human history\"",
"I love you man",
"Don't worry, you have to be a very busy and high honor lad for it. It's entirely dependant on the side missions you do. Otherwise you talk to Swanson.\n\nRegardless of your mental state it's doable. I'm an anxious wreck most days and I did it.",
"Then he should be more accurate and say he's having a tough time and so on and be more realistic.",
"I LOVE YOU",
"Dont' think anybody is supposed to experience that amount of loss in such a short space of time. Thats just too cruel.\n\nkeep talking about it to anybody willing to listen. Even your dogs mentioned in a comment below.",
"Yea really. It's ridiculous that it's on the front page of Reddit.",
"Story time.\n\nIn the third year of my college, I had a complete internal metal breakdown (the kind that other people have no idea is happening).\n\nA few years of therapy later, I start opening up to my friends about these mental health issues and I kid you not, every one of them had some degree of mental trauma they were going through. For guys, it takes someone to break the ice of sanity and all the trauma comes flowing out.\n\nI'm glad that I've been able to recommend countless friends to get help instead of silently suffering.\n\nShit is so ridiculously common :(",
"Delete reddit then",
"Could we stop with the \"she left me for someone better off than myself\"? People rarely leave their partners to shack up with someone rich. She left you because being with you made her miserable. Maybe it wasn't even you as a person, sometimes couples get into a routine of being the worst version of themselves with each other. Instead of trying to make her sound like a golddigger, be honest, it was likely a bad situation for a long time and she finally said enough.",
"no worries we gotta take care of each other.",
"Weed is a gift from the gods. I hope to get out more for hikes and such soon. I look like I’m in good shape but I’m having chest pains and it’s pretty nerve racking so I’m not doing anything strenuous while I wait to get in for a check up.",
"I hope you're doing okay. I lost a dear friend just about a year ago, this post and the comments has me thinking alot about him.",
"What's running rampant?",
"I just had a year a year and a half of a psychological break. When I finally came out of it and told my mom and oldest sibling about it. They both caused me to *get back into another depressive cycle through verbal abuse. It was a nice two weeks of being happy...\n\nI've never actually intended to be successfully suicidal, but I've had a lot of suicidal ideation. \n\nBut the desire to not be alive anymore is very intense. \n\nI'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it out of a another depressive cycle back to back. \n\n* I don't want to die nor do I have any plans or anything. But it's just a whole lot right now.",
"That goes for you too. Often the folk most effect by somebody taking their life is the close folk around them. Don't wait five years to see somebody about your grief, if you haven't already please make sure you see or speak to somebody to help with grief councilling.",
"I was about to suggest something like this. I appreciate the comments saying to “just go do this or that” but sometimes I CAN NOT MOVE. This has been going on for 18 years now (I started young, I’m definitely older than 18) and with at least 20 therapist changes and every medication you could imagine failing, the only thing that helped was trying to imagine it as someone else. Give those thoughts a name, someone else living in your head. You’ll think, “I can just drive in front of this train real quick and it’ll be over” and then I’ll say “NO NO NO ENGELBERT! we don’t do that! We have to go make dinner and then there’s a show I bet we could watch! No time for that!” And it has helped a LOT.\n\nNot a fix it, by all means! But it helped that aspect. Currently looking into TMS and ECT treatments for the rest.",
"Bro so awesome, definitely drop that horror story on a subreddit when you get the chance! And shoot me a link man, I wouldn't mind hearing about what you're up to, even if only to know you're still hanging out past your expiration date lol are you like basically an old frail granny? Or are you pretty much able to move around like normal. Can't imagine how weak you probably felt that first month man, I bet even your bone marrow felt sore!",
"> There is so much expectation placed on us to have the most epic life imaginable.\n\nAnd therefore people's mental health is worse than when 70% of the Jews in Europe were being systematically murdered. It's worse than when people were being publicly burned for witchcraft. It's worse than people had a 50% chance of their cause of death being homicide. Astonishing claim. I don't buy it for a moment.",
"I didn't look at the subreddit. Knee jerk assumption was r/Unexpected . It was not. I guess it was unexpected in a way. I didn't expect it to make me feel so sad, yet glad. Sad about the message, and glad that he made the video.",
"> Things were going really well\n\nThe rate of poverty in American in the 1950s was 50%. Now it's more like 10%.",
"https://i.imgur.com/9nz9f1C.jpg",
"Objective question, Can you explain how this is the \"greatest mental health epidemic in human history\" and how it compares to other mental health epidemics in human history?",
"Not sure what the point of all this is, like sure we clearly know there were other genocides. So? Who the fuck cares..it doesn't take away from anything. Right now we're all going through our own battles big small or shmedium regardlng all this and it's not gonna hurt yall to acknowledge that",
"I certainly have delt with depression before. I in a much happier place now, so I will give some advice.\n\nI also want to say I never went to therapy, so all of this is from personal experience. \n\nThe thing about depression is that \"alternate pain\", the hopelessness, the lack of something to give your life meaning too. When shit happens in your life and your alone and have no family or friends to turn too; the feeling of desperation and companionship can be crippling. When that happens it's just YOU, and YOU have to get out and give it meaning. Find something to live for, and take small steps toward that goal. Happiness comes from within and how you want live your life. Make yourself your best friend. Love yourself and start caring for yourself.\n\nThe reason people say \"just get better\" or \"just be happy\" is because happiness is a choice. So for them they just \"choose\" to be happy and it's easy for them. For the rest of us though, it's not that easy. It takes mental fortitude and a certain mindset to get out of your \"hole\". The deeper that \"hole\" of depression the harder it is to get out and the darker your mind becomes. \n\nThe first step is to stop digging, start doing things to get better. Even if it's just taking a shower/ brushing your teeth, or just doing basic chores, and WANT to do it. Change your mindset on your depression, don't let it take over.\n\nAs far as therapy goes, in my opinion. Therapy can only give you guidance and clarity and how you get yourself our of depression. If your mindset isn't there it won't help. In the end it's up to you to fix it, the therapist can't do it for you but they can help. \n\nI am not articulate enough fully express the meaning and impact of what I want to say, but I hope it gets the message across.",
"Oh shit! Like chest pain in the heart area? Yes please get that checked out my bro, so important to stay ontop of our physical health right now 💪 btw there's a bunch of apps for trails incase you aren't using any yet! I use trailforks, but I mostly mountain bike and kayak. Hang tough bud, I mean that sincerely",
"Ugh too real. It fucking sucks being on an airplane and thinking \"God I wish this fucking thing would just crash\". It would be so convenient. Fuck that shit. \"Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. Keep on Loving and Keep on FIGHTING! Hold on for your life!\" -Pat from Ramshackle Glory.",
"> The reason folk say change something or something different is because saying exactly what worked for them is NOT going to work for anyoneelse.\n\nSo, not actually doing anything helpful, but pretending to be helpful.",
"I have to agree that this past couple of years have been rough. I myself was about to cross that fence, luckily I have a family that loves me and try to help me as much as they could. If someone here losing hope or having a real hard time, remember that someone loves you no matter what. laugh it out or cry it out but don’t submit coz remember someone really loves you!",
"I love you guys",
"How is this on the front page?",
"idk if its just luck or what, but ive been depressed most my .ife but have never had suicidal thoughts, only becasue when i was real little firsst my dads friend bri=other killed himself after a divorce and the friends had to clean up the kitchen he did it in, and it was not clean, shotgun to the skull will leave brain matter in ever nook and crany of the house. so overhearing about him finding brain bits on the roof and his shoes when i was like 8 made me know the after effects of killing themselves. and then like 2 or 3 years after that my brothers best friends killed himself in Sep 2011. but that fucked me up too. 1 night see police all at his house driving past, next day find out hes dead. it was even worse cuz he tried calling my brother 3 times that night but my brother was camping with the boy scouts and the took his phone, so he gets home sees missed calls and then finds out his best freinds killed himself and he didnt answer is calls. shit fucked him up for awhile. fucked me up too but i wasnt involved so i was just ignored and dealt with it on my own. so ive been depressed but ive didnt know for years and years cuz i thought depressed people where all suicdal and wanted to die, but i didnt want to die or make people deal with that so im not depressed.",
"> Kitchen Manager was above me\n\nWtf.\n\nThat's fucked.\n\nI hope you pull through. COVID has been devastating for everyone I know in food service.\n\nWhat did you switch to?",
">I want to get out, but im alone and I'm worried I'm going to end up homeless because this shit job is the best shot to make any money. Feeling broken, lost and alone a few years before 40 really sucks.\n\nApe, this is not the time to say these words to someone like this\n>I would say stop worrying about the money.\n\nand this is not the time in his life to be doing this with money that he/she could be using for basic amenities\n\n>And maybe buy some Gamestop and AMC just in case.",
"I can see from the upvote to downvote ratio on my comments here that most people probably don't actually that a lie is being spread. They're more concerned with patting a guy on the back and saying, \"Hey, man, you're in a dark place. I'm sorry. If you feel like things are worst than ever for everyone, then you're right. You're right in your own way.\", which is an unhealthy way to deal with how depression affects people's minds. Depression notorious warps thinking. It bring about pessimism and overgeneralisation and black-and-white thinking. We needn't support a falsehood for the sake of supporting someone's mental health. Quite the contrary. Disabusing people is part of healing, and historical ignorance helps no one.",
"We love you back.❤️",
"Would it help if I said I wasn't here if you need to talk?",
"In 2015, one of the best friends I’ve ever had killed himself. Then my uncle did a couple years later. Then a family friend. Then a co-worker. It’s bad out there, y’all. I don’t know if life has gotten harder, or if there just more of us to suffer, but if you’re one of them, I’m sorry. Take it from someone who has been lucky - you’re worth it. if you don’t see your worth, it doesn’t mean it’s not there. It means you’ve been one of the unlucky ones. PM me. I mean it.",
"Absurdism got me through some dark times, so I second your recommendation. Knowing that, despite never being able to find a concrete purpose for living, that there can still be enjoyment found in trying anyway really helped ease a lot of dread and angst I was feeling, and often continue to feel.\n\nIt's a lot like existentialism, but the tiny differences really mattered to me.",
"Mental health will always be taboo. Ppl are way too selfish to ever understand mental health and how absolutely hard it is to get control of your own mind when you're mentally ill. Everytime anyone tries to talk purely about mental health there are always ppl saying incorrect things that have something to do with control or your family and friends. And it's like \"I am mentally ill because it is difficult to control my mind\" and \"my mental illness has been made worse due to my friends and family not understanding or wanting to help me.\" It's a cycle. It takes a special kind of understanding that involves empathy, compassion and selflessness to get mental illness to be NOT\ntaboo and I feel that the human race just doesn't have what is needed to do it.",
"> He means it when he says he loves you.\n\nI appreciate the sentiment but this is a load of horseshit, and it has always bugged me in the context of mental health. \n\nYou can't \"love\" unknown strangers on the internet in any meaningful sense of the word. Saying it just comes off as insincere self-serving bullshit to make *you* feel good. Especially people with depression are just going to see right through it. You will *never* hear a trained therapist or mental health professional tell a patient that they love them. \n\nDo you \"love\" the starving children in Africa? Do you \"love\" all the members of the Taliban? Do you \"love\" everybody on the sex offenders list? Do you \"love\" the supermarket workers you've never met in a town you've never been to before? \n\nYou can't. You don't know the first thing about them. It's impossible for you to love them. You can generally hope that they're doing okay and wish them well. But saying \"I love you\" to *everybody* is as nonsensical as saying that you \"give them all a promotion at work\". You don't know who they are you don't know where they work, you might well hate them if you met them. You have no authority to give them a promotion at work, it's totally nonsensical.\n\nIt's absolutely possible to spread messages of positivity without this nonsense..",
"How old are you? Do you believe that nothing good could ever happen in your future? You may have 30+ years left at least, you don't think something good could happen?",
"Sometimes when you reach out, people don't reach back. That's the part that hurts the most. You're trying so hard to stay in this world, but nobody gives a flying fuck. It's hard to get through the day a lot of the time; knowing you're a burden to your immediate family and everyone outside of it doesn't care makes it that much harder.\n\n\n\nIf someone reaches out, please reach back even if you have to drop everything. You could save a life.",
"He didn't say he was offended, he just pointed out a stupid piece of hyperbole you made and that anyone that lived under an actual tyrant would think you're a fucking retard - which you are.",
"No, not really. I'm not even gonna blame outside factors either. I'm just a huge piece of shit that doesn't do anything to make my life better.",
"This is a great response and something that the world needs to understand. I would add that over-intellectualization and objectification of the world around us has played a role.",
"> You're not going to get the equivalent of months of therapy and/or medication from a brief anonymous interaction from a stranger\n\nOK... and what do you do when those things don't help?",
"Interventionism != tyranical.",
"I've been out for almost two years. Aside from the initial appointments for my disability rating, I haven't been able to get them to let me schedule any appointments.\n\nI just want some fucking Zoloft already. I'm a fucking mess.",
"Unfortunately, this sort of lifestyle shift requires an uphill battle because it's ingrained in us to seek out salty, sugar, fatty foods and modern society has it readily available. We need to not only suppress our own instincts, but overcome the blanket of marketing perpetually tempting us.",
"Nihilism, existentialism and absurdism are only a few stops on the train that is a really fucking wild ride. There are so many interesting ideas beyond those basecode concepts.\n\nThat is what keeps me going at this point, to a degree: An axiom of choice regarding Humanism(we are, and that is Sacred), some Transhumanism(we can be more) and my belligerent desire to figure out just how crazy this crazy world can be. This world really is wild af, and the longer I have existed I am beginning to appreciate that fact of existence. \n\nI would honestly be disappointed with this world if it wasn't so incredibly beautiful and so dangerously weird.",
"Your opinion is the reductive black and white one. Peoples mental health issues are caused by 20,000 people? Wow lets just get rid of them and everything will be great.\n\nMulti-millionaires and billionaires are great for our country, not cartoon evil boogeymen.",
"I recently found Therapy in a Nutshell on Youtube. She's pretty good! Maybe it could be helpful",
"In history? \n\nCome on now",
"This isn't exactly like losing a loved one but I myself am currently going through a breakup where we now have to cohabitate together until the 1st of December and she's the one who was unfaithful to me and now I have to sit here with this pain. I don't want to kill myself or anything but I just wish that I didn't have to experience or feel the next two months so then I can finally start to heal and move on",
"Not sure what your income is. But the healthcare system that Obama put in place is very good for low income people. Both single and family. If you are lower middle class though... I'm sorry.",
"That literally is a YOU problem. Why do people like you pretend social mobility doesn't exist in the USA?",
"In my hospitalization and intensive outpatient therapy experiences, some of it is ABSOLUTELY finances…. But the number one complaint I heard was their pain levels, and how they miss their kids. They’re lonely. They want their kids to answer their calls and talk to them. To visit. To see their grandkids. Just my experience. You’re also not wrong",
"You guys are turning into a damn cult. Chill the fuck out.",
"Just spent whole night talking to a stranger. It's kinda scary to realize how many problems we both have, but many of them were kinda similar and I feel somewhat relieved to know that I'm not alone in my struggles, and many people go through it. But it only works after talking with someone about actual struggles",
"Similar to the HellFish Bonanza.",
"Girlfriends are not a replacement for therapy. Treating your partner as a substitute for mental healthcare is toxic and often abusive.\n\nIf you want a partner, look for a partner. I wish you the best. If you just want someone to pull you out of the hole you're in, and you're anti-therapy... you don't need a girlfriend, you need a dog.",
"Get the fuck over yourself and quit being so dramatic like this fucking post.",
"What help was he asking for that would stop him killing his parents lmfao. Maybe he should have told them he was going to do that if they didn't give him a same day appointment.",
"Better than the worst mental health epidemic in history I guess",
"You should reach out. Sometimes people need someone else to do the effort. And if anything should happen at least you can say you tried.\n\nI just lost a friend of mine, literally went to his rememberance ceremony today. Everyone is beating themselves up, everyone asking themselves why couldn’t I have just swung by and said hi. \n\nHope you are able to see your friend again.",
"I'm terrified by the number of people who just watched a video of a man barely holding it together on the verge of completely breaking down, and they can't grasp that it's not funny.",
"My mom always said something good will happen when you least expect it. I wish you well.",
"I stopped using these hotlines when I realized that they basically made me feel like a burden.",
"Thanks bruv.",
"There's an episode of Bojack where throughout the entire episode you get his internal dialogue with him telling himself over and over again he's a \"stupid piece of shit\".\n\nThat was the moment I realized those types of thoughts weren't normal, and I found a doctor to get some help.\n\nI was fortunate enough to find an SSRI that works for me without much trial and error or side effects, and three years on I feel like a whole new person.\n\nThat constantly critical little voice in my head got evicted. It might invite itself over for day or two, but I bounce back way quicker than the weeks or months it used to take.",
"> Girlfriends are not a replacement for therapy.\n\nRight, right: I don't need therapy. I need a girlfriend. What looks like \"needs therapy\" is actually \"needs girlfriend.\" So, where's the help?",
"No, we can make a pretty accurate judgement that they would enjoy life today a lot more.",
"Do you have a pet or animal? They are world changing imho. They have this amazing ability to arouse unconditional love within you -- brought about just by looking at them or being with them. This can sometimes be the jolt or boost you need to keep going. I don't know where I'd be without my little guy.",
"Look into ketamine treatments for depression!",
"I lived downtown at the time and basically just stopped looking both ways when I crossed the street. \n\nI don't regret that period of time. It gave me a really valuable perspective and I feel I'll always be more sympathetic to those going through a bad time as a result, but fuck if it didn't hurt for every second of every day.\n\nIf anyone reading this is feeling similar you can always DM me. No one should go through it alone.",
"It helps me a great deal.",
"My mind went straight to pedo sadly",
"You're absolutely right dumb shit like your post is pretty offensive.",
"If you ever want to chat drop me a message. I've struggled intermittently with suicidal ideation myself. I keep on keeping on but I've found it feels better when I have the opportunity to talk to others, whether it be about mental health struggles ie just to drop a line and say hey what's up. \n\nIf you're having a hard day fire me a message and I'll reach back. If we're going to make it through this shit it's going to be together.",
"These are rough times indeed. People everywhere are tense, and it shows. We have been through so much these past few years, the pandemic certainly compounded issues that already existed.",
"Sitting here with 30k in CC debt and no way out of it. Add onto that having PTSD and chronic migraines at 3-4/week, I can 200% relate. I sometimes think it’s best fir my family if the life insurance just pays it out. I’m so stressed from this that I can’t handle any other stress in my life. Covid has made all of this much worse and compounded for many. \n\nJust know you aren’t alone. Try and stay strong.",
"The hurt in this man’s eyes. God damn.",
"💯 Times are not tough. They are fucked. He is right.",
"Then covid isnt causing the problem",
">People rarely leave their partners to shack up with someone rich\n\nMaybe not rich, but that's more an issue of opportunity. [Here](https://ifstudies.org/blog/whither-hypergamy) is a page with several compiled studies on the subject. TLDR: women select quite strongly for income, across the spectrum.\n\nFurther, when men lose full time employement their [likelihood of divorce shoots up quite a bit.](https://www.today.com/health/household-chores-not-reason-why-many-marriages-split-after-all-t101239).\n\nThe common thread is rather obvious. And isn't even news unless you are actively trying not to see it.",
"The sad reality is, that most people don't want to deal with someone else's bullshit, and why so many of us stay quiet.\n\nEdit: way to many comments to respond to individually so here it goes. \n\nTo everyone in my same position, I'm sorry to hear. Life sucks most of the time. The reality is, that I know nobody want's to get involved in my shit. This is reality, not just for me, but for you as well. People are willing to listen once, twice, maybe 3 times, but at some point the expectation is that we are supposed to go seek professional help and deal with our own shit on our own, and frankly that is what we need to do. Our friends and family are not equipped to handle our shit for an extended period of time, nor do they want to, as they are likely struggling with their own to some degree. \n\nMy issue is not having the resources or time to handle my shit and that is likely the biggest issue for most people who commit suicide. Quite frankly, I could cry to my friends and family non-stop....but that will never change any core issues that make me feel the way I do. This idea that we are supposed to open up to those around us is absurd. Nobody cares....only in death do they mourn. The people who care the most while we exists are the ones who get paid to care.\n\nLack of resources in the single biggest issue for suicide, not friends unwilling to hear us out. As a people we need to decide that if we care about those around us who are killing ourselves, we need to put more tax money into mental health and fight for that. It's that simple. The fact that we don't just further proves what I say......nobody cares about your shit.",
"Oh wow, this hit me hard. Love you too, friend.",
"Or your therapist is having a baby and she tells you that on one of the worst days ever right after you thank her for being so awesome and available during a pandemic… \n\nThe new one is cool so far. I told my therapist to pick out who she thought was most like her. \n\nI totally delegated a responsibility to my therapist with zero fucks given about it so I think whatever she did was working. \n\nBut it still sucked to know that I had to start over kind of.",
"Oh dammit I just started RDR2... Is that where I'm fucking headed??",
"Damn, man, what you went through is one of my worst fears. I have this strange fear of my gf (soon to be fiance, and love of my life) dying in a car accident - she has a long commute every morning and it makes me nervous.\n\nI'm also a recovering drug addict (multiple overdoses, lucky to be alive), so I totally understand the addiction part of your story. \n\nGood luck with everything, man.",
"Pedo cosplay. That’s weird. /s",
"> Single people like myself have lost so much in terms of friendships and social gatherings.\n\nLiving with a partner through this hasn't been a cakewalk, either. You never get to be alone. You don't get to do the \"date night, leave the kids at home\" stuff that might have been helping you maintain your relationship. You get under each other's skin because you're stuck at home together a hundred percent of the time. If both people are going out in the world regularly, it's a bit better... but then you have multiplied your covid risk factor, and if the people you live with have a different risk tolerance than you do, that's a separate issue.\n\nI don't mean to say I/we have it worse than you -- but maybe that perspective will make you feel a little less particularly unlucky.",
"….. nice try Wario",
"Lollapalooza is also outdoors, and if you're feeling anxious about crowds after these past couple years... a concert probably won't be much fun anyway",
"That's kind of moving, what you wrote right there.",
"It's not martyrdom, it's fucking trauma. Try to empathize.",
"Fuck. I needed that.",
"Who is this man and how can I give him a hug?",
"I was thinking Zeke the Plumber cosplay",
"Same, if I didn’t have video games to distract me from the thought of knowing that I’m probably just going to work until I die and that I’m truly never going to feel happy, I would have ended awhile ago. \n\nLuckily my new job has a gym in it. So I can also lift weights to take mind off things.",
"I want very badly to share words of support and wisdom that you would find meaningful and helpful. However, I was where you are, and I know how well I would have received generic platitudes about things getting better or there being people in your life who care about you or whatever when I was dealing with it for the better part of 25 years - not well is how.\n\nJust know that your struggle is real, it matters, and your efforts are significant and meaningful. Nothing gets better without those efforts, no matter how big they feel in the moment or how small they seem in retrospect. You may not be loved, yet, but you can carve out the space in your heart to love yourself and that can be the pebble that starts the avalanche in your subjectivity that leads to genuine improvements.\n\nYou have my respect and solidarity.",
"Here it is, the one useful comment.",
"It opened up more possibilities. I can somehow still do my job from home, same results but it has removed all the social aspect from my life, plus I can just drink everyday without any of my employees knowing.",
"I was just trying to get him to not think about the money.\n\n>I'm **worried** I'm going to end up homeless because this shit job is the best shot to make any money.\n\nHe is worried he is going to end up homeless. He isn't homeless yet.\n\nBut, I deleted it if it is so offensive to tell people not to worry about the money.\n\nI have literally lived in a situation where I had to make my own furniture and lived off food stamps and the food bank. So, in my experience I want people to NOT worry about the money. Minimalize your life. Chasing money is the trap.",
"To a lot of people, those things still feel unsafe so they wouldn't be fun anyway. Your subjective assessment of safety does not dictate other people's comfort levels in those situations.",
"I went through all of that, i feel this so deeply in my bones. It’s just no easy here. \n\nExample: I finally saved up enough money to rent a room after being homeless and fiiinally had enough money and time to see a therapist. She never showed to the appointment. I sat in that room like an idiot for hours. Never returned my calls. The office told me they could put me back on a waiting list if they had an opening- 8 month long waiting list. Oh, and they never gave me my money back. I really could have used that money, it was the end of the month.",
"Dude was cringing at birdsong in the middle of a forest. He might want to practice some self care himself.",
"Pro tip: if you're trying to make a serious video, don't start it with \"hey fam\"",
"I went to the covid ward for an hour a month ago as I was with a pretty bad lung infection. I left without treatment because what I saw COMPLETELY broke me. I won't lie, I was so sad from what I saw that I had some pretty dark thoughts...",
">this is the greatest mental health epidemic in history\n\nSurely when the Black Death killed a third of Europe, people suffered more intensely.",
"I wish I could go to a gym. I can never make it past 3-4 days. I love to play sports though, but with covid there's definitely no recreational sports going on. My favorite thing to do was indoor soccer. Miss the fuck outta that.",
"You're blocked.",
"I think that man wants to murder that bird.",
"And you will be happy.",
"You're a good friend, and I hope you're doing well yourself.",
"Only thing that stops me is other people, especially my sister, so you just sit there in this awkward limbo hating yourself everyday without a way out.",
"This guy gets it.\n\nAlso we're divided by class (influence). That's it. Those in the influential class want us to feel like we're divided by other lines.",
"Hmm, so it won't just miraculously go away as I get older. Has medication helped?",
"Reddit sucks when it comes to helping people with suicide. Someone mentioned on here that they were suicidal for a long time, and i asked them what prevented them from commiting suicide, wanting to know more about their course of thought and action, and i got banned by admins because apparently that meant i wanted him to commit suicide... I guess all this website allows is for us to just plaster the suicide hotline all over the place or send reddit's useless bot u/RedditCareResources to other people.",
">This goes against the covid-denier narrative so they are pretending it didn't happen. They spend over a year telling people that suicides were massively spiking and it was worse than COVID\n\nWho do you mean by \"they?\" [The CDC?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/teen-girls-suicide-attempts-pandemic-/2021/06/11/567a4f62-cac0-11eb-a11b-6c6191ccd599_story.html) Or one of literally dozens of stories news outlets across the country ran?\n\nAre the \"deniers\" foolish for believing this rather reasonable prediction was coming true when it was being reported over and over as happening? \n\nDo you always edit history so the right and wrong people are on the proper sides of it? Have we always been at war with Eastasia?",
"People don't tell you this enough so I'll say it now. \n\nJust shut up.",
"This. Everything has made me not give a fuck about everything and I just want to do drugs in my free time. I have no plugs though. Don’t worry, I won’t do street opiates, meth, crack, or research chemicals, but anything else I’m game.",
"I got a new job. Started a little over a month. Personal finance worked. Try again",
"People without experiencing clinical major depression rarely get it. I flat out tell people I am being attacked, I am literally under attack every moment of every day and in my dreams. A walk will not prevent the onslaught, I will just be walking while under attack. The narrative needs to change, a decoupling of depression from identity/personality/self it's a disease and it attacks people. Farewell out there, no one should suffer how people with depression suffer and there's no shame in ending constant suffering. That being said, I did end up finding relief through ketamine infusions and I have to say, I am glad I waited on ending things. I am no longer under attack.",
"time enjoyed is not time wasted\n\nand time spent ignoring what is really happening in the world is priceless",
"Might I recommend New World, friend. A good psych can also be dope.",
"Personal attack? You fuckin cry baby lol.",
"I know the feeling. I've been abandoned by everyone 'close' to me several times and it's left my pretty cynical about existence in general. I feel as if I'm alone at sea sometimes with no shore in sight. I've swag from one extreme to the next and finding that middle ground seems like some far off fantasy. I do have one thing that does keep me motivated and moving to that goal though, getting juiced up and trashing my former abusers.\n\nIt might not be the healthiest of mindsets but its one that keeps me grounded and pushing forward. I do take meds and see a therapist and they know what I'm doing, but the fact that I'm not wallowing and self harming seems to be a better outcome. Even if I say I want to help liberate some of those individuals teeth.",
"Stupid Piece of Shit was one of the most realistic depictions of how your mind fucks with you constantly when you deal with something like depression. You know these thoughts are nonsensical but they’re just overwhelming and take over your thought process. Only thing that beat it out is the way Goodnight PunPun put you inside an anxious-depressive child’s head.",
"He was seeking inpatient care. Yeah, that would have been nice but evidently he wasn't in the sharing or patiently waiting frame of mind or didn't say the magic words or have the right insurance but thank you for your observation that my mentally ill brother should have properly given verbal warning for how his depression would specifically manifest months from when he sought help. I'd have personally loved to not see my dad having had his head half removed by a shotgun so I'm certainly with you in wishing that my brother and men in general were more willing to share their feelings, be willing to accept medical advice, etc.",
"Yeah, Covid lockdowns were actually better for me as I didn't have to feel worse by having to put up a front all the time and remind myself of what I'm not. \n Also I didn't have to be pushed into stuff, it has actually been pretty freeing to be myself. \n\nI feel like the only people to blame Covid for mental health are the people who think it's (mental illness) a joke and treat it as a disease they can catch and get over moderately easily.",
"A partner is not the magical solution to life's problems. If you can't be happy alone, you won't be happy with a girlfriend.",
"You're blocked for verbal abuse.",
"To me it looks like he was crying before making the video. His eyes are kind of red and puffy. That’s my impression at least.",
"Meh, when this guy deep throats a pistol you'll be the first one wondering what the fuck happened?",
"You havent blocked me lol. Get a grip.",
"Lol what is this shit? I'm sure the middle ages were so much worse. Worst mental health crisis on human history? What about the Holocaust, or ghengis Khan or the Aztecs. Fuck this guy",
"Thanks OP, really need that some days.\n\nYour pretty awesome yourself.\nStay frosty Mano.",
"Simpsonsmeme.jpg\n\nThe greateat mental health epidemic in history *so far*.",
"I'm really going through a bad time right now, the words I love you don't help. Nothing helps, meds aren't working. I wrote my last will and testament today and signed it, the road ahead is dark.",
"> this is the greatest mental health epidemic in history \n\nI donno, I think the bubonic plague was probably kinda stressful",
"Thats great and all but you're putting the blame on a structural/systematic problem when it sounds like your brother was completely crazy and no amount of talking therapy or whatever psychiatric help you would be put on a 3 month waiting list for would have helped. Depression can cause suicide for sure, but if you kill your parents too there was clearly another level of fuckness going on that needs more specialized attention.",
"I’m so sorry for this shitty, shitty week. I am very sorry that your granma died. Granmas love us the way that no one else can. Please take care of yourself. Take the time to think through what you’re going to say on Monday. You can get through this, even if just one hour, one minute at a time. I believe in you.",
"Just gonna plug /r/antiwork here. \n\nWe weren't ever meant to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week to live. Capitalism is wholly to blame for the waves of mental health problems.",
"Hang in there man. You're strong. It's tough, but just keep going. You'll make it.",
"Thanks for the kind words",
"Wtf think of the Russians before the revolution of the early 1900s or any other before that of any other civilization they were literally starving to death and willing to sell their children for some food and this asshat thinks mental health is worse now?",
"Definitely find someone in your area to chat with. You have a good sense of self-awareness and a tremendous amount of trauma processing going on there. I don't have the answers for you, but someone is guaranteed to have professional experience and can help. I'm wishing you the best and encourage you to \"get it out\" as it has helped me in the past, too. Everything can be overcome when we extend the hand for those also reaching out. Cheers, friend.",
"Sending a trite and facile message into an echo chamber achieves nothing. It is more about whoever’s on their soapbox getting attention.",
"I mean the idiot did say this is the worse mental health crisis in human history. Um no. No it isn't by a long shot.",
"Let me guess... you're anti-vaxx and anti-mask, aren't you?",
"Fuck ya. Thanks for caring.",
"Can I recommend a book called the midnight library, I listened to the audiobook. I liked it, helped me",
"I'll give it a look. Thank you.",
"What does their use of the word wherewithal have to do with anything at all??",
"Depression sucks. Mine has gotten worse since the pandemic - I have put on a lot of weight. I find little joy in most things. I don't know why I am telling you this. I guess it's nice knowing I am not alone and I appreciate your comment here. Had you not been around to leave this comment, I'd have not felt this. So thank you.",
"Where can I follow him online?",
"Are you talking to anyone, like a therapist?\nSounds like you're in a shit spot, but meds can only help so much when your mind is not in a good place",
"And then you have to hope that the person who is accepting new patients and takes your insurance is someone who will hear you and help you. I had multiple teletherapists tell me, when I expressed my pandemic concerns and explained my history of health anxiety, that they understand how hard isolation is but that it sounded like things were going to reopen soon... and I would feel better once I could see people's faces in public again, that sort of thing.\n\nAfter a certain point I just stopped trying. Somehow, wallowing in sadness is less sad and lonely than being gaslit by the person who's supposed to be helping you.",
"I've had weeks like that man. I feel you. Sorry for you loss.",
"> a) he posted it to social media, presumably to his followers, people he knows.\n\nAnd then OP freebooted the video onto YouTube and posted it to reddit for karma",
"Fuck man. Just wanted say that's really cool and a class act thing to do. We all need to take a deep breath and fucking listen to each other without telling someone what to fucking do. Please stop throwing Jesus down our throats people. It's not helpful and hurts when we tell you that isn't something we believe in. I can't believe this last fucking year.",
"Oh fuck off, if I finally find the strength to end my miserable life it’s not going to change a damn thing that you “love me”. I’d do it now if I weren’t such a fucking coward.",
"> Which brings you back to literally square one every single time.\n\nI've literally given up at this point for this exact reason, and I'm lucky enough to not have a financial barrier to therapy.",
"Hope you get something out of it also, if nothing else the person who reads it has a pleasant voice",
"Who hurt you man?",
"You articulated this perfectly. It's something I've been feeling but unable to describe.",
"Sending you peace and love brother",
"Nail'd it with RDR2. I've been in a Red Dead Depression since 2019, but my abnormal neurology has me fixated on it for the last 2 years+. How long has it been? I don't know anymore.",
"Yeah, I am. I was in a psych ward on a 1013 three months ago, everything has just spiraled down since. I just don't know how much longer I can do this.",
"Dude's like 12. What do you expect? 😂",
">Don't you people realize that your comments and messaging like this pushes people further away from getting vaccinated?\n\nIncorrect. People's inability to accept that sometimes others know better than them regarding a certain topic is what causes people to be reactionary and choose to risk their lives out of spite.\n\nThe message doesn't control you. You control how you respond to the message.",
"I'm right there with you... I have been divorced and fired within 30 days. Have nowhere to live, no income, no health insurance. The kicker is I was fired getting treatment for my alcoholism... Former employer is saying I'm a \"no-call, no-show\" and thanks to a clerical error with MetLife my FMLA was not filed. All that to say I also don't qualify for unemployment since they're saying I quit and wasn't fired. I can't afford my medications anymore. God, I don't want to go back to the bottle, I deserve better than that, but it's so hard not to fall back into it right now.\n\nI promise to make it through the next week if you do. The way I see it, I can wait one week. Maybe something will change my mind about how many options I have left.",
"I had that thought leavin the grocery store few hours ago",
"This is such redundant, tonedeaf, unrelatable, terrible advice.\n\nWhen I was in my major depression I would have been so fucking mad at your comment.\n\n\"In order to get better, you need to do something to get better.\"\n\nLike.... Can you not see it?",
"> Who do you mean by \"they?\" The CDC? Or one of literally dozens of stories news outlets across the country ran?\n\nNo clue if you just are unable to parse what I said or what. Nobody is saying it was unreasonable to make a guess that this may be a consequence of lockdowns. The argument that it could be **worse** than COVID is what is absurd. \n\n> Are the \"deniers\" foolish for believing this rather reasonable prediction was coming true when it was being reported over and over as happening?\n\nThere were also plenty of sources that disagreed. As you can see, the biggest problem is morons who are still **now** claiming suicides have massively spiked.\n\n> Do you always edit history so the right and wrong people are on the proper sides of it? Have we always been at war with Eastasia?\n\nLiterally nothing cringier than people frothing at the mouth to quote 1984 in situations where it is completely irrelevant. Lol.",
"Classic humanity to think that the current sad is the most sad anyone’s ever been. \n“No OnE hURts lIKE mE”\n\nEntire villages of Japanese people jumped off cliffs because they believed the marines would torture them to death.",
"I struggle with this daily. \n\nThe existential realization of our burden to choose life or wait for death is a real bitch.",
"I don't get it",
"I have major depression and intrusive thoughts as well. Major difference though, is my thoughts aren’t about exiting, but things like a child getting tortured or run over (in front of the mother, with her reactions thrown in there for maximum trauma). I have very good mental imagery so all this happens in very real way, just like seeing it in person. I And this doesn’t elicit a thrill here, I’m not into it. It is just as traumatizing to me as it would to (nearly) anyone else. \n\nAnyways my point is that I feel you on the well-intentioned advice. My old man always gives me that “exercise!” shit. It’s like your car engine blows up, just shrapnel remaining and someone comes along and says, you know that frequent oil changes will extend the life of your engine - you should do an oil change. \n\nLike yeah you’re not wrong. Exercise is great for your mental health. But I didn’t even EAT yesterday, and didn’t even realize it til this morning. My wife BEGGED me to work out with her and I relented. And then immediately had a fucking meltdown. \n\nAnyways I don’t have any advice. It sucks, everything is overwhelming, and people whom haven’t been here don’t get it. The one thing that helps me is to treat or envision it like a physical disease.\n\nMuch love, dude. Stick around. I read somewhere that someone looking for a way out jumped off a bridge. On the way down he or she realized that when she was on the bridge she had so much difficulty in life, so many problems. But now she has just one problem. She realized that every problem she had back on the bridge was much smaller and more fixable than she thought, and now there is only one problem and it’s huge and unfixable.",
"Yikes!!!",
"I mean, you’re the doctor.",
">This week I was dumped over text, my roommate threw up all over the living room chair and rug that I own, a coworker absolutely tore into me on work stuff, I got blood results back that say I have high cholesterol, my boss and I got into an argument on our weekly check-in and she cried and now I have a call with HR on Monday, and this morning I woke up to 17 missed calls. My grandma died. \n\nDude... \nGet the roommate to pay to clean it or replace it, do the coworker a solid in some way (even just buying doughnuts) and mention you're having a hard time but that it was unprofessional of them to act like that. Assert yourself but don't be a dick. \nGo in Monday morning and speak to your boss before your meeting with HR. Mention tense living arrangements because of girlfriend problems and that some property damage you had is a bit of a pain to deal with because of recent bloodwork you've had done and you were trying to save money for it. \nThen as you're leaving mention you will need some time off in the next few weeks for a funeral. \n\nMake it as tight as possible without sounding needy or apologetic. The theme is you're apologising for your behaviour, and as a boss she should know that you're in a rough patch but you'll try better. \nAs long as you don't make excuses you'll be fine, that's why you finish with the funeral news to let her know that if you want something (like time off) you'll ask for it. Maybe ask for some overtime at the same time if you want. \n\nSorry for all that, but I was in a similar situation once or twice. The time I confronted the situation immediately, took all the blame and apologised, and then asked for what I needed to happen which we worked around, was the one I felt 10x better about afterwards.",
"That’s really kind of you, and I appreciate you being in the world; but fuck, what does one do when what you need isn’t someone to listen, but someone to love you? Someone to touch you? :(",
"I needed to hear this way more than I'd like to admit. Please know you are loved as well!",
"I hope this is the hardest week of your life <3",
"the worst not the greatest",
"Hey bud. I just want you to know your comment got to me. It may not count for much, but if you ever need to talk, I’m here.",
"I felt strongly that he would remove it and reveal an identical but real moustache. But he did not.",
"Love you too, dude. Hang in there - we’re all in this together.",
"Oh man..I recently had read the symptoms of AVPD and even reached out to someone I highly respect. She just was like scared for me. This shit isn't a joke. If you are experiencing any kind of social phobias or anti-social behavior..you really need to address this. She just tells me to listen to my puppy. I happened to get a wild little mutt and she takes me to the dog park at least twice a day. It forces me to talk to people as she likes to meet everyone. The most god damn affectionate sweet ass dog in the universe. I highly recommend if you like dogs and are able to give on a good home. I waited long for a puppy and oh boy did I get one.",
"Running dude. I didnt stick with it but I felt fucking great jogging through my local parks early in the morning. Much different pace of life for people like me who have been gaming every day for 20 years. I mean to get back to it, but after the depression and self preservation, I'm workin on it.",
"I know how you feel. However, here’s the thing. Life is full of possibilities. It might not seem that your life is full of possibilities. But you can say ‘fuck it’ and check out, or you can say ‘fuck it’ and do something radically different in your life, whether that’s learning a new skill for a new job or just selling all your stuff and going to live in the woods. I think it’s worth sticking around a while yet and trying out one of those radical alternatives. I mean suicide is always an option, but once you pick it, that’s it. At least in life if you pick one and it doesn’t vibe, you can try another, y’know? If you can’t keep doing this life, then don’t. Try a new one. Just give it a try, what you got to lose at this point?",
"Hey, this doesn't undo what's happened but the beautiful thing about the way that life works is, tomorrow when you wake up, the day is new. Tomorrow you're not going to get dumped over text and your grandma isn't going to die, and you're going to have a chance to make some changes so your cholesterol can go down, and you get a million opportunities for wonderful things to happen. I'm so, so sorry that you're hurting right now- things won't hurt forever. Every single day is a chance for a fresh start, to take a step back and breathe- you can do this. No matter what happens with work, put one foot in front of the other, you'll have another day.",
"> We all have a little Bojack inside us\n\nI feel like that's how he gets himself into so many of the bad situations he finds himself in.",
"Anhedonia means you have evolved out of some recurring dynamic in your life and you need to leave it. Only you know which dynamic it is. It could be several. \n\nThe only cure that I’ve found is to start rejecting everything that doesn’t bring you joy. At first it will seem like you are rejecting everything but keep going. \n\nThen there will be silence and then good things will begin to present themselves to you and you can surround yourself with things that feel good.",
"Why would you say you love someone when you don't even know them though?",
"I just started playing too! Within like 3 minutes of starting I jumped in a geyser to see what would happen and died. The whole game started over, it wasn't even a loop (that I'm now aware of). Now I'm just like someone who is asked to fly a plane, and I know nothing about how to do it. I'm just pushing every button and trying everything, it's fun. Btw, auto pilot will fly you right into the sun or other planets if they're in your flight path. And I still don't know how to tell what is north or south when standing on a planet.",
"it will not get better. are you confused?? are you confused as to why this epidemic is happening? look around. humanity as a whole is a bound foot, contorted and deformed by liberal capitalist democracy and all its tendrils. \n\n“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti",
"Dude I hate that feeling. The second I'm not in my apartment I just get this unending feeling of anxiety. God forbid I have to walk past somebody on my way to my car I feel terrified. I'm a bartender and it isn't so bad once I'm behind the bar but even the walk through the busy casino floor (and even worse the walk back to my car) makes me so nervous that my stomach gets queasy. I don't know how to make it go away. On my days off I feel even more anxious and avoidant because I can't get myself to leave the house and run the errands I need to run.",
"I have been there, and honestly, I am newly out of being in a very similar situation. It took me years to get to a point of feeling just okay. My grief was overwhelming, and I was left to deal with it on my own.\n\n I was on an antidepressant, which made me feel numb and aided with the denial stage of grief. I stopped taking it after weaning myself off, and it was hell. I mean, I went from feeling completely apathetic, to feeling everything I've shoved down and ignored all at once. I barely left my bed, I was incapacitated with PTSD and grief. I tried to see a therapist, that only inflamed the depression. All I had was my boyfriend, he was the only person I would let in, and I even eventually shut him out. \n\nThe worst of it lasted for a year and a half, it was the closest thing to hell that I can imagine. I prayed to God for death, for relief, for anything, but I remained lifeless.\n\n One day, out of nowhere, I decided to start knitting, it was a damn God send. The first thing I knitted was an Afghan. Then I kept making more blankets, I literally knitted away my sadness. Then I quit smoking cigarettes, that was a major turning point in my life. I started hiking, walking, just being active. I gave myself a makeover, that helped boost my confidence, and I started moving forward. \n\nIt was those little steps that eventually turned into giant leaps of progress. It has been almost a year of me feeling better. It was not an overnight thing, and I'm not even completely back to one hundred percent, nor will I ever be totally \"normal\" but I'm happy to report that I'm on the right track. \n\nI think for me the loneliness, the feeling that no one understood my grief, was the worst part, and or when you look good, people assume you are, or take your pain less seriously. \n\nI hope you the best in life and know that there are others out there. If you ever need anyone to talk to send me a message. Hope you feel better.",
">The argument that it could be worse than COVID is what is absurd. \n\nChildren are extremely unlikely to die from Covid. Some entire states still haven't had a single mortality. I live in a big population center that recently had their first one since the pandemic started (and even they had comorbidities). It wouldn't take very many suicides before you could start making a pretty good case, at least by body count.\n\n>There were also plenty of sources that disagreed. As you can see, the biggest problem is morons who are still now claiming suicides have massively spiked\n\nReally? Why don't you link them. Because google seems to suggest there are a *lot* more of the other.\n\nBesides, how much further are you expected to look than the CDC? \n\nYour complaint seems to be more that it was badly reported on, but you want to figure out a way to hate the people who reasonably believed that reporting. Your contempt is misplaced.\n\n>Literally nothing cringier than people frothing at the mouth to quote 1984 in situations where it is completely irrelevant. Lol.\n\nI don't know, I'd say typing like a 14 year old girl might qualify.\n\nLooking forward to those date stamped links going back to back up your claim, thanks.",
"I was like you. No hope, I was never going to achieve my goals, I didnt even have a viable path to get to my goals, and I was too scared to even start hacking at the brush to make a path. One day I just, out of the blue decided I was going to be satisfied today. Whatever it was I did, as long as I did some little tiny thing, I was going to be happy about it and it was going to be good enough. That day I made my bed. Thats all I did, I made the bed and then went to work and drudged my way through like normal. When I got back home, mentally and physically exhausted, you know what, my bed was made and it was like a little ray of sunshine. Like a present I had left for myself. After doing this for awhile I kept adding things to my \"presents for myself routine\" cleaning the house, doing the dishes, etc and pretty soon I actually was pretty happy to come home. Then I thought, why dont I do this for work too, so I started looking for a job that was more in the direction of one I wanted. It wasnt my dream job, but it was in that direction. Now I dont presume to know your situation, I just know what worked for me, and I hope it might work for you too.",
"Sending lots of love and good thoughts your way ❤️",
"Really get this. I struggled with brain chemistry depression for a really long time and NOTHING worked. Drowning in a hole 24/7. Not saying this works for everyone but testosterone replacement treatment literally changed my life completely. Not for working out or looking good, just simple testosterone replacement therapy and it fucking kicked my depression’s ass. \n\nAlways happy to offer some direction if anyone is considering this as an option.",
"The intrusive thoughts are the worst and become harder and harder to combat. Do they ever subside?",
"Reach out and talk about that pain. That’s a lot to burden alone, so don’t go alone. I love you. You’re alive for many reasons.",
"Is it just me or does his skin appear oddly blue? No disrespect meant, I love his message.",
"> Gamings going to get real old real quick the older you get\n\nUmmm.. no.",
"Come talk to me in a few years kiddo. Lol.",
"The games a beautiful, amazing, heart racing kick in the nads. So worth it.\n\nBest ending? Full honor, and get full bond with a horse and use it all game. The payoff is massive for imersion.",
"Ok then I hope they like the depression they are dealing with. Maybe that is \"safer\".",
"Redditors are constantly wishing death and harm upon people they disagree with. Or did you need proof?",
"Care to share? I've only read the journal articles about it. Very clinical stuff",
"I had my existential crisis at 19. So I eel like RDR2 was basically almost a way to mourn myself by proxy.\n\nIt's cathartic TBH, because \"that's the way it is.\"",
"Next time keep your useless platitudes to yourself man, they are less than helpful to people actually going through shit.",
"this is what im hoping to figure out through bloodwork next because im thinking like, brain chemistry is one thing but something else feels off and im guessing its hormonal. glad to see someone mention this as something that seemed to flip the switch back on. you can just feel your body and sense when something is beyond not enough serotonin or dopamine or whatever. Glad it worked for you!",
"I cannot relate to your condition, but one thing that brings me joy is helping others. Perhaps, try consistently donating some of your weekend time at a food bank. You might find what you're missing in a form of charity for others.",
"I'm pushing 50 kid. Video games are awesome.",
"\"i love you\" - silicon pixels",
"Didn’t expect to see a comment like this when sorting by controversial. \n\nYou are right. Calling this the “greatest mental health pandemic in history” is an uneducated thing to say. Human beings have endured far worse living conditions. What a joke!",
"You don't feel... I don't know.. different? Medicated? Not yourself? On the medication? It's always my concern. I'm fairly sure I need something.",
">So fucking hyperbolic and over the top. Not to mention insulting to the people who have lived under actual tyrannical governments and authoritarian regimes.\n\nThis is what I thought when people called Trump a nazi/fascist lol",
"Sounds like an antisuicide campaign",
"Watch it; you won't regret it. Just make sure you don't stop at any point. It's not worth it unless you see it through to the end.",
"Why 998 calls instead of 1000? Weird number for a quota.",
"🫂",
"Not the moustache, his eyes. I teared up looking at his eyes.",
"The sincerity in his voice....... then the birds......\n\nHe is trying his best to cope with something that makes no sense.",
"You guys doing okay? I had to take a moment to get my shit together. Things are tough out there.",
"I'll probably punch out when my cat passes.",
"Purdy writing",
"Game night is not a magical cure for depression, and forcing yourself to do things that make you feel unsafe does not actually improve your mental health.\n\nConsider this: everyone has been through some shit. Going to the movies or hanging out with friends isn't going to be like it used to be. It's not like you\n\nGet off your fucking high horse; you don't have moral high ground here. You just have a lack of empathy for your fellow humans, which is precisely the reason we're in this mess to begin with.",
"Yeah, this was my exact reasoning behind my desire to get a dog. I do not do well with people but I love animals. They always make me feel comfortable and relaxed when I get to pet one. It would force me to take the dog out for walks every day, and is a big conversation starter for random people to walk up to me and talk. Talking to people horrifies me most of the time, but the only way to work on getting over it is by doing it in small doses repeatedly. But, living on disability makes owning a dog next to impossible. I simply don't have the money to cover food, vet bills, and other random surprises that come with taking care of a living creature. AVPD has slowly reduced/removed my ability to feel 'love' for people, but I think reconnecting with that emotion via an animal is possible.",
"The dark ages: am I a joke to you?!",
"sigh~~ what's so great about love? will love put food on my table? will love provide a roof over my head? I have to face reality; I am useless and it is hopeless. There's only one way out of my squalor and it is not up...it is down, in a ditch.",
"Well then it will either be finances or regrets for what they did to make you hate them. Works out for you I guess.",
"They give you it in the hospital for super pain relief now.",
"Don’t wait for your friends to reach out. Be there for them. When you’re depressed reaching out feels like you’re a burden, an inconvenience, or troubling people. You may think you’re overreacting. So you won’t reach out and days and weeks and months go by.\n\nStay in touch with your friends. Notice when they go silent and you don’t hear from them. You reach out not them because they’re in a position where they often won’t.",
"A lot of horrible people feel regret at the end. Probably cause they realize the only person that COULD care that they died, doesn’t care due to their own fuck ups. Sorry you’re in that situation. For your sake, I hope they regret it for whatever they did. I hope you’re okay, friend. I’m there too right now.",
"Blame the news and government..it has destroyed everyone's peace of mind and made us live in constant fear and anxiety. Too many have bought into the division..It's just going to get even worse for everyone..No matter what \"team\" you are on. We all lose.",
"I hope they like dying and getting their loved ones sick for the sake of \"owning the libs\".",
"I’m saving this.",
"yeah the moustache and the \"hey fam\" really had me ready for a joke, this fucked me up",
"i feel like an ass for saying this but you didn’t consent to being brought into this world you have every right to take yourself out of it",
">well, just get better! Just try harder!\n\nSimilarly, that's infuriating advice for someone with ADHD. People don't realize the brain doesn't always work the same way.",
">It's kind of sad that this feeling seems so prevalent among us.\n\nIt is sad, but it's also a reminder that you're not actually alone unless you want to be. Connections over shared experience with sympathetic strangers can go a long way. I'm right there with you but maybe a few steps closer to the way out (the *good* way out). Shit's hard and shit sucks -- no empty platitudes from me. I just hope you find good help sooner than later. Good luck.",
"Hey man. I juuuuuust commented this earlier on a very private sub but...I have a measurably good life and I feel this way almost daily. Reach out if you need it. Any time. PM me and I'll give you my phone number. My wife is my ally in my mental health and that shit has taken some seriously hard conversations. \n\nDon't fuck around. Call a stranger. Get out of your comfort zone. I only care so much because I have, am regularly, and will probably be there again.\n\nCovid sucks, but it's just exacerbated what was already there. \n\nHMU. I can't fix anything, but I care, because I have to know there are people out there that care.",
"It's definitely the greatest mental health epidemic, since the phrase \"mental health epidemic\" has been coined.",
"I’ll make dua for y’all. Inshallah we are all guided",
"I needed this as well, I've struggled and attempted many times to end it, always failing or chickening out at the very end with scars to prove it. I lost my job recently and have been such a mental mess, so I'll say it as well in the off chance anyone reads this, I love you all too, you all matter despite what your brains tells you. Don't let your thoughts betray you, take control, and push back. \n\n\nRemember all things in this universe including the absolute insane mathematical probability that we all even exist; it all exists because you do. The minute you cease to exist, so does the universe. It's hard, but make the most of your time here, never give up <3",
"It's. Fucking. Capitalism.\n\nWe can't afford mental health so therefore we don't deserve it.\n\nWe can't afford insurance so therefore we don't deserve it.\n\nWe have medical debt, college debt, shitty jobs that don't need to be done, and this is what we are told we deserve.\n\nThis ultra-materialist quackery has got to fucking stop. It's a dog eat dog world they say. I'm a dog. You're a dog. We are supposed to eat each other. The entire fucking country is a dog fighting arena. Materialism is a mindless and fucked up philosophy where you see other people as only enemies, allies, or resources to be exploited. This entire fucking philosophy that we are forced to live in and can't even escape from is fucking killing us.\n\nIt's capitalism. It's fucking capitalism.\n\nEDIT: Anyone downvoting me, fuck you, get hit by a bus, because that's more resources for the rest of us, as our materialist overlords would have it. Life literally only has value if it has financial value to me, right? Hell, I hope your entire family dies. oVeRpOpUlAtIoN!!!!1 Malthus was right, we should sacrifice your poor ass for my economic gain.",
"You are an extremely kind hearted person and I sincerely. My emotional barrier is miles high because I have an extremely hard time trusting people but you actually did get through my emotional barrier. Thank you, sincerely.\n\nI'll shoot you a message, the thought of talking to someone that can understand sounds very good.",
"Suicides are going to be reported as long as a body is found.\n\nReports of mental distress _might_ be reduced, or might not be. Telemedicine really hit its stride in the past 18 months and that has actually made it easier for some people to connect with help.\n\nSelf-harm requiring an ER visit might have seen a drop, but I wouldn't imagine that serious incidents like deep cuts would.",
"Ah, well I believe the correct expression is \"brass tacks,\" which is kind of [mysterious in origin](https://grammarist.com/usage/get-down-to-brass-tacks/) itself.",
"I used to have something like what you have. It’s more a depression out of circumstance, like the depression itself is a nuisance you’d rather just disappear. We’re lucky in that sense as it maybe means that its not so instrinsic and overwhelming that we’d necessarily need medication or other treatments to overcome it.\n\nI found by far that starting a new hobby where I could experience the feeling of progress and also express myself helped a lot. Some sort of creative endeavour that you can really pour yourself into, which gets you back into a more productive and resilient state of mind. After a while I found the depression just slip off me, and then almost by magic good things started happening. Wasn’t by magic of course, it involved big life changes and some time to pass that positioned me for better odds of success (involved going back to uni, drinking only occasionally, quitting smoking of tobacco/weed, exercise etc). But it started with learning a new musical instrument, painting, etc. Something to turn the tables around on my feelings and challenge them.\n\nMaybe my approach doesn’t apply to you but I’m convinced it’s a good way to go.",
"Absolutely. First step is to get tested and, if you do decide to go with hormone therapy, the cognitive change is pretty quick. You’ll know on Day 1 if it’s making the right difference or not. \n\nAnd, to anyone concerned about “becoming aggressive” — it’s only going to amplify your inherent aggressive personality. If you’re a quiet, kind person, you’ll just end up a happier, more active quiet, kind person. \n\nYou might even throw a frisbee once or twice a year",
"Definitely, I've never felt anything from a stranger saying random shit, same with negative comments. It has no affect on my life, so the empty words mean nothing. Its frustrating in either direction. Like when people say \"there's so much to live for\" and \"It will get better\". You have absolutely no idea what the people in that situation are going though. I've had friends who have been suicidal and all you can ever really do is be there and try and push for engagement. If they say no, then what can you really do? Just because you have some magical amazing speech, fucking MLK tier of amazement and the fact is, IT CHANGES NOTHING IN THAT PERSONS LIFE.\n\nI mean I can't be mad at them for saying positive things. The issue is when you go home, you forget. This suicidal person has to go home, very likely all alone, just like they have done every single day for 10+ years. All alone, with nobody to even talk to, nobody to be open with, nobody to share any feelings. All alone, again and again, for years. Your \"positive vibes\" are a drop in an ocean of despair and it hurts me.",
"I called a suicide hotline one time. They said, well, God wants you to live, He has a plan for you. I said, I'm sorry but I really don't believe in God nor him putting me through this pain and they basically tried to sell Christianity to me and push me to believe in God. It made me fell a thousand times worse; I felt ostracized for my belief, or lack thereof. One that note, you don't have to call a suicide hotline. Call anyone.",
"Out of everything from that show I’m glad the part that stuck with me was the running baboon. “It gets easier, but you’ve got to do it every day. That’s the hard part.”\n\nI’m currently 1,009 days sober and that phrase comes to mind a lot.",
"This is needed right now, thank you. I get love from people around me, lots of it\n\nBut I’m not turning away any love\n\nI love you too!",
"Well there are distractions and callings. I believe distractions are just stepping stones to your calling and everyone has a calling, a groove waiting for them to just slot into and feel that their life is complete (or close enough). And I mean that in an abstract way, i.e doing something creative, or helping people in some way etc.\n\nMy calling is I love to make things and see the benefit people get out of it. It’s a selfish endeavour, I enjoy the praise and feeling of empowerment I get from it. And it puts food on my table.",
"It's a pandemic. Most of this are things that happen in a pandemic. \n\nExcept for the politicizing of it.",
"I thought the joke was gunna be the bird starts making noises, he loses his concentration and gets frustrated. But then I realized this wasn’t a joke video.",
"Awesome whataboutism",
"Funny you sound pretty offended by a lot of that? \n\nI guess you just get offended by dumb shit?",
"This is as depressing as it is beautiful...",
"34 checking in. glad someone can verbalize what i feel a lot better than i can. at least we're not alone in feeling this bullshit.",
"Well it's taken a dip in the pandemic. \n\nSo we should probably notice that. \n\nhttps://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/07/21/1018590263/u-s-life-expectancy-fell-1-5-years-2020-biggest-drop-since-ww-ii-covid",
"\"Well, hello Buddy...\", oops, different guy.",
"I am coming here late, and I am ok with that, but I will just use this space to vent relatively free of responsibility.\n\nI am 37 and can remember that I have struggled with suicidal thoughts since since I was 9 and used to cut myself when I was younger. When I tried to ask for help when I was 15, I was very plainly told by my mother that she would give me a reason to be depressed and started hitting me in the face. Since then, I have just tried to deal with everything on my own.\n\nI was sent home due to the pandemic back in March 2020 and have been made work from home since then. At the end of April 2020, my house all got sick with Covid and while my daughter and wife were fine, I got hit hard. I had legitimately every symptom and pneumonia as well, and since then, I have had shortness of breath. It stole from me my physical activity and things just get worse and worse. I have my three year old daughter ask me to go to the park with her and her mom, and I physically can't keep myself active enough to keep up with her and I feel like such a disappointment and a bad father to her. Since I got sick, my quality of life has declined and I gained a bunch of weight. I am disgusted by myself as a human on a daily basis, and I don't know where to start to try and fix it.\n\nI think about killing myself on a daily basis now, and I hate it. But at the same time, I feel like my wife is disgusted with me and we are only together solely because I take care of our daughter when she works and I work an off shift to help out. I never spend any time with her, and when I do see her, we barely speak. I haven't seen any of my friends since the pandemic started because I know if I get sick again, I will die this time around. I have no one to talk to anymore and I am tired of feeling sorry for myself.\n\nI am convinced if it weren't for the fact that I have a 3 year old daughter, I would have killed myself months ago. That's it. I want her to know her father, even though I can't do what she wants from me.\n\nThe video broke me down like I wasn't expecting, and it made me feel less alone, even if just for a moment.",
"I agree, and I’m saying this as someone who has seriously struggled with mental health their whole life. It’s the biggest epidemic only in the sense that there are more people now. I can’t imagine the suffering in the past. The plague killed a third of Europe. What would that have been like? War, disease, famine, slavery…I’m not trying to minimise the suffering of those who live now, only want to point out that I don’t think this statement is accurate.",
"As someone who’s lost way too many friends in recent years I can say two things: 1. You never know how much you will miss certain people when they leave this world. 2. You’ll be missed and remembered by someone, no matter how little you think you might mean to the world. 25 years since the first friend of mind passed away, and only 2 months since the most recent and I miss one just as much as the other.",
"Nah i see alot of it on this shit hole site.",
"Desiring to not exist is a completely normal thought process, maybe all these other \"normal\" people are just way too distracted to understand it. The thing is you have to balance that \"void\" desire with your other desires and know that regardless of what you do, your time to stop existing will come eventually.",
"As a counter-example for my statement \"Multi-millionaires and billionaires are great for our country\" you gave me a study about people not in our country? A study that in fact says \"The results indicated that Instagram use did not directly increase social anxiety.\"\n\nWhy are minimum wage jobs bad? Would you prefer the people working minimum wage jobs just not be hired?\n\nWhat taxes in the US are billionaires not paying that they are required too?\n\nWhich laws are they pushing to my detriment? How are they doing this?",
"I share the same sentiment. I never said anything against video games. Never once implied otherwise. Pls send me the argument that stood out.",
"I feel almost every letter of this very deeply. The sad part is that I'm married and I have three girls and a son on the way. I do constantly think about suicide, and I feel like nobody cares at all. I feel like I'm a burden on my family so I try to mask my depression as well as I can but sometimes it's too much and I snap. Slowly I'm starting to feel less and less emotionally and I have moved past being scared by it to just being mused. I don't even feel human anymore.",
"\"We lost another one today\". Man... That hits the gut hard. That anyone would have to say that is heartbreaking.",
"Context?",
"Thinking that having a small gathering of vaccinated people is unsafe is irrationally fearful.\n\nI have made literally zero comment on morality at all so idk what you are talking about.",
"Just doesn't know how lucky he is. Just doesn't understand yet. Hopefully the additional comment made him think about it a little bit.",
"What the fuck are you talking about? How do these studies have anything to do with if someone from the middle ages would prefer life today? Are you really trying to say a serf in the middle ages would hate life today because instagram would make them self concious?\n\nI think they would care more about how they have sanitation, medicine, etc.",
"Definitely a valid concern! It's what makes finding a good psychiatrist who is willing to work with you to find the right combination of treatments, whether pharmaceutical or therapeutic, so valuable. Everyone responds differently to different things, and there is no one size fits all solution.",
"I had an interesting thought today as some thoughts of how boring and pointless my life seems at times.\n\nWhat if you just saved as much as you could, as hard as you could, liquidated all positions and assets, down to the silverware, for a year, and just fuckin bailed to some random beach town in South America/Somewhere south of the equator?\n\nI've heard so many stories of people doing that and finding meaning/happiness, and many less few of people doing that and being harmed/regretting it.\n\nI feel people get so trapped in their immediate environment, and completely uprooting yourself would likely be helpful for many. Reinstill that purpose.\n\nObviously every case is unique, but I wonder how many folks in those dark places would benefit from a massive life change.",
"Where did his video originally post?",
"My good friend, you don’t have to suffer alone. There is good in this world. If you experienced joy in the past you still deserve it today. I don’t know you, but you don’t deserve this. Please reach out to your most convenient source of help",
"I legit have a hard time everyday because idiots can't understand and accept science. Mostly the maga/anti-vax crown.",
"In the US: Call the NAMI HelpLine at 800-950-6264 M-F, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m., ET \nOr in a crisis, text \"NAMI\" to 741741 for 24/7, confidential, free crisis counseling. \n\n[Nat’l Alliance for the Mentally Ill ](https://nami.org/Home) also has chapters in all states, and [support groups](https://nami.org/Support-Education).",
"I don't smell \\*that\\* bad, do I?! =(",
"Bro, your just a new player in the game. Of course new players won’t be missed by anyone if they’ve never even really played. You seem like a very smart introspective person though and you’re clearly making an impression here on Reddit! You’re taking a good path.",
"988 is a phone number.",
"I'd have sex with him. \n\nDoes that help?",
"(July 16, 2022)[https://www.fcc.gov/suicide-prevention-hotline]",
"> Gamings going to get real old real quick the older you get\n\nYou literally said that.",
"As someone who almost nearly lost someone from this exact thing and as someone who has a hard time getting his shit together, just wanted to say I don't know you but I love you",
"Yeah, what's not toxic is how society is treating women and children like they have inherent value and men like they are simply providers who do not matter, toxic is simply saying men and women are different and masculinity isn't a problem, how toxic of me.",
"Bahaha as soon as I saw “tyrannical government” I had to check his profile. Of course he’s a right wing nut.\n\nThe vaccine mandate is actually a plan to crush small businesses so the communists can take over!!! 🧠\n\nhttps://reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/plxeg8/why_is_nobody_putting_together_that_the_80/",
"I wish just watching a video like that could actually make a difference in my head.",
"I love all of you. For real. Even you.",
"Isn't it crazy how much of our entire lives have been defined by this fucking war? Send me a message sometime if you can't sleep",
"That's what I want to do with my life, help others heal",
"USA unfortunately.",
"The most terrifying yet reassuring thing in life for me is that we *think* we know what the future holds.\n\nThink 10 years back, I guarantee the person you were ten years ago would have never predicted some of the things that have happened since then.\n\nThe universe is chaos, there is no guarantee for the highs and lows. The only guarantee is change.",
"You're trying too hard mate",
">There is nothing feminine about being open about struggling with something.\n\nFactually inaccurate, in gender differences women score higher in Openness to feelings and men in Openness to ideas, but you just continue with that drivel, I'm sure those facts are the acid you were thinking of.\n\nYou want to socially change the way that men actually are, and the way that men actually deal with their stress, but I don't think it makes a man weak to talk about his problems, it's just not going to be as effective for men in the way it helps a woman based on gender differences.\n\nWhat I think is killing men is the lack of value society has for men, women and children have inherent value unless a man provides something he is worthless, and a lack of care for men's issues in general, add to that the vilification of men as a part of group identity nonsense, it all plays a role.",
"Yo. There is no final level… life is an open world mmo rpg with infinite dlc’s put out every day. It’s up to us how we play the game and use our time wisely. We all have different starting points with different challenges, different perks, and abilities, attributes, etc. but that doesn’t matter. What matters is how you play with the cards you’re dealt. You could have the best hands in the deck and still fuck it all up, or you could have the worst cards and make the right moves to be ahead of the crowd. That’s the goal is to be ahead of the crowd. Do what you gotta do to move up a level, and keep moving up.",
"There is going to be a turning point in this country soon that started with the occupy wall street movement that’s building into a tidal wave. As soon as people start directing the energy towards change in this country you’ll see a mass movement that’s going to change this country forever.",
"I've personally been through two suicide scares of either friend or family in the last 12 months. \n\nPlease reach out to someone if you need help. This affects everyone around you and leaves lasting injuries that take a while to deal with.\n\nI still have a hard time connecting with these people even though I love them dearly.\n\nIt's a shitty feeling.\n\nReach out. Seek help. Please.",
"no but for real now, how was the mental health under gengis khan?",
"Wario*",
"Throughout the past year I've lost most of what matters to me. I live in an area ravaged by multiple natural disasters, the hit of covid, and the hit of the economy. I've known people live in cars/tents for the past year after a major hurricane (this is in rich ass america). I lost my mother who was my best friend. When she died suddenly and unexpectedly...there was no one there for me except my son...who at 16, and very close to his grandmother, couldn't handle the stress of it all and attempted to kill himself...thankfully he physically recovered...and i relocated him to his mothers house..1200 miles away..where atleast he had a support system...because in my area...everyones support system is just shattered. I tried going back to work...and just being normal...but I couldn't concentrate on my job...I couldn't focus...I'd randomly break down. I quit before I got fired...my boss was also a friend...i didn't want to take advantage of that and of him...my work was becoming subpar and I was unreliable. And now for a few months Ive just been staying to myself. Trying to work out how to rejoin the world. Trying to work out what my motivation for rejoining the world is...now that I'm alone. Life is tough. And I don't know why I'm even choosing to share this here...most people think I'm fine...because I don't talk about it. Is this fine? Is this a natural course of mourning and handling of extreme stress. I don't know. Life can be so hard...but I don't forget how beautiful it can be. I just hope...I see the beautiful again soon. \n\n\nAnd my story isn't unique. There are so many individual tragedies going on right now....The world has become a darker place for so many. I envy the people who push through like nothing has gone wrong. I used to be that guy. But I feel the weight of it all now. And there's noone to share this burden with anymore.",
"What the fuck is this shit, looks like a bunch of commie gobbledygook to me.",
"Hey brother or sister. I am experiencing the same thing right now. I'm lucky to have a family but I find myself distancing from people more and more due to these waves of depression and existential angst. You hang in there. I'll do the same.",
"It isn't my argument. I'm not the person you originally replied too, I just chimed in to point out that you're insane. Also the person you are replying too bought up history before you replied to him: \"This is the healthiest, least violent period of human history\", then your reply \"Thing is if everyone is poor then you don't feel bad about it\" obviously alludes to sometime of great poverty like the dark ages or the great depression (which was, funnily enough, a depressing time to live).",
"Love you!!",
"The sight of his mustache hit my heart so hard given the situation and the history I have with these two subjects going hand-in-hand for me. I’m so sorry that he has to go through this. For context: I’ve been involved with the Movember foundation over the past 5 Novembers. My campaigns have always been centered around Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention, barring the last 2 where I lost my Grandfather and Stepfather to Cancer. I too have lost loved ones from Suicide. Every day we lose 132 people on average to suicide. It doesn’t sound like a lot in the grand scheme of things being only ~48,000 people in the US per year, but even 1 is 1 too many. Do your part to let people know you care, that you love them, that you are willing and WANT to hear them out. If you can’t or aren’t that person, know the resources that can help them out. Today, tomorrow, next month; anytime is the time to work on these skills and identify all of the different resources at your disposal. I’ll add a plug here.(I’m not affiliated with the Movember Foundation) Next month, join us all in growing a mustache and donate your grooming budget to any charity, as I said I participate with the Movember Foundation, that seeks to help save lives from ending too early. \n\nUS National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 \n[The Jed Foundation](https://jedfoundation.org) \n[Nami](https://www.nami.org/Home) \n[American Foundation for Suicide Prevention](https://afsp.org) \n[The Movember Foundation](https://us.movember.com)\n\nIf anyone is interested in the premise of the Movember Foundation: You create your profile, share on all social media, start growing your mustache, and post regular updates about your growth or thoughts or whatever, all while collecting donations for a good cause. (testicular cancer, prostate cancer, Cancer in general, Mental health Awareness and Suicide Prevention). \n\nMuch love to the man in the video.",
"keep your heads up everybody. give back wherever you can. you can find meaning through helping people. a few days ago i encountered a man sitting on a curb in a parking lot looking very down and out. i approached him asking if he was okay, and he def was not. shaking, confused, visibly upset. I guess he had a bad day and walked off the job, became stranded with no phone. I called a lyft for him and got him back to his brothers house about 45min away. it felt good to help a stranger. be kind to yourself, life is always changing - you may be down and out today but things can always change for the better in the future.",
"Felt like a weird meme",
"And here you are, ranting behind a screen",
"Eh maybe, but they’ve been remaking old games that I used to absolutely love and now I just find they’re not enjoyable at all past a few weeks (Classic WoW, Warcraft 3, etc). \n\nI don’t think they’re “making games differently.” I think the gaming market hasn’t found a way to cater to their “first gen” audience. \n\nAll the people who grew up during the gaming boom are now in their 30s and 40s. Not one company has invested in developing games for THAT demographic. I really think there’s a big market for styles of games which cater to that age group and are built around “squeezing them in among adult responsibilities.”",
"Yeah. This has leveled me....for the first time in my life. I totally feel you. Just keep swimming. We can reach out like you did so we all don't feel so alone thank you for that.",
"I don’t comment often on posts but this needs to be said. On October 6th I lost my older brother and on this night I found out that the girl that I have always called my best friend is planning on leaving the state again. I don’t know what to do here I’m in so much pain and I’m unable to open up to the people closest to me because I just lose it and become a mess. I don’t want to lose her because I have feelings for her and I just got back in contact with her after almost 12 years of silence from her.",
"We wait two more weeks until the curve is flattened.",
"I assume keep trying, but I'm just a depressed person who has been occasionally pulled out of a bad place by the suicide line, I'm not even remotely a mental health professional.\n\nEdit: FWIW I still relapse a LOT but 3 years of weekly therapy with a queer and poly friendly therapist, a couple boughts of medication, and smoking and then giving up weed and diving into Buddhist philosophy has so far worked best for me.",
"This has been an incredibly difficult time for me as well. Hoping for and wishing everyone better days.",
">I feel like the only people to blame Covid for mental health are the people who think it's (mental illness) a joke and treat it as a disease they can catch and get over moderately easily.\n\nKinda cutting it close to gatekeeping mental illness here. For you it was better and for that I am glad, but I don't think you should mistake your experience as universal.\n\nI can just tell you that I have seen it the other way around.",
"Wow, your absolute lack of evidence has won me over.",
"The capitalist system is made to break us",
"Doubt it",
"> Works closely with men on reinventing a healthy idea of masculinity\n\ncould you speak more on this",
"I never quite know where I stand since this whole thing has started.\n\nLittle over a year ago I caught my then-wife basically cheating on me. Confronted her and was met with someone telling me she felt unhappy and needed time to decide what would make her 'happy'. Within a week I was packing and getting effectively kicked out with divorce papers.\n\nMoved near family, who were great help. At first. Slowly, as this pandemic has gone one, they've pulled away. At this point, I dont feel like i have family anymore. I've lost all my friends. I know nobody here and its not like I can meet anyone with the pandemic. Friends I had are all just gone. Family is gone. Stability in my life, gone.\n\nI feel it, everyone around me, everyone I do now, depression is hell. So I cant reach out and talk to anyone. The few i've tried, they just turn it around and project onto me their own feelings of instability. I have one person in my life, who I love dearly, but im not sure im enough for them. I worry I am failing them too.\n\nEdit because I sorta ended this early. I work, I do what I can to make myself and others happy. But at the same time, I have this very strong crushing depression over my head, and im not sure if its more from my divorce and loss of basically identity, or the inability to redefine myself during the pandemic. I dont know. I know im not the only one, at least from an emotional standpoint. This man really hit me hard, so you'll have to excuse me. I hope he's ok.",
"I’m too lazy to scroll and find a comment about that bird.. but… damn that’s an annoying bird.",
"I understand exactly what you are saying. I have been here before with my divorce. Im 35 now. After my divorce it was dark, and I almost lost it. Im not back at this point after my breakup with my last girlfriend. The road ahead is one of recovery, years of therapy, changing everything, and trying again. Ive just been beat down. I have three severe illnesses that are lifelong. It cost $10,000s to keep me alive every year. Mathmatically I am a drain on the system. I have no desire to dig myself out of this hole, I have already set a date of when and where and how. My decision stands final, I just dont see any path forward that I am willing to take. Moving on after her, is just not in my cards. It will be worth it to me, I am not scared, I am not emotional about this decision. I have thought it through over the course of months and months. At this point, I dont care who I leave behind, as long as I am gone. I cannot justify wreathing in emotional pain, crying in the fetal position, and losing all sense of reality every night for much longer. Its an epidemic, the covid lockdown brutalized it, and I just... I got to go.",
"X",
"could you explain further what you mean by being under attack and what that actually fells like? For people that may be like me that arent familiar with something like this. I dont mean to cause any harm im genuinely curious",
"You have excellent prose. You should write anti-capitalist poetry. I'd read it.",
"I remember a distinct arc of humor, sympathy, and then disappointment in him as a character. It was beautifully done.",
"I know I’m late to the game but pm me if you ever wanna chat with somebody who’s been through similar. I’m on my 10th medication it seems like. Some days it does seem like things are going up. I wish you the best!",
"Not even sure what that's supposed to mean in this context",
"Omg, one of my longtime close friends has the same condition as you (happened in august) and she is only 20 years old. From alcoholism. It actually sent me into a spiral to know that one of my longest friends was going to die so soon and so young.",
"> Thinking that having a small gathering of vaccinated people is unsafe is irrationally fearful.\n\nObjective reality and subjective experience are different things. You're right that, so far as we know, a vaccinated person who isn't immunocompromised doesn't have much to fear (in terms of pure statistical covid risk) from a small gathering of vaccinated folks.\n\nBut we're talking about the cumulative impact of nearly two years of trauma and stress. Your assumption that people ought to be rational in the face of that is a kind of moral statement about mental health, from my perspective. And your assumption that the things that used to be fun will still be fun is not necessarily accurate.",
"Those were the days, man, just getting carried away in thought.\n\nAlso I'd add reading to that list. One of my favorite introspective activities.",
"For me I would just troll the suicide sites and it was sort of comfort me knowing that there was a way out, it would give me some sort of relief knowing that I could get out if I needed to and that would sort of keep me around. It took 15 years but I did eventually get medication to lift the depression So I feel lucky. But even knowing people loved me didn’t do anything to quell the depression when I had it. End of the day we are all still very alone when we have that feeling. I really hope you feel better and can find some light. You really are not alone but I know that you feel that way and I don’t want to say some stupid platitude to you. Just hang in there.",
"I feel like we have an entire generation worth of people who won't kill themselves but wouldn't be bothered if they died either.",
"Good for you! I hated reading as a kid. However as an adult I have a new love for it thru audio books. A good book makes a work day fly by. I need some new ones come to think of it.",
"Fuck, a random stranger saying I love you over the internert makes me want to cry, this is getting ridiculous. Fuck.",
"This is what works for me: I eat three ounces of lean smoked turkey breast the first thing every morning. For me it is an amazingly reliable mood stabilizer. (I suspect it's the protein - other meats work well, too, but turkey seems to be the most powerful & consistent.) Then I eat normally for the rest of the day. I know my positive results are due to the turkey because if I miss a day or two the dark intrusive thoughts zoom right back in. Eating more turkey eradicates them within the next day for me. I have no idea if this would work for anyone else. Just putting it out there.\n\n*[This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/q56flp/people_who_eat_meat_on_average_experience_lower) popped up in r/science today, so I'm not totally crazy.",
"This is what works for me: I eat three ounces of lean smoked turkey breast the first thing every morning. For me it is an amazingly reliable mood stabilizer. (I suspect it's the protein - other meats work well, too, but turkey seems to be the most powerful & consistent.) Then I eat normally for the rest of the day. I know my positive results are due to the turkey because if I miss a day or two the dark intrusive thoughts zoom right back in. Eating more turkey eradicates them within the next day for me. I have no idea if this would work for anyone else. Just putting it out there.\n\n*[This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/q56flp/people_who_eat_meat_on_average_experience_lower) popped up in r/science today, so I'm not totally crazy.",
"Congratulations on 1009 days",
"You can tell he's serious because he said fuck.",
"I recently failed a suicide attempt that left me in a coma and on life support. I don’t know how I survived but I did. If you’re struggling with your mental health and ideations, please reach out to someone and seek help. You are loved. I promise.",
"From someone who's been on the edge for a long time. Is hungry, exhausted, and has lost all hope of finding any way out of it... We need to do more than just be there.\n\nI know my friends are there for me if I need them. But they can't give me a place to live. And they're already giving me what they can to make sure I'm fed.\n\nWhen someone is being tortured by their neighbours, left unable to sleep for days on end until they wind up in hospital, the response of every housing organisation shouldn't be \"Oh, well your area is handled by the salvos sunshine office, you'll have to call them.\" which leads to \"Oh, well if you get approved for your own place we can pay your bond if it's less than 55% of your income.\" my income being... $300/wk.\n\nThe response from a psychiatrist in a hospital to someone saying they don't care anymore, nothing they do matters or can change anything shouldn't be \"Well what do you want me to do.\"\n\nThe response of the government to the fact unemployed people are starving and falling homeless every day while being given less than half the national poverty line shouldn't be \"NO! I'll have you know this government is great to poor people, we gave them a whole extra $50 a fortnight, they should just go pick fruit if they want a job.\"\n\nThe response of the social housing agency in charge of my meth-head neighbours unit to them blasting shitty dance music so loud this was recorded in my room (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tUi_LsoD00dFJALHAx9i9r-BAsyub9iC/view) should not be \"We'll look into it.\" followed by ignoring me for 3 months until I wind up in hospital because I am sleeping an average of 5-6 hours a week if I'm lucky.\n\nThe problem isn't reaching out, that's the easy part. My mental illness is on full display for anyone who's curious to see.\n\nThe problem is our societies and their \"Not my problem, I got mine.\" attitude. We all love to say things like life is valuable, sometimes people need help, yada yada yada... If we want to see a drop in the rate of suicides, we need to start dealing with the problems effecting people so they have a fighting chance at surviving their depression.\n\nWe've succeeded at mental health awareness. Now it's time to start actually doing things rather than just being aware of it. I'm so tired, and the only way out of the endless suffering and insurmountable amount of problems I'm facing, is suicide, but I haven't gone over that ledge yet.\n\nSadly, I've seen 9 people who have this year. 5 of them were fellow job seekers. 2 were trapped in abusive relationships made worse by the lockdowns. 2 were the relatives of people close to me.\n\nBeing there to talk is helpful to an extent. What's better is going to a food bank or community kitchen and volunteering, or supporting community organisations pushing for affordable housing. It's calling your radio stations and asking why they wont talk about the ways governments and society are failing the most vulnerable. It's refusing to buy into the political lines that state \"We care about those with mental illness, that's why we gave our mates an extra 20million to employee an additional volunteer phone line operator between the hours of 3:42am-3:46am.\"\n\nAnyway I guess I'm done venting now. If you made it this far for whatever reason, you CAN do something even if you're not sure what. Start with community groups. Hell, start with someone you know who's going through it and try take some of their burdens away for a bit, it could be as simple as dropping 20 cans of cat food off at their door and knowing they don't need to worry about that for a couple of weeks or a month. Because when we're done talking to you about our problems, we still have to live with them the other 23.5 hours of the day, 7 days a week. And when there's no end in sight, no hope of another way out, telling someone they have so much to live for is more of a cruel joke than a sympathetic sentiment.",
"Live alone. Stuck in a country away from my family. Hate my job.\n\nBut I’ve always wanted to just disappear.",
"The fuck kind of post is this",
"Yeah I’m also a fucking mess, though no ones ever bothered with me long enough to get married or settled down. I know about getting beat down, literally and metaphorically. And frankly fuck the system, society should operate for the sustenance of life, not to satisfy the unending greed of the few. You have as much right to medical care as anyone, America really is fucked when it comes to that. Lockdown has been hard, I don’t disagree, the loneliness really hit me, I do wonder though, is it harder to have loved and lost than never loved at all? I’m hanging on in the (vain) hope I’ll meet someone and finally have some happiness. You should try stick it out a bit longer at least. You never know what’s around the corner, you could meet your soul mate tomorrow and fall madly in love! I’m sure hoping I do…",
"holy shit man. im so sorry… grandmas are awesome. \none problem at a time bro, and take time to go through all stages of grief…",
"Other people dying = interventionism\n\nMy family dying = tyranny\n\nok",
"reality is a subcategory of a reflection of true happiness.",
"Any good reading you can recommend for an up to date diet to follow? Like what to eat and what to avoid. Thanks",
"Have you considered reading the Book of Mormon?",
"Love you too bud!",
"Nice post! Join us at /r/nosurf",
"I love you too rando redditor.",
"Dude… did you just gatekeep mental health?",
"Close.\n\nThe practice or policy of a government taking action to become involved in the problems of another country = interventionism\n\nA state under cruel and oppressive government = tyranny\n\nok",
"I don’t think mental health was even a thing before 50 years ago. Kinda hard to say this is an epidemic. We’re probably the happiest we’ve ever been as a species. We’re dying of suicide and not widespread starvation. I hear morale was super high during the plague when half the populous died.",
"When he choked up and the bird made noise I thought that was the joke... Ok man, love you too. And you, Noisy Bird.",
"I can honestly say, it was an absolute joy to love someone, to love them more than you love yourself. To give them everything. To lose your life in theirs. But if it ends, its complete desolation.",
"> I guess hunting and gathering for survival doesn't count as work to this author?\n\nYou hunt or gather, and the product of your labor correlates directly with the wealth you acquire. Pick one apple, now you and your family have exactly one apple to eat. In modern day \"jobs\", the product of your labor is significantly reduced. i.e. you need to pick a hundred apples before you and your family get to eat one apple (rough example obviously). \n\nAlso historically, once you had enough apples, you're done. You could finish your work in 3-4 hours and that's it. Some days you might even find yourself not \"working\" at all. In modern day society, your boss wants to maximize their investment in your salary, so they also maximize your working hours.\n\nAlso, humans were not evolved to sit in front of a desk for 9 hours, 5 days a week, and \"work\". Work was more spread out through the day and night, with long breaks and naps in-between. There was absolutely no need to constantly \"be available\". There was also no pressure about \"being fired\" from your tribe for minor offenses.\n\n> Also, in the very first paragraph they say something along the lines of \"assembly lines and sweatshops would cease producing products that nobody would voluntarily want anyways\". I guess nobody wants life-saving medicines?\n\nOf course there will be examples of assembly lines doing good, but a lot of strictly for making someone rich, with some products literally doing awful things for humanity. i.e. Social networks and ad-tech companies army of developers, factories producing things that are made to last a very short time and be replaced (pollution), etc.\n\n------\n\nCapitalism isn't 100% bad, but in its current context, it's a system that is a direct cause of a lot of mental instability and social unrest.",
"I know that feeling. I genuinely felt disappointed a couple months ago when a health concern turned out to be no big deal. Part of me was hoping it would be terminal. Or at least something people would take seriously enough to help me out a bit, instead of leaving me to struggle on my own. I can't bring myself to go through with anything, but if I was diagnosed with something serious, I'd be more relieved than upset. \n\nUnfortunately for me, I'm apparently decenly healthy. Well better luck next time I guess",
"Seeioulsy though, about this Genghis Khan fella… how’d that go down for the people he conquered. What were they feeling during his reign? Sad I would guess. Maybe a bit upset? Would the kids call it “butthurt?”\n\nEnlighten us!",
"So, you do think this is the greatest mental health epidemic in all of human history?",
"Drifting off into another world is really dangerous for me. That's when all the worst thoughts creep in.",
"The easy steps are always \"start doing things\". If your issue is that you struggle to motivate yourself to start doing things, it can be a bit of an issue.",
"'eh. to each their own. was clearly posted somewhere else to a following before it was karma whored here. \n \nwas having a rough go at it today and this video helped nonetheless. maybe don't be a fucking sith.",
"Ok",
"I love this so much. I really needed to hear this right now.",
"I don't know what to say man but I hope you feel better. Being alive is a gift, I know that seems empty now but I truly hope you get to a place where you can feel that too.",
"We live in the most comfortable times in history.\nI am not forced to go to war or work in a mine like my older relatives were.\n\nThis person is stood in a comfy hoodie, out in nature, welling up for a camera talking about reaching out...what he lacks is perspective not mental health.",
"Nope. No smugness. Shit is crazy out here.",
"I love all of you.",
"So, you? You can shut the fuck up? You’re literally complaining about people saying “get the vaccine.”",
"This right here.\n\nYou sit in a bar with your buddies, you start a long rant about how shitty your life is, how you're totally depressed, how you're feeling like you're on the edge of going insane. They pat you on the back and tell you things will be alright, you feel better now.\n\nOf course nothing significantly actually changed, your problems are still there. You find yourself doing the same thing again, but at this point, your friends are starting to see a pattern that \"every time we get to see X, the evening turns dark and shitty\".\n\nThey get together a few times without you, they gradually stop inviting you altogether to meet-ups. You find yourself even lonelier than you were before...\n\nYou then learn that it's best to shut up. At least pretending that everything is ok means some human interaction, which in itself is better than nothing.\n\n------\n\nEdit\n\nThis exploded more than I imagined it would. The point is not about the bar setting. Same thing can be said about meeting a friend 1:1. People just don't want to hear about other people's problems (unless they get paid for it).",
"Weird thing to say it's the greatest mental health epidemic in human history. I know it's hyperbolic and it's a super difficult time, arguably the most difficult time in generations. But history? I dunno man like the black plague wiped out an estimated 50 million people, in a time where there were around 450 million people in the world. \n\nLike it's a rough time for sure but is it *the roughest*? I dunno man",
"It's never easy and I'm sorry. The best thing I can say is that making friends is one of the best ways to diminish this perspective. Putting yourself out there is so hard, but I am willing to bet there is someone near you who is really looking for a friend too. I'm proud of what you're doing, you've got this",
"Been have a hell of a couple of weeks.. Love you too man.",
"This is really good stuff",
">It's like in cartoons where someone is trying to run and their legs are spinning but somebody is holding their head to prevent movement.\n\nFor me it's like swimming with a weight around my ankles, everyone else swimming nearby can see me swimming, but they can't see underneath the water and don't realize the sheer effort it takes just to tread water. \n\n\n\n\nI'm not in such a bad place now, but again trying with metaphors to help people understand.",
"I would say that motivation is very different for different people and that trying to answer that question for yourself is an important step but impossible for another person to help you answer.",
"Not something I like to admit, and I've never told anyone in real life, because frankly they don't need to know about something I didn't do in the past, but about a year ago, I was not in a good spot.\n\nI was at the end of an emotionally abusive relationship, I was working long hours and making no progress at work, my sleep schedule was fucked, and I was living in a basement studio apartment that didn't meet some really basic needs. I was drinking way too much to make it all go away.\n\nThere were multiple times I would look at the gun I own, hold it and think, \"this wouldn't solve my problems, but nothingness would be better than where I am now.\"\n\nI'm honestly not sure how I didn't do it when I was blackout drunk some nights and just angry and hopeless, but I'm so thankful I didn't.\n\nThings got better, slowly. I broke off the toxic relationship when I realized I was tearing myself down to help someone who thought they didn't need help, and that *I* was the one making her life difficult. A year later and I'm finally happy with myself now. I wrapped up my job and got promoted to a new division at work with better pay and better people.\n\nI've got a better apartment with gorgeous views and a full kitchen. It's amazing how much better I feel with sunlight every day.\n\nI still drink more than I know I should, but in the past month, I've been working on it. I'm not there yet, but, I'm getting there.\n\nI still have the gun, sort of as a reminder of where I was, and what to look out for so I don't find myself there again.\n\nAnd this isn't to say that I'm the happiest guy out there, I definitely still have some bottled up anger and resentment that I've meditated on and understand, I just need to let the time pass for it to go away. I still have shit days. Things still blow up in my face.\n\nBut my mind is quiet when I go to bed, and when I get out the door in the morning, I don't think about driving offs bridge to see what would happen.\n\nI am me, and that is fine, so let's see what happens today.",
"I'm sorry this happened.\n\nBy the by...... are you an introvert or extrovert?",
"well now i’m just thinking about how no one, not even my gf, has told me they loved me today /:",
"how do you expect society to function without people working?",
"But people don't just want apples. They want iphones. They want medicine and vaccine. They want cars. They want internet and movies and books and clothes and overseas travel and everything else. If you pick 3 apples and stop working for the day then there's no excess productive capacity for anything else. A simplistic economic model where you only work barely enough to live is not going to satisfy most people.",
"This guy needs a grant",
"You'd probably be out in the streets starting a civil war to chase out corrupt politicians with all the other disgruntled young men like many of your ancestors did before you.. But there is a sale on steam so who cares.",
"i don't think he was writing the comment on behalf of god, dude.",
"Maybe cool it on the mushrooms buddy",
"legitimately waiting for a punchline that never came, truly the most tragic part of the video.",
"It's very good. I'd recommend holding off on finishing it until you are at the point where you know what you need to do to complete the base game though, as it has something that would spoil some things of the main game if you hadn't realized it yet. Although if you make it that far in the dlc I guess one could argue you deserve the clue lol",
"I think how much work there is to be done as a hunter gatherer society varies a lot. For example, in the documentary about first time contact with a hunter gatherer society in papua new guinea, they mention the tribe spends their entore day looking for food, surviving. Giving them little to no time for leisure. Sure, with a bit of help from technology, they could be 1000x more efficient, but then again, at the end someone has to produce all the machines they would need for that.",
"Really? Even the veterans of two world wars?",
"Actually I do know you. Thanks",
"Yeah, everyone agrees that chasing money is a trap. You still have to play by society's rules to survive. That's part of the deal when living in a society.",
"The only other way out for me is a time machine. Who do I reach out to for that?",
"I'm not even finding them addictive. Just stupid. I'm starting to realize by and large fairly stupid people work on them, and those that win are those that can make money off them. Thing is I'm lacking the motivation to do anything else. Not sure to what extent that can be attributed to headaches. Hell, I'll be starting full time work in part because I'm really not doing anything with the time anyway. Might as well have more money to throw away on the stock market.",
"I'm in decent shape. I try to bike an hour a day 3 times a week at minimum. My problem is I'm very competitive, so i tend to push myself too hard. If i rode up a hill in 10 seconds one day, and the next it takes 12 I worry I'm turning fat and weak. I have problems going on vacations because I'm afraid of what will happen if i don't exercise a week. I have weekends i can't see my parents because the weather is nice so i have to bike. This can go on for months in a row.\n\nI've been working on this feeling this past year, but it's keeping me fit, so it's not all bad.",
"there is no support system for mental health . People have to gather themselves and talk it out in groups of 4 to 7\nhelp hasnt been available for at least 10 years. \nStart a group in your neighbourhood\ngood luck!",
"Re-realizing that I have intrusive thoughts that I run from and block out. Like i have almost a tick of just thinking/saying \"i want to die\" that I have turned into \"i want to dance\" as i catch myself mid sentence. This has been happening since 2019/2020, mostly due to a relationship that sent me off my rocker. I'm still recovering from it, some days are better than others, other days are worse than most.\n\nIt sucks that i want to share my heart with someone again, but i can't seem to open it enough to let anyone see.\n\n I hate the new triggers and trying to figure out what behaviors and patterns I need to unravel from the trauma. \n\nI want to be naive again, to love freely like it could only ever be the best thing in the world for everyone. \n\nI want to let myself be myself, playing within the true boundaries of the world. Shedding the shackles I blindly bound myself with in fear of the pain of suffering at the rupturing of my heart. \n\nI guess it's goung to take newfound strength to breach these barriers, but I have faith in myself at the very least. I have a lot going for me outside of my struggle and neurotic imbalances. It's like man, everything's fine, whats with the bitching? Brain: worthless, die, bzzt boop boop, wtf ded... lol\n\nBut why tho?",
"Who wouldve thought forcibly isolating people for months on end and closing down places where we socialise would lead to a mental health crisis.",
"That may not be a fun way to go.",
"Dude what the fuck happened today. Learned my 1st cousin killed himself just this morning. In that same conversation I learned my aunt's hairdresser too her own life yesterday\n\nThe fuck is going on",
"Jesus. Wtf happens in the military?",
"Wow , that hit hard for being only 26 seconds",
"Yes lockdowns happened because of antivaxxers, right totally directing your anger in the right way...",
"What the fuck? Seems like you can't catch a break. Here's a hug from an Internet stranger. I hope you can get through this homie",
"My dude, as someone who used to self isolate some and ended up in a rough place because of it, it really sounds like you don't have a good outlet for how you're feeling and need a good spot to talk about it.\n\nI know a lot of people are resistant to the thought of therapy, but honestly even most mentally healthy people could benefit from a place to vent their emotions and work through things with a good outside perspective. Consider going and trying to figure out what's up, then the best path to put your foot forward and make new friends you enjoy being around who appreciate your presence.",
"It's uncontrolled Capitalism creating shitty material conditions which leads to a general decline in well-being in a population. If you want to improve America's mental health, you must improve material conditions. No amount of \"reaching out\" will dig Americans out of crippling debt peonage.",
"Not to be a dick. Have been clinically diagnosed with a form of PTSD myself from trauma in my previous life. \n\nBut I hardly doubt we are seeing the greatest mental health epidemic in history. I'm pretty sure just as recently as the siege of leningrad or the nnjing massacre the world saw mental health episodes many times greater than what's seen now. \n\nThe problem is people get stuck inside their heads and feel like this is life and all it will ever be. Today is today, and tomorrow is yet to be written, and even if tomorrow is written poorly, you have days ahead that wont look like the days before. Many better, many worst. But the bad ones make the good ones that much more.",
"Read Bullshit Jobs, by David Graeber. It's based on [his essay on the same subject](https://www.atlasofplaces.com/essays/on-the-phenomenon-of-bullshit-jobs/), but I'd still recommend the book as it's a good read.\n\nYou're right, nobody working is a pipe dream. But on the other hand a lot of jobs don't need to exist and we all know it. The book estimates ~50% of jobs in the west are pointless. We've seen this come in to play with the pandemic, with every country coming up with the concept of \"essential worker\". \n\nI'm also not a fan of /r/antiwork, IMO it's a meme circlejerk for people who already agree with each other. There are better introductions to the underlying concept.",
"Is it the greatest or the worst?",
"I'm a strong believer that the overuse of social media and being glued to our phones is a strong caustic factor in the rise of mental health issues. \n\nI actually know people who are depressed in real life and their comfort with being indoors all day glued to their phones prevents them from getting better. They'll send me the usual text like \"*Hey, whats up?*\" And the small talk will eventually lead up to them talking about why they're depressed. I tell them, *\"let's go out for a walk or watch a movie or something simple.\"* None of them want to do that. A lot of people nowadays are just too comfortable being behind the screen that they forget the importance of in person human interaction or going outside for exercise. \n\nLike damn bro, I don't have the time and energy to text you all day and save you from suicide. I can offer help (bringing them to a workout, or taking them for a walk, or a nice movie, or any social hangout). But it seems like more and more people just want to say home and bitch/whine all day.\n\nAt this point, I stopped giving a shit. You can't save someone that doesn't' want to be saved. You can send them all the \"I love you\" texts but it means nothing if they dont' get their shit together and get some exercise, eat healthier, have hobbies other than staring at social media 5 hours per day.",
"I don’t know if this will be helpful, but that is exactly how I felt and thought, pretty much 24/7, when I was off my medication. Strangely enough it wasn’t nearly as bad before I started taking the medication, but that can’t be helped. I started searching online on how to die without causing inconvenience for anyone, and the answer was “you can’t.” I went to a mental clinic the next week. I still have the same thoughts and feelings from time to time but it’s easier to break free from them.\n\nI know it’s impossible to see it any other way right now. It was the same for me. But your brain is lying to you. You deserve to be here. \n\nI used to constantly obsess about how dark my future was and how I’m just a burden and a waste of resources. Now I’m back on medication and I can appreciate things like music, movies, technological advancements and nature, so I have some things to look forward to. It’s not all dark. It is worth sticking around.\n\nI really hope you can get whatever treatment you need!!",
"ok\n\nwell yeah intervention comes before the tyranny \n\nFuck is the matter with you \n\n*hey kids dad died not because of tyranny of the American empire you silly goose*\n\nfoh",
"There's so much pain in the eyes and sadness in his voice. Pushing through all that to remind people about what's still wonderful about life I can't say enough how moving that is.",
"They didn’t cause it no. They are the ones filling the hospitals up after an open summer and forcing restrictions to tighten back up. They are the reason it is continuing, not the ones that caused it.",
"Kinda late to this but well written! There isn't much to say other than I also feel like this a lot and good job us for typing about it online than alternatives to these feelings!",
"Yep, I can relate to that. My most upvoted comment of all times also mention suicide ideations... lol",
"I was a manager for a 24/7 service years ago, it's absolutely dog shit because you are never off. I used to get calls throughout the day and night. I had to quit for my sanity despite the high wage at the time..",
"I hate to be the other side of this, and I accept all the dislikes that I'll get because it'll probably sound terrible. But I've been in your similar shoes, but in my case I actually tried helping a few depressed people. It only ended up being a total waste of my efforts because at the end of the day, you can't help someone who doesn't want to be saved.\n\nThe particular people I helped only wanted me to be their emotional tampon so they could bitch and whine about how much their life sucked. I HATE to say this but it almost felt like they got too comfortable with the misery. Whenever I tried helping them by taking them for a walk, workout, or a funny movie, they'd always refuse and would rather just talk through texts.\n\nI can't begin to explain how many hours I've wasted hearing people b\\*tch and whine, yet as soon as I advise in taking simple action (simple walk around the park, professional help, watch a movie, simple hangout), they refuse.\n\nAt my age, I've come to a point where I just stopped caring. Some people just don't want to be saved. I dont' know if it's because we live in an age where everyone is too comfortable being glued to their phones in the safety of their homes. But it's very important to go outside and experience life no matter how bad your life is.",
"Kudos on the Smiths reference. That's one of my favorite lines for some reason.",
"I never say shit like this (to humans, anyway) but\n\nI love you too",
"I feel very called out lol. I do this now.",
"Thank you. We love you too!",
"True.\n\nA counter argument though would be that all this \"want\" for excess (new iphone, new clothes, overseas travel, etc) are a product of mass manipulation to make people believe those are sources of happiness. Taking into account the research that shows all these things don't really make people happy, it's questionable whether it's a good thing to begin with.\n\nAnecdotal, but I know I would rather have society focus its high efforts into true needs - healthy place to live, healthy food sources, healthcare, inter-human relationships. You don't need everybody working 40+ hours a week to achieve that (on the contrary!). None of these things are currently a priority in capitalism.",
"I don't get it.",
"Just started replaying 😭",
"Agreed love vs actual action are two different things.",
"So isn’t that wiry sticking around for? Finding that love again?",
"I'd be happy to. Most people in the world experience some form of \"depression\" throughout their life. This general depression that most everyone experiences can usually be chalked up to \"situational\" depression. Meaning, maybe your cat died, a relative, or someone is going through a hard break up. These natural stressors experienced by the general population are most often combatted with very useful techniques and advice such as, going for a walk or changing your diet, thinking more positively or maybe not dwelling on it. All of that is very useful for situational depression. In clinical, suicidal depression there is nothing to point at, there is no \"thinking more positively\" or \"getting over it\". It's a disease of the mind, it's not the sufferer is, it's what they're suffer through. The deep indescribable \"depression\" people often take their lives over is an unimaginable suffering for those without it. So awful that people kill themselves, and that is NOT easy to do, people with depression don't want to die, they want the suffering to end. The clinical depression presents itself as a phantom without origin or location. It attacks and plagues the mind with an all consuming doom/dread and pain that immobilizes most sufferers. To the outside worls it may look like the sufferer is just sleeping a lot or being lazy. But there is a battle going on inside the mind, try combatting an intrusive thought preaching doom to you all day, it's exhausting and a loosing battle. It's an attack, it's unwanted and it's elusive and prolific. I wish there was another word a new understanding for what survivors of suicidal depression go through and endure. They deserve support and love but it's one of the most misunderstood illnesses and often sufferers loose support and get criticism instead. It's awful and painful enough to end your life over. My love to anyone suffering and no judgement if you don't want to suffer anymore (I AM NOT ADVOCATING FOR PEOPLE TO COMMIT SUICIDE), you're a badass for making it this far! \n\nTldr; situational depression is normal and everyone experiences it. Clinical suicidal depression is an unrelenting doom intrusion into someones psyche, a constant attack on happiness and reality.",
"Your life and time with her were unique moments that even the vastness of this beautiful universe, there will never be two people experience the rich and deep experience that she and you shared in exactly the same way. You're never going to be duplicated, and the story of your unique experience is something I welcome you to share, or any other thing you may want to say anytime you feel the need to be heard. I've no idea how I could find the monumental courage you've displayed so far through similar circumstances. Please, know that my inbox is available, and as a fellow human being, know that I love you, bro.",
">Are you new to this?\n\nNo. I know a lot of stories and articles radical leftists like to bring up so i'm baiting you into posting them. You're an insane conspiracy theorist so its easier to argue with what you got your ideas from rather than the warped way you might present them.\n\n>How do you think this changes anything? Are those not the same social networks as in whatever country you live?\n\nThere are a million factors that would change how someone in Singapore interacts with social media compared to me, an American. But that isn't the important thing, the important thing is that the study you didn't read states \"The results indicated that Instagram use did not directly increase social anxiety.\"\n\n>Do you think I'm American? \n\nYes.\n\n>Because wages increase slowly while everything increases faster \n\nSource?\n\n>billionaires profit from underpaying those workers\n\nThere are jobs that are worth minimum wage to perform. Also someone like John Paulson isn't underpaying anyone to make his billions.\n\nThe 2 articles you link are about tax avoidance: **Tax avoidance is the legal usage of the tax regime in a single territory to one's own advantage to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law.** \n\nI specifically asked **\"What taxes in the US are billionaires not paying that they are required too?\"** which is tax evasion.\n\nI would not task a single person to pay more tax than what is required (how much more should they pay?), this is something that should be changed systematically if it should be (it shouldn't). \n\n>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/sheldon-and-miriam-adelson-top-list-of-billionaire-political-contributors.html\n\nThe point of this article is that billionaires spend money on political contributions and little about what policies they contributed too. In fact it says \"While the report suggests that billionaires have used their money to bend government policy in their favor, giving by billionaires is spread fairly evenly between Republicans and Democrats\", completely destroying your own claim.\n\n>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/30/billionaire-stealth-politics-america-100-richest-what-they-want\n\nIncredibly misleading article. The first three words are a lie: \"A new study\". This article is not based on a new study, its based on a book called \"Billionaires and Stealth Politics\". The point of this book is not that billionaires are all secretly conservative, it is that billionaires contribute to policies they don't speak about publically. The book itself has unfavorable academic reviews against it as well but that isn't the point and doesn't really matter as you haven't even read this article.",
"I wish more people understood this... Especially that most people who feel this are men, because we are so easily discarded. Ever seen the movie Minari? There is a scene in it where a father is teaching his son on how to determine the sex of baby chicks so as to keep only the females. The son then asks the father what happens to all the male chicks, and his father then shows him the incinerator where they kill them. \n\nThe father then says something along the lines of \"You and I are also male, so we better make ourselves useful so nothing like this happens to us...\"\n\nThis is how I feel first world culture is, especially when you see statistics that upwards to 85% of all suicides in the first world are male. I am not trying to start a gender equality debate, but one thing to me is absolutely clear, if this statistic was representative of females instead, our culture would absolutely flip its shit and take drastic approaches to change the trend. \n\nBut sadly, we as a culture do not take care of men.",
"Your story resonates so much with me, word for word. I figured out after sometime as well that when i create something i get a joy like no other. I am also quite good at them. But with most such activities that i do - mostly drawing, writing and little bit of making music - i see that after sometime i drift away from doing it but spend most of my time thinking about it. It sometimes improves my craft when i get back to it but mostly i get into a place where i don't do it much. I find it sad because with most of these activities, even few minutes/hours a day makes me happy but somehow can't do it.\n\nJust wanted to ask you if you also had that phase and if you got over it? I have read all kinds of advice about procrastination etc but something prevents it. As with many other people in this thread, there are so many things distracting me.. Many of which i like. I hope I'm making sense.",
"If you got a room and a job, life ain’t so bad. Take a breath, look around you, sit on the grass in the sun for a few minutes man. You’ll be ok, life is good. Tell me, what are you worried about? If you’re disabled in some way, acknowledge it. Say it aloud. “Life is fucked but there’s still cool shit out there.” Know that it’s ok to have your limits. You do your best and don’t compare to others. That new James Bond movie, I’m pumped to go see it tomorrow. \n\nThink about what’s really eating at you while you sit in the sun. What is it? If it’s too much to bare alone, reach out for help. Someday in the future, the only thing you’ll remember about this day is the sun shining down on you. I swear.",
"Uh, no. North Korea is a tyranical state that is non-interventionist.\n\nWhat is happening in your brain right now is that you think every bad word you can apply to a government is a synonym of eachother. I just gave you the definitions though so you can stop it now.",
"This came on my iPod while I was reading your comment (a different version granted), but I thought it relevant for this conversation…\n\nhttps://youtu.be/CDdvReNKKuk",
"Love you too pal",
"I see why you could draw that conclusion from that paper, but I disagree that it ,necessarily, has anything to do with 1%.\n\nInstagram allows users to show highlights and pretend the rest of their life (not shown) is also equally incredible. Which leads to social comparison.\n\nThis effect will be present with any type of non-homogeneous social group present on such a platform. Economic standing is one aspect, but the 1% could just not use Instagram and the economic comparison would still be there.",
"Grown man dressed like child with ridiculous facial hair.",
"I got depressed and stopped gaming like 8 months ago, and the only thing keeping me distracted at this time are forced unenjoyable home renovations.\n\nScraping the bottom of the barrel here.",
"It's not a mental health problem, it's a giant-pile-of-firearms-in-circulation problem. If mental health was the issue there's no reason to assume mass shootings wouldn't happen just as often in the rest of the Western world as they do in the USA. But they don't.",
"This is literally me. Did I not post this earlier?",
"My therapist is an intern, $20 a session",
"If you can, get a pet. I'm not being facetious. They're literal life savers. If you have time and space, dogs are great. If you don't have as much room and don't want to go for a walk every day, cats are brilliant. Be sure you can afford them, though. They're not cheap (I suspect cats are cheaper, though).\n\nBut really: they'll love you and it's wonderful.",
"Is this that guy who says “buddy” a lot and makes therapeutically relaxing videos with food and Old games?",
"This just made me realize I’ve never been depressed. I’ve felt down for sure, but never depressed.",
"This is for [you](https://giant.gfycat.com/MeatyPlayfulBlacknorwegianelkhound.mp4)",
"World war 1, world war 2",
"...in history huh... jesus fucking christ.",
"How exactly is a hoodie and hat dressing like a talk? How can you watch this video and all you take away from it is his appearance?",
"Let me offer you a different perspective. I believe that trying to find a distraction from suffering is a scam, perhaps even from the devil himself. The meaning of life is to become a good person, a force of good even. And you need to suffer to get there. Why would you distract yourself from that? It might not mean anything in the end, but when you inevitably look back you can take solace in the fact that at least it meant something while you were alive, not just for you, but also for everyone around you.\n\nAll suffering is an opportunity to become better. All pain is growing pain, don’t let it go to waste, because then it’s just pain. It’s not who you are when you feel good and life is going well that defines you. It’s who you are when your soul hurts, when all you see is chaos, and all hope appears lost. Would you prefer the sailor who keeps his ship on course in still waters over the one who does so in a storm?\n\nObserve who you truly are when you’re suffering, and you will likely find not much else but envy, hatred and fear. But most people will also find a small spark of love. The more you suffer, the easier it is to spot. The darker it is, the easier it is to see the light. There’s your beacon, sailor.\n\nIt’s the conclusion I came to not long after I almost killed myself.",
"I've been having a hard time since I was 17 and I'm 32 now and I can't seem to get past it. Always one step forward two steps back..",
"Work through it, there isn't another option right now.\n\nThere should be, but don't oust yourself mate. From a fellow who gets it, don't do it. You got more to live for.",
"Yeah I mean with all due respect, what exactly is the source on that claim. There had to have been way worse times to be alive. Do people not think that being alive during the great depression made people experience increases in mental illness? The bubonic plague? The dark ages? These aren't just people that are a part of some myth or history book they actually existed and they had to go day to day just like you and I except without all of the conveniences.",
"I'm an older sibling, who has brothers with mental health issues of a different kind. They are locked in a cycle of impulsive, addictive, abusive behaviour to themselves and everyone around them, but are in complete denial and not reached a stage where they recognise something is wrong and needs care and support. It has been going on for many years, and I wish one of them could approach me like you would have just once.\n\nYour mum and oldest sibling are both assholes if you approached them to be vulnerable and honest about something going on in your life, and only received negativity in return. It is absolutely a dereliction of their duty as guides and key pillars of the family.\n\nCut them out of your life at the earliest opportunity. Neither of them deserve to have an open channel to your heart and abuse it in such a way.",
"False..the great mental health epidemic is believing Donald Trump had the election stolen.",
"America has become the planet's mental asylum. Created by corporations by individualising citizens to encourage high ego and low self esteem, making you perfect consumers, but with so many drawbacks: self-entitled and lost from reality, living in Storyland through which reality is struggling to be heard. \n\nIt all plays out when \"normal\" life gets interrupted like it has been by covid.",
"Fuck man life is hard, keep going on you got this",
"I try reaching out. No one cares on more than a superficial level.",
"Dude, put your dumbass politics aside for ten seconds and recognize actual human emotion.",
"> you can't flex money if you working and in the middle class and spending most of your income on taxes and housing.\n\n???\n\n\"Pew defines the middle class as those earning from two-thirds to double the median household income.\" \"In 2021, middle class encompasses household income from $33,731.50 to $134,926.00.\" [Source.](https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percentiles/)\n\nIf you then also live in a low CoL area, then sure you'll have money to spend. But sure if you are in the lower middle class and also living in a high CoL area, then you probably won't. But you can't give a blanket statement that the middle class doesn't have money to flex.\n\n>Now influencers and twitch personalities are your friends and some of those people are in the 0.001% and appeal to younger people that are more impressionable.\n\n[\"Meanwhile, the top 0.001% — an elite group of 1,433 taxpayers — earned at least $63.4 million each in 2017\"](https://www.inquirer.com/business/america-rich-top-one-percent-income-wealth-inequality-20191017.html)\n\nAlso, the top 10 twitch streamers \"only\" have an income in the top 0,1%. And if we go by household net worth [the top 1% starts at $11,000,000](https://dqydj.com/top-one-percent-united-states/) of which I doubt many influencers are. They are just good at making it seem that way, my point exactly.\n\nAgain, I see your point, but I think you are being too hyperbolic.",
"You're unhappy, so you want everyone else on Earth to die with you? Get fucked.",
"😂😂😂🤷♂️",
">But it's very important to go outside and experience life no matter how bad your life is.\n\nAre you really saying that not one of these people ever went outside and experienced life? Generally speaking, people have to if only to get money to put food on the table. That, and how many of these ended in this mental situation precisely because they experienced life?\n\nI'm not saying you're wrong or right, just that dumbing it down like this sounds kinda weird.",
"Ran across this at random… His name is Michael. I knew him for many years, many years ago. He is an empath. Though he may in fact be struggling, what he’s doing is feeling the collective struggle. It burdens him [I’d suppose (hence the visible, effective emotion)]. Your (our) outcry of love for him is not necessarily the intended response. Michael is telling you, the struggling, that HE LOVES YOU. Reminding you that you’re loved, that you should reach out… And Michael, if you lost someone and are hurting, I love you too.",
"could you tell me a little more about NAC ?",
"Huh?",
"WHO VANTS A MUSTACHE RIDE?!",
"> I haven't heard \"I live you\" in literally years...\n\nI've never heard anyone say that ever.",
"What trauma?",
"Beautifully written! You’ve perfectly described a headspace that I’ve lived in!",
"Spot on mate",
"Yeah I've been thinking all the Reddit stuff where someone says they're having a hard time and someone comments \"Here's an internet hug!\" or some random dude on the internet says \"I love you\" must do the opposite of what it's intended to do.\n\n It will just make the recipient aware that the only person who says they love them is some stranger on the internet who wants to help but doesn't know you at all. Considering how depression works, it will probably just confirm to the depressed person that they're a useless person no one loves or hugs if they actually know them.\n\nOr maybe it helps, I dunno",
"This man loves me. And he loves you too.",
"Lol go away",
"He didn't get understand it?",
"I am sorry. Thank you for posting. Wishing I could give you the biggest hug to help you move forward.",
"If you need something just tell, I'd love to chat with you, via skype or any thing, I'm not proficient in English but maybe jou enjoy learning Spanish.",
"Absolutely second this. Unconditional love *and* physical affection. I moved to a foreign country during the pandemic, and it went into lockdown for months shortly after I arrived. I would've completely lost my damn mind if I hadn't brought my 2 cats with me.",
"Log off then bitch",
"How did you move past it?",
"Oh boy here come the dumbasses.",
"If you need to talk to someone or just need anything just tell me. I don't have a good English but we can chat and maybe you want to learn spanish haha.",
"> That's such a useless range one of those is basically poverty or even less if both are making that much.\n\nMy point exactly, but you brought up the \"middle class\" and I'm just saying that it isn't as homogeneous group as you make it out to be.\n\n>That's by your defintion searching elsewhere people making more than 4 million dollars a year would be in the top 0.001%.\n\n[\"To join the top 0.1%, you would have needed to earn $2.4 million in 2017\"](https://www.inquirer.com/business/america-rich-top-one-percent-income-wealth-inequality-20191017.html), not my definition. Now, what is your source?\n\n>I mean xcow makes 8.5 million a year he is far beyond that metric.\n\nYes, he is in the top 2. I was being gracious with only including the top 10 twitch streamers. Most of the top 1000 aren't even in the 1%.\n\n>Anyway, I don't see much of a point in this discussion. We have both made our points.\n\nAgreed, just wanted to see if there was some substance to what you were postulation.",
"Get mental help bud.",
"yes that is human nature.",
"I know I'm late to the thread and you've had loads of comments--\n\nTwo years back I regularly considered dying, and for example slept like 3hrs every 36 hrs, or something crazy. My life was going nowhere, and at the time I mainly lived for my dog.\n\nHowever, at that point I also started to see my therapist. I can't describe the process that I would have had any crazy breakthroughs that have led to me getting better. I think I've just finally learned a bit to connect with my actual feelings, instead of shutting everything out and being in a space of undefined bad feelings. Letting myself feel, be sad, be disappointed, angry, all that, has slowly but steadily improved my state.\n\nAnyways, I know everyone's situation is unique and I don't mean to patronize. I just wanted to say that 2 yrs back I was very, very, very low, but these days I can function well in my day to day. It ain't all better or gone, but it's a thousand time better what it was. I hope you can find help and turn it around in time. It's not impossible to be happy, even as impossible as it probably seems.",
"I love you too Fam",
"I wouldn't go as far as to say in history, I mean plenty of worse things have happened. I do agree we are hurting though.",
"Alternative to pain.. I feel this so much\n\nI only realised recently its much much healthier to feel the pain\n\nFuck its harder",
"People from r/Antiwork are a bunch of spoiled children.",
"If you like biographies, and you're a man (or woman) of science, then id love to recommend \"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!\"",
"You can hear the pain, and feel it. I felt it right in my heart and soul. Love you too mustachioed man. It will take time, but remember the good times with them, and let yourself heal. Do not blame yourself, I did once and it ate me for years and still tears at me alittle. Godspeed.",
"Yes I am replying to my own. Didn't seem right to leave my top message about myself. I noticed in some comments some other people who suffer from intrusive ideation. I have struggled with it since I was 11, I am now 32. It's always been there hasn't really dwindled.\n\nSome things have become easier where as others have just been replaced. Not having safety and food as a child turned into not have job security and health issues. Inability to maintain friendships hasn't changed. I've worked as hard as I can and my body is breaking. I am past tired.\n\nYou are not a burden. These thoughts are not stupid or selfish. It is never bad to admit you're in pain. There is no shame attached to it.\n\nWith I struggle with the most in my existence is that I am not enough, I traumatize my love ones, and my child deserves better. I think I might of lost my job while being on medical leave because the disability representative botched my paperwork.\n\n I have no right to leave my family though. No say. Easier isn't always best.\n\nPulling through the downs is worth it for the ups.",
"It's like mud that you can't wash off. \n\nLike being in a dream where you keep scraping layer after layer of it,\n\nBut it's always there. \n\nYou can find temporary moments of clarity,\n\nBut even those have been soured by the inevitability that it comes back. \n\nLike a wave of warm water that's sweeping you out to sea. \n\nSometimes it sparks inspiration,\n\nBut too often it's a revelation that there's a way out. \n\nIf it were a boxing match, I'd be the only one wearing gloves. \n\nThe rounds are anywhere from 12 to 36 hours, \n\nThere's a new round every day,\n\nAnd I fight until I die.",
"I (M/51) lost my younger brother 4 years ago to overdose, and my only remaining sibling (brother) almost died last year from liver failure (drinking). He's been non-existent in my life.\nMy large extended family has been mostly silent in offering any emotional support in this time.\nUnfortunately, most people seem to want to pretend that nothing is wrong, avoiding the difficult aspects of life, as some sort of insulator from the truth.\nIf any of my family had simply called me to ask how I was, or offer any assistance, it would have made things so much easier over this time.\nI'm exploring Al-Anon, or any other kind of group that can help me, but the silence in the last 4 years has been deafening.\nReach out for help wherever you can, and save yourself. It won't always come to knock on your door. I've made the mistake of not seeking out help on my own.",
"The research still didn't support the direct point you were making. But an interesting article nonetheless.",
"This world would be worse without you in it. All of you. Yes even *you*.",
"Why are you harassing me about my mustache guy comment? Are you that easily offended",
"I’ve still got my old ps1 in a drawer. What games have you been playing with family? I’m admittedly not a good gamer while gaming has been my boyfriends whole life so we have a hard time playing anything together bc he’s just another level. I could see us enjoying some old ps1 stuff together possibly tho",
"if youre from the US reach out to American Legion, they assist all veterans now and they are a exceptional group, i got 2 good friends that are having exceptional success with them currently.",
"Wow so I guess I was right about you being easily offended…you’re a very strange troll.",
"\"This is the greatest mental health epidemic in history\"\n\nNow, I dont want to take away from the content and purpose of this video. As someone whos been battling suicidal thoughts for 20 years, who has lost friends to suicide, who knows dozens of people fighting to stay afloat, I appreciate this content and that purpose, I really, really do.\n\nBut that phrase. That phrase, man. Hyperbolic statements like that are just absolutely fucking moronic and play right into the hands of people who play down mental health issues. Its an abhorrently ignorant and childish statement that devalues the cause its supposed to highlight.\nQMental health has been an issue since monkeys got minds. You think that peasants starving to death under tyrannical lords in the middle ages werent at absolute mental breaking point? That people watching their families literally *dissolved* by chemical weapons in front of their own eyes in half a dozen war zones werent experiencing a total emotional and spiritual collapse? And you think where we are *right now* is the worst weve ever been? Hell, In the fifties everyone was repressing extreme trauma and taking it out on their nearest and dearest, but people didnt talk about it. They didnt talk about it to their spouse, their friends, they didnt talk about it to the school counsellor or their therapist (because they didnt have them) they didnt talk about it on the news, they didnt talk about it on daytime TV. Instead they drank themselves to death, beat their wife and kids, took their rage out on minorities who couldnt defend themselves, voted for psychotic killers who poured chemical weapons on yellow people because *somebody, somewhere* needed to pay for the abuse their own parents inflicted on them, and it may as well be dirt poor strangers thousands of miles away.\n\nAnd where are we now? Not where we need to be, thats for *damn* sure, but were in a better place than weve ever been for treating mental health in the entirety of human history. Years of study of the human mind means that people can now get real actual answers as to who they are, how they are, *why* they are, and for pretty much the first time ever they have people to talk about it with, people who understand, who care and who do not pass judgment. We have therapeutic treatments, medicines and support networks to assist with every type and flavour of mental condition. Our politicians, community leaders, icons and heroes talk freely and openly about their mental struggles on the couches of our daytime hosts, our news programs run stories about the Mental Health Epidemic. We take mental health days from work on our own volition, our doctors will even sign us off work for phsychological ailments. Words and phrases such as PTSD, anxiety, depression arent dirty words, the mere utterance of which will see one cast in the role of social pariah.\n\nSo yeah, we are not experiencing the \"greatest mental health epidemic in history\". We are in the midst of an enlightenment, a mental health revolution from which our species will emerge healthier, stronger and happier, fully actualised and with a greater sympathy and understanding of one another. That revolution is only just beginning, we are only just now uncovering the trauma that we have repressed, individually and collectively, and *yes* it is an *extremely* painful phase to go through, but its perhaps the most important one. It the step that gets us out of our denial and sets us on the path to healing, but its a very long road that lies ahead of us, and one we must walk together. \n\n\n\n\nWell, that trurned into a bit of a rant, didnt it? But hey, I feel a lot better for getting all that out, so I guess owe you a thankyou. Its not healthy to keep things bottled up. Peace and love to you all!",
"The problem with the phrase \"toxic masculinity\" is that it doesn't really describe which aspects of masculinity are toxic. It usually comes down to whatever behaviors men generally do that a particular person doesn't like. It's an inherently subjective term that is useless in any practical attempt to improve the lives of men.\n\nRegarding getting men to work together, what contexts are you talking about specifically? You can't get rid of the drive for competition. That isn't just going against masculinity it's going against human emotions.\n\nA much better way to help men (and women too) is to focus on explaining *why* specific behaviors are harmful/toxic without attaching needlessly provocative labels to them. \n\nE.g. why bottling up your emotions, never crying etc. can hurt you in the long run and how they can cause you to lash out at loved ones. This is a specific practical example that anyone can incorporate into their lives and doesn't immediately incentivize men to get defensive because they feel masculinity as a whole is getting attacked.\n \nI also don't know when this claim that men \"don't talk to their friends about their troubles\" became the accepted truth of male interactions. \n\nIs there any empirical evidence that men, in aggregate, don't talk to their bros about their issues?",
"I hope someone gives this guy a hug.\n\nAls, his voice immediately sounded like Heath Ledger's Joker lol",
"You have no friends",
"and US is an interventionist state that is tyrannical to the perceived 'others' \n\nsometimes said state sanctioned tyranny also applies to your minorities too\n\nyou can stop twisting yourself into a preztel pretending the US isn't a tyrannical entity because MUH DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS REEEEE and because it doenst have a comical dictator leading it. \n\npiss off now yeah you condescending jackass",
"I've had to cut the contact to a former friend, because he was always talking about suicidal thoughts, things that were draging him down, old bad memories, a lot of negative talk..He is also mentally ill with multiple disorders. I can not handle listening to all his dark thoughts. It drags me down too. My former psychologist advised me to tell him, that I he should talk about these things with a professional and / or a suicide hotline. That was almost 4 years ago. \n\nIt was yesterday I finally told him, that if he and I should keep in contact, I would not want to listen to him talking about his dark depressive and suicidal thoughts, but that we of course could talk about all the other things friends usually talk about like dating, work, sports, society etc. I advised him to call a suicide hotline rather than calling me. I simply can't help him. \n\nHe started yelling in the phone, accusing me of draging *him* down - that I was being hard on him. That I was the one who was being a bad friend. He came up with a few lies about, what I have said. He was clearly trying to give me bad feelings, trying to make me feel bad for not listening to him. I have in fact listened to him talking about suicidal thoughts many times while being emotionally supportives and non-judgemental. But now he started accusing me and made up lies about things I've said. \n\nI had to interrupt him for my own sake and say \"I'm ending the call now. Goodbye.\" and ended it. Blocked his number and social media accounts. \n\nTrust me. It was not easy. It has been 4 years since my psychologist advised me to tell him, that it was not healthy for me to constantly having to listen to his thoughts. I have to protect myself, so that I don't lose my will to be here.\n\n---\n\n**Edit**: Am I worried that he might do harm to himself, now that he lost one of his very few friends, who used to give him emotional support? Yes. But I can't help him. \n\nLet's say I kept listenening to his problems for months or even years ahead. He will just keep being stuck in the same hole, while I again and again end up falling down with him. I keep feeling bad for not being able to help him. Every time I say something that he in some weird way can misunderstand as being negative about him and the way he lives or thinks, he will start accusing me of being a bad friend. I feel bad. I say sorry and explain. He does not get better. It's a toxic relationship. All this can potentially add up to me feeling somewhat depressed as well. I have had many good days being ruined by him randomly calling me, asking how things are going, and then we ended up talking about his problems, depressive thoughts etc. What happened to my good mood and energy? It was usually gone. And how was he after each call? Not much better. A few days would go by and he could call me and talk about the exact same thoughts. \n\nWhy did I go to a psychologist? And why did I not make a boundary earlier? It's been 4 years since my former psychologist told me to tell him that it is not good for me to listen to his dark thoughts all the time. Answer: Low self-esteem. I have not been able to see my own worth. And so I've settled with being in a toxic relationship. Helping friends is good. However, you need to be a friend to yourself to. \n\nLike Jordan B. Peterson says in his book \"12 Rules for Life\": Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping. And choose friends who wants, what is best for you. This former friend of mine did not want, what is best for me. Or else he wouldn't start to accuse me of being a bad friend the moment I set a boundary.",
"Nah I’m good my plan is still put a bullet in my head at the end of the year but it’s good my family won’t find my as sudicide but will will l",
"This may not be helpful to everyone but I always found it helpful to educate myself about my disease to better help me combat it. This may only be a start for some. It is a special kind of hell you can create for yourself knowing or unbeknownst to yourself. Though, it can be crawled out of in time and with great effort and sacrifice.. I believe it is worth the responsibility of effort to keep purpose and drive on the horizon and not just bobbing up to the surface on occasion through no direction of your own. I couldn't be happier I gave myself the time to learn more through my own suffering and what I could through human nature. I don't know if I'd be dead by now otherwise but I would certainly be in hell.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc?list=PL-wCIJjSevUQvxdpPauSu7sx9RRZKue6p",
"I legit just did this tonight. Not the spilling my guts, but took the route of “ahhh.. I’m feeling down and having anxiety, I’m going to remove my self from this so they can enjoy their night.”",
"See that's the thing that people don't get. You should never vent to your friends in a group. If you are there with multiple friends in a bar you should not just complain about life. You are there to have a good time, ur friends are there for the same reason. If you feel bad and need to reach out you should call a single friend you can trust and have a walk. I can understand people doing it once when it's too much but every time you go out with frienda? That's just an attitude problem. And then complain that they don't want to have a good time out with you? Offcourse not, you don't want to have a good time with them. Why would they?",
"Major depression is a stone bitch and a horrible burden. I feel for you, and sincerely hope you find your way out to a more healthy mind space.",
"Seek help from a professional",
"Yeah, because it's vogue now. Everyone has depression because they can't see their friends.",
"Motorcycles and work are the addictions I chose to replace gaming when that got really old.",
"Then you add the fact that a big aspect of our current \"depression epidemic\" is about how a lot of people are starting to realize how our system is shit. \n\nYou *can* go to therapy to learn how to deal with that, but it does sound a bit insane to go to therapy to learn how to accept a system you think is fundamentally broken, like you're willingly saying \"Yes, Master, give me the Happy Pill, I'm tired of these thoughts in my head.\" \n\nLike yeah sure it's better to learn to be happy in a fucked up system than being miserable in a fucked up system, but I guess you get to a point eventually where even the prospect of being happy is so far-fetched that it's not even worth the energy, when all of your energy has to be saved just to merely survive and make sense of people's bullshit. \n\nSo even with the money, and time, and motivation, and ambition, I doubt a therapist would help me. All I'm picturing isn't me coming out happier, but them coming out more depressed lol.",
"Try to focus on really getting to know people and making connections.. it's enough of a purpose to have them. Maybe move towns.",
"How do 14 year old girls type?",
"Everybody has learned how to talk and act, but it's mostly pretend.\n\nThe stigma of mental illness is one thing, but the less talked about problem is the one of believing in mental illness.\n\nPeople can't see it and so they don't believe it. Not really. They say they understand and that mental illness is real, but that's just because they think that's what they have to say.\n\nThey just see an act to get attention and are actually angry because they can't understand why someone would hurt them by acting this way, but no one ever admits they're angry. Everybody lies.\n\nThe first step to fixing these problems is more honesty, but no one wants to be honest. Everyone would rather act nice to avoid any responsibility in case of a negative outcome.\n\nMaybe a lot of people could be saved if everyone was more honest, but that would require admitting our anger and we don't do that. We'd rather wait till someone kills themselves before we admit how much anger they make us feel.\n\nEDIT: My local courthouse had a few informational posters HILARIOUSLY top titled \"Let's talk about suicide\". I was at that courthouse a few times and talked to friends, family, lawyers and judges and all these people knew I had the word suicide printed on my file a few times. No one ever talked to me about suicide. No one ever even said the word.\n\nNOBODY wants to talk about suicide because we don't know how to talk about losers. We just know how to ignore them and pretend them never existed.",
"Living with depression is not that impossible. Crying helps a little. You just can't express yourself with your problems because it repels people and, paradoxically, you end up even more alone.",
"Instead, it really put more weight into his words. Like *Yeah, this mustache is awesome, but in spite of awesome it is, it's still absolutely irrelevant to how serious this is.*",
"Solid advice. I could tell one of my managers was fed up with me. Came back after my delivery route with some cookies for her from a bakery I'd passed. Told her I know I upset her this morning and I'm sorry. She told everyone in the office how kind I am. We have a great relationship now. Most folks are happy to clear the air after upsetting issues. But you have to reach out to them. Don't let it fester.",
"Honestly, I don't get why people fake pretend to love an audience they don't know. Is this supposed to make me feel better? It is CLEARLY a lie, obviously.",
"The guy is being harsh, but your comment kind of sucked though. Let's be real for a second.\n\nGuy looks like he's about to have a nervous breakdown in a video...\"thank you Mr. Moustache man!!\"",
"Relax, it’s a figure of speech.",
"Fuck you",
"This really hit. \n\nMy suicidal ideation has been creeping into my everyday life, and I feel like I’m suffocating. Between losing a ton of patients to covid, general frustration with the world (covid vaccine quarrels, climate change, US politics in general), and being single without a real partner in my life, I’ve been having a really hard time lately. I know I’m not the only one. Stay strong everyone.",
"👍💪",
"I think the problem is that hanging out in a bar with your friends is an inappropriate social situation to talk about your problems. You should try talking to them about your problems BEFORE you go out to the bar. Then you get a nice double whammy of friends supporting you by talking plus friends supporting you by cheering you up with a fun time going out.\n\nThe best piece of advice I could ever give anyone about how to talk about problems with your friends is to make sure you do something FUN at the end of the conversation. It a healthy social reward for your friendship that you get when you talk through problems. It helps you positively associate talking and listening to each other within a fun and well-rounded friendship.\n\nEdit: expression and grammar",
"I feel his pain. It cuts deep. But unfortunately there's no one to reach out to. Most people in society are predators and dicks.",
"I care about you and hope you find happiness again",
"I mean..if that’s how your “friends” react to you opening up to them, they were never really your friends",
"It's hard, I have been on both ends and I know the struggle. I actually do believe there's some good psychology behind 'fake it til you make it'. You shouldn't bottle up all your feelings and never speak about them, you shouldn't feel like you have to shut up or nobody will like you. But you should also work on not falling into constant negative thinking and speech patterns. There's a time and place to wallow, but it just can't be all the time. It's not good for you or the people around you. \n\nWe want to support and lean on eachother, not burden and pull down, and it's a fine line. Everyone is fighting their own battles. I think the hardest part for friends/family sometimes is feeling helpless, not knowing what to say or do to help their struggling loved ones. Sometimes just listening is enough, sometimes it's not, and we are all just trying to figure it out.\n\nIt's important to make it a habit to speak positively, to think positively, even if you don't really feel or believe it at first. Shitty things are what come first in our minds, but there is good in day to day life that we let fade, forgotten, behind all the bullshit going on. We've got to pull that good to the surface and shine a light on it, even if it's something simple like I had a really tasty muffin yesterday.\n\nDoing it with friends in a group setting is a good place to start, but you also have to internalize it. I've made it a habit for about the last seven years that every time I think 'i hate myself, I'm a failure, I hate my life' I force myself to answer even louder 'I forgive myself. I love myself'. It feels silly and pointless at times because I still feel bad, but I make myself say it anyway. And every now and then, when I'm feeling bad about something, 'I forgive myself, I love myself' comes first in my mind before the hate, and I consider those little victories. :)",
"Can see the pain in his eyes and hear it in his voice, the empathetic ones among us are struggling trying to keep the emotions from spilling out.",
"This is hard for me to hear. I feel like we need community. And for some reason as sweet as his message is I just don't believe he loves me and something about that makes me feel disconnected from the message.",
"This sounds like depression and or trauma talking :( I suffer from all that insidious negative self talk also. There are ways to depattern our thinking. we have to fight the neural ruts. I'm working with psychedelics now for that. But guarantee that that dominant voice in your head isn't right. As I learned when I was a kid, it can't be right all the time, so we shouldn't believe everything it says, or anything for that matter. Good luck",
"Thanks brother... I love you too",
"I am trying to follow your suggestion and came up with by myself, but I fear I have ADHD because I just simply let go of these hobbies.\n\nWhen I was a kid, I got a bass for Christmas. Played it 3 times, felt bored and just stopped playing.\n\nNow I'm going to a therapist to find out if I have ADHD or not, and by lord if I have it would explain SO MUCH.",
"Everyone is stressed and busy with their own shit. They decide to go out with their friends for a bit if fun and a bit of relief from their usual misery. Those few hours of fun are their form of therapy, and some buzzkill derailing that for them is not going to get invited along. People going out with their friends are putting on their most fun, gregarious version of themself out there so as to entertain themselves and others. Everyone except Edgar Allen Poe over there who got invited for some reason.",
"My college buddies in a nutshell. Also one of the reasons I know the “bRoThErHoOd” aspect that the Greek like preaches is full of shit.\n\nBack in 2016 I was gonna have to drop out of college for financial reasons(my decision to join Greek Life didn’t help that) and had to move out of the house. Had two jobs lined up so I could work my ass off and get back to school sooner than later. 3 guys in the house had a roommate moving away and offered me his room when he left(this was planned 2 months prior to the end of the semester when I had to drop out and move out). Fast forward to a week before the move was supposed to happen. Was chatting with one of my future roommates about how excited I was to live with them and he decides to tell me,”actually man, we’re going to let so and so move in because you’re kinda a bummer to hang with sometimes.” Proceed to have a mental breakdown in front of him and the other two roommates. Had a week to find somewhere to live, and what I found was a run down studio. Only 3 guys in the 60 some member brotherhood ever stuck around to check on me and make sure I was doing okay after that.",
"Where’s the punch line?",
"I was thinking this same thing. There is a time and place for everything and its kind of shitty to bring all that out during a time that is supposed to be relaxing and having a good time. Nobody will want to hear this but illness, physical or mental, is not a golden ticket that requires your friends and family to be there for you 24/7. We are lucky to find one or two people in our lives that will truly be there for us at a moments notice any time any day. If you are suffering you gotta find help from a professional.",
"Love you bro, those weeks are the worst. Next week should be better",
"Wisconsin here saying thanks for the love... love you too brother!",
"Love you more brother...",
"People have been paying rent for a long time, the current mental health crisis is new. The more likely causes of the current crisis are more likely related to the breakdown of community groups, and people having crap sleep schedules, and not going outside, etc. This answer is supported by research but is unpopular on Reddit, as it means we can't put all the blame on others for our situation.",
"People are too dumb to help themselves. So many people suffer, yet no one ever wants to put the work in to help themselves. We are all the results of our traumas in our formative years, and fhose traumas manifest into the troubles that hinder us as adults. Go read \"Overcoming CPTSD\" by Pete Walker and youll realize 2 things: as much as wel all wabt to believe we are special cases with unique circumstances and damages, we just arent special. Millions have the exact same issues and traumas we have, but this is a good thing, as it leads to the second thing: because so many struggle similarly, we understand things better because of trends. Those trends formed the roots of behavioral psychology, and that book is quite honestly far more helpful than any moron with a psychology degree that believes mindfulness and DBT is the blanket cure-all for all issues.",
"Yeah, single mum here who has felt trapped and hopeless and alone for years. Gotta wear the brave face, can't be passing on those patterns to the kids now. Gotta keep on keeping on even when each year that passes is another mockery of time and emptiness. People love us who suffer, but what of it? We stay to keep them from pain. And hope that in hanging on five, ten more years something will change, but does it?\n\nAnd it's not for want of working on my shit. I stare it in the face. I go to therapy, which many who need it can't afford. I reach out to friends. I try blowing up thought patterns with psychedelic therapy. I refrain from outwardly obvious destructive behaviour.\n\nBut nothing takes away the fact that it's very often circumstances that cause us to feel trapped and helpless and hopeless, and after years you stop bothering to look for ways out because there aren't any. \n\nI hold other people up, there is nothing left for myself. I make other people feel.safe, I have never felt safe. And on and on it goes. \n\nWe are a civilization built on a grind we universally hate in secret. Until that changes, this will continue in the dark recesses of many, many minds.",
"fuck this was dense.",
"Is it though? What's so hard? Why would it be now?",
"Thiiis! Your friends can listen, but if you have clinical depression or anxiety there isn’t much they can do.",
"Maybe because your life really isn't that shitty and you're just being a little bitch.",
"I'm sorry to hear that, I'm 9 months into weekly psychology which is finally enough time to say:\n- it takes a couple months for any outlook changes to start showing up reliably\n\n- it is damn near impossible to see the forest for the trees when you're in that pit of abbadon, so I understand how you feel shitty a lot",
"So tone deaf. This is the problem.\n\nYes, you're right. But when you're in a dark place you're past the point of having the one one convo first.\n\nThe problem is that when you're like \"Hey I'm drowning\" the response is I'm not drowning cheer up bud.\n\nI did get help and my life is better now but it makes me sad to see how many people go through the same issues and just survive instead of living.",
"Kinda gay ngl",
"It’s more , you don’t know what to suggest to people to help because you too are in this unfun game called life.",
"I am fun in person. I make sure to be fun in person so we have a good time. But during the week I text my close friends and I am honest about my feelings. And they will do the same. It’s a way to have the best of both worlds",
"Some of my friends are surprised that I openly talk about seeing a therapist. They say things like \"That's good you shouldn't be ashamed\" and i always look puzzled at them with a follow up: \"Why would I be? What I'm ashamed about is participating and being complicit in a society that demands from its men to be stoic and unemotional through everything to the grave, and that seeking therapy in that same society is a privilege because I must have the discretionary income to afford one. That's the shame I feel. \" \n\nIs it any wonder that when the emotionally stunted and terminally ignorant collide to form violence like the Proud Boys? Just kids who never learned how to regulate thier emotions, so now they do the only thing they know how to do: bite and \"fight back\" at the reality that has left them behind, emotionally.",
"Yep",
"I looked into a couple of options for therapy but I can't afford even the cheapest thing including online services. There's not really a lot you can do if you're poor. If you're reading this and struggling you can send me a message and we can talk about it. I don't know anything about anything but I'll listen",
"Lmao",
"This is why insurances should cover therapists better. Because I mean it is good to confide in others but there is also a good time to do it. \n\nWe all should be open about our mental health, but yeah if I’m done with work and I want to get a beer with my bros it would be very exhausting if that is all one person did every single time we hung out. I want to focus on some positives at least, escape the part of work and sadness and just hang out. \n\nThat being said I’m similar to where I did that, then I decided it was best to save that stuff for a more appropriate time or place. \n\nAlso, yeah, my insurance covers some costs for therapy but jr is still expensive, but if America put more focus on it. This type of issue above could be mitigated with a therapist and then you can go to the bar telling people how you are doing better, your therapist is helping you and in turn promoting mental health as well. \n\nI dunno, we should all be open about it, talk to each other but yeah, sometimes I want to just chill.",
"What is a chaplain?",
"> I think the problem is that hanging out in a bar with your friends is an inappropriate social situation to talk about your problems.\n\nNah.\n\n>The best piece of advice I could ever give anyone about how to talk about problems with your friends is to make sure you do something FUN at the end of the conversation. \n\nThis sounds like someone just making shit the think sounds like a good idea. \n\n>It helps you positively associate talking and listening to each other within a fun and well-rounded friendship.\n\nLOL.. Holy shit.",
"No offense but that is horrible advice. That's like telling someone to go outside if they're depressed. For example I moved towns and am now lonelier than I have ever been. Getting to know people is next to impossible the older you get and I'm almost 30 with literally only a dog for a friend.\n\nIf I could offer counter advice, take time to get to know yourself and what you're willing to tolerate. If people in your life are toxic, cut them out. Live for yourself and if someone digs the way you do things you might end up happy.",
"Ya'll got buddies?",
"Love u too bro",
"I usually ignore and forget stuff like this... but this one kind of got to me.",
"I don’t think friends you go hang out at a bar with are the kinds who care much about your problems. I’m fact, I have a feeling they are dealing with their OWN serious problems",
"That's an interesting take, but I think the problem is that when you're in the dark place *you're* tone deaf. You put emphasis is upon people who need to help you, but you also need to help yourself. \n\nFun needs to be a consistent part of any healthy friendship, so making sure that you balance sharing your hardship with doing something uplifting makes you a better friend.\n\nI say this as someone who has been right down the hole many times, but also as someone who has climbed out many times--and someone who has helped friends climb out the hole too. Just like how when we're feeling shit we play video games or eat sugary food or whatever else we think of as a treat to sooth ourselves, you should also do something like that as a treat at the end of a big conversation with a friend about how stuff isn't going so well.\n\nWhen I was growing up my sister always used to follow up a big sad conversation with a big mug of hot chocolate. I know it sounds naff, but it just made everyone feel better. These days sometimes when I feel bad I go and have a mug of hot chocolate with my sister and we talk about stuff and it's really warming. Anyway, just my experience.",
"\"just making shit the think sounds like a good idea\"? I genuinely don't know what you're trying to say with your reply.",
"Title may be considered false - at least in regards to the numbers of suicides in Canada. \n\nSuicide rates have dropped nearly 32%! Turns out that mental health and well-being may be directly influenced by poor work conditions and the feeling of helplessness caused by low wage employment. When a social security net like CERB is introduced, people may have the relief they need not to feel trapped being yelled at and disrespected for $9.42 an hour. Funny how that works.",
"Nah, people are just people and we've all got some capacity to help each other as well as some capacity to suffer. Even people whose lives are falling apart can sometimes give an amazing amount of empathy and patience to someone else who's suffering. It just depends on what the situation is. It's never going to be at a bar full of other groups of friends having a good time, that's the place you go to party.",
"The thing is sometimes when you do express how you’re doing people don’t listen. Recently, my husband had a mental breakdown and had to be hospitalized. I have a toddler, am in grad school and just started a new full time job after being laid off in the pandemic. I told his sister multiple times “Hey, I’m not doing good myself. This has been a lot.” Yet she has been upset when I don’t have the bandwidth to listen about her stuff. I know she needs someone to vent to, but I’m not that person right now. But that all gets ignored because she needs to vent.",
"I feel like doing recreational drugs has become more mainstream than it use to be. Like party drugs are used by society and families at large as means of coping. Alcohol seems to have a bad reputation but also seems to be used more frivolously. In the same vain, I feel like people have become more dismissive and or hostile towards one another. So it’s all just a mess. Ok back to my hole",
"Give yourself a reason to go outside. Give it all up. Homestead. Live for you. Subsist.",
"You did the right thing, you couldn't handle his pain and for your own self health, you gave him the information of someone who had the tools and capabilities to help him.\n\n\"Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm\"\n\nI'm surprised you went on for as long as you did, I don't talk much and people assume that means I like to listen. And I will listen, to a point. If it gets beyond my abilities I tell them and refer them to a psychiatrist / psychologist. If they continue I consider it an overstep of my boundaries and tell them as much.\n\nYour friends are not your responsibility. If you can help them (and want to) do it. But if you are unable (or don't want to) then don't.\n\nAnything that happens to your (former?) Friend is the result of his own actions, not yours. ❤️",
"I'm 2 months sober. We can beat this shit.",
"Terrible weeks just get worse and worse. Wishing you better weeks ahead.",
"same boat. good luck today and every day",
"People generally are self centered and don’t want to deal with other people. They will put up with you for a certain amount of time and your problems then it’s time to move on. In the instance of friendship it’s the same too. It may have been different at one time, but society at large today is extremely selfish",
"Good onya mate. I’m a stranger, but I’m proud of you.",
"Not necessarily true. The current wealth disparity between the richest few and the rest of us today is comparable to the wealth disparity of France right before the French Revolution, and we know how that turned out.\n\nhttps://i.redd.it/3ieikxhgq7g51.jpg",
"Great video. Great message. The bird tried to fuck it up.",
"looks like he's feeling a little blue",
"Yea, I also thought his face was painted. This thumbnail is really misleading.",
"With all due respect, and I know how difficult this can be, it's important that you reach out for help in an environment that's fit for it. If you're on a night out for a group of people, especially if drinking is involved, people aren't necessarily going to respond well to someone opening up like this. \n\nAlso I think its critical that you speak to a professional. Your friends can absolutley help you deal with things, but if you're literally on the edge and potentially feeling suicidal, it's vital you seek professional help. It can be very easy to overwhelm someone, especially when you're in a mindset that isn't open to trying to get better again. \n\nI hope you can get the help you need, and genuinely if you (or anyone reading this) ever want to message, my DMs are open.",
"Suicides actually went down or stayed the same in a lot of countries. So no.",
"I really don't think that's true, and I think it's really interesting how often people write something like that but state it as 'People generally are selfish', i.e. I'm not, I love people and have a lot of empathy, but nobody else cares. The truth is that you're not the odd one out, most people care and have patience and empathy to share, but you've got to create a good space to share that kind of friendship.\n\nAlso, let's not forget that social media has us looking out into an impossibly large social world instead of looking in and cultivating a more modest life of healthy friendships that love and support each other. This age of social media often forces us to consider our value in terms of how many friends we have and/or how much they seem to want to do with us and for us (or to put it another way, we equate our value with how popular we are).\n\nBut that shit fucking sucks. If you find yourself in bad spaces with people who you feel don't care about you, then try to create better spaces with those people before you give up on them. If you keep talking to friends in bars and finding that your friendship is suffering don't stop talking to them, start asking them out for coffee during the day instead, or to go for a walk somewhere.",
"Also people, alcohol in any moderation will not help with anxiety and depression, if your feeling depressed and your friends want to go out it's ok to say no thanks, stay home and read a book, watch a movie, play a video game, work on yourself.",
"What are you anxious about and what are you doing to get better? I don't mind people telling me their problems, but I've got friends that have been telling me the same problems for years. At some point they have no interest in helping themselves",
"Yeah that's it! In addition, if someone asks me out to drinks and I know that's not a good space for me at the time, I'll always try arrange a different activity at a different time with them instead. That way they don't feel so bad about you saying no, and you avoid drifting out of contact with friends--something that used to happen to me a LOT when I got depressed.",
"Correct - when I was at my end mentally and emotionally, and reached out for help to try and stay alive, people around me couldn’t run fast enough. Now that I’ve gotten rid of my abuser and righted my ship, they’re all sheepishly coming back, wanting to hang out.\n\nThis whole “tell someone”, “just talk”, “I’m here for mental illness” stuff on social media is bullshit. People don’t care whether you live or die. \n\nTruly. \n\nThey care whether you’ll be a pleasure to them in the moment. \n\nThe sadness after you’re gone is because you can no longer provide pleasure to them. The happy times when you’re upbeat and cracking jokes they’re there for. The negative bit that happens as someone is depressed and leading up to ending it, people run, avoid, downplay and dismiss. Afterwards they say “we didn’t see it coming”, “why didn’t they reach out??”, “I would have helped”..\n\nNever believe that people will be there for you. You have to help yourself.",
"I do not think a bar is a good place to cultivate good friendships nor is it a good space. Having friends to party with is definitely not the same as having a good supportive friend. You seem to be mixing worlds that generally don’t collide well. I also think people want people to take their advice. There are good people in the world but this kind of friendship you speak of isn’t really something that’s common , especially not with people you party with. Maybe for a period of time in your life when they can get something from you but once that somethings gone, they will be too",
"That sounds horribly sad. Why wouldnt the people you hang out with listen to you? I'd stop hanging out with them by myself if that'd be the case",
"Thank you so, so much kind stranger. Your words warm my heart. \n\nI am suprised it took so long too. Things just happen. Time goes on. Sometimes 4 weeks could go by with little to no contact. Then 3 weeks. Then 2 weeks. Then 5 weeks etc etc. He is mostly a good guy (it seems). Very sympathetic and intelligent. Entertaining to be around, if you look past his mental issues (he is slightly unaware of social cues). So the good times over-shadowed the bad sides, if that makes sense. \n\nAnd me having very few close friends myself just accepted it. I felt good about myself in a way for being that supportive guy, that I was. I just forgot being supportive of myself. Letting him run all over me if I said something, he could take personally. It was like walking on egg shells sometimes. I was too sweet, as some might say.",
"I think society as a whole never was any *less* selfish. The opposite is the case actually. The world gets closer and closer together, historically.",
"Thank you, stranger. I am too. Tough decision. That's life.",
"I deal with other people's bullshit a lot, but it gets to be a lot when no one's there for mine. But I do what I can for others. We all gotta.",
"I do think it’s possible to find a good friend amongst many at a bar situation, but most of the time it’s about partying. Like I said there are good people and I’m not judging people sitting at a bar. I’m just saying its unlikely you’re going to find a good friend there",
"u/SaveVideo",
"I'd say it isnt any less likely than with any other people you meet, though.\n\n\nA bar just isnt a good setting to talk about problems (unless everyone is already horribly drunk at the end). But the people you'd meet there are just normal people you could befriend anywhere else, too",
"Yes exactly",
"I asked my professor who is a school psychologist and asked him about why doesn't the school administration don't anything about intervention for bullying to stop school shootings and suicides and pretty much he told me what you said.\n\n He said when it comes to health nobody really cares until it starts to affect a large group of people.",
"and most times they arent ready to handle such a heavy topic, you must ask/prepare them, can't just out of the blue tell that, it will caught you off guard if your friend did that too you or you became sadder/depressive",
"I think the 31 upvotes and 0 comments tells a story in itself.",
"There are no criteria that definitively stake out what a good friendship looks like and what a bad friendship looks like. Everyone and every friendship has different strengths, weaknesses, capacities, and limitations.\n\nI've worked in a pub for over 10 years and I can tell you that it has very often been an excellent place to help cultivate strong, healthy, friendships. It's what I work hard to help create when I'm working, playing music, talking to people. It can be a lot of laughter, singing, dancing, and a lot of really lovely heartfelt affection shared between friends. \n\nYou just can't make the bar your friend. It's got to be about your friendships, not about the alcohol. There are also definitely people (usually people in their early-20s) who go out to 'be seen' and for who being popular and taking lots of drugs etc... is all that's valuable. But those are often depressed people who are hurting just as much as people who face depression in silence, they're just suffering differently. \n\nThe point is, always, you've got to try to create healthy spaces with friends that are based on empathy, patience, trust, and FUN! My God, the fun part is so important. Maybe bars aren't for you--they aren't for lots of people--but that doesn't mean bars can't be for some people. That's the thing, too: you've got to be willing to leave spaces if they become unhealthy for you. Leave when you ought to, and keep trying to create and join fresh, fun, and healthy social alternatives.",
"I always say in these situations “I am trying to explain my behavior, not justify it “ and people tend to give a little more attention.",
"That’s true but adding alcohol to the equation doesn’t help. You can find a good friend anywhere, but the likelihood of having a good friend who truly cares about you is very slim even over a lifetime except a spouse",
"I wouldnt be caught off guard if someone would tell me of his problems.\n\n\nI also dont see how thats related to a bar",
"Sad this is no one wants to hear sad. I have no one I can really talk to and never have. It’s a lonely world.",
"Yes. \n\n1. He didn't understand what Genghis Khan could have to do with the claim that this is the greatest mental health epidemic in history. \n\n2. He slandered me, claiming that my perspective was, \"We can assume one guy got eaten by a tiger in the past so fuck any of your problems, you better not complain once.\".",
"I'm sorry this happened. Be proud of yourself for the support you did offer, and for taking care of yourself.",
"Save the most helpful comments and read them daily!! Celebrate what you CAN do every day, and be kind to yourself if you can't.",
"Wagwan brethren, we lost another one today….",
"Find something that you used to (or might) like, and push yourself to do it, even if you don't really feel like it ❤️",
"If you're living in abject poverty and you're seeing people skinned alive and hung up as warnings not cross the local warlord, then you might be in a worse place psychologically than the people who feel isolated in a developed liberal democracy during the Covid pandemic. I would have hoped that that was obvious. Historical ignorance is a pandemic.",
"My wife did this to me yesterday. I got on a rant about how I wish me and my brother were closer. She cut me off -‘you’re beating a dead horse.’ \n\nLike fuck, man, I just want someone to care.",
"This is great advice! I can get on board with this, which is different than discussing a severely depressed person sitting at the bar talking about their problems trying to find a friend.",
"At least you don’t deny you’re easily offended",
"Absolutely not. I corrected an absurd claim about history.",
"Please tell him he's helped all of us :)",
"I've had to cut out people from my life struggling with mental health because of this exact reason and therefore know just how hard it can be dealing with the guilt, second guessing your decision, etc. I'm proud of you for standing up for yourself and doing what you needed to do for your health and wellbeing. 💖",
"You realize I wasn’t the first person in that thread to comment on his mustache, right? That I was replying to someone else that had already brought it up?",
"I like to think of it this way, when I have a bad run: you're getting it all over with at once. You're due some smooth sailing after this.",
"I imagine that living in abject poverty with the fear of being tortured to death or raped by a gang and seeing your children skinned alive is a damn sight worse for mental health than feeling isolated during the Covid pandemic in a developed nation.",
"I was initially surprised that it offended so many people, but then I remembered what we're dealing with here: historical ignorance via failed public education paired with a lack of interest in truth. These people want to pat someone on the back and, \"Hey man, if you *feel* like things are worse than ever for everyone, then you're right because that's how you feel. Who am I to question you when you're so upset?\". It's obviously well-intended, but it's toxic positivity. Lying to people about history doesn't help them.",
"\"Mom...you said that the biggest problem in the universe is no one helps each other\" - Anakin Skywalker.",
"Nothing much really, I was merely reflecting on the fact that you don't see the word much in normal conversation, so I was complimenting him on his use of it, and making a light-hearted joke on the fact it would be a shame for the world to lose someone so erudite.",
"I don't blame you one bit. Here's why: I'm \"guilty\" of being on both sides of this at one point. A mental illness isn't unlike an addiction, which too is a mental illness. Your friend needs to seek help, help himself when possible and maybe seek support from friends like yourself once in awhile too. It's a multi-pronged approach that takes some effort. To simply unload on a friend, frequently, is a form of self-pity and their misery wanting too much indulgent comfort doesn't help either party and it's even a bit narcissistic on the illness's behalf to want to bring another down, too.\n\nUltimately, as with addiction, you have only so much energy to give to someone who doesn't want to change. Is it okay for multiple people to succumb to an illness possibly generated or festered in another? I don't think so and they shouldn't want that.",
"This is when you reach out to others you know. Might be a relative or coworker or peer. There will be someone who will listen. Sometimes it helps to find someone who also has mental issues, they are more understanding. \n\nBut, hey, i'm lonely and would love to chat if u want! Send me a dm whenever.",
"Smoke weed brother",
"“What’s up guys,….”",
"> I have no idea why you are being downvoted\n\nDon't you? Think about it. I'm correcting a depressed guy's delusion about history instead of saying, \"It's okay, buddy. Whatever you say about history is true because you *feel* like it's true.\". These downvoters are warped by toxic positivity: They feel like it's better to lie than be straight about reality. It's well-intended but wrong and destructive.",
">play a video game,\n\nExcept Doki Doki Literature Club… never fucking play that game if you have anxiety or depression",
"I love his stache.",
"Workers have all the power right now. If you don’t like your job, get another one, this is the time to do it",
"Thank you for this.",
"Thank you so very much. \n\nThe second-guessing and guilt trip is the worst part. We have to take care of ourselves first. This is what my psychologist basically tried to teach me --> Prioritize yourself. Ask yourself, what you want, what you need, what you won't tolerate from others and so on. Not to live your life for others. Help others. But firstly you need to help you and do what is best for you. Otherwise you end up in toxic relationships with others. \n\nKnow your own worth as a human. Know that you are worthy of love, good friends and relationships. Don't settle for less.",
"The friends at my karate dojo were much better listeners and friends that my friends that drank every day and smoked weed all day.",
"soy",
"Your chemical inbalance could just be your addiction. Drugs are literally a chemical inbalance. Even after you stop using it affects you for quite some time. You can speed up the process with naltrexone.",
"The friends from you gym probably went to a bar a few times, too.\n\n\nYou dont need to 'drink and smoke weed all day' to be in a bar, so i dont understand what youre trying to say here.",
"Just practice pop punk or something that almost requires you to dance around while you play.",
"I think they now have access to information to show HOW fucked they are. In the past, all you had was your village, and you dealt with it. We've got a LOT more to think about overall.\n\nIgnorance is bliss.",
"This happened to me. My friends just got tired of me being a downer all the time. I would even run into them around town and ask what they were doing the rest of the evening, the answer was always the same, “we’re about to go home.” That was never true. They simply got tired of me and my issues. So, now I spend a lot of time alone.",
"Still scares me",
"another subtle aspect is that people who want to help can only do through what they found for themselves..\n\nI've joined discord group for mental health support and it wasnt pretty. We're often at loss, we assume our solutions will help the other. Then politics pop up..\n\nIt's really difficult.\n\nPeople if you're struggling, stay strong, and just reject the dark thoughts. Trust those words.",
"> We've got a LOT more to think about overall.\n\nI'd put money on it that mental health in the past was worse. Think about it. Ignorance is bliss? How about believing that demons have possessed your neighbour? Does sound like bliss to you? Struggling to get food? Dying of infections? Dying in child birth? Etc. etc. etc.",
"What's your point?",
"The thing is, people who are severely depressed don't know what they want beyond not wanting to feel depressed. It might not solve the problem, but I've been a part of some truly excellent nights at my bar with people who are depressed who have just been temporarily lifted out of it by the raw positive energy of the people there. The music, the laughter, the drinks and the smiles... It can be a truly beautiful thing! But yeah, you can't let the bar be an addiction, always trying to chase that perfect night. What made the night good was a bunch of people getting together and sharing their best energy. Usually, those people are well-rested, have eaten something good and filling for dinner, and are there to be part of a fun and healthy shared space.\n\nThere are other times when people come in and they're not trying to create a healthy space for themselves and other people. They want to get really drunk above all else, and/or they want to have sex with someone, and/or they want to have a fight, and/or they want to take drugs, etc... Lots of different reasons, but all of them boil down to the fact that they're depressed and are doing the wrong thing about it.\n\nAlso, I've been writing a lot so I'll stop after this, but it's important not to make people feel guilty afterwards when they do stuff like that. Everyone is trying to be happy, but some people find it really, really hard to do stuff that actually makes them happy. It's like the world has some sort of incredibly difficult code that you have to solve to feel happiness, and it just fucking crushes some people who can't figure it out--or who forget it. For me right now, my attempt to decode happiness relies on making sure that my best energy into my most healthy and fun friendships, seeing my therapist regularly, practicing mindfulness as often as I can incorporate it into my life, and taking some pretty essential medications.\n\nThat said, I'm lucky enough to live in a country where all of those things are affordable for a bartender, so it might sound a bit naive and frustrating to people who lives in the States where, from what I understand, the cost of living can be an extra-oppressive burden.",
"Looks more like Chris Pratt.",
"Hang in there bud. You hang in there and I’ll hang in there and we can try to make things better. It might not be much but there will be two of us trying to help 😊",
"If you're aching about not being considered / loved, flip the feeling around.. it means you need to seek it. You're most absolutely lovable and people will bond with you. It's just not easy at times.",
"Get a therapist",
"we need to quit video and bring back time together IMO",
"The last time I let someone \"close\" to me know I was having a hard time and didnt know if I could go on much longer he responded by grabbing his cock through his pants and saying sucking on this will make you feel better. I've been celibate for a year behind that interaction and recently went back on my meds. Really wish there were more guys like Mr Moustache out there",
"Ngl I saw the thumbnail and thought it was a guy wearing a mask of an old guy with a mustache that I saw at the Halloween costume store the other day",
"Go to therapy. That’s literally what it’s for",
"When you laugh, the whole world laughs with you. When you cry, they walk away.\n\nOld boy.",
"Why don’t you go and harrass Denshin74 instead?",
"It depends on what kind of depression we are talking about. Clinical depression isn’t going to be solved by the night out your mentioning. I thought we were discussing someone so depressed they were suicidal, that’s not a good place to find a friend, a bar. I’m happy for you that you have found what works for you.",
"If you're at a point where suicide is an option for you, working out (assuming that you're functional enough to consider it) is gonna do fuckall but add an extra layer of guilt when not following through",
"It’s also a big hurdle to get help, something most people don’t realize.",
"I am likely to have been on both sides as well. But not as long as this former friend of mine. \n\nI studied with this girl, who quickly became an older sister-like person for me. I went to her a few times, talking about my insecurities. Talking to her, as if she could save me. However, she had experienced this kind of relationship that we were unfortunately developing - previously in her life. It was toxic for her. She told me this - how being in such a relationship had made her somewhat depressed before. And so she actually stopped talking to me, while we were studying - for her own sake. \n\nAnd now, I can see why she did that. I was angry at her for cutting me out. *How could she be so cold?* I thought. I needed help. But now I see. I had to help myself. I needed to take responsibility for myself. And so I did. Had she not done, what she had done, she would've been, where I have been with this guy.",
"I feel like group settings when buddies are out for drinks isn't the time to talk about this. You really want one on one or one on two conversation with someone when talking about suicidal thoughts. It turns into the bystander effect in a group where each friend assumes the other friend will say something perfect or reach out after.",
"Asking me to harass someone is not cool. Don't you know we're in the middle of the biggest mental health epidemic in history? Mr. Moustache man told me.",
"Because your friends aren't therapists. \n\nGet professional help. That's what they're there for.",
"Jesus fucking Christ, shut the fuck up with your facebook-minion-meme psychology. This isn't how any of this works. 70 fucking upvotes for this pseudo-motivational garbage. Just shut up about things you neither understand nor can relate to.",
"This. Too many folks that need help, can't find the blame in themselves. Those pieces right fucking there are the hardest to put back together.\n\nAs someone who needed help many years ago, I'm still fixing myself today. I now have a partner who gives a shit about the real me and not an image. She accepts my bullshit mental scars, but calls me out on my bad reactions to things. Consoles me when shit gets to be too heavy.\n\n I love her for that. I hope everyone gets that in their lives, even for a brief moment. But dammit..dont let yourself be broken. That's letting the bullshit win.",
"I’m sorry your friend treated you that way when you made a boundary. Try not to feel bad about it, and know that you aren’t responsible for him. You can’t make him stop being suicidal, and you aren’t a mental health professional, you’re his friend. You don’t deserve to be saddled with the responsibility of being his psychologist. He deserves a better psychologist (a real one) and you deserve a better friend. You made the right call even though it was hard, and I’m proud of you",
"Is that what we're trying to do, though? Solve other peoples depression? That's too big a task, and it's potentially impossible. What I'm suggesting is something far, far more modest. Just always try to create as healthy a space as you can, that makes people in it feel seen and appreciated, and where they can have a temporary break from their depression to have a good time instead.\n\nAs with my initial point, if you're able to have a conversation with that depressed person about how they're going first, then going to a bar and enjoying a night out might just be absolute BLISS for that depressed person, and you'll sleep knowing that you've been a good friend to someone you care about.\n\nI've known a few people who have committed suicide and I'll never be one of the people who spends their time wondering what I could have done to cure them. They had an illness and it was terminal. I can hold my head up high and remember that I tried as hard as I could to offer them a good and healthy friendship.\n\nSomething that shouldn't be downplayed, though, is how bad drinking can be for depressed people. I work in a bar, so I don't get a choice--people who are depressed and there have already chosen drinking so I've got to work with what I've got. But, definitely, if I had my way I would usually suggest a healthier alternative, and for me it's definitely walks. Walks are just... Almost universally an excellent, fun, alternative to drinking. Walking through some big park and having a chat can be so therapeutic. If it's bad weather then find a big mall and visit every shop, or catch a bus out to some fun place you don't go to very often. Create a bit of healthy adventure and journey.",
"So important to send messages of love right now. We’re all struggling.",
"The sad reality is most of us are not equipped to help someone in this dire of a situation. Same reason we go see a doctor when we are really sick because I don’t personally have the “medicine” or treatments you may need. If you need help go see a professional or ask your doctor",
"\"There is a time and place for it.\" Constantly venting about the things wrong in your life is borderline narcissistic. Turning every hangout into a therapy session is exhausting to the people around you. As someone with pretty severe anxiety I just manage it on my own and discuss it with those close to me every now and then individually. Hanging out with buddies is a time to not think about what troubles you and be present in the moment. You'd be surprised how many people have troubling thoughts and feelings because they understand there is a time and place to share those struggles.",
"The sad reality is most of us are not equipped to help someone in this dire of a situation. Same reason we go see a doctor when we are really sick or a mechanic when our car won’t start because regular people don’t have the know how, tools, or treatments you may need when it’s this serious. If you need help go see a professional or ask your doctor",
"I just do not see people as caring as you do. People just don’t really care and have their own lives. But we are all allowed different viewpoints",
"Stuck like this for years, but was able to break out of it. Games are great distractions, sometimes more, and potentially great community connectors with friends. But, I started really small steps, taking a walk here and there, reading a book and putting it on a shelf to slowly fill it up, show progress. Eventually, I got to the point where I was able to seek out counseling. Not saying it will work for anyone else, but it worked for me.\n\nNow days I have other hobbies, baking bread, woodworking, tinkering with Raspberry Pis. Still play games, sometimes really wish I could return to those glory days of gaming, but most of it is nostalgia at this point for something that does not exist.\n\nIf you want to change, give something a try. Failing does not mean failure, simply try something else. When ya find something that both occupies your mind and returns energy to you, keep at it.\n\nBest of luck and please take care of yourself.",
"I hope your appointments go well! I’ve had friends in similar situations, so I get what you’re saying about not having the wherewithal to leave your room. Getting up the motivation to schedule and go to your appointments has to be tough, but I’m so proud of you for making that decision!",
"How do I help a friend who is suffering from this? \nShe attempted suicide a few weeks ago and was found before she was successful. She was admitted to the ED and then transferred to a mental health facility for 1 week. She admitted that she's not thankful she was found and can't say that she won't try again. \n \nMy heart breaks for her. I literally can't imagine the pain she's going through. I'm no therapist, but I am a friend. How can I be there for her?",
"A chaplain is a person with advanced spiritual and religious training who works in a non-religious setting, like a hospital, prison, school, or the military. Every army battalion has a chaplain for example. They used to always be clergy, but now many chaplains are also laypeople. They used to always be Christian, but now represent many different religions and humanists. Chaplains work where people are suffering the most, even being deployed in war, to help them spiritually cope. Chaplains work with people from that person's religious perspective, not the chaplain's perspective, so they serve interreligiously and have training in multiple religions, philosophies, and psychology. I'm also a chaplain, which is how I know the guy in the video. Good on ya for asking.",
"In the United States when mentally ill or suicidal people reach out they are treated like criminals. Often you will be held against your will in some horrible facility where the staff are cold and don't give a damn about you. Also, proper therapy is not available or it's unaffordable for many people. These are symptoms of a sick culture.",
"Yep. I spent the last few years trying to learn how to deal with my own stuff because of that reason. At some point you just stop trying things that don't work.\n\nGetting shut down or ignored every time makes you so bitter too. I know people mean well, but whenever I hear \"please reach out\" I can't help but roll my eyes. For too many of us there's nothing to reach out for",
"God I fucking feel this. I've vowed to bottle shit up because i think i pushed too many people away.",
"no, there are time and place, in social even if you keep doing that why would they invite you, their life is already shitty and you add it without warning with your life story, they wanna have fun in a bar. Your friend have life outside you, and have their own hardship and sometimes they dont wanna talk about dark and heavy stuff because they already have a lot on their mind, and that is normal, and if you are there and the only topic is how shit your life is, no one wanna invite you, a trip to refreshing and have some fun in shitty life will be shit with you keep making it depressing",
"This is what people who have never experienced true depression think will solve people’s mental health issues.\n\nUtterly useless.",
"I don’t think the people who utilize those videos have depression. Moreso just have a bad day or feel down for a bit.\n\nAnyone who has and deals with actual depression, ive never known them to use those videos. The fake positivity/“I love you” bullshit is mostly laughed at. Doesn’t fix a damn thing.",
"bad wording for me, what I mean is there is time and place for everything, and sometimes your friend is not in right head space, mood, energy etc etc to handle such a topic, you can just ask first, hey can I talk about ABC, I mean sure if they wanna tell me their problem but there are times that I for sure cant do it, or not in right head space to listen/help, so a little heads up is nice",
"Or “just go see a therapist bro”\n\nIn a country without universal healthcare. Fantastic advice.",
"of course, but boomers say you just need to work harder",
"Thank you. I am having a hard time",
"Hey man, I can't imagine what type of pain you've been through. If you're being truthful here, it's really nothing after the thousandth time but I genuinely wish you the best. I hope that new job makes you bank and at least buys you some breathing room.",
"I dont think there is any reason to believe people in concentration camps had a greater then normal rate of mental health issues. They were suffering no doubt but that by itself doesn't mean you have a mental health issue.",
"We need to stop this, man. I’m sorry to sound like an asshole but I’ve heard this a million times. \n\nFrom the other side of the planet, a hundred reasons to kill myself, some of them legitimate; what does one person, a complete stranger, saying ‘I love you’ achieve?\n\nSorry, but it does nothing. It’s an empty gesture. Just the same as when people toe the line; ‘if you’re feeling down please call your local helpline.’ Then proceeds to list 68 different mental help lines as if this helps me at all!\n\nSorry. \n\nNo, I’m not sorry. Because it doesn’t help! Stop doing it! Do you know why? Because it’s *evidently* not working. \n\nI’m sorry you lost somebody, it sucks. Eventually my family will lose me. Not today, not tomorrow, but the day will come. I’ll end myself before my cancer and heart failure turn me into a vegetable, unable to make a dignified choice. Thankfully euthanasia laws are being introduced to more places globally, slowly… but it won’t get here quick enough for me. \n\nTelling me ‘everything’s going to be okay’. Or to just call help is a dogshit response. It’s about as effective as telling a panicked person to chill out/relax, man. \n\nRelax!? Fuck off, relax…",
"You and I disagree. Consider looking up the term \"PTSD\".",
"Also people were a lot busier focusing on just surviving",
"Why is his face that color tho",
"If someone wants to off their self, let em' do it. The reason we have 90+% of the issues we do is from overpopulation. Hit the easy button, pull the trigger. Unpopular opinion, sure, but who gives a fuck? Not me.",
"You know what's frustrating about your position, is that there is this core of truth to it. Men's issues are overlooked. Family courts are heavily biased against fathers. Things like prostate cancer aren't the source of national fundraising campaigns. \n\nBut unfortunately, rather than tackling those issues by engaging, you and those like you latch onto vauge things like \"Openness\" scores, as if that is a verifiable metric across the board, and then decide that society now hates men. \n\nWhich isn't true. Society hates angry, solitary men who approach any issue with an aggressive attitude, who believe that a few biological fact like generally better strength and whatnot means they are supposed to be higher in some kind of hierarchy than women, that talking with a friend because you are hurting makes them weak.\n\nSociety says men lack value? When we still average higher incomes, when we are more prone to be in leadership roles in large companies, when the masculine pronouns are still by FAR the default in just about any documentation you can find? \n\nMen have higher suicide rates, and higher instances of violence. It has been proven that therapy, learning to communicate, learning to de-escalate and work through things reduces those numbers.\n\nYou don't understand what masculinity is. It is not answering any aggression against you with more aggression. It is not being the \"strong silent type\". It is not being the \"man of the house\". It is certainly not \"you make me mad or uncomfortable so I am going to punch you until you stop\". \n\nBeing a \"Real Man\" means being there to lend a hand to someone when they need it. It means listening when your friends, family, or loved ones need to vent. It means being a shoulder to cry on without judgement. It means putting in hard work to make things better for you, and for everyone around you. It means learning the skills necessary to raise a good person, to be a good partner, to be a helper in the world, rather than a roadblock. It means doing a thing, even if that thing scares you, if it needs to be done. It means not judging someone who is in a different place than you.\n\nMy best friend killed himself because of that fake stoic manliness bullshit. Because he didn't feel like he could talk to his loved ones about the stresses he was under. That it was easier to blow his brains out than it was to seek help. THAT is toxic masculinity.",
"Thank you. Yes. I was and simply wanted to be a friend. But huge burden was put a upon my shoulders, by having to listen to his depressive and suicidal thoughts. \n\nI honestly don't think you are a good friend towards someone, when you do this repeatedly. It is simply not fair. It is toxic. \n\nIt should be acceptable to talk about those tough feelings and suicide. No one should go alone with those thoughts. But in this case, it was simply not good for me. I did not feel, I was in a friendship. It was more like 80 % me being a supportive amateur therapist (because that is what I was doing most of the time - just being supportive and listening) and only 20 % of it being a friendship.",
"Tx, not American. Appreciate the thorough answer.",
"The reality is, that most people are dealing with their own shit, and aren't always able to keep listening to someone who's depressed for extended periods of time. \n\nSure, talk to a friend one on one. They can choose to help, but they don't have to. It's possible they're simply not able or qualified to offer you the support you need. Hell, maybe they're actually in far worse shape than you are, and you're actively hurting them by venting to them.\n\nAnd if you're at a party and feel the need to make it about you, you're the problem. Yes, it's normal for depressed people to be really preoccuppied with themselves, but realistically there comes a point where they should be seeking the help of a professional.\n\nI mean, honestly. I've had depressed friends make it about them, at someone else's funeral. \"Your mother just died, but I feel worse.\" Well congratulations, maybe you should have gone to your therapist, or skipped the funeral, instead of making the worst day in someone else's life significantly worse.\n\nThere comes a point, where you're simply enabling negative behaviour, by putting up with it, and allowing someone who's mentally ill to be an arsehole and not take the steps necessary to get better.\n\nAnd I say this as someone who's suffered depression on and off over the years. Mental illness isn't and was never an excuse for me or someone else being a selfish arsehole.\n\nTo all the people suffering in silence: ask a close friend if you can talk about it, but if they're unable or unwilling accept that. Seek professional help.",
"Sounds like shitty friends tbh",
"That’s not accurate. It’s not that we don’t necessarily want to, it’s about balance. If I give too much of myself, my life suffers. My therapist has helped me hold onto balance - in all relationships. By all means, be there *how you can* for the people that need you. But this throwaway attitude that nobody “wants” to deal with it is selfish itself. Life is hard for virtually everyone. Not everyone has the power or energy to give more than they already are. Suicidal / depressed people are **draining** and you need to be prepared to find that balance, to defend that balance, and know that most of us don’t have the full capacity, energy or time to save other lives while we are trying to save ourselves.",
"I’m sorry dude it’s really tough. I once spent a most a day in bed thinking about the pills I had in the bathroom and how quickly it would be over. Then I realized how long I had spent thinking about it and how I couldn’t even muster up the energy to get out of bed and swallow some pills and the laughter got way closer to killing me. Hang in there.",
"Does anyone have any context on who this guy is and what’s going on? I’m very confused.",
"I make a decent amount of money. Over the last few years, I believe I have uncovered that I have some mental health issues that need to be addressed. I tried starting with talk therapy right before the pandemic. I went and saw two therapists. One seemed alright, but her schedule didn't work out with mine, so we couldn't do it regularly. The other one I just did not like. His reaction felt very minimalizing to my experience. Maybe that works for some people, but that did not work for me.\n\nThen the pandemic hit, so I stopped.\n\nNow that we are starting to get through it, I decided to start searching again. This time I decided to look for a psychiatrist, as I wanted the option for potential medication. The first one I called wasn't taking new patients. The second one I called *was* taking new patients, but all I could do was leave a message with their call service. I didn't get a call back for two days. When I finally did, I find out it costs $350 for the initial evaluation, and then $250 for appointments -- and she doesn't take insurance.\n\nI talked to my wife about it -- it turns out many psychiatrists do not take insurance (apparently the payout from insurance is shit). So ... two appointments a month, which is probably the minimum I would need, is $500. Again, I make decent money, but between mortgage, daycare, car payments, student loans (suspended at the moment, but starting back up soon) and all kinds of other life expenses, I can't afford another $500. \n\nI could try talk therapy again, but ... I feel like I need more than that.",
"So I promise I'm not trying to be one of those \"just be better\" dudes, but this really does seem like two sides of the same coin to people who don't have intrusive thoughts.\n\nYou are I are pretty much in the same situation. I work a dead end job, doesn't allow me to save for a future where I ever do anything but work this job. Most of my family is dead, my couple siblings that aren't are also estranged. I have no girlfriend myself. Most of my friends married and moved away or are dead themselves. \n\nA reality that I live with is I could come home on friday, choke to death on my dinner, and no one will even THINK that i'm missing til I have no call no showed to work on Monday. Hell they may even give me the benefit of the doubt and not think anything of it til I didnt show up again the next day.\n\nBut I am on the other side of the coin. I have something mentaly that people with major depression don't. Not sure what it is. But I don't sit around depressed about my situation wishing it was different. I just tredge through my shitty day. When I feel lonely I think about the people That could still be in my life that aren't and I'm actually glad that they aren't. \n\nLike I will take the loneliness over the toxicity most people bring to the table. I don't miss the people who think that having drama in their lives this what makes them feel alive.\n\n So yes people should understand that you can't just feel better. Mental health is a very serious issue. But a lot of these people who are in the same situation as you can only see their side of the coin.",
"If I do are you gonna teach me an online lesson?? Are you gonna try to open my eyes to the truth? Doofus",
"Also,if it's EVERY time. I have a friend who I have essentially provided many, many, many long, long long 8+ hour counseling sessions to. His misery is all the he can talk about. Opening up for all that time has done nothing to help him, he actually is more miserable. I've been doing a lot of work around trauma and people \"telling their victim stories\". It doesn't help. It actually makes it worse. The more times you tell the sad story to yourself the more true and unchangeable it becomes. The answer is not just for the people around you to be more supportive. It actually can make it worse overall.",
"I love you too man",
"And you WILL burn those people out too if you try to use them 24/7.",
" But why is he grey",
"I completely agree. Going to a bar with a group of friends is a lighthearted event. Sure, you can tell people that you are having a rough time and if you have good friends they will listen to you for a while. But if you really are rock-bottom a bar is not really the best place. I would text my friends that I feel like shit and don't want to come and meet with 1 person later.\n\nI know a couple of people who basically highjacked some nights because we had to listen for hours about their misery, not asking for one second how others feel. Maybe someone else there also feels like crap and having fun with friends is their way of dealing with it?",
"I have a friend who talks about having depression while simultaneously brags about how great his life is. \n\nWe work in similar fields and every time we sit down and have real talk. He tells me I've never had depression like him or how I've never had to suffer like he did, so most of the time I have to defend my depressed experiences... usually this conversation goes into the projects he's working on and he begins to tell me how great his projects are and how happy they're making him... Most of the time the conversations we have are of him bragging about a particular life experience. For example, going to an amazing concert or how his life has changed for the better.\n\nDoes he need help? I don't understand how to talk to him.\n\nDoes this person need help",
"Good job. What you did was incredibly difficult but it was the right thing to do. You're absolutely right, you weren't really helping him anyways. For people who can't stop telling their victim story, each retelling just makes it worse, so in the absence of getting him to change the subject, you had to just take away the conversation.",
"Quit drinking, with medical help if you need it. I quit not that long ago, and it has done wonders. It won’t fix everything, but it will be better.",
"No, I don't. That's what I mean by saying I'm fortunate.\n\nI haven't felt any of the side effects since early on when I started the medication. It won't be the same for everyone, our brain chemistry is as unique as we are individuals. This is what's worked for me.",
"Thank you. Yes. Exactly. I figured, if I just kept listening to his victim story, as you call it, things wouldn't get better. I think it's best to just call it an end.",
"You make a lot of sweeping generalizations, but I think they reflect more on your own life experiences than that they are universal truths. Due to corona, there was barely any partying at all last year, and some of my party friends became a very important support system for me in those months.\n\nJust because you have some superficial party friends doesn't mean it's a bad thing. You both want something from each other and if both are happy with that it's fine. It becomes bad when your party friends are your *only* friends.",
"K",
"I mean, exile has been a thing since tribes existed. Takes more to get there than to get fired, but its a bigger deal since you’re then left in the wilderness with no place to stay, the threat of people who hate you living nearby, little chance of being accepted elsewhere, and major competition for your resources. I think you vastly underestimate the amount of work that goes into surviving in hunter-gatherer societies around the world as your metric to compare capitalism to seems to literally be eden. Hunters using persistence hunting (the method humans evolved to do) literally ran after their food for hours. The hunters that followed herds had to keep up with herd animals while carrying shelters and setting up/tearing down every time they moved. Herd animals be whole-ass migrating to the Americas across the land-bridge, bruh. Hunter gatherers spent all day making and replacing their clothing, building shelters, foraging, hunting, trying to preserve food for winter, defending that food store from animals, keeping their families safe, caring for kids, etc.. They probably took more naps than us, but they probably didn’t sleep much during the night either. Farming is a demanding, high-labor job, but hunter-gatherers switched to that because it was easier than what they were doing with a greater output.\n\nSaying that hunter-gatherers just picked apples for three or four hours a day is absolutely ridiculous, and if you compare any system to the eden you are describing, then of COURSE the idea of work seems appalling. The jobs we have now result in alot of stress and mental health issues, sure but I would argue that this has more to do with a sedentary lifestyle and lack of large social networks of people that are all close to each other than the jobs themselves. Its not like the hunter-gatherers never stressed about the work they did. If you think its all picking apples and taking naps, then you’ve probably never heard of lions or frostbite.",
"Oof. That's rough.",
"This dude put on his freshest gear for this clip.",
"Yeh. Me irl.",
"People ask: who is this guy?\n\nNo one asks: how is this guy?",
"International travel helps a lot. Everyone has problems everywhere, but the problems we have in America don’t seem to apply to other places. People are more genuine in other parts of the world",
"I feel your pain and love you too fam",
"You kind of just made a whole lot of anthropology statements with no back up, and I can provide specific citations to disprove most of them.\n\nAll the things you said about hunter gatherers are pretty much just a 1940s understanding, that misses most modern archaeology, as well as evolutionary psychology.\n\nYuval Harari’s *Sapiens* would be my recommendation for a start.",
"Why bother telling a medical professional that you’re suicidal? They’ll just make you take pills that make you fat and give you erectile dysfunction or involuntarily put you in the hospital for a week and hand you a $20,000 bill.",
"I have a love-hate relationship with that show I love the show it’s amazingly written but I hate how much I relate to it on so many levels . The view from halfway down fucked with me for a while.",
"Good ol' \"mental health awareness\", lip service that doesn't actually help anyone in need. As someone who suffers from chronic mental illnesses, I hate this shit. I get it, this guy probably would've listened and tried his best to help someone, and that's admirable. But the message \"reach out if you need help\" is just so bullshit, nobody cares, nobody really wants to listen, and nobody can really do anything meaningful to help you. This problem exists because of the society we're stuck living in, and it's not going to change any time soon. Don't like that idea? Me neither, but it's too fucking bad, because it's true.",
"Yeah exactly, and really often I think what people are doing when they are talking about their problems is literally trying to offload them. Sometimes when I feel down I tell people because I'm kind of asking them to fix everything--like maybe if I talk about it enough some rich benefactor might come along and perform some miracle that fixes me.\n\nWhat they want is for the depression to not be there, so there can something incredibly validating and reassuring about a night out where instead of dwelling on your problems and making it all about you, instead you contributed to creating a good time not just for yourself, but for other people too. It gives you a lot of confidence and makes you feel more connected.\n\nSometimes people just can't stop dwelling though. And it sucks, but people need to be able to help themselves before they can get extra help from anyone else. That's why it's so important to see a psychologist/therapist/psychiatrist. I've been seeing a psychologist and a psychiatrist, and on regular medications, for four years now and it's changed my life. Taking the step towards trying to understand your problems by listening to a psychologist you trust is hard, but for me it has been incredibly rewarding. She helps me to reflect on myself in a way that doesn't make me hate myself. I've been able to confront embarrassing and shameful behaviours in a way that was compassionate and patient, working through and past feelings like guilt and shame. I'm a much more easy-going person now, much harder to offend and much less likely to get into arguments. I feel as though I'm most responsive to the wants and needs of other people, which has led to a much happier and healthier chemistry with my friends. But anyway, that's just what's working for me. I've been in plenty of deep dark holes, and I'm sure there are plenty more I'll fall into before it's all said and done.",
"If I’m wrong, then I’m willing to accept that. I’m only stating things that I’ve learned through documentaries, anthropology classes I’ve taken in the past etc., so I don’t have any specific sources that come to mind, just a collection if information in aggregate. I don’t have time to read a whole book, but if you have some articles I could read, I’d be happy to peruse them and adjust my understanding",
"I can definitely relate to your struggle I feel like I am someone who loves life or at least the thought of living in the possibility of adventure. But I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth and I’m constantly battling to maintain my mental health and keep afloat over the last three years I’ve worked myself into the most dangerous level of burn out where I started having seizures at work. Seizures resulting in ridiculously high medical bills that results in even more stress which causes my seizures. I don’t really have a lot of people to talk to, but I find a lot of people on Reddit going through similar experiences and I always try to reach out to tell them to keep moving forward it’s hard but you’re not alone. I hope you have a great day just take it one day at a time it can be hard but I know that we can do it together we just have to keep moving forward",
"What do you mean \"his?\" This is clearly a video of a talking moustache with no master.",
"It's more so suggesting he invests what little he has into GME\n\nI'm a fellow ape, but that's not a good financial decision if he's struggling hard.",
"Hey, that's great man! Do you listen to music or audio books? I've found some audio books to be excellent while I run and lift. Mine are very career focused but you might just try searching for what's on your mind and giving it a listen.",
"What in gods name did I just watch? How would this guy know whether this is the greatest mental health epidemic in human history lol? What’s going on in those woods?",
"This was pretty awful to read. I’m not saying Peterson is wrong about everything, but he is wrong about most things - if you find yourself needing to quote him to show you are right, you are probably taking a position that is only ethically defensible if you believe human beings are responsible only to themselves and overarching selfishness is your philosophy.\n\nThink of it more like Nash’s character in ‘A Beautiful Mind’ - you have a responsibility to yourself…and others. Sometimes those things don’t align and we have to make difficult decisions. You are right to recommend your friend to a professional, which you are not. But you are making enormous assumptions but saying he won’t change for years if you keep being supportive, and you’re being incredibly selfish and harmful by cutting off all contact the moment he breaks those boundaries.\n\nYour friend is suicidal. This is very different than ‘bringing you down’. You don’t “have” to be supportive or a true friend to them, but don’t pretend like you are being anything other than incredibly selfish in how you acted, and you did far more harm than good by cutting off your former friend. And I hope you have better friends than yourself if you ever suffer from significant mental health issues.",
"I mean, they did say it wasn't easy. But if it's a matter of life and death, I would say it's still something to look into. And financial stability doesn't always have to rely on jobs. Maybe they could look into if there's a different place with a lower cost of living, or maybe joining a Co-op with community outreach. There's always more options than we think.",
"Keep going dude. Life is good, you just have to find the good bits through the hard bits. I hope it gets better for you, keep grinding :)",
"It's easy to say \"I love you\". Words are meaningless if unnacompanied by action. If someone says they love us but then don't act like it, then they don't.",
"No one gives a shit you mega pussies",
"Sorry my other reply ignored the competitive nature. I am 100% the same way. I'm getting older so I try to harness that power to do better at work hence the audio books.",
"It's sad that there is only so much soothing words can do for an individual... A helpful conversation can be a pretty good temporary band aid for the soul, but it does not fix the system that cause this and breaks us.",
"Wow, glad to see more people with the same thinking, thanks for those book suggestions.\n\nChildhood trauma is probably the biggest one, in fact. But even if it's not knew, the factors you mentioned definitely make it worse because it's much much harder for trauma to occur when there's support. And with a \"smaller tribe\" kids find themselves more easily surrounded by exclusively toxic/abusive/neglectful people, without any healthy support.",
"Hits strange when you have your noose ready to go. Feel like I'm just one bad piece of news from being dead.",
"It was one line at the end that I threw in and I still think he should do it. He could still get 200 bucks together to buy one share of AMC/GME and **IF** big moves happen it would change his life.\n\nHe Said he had a job but he hated it. Assuming that the job makes minimum wage which it should because it is the law he could get 200 dollars together.\n\nI am not suggesting he puts every last dime in the market. But, how else would he ever break the chains of financial bondage?\n\nBut, it was basically just one line I had at the end of the statement.",
"Jesus I felt like I wrote this entire thing myself. I hear ya bro. Stay strong; Sydney is coming out of lockdown so Melb can’t be far away",
"It’s not motivational. It’s factual. There’s no blueprint or one-size-fits-all answer but every single person who has emerged from a depression has done so by changing *something*. Whether it’s opening the blinds or talking to a therapist, *something* has to change. I get it, you and many feel like *nothing* you do will change anything. That’s fine. But it’s not the truth. And just because it doesn’t always work doesn’t mean it isn’t worth trying.",
"Dammit who the hell is cutting onions in here?!",
"You assume I'm not a good person already?",
"This is solid. Thank you for writing it. I hope more people see it. \n\nIt may seem crazy, if when you are down and feeling exhausted of all of your mental and emotional resources, to go do more. Or when youre so overwhelmed and bogged down by all the problems in your own life or in the world. But it will help. Every deep spiral I've found myself in has been the direct result of turning my attention completely away from the humans around me and turning it in towards myself. I am a nurse practitioner and have fallen into the \"healer heal thyself trap\" as I now know it many times. You might say, of course that's important to heal yourself first! But healing is a lifelong activity. There won't be enough time for both. Obviously ignoring all your own problems isn't the answer, but the magic is in the balance. I can pay attention to the workings inside me while I pay attention to the workings inside others all at once. Healing for myself and healing for my community and the world can (and must) occur together. Parts of me certainly wish the \"unbroken\" people of the world, as we see them, would fix all of these inequities, but the reality is that those people are broken too. Just in a different way.\n\nThis is that \"Be the change you want to see in the world\" mentality. Once you start doing it, other people start doing it too. It will spread. It's just how humans work. We \"catch\" behaviors from one another. We also catch attitudes and emotions, which is why just reaching out and venting is not only usually pretty unhelpful, but also often counterproductive. We are just repeating our victim stories, reflecting this negative mood and behavior, eliciting the people around us to do the same (or withdraw, for the ones that consciously or subconsciously recognize how defeating participating in this activity is), which makes them project out more negativity back towards ourselves, vis versa, repeat forever, and down and down the rabbit hole we all go. This is what \"mirror neurons\" are about and I like to think of two mirrors in parallel where your reflection ends up repeating an infinite number of times. But if we show up with the positive version of this, the opposite happens. We show up to help and support instead of just being helped and supported and in response to us giving help and support, many will respond by giving back their help and support, and up and up we all go. Some pay it forward kind of magic starts to happen. Sentiment does nothing. But true action has long reaching consequences.",
"This is a common, but still inherently self-centered narrative. Not trying to be harsh, but I want to illustrate the one-sidedness of the scenario you laid out. \n\nYour friends aren't tired of you being a downer, they're tired of being down. They are carrying their own load, plus the emotional load of probably one or two other friends or family members. \n\nDo you check on them? Do you gauge whether they can handle more on their emotional plate before you add to it? Do you thank them for listening a few days later and update them on the positive outcome of that thing at work you were venting about? \n\nHow are you restoring the balance when you need to take a little more from the \"account\" than usual?",
"Yeah, sometimes it's so bad it feels like massive weights. I got to the point thatb this would make me laugh too though. What's messed up is that you can't really seem to sleep it off. I'd have to roll out of bed and try and eat something before going back to bed.",
"I'm truly sorry for your loss.",
"Well... TBH yes, it kindof can!\nIf you get someone to love you who can cook and has a place to live, big enough for both of ya! 😉",
"It's so crazy how so many generations survived and thrived during much much much much much worse. Our generation is the softest generation of all time. It's only getting worse. This will also only continue getting worse.",
"Shit. This hit hard.",
"Jesus.",
"Examples: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Cults, etc. This is a very common pathology. Instead of internalizing the disorder and tearing themselves apart, they externalize the disorder. they try to get as many people as possible to join them in their delusion which helps reinforce the delusion. They will also violently attack anyone that tries to provide evidence that this is in fact a delusion. You see this a lot with addicts as well.",
"Anecdotal evidence does not disprove the mean.",
"… but if we address mental health issues, then marketers will be out of a job…\n\nFor Christ sakes THINK of the marketers…",
"I don’t know how many times I have reached out. Nobody actually cares until you are gone.",
"Love you too bro. Self-care matters.",
"You will be surprised how little it needs to drag you on either side of that fine line ,where you are contemplating something permanent and where you are not. \n\nHonestly i doubt its fake , it might not be from a source that you regard , maybe thats why you feel it that way ,since you want it from a better more relevant source",
"Unfortunately, I can't. Unless you want to consider me the arbiter of truth, all I can do is pick which source that I agree with and gamble that their information is right, even though it contradicts other seemingly reputable sources. I just am not that educated on this, only enough to know that the experts disagree on so much now. \n\nWhat I can do is just recommend not leaning too hard into one specific type of food. Diversity your food and eat things that people have been eating for a long time. Meat is good but if you're only eating muscle (so you're not into eating liver / other organs which contain essentials) then you need to also eat non-meat stuff.\n\nWhat I've recently heard is that many vegetables have side effects that could be considered very bad. Even broccoli is full of oxalates apparently? And those can give you kidney stones? I got a kidney stone not so long after adding broccoli to nearly every dinner so I'm steering clear of too much brocolli. A lot of plants develop defensive chemicals because plants do NOT want to be eaten, it's bad for their reproduction line.\n\nOn the other hand, fruits WANT to be eaten, so you can spread the seeds. So those are genuinely safe.\n\nYou can eat a normal diet and not worry too much about this stuff though, it's just that it's apparently not possible unless you do the science yourself to rely on experts to provide the absolute best diet if you want to have a very good one.",
"I have a little sister to quit Facebook. As a result I have no idea what's going on with her and have no communication with her anymore. Have I tried to text her? Sure. But you don't respond to one of my texts once, and I have no desire to text you ever again. That's how a lot of people feel and that's why these social media tools make it easier to just communicate without the fear of rejection. In actuality the recipient could have just forgot or not even received the text, but feelings, stress, and anxiety are thing. Just because people abuse social media or are unable to unfollow the toxic people that post on it does not mean the tool itself is bad. People bash in the brains of toddlers with tack hammers but that doesn't mean the tack hammers themselves are bad",
"The majority of times that I have the darkest hours are due to alcohol. Whether it be in the moment or the lingering ache the next days or weeks, alcohol is a major player. I definitely have a propensity to drink and thankfully I found myself in a job that requires complete sobriety for up to 8 months out of the year. If I had continued on the career path I thought I wanted I would be worse for ware that's sure.",
"This 100% happened to me with a friend group, and I stopped being invited all together. Awful feeling",
"Drugs AND video games!",
"Alright but this is CRINGE",
"It's a nice sentiment. I don't see how a society like that can compete with other groups though. Which is sort of how humanity found itself in this situation in the first place.\n\nIt doesn't even have to be direct violent conflict. How can they economically compete with societies which continue within capitalism?",
"Lost his nose to a parrot in the Philippines.",
"You even tried not to end it, you tried to change the subject and address the issue which was also very difficult and brave and the right thing to do. Many would just end it without that step and they would be valid too, but I do think that what you did was the ideal. You did everything you could but there absolutely comes a point where an ending is the right choice.",
"That's it! There's a time and place for everything, even for talking about how you feel. When me and my friends get together, we always talk about the \"heavy\" stuff when everyone is in the mood for it. Of course, sometimes we need to vent and that's okay! But you need to be aware that you need to moderate how you express your feelings.",
"The nutritional biology of mental health should be discussed more!",
"Capitalism causes suicide and if someone disagrees they should die for your gain. Is that what you're saying?",
"I knew this type of comment would come. I can only say, my comment was very much simplified and obviously only highlights my point of view. It is simplified. We're talking 6 years that I've known him. Many many situations, conversations, good moments, bad moments, misunderstandings etc etc. \n\nI'd say it is good to be selfish, as long as it does not inflict pain or harm unto others. I'm no fanboy of Jordan B. Peterson. I just thought of his book, while writing this comment. Being selfish is to prioritize yourself. It is like putting on an oxygen mask on yourself before helping others to get the mask on. \n\nI have however been very self-less. I have sacrifised countless hours listening to him for the past 4 years. That is not selfish. That is altruistic. I did not expect to gain anything from it other than being a good friend - simply because that is good. \n\nHe was not deliberately putting me down. But that is simply the effect his actions has had. \n\nAre you saying I should keep being a doormat for him? Just listen to his victim story with no end in sight. The guy has had sucidal thoughts for many years, he goes to a psychologist, he gets psychiatric help, he has a support group he meets with. He receives so much help and support.",
"I needed that bro thank you, love you",
"3 close neighbors shot them selves in a one week period back to back all had children",
"I have it. Loved it!",
"I had a friendship where I was the emotional rock for this person. I made it clear that is fine sometimes but I have depression, they knew, and right now I wasn't doing so well and to please let up a bit. They didn't. I ended up having a full meltdown because I couldn't handle all the burden they were putting on me. Lost that friendship but honestly it is for the better. They were telling me about how they cheated on their husband right before they got married. How they didn't really love them anymore but they made a beautiful baby and they wanted another kid. Real jack up things. I even saw them emotionally manipulate their husband over the phone by saying if they could max out their husband's credit card on a diamond ring that MAY help fix their marital issues. That's when I realized my full disgust. This person also got mad when I spent time with my husband and would always bring up to people that I was bi. Really creepy shit.\n\nEdit : Wanted to add the best part. I only knew her for five months; she was a coworker. Pretty sure she also cheated while I knew her with a customer. It was just weird one day like something had happened.",
"Oh wow, I am truly sorry you have cancer. Is there nothing that can be done to remove it? I've lost a few people to pancreatic cancer, and it's always so hard to try to go about a normal day after such tragedy. I hope you can atleast try to be as happy as you can while you're still here, and do all the things you wanted to do, rules be damned. And I don't care, I'll say it till my face turns blue. I love ya! even if you're a complete stranger. I suffered tragedy all my life, and watched people I grew up with go into the great beyond one way or another. I have severe depression, and survived a attempted murder, and now disabled. But still feel sympathy and heartache for others, especially in your situation. Again, I am sorry you have to go through all that.",
"I had party friends when I was younger but I’m much older now. I still think fondly of many of them. I was discussing someone at a bar with clinical depression. You are probably much younger than me and have a lot of life to live and will come to your own conclusions",
"Dude it saps my mental and physical energy and i can't focus for shit or feel like I can be responsible for basic tasks. It's a bitch and a half when I used to do good in school and people think I'm \"smart\", but my intellect can barely be utilized when I can't get out of my head lol",
"Hey I'm glad you dropped a line! I'm happy to chat honestly. It helps me as well because like I said it's not even a big deal what we chat about, the last year has felt pretty lonely so talking helps.",
"Everyone wants to kill themselves so they can rest. But we have miles to go before we rest. Miles to go before we rest…",
"truth is - most people don't matter. this world is scripted in a system to enable the rich and influential to keep the poor at the bottom of the \"necessary pool\". life is everybody's personal choice, only you can make yourself better, but you have to want life. I understand things are difficult, but I'm doing my best to help others while I can.",
"If you can get into podcasts, may I recommend ‘S Town,’ from NPR. It’s a little ‘Serial’ and a little ‘This American Life.’ The theme that emerges (without spoilers) is this-\n\nNone of us realize how many folks appreciate us. Even when you think you’re alone, there’s someone at your coffee shop or work or bus stop that feels better for having you there. I’ll bet the loss of you would make a larger splash than you know.\n\nIf you keep going, I’ll do the same.",
"Ssri, snri, adhd and antipsychotic medications are known to cause dopamine depletion.\n\nDopamine levels lowering in brain is linkee to akathisia\n\nAkathisia is linked to violence and suicides.",
"<3 I don’t know who needs to hear this but… If no one has told you “I love you” today… I don’t love you either cause I don’t know you. I mean, you could be a dick for all i know ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯",
"Lost my little brother",
"I love this comment so much. The “fake it till you make it” mentality has helped both me and my sister deal with our mental health issues we’ve faced.",
"why does this guy's face look like that half latex mask for sale every year at Spencer's",
">the soil of myself\n\nI like that. \n\nNo one is telling you to “just get better” I’ve read their comments and they’re all offering you real advice. We all know it’s not as easy as that, but if you’re starting to hear some of the same things that’s because it’s proven true for a lot of people in your situation. \n\nEvery journey is different and nobody can tell you the way to pull yourself out of that hole—it’s something you need to do on your own. An object at rest tends to stay at rest while an object in motion tends to stay in motion, unless otherwise acted upon. Newton. \n\nBe in motion. Don’t give yourself the opportunity to be consumed by the nihilism. If you truly have anhedonia then there’s most likely a chemical imbalance in your brain and it’s not your fault. There’s medication for that but that means going to a psychiatrist and getting evaluated. \n\nIt’s about actualizing your efforts and making forward progress in whatever way you can. \n\nBut don’t bash the people just trying to help. It’s easy to let the cynicism seep in when you’re feeling so low, but it doesn’t help you to be so dismissive of people showing you they care.",
"It’s really the only thing that helps my depression, anxiety, & chronic pain but at 100/g not at all financially sustainable",
"That’s a pretty boss mustache",
"I’ve been saying for a while now that the UK government is hiding a mental health pandemic. How are they hiding it? You can’t be counted as a statistic if you can’t get into therapy because there are no appointments available.",
"It’s not always that simple. \n\nThat dead end job you’re trying to get out of? You can send out thousands of resumes. But if no one hires you, there’s nothing you can do. \n\nIt’s not always a matter of “needing to help yourself,” there are plenty of things out of people’s control. *THAT’S* what people have anxiety about.",
"This shit made me tear up. Very raw. We in the trenches together folks 🥺",
"The lost Mario Brother?",
"It was a hard lesson for me that my friends can’t cure my depression. I did the same thing described over and over again until my partner at the time straight up said “this is too much. You need help.” And I went to the psych ward. Since then I’ve taken care of my mental health off and on and feel way better when I’m regularly seeing professionals. I am responsible for my own mental hygiene and work hard to maintain it. Not saying that’s the only solution, but it was the solution for me.",
"Thank you marvelous moustached man for taking the time to say something so many people need to hear even when they didn’t realize they needed to hear it. Love you buddy! 💕",
"Does he have social media? I'd like to reach out to him",
"I’m ok with hearing about problems. \n\nI’m not ok with that being all we talk about. Let’s talk about some shit, and then in a month when we talk again let’s hear about how you worked to make it better.",
"They absolutely do not care",
"I hope you find peace soon. I’m not a religious man in the slightest but god bless you",
"As a 33 year old who sat right on that cusp, getting my vaccine was one of the clearest examples of these two ways of living (before when you had to sit down with your thoughts vs. Now you can go on social media and not have to deal with your own thoughts at all). \n\nWhen I sat down to wait the 15 minutes after my shot, almost every single person in their room was on their phone except for a few people, 70+. They just sat there....for 15 minutes, doing absolutely nothing. In silence. It was such a stark reminder of how deep in the shit I am because I tried 5 minutes and started feeling my skin crawl lol.",
"Me too, I think it's because he kinda looks like Cheech",
"The guy is distraught and has recency bias. Obviously this isn’t the greatest mental health crisis in human history. He just lives in a time and a part of the world that experiences far less suffering than average. The last couple generations in the West aren’t used to this level of hardship. The Holocaust felt like ancient history but it’s closer to my birth date than my current age. It’s a frame of reference disparity coupled with emotional distress. You agree?",
"I really thought he just broke into a bird call…",
"you can work on acquiring new skills if you aren’t getting hired. there is always SOMETHING that can be done. it’s just VERY hard to get started when you’re depressed or overworked already",
"As an addict, I have never felt more depressed and like I wanted to off myself than when I abused alcohol for a solid month. It was horrible. \n\n\nIt truly is a *depressant*",
"They’d agree the government here is shit. Major cope.",
"Of course. Historical ignorance is the simplest explanation though.",
"You may have OCD. Please check the subreddit or symptoms and see for yourself. It is very treatable.",
"No worries. It's still excellent advice. Without the exercise I'd be worse off. Rather be healthy and feel bad than be unhealthy and still feel bad.",
"*",
"Sure, anything that stunts perspective",
"Professional help is pretty useless too. They'll just give advice that you're already aware of. \n\n\"You should get out and try yoga and paddle boarding! that'll be $300\" gee no shit",
"I've thought this for a while too. I've also read Tribe. I can't remember which came first. But, yeah, I totally agree, but I think it's gonna be a while before we form communities again. I'm not sure the culture allows it. \n\nWhat do you think of therapists? And the mental health profession? Like, what if it's not even a \"health\" issue and it's just been framed that way? I've been to a lot of therapists and I just don't find them as helpful as people make them out to be. It almost seems like a way for the people who should be your community to outsource the job to a paid stranger.",
"Also depression is contagius. There have been studies made. If someone constantly uses you as a dumping ground for their mental health issues, you too will suffer for it. There is of course a difference between seeking support and using someone, but there is a sense of entitlement on the internet, that if you are my friend you are responsible for my happiness. It’s selfish and borderline abusive. I will help you if I can, but I am no more responsible for your mental health than I am responsible for stopping a house fire. There are professionals who are trained and paid to do it.",
"Human history seems like a stretch.",
"poverty can fuck with your brain like no other. it's like a disease.",
"As a non-gamer I've recently been using video games just to pass time and it's been pretty amazing how well it's working. It's just empty time but at least I'm not fantasizing about death!",
"And we are more understanding of mental health and neurological issues than ever before. I work with some hard characters and it’s not unusual for guys to say they’ve been depressed after going through a rough patch. And for other dudes to offer their support.",
"I mean do you bring it up a lot and not do much about it? Not accusing just asking.",
"I wish more people understood about it being an alternative to the pain. Thank you for your honesty. You made a whole bunch of people feel less alone.",
"Definitely have patches where I hit artist’s block and I find it harder to put out what I feel needs inspiration. It can even lead to being back in a bad mental space. I usually just give myself a vacation from the craft and try something new. While it is important to finish projects for that fulfillment, it’s also okay to recognize you’re human and that it’s okay if you need a break or even to just stop it all together and find passion in something new.\n\nBut I also have those moments you have where you’re at least thinking about the next project and I think it’s still much better than having nothing to think about.\n\nI also try to just go somewhere new or see a concert or movie. If not for inspiration, then to just mentally escape where I would otherwise be.\n\nMost of my worst times where about a decade ago so I’ve managed to regulate those feelings a lot with art coupled with some travel and deep talks with people close to me. Seeing the world and it’s people can really change your perspective too.",
"Great insight.",
"I mean are you the friend that is constantly down and that's what all of your conversations end up being about?",
"There is plenty that goes against your narrative that lockdowns don't cause harm too but the left on Reddit never want to hear that. The rise in spousal abuse and child abuse apparently don't matter when you're trying to score political points against the right.\n\nEdit: let's not mention the people who couldn't get to see doctors. An issue still seriously effecting the UK. And we certainly won't mention effect on people's businesses because any mention of the economy (despite it being directly tied to people's health) is apparently caring about money more than lives. \n\nAlso before any assumptions are made I am 100% for lockdowns when necessary.",
"Absolutely agree.",
"For years, I've been talking about the real way Nintendo can. wow me, and it has always boiled down to introduce a new Mario brother. In my ideal world, it would be a Lost Vikings style platformer, starring Mario, Luigi, and a cast of other Mario siblings and cousins, each with unique abilities. Maybe Alfredo Mario is a chef, and can use his pan flip to propel Luigi much higher than he can jump. Maybe one is racecar driver Luca Mario, who is abnormally speedy on foot? The concept would.be that Bowser has kidnapped Mama Mario. And all the Mario family has to come together to rescue her. This is wildly unrelated to the post, but your reply here made me start thinking about it again, and thus I had to share it.",
"This will sound silly but...\n\nI once watched an episode of Tales from the Crypt that completely cured me of suidal thoughts.",
"Child abuse and spousal abuse rose significantly during lockdown in the UK.\n\nPeople on Reddit don't give a fuck. They're too busy trying to score political points against the right.",
"It’s very possible. But don’t feel too bad about it. I had a lead guitar, a keyboard and turntables growing up because I loved music so much.\n\nBut I eventually realized I am just terrible with rhythm and I’ve accepted that as part of who I am! Lol The silver lining was that my younger brothers ended up using and learning to play from my random instrument purchases so they weren’t a total waste.\n\nBut on a serious note, my son has ADHD but is excellent at drawing and will spend hours doing it. He is inspiring, to say the least, and has a great time doing it. But I would add, don’t feel down if you don’t have ADHD(as weird as that sounds), because even if you don’t clinically have it you may be somewhere on the spectrum and you’re certainly not the first kid to give up on an instrument after a few tries.\n\nDon’t give up and just find that artistic outlet that keeps you going. Even if it means trying the bass again. You’ll at least have better progress than me!",
"Why is one party entitled to feel better, but the other isn’t? Everyone suffers, so why are the friends tasked to sacrifice their chance for a happy moment so one person can unload their issues on them? What decides that?",
"7 weeks is a lot more than many people have. If you have any advice I think you’re in the position to help people, especially when “one day at a time” seems like a long time.",
"This is gonna blow your mind but a huge number of people have some level of mental hardship. Depression, anxiety, trauma. We all just try to get by and be good to each other. You’re not entitled to some special treatment just because you feel like shit. I feel like shit too, and I’m gonna feel even worse if I try carry your problems too. That’s not how support works. We try to help each other, not demand to be the center of everyones lives.",
"Just wanted to say I love you and you can message me whenever you need.",
"Naw I wasn’t even talking to her about it. I was actually talking to someone else, there. She was just there.",
"You can just hear the love in his voice.",
"No doubt, I imagine there are many other factors, I figure people back then were just too busy in general to let negative thoughts take over.",
"I was being sarcastic kid. Right over your head. Malthus was a capitalist. That's your fucked up ideology, I was just throwing how psychotic it is in your face.",
"I mean, what's not to love about a lock picking, pot smoking, bongo playing, theoretical physicist?!",
" I'm not sure where to start.\n\nAssuming this question is being asked in good faith, I guess I'll start by asking: what is your understanding of the word \"trauma\"?",
"Ok!",
"That sounds like a terrible therapist. Mine has helped me immensely. She has helped me break down and stop thought patterns that were so core to me that I didn’t even see them myself. You do need to open up and be painfully honest. It’s not easy, but it has made a world of difference for me.",
"Maybe you're just not good at sarcasm",
"As cringy as it might seem, you've always gotta do your absolute best to talk yourself up in your head and be a friend to yourself. Weirdly enough, you'll start somewhat believing it more and more. Obviously there will be days/weeks where this near impossible, but you gotta try when possible.",
"In middle school, a friend of mine called and said she was going to kill herself. I SPRINTED to her house and we sat there and talked for probably 5 hours. We cried, we laughed, we screamed, we sat silently. By the end she felt better and she agreed to not doing anything without first calling me. It wasn't until I was giving her a hug goodbye that I noticed the oozing cut marks on her wrists. I helped her clean up the cuts and then headed home.\n\nWe drifted apart over the next year as we went off to different high schools. I still think about her sometimes and wonder how she is... Wonder if she's still alive. But it feels good knowing that I may have saved her life that day. It's part of what drove me to becoming a nurse",
"It’s a tiny holiday from the normal trudgery of life. I wouldn’t want to spend a beach holiday inside a hotel room listening to someone tell me how awful life is, either. There’s a time and a place for everything.",
"No, I am, it just doesn't track with people who are too fucking stupid to know the history of their own ideology. Malthus was a capitalist, and a perfect example of why the people who hate capitalism hate capitalism. But you didn't know that because you apparently don't know your ass from your elbows.",
"I don’t want to speak for anyone else, especially those suffering right now. \n\nFor me though, a complete stranger saying “I love you” on the internet does nothing for me. No, you don’t. You don’t know me. You’re talking into the camera and don’t even know if I saw this. I know it’s well intentioned, I just hope someone gets something out of it.",
"I’m glad I wrote my comment if it gave you the chance to elaborate as you did. Maybe your first comment sounded to me like you’d given up very quickly and were treating your own inconvenience as equal to his severe depression, or maybe I didn’t read it without enough compassion. But to me, I appreciate that this comment gives some more detail on being regularly supportive, and you are of course correct to not treat your own patience and support as endless. I’m glad your friend is seeing experts and I’m glad you were able to provide him as much support as you did for as long as you did. It is always a challenge to act as a therapist for our friends who need expert advice, but also not ask those friends to not be themselves around us.",
"You can ameliorate your depression by taking on the maximal amount of responsibility for everything you possibly can. This is a bulwark against the tragedies of existence. \nWork on being the strongest person at your grandmother's funeral. \nI guarantee it will make a difference in how you are feeling.",
"Also you gotta think...back in the day people had close knit circles that they relied on. They had to in order to stay alive. Many people are on their own nowadays, which is very different to how we evolved to survive. There is no sense of community and I think that is a factor also. Humans are highly social creatures yet we've been more antisocial than ever. \n\nThe happiest I've ever been was in college in a co-ed dorm. We legit formed a \"tribe\" and took care of each other. I think about that a lot now that I'm reaching my 30's. Why aren't we interacting with neighbors as much in the modern age? Even over the past 15 years we've just regressed so much in that area.",
"Thank you.",
"What context have you used it?",
"Make that any opiate son",
"This gave me goosebumps.",
"I've watched this a bunch of times now... Just to hear him say he loves me.",
"Threatening suicide is classified as abuse. It’s not a way to keep people on a leash.",
"is there a context behind the video?",
"That's a strange name for a mustache, but it is pretty great.",
"No not funny. Heartbreaking really. Love ❤️",
"Really sad thing is if a large portion of this country stopped acting like selfish human garbage we would be out of this by now",
"Nobody takes good advice because if it's truly good advice it usually requires some change, sacrifice and/or discipline and people are mostly stupid and beholden to their short term impulses and forever trapped in a cycle of bad decisions and their outcomes.",
"It's over the top and the premise is ridiculous.. life is better for human beings now than it has ever been in history, regardless of what some fucking meme or TikTok will tell you.",
"Yeah I’m not going to do that. I’m leaving this shithole as soon as I get a gun with a bullet. I’ll never shoot anyone else, I don’t ever want to be a death dealer in anyway, I just want to go. Fuck you if you don’t want me to go painlessly. \n\nThis ammo shortage in America is a real bitch. I just need one .38 bullet, 12 gauge shell or a 16 gauge shell. Can’t find the shit anywhere!\n\nEdit: this m.f. doesn’t love me lol",
"I lost my mom to suicide when I was 5. My brother was my last family member and he committed suicide by jumping in front of a train 8 years ago. My brother and I had not spoken to each other in 8 years nor seen each other in 12 years. We stopped talking after an argument and both held a grudge. I had no idea what he was going through. I should’ve called, I could’ve called, I would’ve called but I never did. Haunts me still. Please don’t hold a grudge. Please reach out to that person and just let it go. I only wish someone would’ve told me the same.",
"Sorry to hear your situation. I'm in the same exact boat. No feeling. No emotion. Just dead inside. I also have a severe sleep issue that nothing will alleviate. I never blame people for posting stuff like \"I'm here for you\" and that kind of thing but it all means absolutely nothing when you're dealing with a chemical imbalance and something that's not remotely situational. Really hope things turn around for you.",
"Enjoy getting your comment removed for inciting violence",
">\tanother subtle aspect is that people who want to help can only do through what they found for themselves..\n\nBecause we’re not trained professionals. We only know what helped us, so we share it. But then the usual internet reaction is ”gEt ExErCiSe anD sTop dRinKinG” or r/thanksimcured\n\nYeah well, I tried. Wallow then.",
"My cousin killed himself 3 days ago. He was an Army veteran. It's just so sad. Please, get help if you are struggling in silence.\n\ned: not sure anyone will see this, I'm pretty much banned on this stupid site.",
"You're insane.",
"that's the first layer, but people who had long term disease, read about things, will still react to others pain through their own experience and impose what they assume is the best theory without necessarily acknowledging it\n\nalso they have limited energy, because they're often still struggling so every effort is short lived, and can backfire\n\nand to be frank, unless injury, exercise and being sober is a good start :) I value a lot discipline in staying balanced, even though I admit, when one is at the bottom, none of that will appeal to that person",
"I mean there are more people in the world than before so numbers wise there are going to be more mentally ill people. If we're talking ratios, which I assume we are, then my guess would be that we are just more aware of mental health. On a sociological level and biological.\n\nWe can diagnose mental health problems whereas in the times you mention people wouldn't even know. \n\nWe are also all more aware of the world and everyone in it. \n\nI'm not arguing either way just a bit of food for thought. 🤙",
"Easily the shortest video to ever make me cry",
"\"I guess no one wants life saving medicine\"\n\nNo one is saying we will stop producing medicine or other things people need to live. But in our current capitalist society, a very small amount of actual labor goes towards producing actual necessities - and in America, by the way, many people CURRENTLY can't get life saving medicine bc they don't have enough money.",
"Love you too bro",
"If they are an actual professional they will give you the space to talk without interruption and without judgement or need for friendship. Trauma therapy is literally just letting you dig into an event from every angle. Your therapist won’t tell you they can’t handle hearing about your depression today. They won’t “forget about you” because you overshared and now they want to distance like how a friend might. Talk therapy is highly underrated. Most people just need someone to spill their guts to and their friends usually aren’t qualified or even willing to be that person, and frankly it’s not fair to put that pressure on a friend",
"Hey nice logo! I love covering meet me in the morning.",
">Maybe your first comment sounded to me like you’d given up very quickly \n\nPlease read my first comment again. Listening to his suicidal thoughts happened repeatedly over 4 years. I was supportive for 4 years. My former psychologist (very experienced) advised me to tell him, not to burden me with his dark thoughts. This was 4 years ago. It is only yesterday I did, what my psychologist and others have advised me to do.",
"14 year old girls love the phrase “frothing at the mouth”",
"It does feel insanely condescending. When my sister in law died, Someone posted on Facebook “had she just reached out I could have saved her”. As if the entire family wasn’t already trying, but yes you could have been her savior. A narcissistic type of thought process, exacerbated by the fact that it was publicly stated on social media.",
"Everything that you said is true and yet the fact remains that your mental health is *probably* far better than it would be if you had lived 1,000 years ago or 100,000 years ago or 500 years ago or 100 years ago.",
"chucklehutt here is your internet tough guy reward points, did you want them put into your usual EB Games reward zone wallet?",
"As someone in what seems like the exact same circumstances... Most of these pieces of advice are shit. Speaking anecdotally, a dog did not fix a single thing and I fucking love dogs. The only thing I have now is the thought of not ending things for him. But in reality he'd be fine. I know he'd be taken care of. \n\nAdding immense responsibilities to a cup that is already brimming can be a recipe for disaster, like being responsible for another's life.",
"Not having medicare for all or whatever doesn't mean we have a tyranical government. People living under real tyrants have bigger concerns they would be happy to not have to deal with in America, like systematic genocides and famines and stuff.",
"Yeah never thought I’d have to shop watching a cartoon horse because he got too real 🤷🏻♀️",
"And would Reddit not just address suicidal thoughts but also the bullying that leads up to it. Stop ignoring the KYS comments like they have nothing to do with it. THEY HAVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT. address the WHOLE problem. Not just half. Don’t just tell someone they shouldn’t kill themselves and dust your hands off. There’s ALWAYS more to it than just that.",
"Na, if I know the exact medication and dosage I’m taking, I’ll be fine. You can never guarantee that street opiates aren’t actually fentanyl and you’ll accidentally OD, so that’s why I don’t take them. Also, it’s much harder to get opiates from a pharmacy, so my sources are severely limited and I can’t just call up a dealer and get them. Those personal rules help ensure that I won’t get addicted or accidentally OD. Also, no IV drug use ever, which is easy because fucking shooting up grosses me tf out. I’m not a huge opiate fan anyways.",
"It was not made to specifically break us. It's just a side effect that those in power are willing to accept. Huge difference.",
">Not even really a leftist nice label tho \n\nIn internet lingo lefty broadly means an anti-capitalist, and of those you are a radical one. Why do you keep pretending you're not American? I can read your comment history.\n\nMost of your responses are really disappointing, claiming I didn't read the article after I quote from it. I like arguing with skitzos but this is boring. I hope they come up with a medicine to help you one day.",
"bullshit, you cant mean you love someone you cant even see over the internet",
"Yeah, saw this on TikTok and was thinking the same. I realized he was choking up, not giggling. I felt bad how I misjudged him on appearance. I have a long way to go I guess.",
"Specialized attention he reached out for. Dude c'mon don't be so cruel. This guy's reaching out, had a horrible thing happen. His brother knew there was something wrong with him but due to the system there wasn't help available. Granted it's an extreme case, when he reached out for help he probably didn't mention how fucked up he felt and that's a part of mental health, not knowing your own brain. Sometimes you don't know what you're going to do and in good society, with decent levels of care, ringing up and asking for help because you are mentally ill on any level should be treated immediately. The fact there was a 3 month waiting list is the problem with the system.",
"This... Also happened to me. My girlfriend died in a car accident September 2019. Last 2 years have been a blur, almost like a dream I guess. Just popping in to wish you the courage and energy to fight back. Stay strong brother, life fucking sucks some times but idk there's always seemingly a little light that comes out of nowhere to guide us a little further ahead. Thinking about you my dude. Feel free to reply back with her name too if you'd like to let her live on a little longer here.",
"the reason you dont feel happy when people say they live you is because those \"i love yous\" probably arent genuine, the same thing as asking someone how there day was. its just a bullshit thing you say to family.\n\njust pick a ratrace you dont hate and focus on that, focus on you, because youre the only one that matters to you.",
"So I should take my elbow out of the toilet? That doesnt seem right",
"Pls reach out if you need help, hot line, family doc, therapist and so on.\n\nYou are worth. Life is a fking roller coaster of so much. You're not alone.\n\nMuch love",
"Speak for yourself. A lot of people here like helping.",
">that the way we were living our lives before was extremely stressful, especially for at risk people, and taking them out of the situations they're forced into can be beneficial.\n\nIn my opinion the numbers are less about that and more about the collective commiseration and \"in it for each other\" mentality everyone in the country (and world I guess) was thrust into. There's a comfort to knowing you're not alone in whatever you're going through, and more people were able to realize that these last couple years than ever.\n\nIt correlates with the staggering stat that London's suicide rate was *down* during Blitzkreig.\n\nRegardless of whether I'm right I definitely get what you're saying and it's at least a significant factor.",
"then you say fuck those people and learn not to rely on anyone. you gotta be self sufficient",
"no. we just started seeing these idiots because of the internet",
"If that's what happened with you I'm sorry to hear that. \n\n\nAnother shortly worded cynical cop out answer that discourages people looking for a shred of hope.\n\n\nGo seek help people, don't expect the worst from everyone. That's just a symptom of depression and you need to be aware of that.",
"https://ammoseek.com/\n\nhave you tried this site? it's pretty great for find any caliber and price range.",
"that was… deeply disturbing. lock my doors tight after that",
"As someone with severe depression - Saying “it’s okay, I love you” is nice. But it ultimately doesn’t do anything.",
"I made a few big life choices after my breakup years back. I suffered from lifelong mild depression. I've meditated for 3 years now everyday and it's hard to grasp how I was even depressed before. It may be a near instant awakening from anxiety and depression for some.",
"We’re literally not. And media - both corporate and social - have melted the mind of people on a scale that we’ve never seen before. We have medical apartheid, neighbors made to hate neighbors, authoritarianism, censorship, and division. We also also being lied to outright. Even though by all metrics we are out of the pandemic, my country’s media and government are doubling down on the fear-mongering. It’s getting worse. And it will get even worse before it gets better. There are many people who will deny having acted the way they are now, but I fear it will be too late by then.",
"I'm pretty sure people who lived through WWI the great depression and WWII had it a little worse as far as mental health goes",
"Ketamine + TMS has been a game changer for me.",
"The majority of the issues I see from both my friends and myself most the time stem from our current socio economic status, we went to college and worked since we were young, only to find out that no matter how hard we worked in our passions (all my friends have things they really want to do as a profession but are sadly gatekept out of jobs by people with more exp.) We won't get anywhere and nearly everything is out of our control (how much we're paid, how overworked and uner appreciated we are) thats just my take though, cause I truly believe that (most) mental health problems are caused due to stress in the capitalistic hell hole we've created",
"RIP Canada - we don’t get this. We’ve had our collective minds melted",
"If you’re vaccinated you can hang out with anyone. And if you’re unvaccinated you can hang out with anyone, depending on your risk tolerance level.",
"buen mustacho",
"Regular psychologists, what is sounds like he was booking for if he was put on a 3 month waiting list, are not equipt to deal with someone that is going to do a parent murder suicide. They are there for people that have a bad marriage or are over-worked or whatever. Its bad that this has a long waiting list, but saying \"What if someone that is going to kill their family wanted talking therapy and couldn't get it?\" isn't a good argument that this is a huge systematic problem we need to fix asap. This guy needed a team of FBI forensic psychiatrists, not 1 hour a week on the couch.",
"This is true. I was going through a really rough time last year and desperately needed people to talk to. I had lost a SO of 5 years, got covid and subsequent long haul issues preventing me from walking more than 100 yards, lived alone, worked from home, and had no real friends. I reached out to some old friends and they were glad to talk, but quickly got tired of having to put up with me in that state.",
"Yes exactly! Infact I think I'll listen to it next week at work. It's been a couple years. Thx.",
"Then this message wasn't directed at you. There's no need to say fuck off, we need to stop this because of that. \n\nI see this as a message to all the people out there who feel isolated right now due to the pandemic. Who have no one to turn to, and are struggling to the point where they are making decisions based off that pain. \n\nTo that type of person, knowing there is someone out there who cares, someone they don't even know. Who is willing to take the time to talk with them with compassion and respect means something. \n\nI am not saying this is the cure, this will magically make everyone happy and better. But its something. Maybe it's that minor spec of hope that can bring someone to reach out to those around them. \n\nYour situation is different than the one he is reaching out for. That does not mean he or anyone of the many posts lately of people helping others through rough times needs to stop just because it doesn't fit or help your situation.",
"Just make sure you notice when things are actually becoming too much. I am that way too, but am currently unable to fake it, and it sucks.. too much going on to be able to turn it off.",
"Love you too, man. Stay strong. All we can do. Always an uphill climb unfortunately.",
"Tms?",
"Exactly. Good question. I think no one is. Don’t get me wrong though, I think everyone is capable of doing good, and most people do good on a frequent basis. I just think no one can ever be truly good, we can only become better, and through suffering is how we do that.",
"If you succeed: great! If you don't there might be another video like this one.",
"Give me 1 hirable skill that you can reasonably learn for free. People aren't out here just training the meek.",
"DISCLAIMER: Results may vary.",
"idk killing myself would make more sense if i fuck up because then i wouldnt have to lead a shitty life for like 30 years, but on the other hand im not taking the easy way out. people have had it 1000x hrder than me and still didnt kill themselves, seems like a pathetic and selfish thing to do🤷♂️",
"Everyone's always dealing with their own shit, but that sounds like someone needs a better group of friends (not that it's easy to do).",
"Yeah but then you could die, have an expensive hospital visit or kill some family members. The vaccine is less risky than covid. It's just being stupid.",
"It's embarrassing most of the time, and makes me feel like I have no credibility anymore. I cry 10+ times a day, and it sucks feeling so small all the time.",
"This disease has a 99.999% survival rate, amongst the non-elderly and non-infirmed. Combine that with the actual chances of getting it. Fear-mongering media have made us think that the only level of risk is zero. This is a huge mistake.",
"This.",
"Depression is a self-reinforcing cycle. You have to break it somehow. There's a lot of ways to do that. If you are unable to do it yourself, taking an anti-depressant for awhile to give you a boost can help. That involves a psychiatrist, not a therapist. Therapists assume that you don't want medicine, or you would've gone to a psychiatrist. Also, not all therapists are particularly good at their jobs. Just find another one. \n\n\nThat being said, do something- anything- to break the cycle in the mean time. Even if it's just going for a walk around the block for 5 minutes. Even if it's just doing dishes. Actively fight against it. Depression's most devious symptom is making you WANT TO BE DEPRESSED. Build a habit of fighting it. Objectify the depression. It's not YOU. It's something HAPPENING to you. You will not change if you lose the depression. You won't be someone else. It's not part of your identity. You'll be you- just less unhappy. \n\n\nGood luck. I know the struggle is real. But, it's one that can be won.",
"Transcranial magnetic stimulation: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation/about/pac-20384625",
"I don't know how much it matters, but I read your post and emphatized. I've been in a situation that reminded me of my past. I know what worked for me probably doesn't work for you, but you wrote this: \n\n> I guess I just needed somewhere to let it out\n\nWriting about my feelings has helped a lot during tougher times. Sometimes I write to my siblings, other times to my close friends. Most of the time I just write to myself. \n\nHoly shit it's such a cliche but things will get better with time. At least there's a high probability they will. All the best to you.",
"The risk of the vaccine is even lower",
"I saw a YouTube video that claimed most people buy 6 articles of clothing a month. That's excessive and marketing driven. That said, I still need some clothes and division of labor is a net good for society. Specialists can make more clothing with fewer labor hours than if we all made our own clothing.",
"Be there for them, and show them you care with actions. Listen to what they have to say, and don't try and fix every problem. If they aren't seeking professional help, do everything in your power to to and get them too. This usually includes finding and scheduling appointments, even driving them.\n\nAnd remember that it is not going to be easy for either of you. Your friends brain is constantly yelling and lieing to them, and can make them do or say some crazy things. But they do care.",
"Thank you!!!!! \n\nEnjoy your paradise! I’m about to find mine",
"I needed that",
"I will say that I agree that some people just don't want to be helped. That is absolutely true.",
"Probably won’t see this, but as someone who feels the same I take solace knowing that, while i’m alone, i’m not alone in what i’m going through. There are a bunch of humans out there who maybe don’t know me, yet they understand my struggles as i understand theirs. You’re not alone friend, we’re in this shit sandwich together.",
"Most of the time it is selfish, I agree.\n\nIf you're going through hard times, it doesn't really matter how hard other people have had it. By that logic you couldn't be truly happy and content since there are people who are happier. I guess people need to compare themselves to others to feel good? That's been the hottest trend for the last... 15-20 years or so? It has definitely made things worse. I'd guess it's the reason Gen Z seems to have more problems with mental health than generations before.",
"If someone has natural immunity it may not be, but sure. I’m not making an argument that they’re unsafe, and if people choose take it, that’s great. I did, but it was my choice. My vaccine has no effect on anyone else. We’re being manipulated into division. Plus, what happens next? The vaccine’s effectiveness is waning, so is it a booster subscription? A bio-security state for a disease with a 99.99% survival rate? A world where literally hundreds of millions of people have natural immunity but are still excluded if they don’t cave from fear of being excluded from society by getting a shot they don’t need? That’s apartheid. I hope this time Period will be studied in the future because this level of misinformation and manipulation had never been seen before.",
"This is wonderfully written. Thank you for expressing it. I suffer from depression and anxiety and it runs deep in my family. We all have to remember this from time to time. \n\nYour support structure is only strong if you're checking in routinely to make sure its stable.",
">but the overwhelming burden of financial insecurity\n\nIf you expecting it to get better because of financial security, I have bad news for you.",
"It could be changing one simple thing like going to the gym regularly or eating a better diet though. Setting yourself small achievable goals is realistic and proven to be helpful.",
"i don't understand what the problem with comparison is. if i feel terrible about my problems, and see someone else with way worse problems still chugging along, well shit, why cant i do that too? its good to get perspective",
"I disagree but also yes. reach out. It's amazing how completely depression can make you feel that everything is screwed. It's not. It's your perspective at the time. Not only do things get better but they are not as they seem.",
"You would be okay if your close ones said they were going to kill themselves? No need to even answer. Your take is simply bad and it shows you haven't really thought about this topic when you bring overpopulation into discussion.",
"I appreciate how smart you're being, but I hope you know you're in an unstable situation. You'll either start doing less drugs or you'll start doing more, then doing less after treatment.\n\nI've lost a lot of really smart, good friends who did what you're doing. It is an inevitable process, so I hope you chose \"less\" before life chooses it for you.",
"“If you’re having a hard time…”\n\n*bird sound in the background interrupts",
"Thanks",
"Go on a mile walk every day. Go to the gym. Start a healthy diet. Go join a group that involves something you find interesting like a sport, or learning a skill, or playing games. Make it a goal to do one nice thing a day like give someone a compliment. \n\nIt depends on where you are in life, but any one of these could be helpful. I’d say commit to just one and make it your goal. When you’ve got comfortable with it, start a new goal as well.",
"Yup. Due to a long list of things. I'm currently 16. In my second year of college. I've never had a single friend, less than one third of a school year of human interaction, my best friends are a fern and my cat, ADHD I didn't know I had sucks, I'm in my second year of full time college after only at most a third of a school year in person total in 9th grade after homeschooling before that, and physical issues keeping me from sleeping more than about 3 - 5 hours a night max and every hour counts for less, 4 hours and 14 hours feel the same even 9 a night for weeks on a consistent schedule feels no better than 3 a night erratically. And that's on sleep meds.\n\nBut looking on the bright side I'm like 4 years ahead in school. I can potentially get two PhDs in mechanical engineering as one and astro aerospace engineering as the other before my 22nd birthday.\n\nI am really able to appreciate friends judging by the two weeks I almost had some, somehow all of this shite made me better at socializing and also good at not getting upset or angry at things.\n\nSo hey, maybe by the time I'm 18 and I go to college full time not early college course requirements for the duel credit needed for a highschool diploma but fully just my major, and I'm staying in the dorms hopefully if things go to plan at Stanford as my first choice. I can make some friends, maybe go on a date, I'll be eligible for a SpaceX or JPL internship according to the listed requirements as soon as I turn 18 so that's an exciting possibility. Just gotta make it through this school year and maybe one more after that depending on the minutiae of the logistics and beurocracy of my education requirements like the highschool diploma and college credit transfers and my age and whatnot.\n\nI have something to look forward to, sure it's a few years out but that's better than nothing and still really important to keep you going right.",
"Jesus Christ. I don't want to be around the first time life grabs you by the balls and squeezes.",
"> If I told my therapist about the depth of my ideation I'd be put in a psych ward.\n\nI don't mean to be mean in the slightest but maybe that would actually be the right place to be? Maybe your therapist could help you find other paths? Isn't that what therapists are supposed to do? What's the point if you can't be honest to your therapist? I hope everything works out for you.",
"The unvaccinated are filling hospitals and ICUs. The unvaccinated are spreading to those who are unable to fight even while vaccinated. Vaccines help your body be prepared for a fight. No vaccines prevent you from getting a disease, they do increase your odds greatly of survival. \n\nI’m afraid that the unvaccinated will prevent lifesaving operation and treatments in Hospitals. \n\nStop with the government is bad bullshit here, they are people protecting our healthcare workers and most vulnerable.",
"Well stated. \n\nOur corporate overlords don't want community, they want worker consumers.",
"\"I love you\" is what I tell my wife and I tell one another EVERY FUCKING NIGHT in case we don't wake up. Just wanted to share that.",
"same I thought the camera was going to pan over to some kids fortnite dancing or something",
"I heard that as a result of the pandemic, 50% of people in the US will need some sort of mental health help.",
"Thirded. PLEASE reach out to someone, to anyone.",
"I literally just don’t give a fuck after all this shit. I was worked to the bone while putting my life at risk during lockdown, while a large portion of the population was getting payed to stay home. It’s left me completely jaded, even more so than I was before.",
"Absolutely. Whatever you saw in her, she saw the same in you, and she would have wanted a world with you in it. Hang in there.",
"In history? Imagine living during a World War",
"Good for you to put others before your shitty feelings.",
"Threatening suicide is not classified as abuse. It can be considered abuse if it is done maliciously, repeatedly, dishonestly. But the act of telling someone you are considering suicide is a desperate, trusting cry for help, not abuse.",
"I know a person who got cancer, thought they were going to die, but \"miraculously\" got better and has been cancer free for 4-5 years. Surprisingly, after they got the good news all came crashing down really fast. Severe depression and anxiety. None of the common antidepressants seemed to work. They got lucky and got accepted the first ketamine treatment study in this country. After receiving ketamine on their second weekly visit to the hospital, depression seemed to disappear pretty much overnight.",
"Less people on the planet isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Especially the weak ones.",
"IT or Programming pop not mind immediately for me. information is on the internet for free. I got my first IT job with no certs and just good interview answers from studying online and after working helpdesk for the last couple years and getting work-paid certs i’m making a living wage and have my resume in a place to begin applying to nice paying network engineering jobs.",
"The sad reality is, everyone's fighting largely the same demons and most don't have the mental bandwidth to take on someone else's burden on top of their own.",
"The fella released this video to his followers on social media and someone else uploaded it to youtube. I truly believe in the moment he felt what he said. What you're doing is way worse. You're just being negative.",
"Fake it till you make it works so well because you're changing your mental attitude. First year of uni, I used to hang out with people that constantly got low grades and complained how hard everything is and I almost flunked. \nSecond year, they had moved to other majors, I made new friends that happened to be smart people. We never really studied together, but their attitude and drive rubbed off on me made me study more and get better grades.",
"I lost my best friend last year to depression. Today’s world is a depressing place to live in even if you don’t have depression, so many people are so materialistic and seem to want nothing to do with the natural world. Here in the US, where the healthcare system is withering away rather quickly and seems to turn its head to mental health because it doesn’t draw enough profit. Fuck depression.",
"In the last few days I am feeling the old coldness coming back. Was away for like two years but it's coming back and it scares me. This video kinda helped a bit. Just good to see we are not alone",
"/r/thanksimcured",
"Natural selection will win in the end. \n\nThe strong survive.",
"I agree with the scenarios you’ve mentioned. There’s a time and place for ‘woe is me’.\n\nOn the other end, I used to just want someone to talk to. They don’t have to solve my problems. Hell, they don’t even have to respond if they’d rather not attach themselves to such downer energy. For me, it was about being able to get into a stream of consciousness (outside of my head) which allows me to work through my own problems as the thoughts now come out in an organized manner as opposed to the scatter brained ramble it sounds like in my head. \n\nEven after typing this out, I suppose if that’s all I need from someone a better way to go about it is clearly expressing that before unloading on someone. \n\nLuckily I’ve found other outlets to achieve this, but it honestly seems like people are willing to vent (in my case) to me as if I’m the therapist because I enjoy listening, but the seldom times I’ve reached out to vent I’ve been referred to a therapist when all I wanted was 5-10 minutes of venting then I’ll figure out the rest on my own time. \n\nI’m basically the therapist who needs a therapist in almost all of my relationships. Art is my go to these days.",
"Between the mustache, purple hat and yellow shirt, I thought he was a combination of Wario and Waluigi. Waluigio!",
"Suicide is for the most part a moment of of weakness or confusion. Compassion and understanding are incredibly powerful.",
"It was not made *to* break labor, but it was made to enrich capital at any cost. It’s sort of just a semantic difference",
"I work in a hospital in a major city. What we see in the hospital and what you hear on the news are two completely different things.",
"That's like seeing a bodybuilder deadlift a massive weight and saying \" why not me too?\" Not all burdens are the same, nor are those who carry them.",
"I had not gotten the impression that you had been consistently listening to that kind of talk for 4 years. I read it again and see where the misunderstanding was. I still disagree with a fair amount of how you explained/reasoned jt (and stand by my point that if you’re using Peterson to rationalize something, there’s a problem), but it is of course appropriate to set limits on a relationship that isn’t providing any benefit to you, and 4 years of supportive friendship is more than most people would expect.\n\nWhile you were fair to cut ties, I do hope you’ll consider giving them another chance in the future. So many people who are able to calm their demons find themselves having to restart their lives very late because they alienated so many relationships. I’m hopeful for both of you that he can make gains and in a few years, you can both gain back a friend.",
"My man obviously never lived through the plague or a cultural genocide",
"but i could do it if i put in the same time and effort, and if not everyone can carry the same burdens, i want to be one of the ones that can carry the heaviest burdens",
"Thank you, for unironically suggesting \"Learn to code\".\n\nVery nice, very cool, very in tune.",
"No problem if that works for you. The problem is that some people **insist** that as the solution for other people. I've met hundreds of people with varying mental health problems and to most people it is not the answer, not even close.",
"Its also ok...and probably much better to go out and not drink, or suggest going out to do something else.\n\nBeing by yourself is fine-ish sometimes, but people who are depressed and anxious don't need more excuses to be alone.",
"In my experience you don't need a psychiatrist to get anti-depressants. Any doctor will just hand them out like candy if you mention you are depressed or anxious.",
"Reach out to a therapist, counselor, dharma teacher, anonymous groups. Learning to love yourself first is a prereq for feeling love from others. We all need mental health support not many of my friends are qualified or know how to offer this specialized care. When we ask for help from our friends our best response could be, let’s get you the help you deserve. I will support you on your journey . *from someone who almost lost herself, exhausted her friends, realized I needed lots of outside help and got\nIt through sliding scale therapy, AA, spiritual teachers, and learning to love myself. We are worth it 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕",
"well it should be the answer because its the hardest solution. so if you can do that, then you could probably do anything else you wanted",
"lmfao. way to nitpick the one sentence you could bitch about. you’re just here to argue, fuck off.",
"I don't understand what you mean? Comparing yourself to other people is the hardest solution for treating mental health problems? It is not.",
"comparing yourself to others and then becoming better is the hardest way of going about fixing your problems, but if you succeed, youll come out stronger than any other way of fixing it",
"Enjoy a life built on the backs of those you deem lesser, materialist.",
"I think about it all the time. Honestly, the only thing keeping me here is my wife. If anything ever happens to her I won’t be far behind.",
"You sound mentally unstable. Seek help.",
"How about yall just sack up and realize nothing matters",
"Gaslighting.\n\nIf you have no argument then shut your consumption hole, materialist. Go fill the ocean with funko pops.",
"no u",
"Most of the time mental health is a more complicated thing that can't be fixed with broad generalisations like that. Also, there is no need to compare yourself to others to better yourself. That can be a pretty unhealthy way to live.",
"Well harrassing me isn’t fucking cool yet you’re still doing it.",
"You not understanding what toxic masculinity is and blaming feminists for male suicides is what makes you toxic, my guy",
"Is he blue?",
"Mental Health problem? Yes. \n\nWorst in human history? No.",
"well idk what to do but looking at people that are better than you and following their example seems better to me than crying about it. that works for other people but that doesnt seem desirable for me",
"I focused on filling the log book in the ships computer. There's two types of views for it. Planet view and one that shows you all the connections to different bits of information, I really liked that latter one to guide my exploration.",
"Those are not the only options.",
"what are the other options then?",
"We love you too man!",
"My advice to op is It gets easier with time but then there are some days where it’s as raw as the day it happened",
"they were always there.",
"I am fortunate to have a huge support network of friends, and work actively to keep my head in a good space.",
"How do you balance and resolve that feeling that occupying your mind is the only thing keeping you from falling over the edge and so it becomes all consuming and obsessive?",
"Your friends are not your therapist and expecting them to help you deal with these issues beyond providing an outlet for you to vent to is not a realistic expectation for friendships and it really isn't fair to your friends.\n\nGet a therapist. That's what they are there for.",
"Yeah. It’s pretty awesome. Which country are we talking about?",
"Uhhh, I never claimed humans used to live in Eden...\n\nBut they did indeed work less hours a day. Even in the middle ages.",
"Is it worse then like ww2",
"I recently had to not remain quiet about my bullshit, and it's pretty awesome how many people will talk to you if/when you reach out. It's embarrassing as hell to do it, but there is no shame in it.",
"Truth is the world is fucked thanks to greed.",
"This hit too close to home. Recently lost a friend to suicide. He was in his 30’s, leaves behind a wife who moved to a different country with him and a couple of months old baby.",
"thats not how a pandemic works",
"That's the difficult part of it. Different things work for different people. There is no silver bullet. \n\nFor many the hardest part is to reach out and get help. A good therapist will help patients find paths which lead to more meaningful, happier etc life. The paths might be challenging to follow for someone suffering from depression or anxiety or some other mental health problem. That's where medication comes in handy. Medicine like antidepressants can take the edge off and make everyday functioning easier.\n\nSometimes a simple thing like keeping a journal/diary, where you write down your feelings: good and bad, can help a lot.\n\nIt's a complex thing and if you feel troubled with whatever, I strongly suggest that you try to find a way how to get help.",
"That depends really. We react very differently to the things we hear other people say. If someone says the right things, even a highly depressed person might feel a spark inside that starts them on the path to becoming well. That's why so many people who have tried it speaks so warmly of therapy. There you meet people who earn their livelihood on, and who have spent their life studying, how to help you.\n\nGetting professional help is never shameful, and sometimes the only option if you feel like you have something you can't talk to anyone about.",
"I was thinking that too, and scrolled so far to find this comment that I was starting to think I was seeing things.",
"I'd rather not say.",
"That’s why I deleted all of my social media profiles, started ghosting my friends, and doing absolutely nothing but wake up, go to work, come home, get stoned, go to bed, repeat.\n\nLPT: You can’t make people tired of hearing how incredibly, impossibly depressed you’ve been for nearly a decade if you just don’t ever interact with people.",
"It’s exactly how a pandemic works when there’s a highly effective vaccine available. \n\nGuessing you didn’t get it?",
"Daily reminder that the 'you are loved campaign' has 0 basis in science:\n\nhttps://web.archive.org/web/20210223061148/https://keytolife.org.nz/sites/default/files/2020-09/1000L%20Report%20KTL%20Trust%20final.pdf",
"I love you",
"I feel that, I've found a friend who I can talk to, where we can share absurd grand affirmations about life, the type of things that would be considered self-centered and off-putting by many. It's about expressing ourselves, finding validation by hearing the other person out, and rooting them on. But...the core issues, that painfully honest part, are the habits we don't want to change, and I've considered seeking out a professional for that, someone who can focus the conversation.",
"This perfectly describes what I have been going through my entire life. Thank you for expressing so well what clinical depression really means. Modern medicine and our world are woefully inadequate at addressing mental health.",
"I have a friend who loves complaining about her life and everyone in it and I always listen but a couple weeks ago I told her I was sad that a festival I love going to was cancelled again and she told me that I need to see a psychiatrist. I was like bitch I ain’t even start to talk to you about it and you already tellin me to take it somewhere else 😂",
"Cannabis helps! Anti depressants help! But nothing... Nothing helps like meditation does. I knew crippling depression for so long I thought it was another body part. Just something I was stuck with... Until I really learned how to look inward. You have to know yourself... Or really, you have to learn that there is no self to know. But that's jumping ahead of things.\n\nIt's no longer new age hokum like astrology or palm reading. There are demonstrable benefits! Neuroscientists have done a lot of work here. Socrates was always right about the unexamined life...\n\nTldr; meditation is fundamentally life changing. If you give it 10 minutes a day for a month, you will see the benefits. But you have to keep practicing... It will change your life.",
"> People just don't want to hear about other people's problems (unless they get paid for it).\n\nThis is something I've come to realize that I wish I had realized much earlier. Only a therapist or significant other would want to hear about your problems more than a handful of times, and the latter can only take so much of it. Hell if you get a bad therapist that's either shitty at compartmentalizing or at controlling their own emotions, that can certainly be less than helpful too. My first and only therapist had days where she seemed to be kind of moody and on those days I would often leave feeling shittier than I did when I got there because it affected the way the session went.",
"I think if you find something worthwhile, it will balance itself out and make you lose track of time and drown out the mundanities of life",
"don't feed the troll, no one wins in these back and forth slap fests",
"It's not meaningless, it get's you imaginary internet points.",
"you do realize that a pandamic is a global event, its not something that only affects you american people, thats just selfish as fuck. also you guessed wrong, as an essential worker i'm fully vaccinated.",
"To you, perhaps. It wasn't to me when it came up on my tiktok feed. I desperately needed to hear it. Even from someone I didn't know. \n\nIf you don't like it, just move along. It's the only thing he can truly do over social media. And I believe him. I have been where he is and I know how helpless it feels.\n\nIf you think it's bullshit then it probably wasn't meant for you. But it means something to someone. So just scroll by.",
"Thing is, it wasn't ~one instrument - it was everything. Every little hobby or desire I had was quickly spent away because, idk. Got bored, frustrated, or whatever have you.\n\nIronically, I love rhythm and playing sequences in my head/tapping fingers all the time is what I end up doing while I'm thinking. As weird as it sounds, helps me focus a lot.\n\nI still got several exams to go through with my psychologist, but we'll see how that ends up.\n\nAnd as a comparison to your kid, the only thing I can find myself for doing on hours on end is gaming - be it related to anything. That's the only part of me that I can say for sure I don't simply stop out of the blue.",
"Agreed. I’m so tired of these “my friends won’t be my therapists” complaints. The poster you replied to didn’t seem to even take a second to think that maybe their friends have their own problems too. Nope. It’s all about them, which it usually is. As a formerly depressed person, I used to do the same exact thing, and almost every depressed person I know does it as well. You can’t just dump all your shit on your friends all the time. Talk to a professional.",
"I was speaking for my country. The USA could be out of this already. And that’s exactly how a pandemic works on a local scale. You clearly are just looking for a fight you dipshit.",
"global\r \n/ˈɡləʊb(ə)l/\r \nLearn to pronounce\r \nadjective\r \n1.\r \nrelating to the whole world; worldwide.",
"Are you on drugs? Seriously, your entire message chain lacks a consistent coherent thought. Happy to chat if you’re going through something.",
"my thought is that you dont understand what global means if you think fixing the problem in one country would do something.",
"You can very much isolate Covid at a local level. It doesn’t stop the pandemic for the world but it does locally. Some countries have done this. \n\nIm done tho. You are clearly more interested in arguing like a dick vs a coherent discussion. I feel sad for you as you are clearly troubled to start arguments with strangers online.",
"That’s weird",
"The vernacular used to describe what clinically depressed folks with suicidal ideation needs to be decoupled from what everyday people experience with situational normal \"depression\".",
"I hear you, just do your best to not get down on yourself for something that isn't you. It's a battle.",
"Have you ever been in a psych ward? It's a place that tends to make one more suicidal, not less.",
"Been there. It's really hard to explain how difficult it is to even care about thinking of a potential walk outside. Sometimes you have absolutely zero motivation at all to take a walk even while having the thought and desire to want to get better. Almost like you're physically frozen in place by your mind. Medication and talking to someone helped me but even taking that step took way longer than it should have. It's not that easy to just go.",
"Love you. Be joyful.",
"Let her know she's loved, give her safe space to endure her battle a place without judgement. I did find almost IMMEDIATE relief through ketamine infusion. I don't use this word lightly in fact I don't use it at all because I'm an atheist but it's the closest thing I could describe in my life a miracle. It literally changed my life, I've been depression free for over six months now and I was exactly where your friend was. I had a suicide attempt about a week before my first infusion and less than a month later I living a pretty normal life. It's expensive but maybe you could try and find a clinic and raise money for it. If nothing else has worked why not?",
"It's refreshingly honest, at least.",
"Sounds very millennial, lots of binary exaggeration.",
"I've worked in one although probably not in the country you live in. I know there have been studies about the subject and am pretty sure that is not true.",
"Thank you for your input! Luckily she is working with a professional, but sometimes you still need a friend in your corner, ya know? I've been trying to just hang out doing normal things, but wasn't sure what else I could do.",
"Unfortunately we both have access to Ketamine in the workplace so I probably won't make this suggestion so as to avoid drug abuse. I have heard of low-dose Ketamine being used for chronic pain relief; interesting to hear about using it for mental health. \n \nI don't judge her in the slightest, I just feel so sorry that she's suffering.",
"I'm probably being dense but what do mean by the drug abuse aspect? Implying that she may steal ketamine to use is personally or she may become addicted?",
"Possibly both. She doesn't seem to have any traits indicating addictive personality, but I can't guarantee that. I would rather she discover Ketamine infusion therapy on her own rather than have me suggest it. I would never forgive myself if I set her down the wrong path, especially since that's not the only drug we have access to.",
"Oh I have plenty of friends. This whole thread is a pathetic whine fest.",
"No. I have no desire to move on from her and hopefully find someone else. I am tired. I am done. The road stops here.",
"True, but I personally wouldn't want someone who doesn't know the medicines inside and out managing my treatment",
"Jesus christ if you're vaccinated do whatever the fuck you want. You guys are afraid of your own shadow. It's fucking embarrassing. Just live your life and stop worrying about everything. Maybe you get sick, who cares.",
"> I wouldnt go to a concert or anything\n\nI would. I've been to several. I went to Oktoberfest. Stop being afraid of everything.",
"Trauma from the thought of getting a disease with a 99% survival rate? You might as well never leave your house.",
"My dad is immunocompromised and I see my parents often. A concert is not worth the risk",
"> Come on, does anyone believe that wearing a mask and staying home and watching movies cause anything near the damage ww1 & ww2 did to the mental health of the planet\n\nPeople are much weaker today than they were back then.",
"It sounds like you're traumatized by hypothetical scenarios who may have affected someone else. Stop.",
"> You've been programmed by reddit to be weak, ineffectual crybabies.\n\nOh my God yes.",
"> You sit in a bar with your buddies, you start a long rant about how shitty your life is, how you're totally depressed, how you're feeling like you're on the edge of going insane\n\nFr though, who wants to hear this every time they go out?",
"K",
"> sadly gatekept out of jobs by people with more exp \n\nNot getting a job bc another applicant had more experience is not gatekeeping.",
"Exactly!\n\nNobody is gonna come and fix your problems for you it’s momentarily cathartic to complain about your shit but when you leave the pub and wake up the next day with a hangover you’re plummeted back into your shit all by yourself",
"Oh, what feminism has achieved in society beyond equality has absolutely driven men to suicide, and will continue to and only get worse.\n\nI understand what people think toxic masculinity is, the problem being society mixes up what is socially programmed in people with what is natural masculine behaviour and young boys are taught not to display it, which is immeasurably hurting them.",
"> ”gEt ExErCiSe anD sTop dRinKinG”\n\nThis is good advice though, especially exercise.",
"> \"God I wish this fucking thing would just crash\"\n\nHow selfish. What about all of the other people on the plane?",
"You're not wrong.",
"Don’t think anybody wants anyone else to do harm. Just a wish that out of all the rare chances of planes some are going to crash. Not wanting other people to have pain but just wishing that you just so happen to be in the next one: it’s a delusion and a terrible thought to be thinking.",
">Being a \"Real Man\" means being there to lend a hand to someone when they need it. It means listening when your friends, family, or loved ones need to vent. It means being a shoulder to cry on without judgement. It means putting in hard work to make things better for you, and for everyone around you. It means learning the skills necessary to raise a good person, to be a good partner, to be a helper in the world, rather than a roadblock. It means doing a thing, even if that thing scares you, if it needs to be done. It means not judging someone who is in a different place than you.\n\nCouldn't have put it better myself, that is the modern-day expectation of men, and unless they meet those expectations society doesn't value them.\n\n>Society says men lack value? When we still average higher incomes, when we are more prone to be in leadership roles in large companies, when the masculine pronouns are still by FAR the default in just about any documentation you can find? \n\nI don't think we're speaking the same value, a high wage, a high up position or hearing masculine pronouns uttered in conversation doesn't make a man feel loved or needed, which they ultimately aren't unless they provide something.\n\n\nI'm truly sorry about your friend, however I don't blindly believe the narrative to be the reason for his death.",
"Lmaooooooo. “Feminism is causing men to kill themselves and traditional gender roles emphasizing aggression and pigeonholing men into specific personality types are the only solution, despite the fact that the demographic most likely to kill themselves is middle aged white men who were raised with exactly those roles emphasized, but also I’m not toxic”\n\nYou’re pretty dim, bud. Feminism might help you redirect some of that anger away from yourself into more productive outlets. Btw, men have always committed suicide at 4 times the rate of women, so whatever blame you’re trying to lay on feminism here is fucking absurd you lunatic.",
"The lockdown because of covid comeon meet me halfway",
"I can understand your trepidation. Do some reading up on ketamine studies and the efficacy for suicidal depression. I can assure you, your fears regarding addiction and the wrong path are unwarranted with this particular medicine. It has been shown to be efficacious in drug addiction treatment as well. Anyway I won't preach too much about it, but you did ask what can be done for your friend and this is a very real thing that can be done to possible save her life. Give it a some thought :)",
">“Feminism is causing men to kill themselves and traditional gender roles emphasizing aggression and pigeonholing men into specific personality types are the only solution, despite the fact that the demographic most likely to kill themselves is middle aged white men who were raised with exactly those roles emphasized, but also I’m not toxic”\n\nYou couldn't just directly quote me, Straw Man.\n\nMiddle aged white men are also the most acceptable group to discriminate against, be racist towards and sexist towards, not that you would consider that in their suicide rates.\n\n>You’re pretty dim, bud. Feminism might help you redirect some of that anger away from yourself into more productive outlets. Btw, men have always committed suicide at 4 times the rate of women, so whatever blame you’re trying to lay on feminism here is fucking absurd you lunatic.\n\nPersonal insult.\n\nYou must be correct.",
"Social media is actually more like sociopathic media if you ask me",
"I didn't claim any of that, so don't worry about buying it. You do have to take into consideration that the human mind is the gauge of its own suffering. Sadness and depression are just complex chemical reactions based on an impossibly nuanced set of perceptions unique to every person. It's not as simple as you make it out to be. Also there is genocide going on right now. Are you suffering with them?",
"My favorite comment on reddit. It's so fucking true.",
"> I didn't claim any of that\n\nAre you not the guy who said, \"People in the dark ages just had to get through the day alive. That was a win.\", implying that they did not have the mental health problems in such abundance as the people of today have? *That* is what I don't buy. \n\n> Also there is genocide going on right now. Are you suffering with them?\n\n*Am I suffering with them?* I have no idea what that question implies.",
"So let the weight of that link to her go. Let the pain go, let her go, you are more than your connection to her.",
"Happy cake day!",
"I feel this 100%. I relate so much to the financial burden and no support support feeling. I'm tired of working so hard and being told I need to work harder. I feel so much envy when I see people who have families and parents they can get a boost from every now and then, even if it's emotional. I worked my ass of and I'm much better than where I started, so there is hope! I'm not saying it will get better, but I will say I want it to be better for you. I want your hard days to be less hard and your good days to be the majority. This goes for every person reading this!",
"I literally said I was impacted by the last scenario..\n\nDo you know what it is to spend 2 years away from your loved one, unable to start the family you were planning on with border restriction which are completely out of your control. Be forced to move to a shitty place because we can't afford 2 rents and to spend 2 years with nothing more than a backpack full of clothes and a laptop?\n\nThere was a time I was jumping on my phone everyday as soon as I woke up to see if the visa situation was unlocked and spent the whole day depressed because nothing changed?\n\nSo yeah fuck the people saying you can't feel depressed because of covid because it's just about wearing a mask and staying home.",
"They’d be happy to be in America, but they wouldn’t lie and say America doesn’t have inklings of dumbass decisions here and there. Trust me.",
"Can you just say that \"inklings of dumbass decisions\" isn't tyranny? Thats the only thing im arguing about.",
"The government is responsible for the large majority of these cases",
"I’m one of those people that others feel comfortable with waaay over sharing their troubles with; It used to make me uncomfortable but these days I’m willing to stick around. There isn’t much to be done on my end, especially if neither of us are super well acquainted but, you know.. everybody need a shoulder to cry on from time to time, right?\n\nI personally just don’t feel comfortable being the one shedding the tears lol. Especially on a night out.",
"People don't realize how much people are stressed out of their lives over the covid vaccine and all that the media does is call these people antivaxx and all that bullshit. Sure helps people with mental health problems",
"Man, seems I was just born under a bad sign. I’m am currently and have been for the past decade (started at about 18) professionally working through my own issues. I have friends that do the exact same thing you’re talking about though; complain for years about the same old issues that they just aren’t willing to change or work on.\n\nJust to be clear though, I didn’t tell the group of friends I was with “hey, I’m feeling depressed and freaking out a bit. BYE.” I just told them I was gonna take a walk down to the beach and would meet back up shortly.",
"So is this.",
"Yep, just extrapolated your beliefs. You stated without a shred of irony that feminism was causing men to kill themselves. Please point to a single concrete way that has ever happened. You just have evidence of such an assertion, because otherwise you’d just be a toxic asshole and there’s now way that could possibly be true.\n\nI love that position that insults make someone incorrect. I insulted you because you’ve proven yourself to be the stereotype of everything everyone else has claimed you to be, a stupid, shortsighted, misguided misogynist who doesn’t know what feminism is and embraces the ideals of toxic masculinity as though they are some guidebook to live your life by",
"Thanks! Oh man, do you happen to have any personal renditions on YouTube or the likes?\n\nThe whole album is just beautiful.",
"Plus, everyone that says these things are only doing it for personal validation.",
"No, I don't think I will.",
"The company mind medicine (Nasdaq: $MNMD) is an early clinical stage biopharm company that will be exploring the use of psychedelics to treat mental illness - for me, my experience with psychedelics has been helpful with anxiety and depression more than anything else.\n\nMight be something you look into, most of the investors aren't worried about making money in the short term, they're all people who've broken the doors of perception and know what potential lies beyond. I personally am hoping businesses like this one make effective therapies available to those who need them, a department we are sorely lacking in.\n\nHappy to talk to you even if you just wanna talk about how tires are made bro, DMs are open. Stay strong",
"I'm sorry it hasn't worked out for you. It's true it's not for everyone. But this person was asking about needing to love someone and that specific question is what I was addressing. \n\nI hope things get better for you.",
"Just a random stranger on a random thread where we may never speak again, but I'll use this fleeting instance where our timelines have intersected to say this: I believe in you too /u/doctorbooshka",
"You just keep digging in on further details that let people that know anything about mental health that you haven't the slightest clue about what you're talking about. Just fyi. Maybe you're having fun with this game of \"make up a character with a mental illness\" but it's certainly not based in any kind of reality or experience or knowledge.",
"Gets it. Inpatient is the ER of mental health. 2-3 months wait is just telling people to fuck off - especially if they're not in their ideal state of mind. You shouldn't have to threaten a crime to get help.",
"Vaccine mandates, vax cards, and such are a couple examples for you. Don’t think some minorities or foreigners would like it that much.",
"I can’t do that. My heart won’t let that happen, and neither will my brain. She was, and still is my everything. I just want to go, I’m tired. I’m tired of this world and this life. The joy is completely gone. I wait around every day just for tomorrow to come, and then repeat. It’s dark and lonely. I have put all my affairs in this world in order, and am prepared for the things to come. I, again, am at peace.",
"Can you just say that \"inklings of dumbass decisions\" isn't tyranny?",
"Killing your parents isn't a \"mental health issue\" in the way people usually use that phrase in the context of covid self-isolation. It isn't emblematic of a greater problem, your brother was just fucking nuts. How isn't that true?",
"Actually click on that link and read what a psychiatrist (an actual M.D.) says about strength training. Strength training has effects comparable to anti-depressant medication. If you are suicidal, or close to it, you'll probably need multiple prescriptions to treat the symptoms. Strength training can be one of those \"prescriptions.\"",
"An example of us government tyrrany in reply to a post about us government tyrrany is whataboutism? Did you just see other people use the word and thought that you'd be cool if you used it yourself",
"Yes I know, it's a very well known fact that's based on numerous studies. My point remains the same, you're not listening to what I'm saying.\n\n1. You need to be able to do that in the first place. Suicidal depressed people generally struggle to get out of bed, asking them to keep up with a regiment that demands them that kind of effort and discipline is absolutely unrealistic. And failure to do so will simply reinforce any self defeating beliefs which would be devastating in a context of trying to get better, and something that no professional will promote unless you already somewhat have your shit together\n\n2. Clinical depression (albeit suicidality) is much more than a mood disorder. Mood stabilizing tools like SSRIs and weight lifting can only go so far. If by some miracle you're able to drag your ass at the gym despite everything, if your circumstances and cognitive distortions aren't improving, tricking your brain chemistry is only going to delay a problem that'll come bite you in the ass in a couple months when you burn yourself out\n\nWorking out is good to help getting better as something you do ON THE SIDE. But selling it as a cure when people already beat themselves up for struggling to take out the trash is the kind of irresponsible psycho-pop crap that keeps infecting social media",
"My sister has is a nurse at a major hospital and your news sources may be different. She works in paediatrics and ICU patients are taking over area.",
"I have treatment resistant major depression and fibromyalgia. When my pain is just too much and I can feel myself slipping deeper into sadness-hopelessness I'll use enough of it that I'll get a few minutes of total relief and that will reset me for a few weeks.",
"I'm glad it worked for you, that primarily led to me developing OCD.",
"Wow. Care sharing dosage? And any other methods or things you do during? Pm if needed, thanks for answering !",
"That’s some pretty tyrannical stuff fammy. I’m not talking about someone unable to say meanie words in public, this is something very sus. Again, ask the foreigners bro.",
"Sure. I'm a foreigner and I think America isn't even close to a tyranical government. Argument won, thx!",
"You’re as white as snow. You’re joking no one.",
"Not exactly certain what mental health issue he was referring to, as it was never actually stated. What he is perceiving as a mental health issue, which is surmised and not stated, may be a mental health issue but certainly not the \"greatest one in history\" \nI can only imagine what combat soldiers in WWI and II went through and upon return had to hide their emotions, or deal with the actual trauma that was inflicted upon them while suffering in silence. \nThen there are the people in actual war zones that have grown up seeing nothing but destruction and death surrounding them, or those in poverty stricken countries that have known nothing but death and hunger with no way out.",
"They also often died to (what are now) preventable diseases, had worse nutrition, had more frequent wars.....",
"It is the opposite of reassuring to me. It is upsetting.",
"I would absolutely not say \"I love you\" to a complete stranger with any real truth. It is a platitude.\n\nP.S. You're not *in love with* your siblings, I hope.",
"So...even if I'm doing good, I have to do better, even if it means suffering, despite how much suffering I'm already in....idk bud, not really seeing what you're seeing but if it worked for you then I'm happy for it!",
"All foreigners are non-white?",
"Thanks, lockdowns…",
"Good job ! Luv ya too keep spreading your message of love !",
"The thing is I don't really have anything to share. 30 minutes into every session it was, \"so what else would you like to talk about today?\" \n\n\"Fuck I don't know.\"",
">something that no professional will promote unless you already somewhat have your shit together\n\nWell, no. Dr. Puder, among others, tries to get his patients lifting as soon as possible. It is part of his treatment plan. Part. Not all.\n\n>selling it as a cure \n\nI'm not. It is good for you and can help. That's all I'm saying",
"> Trauma from the thought of getting a disease with a 99% survival rate?\n\nSome thoughts about this, in no particular order:\n\n* Covid has killed over seven hundred thousand Americans and left even more than that with some form of lingering symptoms. \"99 percent survival rate\"? How about \"this killed 1 in every 500 Americans in just 18 months\"? This is one of the deadliest events in American history. But I guess that's no big deal to you.\n\n* Some groups are at a much higher risk than others, even with the vaccine; you're callously dismissing the increased risk of death for people who are elderly or immunocompromised.\n\n* Every day we're hearing about new variants, and some of them have been identified as parentally vaccine-resistant. This isn't over.\n\n* Death isn't the only thing you have to fear from covid. People are literally losing their senses. They're experiencing long term neurological damage. They're having blood clots and strokes and losing their ability to have children. They're getting permanent damage to their hearts and lungs. This \"99 percent survival rate\" is such a bullshit taking point. If death is the only thing you're afraid of, why not run into traffic? Nothing to be afraid of, because it probably won't kill you!\n\n* Even if covid magically went away - if every bit of the virus spontaneously vanished right now - most people would still be traumatized by this experience. If you've been following health guidelines and common sense, you've almost certainly been pretty isolated this past year and a half. That is traumatizing. It is not good for your mental health to be isolated like that. And it's not easy to return to the things that you've been conditioned to see as dangerous (and for good reason).\n\n* Millions of people have lost someone they cared about. Millions more saw a loved one get sick enough that they feared they might die or be permanently disabled. But yeah, you're right... there's no reason to be traumatized.\n\n* Even if none of the above were true, other people's traumas and anxieties don't have to make sense to you to affect them. Being dismissive doesn't get you anything, so what's the point?",
"No you insulted me because you (ironically) lack intellect and had an emotional response, that's okay though I forgive you.\n\nIt just hit me that I became aware of a [study](https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=55305) recently on suicides of middle-aged men (that you brought up), and it found that 91% of those middle-aged men that committed suicide were seeking professional help for their problems, 50% were seeing a mental health specialist.\n\nA lot of these men were in contact with unemployment agencies, medical providers, and social workers, even if they weren't seeing a therapist, all of whom have received training on implicit bias against non-white people and women, but not about implicit bias against men.\n\nMore interesting data from that study shows 36% of the men had family or relationship problems, primarily in the form of a recent divorce. Many of those men had financial and housing difficulties as a result of their divorce. Many reported parental alienation (from their children) by the mother. I can't fathom why divorce and child custody is such an issue for men, maybe you can help me there.\n\nThis data is all from 12 months prior to their death, does seem to suggest it's not toxic masculinity that is causing men to kill themselves at the rate they do, seeing as how they are generally seeking help, and that maybe just maybe that's all just victim blaming so not to address unpleasant underlying issues linked to feminism and societies attitudes towards men which leads to suicide.",
"Thank you for being a wonderful friend to her. I can guarantee that it made a significant impact on her life. All it takes is one person to give a damn; that's all somebody needs, just that little bit of love and hope. Wherever she is today, I bet she thinks of you often. Have you ever thought of looking her up?",
"Thank you, by the way.",
"Please see a therapist",
"No, I insulted you because you’re the worst.\n\nSo you read a study about men struggling with feeling like their only role is to work and provide for others, feeling alone and with no outlets, and feeling like they have no other choice but to kill themselves due to societal pressures telling them they’re failures, and your conclusion is that feminism killed them and that reinforcing traditional gender roles (in other words, every fucking thing I just listed out as a problem) is the solution?\n\nAre you that thick?\n\nDo you not see the obvious disconnect between your identifying the problems and attacking the solutions? \n\nI stand by what I said, you’re a fucking moron",
">The friends from you gym probably went to a bar a few times, too.\n\nYes but I wouldn’t choose that day to talk with them about my serious stuff.\n\nPlus these were always people that never consumed „too much“ and that you could still even have a good conversation with at a bar when they drunk. Not the type of people that get completely loose at the bar",
"Well, I really hope you don’t. I don’t mean this as some trite feel good throw away comment, but you are so loved, and you will, given time, come to know that. I understand the tiredness, believe me. But the rest you take doesn’t need to be permanent, not just yet.",
"*when* is this guy?",
"Oddly enough i don't really mind traffic. I get anxiety around waiting at an intersection though. It sounds to me like it quite a bit more intense for you. For me it's mostly just a quick panic, and then a bit of embarrassment. The quick panic will often end up with me doing something stupid though which could potentially lead to more embarrassment. \n\nI'm sad to hear that you have financial difficulties. I'm a recent university grad, so I've experienced the change from no income to plenty of income. While it does free me from a lot of worries, and i can't overstate how much that soothes, it has the unfortunate effect of making my psychological barriers more apparent. I can no longer hide behind saving money, because everyone knows i have enough. I can especially feel this in my family. I think they're starting to think that i don't like them, in reality it's because I want to protect them from me. Well that and I just don't really enjoy things anymore, i just kinda do them.\n\nI've been trying to type this up for a day now. I can't shake the feeling that I'm trivializing your struggle by comparing it to my petty bullshit, but I want to respond instead of leaving you hanging, so I really hope you don't read it that way. To be clear, I'm not diagnosed with anything.",
"Jokes on you I don’t have any siblings",
"It seems to me that we don’t have a choice. Either remain in motion; physically, mentally, and spiritually, or get swallowed by the void. How this exactly pertains to you depends on your personality and desires, of course, but suffering comes from attachment, and attachment comes from desire. So either you need to let go of desire, or fulfill it. Either way you need to adapt. I don’t see any other way.\n\nI chose to handle this problem from both ends. Working to become more in line with who I want to be (a good person), and lowering my ambition at the same time. It’s working better than anything else I’ve tried.\n\nI wish you well.",
"Well I mean...it's aight. Not the greatest, but still pretty far up there.",
"No I wasn't. I only said your comment sucked.",
"Well fuck you either way",
"Harassment!",
"I think you might have misunderstood my meaning of distraction, because following your words, to me, would be just another distraction. Instead of distracting with hobbies, I'm distracting myself with a more meaningful purpose that can in turn give my life reason. A force of good can be a life long distraction but again we all just die and it was all pointless. I can try to create a purpose to distract myself from the reality but again it's just a distraction. You are simply distracting yourself by being good and doing good. I'm doing the same. As stated before, I'm going to keep this up for as long as I can but in quiet moments, I default to reality. Life is meaningless. You work hard to either provide for yourself or others until the end then you're done and gone. Religion is a lie so nothing else comes after, just nothing and everything we did will only matter to the ones we leave behind, until they too are gone and also no longer matter\n\nSee friend, the end result is the same and if I'm already dedicated to being a force of good (literally to the point where I'm in a constant state of emotional exhaustion) yet still view life as pointless and my good deeds are a way to create false meaning and distract myself from the void, then I don't know what else to tell you. How much more suffering must I endure? Is life to you simply sacrifice and suffering at the mercy of good will until the end? Why not instead recognized how short and precious your time alive is and find something you enjoy that isn't detrimental or a danger to yourself and others. Ever since I was young I tried to create meaning by bring good. Volunteer, donate, was a paramedic, created art programs, served in the military, etc. I've literally dedicated my life to good service and good deeds but Im not an idiot. Life hasn't suddenly gotten meaning, I created meaning. But If I die, even the things I CREATED simply go to someone else and again none of it matters. Maybe on your deathbed you'll realize I'm right but atleast up until then you will have been able to DISTRACT your self from that truth with by being a force of good in the world. Get it now?",
"I need a hug",
"I get you. I think I just disagree with you about meaning. Is music meaningless because it ends? It seems you want meaning, but you will not allow it at the same time. You realize that we have to create meaning, but at the same time, the meaning you tried to create was never enough to fill the void. Why is it not enough? I believe the problem is asking that question itself. It arises from a desire that can never be fulfilled. The question creates the void. So the only way to find peace is to let go of the desire. If you manage to do that, and be fully present, you’ll find that the question of meaning becomes silly, and you’ll wonder why you ever asked it.\n\nWhy do young children not get existential crises?",
"Recorded music will be meaningless the instant that recording is lost, much like my life becomes meaningless when I die. Young children don't get existential crisis because their brains are still developing and can be DISTRACTED very easily from the harsh realities of life. Plus they are also still not emotionally mature enough to have that type of complex existentialism to begin with.\n\nAnd just so we are clear, I agree with everything you say but we differ on whether or not being a force of good creates true meaning or false meaning. Both of which I consider a way of distracting yourself until the end. Others distract themselves with finding a wife and having kids. That by default will keep them occupied for what, 20+ years? Then they have a wife and retirement to distract themselves with along with possible grandkids. You see it's just a game of distractions. Be it good deeds, be it family, be it your career. It's all just a distraction my friend.\n\n\nEDIT: to touch in your question, the distractions I create are actually enough but only last so long until I finally default back to this mindset. It's not that it isn't fulfilling or meaningful to some degree, but regardless of what I do, LIFE DOESNT CHANGE. I don't suddenly have a destiny, I don't suddenly have a purpose, I'm not so simple minded to believe I was \"built for this\" when I start doing something I enjoy. It's all just a way to pass time essentially. And as more time passes, I realize this. Despite efforts, I can see past what's right in front of me and in doing so can see how it's all just a way to try and not feel so sad and alone",
"Fair enough! I hope you will find peace. Thanks for the conversation.",
"That attitude will not help you",
"You assume that because someone isn't weak, they must've never experienced hardship and adversity in their lives? One only gets stronger *through* experiencing hardship.",
"Yes dude. So many people on here just constantly whining all the time.",
"I know dude, I agreed with you.",
"So true. I was going to the meaningless boring job everyday and was being picked on by rude coworkers and ignored with my problems by my boss. Eventually said fuck it and quit. Am now lined up to start a successful job making tons more money for much easier work. Only you can make the change you want to see and I am so glad I did it for myself.",
"If you aren’t there for a reason why go then",
"Big love, hope you can recover in the future. I can't begin to understand what you've been through but I understand mental health. If you need to talk at any point, honestly, just message me. That other person is just ignorant to the situation and mental in general, ignore their ignorance.",
"Maybe, maybe not. I'm too alienated from that situation to have an honest and logical opinion unfortunately! Also saying that things have been worse isn't a reason they can't be bad now, because they aren't great. Let's deal with the situation we're in, keep loving each other and trying to help is what I believe. Much love.",
"I think it's because some people _are_ ashamed of being in therapy. It's way more accepted today but therapy hasn't always been viewed in a positive light. You didn't assume the person in therapy was depressed, you assumed they were mentally unstable/crazy. Which might still be the case but it's more socially acceptable to be open about you dealing with those issues rather than hiding the fact that you are.\n\nMaybe a few decades from now it won't be something we have to actively encourage as it will just be the default behavior people come to expect.",
"I just gave you relatively concrete proof that \"toxic masculinity\" such as the inability to be open and seek help, is actually not the cause of middle-aged men's suicides like you previously suggested and how most feminists' victim blame suicidal men, and my opinion is it is instead how society treats men.\n\n>So you read a study about men struggling with feeling like their only role is to work and provide for others, feeling alone and with no outlets, and feeling like they have no other choice but to kill themselves due to societal pressures telling them they’re failures\n\nNo I think I read a study about the causes of middle-aged men's suicides, it for me eliminated the idea that men are trying to be toxic masculine men and not seek help, and obviously I already think the biggest cause is how society views and treats men and some data in there can support that claim.\n\nBeing alone and with no outlets a result of society not caring about men, Only role is to work and provide for others a result of society not caring about men.\n\nI'm suggesting societies view of men is strongly influenced by the misandrist rhetoric pushed by feminism, by group identity politics, which yes would lead me to conclude that feminism is partly responsible for men's suicide rates today.",
"I get I am loved by friends and family. That isn't the point. And it's not enough.",
"You don't understand mental health problems at all based on that clichéd rant.",
"Yes.",
"It'll just grow long enough to massage your ear lobes.",
"I work with people who dress the same way.",
"Because I'm depressed and have been told that I should see a therapist.",
"Thanks Burnanator.",
"So finns for example are not foreigners to the USA?",
"When they ask what you want to talk about, why not talk about the depression",
"That’s the opposite of what you just said though?",
"Yeesh, no reason to be a jerk off to the person.",
"Sarcasm mate.",
">people have had it 1000x hrder than me and still didnt kill themselves\n\nActually, they do.. a Lot or are very close to.",
"> Also saying that things have been worse isn't a reason they can't be bad now, because they aren't great.\n\nIf you read me saying anything like, \"Things can't be bad now for anyone\", then let me know.",
"Yup, a true foreigner is someone that comes from down south, if you catch my drift.",
"Thank you for putting the thought and worry behind if you were trivializing my issues! That is very compassionate. Let me assure you that I don't feel that way at all! We all have struggles, big or small they are worthy of being heard. That goes for any issue, from daily struggles to serious stuff.\n\nAnd you are right about the financial side. It does help with certain things, but it also removes the excuse or safety net of simply going 'ah, the bank account is empty. Sorry, I can't join you for dinner!' Which is something I have been known to use lol. \n\nedit: When I responded to you the first time I think I partly mixed up messages and added the 'avpd is much harder to deal with' since someone else mentioned having it as well. So, when I re-read just now, I realized my mistake.",
"I get discriminated against in my country because I have Borderline Personality disorder and have attempted suicide a number of times. I have ADHD and BPD, PTSD etc because of the family I was born into and the way I was treated growing up. The fact that I sought help for 6+ years, the fact that I've mostly worked through ny course of DBT treatment doesn't matter. I can't join the military, police force, fire department, I can't become a paramedic and right now It's getting in the way of becoming a diver. \n\nNow I have the tendency to want to lie, I know how to manipulate people and I hate to admit it but I'm pretty good at it. And I get it. I have a cluster b personality disorder. The fact that I live my life with as much honesty as I can, facing the truth when it's inconvinient or not what people want to hear isn't being brutally honest. I know what tact is. It's the integrity of information that I value. I know my word is good. At the end of the day I honestly believe your word is all you have. But that doesn't matter. Because I struggle to study and have no shiny qualification, because I've attempted suicide and have a personality disorder I am not credible, I have less rights, less opportunities. I'm broke because I no longer have the mobility I once had, I have sever neuropathic pain as the direct result of a surgery. I can spend 3-4 hrs on my feet each day before the pain is unmanageable and I don't get any and am still in a ton of pain the next day. I'm only willing to offer 2 of these hours to an employer for a land based day job, otherwise I can't take care of the day to day. Despite the fact that I jumped off of a bridge largely because the hospital I had the surgery at is doing their best to sweep everything under the rug, not know me and treat me like the liar that I am not. I've been labelled a meth addict. Which I've only done a 3 times in my life each one by accident but I still only have myself to blame for keeping the company that I kept. I hate that drug. I hate what it does, I've seen the damage it causes and I hate how it makes me feel. I don't even drink anymore, I smoke some weed from time to time but that is purely to manage the pain and reset my circadian rythym when things get out of whack. \n\nI have little to no opportunities and yes I am not physically capable of dojng most jobs due to lacking education and severe chronic pain. I get that, I am painfully aware of that. But when you deny people opportunities, tell them they can't do something because of something that is not their fault. It doesn't matter how much work you've put in to overcome your past, face your problems and do your best to become a law abiding functioning member of society. Because you asked for help, you're now a second class citizen. Because you won't lie on a form you are no longer able to access opportunites that could allow you to become a a functioning, tax paying member of society. I may never be able to start a family, own some land, get a dog. Things like that because I have to live on a income that barely covers food and rent and is legally below the poverty line. Because that is the only income I can get right now without breaking the law. Noone wants to know me because I have no money and I'm honest about having a personality disorder. I'm not looking for a handout, I want a career again. I was 2IC in a construction company. Trades I can no longer do due to health and safety. \n\nBecause I asked for help and faced my problems instead of lieing to myself and others, instead of blaming others for my shortcomings. I accept I am partially responsible for the way I am but I also accept that it is not entirely my fault. I am no longer allowed to pursue a career that I feel is the one job, the one profession I can still do. A career that I might love, that might allow the opportunjty to pay off my debts, meet people and maybe be able to get that dog and that piece of land and potentially start a family some day.",
"\"Nothing will change unless you actively try and change it\" is a rather good moto for mental health and life in general. Things almost never miraculously get better, sadly.\n\nFor me, Certain meds have helped. It took a great deal of trial and error, and that includes a LOT of meds that made me feel like shit for weeks. Medicine is also rarely ever a miraculous change, sometimes it can be, but for me at least medicine was just one step in the right direction. I highly recommend combining therapy with medicine.",
"I'm in favor of assisted suicide for all. Let's allow all people to commit suicide if they want after a certain waiting period. If you still want to do it then you'll be able to pass as painlessly as possible with the proper medical procedures.",
"> go outside once in a while,\n\nThat's who i'm depressed I'm hideous",
"See, no one was listening to him. And ur advice is be ok with being alone and get a dog? It's pretty cool ur ok with just a dog but some people need a person to talk to. So just Have a good time with people when you go out and focus on having a good time when your out. Appreciate every outing. Work on your mental/fysical health as much as you can on your own time. After a while you can open up to people you hang out with and they will listen. \"Live for yourself\". I say live for others. Don't actively cut people out. People are not one dimensional. I say get more people in and focus on the good ones. After a while ull have a handful of people you love more than life.",
"Coping?",
"I have, I tell them that I'm bored, lonely, and get anxious. After giving me some obvious advice that I could have figured out on my own, we hit a dead end.",
"I disagree intensly. Toxic does not mean anything. Life is hard and should be treated as such. The only thing we can do is make each other life's as bearable and help each other as much as we can. And that goes both way. Toxic people should be dropped. If you have a friend and everytime you hang out with they are not appreciating the moment your sharing with them but still focused on stress/pain without even cracking a joke, for years on end. You simply drop them. They should seek professional help. Friends are not therapist. You hang out with friends and try to focus on having the best time you can possibly have with them. Because you love them. And you want THEM to be happy. All the rest of your time should go to working on your own mental/fysical health. And that's ok! After a while you can talk. If you break you break. But you don't go out partying in a group when your broken. You fix yourself little by little. And you go on walks. You talk. You enjoy the little contact you have and you show it. You appreciate them coming out to you. I'm literally saying the same as you. I imagine your still too young to realise how hard everyone's life is.",
"Hey man... Just because something works for me doesn't mean it works for everyone. I. Aware of that. However some people are just waiting to feel validated in similar situations. I have traveled a lot and met a lot of people. I can assure you most people are pretty one dimensional. You say \"have a good time when you're out\" well, pal. I never do. I help where I can, I stop for hitchhikers and flat tires. Idk how old you are but if you think that what works for you works for anyone else but yourself, you're mistaken. We are all different, we come from similar backgrounds maybe but the way we process things and cope are almost never the same. When someone screws me over I cut them out. That took a lot of lessons and losing everything I had. So yeah, I'm going to cut out toxic people and I'm going to continue to recommend that if there's a toxic person in your life remove them. If you're too worried about losing \"friends\" then you are living in an unsustainable reality.",
"Exactly. And the truth is that that's ok. Its like like muscle you train in a way. Like running. Sometimes you crash, you crash hard. but you get back up in any form of way you can. But once you're up you just start running again. No shame in tripping. But holding back others talking about how you fell is just no way to enjoy the run. People don't have a choice but to run so better make it a fun jog you know.. why ruin it for them instead of being supportive for them.",
"One day u'll get it",
"I'm not saying don't cut people out. People should cut people out more probably. I genuinely don't care about the people I don't invest in. But that's also not what I'm saying; I'm saying your focus is wrong. It should be from a \"gain\" starting point, not a \"lose\" one. I'm saying hang out more with people who you think are good. Instead of saying \"cut the bad people out\" . It's a huge mindset difference. I haven't had someone \"screw me over\" because of this for as long as I remember. I don't worry about losing any friends at all. Because the ones I have i trust and would love them to enjoy their life. Why would I worry. Thats the whole point. What I don't get is that someone with literally a dog for a friend, someone who never has a good time out with friends, and thinks most people are one dimensional is giving people advice.. whats the clue, \"people are shit and ur better of allone?\" life is hard man. Why would you ever give advice against enjoying and apreciating life if you say you had true loss/hardship yourself? That I just don't get. There is a lot of excuse in your text tho, \"I don't know how old you are, I have traveled alot, people are one dimensional\" I think you don't know how to connect to people and that makes you think they are one dimensional. But to be honest, the truth is its probably because of this attitude in the first place. You do make a point but the way you wrote it annoys me. You read my argument as a caricature of something you hate, but I'm only saying this because once ur all the way down and there is one two ways to go; underground, or back up. So I don't know but it doesn't seem like you have really reached the bottom. You would appreciate hanging out with other people more than hanging out with yourself if you did..",
"What is the threshold exactly for getting screwed over by people constantly where you decide losing more money and time is no longer worth it? Is it defined by the individual or by society? Again I offer this advice in the tune of - I'm not special. Worse things have happened to better people. But someone out there is tired of getting hurt and is probably feeling alone. What I'm saying is it's okay to be alone. You don't need to have people around or go out all the time. My personal situation does not grant me the right to tell anyone how to live their life.\n\nI didn't come to the conclusion that people are one dimensional by observing from afar. All of my interactions that have led me to lose trust in people are through times where I helped people only to be completely disrespected and shit on. For example, a missionary from my dad's church went to Africa and we remodeled his living room and put an oak floor in for FREE and didn't get so much as a thank you. I didn't do it for money but a little gratitude would be nice. \n\nYou are right that I don't know how to connect to people. What happens is, I attempt conversation, or offer help, and I get disregarded completely. And I know it's not my conversation because I'm usually just amicable and quiet until it's relevant for me to speak. So I don't know what about that makes me no fun to be around.\n\nBut if we are going to wonder if I hit bottom let's assess: I am a former Army Sergeant, divorced, bankrupt, sick with no insurance, and I can't get a job because of injuries I obtained being a dumbass. I don't ask for welfare or food stamps because I don't deserve them. I am 563 days sober from alcohol, but it doesn't matter because the damage is done. My siblings are all alcoholics and my dad is falling apart from years of labor work. My Mom lost her mind, and we haven't spoken in years. I left the army and anyone who was my \"friend\" disappeared. I went through my divorce alone, my leap into sobriety was done alone too. Sure I put myself in this situation but it doesn't grant people the right to be dicks to me when I do nothing but mind my own business and help where I can. So I have no family, friends, or job. I'm honestly living until my dog dies and I'm out. That feels like bottom to me but idk.\n\nEither way, what you suggest is to basically go out and hang out with like minded people. Like, just go and do it? Do I just go sit down with a group of people and try to get them to accept me? Or do I just accept that this life is what it is? I don't think I'm completely alone in thinking that people are untrustworthy. that going out all the time and wasting money on things, just to hope they show up when you need them and they don't, is a waste of time.\n\nAlso this is in NO WAY a woah is me post. I have learned to live with my consequences and have made amends where I can.",
"Go see someone different that specializes in CBT",
"Truth.",
"Then don’t work that much lmfao.\n\nNo one is putting a gun to your head making you work that much. Find a job that lets you go part time and enjoy your free time.",
"Thanks man. I get you.",
"The other way around happens too, I reached out to a friend that seemed to be having issues, but they had shut everyone out suddenly, and now they’re gone",
"I live in a senior housing where a lot of the people are vets, and I try to talk to everyone I see and especially one guy, he has been so depressed from this Covid, the apartment building does not want people getting together so they stay home and drink and go get more booze and drink, I visited him a few months ago and his place was like a hoarder, I mean I had to kick stuff out of the way just to get inside, so far since then he is doing a little better, but we need to do whatever we can to end this, stop thinking how it effects you to wear a mask or get the Proven safe shot, and just do it, the life you save maybe be the many others where mental health because of this is killing them",
"Thank you for your very kind and caring words. I consider myself a pretty hardened dude. But you made me feel so loved for that I was almost brought to happy tears. Sincerely, thank you for taking the time to read my words and reply to them. I feel like I should say more to appropriately express how grateful I am, but I am not sure what to say other than I sincerely appreciate you 💙",
"Haha… you’ll be fine man. Run a marathon, reinforce your own belief in your ability to stand strong and take it on the chin. Familial support is a nice to have but definitely not a necessity. I tell myself when I have kids they’ll be supportive etc etc and I know I’ll probably be right. But in the end you are strong enough, battling self doubt is something all people have to do and you win by just pushing through and coming out stronger. Good luck to you",
"True. But if you've ever been in the shit, I mean REALLY in the shit, there are two ways it usually goes. Either you break or you come out with a greater sense of empathy and a deeper humility.",
"That's not good, dude. Once you hit that point it's a really hard climb back out. Mind you, this is coming from someone who's pretty damn jaded himself.\n\nI wish I could tell you everything is going to be OK, but I can't know that. Nobody freaking knows. If your happiness is dependent on that you might be SOL.\n\nThe real question is, are you going to let it break you? Because you don't have to let it do that. You can find peace, one that isn't dependent on circumstances.",
"Least debate lord redditor",
"Cringe",
"Neither will yours.",
"Cap",
"Least debate lord redditor",
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, I’m not going to get addicted or anything. I just want to let loose a little. Like I said before, I can’t even get any drugs, and I don’t really associate or even like people who do them. If I really didn’t give a fuck, I’d go back to selling them lol.",
"You gave me a scare, lol!\n\nI've seen a LOT of people experiment some, and a lot of them turned out fine. But some didn't turn out fine, and some of those who eventually did do OK went through the shit first. \n\nAt best they wish they could have those lost years back because now they're behind their peers, both personally and professionally. When that realization leads to jealousy, depression and more self-medication? That's a bad loop you don't get out of easily. \n\nIf you insist on experimenting, my advice to you would be don't mix and match. Stay away from Xanax and opiates, that shit will fuck you up. Literally EVERY person I know who experimented with those more than a few times had their life go tits up. Especially if you mix Xanax with downers or other drugs. I know multiple people who died from that. \n\nIf you don't want to get addicted you need to take breaks. The longer the better, no less than a week between using. You're playing with fire, though; chances are you're going to be burned. This just makes that a little less likely. \n\nI assume you'll ignore this unsolicited advice from some random internet stranger, because why would you listen to me!? But if you can avoid that road future you will be pretty damn grateful.",
"Hey man, I appreciate it, but I’m experienced. I know what I’m doing. Good PSA though.",
"You're blocked for trolling.",
"Lol, yeah I'm old. Old people get preachy, don't they? Take care!",
"Right on man. Next time you need to warn the youth about research chemicals though. That shit is baaaad.",
"Fuck, you remain stupid. You think feminism pushes the notion that men’s sole role is to be providers. Like, how in the world can that possibly trace itself back to feminism? The whole point of feminism is the destruction of traditional gender roles like that. It’s fucking mind boggling that you can lay that at the feet of feminism and highlights the profound ignorance you so proudly put on display. Like, it’s genuinely impressive how little you know about something you so clearly hate and blame",
">You think feminism pushes the notion that men’s sole role is to be providers.\n\nNo, yet again putting words in my mouth, you're making a habit of that. Feminism pushes the notion that men as they currently exist are bad, are oppressors and that they somehow live a privileged life, which of course is complete and utter nonsense, and leads many women to not just have no sense of care for men but to actually dislike men in general which of course then would result in men only having value in the eyes of many women if they provide something other than themselves.\n\nFeminism as a concept is great, no one would disagree, but in practice it doesn't try to achieve equality, it tries to remove any perceived barriers that stop women out achieving men in all aspects, even if that means there is no barrier, simply providing them with a push or in many cases pulling men backwards.\n\nToxic masculinity isn't the cause of mens suicide in my opinion and there is no empirical data which suggests as much just a feminist narrative, unlike the data I have provided you with, it's as I previously described just yet another form of victim blaming, if women's suicides were through the roof you wouldn't hear talk about toxic femininity for instance, instead we would address societal issues perceived to be causing those suicides, it's really not that complicated if you simply view things from reversed roles.\n\n>Like, it’s genuinely impressive how little you know about something you so clearly hate and blame\n\nI don't hate individual feminists, I simply hate the misandrist messaging it pushes out, which in my view pushes men toward suicide.",
"We all support you, near and afar. Thinking of you tonight!",
"I’m glad you’re still here",
"It hasn't for me and my GP (uk) doesn't offer any meds for avpd, it's all just for the bipolar / depression",
"I'm so sorry for your loss. Some people don't want the help, their mind is made up, and it's unfortunate. Please know that you did all that you could to help your friend, you were a good friend to them.",
"You have such a horrible understanding of feminism that it’s a joke. Real quick; define feminism. Like just fucking define it.\n\nYou’re the walking talking definition of toxic masculinity and yet you rail so hard against something you don’t even understand.\n\nOh, and by the way, women are three times more likely to attempt suicide, so clearly it’s not something endemic to men, you misogynistic troglodyte. \n\nOne more time; feminism isn’t causing men to kill themselves, people like you are.",
"What single misogynistic opinion have I given, go ahead and provide me with one, not possible that you prescribe false labels to people and insult them because you know they poke legitimate holes in your world view.\n\nAttempt Suicide =/= Commit Suicide\n\nYou can attempt suicide without intending to follow through all the way, you can't half way commit suicide, so miss me with that weak shit argument. \n\nI'm not toxic in the slightest, i just go by data which is only toxic to narrative driven feminists who are victim blaming the suicides of men, and soft people like yourself.",
"If my feeling depressed?",
"What",
"That feminism causes men to kill themselves, you loon.\n\nOh shit, now you’re discounting women attempting suicide at multiple times the levels of men? Chalk another one onto the misogynist column.\n\nYou’re a toxic prick who hates women and enforces the gender roles and social pressures that are actually at the root of male suicides, you soft ass bitch",
"Was it a side effect?",
"the smugness comes from how others perceive me when I tell them the simple truth without being soft or careful about how I phrase it. stuff like \"the vaccine is safe and effective and you should get it\". some people are so far gone that a sentence like that makes them uncomfortable.\n\nsome might even say... triggered.",
"Psychedelics all but erases this unnecessary load for me but my landlord doesn't want to hear about it. But hey, *have a beer from my home brew stash*, that'll cheer ya right up. Society isn't ready for me, simple as that.",
"Famous last words",
"Lol, I’ve already done drugs that you probably haven’t even heard of. Been there, done that. I’ll be fine.",
"This thread is full of people showing why suicide is the only option for many. Nobody is willing to be a friend to someone who isn't ecstatic all the time.",
"Calm down tiger. I'm still not taking it",
"Holy shit I’ve been doing this for months but by smoking weed and texting them in a group chat, the past month or two has really been heavy in the “I’m going to shut up now I promise” talk and it’s all reflective of how I myself am not able to keep myself from sliding down that hillside of overthinking and looking up and seeing I’ve typed more and oh look I’ve done it again\n\nBut yeah dude it’s good to see I’m not the only one, that people identify with this story in some way",
" Secret Star"
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this is the greatest mental health epidemic in history
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"dies of a \"heart condition\" right after he gets raided by the police",
"RIP. Had a bad k/d but he can still rack up the assists.",
"Epsteined"
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A very interesting documentary about 3d printed firearms in Europe. The focus, JStark just passed away today due to a heart condition.
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"Such talent! I have difficulty on a regular table. LOVED the ending, haha.",
"[Best Ping pong video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYz73W_dufc)",
"that video was hilarious. That's the most I've laughed in a while. Thanks for sharing!",
"Thanks for that comment, I thought it was just a ping pong tricks video -- still cool, but was not remotely expecting the hilarity that came with it. Love it!",
"I too make this face, but not while playing ping-pong, although you could call it that."
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"Hey. I like this. Thanks.",
"**Gunther and the sunshine girls - Ding Ding Dong**. \n\n&#x200B;\n\n What a classic. Pretty catchy and hilarious",
"[The Chamber of Understanding is a dome in the Planet Express headquarters where Professor Farnsworth, its inventor, spends his time trying to understand things. It comes down from the ceiling, not requiring to turn any switch for activation, and has a mirror ball that plays disco music, which presumably helps the Professor think. The Chamber was used when he needed to decipher the V-GINY ID code in 3010 \\(6ACV02\\).](https://theinfosphere.org/Chamber_of_Understanding)",
"I will forever associate this song with the end of the Great Boxxy War of 4chan, circa 2009. /b/ had become firmly entrenched with /b/tards on both sides declaring her the Queen and not/Queen of /b/. \n\nSome more level headed idiots, desperate to quell the chaos searched for another Queen... a Princess, if you will... of /b/. Much like dangling keys in front of a person with mental deficiencies, they found Tabby and tried to sacrifice her to /b/ in the name of peace. While proving a worthy distraction, Tabs was ultimately not enough to stop the war. /b/ self destructed and 4chan was never the same. \n\nMany oldfags decided that being a /b/tard was a young man's game, and fled to reddit, which explains a lot when you think about it.",
"The joke is that instead of listening to [whatever song helps him to understand things](https://youtu.be/FkR_dgEX0bc?t=5), Farnsworth was listening to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFR6LtEKBVY).\n\nThe extended animation was to allow the song clip to play to the first lyric because that will help understand which song was playing. \n\nI agree with you in that this isn't all that funny.",
"i am not trollin! i am boxxy, u see?\n\nalso, you remind me of the old addage: 'reddit is 4chan with a condom'",
"Oh... you touch my tra la la",
"Link to the video for the lazy:\nhttps://youtu.be/vzkp10zbgMA",
"Nothing exciting really\n\nhttps://youtu.be/-Mzcit3VcqM\n\nShe recently sold an NFT for 13 Ethereum, so, she got herself a nice payout in the end.",
"Where’s the 10 hour version?",
"https://youtu.be/tHL8YiqCY64 my favorite use of this song"
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"Awesome video... Horrible music.",
"It's from the ABC News theme in Canberra.",
"It sounded very ESPNy Sports Intro.",
"What was the equipment used?",
"its remixed, the original is just a brass section",
"No Summernats?",
"this might be one of the most offensive things ive heard in a while"
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"The audio quality on this is horrendous",
"This video has the audio quality of a cheese grater.",
"Bill Burr is the absolute best as just tearing people apart, but making them laugh while doing it.",
"I thought it was just me, it's pretty bad.",
"Video is a pretty poor quality rip of the podcast. Here's a link for better audio quality. \nhttps://comedy-gold-minds-with-kevin-hart.simplecast.com/episodes/bill-burr",
"THANK YOU",
"Theres a lot of great shit talkers in comedy history but Burr has to be the GOAT. Just straight from the rip with nuclear bombs.",
"tldw",
"Thanks! Now it no longer sounds like it was recorded in someone's pocket.",
"I didn't think I could put up with the amount of Kevin Hart I'd have to hear, but so far it's worth it for the Burr. Highlights:\n\n* Burr giving Hart shit about being afraid of his own podcast audience when Hart gives a warning before saying something off-color. \n\n* Hart trying to give Burr shit about how he spends his money (helicopter), Burr pointing out the fleet of tacky vehicles and the oil painting Hart had made of himself that hangs in his home.\n\nJust ~30 min in, and now Hart is earnestly insisting that comedians are the most complex individuals a society has. It's going to be a balancing act.",
"That’s what happens when you fly with Patrice O'Neal (RIP). Who also made quite a show of tearing Hart to pieces.",
"Patrice story about jerking off in Kevin Hart’s home is classic.",
"Don't forget Kevin hart is a homophobe.",
"Thanks. How the hell does OP even find such shit quality audio. \nI remember Napster audio that was ripped 1000x being better quality than this 20 years ago. \nOP wtf dude",
"Damn. He is merciless lol",
"The teasing is only in the first half, lots of love and vulnerability in the second part. Thanks for the share."
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Here's an hour of Bill Burr shitting on Kevin Hart... to Kevin Hart.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE
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"https://youtu.be/dTAAsCNK7RA",
"I loved this video when it came out. Ok Go has some good ones also.",
"You obviously haven't seen this which was a decade prior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovo6zwv6DX4",
"Since OP didn't explain, the room is on wheels with the camera locked on it.",
"How about Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding, 1951\n\nhttps://youtu.be/ac6o8PXthzQ?t=135",
"You put his name on it!!!! Jamiroquai is a god!",
"I had a friend who was obsessed with this music video and had conspiracy theories around why the HD version was never released. Viewing it again, I think I know why. You can faintly see the set wobble as they move it around. I bet it's super duper apparent in high resolution and there's no easy way to fix it.",
"OP is definitely 12.",
"That and Jamiroquai was replaced after he died hahaha there’s probably more conspiracies too",
"Shit... Time still hasn't caught up to that headwear.",
"That was cool, thanks for sharing!!",
"I'm pretty sure Pop-Up Video told me the red pool on the floors was an accident: The walls were supposed to bleed but the supply hose burst during filming.",
"Well you can tell your friend they finally delivered a 4k version a month ago [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeTFAiYbR9o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeTFAiYbR9o)",
"There's definitely CGI in the video, the moving floor was just a practical effect. I don't know why but I always thought Jamiroquai was black... turns out he's just a British dude.",
"Thafuq? He died?!\n\nNo, he didn't. The keyboardist & co-songwriter did. 🙄 Of [cancer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Smith), FYI.",
"No, he is still alive.",
"The crow was CGI.",
"We have black people too, you know.",
"No no, there’s some stupid conspiracy theory that he died and was replaced to keep the label making money. Like Avril Lavigne and Paul McCartney etc",
"Jay kay would still be getting chart hits to this day! When you got it you got it!",
"Wow, thank you! The video seems strange though, almost like it was upscaled instead of using a higher res source.",
"He ain't one of 'em.",
"Saw him in 2018 and it was beyond magical. He’s incredible.",
"And Stevie Wonder played this music decades before…",
"This made me laugh way to hard.",
"\"This 90s music video\" smh",
"Lucky bastard! I didn't even know he was still doing bits that recently. I wanna see a few bands/artists before they stop putting shows on and he'd be one if i knew, is he still active?",
"The bugs and birds are CGI",
"Just because I can’t help myself:\n\nThe *band* is called Jamiroquai. \n\nThe guy in the video is Jay Kay, the singer (and only member of all iterations of the band) for Jamiroquai.",
"Here is a higher [quality](https://youtu.be/CsoYyDlYU8M?t=112) version, that includes the full routine.",
"you forgot the part about how much the music in that video sucks bawlz.",
"Dude was right, too. The future did turn out to be made of virtual insanity.",
"Or it was recorded on tape, not film, so there is no HD version.",
"Almost certainly.",
"Jamiroquai is the name of the band.",
"Jamiroquai is a band, not a person",
"Also directed by Jonathan glazer. The guy who did under the skin and sexy beast",
"https://youtu.be/MzwY7ii582Y you’re welcome",
"Lol",
"Lucas With The Lid Off was another good 90s video that did everything in camera. Wonder why I can't find it on CorpTube now. \nhttps://videosift.com/video/Lucas-Lucas-With-The-Lid-Off-by-Michel-Gondry",
"They did use CGI to paint out the footprints of the crew that was pushing the room around on the huge set. I learned this from PopUp Video.",
"They reproduced Jay Kay's funky little \"slide\" during the MTV Music Awards:\n\n[Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity \\[MTV Video Music Awards '97\\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRj0jT36fvA)",
"Is that Griffin McElroy?",
"There likely isn't a high rez source. Music videos were shot on tape, not on film. That means 480p is best you gonna get w/o artificial upscaling.",
"1,000% yes. I work at a record label and music video masters were digibeta tapes well into the early 2000s. People forget youtube had a file size limit for a long time and 1080p was years away.",
"Yea, there's a lot of things that were never meant for HD. I can think of a few movies that should've never been released in HD.",
"Thank you.",
"I is this always posted frequently on both r/music and here.",
"“This 90s music video”…\n\nThat’s like saying “this grunge band” when talking about Nirvana.",
"This account is 8 years old so it would be pretty impressive if I joined reddit at 4 years old.",
"No CGI.... digital bird at 0:43.\n\nJust pulling your leg OP. Loved the practicality of the 90's.",
"I feel so old realizing people are unaware of this video.\n\nIt was on MTV all the damn time and rightfully so. Love it, liked it, but it got old quick. Still appreciate it though, a superb piece of 90's music history.",
"Why didn't you link the 4k version?",
"Consider me impressed.",
"[ **Jump to 00:43 @** Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity (Official Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE&t=0h0m43s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: JamiroquaiVEVO, Video Popularity: 97.16%, Video Length: [03:57])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@00:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE&t=0h0m38s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"Oh yeah, you can see it at like 3:30, on the right. One of the panels squirts a bit, there in the back.",
"You are just a real go getter. Gotta start that shit posting young.",
"Oh, FFS.",
"12 is a mental state",
"I remember when this came out and it absolutely blew my mind as a ten year old. I couldn't figure out how they did it and didn't have internet yet at that time, so every time it came on I'd be glued\n\nOne of the greatest music videos ever for its time",
"I wanted his light up helmet so bad. The company making them didn't get enough buyers.",
"Totally! And thank you for reminding me this existed. Shot in one take, it was so good.",
"Except [Wham!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI), who knew to future-proof their shit, because if any content from the 80s would still be going strong decades later, it would be Wham!",
"Jamiroquai is the greatest funk artist of the last 30 years, imo. The Prince of our generation. Didn't appreciate him much when he came out but suddenly started listening to him after Napolean Dynamite came out and was blown away by how many bangers this dude wrote. And he's still writing music.",
"You never know~! :p",
"[Relevant scene from an episode of Family Guy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arnF_g7_TKE)",
"Alright alright. Jay Kay. But without Jay Kay there’s no Jamiroquai",
"lol what? I can see this being a thing with Avril and Paul, but Jami is a much more obscure artist.",
"Yeah don’t ask me lol people get bored I guess",
"And floor Touchups",
"Not really, Virtual Reality was a thing back then, it just wasn't available. It was a research tool and a promise. There used to be Science Tech shows on TV back then that would talk about future tech n stuff. Of course there were no examples of it, and what it would become was different to how it was imagined. Still, Jamiroquai was an amazing performer, the first to incorporate Jazz styles into Pop music.",
"Not sure. They might have been added in with other effect, such as taking a video of the crow and pasting it.",
"And the chairs are jacked off the ground and attached to the room or released at various points during the set.",
"Meh",
"PopUp video..... sheiiiiiiit. I would have gone the rest of my life without that ever popping into my head again.",
"CGI? Isn't it obvious the floor is moving? I had that figured out when I was like 8 years old.",
"Still looks like 480p. Watched it in \"4k\", than changed it to 480p, and it the quality stayed the same.",
"Pondering about the lyrics of the song...wow. It truly is ahead of it's time. Now we have 'digital anxiety' and inability to remove ourselves from our technology, something the song is heavily touching upon.",
"I remember watching this when it was new",
"Michel Gondry’s best music video work",
"https://youtu.be/a7z3bbPQngM you're welcome",
"https://youtu.be/aeO1O70TjcU",
"Obviously, the issue is that an HD version's clarity would reveal the bird in it is actually a drone and would blow the government's plans wide open!",
"Holden?",
"This album was the 4th I ever purchased.\n\nDo people even buy albums anymore?",
"Posts Michael Jackson’s *Thriller* video:\n\n“This 80’s music video”",
"But the floor is not moving, the room is",
"So edgy",
"Always fun to see again, and also to remember that even when it came out his lyrics seemed like he did not know how computers work.",
"I love Jamiroquai but the title of this post is ridiculous.",
"For those peeps who are into cars, watch Cosmic Girl! Features 90s classic supercars racing. A Diablo SE3, F355 and a F40 driven by Nick Mason!",
"They had casters/wheels underneath them and could be bolted/unbolted from the wall.",
"Man, at the time he was talking about the movie Lawnmower Man and how computers were going to make us all robots because email was confusing. Folks who had fears about computers in the 90s had all the wrong fears.",
"Avatar?",
"This was a huge hit when it was released. Both the video and song. Definitely not “ahead of its time.” The overall genre of the song wasn’t mainstream at the time but it definitely existed in the late nineties. The moving room gimmick has been around at least since Fred Astaires days. Only thing ahead of its time might be his hat. That STILL looks goofy.\nAs others have mentioned, this video uses cgi.",
"This isn't true... at least the part about shooting to tape. Both versions of the music video show bits of grain, damage, and gate weave; so at the very least it is scanned film. Now, it's very likely, as in the case of many other \"4k\" updates of these music videos, that it was simply an upscaled version of the tape master. The edge enhancement makes it seem very likely, but it doesn't seem _as_ bad as 480p?\n\nThere are many examples of music videos being shot on film, not just in the 90s but into the 2010s. Here's a couple from the 90s:\n\n[Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJU2136ym4)\n\n[The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZom_gVfuw)\n\n[The Cranberries - Zombie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts)\n\nThere's definitely more but many videos updated on YouTube with \"HD\" masters fall into the latter category of just being an upscaled SD master.",
"That was designed to be in HD",
"OP IS 12",
"Either way, same concept and result",
"Not true at all. I mean some were shot on tape but many were shot on film too.",
"That’s CGI you are describing. CGI doesn’t just mean 3D animation.",
"Yeah, all the time. I remember this and that Bittersweet Symphony music video vividly. And that one with Christopher Walken also sticks out!",
"They replaced Avril Lavigne with Paul McCartney? *I knew it!*",
"Nice of your mom to make you an account",
"OP learned to spell at an early age.",
"Reminds me of [this sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpkKvmrwktY)",
"kinda disappointed they didn't have any video, or even a photo, of the rigging",
"Yeah, but what's with the cockroach?",
"Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice",
"I have always loved this video.",
"> this music video\n\nBruh, how can you not say Jamiroquai. Virtual insanity is really popular, and for a good reason.",
"Yeah Virtual Insanity is a great song but it is very much of it's time.",
"Here a robot chicken clip https://youtu.be/aeO1O70TjcU .",
"IIRC from some BTS interviews, they also touched up the floors to remove dust & footprints and did some work with the walls as well. Enhancing & maintaining the illusion.",
"_Acshually..._ to call it CGI or not depends on the method. /u/liad88 _might_ (unlikely but possible) refer to a method of actually laying effects over the tape recording, and not digitally altering the footage.",
"\"This obscure cult classic movie from the 90s has very realistic looking dinosaurs.\"\n\n\\*post Jurassic Park clip*",
"Sorry, but what? The effects are painfully simple. Attach wheels to the walls, move it around on a floor with a flat color, bam, moving furniture.",
"[Bittersweet Symphony](https://youtu.be/1lyu1KKwC74)\n\n[Weapon of Choice](https://youtu.be/wCDIYvFmgW8)\n\nHave another classic: [Unfinished Sympathy](https://youtu.be/ZWmrfgj0MZI)",
"Even if you're kidding, I have to ask. The bird is superimposed, probably from real photage, but probably using a computer to superimpose it. Does that count as computer generated images?",
"What's your favorite song?",
"I apologise for doing the standard Reddit contrarian response. \n\nBut many fans would argue Zenders baselines defined Jamiroquai sound and style..\n\nNot a slight on Jay. I love Jamiroquai. Funnily enough, I dropped my wife off to work this morning and we were having a similar discussion. Jamiroquai is Jay Kay to her..and for many. \n\nI guess that’s probably because the band stepped aside for the videos that got more outlandish with each release.\n\nRegardless, fun band. Great live.",
"You may not quite be correct about that. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/66_--zvqGDw",
"I’d say it’d just be called digital compositing.",
"At the time this was mind blowing. It’s almost on [Take On Me](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914) level.",
"https://youtu.be/Jn1Uwsg3eRQ\nBillie Ellish did the same routine on SNL.",
"Yet still relevant to someone thinking it's ahead of its time and are somehow surprised that it's done without CGI.",
"Impeccable choreography is what really makes this video. Jay Kay absolutely kills it.",
"sorry this is cool and all, but i was there at the time and no. No its wasn't ahead of its time.",
"Holy shit, all the time is an under statement.",
"Fun fact: this video was directed by Jonathan Glazer who went on to direct 'Sexy Beast' and 'Under the Skin'.",
"As an American, I always thought Jamiroqui was a 1 hit wonder. Studying in London in 2007, there was an ad on the back of a bus for Jamiriquoi’s greatest hits. Blew my mind",
"The bird was definitely done in post, so *some* CGI",
"Ahead of it's time? It wasn't the 50s",
"That video is from 1984 and was shot on film because there was no good alternative and they had the resources to do it.",
"Jamiroquai is amazing anyways, video aside. They have survived longer than most bands(yes many members are not the original) and have such a good catalogue that spans multiple decades. The fact that they have always stuck to their sound is a sign of a group that really loves what they are doing.",
"Pop-Up Video and Behind the Music were the best shows at the time. I could completely dislike the song or the band but I’d watch regardless because it was all just so interesting.",
"That's amazing!!!",
"Yes, but you didn't figure it out like you somewhat brashly stated.",
"Um, that’s the name of the band. The singer / leader is Jay Kay.",
"It's posted on the music subreddit about 39 times a month so it still gets old.",
"For wondering:\n\n> In a short making-of documentary, director Jonathan Glazer describes how the walls move on a stationary grey floor with no detail, to give the illusion that objects on the floor are moving. In several shots, chairs or couches are fixed to the walls so that they appear to be standing still, when in fact they are moving. In other shots, chairs remain stationary on the floor, but the illusion is such that they appear to be moving.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Insanity",
"**[Virtual Insanity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Insanity)** \n \n >\"Virtual Insanity\" is a song by British funk band Jamiroquai. It was released as the second single from their third studio album, Travelling Without Moving (1996), on 19 August 1996. It interpolates parts of Jocelyn Brown's post-disco hit \"Somebody Else's Guy\" (1984). The song's award-winning music video was released in September 1996.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)",
"[Also in the 50's!](https://youtu.be/b1AQjcmzvx8)",
"Whatever age you are, conducted your self better than most on reddit.",
"Like a black birdie in a cage, singing in the dead of night.",
"Yeah but he isn't getting chart hits now is he?",
"What a waste of time, 0/10 did not spark joy",
"It's a band? I legit saw this video back in the 90's and assumed that dude was Jamiroquai. TIL.",
"Yay people are talking about Jamiroquai!",
"jay kay, my dude. the space cowboy himself. sent me to the zone many a time in my gaming career.",
"Love me some Jamiroquai (sp?) The whole album traveling without moving is amazing.",
"One of my favorite music videos of all time. It’s just so inventive.",
"What happens when we have a new highest quality?",
"No, [you'e ALL welcome.](https://youtu.be/fRqCVcSWbDc)",
"The guy who directed it did a video on the filming process and mentions about a 1000 times he doesn't care for the music.",
"The video for the Tool song “stinkfist” was on around the same time in heavy rotation. Stinkfist. Say it with me, stinkfist",
"This might be the oldest person thing I say today but damn, they don't make music videos anymore like they used to.",
"The song itself was more ahead of it's time than the video. It's just a moving floor...",
"First off, Jay Kay is very much alive",
"Wouldn’t listen to it at the time on basis he was so obnoxious",
"Those cockroaches certainly look CGI'd in.",
"What the hell would you name a song with lyrics like the song has?",
"and that song is inspired by Dune\n\n\"...won't attract the worm\"",
"Lots of good digital trickery in the comp. \"no cgi\" == \"good cgi\"",
"I’m not saying that Tool should change anything at all about who they are. I’m a big fan. It was just weird for that song to be so prominently featured in MTV’s rotation since it’s called stinkfist. I suppose hooker with a penis would have been funnier but we have to play the stinky hand we are dealt",
"It was on VH1 daily while I was in middle school.",
"You can go with this, you can go with that.",
"Knuckle deep inside the borderline.",
"Damn if that isn't the truth!",
"hi fellow germans ( ! )",
"Turn around and take my hand",
"i lost my interest in them after their first album which i still listen to sometimes.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVTkbCCl3-I",
"Yeah the blood was supposed to spray out of the walls firehose style",
"Wot?",
"Phenomenal",
"Why would PAL Digibeta be a better option, then? This clearly looks better.",
"Another Jamiroquai video, but with lots of CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIUAC03YMlA\n\nI miss that era of big blockbusters that launched alongside official music videos. Wild Wild West, Men In Black, Godzilla, Prince's Batdance, Kiss From A Rose for Batman (technically a re-release with the film), etc.\n\nNot to forget the most amazing lyric ever, \"Deepest bluest my hat is like a shark's fin\" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cYcdBVQ8NM",
"£££",
"Ah, simple, cheaper setup.",
"It’s what we’re livin in",
"And cheaper processing, especially if there was anything to do in post like VFX",
"The 90’s were so much fun. Wish I could go back. Thanks for sharing.",
"That the set is moving on a floor becomes obvious at 1:27 when the couch is moving straight to the right. You can see the reflection of a light go with the floor and pass by the chair on the right, then come back again, moving perfectly with the couch.\n\nThere's a problem between 1:13 and 1:45. The set rolling on a large floor _alone_ does not explain how the couch moves independently of the chairs.\n\nThe walls have these panels with a bit of space between them, from which it's probable that they use some kind of latches to grab on to the chairs to hold them still, on the sides that we're not allowed to see. Every time the chairs are about to move, you can see them wobble a bit, in a way not congruent with being bumped by hit by the wall. That's the latches unlocking. As the couch rotates, you can see the chair on the right wobble as it moves a bit on its latch.",
"Yup. We are old.",
"Ok, but what about the bugs?",
"Fun fact: Jay Kay and his neighbour have an unofficial record for owning and housing the most registered and drivable cars in a square mile of the UK. Not gonna mention where he lives because that'd be a dick move.\n\nHe's a good bloke though. Done a bit of work for him in the past.",
"Maroon5 sucks.",
"Lmao never doubted that....",
"More classics, from 1983:\n\n[Arguably more timely now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM0x8G55Wno)\n\n[More subtly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0PlwVPbM5k)",
"I mean it's quite a basic effect. It's not surprising that this was done without CG.",
"No one is unaware of this. It posted to this site in multiple default subs once a week. There is a schedule that you can sign up for that shows when it's your turn to post it.",
"*twisting*",
"It's impossible to see which as either has the same effect like I said. So yes I figured it out.",
"Weird part is, this probably couldn't be made today in the same way. Standard definition video meant that the floor kind of just blurs into a solid color so we can't see it moving (well, technically the room is moving across the floor but you know what I mean).\n\nToday it would be shot in 4k and need a lot of work in post to erase the floor details making it look smooth.",
"Future's made of virtual insanity now\nAlways seem to, be governed by this love we have\nFor useless, twisting, our new technology\nOh, now there is no sound - for we all live underground",
"I think with the luxury of CGI people get less creative. Plus music videos in the 80s and 90s were very creative. It usually was a way of showing off your skills as a director, before taking it to the big screen.",
"Also just regular insanity.",
"It doesn't matter if it has the same effect. They didn't create the effect by moving the floor. You got somewhat close but didn't figure it out.",
"I was unaware of that.",
"You bring up a fair point. I'm of the opinion that keying and compositing footage falls in the realm; I'd argue that most, if not all, visual effects are CG to a certain extent, even though technically that term applies to 2D/3D animation.",
"I think one of the One Direction stragglers ripped this video off",
"Fiona Apple’s Criminal was also on there all the damn time.",
"Here is a swedish bad copy. From the contest ”Melodifestivalen” to determine a representative to send to eurovision. It did not win 😀\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyObjLHmjVI",
"Well I'm nearly 30 and never saw this.",
"I remember this video being one of the major reasons I started figuring out as a kid that adults are also capable of being full of shit. My dad told me that the only reason Jamiroquai wore that cat in the hat hat was because he hated himself deep down and he was living with an identity crisis, and that the roaches in the beginning of the video was satanic messaging.",
"This song and video is 20 years old. Just squeaked out from the 90s though (2001)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek",
"I’m bested",
"🎼🎵 🎶 ''Dancing 💃 walking 🚶 rearranging furniture 🛋️ , Babs is shopping 🛍️ I let the bird 🕊️out of the cage 🗑️'' 🎵 🎶🎼",
"And the Diablo was Jay Kay's personal car because the rental one got wrecked during transport.",
"90s was cool. Ya Millennials have no idea.",
"I bet they were still playing NIN - Closer on MTV at the time which features Trent Reznor screaming, \"I want to \\*bleep* (FUCK) you like an animal!\"",
"Not just on MTV but on the radio. It’s pretty crazy that that song was so popular. Like, I’m pretty sure my mom heard it. The other day my wife’s friend posted a meme about how NIN invented sex with that song. It has staying power. It’s going to be around for another 20 years",
"True shit. Imagine thinking 30 is old...",
"A lot of things have been inspired by dune, including an episode of the kids cartoon [The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy](https://grimadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Mandy_the_Merciless)",
"They also have some very obvious cuts, once you're looking for them, when they needed to rearrange or lock down different parts of the set",
"He performed this at the MTV music awards if I remember correctly. Treadmills hidden in the stage and all, it was awesome. The video for deeper underground off the 90s American Godzilla film was also awesome, him jumping around a theatre and wrecked cars falling.",
"Not only that but the video being “*ahead of its time*”…? The 90’s was the last gasp of the music video Renaissance that saw budding auteurs get serious budgets and carte blanche on content to make anything they desired, both super interesting and highly artistic or wildly abstracted for lots of different kinds of bands not just say, for the top 3-4 monoliths of mainstream pop music. \n \nThere’s a whole crop of highly successful filmmakers who got their start making fantastic, unique music videos with lofty artistic ambition in the years before and during the time frame of “Virtual Insanity” ‘s release. It seemed right on track…at the time.",
"It's on Reddit all the time too. I don't even remember the video from when it was contemporary and I think I was about the right age for it, but I see it here like every couple of weeks at least.",
"It's VFX that he's describing. \nCGI is Computer Generated Graphics.",
"I mean...it’s just a moving floor. What would CGI really accomplish here? This isn’t one of those “woah, can you believe no CGI!” moments because...yeah. It isn’t that shocking.\n\nPost some scenes from Batman Begins, that’ll blow people’s minds when it comes to “no CGI used.” \n\nYou know when the Batmobile is jumping across roofs? The scene from the top of the parking garage on is all miniatures! A bit of CGI was used to make more convincing debris and to add, for example, the police cars on the streets below, but that is a real mini Tumbler hopping across real mini roofs. \n\nThere’s also of course the truck flipping scene in Dark Knight. Those movies have some great examples of why in-camera FX are both doable and superior, even for big budget action movies.\n\nA moving floor isn’t that mind blowing imo. It would probably be *more* difficult to accomplish this video with digital FX.",
"Okay I officially feel old now -",
"> Does that count as computer generated images?\n\nin the industry, yes\n\ncolloquially, no",
"You got me nostalgic and I think I just found [the best pop-up factoid of them all](https://i.imgur.com/sHOHTET.jpg).",
"I joined Reddit when I was 3. I’m now 56.",
"VMA performance was awesome.",
"They didn't call it \"stinkfist\" if I recall correctly. The title card for the song was just labeled \"Track one\" or something I vaguely remember.\n\nThat song being on MTV changed my taste in music forever.",
"Someone pointed out that it had cowbell and now all I hear is cowbell.",
"Same way it's hard to watch restorations of old movies and you can clearly see wires and bad makeup jobs and whatnot.",
"nah",
"still dope tho.",
"Superimposed real photage as well.",
"Thank you! I started the video and was like…. This is ripping off a 1951 dance routine… “ahead of its time” pfft.",
"Nobody gonna mention the bird?",
"It was all over the radio last month. I think the dj stumbled on it and was like oh fuck yeah.",
"I was 16 when this came out and I hated it.....and I still hate it. But I'm a Metal guy, soooo",
"The did something similar but on live TV when Sweden chose their contestant for the eurovision song contest this year.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/fIYxiScJoIE",
"I felt the same way seeing this post. I’m definitely getting old.",
"It was sooo overplayed on the radio that I remember hating it- but on hearing it fresh I think it’s good. Just don’t need to hear it once an hour",
"Jamiroquai was a vibe. Underrated artist.",
"I’m stoned and I totally saw the whole thing in my head"
] | 242 |
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This 90s music video was way ahead of its time, and they did it without CGI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faapl6JQJpM
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/r/videos/comments/q4ud7i/tidal_wave_no_escape_1997_is_about_a_navy/
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[
"It's a good plot. The plot is good. It's very, very, very... good.",
"The giddy heights of Corbin Bernsen's career",
"It has that distinct look network TV movies had at the time. The look of the image, how shots are framed, how people talk, it's all there."
] | 3 |
videos
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Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997) is about a Navy scientist who has to find out who is behind a series of man-made tidal waves and how to stop him. Yep, that's seriously the plot.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q4uitu/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/q4uitu/deleted_by_user/
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[
"And end up losing up to 8 tools instead of 1.",
"Lol, I needed a good laugh today thank you.",
"But, that holder now needs a holder?",
"“Designed”",
"drill a few holes in a 2x4. it has worked for 200 years at our house. thats a bit over done but nerd out scout"
] | 5 |
videos
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[deleted by user]
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https://youtu.be/FE7DJwNJibc
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/r/videos/comments/q4vf17/aurora_covers_david_bowies_life_in_mars_2016/
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[
"I just love her, she’s got such a beautiful voice.",
"Her version of Teardrop is just pure magic. Shes a special artist.",
"Too much reverb for my taste I think it would’ve sounded better without it.",
"Almost got it"
] | 4 |
videos
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Aurora covers David Bowie's Life in Mars 2016 Howard Stern show
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuRXVMSG3po
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/r/videos/comments/q4vf7l/hall_of_peak_internet/
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[
"Imagine if this was included on the Voyager golden discs...",
"The one that popped up for me right after is more of the same.\n\nBark Wars\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3PcelCeraw",
"RIP",
"[But it is...](https://i.imgur.com/EuqIwp3.jpg)",
"fun fact [this meme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bPZk-FC9nk) is how I discovered death grips"
] | 5 |
videos
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Hall of peak internet
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbCXcOn7P1A&ab_channel=DidlapPhotography
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/r/videos/comments/q4vjfu/italian_the_only_language_that_doesnt_need/
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[
"I could narrate this whole thing",
"Ok... lets hear it!",
"They really do be like that.",
"As an Italian, and roman in particular, I perfectly understand what they're talking about. \nALSO: I don't like to be touched that much during a conversation but I yes I probably touch people when telling funny stories so YES this is DRAMATICALLY on point... \nNOW GET OUT, LEAVE ME ALONE WITH MY STEREOTYPICAL SELF!"
] | 4 |
videos
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Italian, the only language that doesn't need subtitles.
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https://www.kark.com/news/weird-news/candy-corn-brat-wisconsin-meat-market-unveils-spooktoberfest-sausage/
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/r/videos/comments/q4vyts/candy_corn_bratwurst_wisconsins_finest/
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[
"This would litterly make a chef cry",
"These seems like an idea that was invented when some dude got really drunk, ate some sausage, ate a few fistfuls of candy corn, threw up, and then said, \"Hey my vomit tastes okay!\"",
"As a proud Wisconsinite and lover of brats, I absolutely do not endorse this",
"Good god.",
"Any right thinking person, never would.",
"Eventually we're going to have to confront the epidemic that is sugar addiction in this country.",
"I once tried deep fried butter at the Wisconsin State Fair. They need to be stopped.",
"As someone who just tried the Brach's Turkey Dinner candy corn and had a [\"Dead Dove Do Not Eat\"](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c4/bd/fe/c4bdfe4ebb12b86927bc2de57e5301d1.jpg) moment with it...this sounds like a bad, bad idea.",
"calling u/OrdinarySausage for comment.",
"/r/TIHI"
] | 10 |
videos
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Candy Corn Bratwurst - Wisconsins Finest
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=adh0KGmgmQw&feature=share
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/r/videos/comments/q4w2bf/too_challenging_for_you/
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[
"Challenging.. no ? not really...\n\nIt's just not good/well/decent.\n\nFor me... it's just shit, maybe someone else will like it though. godspeed to them <3",
"I think you might be missing the point.",
"Am I the only one confused",
"He has changed his character profile for a laugh. Kinda like david bowie did, but for comedy.",
"People are angry at Dave Chappelle for making trans jokes in his recent special which was dedicated to his recently deceased deeply closeted gay friend Norm MacDonald.",
"I don't think this intro necessarily sets it up well if you're unfamiliar with James Acaster, but this special (Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999) is fantastic. The second half includes an extended about his girlfriend at the time leaving him for someone particularly famous and I think about it at least once a week. Highly recommended.",
"many comedians say stupid shit that they try to pass off as \"edgy\" and when they get bad responses, they claim that the audience just can't handle their worldview being \"challenged\".",
"Except this came out last year",
"Despite seeing him on all the British Panel shows and on Bake Off, I think this is the first stand up I've seen him in. \n\n[Fatberg](https://www.reddit.com/r/panelshow/comments/cz7wr2/fatberg/)\n\n[Bake off](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zky4p5HBYE)\n\n[cabbage boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct40CLTCC7A)",
"Repertoire is available on netflix and is pretty good. The special this clip is from, Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, is only available on vimeo afaik but it's easily worth the price to buy it",
"Yes, but this clip is being posted all over the place in response to Dave's special",
"woosh",
"This joke is fully directed at Ricky Gervais, but it's sad how many other comedians it applies to. Dave Chapelle being a recent example. Once great comedians who used to punch up, got to the top and now just punch down.",
"The only thing more boring than comedians complaining about pc culture in their act is other comedians complaining about comedians complaining about pc culture in their act. Neither is really funny",
"I don’t think ‘punching down’ is so much an issue as just getting overly preachy. As long as it’s funny then any topic should be fair play for comedy.",
"Sorry, but punching down is an extremely large issue in most stand up. Earning your money by mocking marginalized groups that you are not a member of shouldn't be an industry standard, preachy or otherwise.\n\nEdit: I'd like to take a moment to point out that simply criticizing how widespread of a problem this is at the top of the industry instantly devolved into a nonsense debate about \"free speech\". These arguments are unbelievably common and have no standing with the issue. Freedom of speech has nothing to do with shielding you from the judgement of others based on your choices.",
"But just trashing on marginalized groups isn’t funny. It’s lazy and boring.",
"The point of stand-up comedy is to make people laugh, I don’t think their occupation necessarily brings any greater social responsibility outside of that.",
"Yeah, I mean it depends on who’s doing it and what the context is. There are certainly plenty of examples of bad comedians using shitty shock humor as a crutch, but I don’t think that makes a given topic or perspective off limits. You just have to make it funny.",
"You don't think comedians should be held responsible for the things that they say just because it's also their job?\n\nDo you think news reporters shouldn't be held responsible for things they say on air, because the point is just to deliver the news?\n\nThe manner in which they do their job matters.",
"A comedians job is to tell jokes. They should be judged by their material in that if it isn’t funny, they shouldn’t succeed, because people won’t watch or support them. They aren’t news reporters or politicians lol.",
"I'm not saying they should be held to the same standards as politicians, just that saying it doesn't matter because it's their job is a bit silly.\n\nThey are absolutely *allowed* to shape their career around kicking groups of people that are already down. I just don't think it's too much of a stretch to have a decision like that color how I feel about that person as a whole.",
"Yeah sure, comedy is pretty subjective and everyone is entitled to their own take",
"At no point did I claim that any topics should be \"off limits\" in comedy. I said comedians shouldn't make careers out of punching down.\n\nTo use this video as an example, Trans comedy is hilarious...when it comes from members of the community and their allies. That's not punching down.\n\nIts not about the topics, it's about how you are delivering the material and where that material is coming from.",
"It’s one of those “you have to know his other stuff to get this” kind of setups. Repertoire on Netflix had a totally different vibe",
"Be racist with no consequences with this one easy trick!",
"This dude unironically did the 1984 bit lmfao",
"Yeah, just look at Michael Richard’s booming career lol",
"No one asked you to make any over wanting comedians to just not be bigoted",
"That bit about treating everyone the same was genius.",
"I'm fine with people going \"nah I don't find that comedian funny, I'm not gonna listen/watch him because it's offensive\"\n\nAs long as it's not \"I find that person unfunny and offensive, so they shouldn't be allowed to make those jokes\"",
"Was norm gay?",
"this is way fucking funnier than some rich dude making fun of trans people for half an hour",
"It's usually pretty easy to tell where the spirit of a joke lies in terms of punching up or down, and I feel like is a lot less subjective than you might think.\n\nYou keep bringing it back to comedians not being *allowed* to do things. I'm not advocating for restricting anyone's speech, I'm saying that making the decision to use your platform to put out hateful opinions on already troubled people for laughs invites open and fair criticisms about the sort of person that would make that choice.\n\n\"It's just comedy\" is a phrase that gets used to excuse the behavior while simultaneously severely discrediting the massive impact comedy has on the public along with the premise that the joke was actively created from a thought, opinion, or some other type of real-world impetus.",
"Literally no one is asking for comedians to go to jail",
"Maybe..? It was a joke he used to make routinely on talk shows...conan in particular",
"I like James Acaster, but he really misses the point in this routine. Ricky Gervais’s trans routine carefully walked the tightrope between seeming like he was going to be transphobic, but never actually doing it. He picked a topic that was controversial and that people found difficult to speak about freely; and made it so hilarious that you would have to have no sense of humour whatsoever to be offended.",
"No one is deciding you can’t laugh at it. The population at large are allowed to decide we don’t agree with the person who said it and that the people who laugh at it are shitty. That’s not censorship, that social behavior.",
"I was at James Acasters Birmingham show on this tour. There was a group of four guys who walked in after he had done this segment, as they were getting pissed at the bar. He took this piss out of them as they got in late with his edgy comedian persona, saying they were morons for coming in late, but they flat out didn't undertand it was a bit, because they missed the intro. It was a bit awkward then, but at the very end of the show, he came back to them as audience participation, again with his edgy comedian persona (he dropped it for the middle section of the gig), and presumably the guys had been sat there fuming at him the entire way through the show, as when he took the piss out of them, one of the guys stood up and was staring him down as if he was going to jump up in stage and break his nose. James was really taken aback by this, and said he'd never encountered anyone react so agressively to him before when up on stage, so he just ended the gig then and there, and cut his encore. Weird end to the gig. I think it was also exacerbated by James taking the piss out of how nonsensical Brexit is, which went down poorly with all the gammons in the crowd, including the latecomers.",
"Sure, to you. We can’t all be perfect.",
"I think they’re both overly preachy",
"You interpreting valid criticism as restricting your freedom to express yourself speaks to your lack of understanding of the topics.\n\nAt no point did anyone claim this type of comedy \"isn't allowed\", we are discussing how wide spread it is in the industry and using that as a lens to view the type of people that form their careers around making these types of jokes.",
"The \"Free Speech\" internet troll playbook is surprisingly thin",
"That was even handed, I'm a good person, I treat everyone the same",
"I don't think Dave just trashes any group, he just makes jokes about observations he's made. That's what comedy is.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm6Id3Qt8Wk\n\nBrexit teabag analogy",
"idk Dave is pretty damn funny. Most of the world agrees.",
"im not disagreeing. but this trans people joke obsession hes had is lame and not exactly great comedy",
"There's like 20 or 30 comedians that rotate between all of the British tv shows, I swear.",
"I think the inability to distinguish the difference between joking about something/someone and trashing something/someone isn't helping my dude.",
"As long as trans people are a subject that makes people uncomfortable comedians are going to keep making jokes about them.",
"Doesn’t make it less lame. Means Dave just grabbed some low hanging fruit",
"So are jokes about race but people don't seem to mind when he does that.",
"He is one of my absolute favorite comedians, its just an insane rollercoaster whenever he speaks",
"Hard to say, he referred to himself as a deeply closeted gay man, but if asked, he would deny being gay, because he's closeted. Was that his way of coming out or was he just fucking with people? Hard to say.",
"lol sounds like Birmingham.",
"Meh. Using a dead trans friend as an excuse and free pass to make unfunny LGTBQ jokes for half an hour is just lame and stale. I expected more of him as he *can* be a good comedian, or maybe used to be one.",
"Was there a certain joke you found to be the most offensive?",
"He’s deeply closeted.",
"No he had a wife",
"Well you know those are not mutually excusive.",
"Yes, I immediately left reddit after this comment and saw news about it all over and felt dumb. Thanks for not ripping me a new one for my ignorance!"
] | 63 |
videos
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Too challenging for you?
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https://youtu.be/Wi5Dt1vEA_8
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/r/videos/comments/q4wmn9/my_dad_launching_a_nuclear_missile_on_my_dog/
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[
"The dog was clearly innocent.",
"When your SFX budget is bigger than your whole movie's budget with room to spare.",
"The treaties were supposed to stop this",
"\"Peace was never an option.\"",
"Haha this is the best !",
"In a world where loyalty is life. Where trust is everything. Where friendship is the only way to survive.\n\nOne man.. one dog.\n\nOne betrayal.",
"The concern on that dogs face, holy shit so funny.",
"Peace was never an option",
"War. War never changes.",
"Can't we just have peace with the little beast?",
"Man I wish I could edit and do special effects, my cats would earn me so much karma.",
"Five years ago, I lost one doggo in the blink of an eye... and the world just fuckin' watched ****reloads revolver****",
"Genuinely made me laugh out loud. Thank you.",
"First Little Boy, then Fat Man... we vowed never to use Good Dog.",
"***GET DOWN***",
"\n\n*GET DOWN AGAIN*",
"POCO TACO PERRO",
"[for the uninitiated](https://youtu.be/y9pAv-z2ens)",
"Man shot first",
"> ~~treaties~~ treats",
"Old Snake disagrees.",
"You're welcome glad i made you laugh"
] | 22 |
videos
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"My dad launching a nuclear missile on my dog"
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https://youtu.be/KeShNxqqETY
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/r/videos/comments/q4wxnv/letterkenny_yes_yes_yes_yeeeeeees/
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[
"I love me Miss Katy! Yes yes yes yes yeeesssssss!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAh fuck!!",
"I need you to take about 20% off'er there, Squirrely Dan.",
"Give yer balls a tug there wocky...",
"That's what I love about you Satchmo",
"Fuck you shoresy!",
"Such a great show",
"Oh hey look at you, ground",
"“Fuck you, Reilly, your mom ugly cried because she left the lens cap on the camcorder last night.”",
"Appreciates, Broian, appreciates!\n\nYou’d best be preparin’ for a donnybrook if you think I’m going to accept that super soft attempt of a re-quote of yours.”"
] | 9 |
videos
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Letterkenny: Yes Yes Yes YEEEEEEES
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpX72_Z_bnY
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/r/videos/comments/q4xhlv/live_action_wallace_and_gromit/
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[
"This is one of the scariest videos I've ever seen.",
"c u r s e d",
"That was fuckin distressing."
] | 3 |
videos
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Live action Wallace And Gromit
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https://youtu.be/W-FCx_82csA
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/r/videos/comments/q4xmyp/jim_carreys_iconic_first_appearance_on_letterman/
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[
"his clint eastwood is amazing",
"Once he adjusts his eye brows. He’s Clint Eastwood. It’s hilarious.",
"it seriously looks like a deepfake, it's crazy",
"I cannot sanction his buffoonery",
"The physical comedy he does can rival Robin Williams. It is really fun watching either of them.",
"He certainly has become a character as he's gotten older, but no one can say that his comedy isn't hilarious.",
"Wasn't funny.",
"The slow tightening of his face, the subtle lip changes. I’m surprised this comedian never made it big.",
"Only around 22 years old here so it's quite raw",
"Regardless of the humour, for him to be so young and have the courage to do the insurance salesman bit with Letterman was impressive. He was so natural and without fear!"
] | 11 |
videos
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Jim Carrey's Iconic First Appearance on Letterman. July 25, 1984
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https://youtu.be/7x7zr1onxfU
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/r/videos/comments/q4yskn/rockstar_confirms_gta_the_trilogy_the_definitive/
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[
"Hopefully a remake",
"Will it be on consoles ?",
"which GTAs are not already on PC?",
"GTA 5 is the best game I’ve ever played. But it was launched on PS3. Time to create a new one."
] | 4 |
videos
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Rockstar Confirms GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is coming soon
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https://youtu.be/5XUlPtcz2rA
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/r/videos/comments/q4z1zv/mr_show_wyckyd_sceptre/
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[
"Is that Scotty Aux?",
"I enjoyed that.",
"Yep!",
"All the love!",
"The only pure sketch show ever permitted to exist.",
"Give it a couple of years and they'll be cancelled as well",
"Jay was at the Jan 6 riot",
"Jay was at the Jan 6 riot",
"https://thumbs.gfycat.com/OilySmoggyAtlanticblackgoby-size_restricted.gif",
"I've been laughing at this for almost a week now."
] | 9 |
videos
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Mr. Show: Wyckyd Sceptre
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q4zc7v/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/q4zc7v/deleted_by_user/
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[
"Why",
"This was pretty funny not gonna lie\n\nI just imagine someone telling me that they had a nightmare about the scary micky mouse.exe video",
"Welp guess I’m going to die tonight. It’s been nice knowing you Reddit"
] | 3 |
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[deleted by user]
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https://youtu.be/tVlkxrNlp10
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/r/videos/comments/q4zwhw/george_carlin_list_of_people_who_ought_to_be/
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[
"I miss him so much.",
"Same, huge hero of mine. Remember reading brain droppings years back, this dude on the subway was reading the same book. We just both nodded at one another, and smiled.",
"this dude was so acerbic lol",
"One of the all time greatest!!",
"cup of coffee in the morning and a 20 min rant of George Carlin, best start of the day!",
"I hated this video so much. It's complaining that people complain too much. It's being too sensitive to the fact that people are sensitive. It's being offended at the notion that people are offended by things. It's claiming unearned moral authority and depriving others of it. It's listing people who you think should be killed because you think you're better than them. It's saying mean and hurtful things to people and hiding behind \"how dare you get offended it was just a joke!\" \n\n*queue the comments of \"wow man learn to take a joke!\"\n\nNo dude, learn to be sincere.\n\nEdit: I confess that I hadnt watched the entire video prior to my original comment. I've seen its entirety now and I'm honestly shocked that these calls for violence are allowed to exist on a platform where LGBT content is routinely blocked for being unfriendly to children. This person literally invites you to shoot someone in the head and we're asked to dismiss it as a joke. SMH I can't handle the hypocrisy of some human beings. I get through life quite easily without punching down and without cracking jokes at other people's expense and that's the standard I hold others to.",
"I hated this video because Carlin was an overrated twat.",
"Indeed!\n\nI guess I just don’t get what’s funny about him. Anyone in the world can rant about shit, be over the top, and have a hit-rate comparable to George.",
"right on right on!!! \n\nThese straight white comedians though 😓 He can literally go on stage with a mustard stain on his plaid shirt and start talking about \"Women though, am I right??\" and get praise for it 😒",
"He was, among many things, a satirist and storyteller. Dismissing the appreciation of his comedy, satire and stories as uncritical - as if the only way is if you can't think too hard about his words - only highlights your inability to demonstrate you can internalize other perspectives. It's pretty easy to understand how someone can be confused when they can't demonstrate that part of sharing this planet with others. A couple regurgitated words from that art house movie review blog doesn't really do justice to summarize the work of an early, vocal and prominent counterculture figure that worked to lay bare the hypocrisies of puritanical America. He called a half-court shot on the intractable nature of late stage capitalism, and us being in it, from like... the 70s.",
"To me what is funny about this particular rant is how all the complaints are absurd.",
"He was ahead of his time. This is still very relevant even today. Rest in Power",
"Say this in a Reddit comment without being a famous comedian and you get banned.",
"the things that Carlin ranted about, and the level of popularity he achieved by ranting about them gave the lie to the society we live in. he did it better than most, made us all realize we're in the same boat, and the 'world' we live in is carefully constructed bulshit designed to control us from cradle to grave.",
"my friend showed me this the other day. got me start watching more of him. the “my daddy” and nra parts had me dying",
"Carlin is a beast, and one of the best comedians to have ever lived. His books are good too, his early stuff is a lot less “political”. George Carlin and Bill Hicks pretty much paved the way for the obscene amount of political comedy you see today."
] | 16 |
videos
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George Carlin - List of people who ought to be killed
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q506ie/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/q506ie/deleted_by_user/
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[
"Doorable! Looks like my kitty Ski!",
"Subscribed. That banana bed is adorable",
"Thank u",
"Cool. Hope u liked the video? Did you see her siblings?",
"Yup, cuteness overload!",
"True"
] | 6 |
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[deleted by user]
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https://youtu.be/p0kSYH-L-YQ
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/r/videos/comments/q506o4/bugs_bunny_and_daffy_duck_open_season/
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[
"Wtf this clip didn't randomly scream into the microphone. 1 star",
"One of my fave cartoons.....love Bugs.",
"Ah. That brought back memories of Saturday mornings at my Mom's house perched on the floor in front of the TV with my belly full of sugary cereal. \n\nThanks.",
"After first seeing this over half a century ago, the child in me still find it hilarious."
] | 4 |
videos
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Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck OPEN SEASON
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YDqm7LXt2g
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/r/videos/comments/q50oue/sean_connery_on_slapping_women/
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[
"He don’t hit them no mo",
"Shhlap",
"Nothing wrong with what he said tbqhwyf.",
"Physical violence is seldom the answer. \n\nA few well placed words can have a longer effect and often sting more.",
"legend\n\nog pussy pass denier",
"RIP to a legend."
] | 6 |
videos
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Sean Connery on slapping women
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=D_5nLxZVoPo&feature=share
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/r/videos/comments/q51vz9/anonymous_hero_donates_hospital_200_human_kidneys/
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[
"WTF 😳",
"One of the Onions' best.",
"When he does it, he’s a hero. When I do it, it’s I’m a “serial killer” and “call the police”.",
"However, there are 200 people that woke up in a bathtub filled with ice",
"LOL someone just r/AteTheOnion",
"/r/YourJokeButWorse",
"Oh man I just love these reactions, it literally makes me laugh out loud when they bite the onion haha",
"Few things can make me out of breath from laughing. This one, though.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUT8ec24anM",
"Needing kidneys no less.",
"Of course. Good news tho. Blood type will be a match. No anti-rejection needs needed",
"I remember when that urban legend (which people thought was true!) was going around via email. People would print it out and post it on work bulletin boards LOL",
"Squid game left overs.",
"This is how I choose to go....",
"Gotta love the Onion's old videos, especially the non sequitor follow up: \"Three people are dead after a grenade eating contest goes awry\".",
"Any way to watch this without sending YouTube my credit card or ID? lmao",
"You clicked the link thinking humanity couldn't be this stupid.\n\nThen you heard the Onion theme music and said \"ohh\" and came here.",
"Reading only the title, thought this was gonna be some weird combo of mods causing a bug in rimworld...",
"r/holup",
"The fact that a lot of us had to check first to see if it was The Onion says so much about the state of things.",
"You have an extra space there so the spoiler tag doesn't work.",
"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA\n\nSO TOPICAL",
"Or 100 who didn't",
"But not because of the harvesting",
"\"... and brains\" lmfao!",
"Can't wait for this to be on r/upliftingnews once artificial organ printing becomes widespread.",
"For some reason I read \"donates\" as detonates. I should get some sleep.",
"it is unfortunately a reality. just much darker than waking up in a bathtub…",
"Give it a few years and that will be the hot new social media challenge.",
"To shreds you say?",
"Fellow redditors I watched squid game, please enjoy my epic reference 😎",
"https://youtu.be/MGXSPf9b-xI",
"Tell me, what's the reality of this story? I mean aside from the atrocities happening in china.",
"No. You must also give them your blood sweat and soul.",
"OMG! I *totally* remember when this was happening! Like I totally was pulling for Janelle, but, like, I was soooo sorry for her, because her friends were like soooo unhelpful.",
"The entirety of what’s known as the “Red Market” (which includes what’s going on in China). But it’s not just happening in China. I don’t even really want to write it here it’s so dark.",
"The utter *irony* of this one. They’re making a boomer joke how Facebook was leaving kids brain dead. The ultimate punchline? \n\nFacebook’s entire population is brain dead Boomers now.",
"Serial killer picky eater cannibal spread early Xmas joy",
"Well how's his wife holding up?",
"And your kidneys",
"*mouthful of grenades*\n\nto shreds, you say?",
"Let's just hope it's not RepoMen...",
"VPN probably",
"The video fits perfectly, and it's about screen addiction of youth in general and made before screens became accessible enough/meaningful enough for boomers to use for entertainment.\n\nNow that boomers know how to work screens as well as kids, they're just as bad if not worse.",
"The video literally mentions Facebook. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGXSPf9b-xI&t=34s&ab\\_channel=TheOnion\n\nYou are this stupid, sorry bud.",
"Don’t look a gift horse in the kidney.",
"wow not all heroes wear scrubs",
"but how do you know he didnt kill the 200 people?\n\nlol ya never know\n\nthatd make a great horror movie tho. The Donator",
"\"we are especially in need of hearts, lungs, and brains\" jesus the onion is a fuckin classic lol",
"And firstborn",
"Like the time I tried to give blood. They just kept asking me where I got it and whining about how it was leaking out of the bag.",
"What makes these funny to me is knowing someone somewhere out there will fall for this and think it's real. They will be so confused and angry lol.",
"Some people are so ungrateful",
"All right, three people are dead after a grenade eating contest goes wrong",
"The darker haired girl is Jessica Rothe, from the Happy Death Day movies.",
"there's nothing that implied that they took the video seriously.\n\nthe fuck is wrong with you people?",
"It's literally just about teenagers and people are projecting so much on that",
"\"Bug\" \n\nRandy blessing us with 200 kidneys from a drop pod isn't a bug, its a gift from the God himself.",
"\"are you fr killing me right now\" lost it 😭",
"and my axe.",
"Drop pod?\n\nPleb.\n\n\nRescue all downed enemies and take a kidney, lung, and heart or liver from each one.\n\nThey are so kind to bring such treasures straight to your base.",
"Just like sperm banks.",
"Until you get raids based on your colony's newfound wealth.",
"I think I saw this video on /r/atetheonion at some point.",
"> the fuck is wrong with you people?\n\nIt really is not that serious brother",
"Hold up",
"Wth what did they come from. Is this real",
"I was thinking more a GlitterTech+ prosthetics mod and a Dwarf Fortress level of detail surgery mod having a conflict where the 1st kidney is removed properly, but the 2nd one doesn't get removed, so you've just got a prisoner shackled to a bed as an organ farm and surgery training dummy...\n\nI feel like Randy would deliver kidneys that are both pre-used and damaged...",
"Brilliant in almost every way",
"No.\n\nIt's very visibly obvious that it's from The Onion.",
"> but how do you know he didnt kill the 200 people?\n\nBecause it's a video by The Onion.\n\nSo...you know...it didn't actually happen.",
"Mostly says something about how gullible some people are. 200 kidneys... dude, really?",
"More raiders=more kidneys",
"I love this political talk show series https://youtu.be/xOVQPtuKRs4",
"China has entered the chat",
"You:\n>\tFacebook has literally no relevance to this entire video.\n\nThe video:\n>\tconfining her almost entirely to her bed… and Facebook\n\nLiterally what the narrator says in the video.\n\nWow. I have met the *most galactically stupid redditor of all time*.\n\nThank you kind moron, you have made my day.",
"100,000% about Facebook tho. Literally says it in the video.",
"Except they literally said it was Facebook in the video.",
"Wow. All you had to do was watch the video. It was right there. But now here you are… backpedaling like Lance friggin Armstrong.",
"Go Lance, Go!\n\nI’m becoming your number one fan. *Olympic*-class backpedaling right here folks!",
"it could happen somewhere ;-)",
"Some wear hockey masks",
"This and [multiple stab wounds may be harmful to monkeys](https://youtu.be/cQ7J7UjsRqg) had the craziest comments from people who didn’t know The Onion is satire or that satire news even existed.",
"As a monkey hater I don't care. As long as they get stabbed..."
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Anonymous Hero Donates Hospital 200 Human Kidneys
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CloT6O4N56E
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/r/videos/comments/q529r9/sublime_saw_red_with_gwen_stefani_live_at_the/
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"No.",
"Bradley and Sublime were on the verge of being mega stars. Their album took off after his death, but if he'd been alive to promote it and tour I've always believed they would have been even bigger. Drugs are bad m'kay",
"I saw they both at Board in Orange County the same year but they also had Social Distortion, Guttermouth, Face to Face, and Bad Religion.\n\nEdit: https://youtu.be/BDA6aaO2P-Q",
"What a show. I was too cool for my own good back then and passed on the chance to see Sublime not too long before they started the self titled album... one of my bigger regrets in life.",
"Just grew a pair of Jncos listening to this",
"My brothers friend had a radio show on KUCI in the early 90s and sublime would come in and hang out all the time. He was also an intern for the morning show on KROQ. I think it was Kevin and Bean or something. Anyways, he always bugged them to play more ska on the show. Finally they told him he could pick one song just to shit him up. He chose Date Rape. Sublime completely blew up after that. They were super pissed about it too and never forgave him for it.",
"The hat I was wearing turned backwards and I suddenly had a soul patch.",
"I've wondered the same. Bradley Nowell and his singing had a charisma that was absolutely undeniable. That said, Sublime was making music from a niche subgenre and I'm not sure it had staying power.\n\nI think had Bradley lived, they would have had a few huge years, but like the rise of swing in the mid-90's, or the flash-in-the-pan late 90's popularity of Latino-influenced music, I think ska and Sublime would have petered out fairly fast, despite their obvious talent.",
"His dog is the worst part about that. Lou found him and was clealry distressed and upset. Even lying next to his body until Bud(?) found him",
"I think you have it exactly right. Those few years would have been epic though. I'd like to think he may have evolved his music, even gone solo and crossed genres similar to Gwen Stefani. Sadly not on this timeline.",
"I saw sublime in a really small venue 2 weeks before he died. I feel super lucky to have witnessed.",
"“Gosh, Bradley you look so cute. I’m prosperous.” I just love their banter",
">I'd like to think he may have evolved his music\n\nI think so too. The guy could write. Who knows but I like to imagine it would have gone that way.",
"Case in point. Gwen herself had to move music genre in order to stay relevant.",
"A can of Surge randomly showed up in my fridge.",
"They’re coming back... maybe not the brand but definitely the style.",
"Perfect to wash down these gushers I am suddenly eating",
"On the bright side if not seeing sublime is one of your bigger regrets, you are doin pretty good 👍",
"Videos like this make me miss the 90s."
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Sublime - Saw Red with Gwen Stefani (Live at the KROQ Weenie Roast 6-17-1995)
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https://youtu.be/_p_OjYgdfX8
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/r/videos/comments/q53857/cartman_does_gordon_ramsay/
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[
"Crème fraîche",
"Dude. No. Randomly spamming comments on videos is not how you get views. Especially not on content with titles like \"Make Clients Chase You! How to Make Money from SoundCloud-Step by Step\".\n\nEdit: Holy fuck. Your entire account is just this comment. Reported your account, ya ding-dong.",
"Fuck off man",
"Oh wow an old fashioned",
"Is reddit on a Gordon Ramsay [spree](https://gyazo.com/1bff2061ca46fa942797c61fc5ddf5cd) this week, or?",
"He's been going viral on tiktok a lot lately, probably why.",
"Usually when that happens it means the celebrity died. Luckily not this time.",
"\"GIVE UP YOU WANKER!!\"",
"His daughter is also in Strictly Come Dancing in the U.K. so that could be why he’s in some people’s minds recently.",
"Right?!? Simple! Rustic!",
"I thought I’d seen every episode of SP and now I feel one has slipped through the cracks. \n\nThanks for the laugh today. \n\nS14 here I come",
"Right? I deadass never knew they made an episode on this!",
"John Oliver talked about him on Last Week Tonight. My research team, which includes 4 cats, has concluded that TikTok loves John Oliver, so that must be the reason.",
"Guys my dads retarded but he’s not THAT retarded.",
"Reddits been on a gordon spree for years. He is very well liked here. Posted constantly. This post is making me want to binge hells kitchen again.",
"It's one of their best pieces of work too.",
"Or what?",
"I mean, Gordon Ramsay is kind of consistently popular not just on reddit, but everywhere. \n\nPlus it's mid-autumn for the northern hemisphere. \n\nEveryone gets more into cooking and baking this time of year.",
"Shake weight",
"Cafeteria... fraîche!"
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Cartman Does Gordon Ramsay
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jVMmWUvf0
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/r/videos/comments/q542gs/australia_4k_relaxing_music_along_with_beautiful/
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[
"Wow, Australia is really beautiful",
"Agree, don't know why people keep downvoting it though.",
"They wanted you to praise their country 😅"
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AUSTRALIA 4K - Relaxing Music Along With Beautiful Nature Videos - 4K Video UltraHD
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https://youtu.be/AdTlnGXbTuE
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/r/videos/comments/q54dp9/sea_horse_dives_into_lake/
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[
"Very impressive. Are swimming tractors a big thing in the Netherlands?",
"Could build a bridge faster.",
"I don't understand why?",
"New Holland is a place in Pennsylvania."
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Sea Horse dives into lake
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https://youtu.be/GoC8ZPEgJqc
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/r/videos/comments/q55flv/pressure_test/
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[
"The Creator: Telepurte, on YouTube.",
"love the video, but I hate that sound",
"Cats are liquid",
"> Velcome to de Hydroolic Press Channel",
"Playdough cat",
">\theer wi go",
"nobody...? \n\"This cat is very dangerous! We must deal with it!\"",
"this is pretty funny"
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Pressure Test
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q575uq/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/q575uq/deleted_by_user/
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[
"That's kinda neat. Real cyberpunk vibes. I wonder what it would look like if they had just filmed a real cat.",
"Fortnite had one of these in [new york times square](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTwtEn7Msw)",
"How nice of them to record this zoomed all the way out with a tree blocking half of it.",
"It’s also close up at 1:30"
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[deleted by user]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tns7cBV4CzM
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/r/videos/comments/q576tr/every_jhonen_vasquez_cameo_appearance_in_invader/
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[
"It's missing \"old kid\", who said \"how's it going?\". It didn't look like Jhonen, but he voiced it as a cameo.",
"I still laugh about that scene whenever it pops into my head.",
"Original Sad Boi Jhonen Vazquez my love\n\nAny JTHM fans in the chat",
"Back when i was a freshman in high school yes",
"Z? \n\nIt was middle school for me. Haven’t read them in forever and when I glance at pages online I can’t help but cringe, but god damned if it doesn’t hold a special place in my heart. I still have a JTHM T-shirt :’) \n\nAlong with cringing, I also wonder how the hell I was allowed to read those fucking things at age 12...the violence is graphic as hell. I guess my mom didn’t want to suppress my Shadow to allow for, I dunno, early Individuation or something."
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Every Jhonen Vasquez Cameo Appearance in Invader Zim
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https://youtu.be/QakzhOElAtQ
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/r/videos/comments/q576x3/1955_porsche_356_prea_speedster_full_restoration/
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[
"Porsche of Theseus",
"If I didn't have to deal with the dodgy Google ad and then the shitty soundtrack to the clip I was interested. Unfortunately it had a dodgy Google ad.....and shitty soundtrack thru the entire clip. Hence not watching. And from my end the Google ad was built into the clip, normally I can reload a YouTube video to skip the first ad.",
"These channels usually make their money with those ads since you know you’re not paying for it.",
"Super disappointing that it was just a slideshow. Cool concept tho",
"**[Ship of Theseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus)** \n \n >In the metaphysics of identity, the ship of Theseus is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The concept is one of the oldest in Western philosophy, having been discussed by Heraclitus and Plato by c. 500–400 BC.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)",
"It takes 2 minutes to google and install some of the dozens of options to get passed youtube ads.\n\nBut instead you decided to waste your time to complain about it on reddit.",
"Really terrific work. Enjoyed seeing the traditional metalworking.",
"Yeah, that's what lost me. If it's a slideshow give me an Imgur album or something. I'll just look at the pictures with no soundtrack or ads or anything.\n\nA video that doesn't add anything more than pictures just feels like a waste of time.",
"Download sponsor block for chrome my man",
"[reminds me of this old classic scene](https://youtu.be/LAh8HryVaeY)",
"Being rich seems nice.",
"theres like 3 original components on this, the rest was just a custom fabbed car.",
"I would love for the maker of the video to hand this guy the most insignificant tiny piece of metal to polish or work on to spec.",
"If you want to scratch that itch Soup Classic on Youtube has been doing a similar kind of restoration on a Lotus and the videos are super well produced.",
"So the front took a major hit right? What a project!",
"Serious question... what number do you set the odometer to?",
"What kind of cars will millennials spend all their time restoring in 30 years from now? Acura integras?",
"ta bonito",
"Nissan Juke - The ultimate \"SUV\" that can't climb mediocre hill.\n\nOn a serious note I would say stuff like supras/gto's/300e/golf GTi? I think that restoration will die out with more complex electronics or will stay with more analog cars",
"Who wants to watch a 12 minute slideshow :/",
"Look, if you're going to watch Porsche restoration projects, this is your guy:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/c/GreasyFingers/videos",
"It's not an ad it's just their video intro. The name of the channel is Classic Fabrications, which is what is typed in the search bar. I agree it's weird, though.",
"DAMN that's impressive. These videos are therapy for me",
"Literally anything. The title will note that the odometer is not correct. (At least this is the practice in the US, that's a UK restoration, so they might do it in metric with tea or something.)",
"They'll restore gaming rigs with blinky lights and RTX 3060s",
"Two questions:\n\n1. What is lead loading technique?\n2. Would not sealing to “factory specs” be somewhat sub par? If I put this much work into to something, I would try to seal it to current standards not those of 1955. Unless Porsche updates factory specs or they meant factory specs for current models.",
"Get an old Jeep CJ. $15-20k over several years goes a very, very long way and gets you the custom and capable rock climber, swamp buggy, or mall crawler you want if you're doing the work yourself.",
"Wow! Really enjoyed watching the precise process you went through. Would love to be in shop and hear your commentary on what you do and why. Thanks for sharing.",
"More than likely this was done by an old person with a lot of money who didn't want to pay a young person to do any of that. Guaranteed",
"Press mute..",
"Lead loading is pretty much soldering lead onto the car until you get the desired shape. Lead is used because it is soft and easy to work with.",
"Leave it at what it was!",
"They'll restore the Nissan jukes and then the CVT will explode all over again at 45,000 miles.",
"I learned to drive a manual transmission in a 1956 365 back in the late 80's. My boss owned one and he was too fat to fit in it. He kept it at work and I would need to move it around our parking lot for him to allow for delivery trucks to queue up :)",
"If you're going to mock somebody for complaining at least be able to spell the word \"past\" correctly.",
"I would love a 90’s type r.",
"Honda NSX\n\nLand Rover Defender",
"In that case, it's definitely 69,420 kms",
"Also the source of the phrase \"lead sled\".",
"It’s so sad when they pick a gross colour.",
"Seinfeld intensifies.",
"I’m so glad this was the top comment when I clicked on it.",
"The car they grew up with, especially anything associated with their dad.\n\nIn my case, it might be a fastback 1985 Toyota Corolla. I've always liked that car. I will be sure **not** to paint it like the car in Initial D.",
"Or *Trigger's Broom*, as us intellectuals call it...",
"On the one hand, I appreciate the recognition of the engineering and design that existed back then, but part of me want's to take what is still good, but apply modern technology to improve it. Example, there are at least a couple of companies who take Citroen DS and SM cars, and fully renovate them but put in improved engines and other parts. The cars themselves were beautiful, and far in advance of other cars of the period in many ways, but limited in others because of financial constraints that Citroen was working under.\n\nThese days, I think I would like to specialize in taking some of the better styled cars and turn them into EVs. probably just as replicas, not modifying the originals, don't want to get lynched!",
"Fantastic taste",
"This looks like a philosophical debate",
"This is such a weird reply.",
"*youre* not you're sweetie.",
"The term you’re looking for is restomod.",
"A work of art.",
"Wait, what?",
"Yes, that's the term, thank you. I've done something similar, I have a 1992 Miyata 1000 touring bicycle, reckoned by some to be the best touring bike ever built. Very smooth ride, I love it. But I can't get along with downtube shifters, nor am I a fan of non-indexed, or limiting myself to 21 gears. I found that I could replace the freehub and move the rear cluster to an 8 or 9 speed, and with the downtube cable stops I could put Brifters (integrated brakes and shifters) onto the handlebars, and thus have indexed, hands on shifters of 24 or 27 speeds. The looks of the bike are not affected, it's entirely backwards compatible, and I can ride faster, easier, with greater safety and control.",
"Car restoration isn't the exclusive domain of the wildly rich. You can completely restore a classic car (or create a custom) for the price of a low-end new car.\n\nIf that's 'being rich' then your bar is very very low.",
"A similar car to the one in Doc Hollywood.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0jOVXcnjdg",
"His videos are incredible. Tons of it is done in stop motion, well edited, and if you watch it episode by episode he has a lot of great info and stories to share. Hope he posts something soon.",
"Having 20k to blow on a shitbox is having a decent amount of disposable income. Having a very valuable Porsche to restore is being rich.",
"Ebay (a shitty place to even start to look) has a ton of Porsche project cars and barn finds that are absolutely within the reach of anyone with \"a decent amount of disposable income.\"\n\nY'all actin' like you need to be a DeBeers scion to restore an old car. Most are put back together by greasemonkeys with friends and internet connections to source parts.\n\nYou want to restore a rare exotic? You won't need nearly as much money as you'll need persistence and luck.\n\nI suggested an old Jeep because both new-old-stock, new, and custom parts are everyfuckinwhere, and they're easy to work on.",
"So you’ve just avoided googling what car this is? They’re going for 200k-300k when in good condition.",
"> when in good condition.\n\nWhich a barn find is NOT. So I think I see the problem. And it's you. You're a moron.",
"We still use imperial measurements when it comes to car odometers and road speeds/distances here in the UK.",
"Ah yeah and barn finds of rare classic cars are cheap /s.",
"The end result is luscious",
"As the manager of a large company who does business, this was great! Just needed some more charts of irrelevant data and it would have sold me on the project.",
"As soon as I saw the start picture, of a rusted out body, I was thinking to myself, \"Wouldn't it be easier to just build a new car at that point?\"\n\nAnd then they essentially went and built a new car.",
"Curious what the weight difference is between this restored car and the original.",
"Needs more synergy.",
"was interested in watching until i heard the shitty rock music",
"Very much this. Would it kill people to do a voiceover, maybe explain something about the car and the process of restoration? As it is, I've seen a few car photos and learned nothing.",
"Here is imo better restoration videos, which is actually video and no annoying soundtrack.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8HEZ-x4-_w",
"Do you have sarcasm, or were imports of that stopped after Brexit?",
"Time to start shopping for a 1980 Volvo 240.",
"Regarding your second question - there’s different types of restoration paths. One is an factory restoration, which is what this video shows. The other is a “restromod” (at least that’s what’s it’s called here in the states) where a classic car is given a modern makeover. Fuel injector instead of a carburetor, three point seatbelts instead of two, a head rest so you don’t break your neck if you get rear ended.\n\nHowever, factory restorations sell for much higher prices than restomod’s. Even if it’s a vehicle like this where a fuck ton of the original body was created in a fabrication shop in 2021.\n\nShould be noted that an original factory car that was maintained in a garage in pristine conditions will sell for much much higher than this car. If the part was made with original tooling in the original factory, price goes up.",
"Very informative and interesting. Still a weird hill to try to die on. I get wanting the original type of fuel injection for the original experience or the inferior seatbelts and lack of headrest as they would change the look of it, but such a minor detail that one would have to get under the car and know what to look for, as a trade of for longevity is bit too far for me.",
"It's insane how valuable [those early Porsches became](https://www.classic.com/m/porsche/356/356-a/speedster/) in the past 20 years. Back in the 90s, that Speedster in that state would have been probably scrapped, I mean it litterally was a hunk of rust. I respect the work that was put into but to me it's just completely bananas to sink so much time and effort to what was at the time not too far away from a sporty VW Beetle.",
"Welcome to the world of classic auto shows! Factory perfect cars rarely get driven, they end up in museums, private collections, and put in a truck to be driven around auto shows where they are graded over every single element.",
"i'm glad i'm not the only grumpy old man about this. i'll die on this hill thank you very much."
] | 77 |
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1955 Porsche 356 Pre-A Speedster Full Restoration
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https://youtu.be/PQmSUHhP3ug
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/r/videos/comments/q578tn/the_919_tribute_tour_onboard_record_lap/
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[
"Pretty damn amazing - yeah I am quick around my local track.. Hold my beer.... Just wow another level of track speed, blew me away how quick some of those corners were taken. Whew stunning",
"369 kilometres per hour = 229.3 miles per hour",
"No carousel? Is the car too low maybe?",
"Pretty much the only cars that can take the karussell are GT and road cars. Anything else is just too low and too stiff to take it.",
"I'll watch this all the way through every single time. \n\nIf you're not into racing, this is a non-race legal version of the 919 Hybrid Le Mans car modified SPECIFICALLY to shatter lap records. It ran this lap in 5:19. The next fastest EVER lap is 6:05. Monstrous, monstrous car with an absolute machine of a driver behind the wheel. Timo Bernhard nailed it.\n\nAnything under eight minutes on the 'Ring (Nürburgring Nordschleife- a 12.9 mile road track in Germany) is pretty fucking fast.",
"Never seen that straight look so short"
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The 919 Tribute Tour: On-board record lap, Nordschleife
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q57r9m/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/q57r9m/deleted_by_user/
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[
"They was about as freestyle as the latest Apple Keynote!",
"This has to be an old video. Aside from the fashion, Cena isn’t rapping in Chinese.",
"This just convinced me that pro wrestling is fake.",
"It's real to me, dammit!",
"I know lol, it’s just funny that’s all"
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[deleted by user]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2D1GHHMb9g
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/r/videos/comments/q58auq/trope_talk_fridging/
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[
"I love this channel. It has made me a better writer. And this may be their best video to date. 😊",
"I call this \"The Goose Effect.\"",
"I *knew* they were going to mention killing joke.",
"I like the video but I could do without the music.",
"The first time I heard fridge as a verb, I somehow knew exactly what it meant and was referencing, and my jaw dropped. Too soon. Too soon."
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Trope Talk: Fridging
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-SKCWXoryU
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/r/videos/comments/q58t4f/john_prine_performing_at_his_childhood_home_in/
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[
"Also, heres a nice tribute performance of the same song after his passing\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi-AHqQ48EM",
"Thank you, baddspellar!",
"I got into him last year after The Tallest Man On Earth and Courtney Marie Andrews performed at The Old Town School of Folk music and talked about him as a massive inspiration. What a legend.",
"Greatest songwriter of all time in my opinion. The world is a darker place without him. Probably the first celebrity death where I felt like I lost a friend. His music has been with me my entire life.",
"Man, I miss him.",
"It's a shame I can only give one upvote.\n\nJohn Prine was a treasure. I was fortunate to see him perform a couple of times and was checking his tour schedule when we lost him.\n\nPersonally I enjoy music with screaming guitars but, John P.'s songs struck me. They can be funny but yet, make you think about life.\n\nI still miss him as do many others.",
"I did not know he’s from Maywood. Just across the street is a police stations and courthouse where I’ve spent entirely too much time.",
"Who's the other guy? As I type this he said it, Johnny Burns, Chet Atkins' nephew",
"I had no idea he was from Maywood either! I grew up nearby",
"New album of John Prine covers came out Friday. Some great stuff on there https://music.apple.com/us/album/broken-hearts-dirty-windows-songs-of-john-prine-vol-2/1558230614",
"It's on my Top Ten",
"That was beautiful",
"Yeah it’s definitely not a great neighborhood now unfortunately.",
"And here is the best cover ive seen on Youtube. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/7LSbDdZLr1w",
"Pretty good. Not bad. I can’t complain.",
"“When I die let my ashes float down the green river, let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam. I’ll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting, just 5 miles away from wherever I am.” The person I first heard sing this song also passed away last year, this is one of those lines that keeps getting weightier",
"His song Lake Marie is about my home town. Love some John Prine.",
"Are you trying to complain all the time?",
"I had the privilege of seeing him live at the Oregon zoo the year before he passed away. I went alone and spent my time up at the very front. Even at his age he put on such a spectacular performance. Fuck covid. RIP to the legend John Prine.",
"RIP, sweet prince!\n\nOne of the purest spirits to ever bless the mortal plane. Miss & love you, John!\n\nLest we get too sad in reflecting on his absence, I want to assure you that he's doing just fine in heaven. Witness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0EiV423j0M",
"Nope, just quoting one of my favorite songs of his-unless youre making a joke and I totally missed it.",
"John Prine on the front page of reddit makes me heart so happy. He was a big piece of my childhood and wound up being a big piece of my adulthood, too.",
"ITT: Kentuckians.",
"Happy Birthday John! I believe today was his birthday..",
"I don't comment too often on videos like this, but this was beast. I don't know shit about country / folk music but damn, super good. Folk seemed to become super commercial there, and this has way more heart in it than the shit I have heard",
"Naw I think he missed the reference. Great song, my favorite album.",
"Can’t tell you how meaningful his music has been to me over the years. He was one of the greatest songwriters of the 20st century with songs that were simple and honest and hilarious and heartbreaking. \n\nThanks for the tunes John. You’re halfway to heaven with paradise waitin.",
"This makes me happy",
"Josh Turner has so many amazing covers. I’ve watched this one in particular many times",
"One of my deepest regrets is not taking my father to see John play in concert. My dad was really sick and it would have been really hard on him to go. John died a few months later.\n\n&#x200B;\n\nFunny little story, I was at a Hotel and they had someone come in to entertain with live music after the dinner service. The man playing said \"does anyone know any John Prine\" I was the only person to yell \"woo\" he dedicated it to me ;D",
"Him and Norm both had me immediately pace the room, like I had just heard a family member had died.",
"John Prine lyrics make us better humans",
"I took my Mom to see him about 8 months before she passed, he played Souvenirs first that night which was her favourite JP song. I miss both of them still. It's not always easy to identify greatness but John Prine was a giant, he told stories of the human condition that could make you laugh, cry and stop you in your tracks.",
"Did I just miss a fucking John Prine lyric reference? God dammit.\n\nI just have a trigger reaction to people who say \"I can't complain\" because it makes it seem like they spend the day looking for stuff to complain about and when they can't they seem upset like \"Damn I can't complain\"",
"My dad knew him during his Maywood days. Graduated together from [Proviso East High School](https://imgur.com/a/3oit9ZB)",
"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXDCUoC2QKQ",
"RIP John Prine best songwriter ever. Take a listen to “My old man” while chopping onions. It’s a Steve Goodman song.",
"Chicagoans",
"> makes it seem like they spend the day looking for stuff to complain about and when they can't they seem upset like \"Damn I can't complain\"\n\nMods, can we ban this guy for *blatant* bigotry against the people of the UK?",
"Love that song",
"Same. My buddy showed me years ago. Still blows my mind.",
"thanks for posting this. wonderful version",
"I highly recommend a guy named Dan Reeder. He was on John's label. More silly but still has some surprisingly touching moments.",
"That was something emotional. Thanks for sharing!",
"Wow…me too."
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John Prine performing at his childhood home in Maywood IL. Happy Birthday John
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=zFSa3q-ugI4&feature=share
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/r/videos/comments/q58zjq/pennywise_tells_people_their_location_on_omegle/
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[
"The dichotomy of teenage girls. One pair so freaked out they shut down the room. The next pair straight up say \"oh man he hacked my IP\" with no fear at all. Also trying to flirting with pennywise",
"That's why when I'm tangoing with demonic clowns on Omegle I use NordVPN! \n\n/s...or is it...?",
"the teeth licking is on point",
"In 2021, is there anyone other than the extreme elderly that's truly freaked out by an IP lookup?",
"\"WHY ARE YOU A MONTREAL FAN WHEN YOU'RE IN ONTARIO, TRAITOR?!\" \n \nlmao evil clown spittin' truths",
"Tangoing? It takes two to tango, laddie. Last time I saw you, you were doing the horizontal mambo all by yourself.",
"I really wish this guy was better at thinking on his feet. It seemed like every time anyone said anything remotely unexpected he just froze up super hard.",
"Maxamili is a funny dude. Looking forward to Kermit in Pennywise makeup!",
"People on Omegle seem to like TikTok.",
"A lot of people. I would guess 50% or more have no idea how that would work.",
"Tracked my ip. Smart girl going IT",
"No, I'm pretty sure he just said some random city and guessed Tokyo, judging by his immediate \"I know you're not from there.\"",
"99% of people on the street that you pass haven't the slightest idea what an IP is. They were either raised before computers became popular, or grew up in the age of smartphones (and don't even own a computer), or are somewhere in between and somehow still barely know how to use a word processor.",
"Why did this get removed?",
"Holy exaggeration batman. Even if I walked through a retirement community your 99% number is too high.",
"Huh...it's been a long time since I saw someone think they were clever using an IP lookup that wasn't laughed at mercilessly.",
"It is, after all, the whole concept behind VPN companies.",
"I would guess more than 50% I saw an article from a teacher that explained his students didn't understand folders.",
"Wants to cheer for a team that can make it pass the first round.",
"Hey they could also cheer for the sens! :P",
"lol."
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Pennywise tells people their location on Omegle
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbwp4rdwINo
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/r/videos/comments/q592nf/driving_fails_road_rage_close_calls_bad_drivers/
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[
"Should probably consider not riding like a dick…",
"# #Great #Title #Dipshit",
"\\#Title \\#Gore",
"Three minutes in and the driver seems to be the most entitled person on the street everyday. What a bag of dicks, sad thing is that someone else will suffer when he inevitably kills or injures himself.",
"Go back to Twitter and stay there."
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#Driving #Fails #Road #Rage Close Calls Bad Drivers Amazing & Angry Moments Caught on Camera 2021
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAKgRQ0kmm4
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/r/videos/comments/q59536/tyson_fury_reacts_after_epic_win_over_deontay/
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[
"What a Champ Tyson is, 11 rounds with Wilder, and he's still able to sing a song and tell everyone how great he is. Fantastic",
"What a beautifully humble and unique person!",
"That was... pretty fuckin good.",
"Best heavyweight fight in two decades.",
">humble\n\nI think you need to check up the dictionary definition of that word.",
"[Here's some more.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwT5oWcK3yw&ab_channel=GlobalBoxingTV)",
"The guy seems like a frickin gem.",
"Wow all in the sudden I’m a fan",
"If you compare it to other post-victory boxing interviews and consider the amount of adrenaline that must have been coursing through his veins at that moment, I'd say that was pretty damn humble.",
"I looked it up and apparently Tyson Fury scores a 9/10 on the Connor McGreggor humble index. Connor scores a McGreggor/10. Which is to say: not very humble",
"What a fat tub of goo",
"He wouldn't win Mr Olympia, but he could beat up every single one of them.",
"I'd give that to the Joshua/Klitschko fight. But this was a damn good fight.",
"Fat tub of two-time world heavyweight champion, WBC and The Ring magazine titles held the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, and The Ring titles goo.",
"The religious shit is cringey.",
"A ridiculous amount of boxers/fighters say shit like that after a win. It's very common.",
"Yet can box 12 rounds straight at an insane pace. Dude is probably in better shape than any of us will ever be, regardless of how he looks.",
"\"I'm the number one heavyweight in the world\" isn't a very humble thing to say. I'm still trying to figure out why people assume champions in professional sports should be \"humble\". If they got to where they are it's probably because they believe they have what it takes and never settled for second best. Hardly the attitude of a humble person.",
"Have you been living in an underground with cult leader Jon Hamm for your entire life? Religion is associated with all kinds of awful things. The Lord works in mysterious ways.",
"To you",
"Just imagine what he would look like if he was 5'6\" instead of 6'9\".",
"How many rounds can you go?",
"How the fuck does boxing and thanking God have anything to do with people lynching black folks? \n\nThat's some super weird fucked up mind you have",
"> Am I missing something\n\nA whole bunch.",
"I mean yeah, but a ridiculous amount of boxers/fighters are cringey",
"Humility is about respect to others, and Fury did all of that. Fury gave respect to the fans, his trainers, his opponent, his family and to the source of his faith. He understands that he isn't solely responsible for his success, and respects the people who helped him get there by giving them thanks and not denying who he is. Humility is not contrite.",
"I like how Fury's built like a middle-aged trucker.",
"Unironically using the word \"cringey,\" is \"cringier,\" than thanking God in the ring will ever be. I'm not religious in the slightest either.",
"Tell them that to their face",
"yeah, that was a true gem as well, but if I had to nitpick I would say those first 4 rounds were about as uneventful as it can possibly get. But legit, both of those guys each took several punches over the course of the fight that any one of which would have landed any normal mortal on permanent disability for the rest of their lives, if not worse.",
"Yes. It did start dull (aka vintage Kiltschko) but then all of a sudden turned into a Rocky movie with wild punches landing and massive shifts in momentum",
"What the hell are you talking about? You sound confused",
"Booo, thanking a demon spirit, boo.",
"And to me",
"> Unironically using the word \"cringey,\" is \"cringier,\" than thanking God in the ring will ever be.\n\nYea I'm gonna have to disagree there hoss. He was one step away from giving a full on sermon.",
"Who?",
"You",
"I remember around 10 years ago seemingly all the music artists used to thank god at the award ceremonies. Justin Bieber too. Was really weird.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSwjrZUlzbg",
"“Thank you Jeebus Christ, I couldn’t have given this man multiple back to back concussions without you. This is why you died on the cross. Hallelujah!”\n\nYikes.",
"Exactly, fuck that being a pussy. They got to where they are by being tenacious and ruthless. Best believe they'll be arrogant af.",
"> Am I missing something, or is thanking your Christian deity after fighting for money, eh ... against those Christian beliefs?\n\nWhat chapter of the bible is that?",
"I don’t think thanking God was necessarily the religious *shit* being referred to \n\nThe whole claiming to know that God gave him the win because it would glorify God may be a better example of the cringey religious shit. It comes across as “God wanted me to win this sporting contest,” which is some cringey sounding shit to a lot of people, or weird at best. At a certain point it tends to cheapen whichever God being pushed more than anything… so to then keep going on about his God can become cringey even to people who might believe too",
"Ronnie Pickering",
"I stopped watching once he started talking about Jesus. Don’t feel in the mood for a sermon this afternoon.",
"Hes a homophobic cunt.",
"I really liked the Tyson/Lewis fight. Dude came prepared.",
"To be fair, those passages come from a rare manuscript that was found along with the Dead Sea Scrolls called The Book of Cassius. Where Jesus states, \"Let no man enter a squared-circle with another man, both of whom are high-ranking prize gladiators, to engage in lawfully sanctioned combat that's both professionally & medically supervised at all times by independent experts and which consists of very strict rules, adequately padded gloves, and direct individual medical attention every 3 minutes. And dare I say unto you, it matters not if you harbor no malice in your heart, do not intend to seriously injure your opponent or even if should you have the utmost respect for yourself and the opponent. Because, even though the contest might be between two willing adults of sound mind and sound body...*There will always be money-changers taking wagers on these contests*...and if there is one thing your Lord and Savior cannot abide by it is the goddamn money-changers. Peace be unto you.\" Cassius 4:11",
"Spoiler in title. Cheers.",
"It was a huge fight with a ton of anticipation and people talking about it and you come to reddit and expect not to see it then whine when it gets spoiled for you, you can't have given that much of a fuck about the fight otherwise you'd have watched it, the world doesn't stop just because you haven't seen something yet",
"He's LITERALLY the only boxer I could beat in a pose off",
"He's a believer. Why does it matter. If that dude thinks God put iron in his legs and stood him up to finish, why does it bother you?",
"To you",
"What does his accent have to do with it",
"I cannot for the life of me figure out why walkin in memphis was the song he chose here lol",
"It prob helped him though his mental health issues.",
"Except for being 6 foot 9",
"idk, I got excited by your mention of the Joshua/Klitschko fight because I remembered how good it was. But upon rewatching it, there were only three good rounds the entire fight (the 5th, 6th, and 11th). It's still a great heavyweight fight for a lot of reasons, but I don't think it comes close to one of those landmark type matches, IMHO.",
"The one were Tyson straigh-up ate a Tyson like uppercut from Lewis in the first 20 seconds of the fight? That match was kinda sad to watch because it was obvious how much time of Tyson's life had been flushed down the drain.",
"That's not how you say that",
"I agree. But gotta give them the fact that there are hardly any atheist celebrities.",
"Ok you said Hoss. Definitely cringey.",
"Humble in victory, eloquent in spite of getting a knock around, man can sing too.",
"Is he? Genuine question.",
"Fuck yeah. He way overestimated himself and underestimated Lewis, who spent the rest of the fight keeping him away by tapping him every time he got close. Lewis made it look easy. \n\nDon’t get me wrong it was a bit sad seeing Tyson like that but Lewis was on the ball from the gate.",
"We've found the wilder fanboy",
"It bothers people because it diminishes the efforts of all the athletes, their trainers, their coaches, their families and their friends. It's like saying that all the hard work really was not important because if Jesus picks you, then that's what matters.\n\nHow incredibly egotistic is it to think that god has a preference, and it's you.",
"Whether it's prefight walkout or post fight karaoke, it always feels like it's just a song he likes at that moment rather than something relevant or symbolic lol.",
"Yeah, for sure, I wasn't trying to take anything whatsoever away from Lewis. And, for what its worth, I don't think Tyson ever overestimated himself, or underestimated anybody else for that matter. It seems like he just had no idea how to compensate for the fact that once he got back into boxing he realized that his prime years were behind him and that he'd lost way too much precious time in the process.",
"Boxing went to shit so bad. The last time I cared was over 10 years ago. Sad really.",
"Man boxing is sooo good right now, especially the heavyweight division. If you didn’t watch this trilogy of fights you really missed out",
"I saw Tyson Fury before and thought he was boring. Maybe he changed it up, I didn’t watch the trilogy. But mind you, I grew up watching Iron Mike so it’s hard to watch the heavyweight division. Especially when the Klitschko’s were topping the division. What a fucking snooze fest. \n\nI’ll check it out, see what I’m missing. 👍🏻",
"Olive a sedan!",
"But what does someone's beliefs matter to you? Or anyone else? Why get bent out of shape over what someone thinks? That's what I don't understand. Who give a fuck what someone believes? Belief in yourself, your family, your God, whatever...who cares? Leave em be",
"Butterbean?",
"If that's what he needs to believe to be world champ, come back from a coke addiction and lose 200 lbs, then idgaf. He can believe whatever the fuck he wants.",
"Does that dude still box ?",
"No but he weren't half bad considering his physique lol.",
"idgaf even if someone doesn’t need to believe it to be world champ. They can still can believe what they want.",
"In general I do agree, as long as it doesn't affect how you act and how you treat people, it doesn't matter.\n\nIn this case, it's not elegant to use a public forum to push one's religion.",
"This is retarded. You really think any of these people feel jealous or resentful that God stole their credit or something? The whole point of thanking God or giving glory to God is to keep from being egotistical and getting a big head.\n\nI'm an atheist but I can't imagine living with this sort of mentality.",
"I don't give a fuck about religion whatsoever, but let the men and women who actually win thank who the fuck they want. They're not trying to convert the audience, chill.",
"Elegant? Two people inflicting brain damage on each other and you draw the line at \"elegance\" ? Come on",
"I hope you take some time to reflect on how Tyson came back to the heavyweight champion after dealing with well documented issues with depression and drugs. He did it with love in his heart, he believes that love is what saved him, and he shared that love in his biggest moment. If a story like that *bothers* you, I submit to you that your problem is in the mirror.",
"It in no way diminishes anyone's contributions. Boxing is an individual sport, that means no matter who his trainer is, if Tyson Fury gets knocked down, its Tyson Fury that needs to stand up. His trainers cannot stand up for him. What he feels gave him the strength is what he feels gave him the strength. \n\nStop being offended on behalf of other people. His trainer is also probably religious, SugarHill's mentor was Emmanuel Steward and **he** was religious.",
"Reddit would rather the man be dead than to have improved through means they don't approve of",
"This was a great fight. But I'd put it slightly behind AJ v. Klitschko and Lewis v. Klitschko.",
">hum·ble\n\n>/ˈhəmbəl/\n\n>adjective\n\n>1. having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.",
"> in the context of a fucked up thing\n\nThis is where you mind isn't working right. Sports competitions are not \"fucked up things.\" Certainly not compared to literal murder.",
"Yes. [At least he has a history of saying very homophobic, transphobic, and anti-Semitic things.](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tyson-fury-deontay-wilder-bbc-sports-personality-year-2019-racism-homophobia-antisemitism-a8668091.html) All of these quotes are several years old at this point. But there is no way of knowing if that is because he has become less ignorant in his beliefs, or his publicist got him to not to say them in public.",
"'Reddit' would rather there be no circumstance under which people choose to believe outlandish claims with zero evidence backing them. Yet religion is the one area where we're all supposed to just be okay with proud ignorance.",
"> \"I'm the number one heavyweight in the world\" isn't a very humble thing to say. \n\nYeah, but when you have just won the title fight that *makes that statement true*, it's not exactly a brag either. It's stating a *fact*.",
"He's pretty illiberal in his views on things, check the religious stuff. But he sure is a character!",
"Not for Brits.",
"Because religion is evil and stupid.",
"That's up to you! I could care less what he believes",
"Couldn't.",
"Closer",
"Thanks for letting everyone know how edgy you are",
"Ah, love's a Dan!",
"What was the better fight before this?",
"Bloody hell. This isn't some slightly un-PC stuff either. \"Women belong in the kitchen\" \"I would hang my sister for being promiscuous\"",
"then hes my style.",
"A couple of quotes from the man worth considering before declaring yourself a fan.\n\n\"A woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back”.\n\n\"Everyone just do what you can, listen to the Government, follow everybody like sheep, be brainwashed by all the Zionist, Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers all the TV stations.\"\n\nAnd claiming he would hang his sister if she was promiscuous.",
"Ok. If that's your hill to die on. Still, ole boy can do as he pleases. Stay out it, leave your life, and be done with it.",
"Great fights, but like I mentioned earlier regarding the Joshua/Klitschko match, if you only watched the 5th, 6th, and 11th rounds then you wouldn't have missed anything. But I love good fights, so I hate nitpicking, haha",
"uhhh, like, going how far back, hehe???",
"the top and bottom one are bad. \n\nthe middle one is bad why?",
"And the way to do that is to give proper estimation of other people's importance to your success rather than be greedy and claim it for yourself. His speech is to remind his fans of the sacrifices every one else in his life has made to get him there, and to give him less credit than they naturally would.",
"Sorry dude, the fact that anti-semitism is bad is to me pretty self explanatory. Not sure I know how to explain it to somebody who doesn't find it to be so.\n\nEdit: I would encourage you to listen to a podcast called Martyr Made if you are genuinely curious in learning exactly what those people have been through. Not all complimentary to them either but definitely a no nonsense look at pogroms and the way they've been treated.",
"I guess you didn't watch the undercard.",
"Bieber's a cultist, he went to a super weird church on LA were the pastor was recently convicted of money laundering and cheating and likely child rape but they couldn't catch him on it.",
"Fuck off nazi",
"After going through you're post history, I hope someone caps your ass you proud Nazi asshoel",
"This was a dumb comment that was pretty incoherent in its message.",
"Show us on the doll where they hurt you",
"I mean, nowhere... I really hope it doesn't come off like I'm defending ignorant behavior.\n\nComment chains just feel like if I went over to a friends house and they were eating steak. They go, \"Wow, this steak is amazing.\" and I reply, \"No, it's not. An animal had to be slaughtered to make that.\" He's just trying to enjoy the steak, just like the OP commenter was enjoying the antics of Tyson.\n\nHope that clarifies the point I was trying to make...",
"Being anti zionist is not not being anti jew tho",
"Being anti zionist is not being anti jew. \n\nThe zionists are the nazis of our generation with their slow genocide of Palestine. \nZionist =/= all Jewish people",
"I'm sorry you are too stupid to realize the difference between a zionist and a normal everyday Jewish person.",
"No it's not, but claiming that a secret cabal of Jewish people are controlling the media is textbook anti-semitism. Zionism is a specific political movement that far from all Jewish people identify with. Criticising that I understand, I have my own critiques of it myself. But trotting out the same tired conspiracy theories that have been used to oppress and brutalise these people for millenia is racism, plain and simple. And the extreme Zionism we see is basically a reaction to that oppression in the first place. \n\nAre you going to argue that Tyson Fury is genuinely distinguishing between the political actions of Israel the state, and the average person of Jewish ancestry and cultural descent? Because I don't see how anyone could maintain that view with honesty.",
"Because it's a conspiracy theory, based on a thing that exists in the real world but not in the form he's purporting, that is used to justify some of the most disgusting behaviour humanity has ever exhibited.",
"Gods plan",
"This entire thread is amusing",
"I think it's a coping mechanism for insecure people. They feel threatened by the fact that these athletes are better then them so they want to believe that they're \"humble\" and won't rub it in their faces.",
">Humility\n\n&#x200B;\n\n>humility \n/hjʊˈmɪlɪti \nnoun \nthe quality of having a modest or low view of one's importance.",
"Indeed, he was correct in this case. But being correct isn't being \"humble\".",
"Yikes. He’s not even subtle.",
"But to be fair its Fury who involves politics. He has some very backwards beliefs. Such as:\n\n> Fury claimed that he would hang his sister if he deemed her to be promiscuous, and has said he believes that “a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back”.\n\n... \n\n>In the build up to his 2015 fight with Wladimir Klitschko, Fury likened homosexuality to paedophilia and explained that he believes the legalisation of homosexuality and abortion are two of the “three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home”.\n\n...\n\n> “Everyone just do what you can, listen to the government follow everybody like sheep, be brainwashed by all the Zionist, Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers all the TV stations. Be brainwashed by them all,” before comparing the existence of transgender people to the practice of bestiality, claiming sexual relations with animals would be legalised within 10 years.\n\nhttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tyson-fury-deontay-wilder-bbc-sports-personality-year-2019-racism-homophobia-antisemitism-a8668091.html",
"For other people's edification, when you use hundreds year old Jewish slurs and happen to replace the the word Jew with Zionist you don't actually mean Zionist.",
"Fuck you Nazi, the quote literally says Jews that own all the banks and media..",
"I hope you end up in the bottom of a lake you wanna be 1% fucker.",
"live\\*",
"You're proud of him for threatening to murder his sister?",
"The way I interpreted that was you were saying Tyson Fury was your guy.",
"Hey rascist fake ass 1%er trash, just because you add 1 word to a hundred year old slur that doesn't change the fucking slur.",
"you can be upset about this all you want, it does not make you right. \n\nYou cant just omit the word zionist because your feelings are hurt. \n\nthats the joy of facts, it does not give a single fuck about your feelings. it just remains a fact.",
"You can't just stick in the word Zionist in order to make a slur that's been used to murder my people for hundreds of years acceptable.\n\nI hope some rival fucking biker caps your ass.",
"Meh. I was drinking when I posted that. Surprised I did as well as I did",
"Born to Irish parents though, and I *think* that religion might be a bit more popular in Irish people and their children.",
"My guy",
"Well that is a fact. And you can both be proud and humble. And you can both be driven and humble. You're conflating humbleness with passivity.",
"That would absolutely destroy you and your entire family",
"seems like you clearly do",
"Tyson the cable guy.",
"the sport here is beating someone until they lose consciousness.",
"Did you check the dictionary yet?",
"When he sang Wind Beneath My Wings to Klitschko I couldn't stop laughing my ass off.",
"You think I'm American? I would think Americans would think illiberal religious views are normal!",
"Indeed. Yet I get downvoted...",
"Sorry for very gently reminding people that someone being desribed as a \"gem\" is actually a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic antisemite.",
"Just helping you.",
"Many thanks!",
"Yeah thats total bullshit. Your comment was spot on.",
"It is pretty rare for a fighter to actually lose consciousness in a boxing match. But either way the consent aspect is pretty important when distinguishing sports from crimes.",
"You think Americans know what the word illiberal means?",
"\"The Jews own all of the banks and control all of the media\" isn't anti-Zionist, just anti-Semitic",
"yeah but you just changed his quote to fit your narrative. \nsee how deceptive that is on your part?\n\nhe said the ZIONIST jews. \nyou cant just omit that word because it does not fit your narrative.",
"I stg y'all don't know what half of the words you toss around is. I seriously doubt you could even define \"narrative\".\n\nAnd yes, \"the Zionist Jews control all the banks and media\" is still anti-Semitic. Saying the word \"Zionist\" once doesn't make the rest of the sentence disappear, especially when the rest of the sentence is a complete lie that plays on century-old anti-semitic tropes.",
"So, with the exclusion of the word Zionist, does the meaning of the statement change? Does the subject change based on this one word? \n\n\nI ask because including or omitting a word usually changes the meaning of a sentence in most circumstances. So, in your perspective, how would that statement change by removing the word \"Zionist?\"",
"Zionist in that sentence was a qualifying adjective, not a noun.",
"So who likes boxing?",
"The Zionist lol",
"I mean its pretty clear at this point that you people just use the word \"zionist\" as a direct replacement for \"jew\". Have fun flipping burgers for the rest of your life nazi :)",
"Lol!"
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Tyson Fury reacts after epic win over Deontay Wilder and he SINGS for the Las Vegas crowd!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5I6WH0DLSw
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/r/videos/comments/q59luy/the_gayest_thing_ive_ever_heard/
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"Talking smack didn’t work out so great for Theon, not sure I would push this guy too much",
"Next thing ya know he kills your little brother infront of you",
"I’d be curious to know how much that role changed that guys life. I’m guessing overall for the much much better but you know he freaks some people out regularly.",
"This from the show Misfits."
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The Gayest Thing I've Ever Heard
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games play sakura
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pu-PTbMj5E
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"Some of the tweets they're replying to are years old. The person asking how long it takes to get over the feeling of a appendectomy was 2017, I think they're over it.",
"Don't worry, it was delicious.",
"Well, I'm throwing out my charcoal toothpaste then"
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Surgeon Answers Surgery Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
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https://youtu.be/wUBF__NgwOo
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/r/videos/comments/q5aor8/a_simple_stupid_short_review_about_the_game/
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"I enjoyed that haha. Also found it quite funny.\nI'd like to see your reviews of Fallout 3 and 4 aswell as Outer Worlds",
"thank you! it is the second review i have made so far. i will get to Fallout 3 and 4 as well in time. and the outer worlds was the first game i recorded on my channel so once i finish a game i make reviews on them. but as a early spoiler. fallout 3-4 and outer worlds is pretty awesome.",
"I've completed them all a long time ago. \nTry playing Fallout 4 in VR if you ever get the chance",
"the only one i have not been all the way through is the outer worlds. i was going to buy a complete VR sett many years ago with the Omni treadmill for perfect imersion. but then they made the treadmill only available for shops and buisnesses and gave me sort of a bummer.. if im getting VR il need to be able to walk in the games"
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A simple stupid short review about the game Fallout new Vegas
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF0Kr2dw1cU
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/r/videos/comments/q5avp2/the_avengers_theme_everything_is_better_with_the/
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[
"i only clicked because i thought it was naked cello",
"Lil Yachty told me the cello was a flute-like instrument.",
"This video makes me think of what Marvel movies could be like if they had a decent amount of artistry and creativity.",
"Is that a tiny tunnel or is she a giant?",
"[Mrs. Peel, we're needed!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enzW_nZM74g&list=PLO4BR_nE2fE1zVvYDR0rM8qfvErIxmbml)\n\n.\n\n.\n\nOh wrong [Avengers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10QW3Az1FTw)",
"Nice take but not better",
"Yo"
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The Avengers theme - everything is better with the cello
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https://youtu.be/3mcQfP8k51s
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/r/videos/comments/q5azxi/get_a_hobby_work_with_rocks_and_cement_like_john/
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[
"Leaving a legacy through concrete is actually the best way to go about it. Out of all the millionaires and titans of industry over the past two hundred years, I could only name about two dozen. However, everybody who's gone to my high school over the past 60 years remembers *Micky '62* because he wrote his goddamn name in wet concrete at the main entrance of the school.\n\nComplete. Legend.",
"Great video. That dude is pretty cool",
"RIP to the trailer park supervisor",
"But first....earn enough money so you dont have to work ever again........",
"My only hobby is the liquor",
"Classic Micky",
"“When you’re dead, you’re dead. But you’re not quite dead if you contribute something.” That’s deep !",
"Man i loved this guy. What a cool dude. May he RIP forever",
"Shitrocks Randy... shitrocks everywhere!",
"RIP Mr Dunsworth",
"I used to operate a concrete pump in Florida for a living. Briefly anyways -- for about six months. \n\nOne day we were pouring a patio slab in someone's backyard, and the homeowner came out to ask me about how concrete is made. She was really sketched out about it, like she was nervously trying to pry something out of me. After a couple minutes of dicking me around, she finally she came out and said it: \"You don't get the sand from the beaches do you?\" \n\nNo amount of reason or evidence could convince her that we get our sand delivered on rail cars via the tracks that run through our property. I showed her the satellite imagery of our property, and I showed her videos on my phone that I had taken because I think trains are cool. I even offered to have somebody send over a picture of some paperwork regarding the latest sand delivery. \n\nBut she was dead fuckin serious, and borderline aggressive about it, and I could tell after the conversation that she still didn't believe me. She just couldn't understand that it's physically impossible that we could harvest a million tons of sand every year from Clearwater Beach without anybody noticing. Not to mention that it isn't even the right type of sand. \n\nAnyways, I don't know why I'm telling this story other than I'm sick of living in this sweltering shithole with a bunch of complete fuckin idiots. Literally every other person you meet here is just like the one I just described.",
"Funny enough I just read an article yesterday talking about how sand from deserts, like in saudia Arabia, are basically useless for concrete because the erosion of those sands cause them to be too round so they don't work well in concrete since they don't adhere well to one another.\n\nGood luck getting out of there and I hope you find your happy place and make it your home.",
"Bo-bandy",
"It was a good story. Thanks",
"the best lesson Officer Lahey ever taught me was that [Propane, Propane...it starts the gaaame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldoT2mHubGE)",
"Heres a lil drinky poo for you Mr lahey",
"I want someone to look at me like he looked at that cement mixer.",
"I'm two decades deep on this dream and still working on the first step. Own my own property to start something like this on. So theres that",
"He also says he was given a plot of land by his parents. I'm not hating for the record, but be real, this isn't really possible for most people to have THIS hobby. I think his philosophy is great.",
"Get **A** hobby of which making stuff out of concrete is one.",
"Have you tried living in places where property prices are commiserate with your earning potential?",
"I would say the grass is always greener on the other side, but then again....There are idiots everywhere, but not everywhere has as many idiots as Florida.",
"That's why I'm gonna move to the desert! No grass, no problem",
"Look, just because you operated a concrete pump (for 6 months no less) doesn't make you a genius about concrete either buddy. Showing her a satellite imagery of rail-lines is absolutely useless for proving your point, you might as well have showed her a picture of your butthole and said see, I sometimes shit out sand. \n\nYou completely failed to touch on any of her concerns, no duh she didn't believe you. What you should have done is said, see, this is our domestic sand mining operation, it comes from this spot right here. Check out some advanced googling I did.\n\n\"The beach (North of Monterey, California) is the only one in the US that is still being mined for construction sand. Cemex, a global construction firm based in Mexico, operates a dredger that sucks up an estimated 270,000 cubic metres of sand every year. For most of the 20th century there were many such sand mines along the California coast, but in the late 1980s the federal government shut them down due to the erosion being suffered by the Golden State’s famous beaches. The Cemex plant is still operating thanks to a legal loophole – it appears to sit above the mean high-tide line, putting it out of federal jurisdiction. But protesters want state authorities to step in.\"\n\n\"The most dramatic impact of ocean sand mining is surely felt in Indonesia, where sand miners have completely erased at least two dozen islands since 2005.\"\n\nMost sand mining is not exactly ethical, because there just isn't very much data on it. Most of it occurs in the global south, and it is somewhat of a black market industry devoid of any real regulations. Maybe she was asking, do you acquire your sand domestically or internationally? We don't even know what is and what isn't \"sustainable\" sand extraction.",
"Funny you say this, buddy, because I did also tell her that I'm pretty sure it comes from the South China Sea before it comes to us by rail. \n\nIn any case, she directly asked me, exactly, \"You don't get the sand from the beach, do you?\" So I don't know how you expect me to interpret that but I tend to interpret words and sentences by their meaning.",
"Hits deep watching this. RIP to the trailer park supervisor of all Canadians.",
"> Anyways, I don't know why I'm telling this story other than I'm sick of living in this sweltering shithole with a bunch of complete fuckin idiots. Literally every other person you meet here is just like the one I just described.\n\nAs a Floridian this is factual, I want out",
"Wow; that took a deep turn quickly!!!\n But you’re right; I don’t believe I could ever live in Florida; idiots or not.",
"Was this around 2017? There was a fear porn story about the planet running out of sand back then [that was making the rounds](https://www.npr.org/2017/07/21/538472671/world-faces-global-sand-shortage).\n\nThe reality was more that the easiest, cheapest to get sand sources were becoming a problem, mostly in Asia. But that headline doesn't grab eyeballs.",
"Ok -- you didn't say that in your original comment. But you can get sand that is useful for concrete from a beach, maybe not any/every beach though. People read articles and want to do good in the world, whatever their power is as individuals is or isn't, you can't blame her for that -- it doesn't make her an idiot for not knowing all the different types of sand.",
"He lived in Nova Scotia. Property like that is by no means expensive.",
"That property probably costs less than $100k.\n\nProperty is expensive in cities. Rural Nova Scotia, not so much.\n\nHere's 126 acres for $275k half an hour outside of Halifax: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Ketch-Harbour-Rd-PARCEL-PM-1-Ketch-Harbour-NS-B3V-1K8/2071261751_zpid/?",
"Great video. I remember watching this. I recommend it if you want a interesting and relaxing video to watch.",
"She's not dumb because she doesn't know about sand. She's dumb because she belligerently doesn't know about sand, and refuses to listen to any type of reason.",
"What a beautiful man. RIP to a legend.",
"\"I've got a accurate case of low self-esteem.\" \n\nWhat a great line.",
"Oh yeah, totally normal for your parents to buy you a $100k property.",
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying - Woody Allen",
"Grass is always greener where you water it.\n\nSome people want to be on the other side of that fence, where it's green, but don't recognize *why* it's green.",
"I am the liquor.",
">Ok -- you didn't say that in your original comment. But...\n\nWhat's great about this is that you didn't apologize for being such an aggressive dick at all, despite going on such a long and pointless rant. You could have just apologized for the misunderstanding, and went you're own way, but now you just look like an ass.",
"That was really nice actually",
"Not to be that guy, but when you say article do you mean reddit thread?",
"Well, looks like I’ll be remembered, my high school got us brick pavers with our names on them because we graduated right in the middle of COVID and they felt bad",
"Hahaha I live in St Pete and am working on an escape plan because I fucking hate the people here and have realized that I definitively do not want my kids to grow up in this godforsaken wasteland of trash people. So glad I’m not alone…",
"3 buckets of sand to 1 bucket of cement? Thats some strong crete'!",
"Imported from Australia IIRC, along with camels & sheep!",
"The Bob Ross of rocks.",
"He will be seriously missed",
"What a class act. Cheers.",
"Clean and sober just means I’m showered and headed to the liquor store.",
"I never understood how much I disliked living in FL until I moved to another state 15 years ago. It was odd feeling happy about where I lived for a while but it doesn’t feel odd anymore.",
"In that case, Lahey will never die. Even those who don't know who he is can't help but recognize the drunk bastard who fell down the stairs.",
"This stresses me out. All this work.",
"What?",
"The man in the video played a role of trailer park supervisor on the tv show trailer park boys (a cult classic tv show for many).",
"I'm reading an article about it right now!",
"Yeah [Don't build a Dam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teton_Dam) out of desert sand. It will lead to failure.\n\nThe grain size and shape is horrible for anything that needs strength.",
"you mean Earth? or Clearwater? or Florida?",
"...brick ain't got nothin on concrete yo",
"I may very well have seen the article on Reddit, but I recall reading the article specifically",
"Shit wall",
"Who was Bart and how did he write his name in solid cement?",
"Unfortunately that was actually a thing and possibly the reason for the collapse of that condo in bal harbor this year. My grandpa lived 3 buildings north and they are assessing people 30k for renovations because they proved it was beach sand and it rotted the supports and they need emergency work done.\n\nLuckily he moved 10 or so buildings north to a newer condo which is hiring a structural engineering firm to test the whole building and ensure its safe.",
"Poor Mr. Lahey.\n\nDied in a tragic cement mixer accident.",
"Beach sand isn’t coarse enough to be used for concrete",
"I just read an article too, and you are in it!!",
"RIP to a legend. He waited his whole life for that role.",
"That's $100k now, not $100k back then.\n\nDude, it was pretty normal for middle class families to be able to own multiple properties 40 years ago. Dunsworth was not a child of privilege. He was raised by a middle class father who did a middle class thing and bought properties for his kids, while being the sole earner of his family.\n\nThe problem is not the unearned privilege of Dunsworth & co; the problem is that normal people can no longer do for their children what his father did, if they can afford to have children at all.",
"I've co-authored so many articles.",
"Commensurate?",
"What an interesting idea",
"That sounds very much like the kind of conspiracy theory that someone who struggles with mental health issues would fixate on. I have no idea if that's what is was in your case - just something that came to mind.",
">Have you tried living in places where property prices are commiserate with your earning potential?\n\nThe places where there are no jobs?",
"As someone who lived in a fuck hole place. Move. Whatever it takes. Bust ass for 18 months working triple shifts and google a couple nice towns or cities. Good programs and schools. Go their. Start a cult, profit",
"What a sweet sweet man. Rest well with the angels up above, good, sir.",
"I remember first seeing this. Such a good guy",
"I mean she really isn't that far off, we probably are importing 'black' sand from other countries beaches that has been illegally taken. Vice news just did an interesting report on [illegal sand mining](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4d6LT87pMo).",
"Scrolling through the front page quickly and I immediately recognized this screenshot. I cannot watch this without tearing up",
"And you are downvoted",
"Just because sand was delivered by rail car doesn't mean that it didn't come from a beach. There are many places in the world where people are concerned about running out of sand.",
"This subthread is wierd, because the basic issue is real. I don't know about this woman and her belligerency, but showing satillete images of train tracks is at least equally as obtuse in understanding the discussion topic.",
"Nah, the shithawks got him.",
"\"But if you persist through the struggle, it'll still get done.\" \n\nThanks Johnny. I needed that today.",
"You comment has made enough of an impact on at least 18 people to upvote it, and enough on me to reply. \n\nWe'll never meet, or even know who the other is, but still here we are, reaching across the void of the internet that closes all distance to influence each other's minds. \n\nThe internet can at times be maddening, but it is also amazing.",
"Well, I never thought I'd see the day when I learned something from Jim Lahey... 3 buckets of sand for each bucket of sement, and a 3rd of a bucket filled with water. Mix well.\n\nR.I.P. John Dunsworth.",
"This man is the same kind of insane as me",
"While you're mixing your cement, you call bobandy and break for a little drinkie-poo.",
"What a treasure he was. The world was a better place with him in it.",
"RIP Mr. Lahey",
"Legend",
"They say the next conflict will be fought over sand - https://youtu.be/_prUionT-7E",
"I know, but she was talking about *the* beach. The one that is in our city and is half a mile away from her home.",
"u/silversocket",
"Fuck you man. I still haven’t gotten over losing this legend.",
"“Be as imaginative as you like” holy shit, I KNOW you know how much I love this, thank you ❤️",
"Instead, he achieved it by being a creep.",
"The issue with Teton Dam was inadequate foundation preparation that resulted in erosion of the core material. It's also not a concrete dam...",
"Some jobs require being close to an urban area which all, without exception, currently have record high real estate prices while wages have been stagnate for decades. Nice try though.",
"It's prescious ❤️",
"He's like the Bob Ross of rocks and cement.",
"Great man",
"Jim “The Liquor” Lahey",
"Can confirm, Clearwater to Melbourne (all of Central Florida really) is beyond fucked",
"Yes but when you’re watering your lawn and the rest of the state is salting it it’s very hard to get much green",
"Mr Lahey had a good retirement.",
"About ten years ago on Facebook, I got into a nice dialogue with Mr. Dunsworth over a couple of weeks. Clearly I was a fan, but we never once talked about the show, just politics. He was a good man and should be more missed.",
"Yeah well please don't all go start pouring concrete in your garden and add stones to it. Besides the fact that the cement process is sole reason why the concrete industry makes up 8% of overall global emission, grass is a lot nicer to have in your garden. \nI'm looking for a house currently and the amount of gardens that are either cemented or completely covered by cobblestones drives me nuts. It's like people hate grass.",
"jizz croissant",
"Which was Desert Sand because someone saw a pile of sand and failed to test it's properties. It was a time of arrogance in Dam Building in the US. \n\nMajor case study in Sedimentology and Geotechnical Engineering.",
"\"Do you get sand from beaches?\"\n\n\"No, look we get it from trains.\"",
"plenty of grass in nevada",
"When cement is to the walked on its gotta be hard",
"Funny you said that because I was looking at jobs and apartments in Reno just the other day",
"> Commensurate\n\nImma blame this on autocorrect. Thanks, bro.",
"Guess what? There are some jobs that don't! And there are some jobs that we've found out can be done completely remote!\n\nBe the change you wanna see, bro.",
"Hmmm... if only there was a way to change that! Like by working remote. Or by working towards a better paying job.",
"Yeah, no doubt, that emissions fact is extremely overlooked. I don't think people hate grass, but I think they hate having to maintain it so they look for shortcuts. There are so legit almost authoritarian home owner associations and/or local statutes out there regarding lawn maintenance. So every time I see somebody with tall freaking grass I always think to myself \"Fight the power bro!\", haha",
"Such a humbling video.",
"And even if didn't write anything down. Your actions will have still affected the universe, however insignificant your impact may be.",
"Oh yeah, they did a shitty job for sure. I just worked on a new dam here in Canada, and the level of foundation preparation and grouting we do nowadays is on a totally different level. I have no concerns about internal erosion on the dam I worked on.",
"It definitely re-wrote some of the rules. The amount of requirements that say 'to be confirmed by Geotechnical engineer' increased dramatically.\n\nDam's these days also require a lot of planning, study and assessment before they get off the ground. Especially in Canada.",
"8 years ago. I wonder what it looks like today, wishing the Dunsworth family all the best, miss you John."
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GET A HOBBY: work with ROCKS and CEMENT like JOHN DUNSWORTH
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https://youtu.be/DntdI5_EuH0
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/r/videos/comments/q5b37j/arnold_schwarzenegger_shares_a_revenge_cigar_with/
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[
"It seems like it is a cannabis cigar and Danny knows it?\n\nI don't see what the revenge is.",
"Yes, he's directing Triplets --- with Tracy Morgan as the long lost third sibling.",
"> For lunch breaks, Devito would make pasta for the two of them and they'd smoke cigars together before returning to work. One day, Devito put marijuana in Schwarzenegger's cigar without telling him. Despite knowing his lines by heart, Schwarzenegger's mind went blank when the cameras resumed rolling.\n\n> \"I’m a fanatic about memorizing my lines so I never touch the script once I arrive on a set, but when we got back after lunch, Danny said his line and I just stood there. 'Duh,'\" Schwarzenegger says.\n\n> To save time, director Ivan Reitman filmed close-ups of Devito, who \"was laughing up a storm,\" so Schwarzenegger could read his lines off the page. After a while, it all came back to him. He says it could have gone worse if they had another director.\n\nhttps://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a36487977/danny-devito-arnold-schwarzenegger-twins-prank/",
"Ahh. Seems like a light hearted joke more than revenge.",
"Wait..Ivan Reitman and these 2 in matchjj in ng clothes..are they making a Twins sequel?",
"So Arnold inhaled his cigars? Or he doesn’t and wasn’t high? Also… how would he not quickly notice it wasn’t tobacco?",
"Wow.",
"Yes, they are.",
"yep, of course they are",
"I heard that one ages ago, probably before covid. Both Tracy and Eddie are listed, so I believe Eddie Murphy will be the third triplet. \n\nhttps://imdb.com/title/tt2334867/fullcredits/cast",
"a smaller amount of weed among the strong tobacco",
"Who smokes a cigar with giant rips like they smoke weed?\n\nArnold apparently.",
"Yeah, that was my thought. I smoke both cigars and weed, the smoking style is very different...",
"Wow I thought all you guys were joking. It’s a real thing.",
"Most likely it was just a bit of weed mixed in imo, so depending on how much it’s much easier to overlook esp if you don’t know what you’re looking for",
"Fuck Arnold",
"Yes",
"Didn’t he smoke weed back when he was a bodybuilder?\n\nI’d think he’d be able to tell a blunt from a cigar.",
"Yes, it's called Triplets.",
"?",
"[He doesn't have to hide his stogies like you because he's a stud](https://youtu.be/DklAU4GNpxA)",
"Relevant username...",
"Well, Danny was making pasta and very likely snuck the cigar in with the breadsticks. Arnold is farsighted and is well-known to not chew his food. It’s very likely he ate the entire cigar and got reefer madness. Very likely.",
"Aye, I prefer the *old* Hollywood Arnold flavor and not the politician Arnold myself.",
"Marry Devito\nKill Bill",
"A good cigar could vastly overpower the taste of the mj inside.",
"Be sure to brush your teeth sweetie!",
"He didn't just roll a swisher and go 'hey arnold here's a cuban', more likely he just emptied some of the tobacco out and put bud in it.",
"Need Arnold on Always Sunny to mess with Mac.",
"Twins is still both the best Arnold Schwartzeneger and best Danny Devito movie ever made.",
"Lmao, right? Last time I smoked a cigar and inhaled the smoke I ended up throwing up on a city bench.",
"He used to hang out with Tommy Chong in the seventies.",
"You know I watched a documentary about Olive Garden one time and I guess this is pretty common. There's actually an inherent liability waver when you order the Unlimited Breadsticks™ because so many people were ingesting cigars. You can read it in the fine print on the bottom of the menu page.",
"Mac would shit and cum at the same time, which would make it inappropriate for TV.\n\nOn the real though I'd love to see Mac gradually convince himself Arnold was bad at bodybuilding because Arnild kept telling Mac to make positive changes in his life.",
"I thought people were joking but they actually are making a sequel...\n\nhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334867/\n\nhttps://www.nme.com/news/film/twins-sequel-danny-devito-arnold-schwarzenegger-3046617\n\nhttps://deadline.com/2021/09/twins-sequel-triplets-tracy-morgan-joins-arnold-schwarzenegger-danny-devito-ivan-reitman-hot-toronto-film-package-1234830766/",
"Why",
"Plot twist: you dont have to order the bottomless breadsticks",
"Get back to cleaning house, Mildred. Don't brag.",
"The laugh kills me",
"okay - someone please explain. comments have not yet helped",
"I'm sure it absolutely reeks like weed. Which is why Danny says \"oh man, that's a good cigar!\"\n\nI think \"revenge\" is meant in tongue in cheek. It's call back to when Danny got Arnold high as a prank, I don't think he was expecting Danny to light up a fucking cigar on set. But it was a joke in reference to a prank Danny pulled. They're a couple of guys having fun.",
"That's quite a sense of humidor you have",
"oh boy, here we go againnnnn",
"Oh my god the condescending laugh at the end is so good. I fuckin love Arnold",
"Arnold is over 70 and still looks like a big dude. Him and Stallone are proof that with work your Twilight years don't have to be wretched and feeble.\n\nAnd, of course, your doctor's prescribing you Testosterone & HGH.",
"I actually love that these two are still friends all these years later. It's nice to see them old and grey together.",
"\"Where's the KABOOM?! There's supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!\"",
"> Mac would shit and cum at the same time\n\nFair reaction to meeting Arnold, to be fair.",
"I thought it was Ivermectin?",
"He definitely smelt it as soon as he opened the container. People seem to forget that weed has an unmistakeable and quite pungent smell",
"I don't get it. Did it stink or something? Was it weed?",
">He doesn't have to hide his stogies like you because he's a stud\n\nHe did, however, play hide the sausage with his housekeeper.",
"ya I wish someone would enact this kind of revenge on me",
"I hope you aren’t joking about Tracey",
"You can see he smells it around 8sec in, before it comes anywhere close to his nose. \nThat's some sticky icky right there.",
"The comments section is gold😂\n\n\"When Arnold falls in water, Arnold doesn't get wet. Water gets Arnold.\"",
"Dang! Originally the third brother was supposed to be Eddie Murphy! I’m sure Tracy will do alright, but I thought Eddie was the perfect fit..",
"Yes, and this is viral marketing.",
"> Testosterone & HGH.\n\nyeah that",
"Weirdly, no.\n\nhttps://deadline.com/2021/09/twins-sequel-triplets-tracy-morgan-joins-arnold-schwarzenegger-danny-devito-ivan-reitman-hot-toronto-film-package-1234830766/",
"I’d rather Mac say he works out with Arnold and it ends up being Geoffrey Owens doing a horrible accent. Just saying all the Arnold catchphrases.",
"He’s gonna go bang some hoors now",
"I would give this same answer but then immediately call my wife to let her know what I did and that I didn't mean it and that I was just being funny and if there was anything she wanted special for dinner to let me know and I'll pick it up on the way home.",
"Danny got Arnold high on the set of Twins way back by sneaking a bit of weed in his cigar.\n\nArnold is getting \"revenge\", which is to say sharing a joke between friends, by giving him a cigar with some weed in it. \n\nBased on Danny's reaction, probably more than a bit.",
"I've met and shook Arnold's hand twice...it was shitcum alright, Randers.",
"> \"I’m a fanatic about memorizing my lines so I never touch the script once I arrive on a set,\"\n\nI love Schwarzenegger and I've only seen his older movies. But I really don't think the roles he's casted in ever really had an abundance of lines.\n\nHave his more recent films have higher word counts?",
"\"Isn't that lovely?\"",
"Arnold on always sunny would be absolutely incredible",
"I mean, who among us, right?",
"DeVito got Arnold high on the set of Twins by packing some weed in his post-lunch cigar. This is a weed filled stogie being gifted back to DeVito in reference.",
"It's not magic. You can be on all the gear in the world and still look like shit. You have to still eat clean and work your ass off.",
"Fuck your freedom.",
"Particle man",
"That context makes the video much much better",
"Jesus Christ, there’s one of you in every single Arnold thread. It’s getting as bad as the Buscemi thing…",
"Dude, the first cigar I smoked, I didn't know you're supposed to keep the smoke in the mouth. Holy shit, my head started spinning like it was a bowling ball sliding in for a strike, and I just barely made it to the trash can before yacking up every single drop of the beer I'd just had. \n\nI think it's kind of a rite of passage almost - my dad was laughing his ass off, and it was at that moment that I knew, he had intentionally withheld key information regarding the proper way to smoke a cigar... \n\nNow I have to do this to my son someday, but I don't know if it'll work because now the internet exists and he can just look up how to smoke a cigar. Back when I smoked my first cigar, I had to rely on *people* to tell me how.",
"As crazy as it sounds, some people do in fact inhale their cigars. I can never understand why they would or how their lungs could tolerate it, but I don’t smoke cigarettes.",
"\"The goggles! They do nothing!\"",
"Dude’s been in movies for a half-century.\n\n“Recent” is kinda vague. \n\nCan you narrow that down a bit?",
"I love these guys. But this movie will be terrible.",
"I just watched total recall the other day. He has a shit load of lines in it.",
"Haha, “prank getting him high” Also known as “drugging your friend”",
"Very true. But its also kind of their job to look like that. Thats what theyre paid for. The rest of us working schlubs gotta find time to get any workout in.",
"I hope you leave enough room for his fist, because hes going to ram it into your stomach & break your god damn spine!",
"‘He’s not cultivating mass correctly…’",
"And they all love him",
"She found it, though. A lot.",
"You may have some obsessive traits. Might wanna look into that.",
"Didnt Arnold used to be a pothead(Go watch *Pumping Iron*?) I guess getting lit during work is different though.",
"UP AND AT THEM",
"well yeah but that's true no matter what age you are.",
"Ahahaha good joke... Wait, WHAT ??",
"Oh c'mon, don't extenuate the cycle of horrible first time cigar experiences...\n\n...although given the health hazards associated, maybe this isn't a bad idea lol",
"Because Whoopi Goldberg wasn't available?",
"Similar experience here, lol. My first stogie was after gorging myself at a Thanksgiving dinner. I turned green and out came the meal in the reverse order it went in",
"Which one is Arnold and which is Danny?",
"DUDE'S BEEN IN THE ZONE FOR 40 YEARS!",
"Hey block the wind.. I'm about to roast this bone.",
"Overall yes, I agree. Using actors, body builders, athletes as goals is unrealistic. But there is a lot of time in the day to workout, we just choose to do something else. Some dumbells and a small bench is all you need. Which is perfectly okay, if that's what you want to do. Example: Us talking on Reddit. We aren't doing anything productive, but could be getting some juicy gains in - bro!",
"I think you're underestimating the amount of lines a lead actor has. Even him\n\nHe's notorious for being great to work with and directors loving him. Give some credit",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger is fucking hilarious. I want him to do more comedies like he did in the 90s.",
"More than anyone else, for sure. Not easy to do. He's only as good as the script",
"Probably a Cannagar, which is highly prized if from someone reputable. Envious!",
"Oh yeah I'm not making any excuses for zero exercise. I'm just saying most people don't have the money or time to look like Arnold. Or the genetics lol",
"I was elected to Lead, not to Read",
"Yes, and yes.",
"Let off some steam, Bennett!",
"I’m gonna call the president of TV. This needs to happen.",
"O sick, good friends (:",
"As long as you've got work/hobbies that you love and money enough live comfortably without worry, it's something we all probably hope to achieve",
"Man Danny Devito is scum for drugging Arnold.",
"The gang gets Arnold to promote fight milk.",
"Yeah more people should really mention he only won the CA gubernatorial election because [Enron had a massive lawsuit against them and he made it go away](https://www.democracynow.org/2003/10/6/schwarzenegger_accused_of_involvement_in_9b) once he won.\n\nEdit: The downvotes prove why idolizing celebrities is wrong. People can’t even accept the slightest criticism of the guy, let alone legitimate *serious* criticism.\n\nHe met with them in May 21, 2001. They went bankrupt in December 2001. Do you really think he didn’t discuss making the lawsuit go away with them? Do you really think the GOP gave him their full support because of a groundswell of grassroots support and not because he prove he was willing to play their game for them? Forget everything you know about Arnold and focus on everything the GOP has proven about how they conduct politics. It’s not new to them.\n\nThe whole point of the recall was to make that lawsuit go away. Learn some history.",
"This is the way.",
"That's just the old chuck norris joke rehashed for arnold, and i am okay with it",
"u/TheRealOcsiban, do you understand what \"revenge\" means?",
"Awesome. Morgan will KILL In that role.",
"Most cigars are so strong, I bet if you sprinkled a little weed in there you probably wouldn't notice",
"And everybody will love it.",
"Yeah I don't have super high hopes for it either. Especially since I'm already not the biggest fan of the original movie to begin with. It's basically just one moderately funny joke stretched across 90 minutes.",
"Ivermectin?",
"Last Action Hero was 1993.\n\nTrue Lies was 1994, and had some decent lines. \nThe sodium thiopental scene was great!",
"Good",
"Holy shit Arnold nailed Steve Buscemi??",
"Oh, so they're just getting the viral advertising out early.",
"If you smoke a cigar like a cigar, that has weed in it, it's going to get you high.",
"That makes the casting of Ray Dawn in Commando a little more interesting.",
"It is a real, real mindfuck to me that this is 33 years after the original. I AM NOT THAT OLD.\n\nNext you'll tell me Kindergarten Cop was 31 years ago.... what... **OH GOD NO**.\n\n*mourning into my beer*: Goonies was 36 years ago",
"Common misconception. Devito wasn’t a body builder. That’s his natural body type.",
"Man that coulda turned out bad for Devito. Arnold’s high, he gets mad. Devito says, nobody tosses a dwarf.",
"Record scratch",
"Mr. Universe Man",
"Yeah, burning styrofoam. It smells like a garbage fire. \n\nI will never understand how people like the smell of pot. It's fucking foul.",
"https://youtu.be/OW2z3pMILm8",
"Probably under a bridge.",
"Probably talking about how he was a NYC firefighter and how he, a huge movie star at the time, returned to help with 9/11. That's the only thing that gets brought up in every thread I see about him but that's someone else's comment and I can't say for sure.",
"I'd love to see Arnold lean back into action comedy in general. Last Action Hero is his finest achievement to date, perhaps closely linked to True Lies and Kindergarten Cop.",
"It also has plutonium-grade Kelly Preston.",
"yeah, he’s literally smoking a joint on camera at the end of Pumping Iron",
"Don't act like you didn't know already...",
"Eh. I only go on reddit when I'm supposed to be doing something else. I do work out but it's at minimum an hour if your day. Realistically, it's an hour and a half to two if you count the prep, travel, and shower.",
"We call my neighbors kids Twins. And yes we are comparing the 2 brothers as Danny and Arnold in the movie lol. \n\nLove Danny Devito. One of my fave actors.",
"Yes!",
"\"You know what? I'm gonna become governor of a state whose name I can't even pronounce, AND I'm going to marry a Kennedy!\"",
"Can Arnold make another action movie spoof and have Devito as his partner in crime?",
"Wait is there going to be a twins two?",
"Triangle man!",
"I don't see any revenge.",
"That's the only reason he won? The thing that happened after? Fuck, the man is a time traveler too.\n\nBadass",
"Yes",
"If you were not a fan of the first then don’t watch this. Easy.",
"Depends where you set the bar. Come in expecting something on the silly/stupid side and just enjoy.",
"Not that this is destined to be very good, but name Eddie Murphy’s last halfway decent movie. He gave us Beverly Hills Cop, The Golden Child, Trading Places, sure. But it’s been a rough few decades. I have no confidence in him whatsoever.",
"This has to be amazing.",
"Never thought about that! definitely a connection there.",
"Seriously. It’s uncanny.",
"Same goes for pipe tobacco, you are only supposed to puff it. Treating it like a cigarette is gonna be a bad time.",
"This makes me wonder why I was fined $1,000 for possession. But that can be said about a lot of stuff I guess",
"Whatever plot would involve Arnold, the title of the episode absolutely must be The Gang Gets Terminated.",
"Tracy is now playing the triplet. Eddie was originally due to play it but apparently he was no longer able to play the role due to his Amazon deal so Tracy has stepped in. Shame, Eddie was the perfect choice considering hes been linked for years and the script was developed with him in mind.",
"He keeps telling me to quit drinking but carbohydrates are essential to cultivating mass and beer is in fact a carb, so therefore beer is good. What does he even know anyway",
"Danny Devito is bad ass.",
"This post title is a mess.",
"way too young",
"“Mac gets a sugar daddy”\n\nHis fetish for older women and beefcakes finally clicks.",
"I like the taste of Pepto Bismol. Some people wretch at the smell.\n\nDifferent strokes.",
"Um, you can not like weed all you want. But it does not smell like either of those things even a little.",
"> Last Action Hero is his finest achievement to date\n\nSuch an underrated movie.",
"I've shook his hand once, and didn't Santorum my pants.",
"It's insane how a seemingly silly movie making fun of action movies can have so much God damn depth to it. From the beginning of the movie with the kids poor home life to the existential crisis the \"action hero\" has. Seriously such an amazingly great concept and execution.",
"Fun fact. The quote is \"The goggles do nothing\"! Although many people, myself included remember it as \"The goggles! They do nothing\"! This is often brought up when people speak of the Mandela effect.",
"Exactly! Somehow they're just as funny if not funnier here.",
"Dolemite is My Name was great, and that was two years ago.",
"That's kind of a funny coincidence to see this here, as yesterday I shared a [cannabis cigar](https://www.reddit.com/r/CannabisExtracts/comments/q4rz4r/a_cannagar_i_rolled_with_various_extracts_included) I made",
"What’s the story of Danny Devito getting Arnold high on the set of twins?",
"No. But it was fine. This will be a garbage fire. A garbage fire I'm sure I won't be able to look away from.",
"Pothead? Not exactly. Getting high on occasion? Hell yeah. \n\n\nHere's a sauce: https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a36265905/arnold-schwarzenegger-working-out-stoned-tommy-chong/",
"Didn’t see it. Looks great. So that and Shrek in the last 30 years.\n\nEdit: in my opinion. But what do I know?",
"? What?",
"You really don't need millions of dollars, trainers, or any of that nonsense to get good results, especially when on gear. It's an excuse to hide behind how your life and stress doesn't allow you time to workout, but it allows you time to argue on the internet? It doesn't work that way when we are talking about working out, getting healthy, and looking better not trying to aspire to models who only look a certain way for days out of the year.",
"Great idea - I'm kinda surprised some of Danny's big Hollywood friends haven't asked to show up for a random role...",
"No, it 100% smells like burning styrofoam. \n\nI can't help you know that if you've destroyed your olfactory system.",
"Kinda like what Clint did with Unforgiven - the standard bearer deconstructing and riffing on their genre.",
"Person man 😞",
"Ignore that trash. it's accusing Enron, a company that went bankrupt in 2001, of conspiring with Arnold to become governor and save them from a lawsuit for 9 billion in illegal profits. He wasn't governor until 2003.",
">\"And you pour a little in - not too much!\"\n\n>*glug glug glug glug glug*",
"So once he was governor in 2003 he made a lawsuit go away against the company that went bankrupt in 2001?",
"Yeah idk why redditors assume they have to partake in every piece of media just so they can dump on it before/after. Like if you don't like something don't watch its sequel?",
"Goddamn. He’s representing peak Deathrow Records energy in that clip like something found an a Snoop or Tupac album outro.",
"They should've made him Frank's brother",
"One of my favourite videos on the net is when GSP met him after a fight , he was like a giddy child.",
"I do not care.",
"Arnie is the type of guy who calls 911 and asks if they need help",
"An old acquaintance of Frank's, it is half written right there and it is a crime it hasn't happened",
"Holy shit I never knew I needed something so badly to happen.",
"didnt he do movies' that his kids licked and then stopped making movies at all?",
"Amazing. I had no idea I wanted to see Arnold play this role so much.",
"It's a prank to give someone drugs without them knowing? Is that funny?",
"Oh my god we get it you ~~vape~~ die on petty hills on the internet to feel better about yourself.",
"2% financing on a Toyota Tundra? That was my idea!",
"Following to see if it does",
"Chuck norris is crazy and not cool though.",
"why does everyone glorify these two lol",
"Danny is a treasure!",
"It used to be",
"I hate Tracey, so I'm glad Eddie is still in it. That would have been a no from me dog.",
"These were my exact two reactions to that comment",
"Eddie is still listed? I'm going to cry if Tracey is the fucking triplet, ugh that would be so dumb.",
"Oh no, what's up with Chuck these days?",
"u/govschwarzenegger, please make an appearance on \"Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia\".",
"I never noticed his teeth before",
"I think that’s why he couldn’t keep it together at the end lol, he knew he was gonna get shit from his wife after",
"There’s a certain level of perfection that can only be achieved when you have 16 years of backstory to build any future plots off of. At this point, I don’t think you can end the show without all of Philly burning the Gang at the stake, and the lawyer getting everyone off Scott-free.",
"I am waiting for Arnold to show up in this thread",
":grimaces:\n\nbetter",
"Turns out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently.",
"Do people inhale cigars? I thought it was just a mouth feel thing.",
"so he's great, because total recall is a masterpiece",
"The plot should be around Arnold trying to convince the gang that he is Frank's twin brother.",
"That documentary has since been proven to be biased as it was revealed to have been produced by a big-breadstick CEO.",
"Hit on the head with a frying pan",
"Start a petition and message me this needs to happen.",
"AHHH MAKE WAY FOR WILLIEEEEE",
"Who the hell is Moe Zart?!",
"Yeah he was clearly FURIOUS",
"And it was probably something else before it was a chuck Norris joke",
"Awesome. Just started one. What next?",
"lol",
"I just googled Triplets because it felt like they've been talking about the sequel to twins for 10 years. Apparently the third brother is going to be played by Tracy Morgan. I don't know how I feel about that. I love Tracy Morgan but I was expecting Eddie Murphy because they'd been talking about getting him for years. I feel like Tracy Morgan's too young to be a triplet to them and not as big a name. Eddie Murphy is too young for them too but nowhere near as much",
"Ok, here's my pitch again: Replace Frank with Arnold. *No one* reacts to it except Charlie, who spends the entire episode trying to convince the Gang that Frank is really Arnold Schwarzenegger.",
"u/govschwarzenegger should come and address this directly.",
"I agree. Eddie Murphy would've been perfect and they'd been hyping it up for years that he was going to be the third brother",
"Yeah, it's just much easier with dangerous performance enhancing drugs.",
"Get Arnold to sign the petition!",
"Funny you should bring up body sovereignty in 2021.",
"Dude should be loading trucks in Transylvania.",
"Pretty fucked up if you ask me but reddit loves weed and love DeVito now because of It's Always Sunny, but that is a pretty fucked up thing to do to someone.",
"Yeah, it’s what the other guy said. Firefighter on 9/11, etc.",
"> The rest of us working schlubs gotta find time to get any workout in.\n\nIt's really not hard to squeeze in 30 minutes a day of push ups, pull ups, squats, etc. in your living room. It's just that people want to drive to a gym and use the machines and locker room, turning it into a 1-2 hour ordeal. And I get it because it's easier to get into the right mindset at a gym with machines than it is at home doing push ups, but if you don't have time for the gym then you at least have to acknowledge that you making a choice to not do some kind of work out at home.\n\nObviously not talking about people who work crazy hours, just your average working schlub.",
"He's a crazy evangelical. Like...ultra batshit.",
"There's nothing dangerous about it lol. It's not like they're getting sketchy black market dark web vials and injecting themselves. They're getting pharmaceutical grade drugs with regular monitoring from their doctors.",
"Yeah but you're not going to look like Arnold at 70 years old with 30 minutes of working out every day",
"I'm gonna get real weird with it",
"Steroids.",
"You have a very strange sense of smell then.",
"His twin brother.",
"God damn how much fun would it be to have a drink and cigar with these two?",
"sounds like my first cigarillo as a kid lol",
"Cigars aren't inhaled though.\n\nEdit: I worked at a high end cigar shop for 10 years. Cigars aren't inhaled.",
"Remember he's had two HUGE heart surgeries due to the excess use of steroids.",
"HGH increases your risk of developing cancer and diabetes. Anabolic steroids increase your risk of stroke, hypertension, cancer, etc etc.",
"YES",
"Just do it before he's learned to read or write and you're good.",
"He also does a good Tracy impression",
"[The increased cancer and diabetes risk of HGH is small enough to be insignificant when not abused.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16430706/)\n\n[Likewise the increased risk of hypertension, cancer, stroke, etc, etc. posed by theraputic testosterone supplementation are small and the health benefits of it more than offset the small risks.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212439/)\n\nTurns out science is worth more than fearmongering bullshit.",
"Stinky cheesy socks would be how i describe it, very different to what you're describing. Sweaty feet mixed with a fresh cut lawn, earthy, cheesy with some BO. I've smelt styrofoam, i've been around fires(burnt all kinds of shit for laughs in my younger years), garbage, and plenty of weed, the two things don't share the same smells at all. Non-smoker these days, i can pick up the smell a mile off (i know all the houses that smoke it when i pass by), definitely not styrofoam that comes to mind, but i guess everyone has a different sense of smell (or you're smelling something you presume is weed but is actually something else).",
"Wait, what? This just ends. What?!",
"Yea, and Frank would always mention how people always got them mixed up",
"The real reason he won is that dumbass recall law that California has.",
"\"Hi, am I speaking to Mr. Moose? This is your son's preschool calling, your son is throwing a tantrum, he is insistent that we let him 'burn up a stogie' before nap time. Would you please come pick him up? We can't have our students puffing on cigars in the play room.\"\n\nThe inevitable outcome of this strategy lmao",
"I tried, but it's tough to do my curls on my 2 hour commute.",
"The movie that introduced Americans to mini disc!",
"Nicotine and THC can absorb thorough mucus membranes.",
"Imma switch gears for minute",
"He seems like a bad choice. Tracy is a talented actor, but he's 20 years younger than the other leads. How is he going to be their triplet?",
"He was also an 80s icon like the other two.",
"Sure but you can still look fit. I don't understand, are you saying if you can't look like Arnold then it's not worth it?",
"I was expecting it to explode. Like a cartoon. \n\n\n\nVery disappointed",
"Yep. My favorite way to guy high is under the tongue",
"And I'm Phoney McRingRing, mascot--and President--of the phone company!",
"It's like a Reese's. There's no wrong way to consume it. Whatever you prefer \n\nBut people do for sure inhale them and if he had weed in there that can absorb through the mouth just like nicotine can. I've got some weed chew here actually",
"Oh hell no. He needs to be there to force Frank to pretend to be legit, while also casting doubt on whether he might be the real dad, because of genetic similarities.",
"She's dead now.",
"It's cause your son's a stud, he's ballsy, he don't take no shit from anyone... he smokes his stogie anywhere he want, and doesn't have to look for a hideout like you.",
"Mr Schwarzenegger 1. Cut down Dennis. 2. Elevate Mac. 3. Humor charlie. 4. Call Dee a bird.",
"These studies appear to address hgh replacement after surgery and therapeutic testosterone replacement, not supplementation for vain aging celebrities. Just because medication is safe when used correctly doesn't mean it's safe when used off label at different doses. Kind of like horse dewormer.",
"My God that's great, then when he tries to pull up a picture of Arnold on the internet it's just Danny Devito",
"I'm still waiting for Kung Fury 2.",
"A) Who is inhaling their cigars \n \nB) Who is smoking weed instead of tobacco and *not noticing*?",
">Devito put marijuana in Schwarzenegger's cigar without telling him \n \nKind of a fucked up prank.",
"Damn thats probably some serious primo shit",
"In case you forgot, they both had triple or quadruple bypass surgery. Not super healthy lifestyle they had with steroids. But money helps a lot",
"Arnold absolutely slams Danny Devito",
"Is the show actually happening? Last I read they were all up on their feelings and couldn't make a agreement on the contract for a new season.",
"As his long lost twin brother.",
"Need an episode of Always Sunny where Frank is completely replaced with Arnold and the gang is unplused by it and everything goes on as normal. Then at the end frank comes out and everyone acts like there are two of them, alluding to Twins and acting like they are spitting images of each other. And Arnold is his twin brother Fred Reynolds who is also a rich benefactor.",
"No, no no. Everyone has one great idea in their lifetime. Mac has an idea that the gang shits all over, and he meets Arnold, and pitches it to him. Arnold tells him it's not a good idea, but his spirit is in the right place and he shouldn't give up.\n\nAt the end of the episode, Arnold unveils Mac's idea as his own and everyone thinks it is brilliant, including the gang.\n\nAlso, it'd be hilarious if he pitched the Ass Pounder 4000, but obviously instead of a fist, it's just the seat functions to push you back up.",
"You miss him so much.",
"Ouuh-hough-hough-hough-hough!",
"That's why I said, smoking it like a cigar. If you smoke a joint the same as you do a cigar (not inhaling) it will get you high. I said what I said intentionally.",
"I NEEEED THIS",
"But he will let your kid know that they have AIDS, so that's always fun.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebOKo96HfEM",
"Jesus dude",
":D",
"\"These days?\" Try 12 years ago when he came out as a politically active homo-hating, gun-loving, ultra-conservative, religious nut.\n\n^(nothing wrong with loving guns, but in the context of the other three it's almost always creepy)",
"Mac meets his match.",
"Hey! This guy's a big fat Phoney!",
"is he a dot? \n\nor is he a speck?\n\nwhen he's underwater, does he get wet?\n\nor does the water get him, instead?",
"Basically drugged him.",
"> > Mom, can we get Eddie Murphy?\n\n> We have Eddie Murphy at home.\n\nEddie Murphy at home:",
"Yes, I need Mac to think he’s tougher the Arnold and just get his ass kicked haha",
"Funny video. But made me actually think that alcohol being... well... an alcohol, might render proteins useless. Googled it and the thought was pretty much correct.",
"'My eyes! The goggles do nothing!'",
"It will either be absolutely brilliant or awful",
"\"due to excess use of steroids\"? I think you might be speculating here.",
"Was Demolition Man before or after Last Action Hero? There was at least one Schwarzenegger reference in there from Stallone.",
"Austrian Mac",
"Lmao dude your dealer probably sold you some trash to get you out because you were being retarded",
"Completely agree.",
"Made my day.",
"https://youtu.be/d7bo-aeznzY",
"I'm not really the biggest fan of Tracy, so sad to hear. Eddie would have been perfect",
"Yeah they do. Where tf do they get “**failing** reality star” from?\n\nEdit: to the downvoters he had high ratings. How tf is that failing? You stupid mfs can’t agree with anything that might shine a positive light in the man. He’s a dumb mf but goddamn you look like a fucking moron when you disagree with someone no matter what their stance is.",
"https://imgur.com/gallery/Xvalkv6",
"Agreed! I just watched it for the first time a few years ago and couldn’t understand the hate? The movie was funny and had a great concept with a good execution. I think you’re right about it being way ahead of its time, which explains the bad reviews",
"I feel like you're trying to make a joke and get people to look up Danny DeVito's contract video for laughs, but, if you're not: \n\n\n[https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-renewed-season-18-fx-1234850926/](https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-renewed-season-18-fx-1234850926/) \n\n\nnaw they're good.",
"It would be hilarious if he just played Frank for a full episode and everyone played it completely straight.",
"Probably with a joke about how \"black don't crack\" or something.",
"Damn, she got that special whip",
"They need to replace Danny with Arnold for one episode only and pretend like he's Danny",
"Wait, does Arnold inhale cigars? Inhaling an unfiltered cigar is a similar experience to inhaling smoke from a wood fire. It just ain't good.",
"I will get a tattoo of Danny devito as a naked cherub on my ass cheek if this happens.",
"I'm actually more excited for Tracy.",
"Get your ass to Mars! Screw you Benny! See you at the party Richter!",
"Kevin Nelson and Dana Carvey were on point with that shit",
"Shoot, I forgot how good that movie was. Well. It was good for what it was. I may watch that tonight.",
"Drugging someone without their knowledge is not cool.",
"the word \"revenge\" is incorrect here",
"The \"not too much\" slays me every time.",
"AAAAAARK!",
"2021 season 15 release is exciting news.",
"Because all cigars look like turds? :p",
"Seems a little fucked up to me.",
"So did I when I saw Triplets....\n\nDear god why. I love them both but....WHY.",
"Longest running comedy show? Holy shit!",
"They're both from 1993, so which of them released first doesn't matter since they were both in production at the same time",
"Like Asian Jim in the office",
"So is that just a blunt or is it actually a thing in the cigar world to have a cigar + weed?",
"It depends on the cigar quality. If its only known humidity and its of a good quality then you can inhale it without it being rough. However if its been dried out, even once, the inhaling is not very good and your best just swirling the smoke around your mouth for the absorption and flavour. You can tell if a cigar has been dried out in the past by rolling the end in your finders, if it crackles don't inhale. Proper non crackling cigars are the bomb.\nTl;dr; keep them humid.",
"Or... The reveal is that it is Frank's twin and they were fucking with them all",
"Yeah that's kind of redundant.\n\nEdit: lol",
"Especially if they got him to play his twin",
"When he smelled it, his face lit up. 😆",
"Yeah, it was a pretty funny bit about Schwarzenegger being elected president of the USA in Demolition Man.\n\nBoth films were from 1993, and in that period those two guys were regularly making joke references to each other in their films, in kind of a back and forth. It was something my brother and I always looked out for when watching their movies in those days. \n\nThere's also Stallone in Tango & Cash saying \"I loved you in Conan the Barbarian\" to a huge prison inmate, an \"I'll be back\" Terminator joke in Stallone's Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, and a joke in True Lies when Jamie Lee Curtis's character says \"I married Rambo\" to herself, after she watches Arnold kill a bunch of guys.",
"You have been banned from /r/ArnoldSchwarzenegger",
"I’ve always thought having him play Frank for an episode & nobody noticing would be great.",
"The man was governor of California for 8 years, of course he blazes",
"FUCKING PLEASE",
"My dad met Arnold once. He was a waiter at a high end restaurant. \n\nApparently, Arnold is a bad tipper.",
"Zing! Heyooooooooo",
"If you ask me it changed action movies forever. It pointed out all the ridiculous impossible things in action movies and put it out there for everyone to see. After that you started seeing less of the never ending bullets, heroes that can't be hurt, etc. Now of course a few still stuck around or it wouldn't be an action movie.\n\nThe whole movie was a 4th wall break or even a 5th wall in some cases. Such a classic. Loved watching it as a kid, love watching it as an adult.",
"You know, that's the thing. You can't love guns anymore without it also being assumed you're a turbo piece of shit. Guns are cool! But, I also love gays and abortions so it's a tough spot to be.",
"He’s a failing **businessman**. Reality TV was the one thing he’s ever been good at.",
"r/liberalgunowners",
"I will never understand people who simp for celebrities…",
"Tinctures?",
"This comment is too far down.",
"Yessum. Tried to make my own like a decade ago and failed i guess . Going to snag some everclear and make my own now as it's super expensive for medical but damn does it work. Amazing shit",
"I feel like context is important here. \n\nLike if you did this to someone who had never smoked it or was against doing so again, it is incredibly fucked up, to the point of being potentially criminal. \n\nIf you did it to someone who you know doesn't have any problem with smoking it in a situation where it would not be risky or otherwise problematic for them to be unexpectedly high, it seems like a perfectly reasonable prank, though I still wouldn't do it myself just to be on the safe side.",
"Chuck got Black President Syndrome.",
"Pretty sure that was the gamecube, actually.",
"Nirvana’s Nevermind album came out 30 years ago. Next year Thriller will be a 40 year old album. Raiders of the Lost Ark celebrated it’s 40th this year.",
"Chuck Norris jokes were already repurposed absurdity-praise.",
"The director Ivan Reitman has made some amazing movies. I have very high hopes for this",
"I mostly use my dryherb vapes so I've built up a lot of the leftover vaped material. The plan is to make a tincture from that, I hear people get good results with it.\n\nDoes using the tincture make your breath smell like weed?",
"the laugh at the end omfg",
"I still don't understand that meme and nobody would ever explain it to me because they didn't know what it's about either.",
"I mean Ghostbusters was brilliant. Nearly a perfect movie. Up In the Air was excellent. \n\nBut he also made the new Ghostbusters and No Strings Attached.",
"Do it. Strong weed taste but no smell other than high proof alcohol lol. It's just like 14 drops tho\n\nMy friend tells me he's been frying his abv with butter and sugar for a snack and is high for days from it lol. Meanwhile I licked up some distillate off my hands last weekend and I was as high as I've ever been. It all ends up in the blood somehow",
"I'd like to tell you a little story about the effectiveness of this method of tobacco deterrence.\n\n[It's a little abstract, but I feel that it gets the point across quite effectively.](https://youtu.be/iZ8nN6hTnmM)",
"Crikey, look at the size of Arnie's watch",
"I'm autistic and have an extremely heightened sense of smell. You have no clue what the fuck you're talking about, and you're also an arrogant prick. Lick my balls.",
"It’s actually true. Steve Buscemi really was a firefighter on 9/11.\n\nhttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/steve-buscemi-fdny/",
"This",
"r/socialistra",
"r/socialistra",
"*where'd you come from?!?*",
"I mean its staged... the forgot to edit out the first 2 seconds of them getting ready to start the skit.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5kYQ112l8\n\nYou can dance underwater and not get wet, aww",
"Hey OP happy cake day",
"How come my YouTube keeps scrambling like I'm watching porn in the 90s?",
"Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) was flippin fantastic in it",
"Yes, but I don't understand the meme. That's just trivia.",
"He can play Austrian Mac.",
"I'd just eat the ABV if it didn't give me several days of the nastiest weed shits lol.",
"Mr Freeeze and the Penguin bout to roast a bone.",
"You don't give illegal drugs to Arnold without him knowing what they are! He has a guy down at Gold's Gym for that",
"If they went with Tracy Morgan instead of Eddie Murphy, it probably means they're going to go really weird with it.",
"To be fair, it is rather difficult to organically integrate a gun into an expression of love and/or tolerance.\n\nPretty awkward to say \"hey man, I love guns, and I love gays, and I prove it every day by *not* shooting any gays with my guns.\"\n\nIt all tracks logically, but, well...",
"He's lovable, even when he's being a dick.",
"Most people absolutely do have the time and money and genetics. They just choose not to. All it takes is one hour a day, 3 to 5 days a week. It just takes commitment.",
"Bullshit. You wouldn't look anything like Arnold with that tiny amount of exercise.",
"That's not revenge at all, it's a dish served cold. You want that bitch blazing",
"Rather Tracy than Eddie. Tracy can say some wonky shit about shit, but Eddie is Improv poison. Wants to have the biggest laugh every time. Gets pissed when talkshow hosts do gags on him, like \"Do you know who I am?\". Too cool for school, is what Conan calls guests like that.",
"They sneak reference each other in their projects because they have a friendly rivalry.\n\nGeorge Lucas and Steven Spielberg used to do the same.",
"I need Arnold to be Frank’s previously unseen twin brother.",
"Five days a week? You absolutely would. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Just eat clean, take supplements, and work your ass off. It takes years to get super jacked but you don’t need to be at the gym five hours a day. That’s just stupid.",
"Apparently he did lol.",
"What are you waiting for!?",
"No you wouldn't. It's just not true. \n\nHe spends hours every single day to look like that. 15-20 hours a week minimum. While taking HGH and all sorts of supplements. \n\nI fought MMA for 6 years. Was there with people who worked out hard every day. You don't look like Arnold with a few hours of working out a week.",
"This",
"Thank you so much for the great laugh",
"100% knew what was in the cigar, 100% ecstatic",
">See you at the party Richter!\n\nThe best line in all of cinema.",
"You forgot one thing, Arnold is a stud that doesnt give af",
"I love this",
"this would be awesome!!!",
"I always thought it smelled kind of like a less intense skunk-spray. Same kinda smell, less 'acidity' to it for want of a better word.",
"Nonplussed.",
"Rich people laughing and joking doing something that a poor minority person in a more backwards state can spend life in jail for lmao.",
"There’s plenty of time.",
"I don't have 20 hours a week of extra time and the money needed to buy all the stuff he takes to look like that.",
"He had a faulty heart valve.",
"It's perfect, the Twins meta",
"It would be hilarious if he's just drinking in the bar and the gang can't decide how to talk to him for thirty minutes.",
"Message me when he does.",
"There's always 2022.",
"Eddie Murphy would have been such a better choice and at least closely matched the age.",
"maybe speculating on the excess part, but Arnold openly talked about using steroids. It was even common to talk openly about using steroids back in the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiHu6Y6UOdI",
"This would be the most amazing thing ever",
"The CIA used to do that with lsd",
"Perfect!!!",
"I think splitting it into two sentences makes it a better line. I get mildly upset when I look it up to quote, and remember the actual line isn't as good.",
"Just picturing this in my head has me dying.",
"Why the fuck do you not already have it?",
"I thought Tracy Morgan had some kind of permanent injury from that Wal Mart wreck?",
"It is not a thing. At all. Most cigar smokers would think you’re an idiot for buying a 10 dollar cigar to do it.",
"can't wait for kindergarten cop 2",
"Let me fire up this spliff",
"It is absolutely the coolest thing ever that he replies to people sometimes, what an awesome person",
"This is a terrible post. How lame",
"Inhaling cigars is bad. Period. If a cigar crackles it’s under humidified. A properly humidified cigar will never crackle. Anyone reading this, don’t inhale a fuckin cigar. Or do and video tape it because it will be funny.",
"Hwat was that?",
"I prefer it also. I'm sure many people do, which is likely how it came to be misquoted that way so much.",
"Oh NVM then. Guess it's cool.",
"\"The Gang Gets Terminated\"",
"Or the Christmas classic, jingle all the way.",
"What planet do you live on where you can look like Arnold working out for an hour a day 3-5 times a week? Please tell me this is a troll. I know body builders and the guys that are competing and winning spend most of every day eating and lifting. It's literally their entire life.",
"He started a local water bottling company after finding an artesian well on his ranch. They sell it in the College Station area and it features an comically over built version of him with bulky shoulders and a tiny waist. During disasters the company will make cases of water available for free to people.\n\nIn the local area he'll go to local sports games wearing an old beat up jacket hat and glasses. People know who he is but respect his privacy. I have family in the area and they've sat behind him at games and wanted to take a picture because of the old memes, but they didn't.",
"[Would you like this dream to continue?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoF42UppkI4)",
"Dot Com tell this person why they're wrong.",
"Hold on, matching shirts!? Are they shooting twins two!????",
"For the mass alone",
"Wait are they doing another Twins movie!?",
"Tracy Morgan was an 80s icon?",
"Good? No. Passable? Maybe.",
"Jingle All The Way was my favorite",
"People were expecting a different \"Arnold\" movie than what they got.\n\nPersonally, I liked it then, and I love it now.",
"The dude it was done to seems a lot less upset than you",
"I thought so too back then, but he’s been in a bunch of movies and stuff since then through. So, he’s certainly well enough to act (if you call what he does acting lol).",
"she’s mashing it",
"And Arnold’s character always had an inferiority complex because frank was considered “the hot one”",
"I didn't hate the first Doctor Dolittle or Nutty Professor movies, but I have to admit I last watched them over 10 years ago and I have no desire to rewatch them now, so take that endorsement with a grain of salt, I guess.",
"Dude, I've been walking next to you the past 2 miles!!",
"What we saw onscreen was already plenty, and then they just smash cut to the blending in process!",
"Oh my god, when he bites the cork, laughs, then spits it out and glares at the camera.\n\nThat was so unexpected and hilarious. Sorry Arnold, I was almost having too much fun…",
"I can tell that it wasn't from that comment.",
"Honestly the show was only slightly entertaining because of the other celebrities, like Gilbert Gottfried. All Trump did was pretend to be a boss and a say, \"You're fired.\"",
"Haha that’s actually pretty problematic and not ok but since it happened a long time ago and two people seem to be ok with it I’m just gonna laugh along",
"Ooh, that makes sense. I didn’t see it when it came out due to not being born yet, but I can see why some might not have liked it",
"Hmm. I remember a post a few months ago of him riding a scooter at Disney World looking pretty rough. Guess I assumed he was worse off",
"It’s almost like they’re… Twins.",
"Arnold talking about cultivating mass as he does an ocular patdown on Mac",
"I would say he has more good movies than bad also his lower budget movies are really good but his big budget ones are not as good. I was reading that this is going to be a lower budget production",
"It’s like they’re…twins.",
"If that was 2 shots then I'm Elon Musk.",
"This",
"Who needs weed when you can be [cumming all the time?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8DMZ_ownSiM)",
"Arnie wore a Casio ad-520 in true lies and last action hero, but wore a Casio amw-320c in kindergarten Cop.",
"Occulah pahtdow’n",
"Its a way overposted til to the point where people became sick of seeing it, leading to the meme of it being repeatedly posted in random comment sections",
"I see. Thank you for explaining this thing to me.\n\nI gotta say, there wasn't a lot of payoff for this.",
"It says he met with them once. How would he have helped them out two years after they ceased to exist. If they were making tons of money illegally, why did they need to illegally hide how unprofitable they were?",
"No revenge here.",
"And then at the end it turns out to be a golden retriever",
"“GUYS FRANK HAS NEVER HAD AN AUSTRIAN ACCENT BEFORE!”\n\n“Charlie, lay off the paint dude”",
"This is the way",
"Lol wut?",
"She does that",
"True Lies! that was a good film.",
"Accidentally high Schwarzenegger sounds like a fun guy to hang out with.",
"\nBut does he also have donkey brains?",
"\"Uncle Arn\" he and Mac can get in a flex off.",
"this could work!",
"You know, that's a relevant point, tho.",
"Agreed... Garbage fat ass waste of space in a suit... \n\nShow was barely watchable regardless... Surprised the ratings were ever decent even to be honest.",
"Up and Let's Go",
"[Yes](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbJqisHB7o)",
"Get that Radiation Man shit outta here",
"And Arnold is getting extra muscle by drinking Crow Milk.",
"Galaxy Quest was similar in this regard.",
"I mean it seemed like a pretty harmless prank between pals, it was just weed.",
"That",
"Next is post the link here then post an original link in the Arnold Schwarzenegger subreddit, the IASIP subreddit, the Dani Devito subreddit, and then let it expand on it's own from there. Where do I sign.\n\nChanged theb to then.",
"#HE SAID!!",
"Their job is acting lolz, it's not like they're operating heavy machinery",
"I’m here, how may I help you?",
"Liar!",
"Bowfinger",
"I honestly feel that Arnold is too wholesome and nice to be a part of the shenanigans the gang gets into.",
"So epic",
"Message them",
"> Shame, Eddie was the perfect choice considering hes been linked for years and the script was developed with him in mind.\n\nEspecially because according to this [article](https://deadline.com/2021/09/twins-sequel-triplets-tracy-morgan-joins-arnold-schwarzenegger-danny-devito-ivan-reitman-hot-toronto-film-package-1234830766/) it was actually his idea to be a triplet.\n\n> “Twins was quite successful, and some years after, this whole thing started with Arnold meeting Eddie Murphy, and the suggestion came from one of them,” Reitman told Deadline. “It was, ‘**I** should be a triplet, that could be a very funny comedy.’",
"I never knew how much I wanted to hear “shut up, bird” in his accent lmao",
"Thread so old, no one will see I put The Haunted Mansion movie somewhere in here... Is it an easy cash grab snoozer for ez $$$? Yes... But the set design and props were really cool and practically built. Early CG that looks just bad enough to learn from. For a kids movie based on an amusement ride, it felt really genuine compared to what we're getting today. No offense to The Rock, but I really don't like the soulessness of those movies. And when i say soulessness I'm talking about the art / crew / talent / creators behind the scenes. Watching the extras for the Haunted Mansion, you could tell people were really passionate about what they were doing. Maybe ten to twenty years from now someone will be having this same conversation about Jungle Cruise. All I know is I tried watching their Disney Plus commercial shit (Behind The Attraction) and it sucked eggs. Executive producer The Rock. No conflict of interest there! The Imagineering Story show was awesome though.",
"> but he's 20 years younger than the other leads\n\nHave you seen Tracy recently? The accident aged him a go 10-20 years, and don't forget about makeup. Hollywood has perfected practical and digital aging.",
"Decent. But what? 25 years ago?",
"VERY European",
"Man this has me torn. I'm not sure whether I'd choose Arnold and Danny or Cheech and Chong to smoke under the table. On one hand Cheech and Chong is an iconic defacto duo, on the other you got DeVito and Schwarzenegger each hilariously outspoken and iconic people in their own rights. I could either smokeout the most infamous stoners of all time, or say I smoked the terminator with Danny DeVito. Does anyone else have this thought dilemma?",
"I remember my mother loved Stop or my Mother Will Shoot. I think she mostly only likes Stallone's comedies. Arnold was her favourite actor back then.",
"You really don’t. Testosterone can increase your muscle mass and strength even if you just sit on your ass while taking it:\n\nhttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199607043350101\n\nWith that being said, you gain a lot more if you eat clean and work your ass off, so if you’re gonna do it, why not do it right?",
"Pretty sure his heart issues have nothing to do with the gear he ran. They really weren't abusing all that much in his day.",
"100% I have nothing against weed but I would be pissed if someone messed with my brain chemistry without my consent.",
"Wait a minute",
"It’s probably all weed. It seems Danny read something on the label that piqued his interest.",
"Twins came out closer to the election of Kennedy than to the election of Trump.",
"Our grandfathers sacrificed their lives for our freedom. Now we sacrifice our freedom for lives",
"Aaaaand u/UndergradGreenthumb goes silent.",
"[Arnold shares his deepest feelings](https://eeuauaughhhuauaahh.ytmnd.com/)",
"Being as Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a huge pot smoker most of his life I doubt it was unwanted even if it was a prank.",
"“Fuck your freedom” Arnie",
"Tracy is unfortunately annoying to watch.",
"And realistically, it *should* be *failed* not failing... Lol",
"I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that smoke sesh 😁",
"omg",
"if you are crafty enough you can put the weed inside the cigar.",
"Yes the lawsuit was still pending. Did you even read the article?",
"he does",
"Not like general weed smell but there's definitely a certain smell to it but idk if ppl would be able to tell unless they had a keen sense for it and were right in your face. However, you can make candy edibles from tinctures, which is cool since you're sucking on candy and getting high, plus no bad breath. Since you're already making the tinctures(which is the harder process) you might as well infuse it with candy. It's really easy to make.",
"Yes he never would’ve ran without the meeting with Ken Lay and other GOP string pullers. Do you seriously think he won because of some grassroots groundswell of support?",
"Triplets.",
"Do you know how bankruptcy works? It isn’t an immediate process. It takes years. The lawsuit was still pending.",
"You can see at the end she's making two drinks. But there's also no way that was just four ounces she dumps into that shaker.",
"I vaguely remember it used to be Vin Diesel jokes briefly before Chuck took over.",
"It's unbelievable how smug they are about being completely wrong. \n\n\nOnly 3-5 hours a week to look like Arnold? \n\n\nlmao\n\n\nanyone who actually spends any time in the gym would know how absurd that is\n\n\nabsolute armchair expert",
"I mean before that no talent ass clown decided to fuck our democracy that show was no less grating, banal, and phony than 90% of reality TV at any given time.",
"Arnold isn't a bodybuilder anymore. He's big for an old guy, but he's nowhere near as big as he was back in the day.",
"Find an active hobby you enjoy and it ceases to be work",
"O.oo ooomoooooooomo moooomoonoono.noooooooonnoono nooo.no .oooo.oo.oo.o.ono.no.o.nnonoo...onoo... oo..o.o.o.........o..o.oo..o",
"I mean, he's huge for an old guy, but he's nowhere near as big as he was in his prime. Do you have any source that he still spends that much time in the gym?",
"Here I am forgetting about Twins. Love these guys.",
"God needs to take note of your post and make it happen. May thy will be done!",
"On top of that, the blender, being a blender, renders the slicing of the banana useless",
"if it is or isn't, for this thread, who cares?",
"Wasn't that how they ended Seinfeld?",
"\"If God were a villain, he'd be me.\"",
"That is fucking fantastic. Yes. Now.",
"Disagree... Unwatchable trash",
"third twin cryogenically frozen at birth, brought back about 30 yrs ago, and now knows about Arnold and Danny, his older twins. \n\nI'm rooting for Jodie Comer to be cast as the triplet. Preferably with Rusian accent.",
"I actually *liked* a lot of the garbage ass reality TV that was peddled to us around that time... That show was *never* entertaining to me...",
"Devito would never say \"fuck your freedom\"\nEver since the govinator said that I do not respect him.",
"He works out 3 times a day still. Just more cardio and lighter weights. In his prime he was working out 30 hours a week. Now that he's in his 70s it seems like it's probably closer to 15-20 hours. \n\nhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/20/ex-bodybuilder-arnold-schwarzeneggers-wellness-routine-at-age-72.html",
"Agreed... like most of reality TV. Just saying it was semi-tolerable just as long as he was just a phony irrelevant piece of trash.",
"Fair enough... Much better than the wannabe dick tater the shit bag became.",
"It's crazy. Arnold dedicated his life to looking like this. He's an absolute madman when it comes to working out. And it obviously shows. 5 hours a day is more realistic than 5 hours a week.",
"I agree. It was never my thing. I just get how people thought it was tolerable until we found out just what a garbage person he is.",
"\"25 years?!\" *feels weathered face dramatically*",
"Again, fair enough... And such super garbage... Fuck that guy",
"Yeah, don’t think about that.",
">Fuck, the man is a time traveler too.\n\nWell, to be fair (*to be faaaaaaaaair*) he *is* best known for his role as a time traveler.",
"The lawsuit was settled for 1 and a half billion, of which only about 200 million was actually paid, because they were bankrupt. Even if they had gone to court, and got the 9 billion dollar judgement, they only had 200 million to pay. I just don't understand what the accusation against Schwarzenegger is",
"Agreed. Full stop.",
"I feel in my heart that it was this video that got him the role of Mr. Freeze",
"ahh.. that's where I got it wrong. I just eat and clean my ass off.",
"MOM... I'm sexually active...",
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"Hhhyeahhh, dis betch iz a gahddam bierhd eeauughhhhgh",
"Arnold was Froggy the whole time!",
"It was an intriguing concept fort a show initially and would have done the same with literally anyone in his role. I think it was hilarious that he had the nerve to try and pin the show's cancellation on Schwarzenegger when it was obvious the show was diving in the ratings already.\n\nThey went to celebrity seasons because the show quickly lost appeal with a bunch of no-name business school students. The celebrities were themselves entertaining, to a degree. The host was intent on trying to convey this image of being powerful and all-knowing in the business world when the only success he has had were his property holdings which would have made him MUCH richer if he focused on that instead of trying to branch out and fail at every conceivable business idea. Unwillingness to show vulnerability or laugh at yourself will inevitably make someone an entertainment failure. Watch interviews with almost any actor or even look at any actor that tries to always be \"cool\". It may seem like a success until everyone realizes this boring, 1-dimensional piece of stale toast isn't going to give you anything more than the most obvious reactions/decisions.",
"🧂🤌",
"Hey... Fuck you, you shitty fucking ass bad words bot. How about you fuck off already? Thanks fuckface.",
"Wow, I had forgot about ytmnd, those were the days.",
"Iasip is the ONLY show in history that I would be okay with it if they did the 'everything was a dream' trope. Except it was Charlie overdosing on blue paint, cat food, and stickers.",
"CROWS EGG!",
"You are a genius",
"Omg this is genius",
"“Somethings rotten in the state of Denmark…and Hamlet is taking out the trash”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/YNcN5f3vwro",
"i miss these",
"He was just the host too I doubt he did very much.",
"Absolutely. \n\n\nI've had multiple friends who were bodybuilders or powerlifters and have done BJJ, MMA, rock climbing, and other sports with people who trained their asses off at least 2-3 hours a day, 5 days a week plus meticulously planning their nutrition, and having natural athleticism \n\n\nMost of them were ripped by normal standards, but obviously none of them were close to Arnold or professional bodybuilders even after many years of dedication.",
"This also taking into consideration that almost no one that smokes real cigars anything close to the size of a corona are not inhaling heavily.",
"id prefer whoopy goldberg as replacement for eddy. same ish generation of films like sister act and ghost.",
"Nah, loving guns is fucking weird man there's just so many people doing it it's kind of accepted. \n\n\nNow I've got your back up, indulge for a second. If I had a box of poisons and I lovingly took them out once a week to oil and clean the bottles, getting all excited over my latest mason jar of anthrax, had a sticker on my car \"poisons don't kill people people do\" and bought vials of them into supermarkets just to prove I'm allowed to carry them would you think I was entirely right in the head?",
"True Lies was so fucking good. The scene where he dreams of punching out Bill Paxton kills me every time.\n\nTom Arnold also killed it in that movie.",
"Not true. He had a bicuspid valve.",
"We need a twins reboot. With them as old men.",
"A blunt?",
"This still doesn’t explain what makes this cigar a “revenge cigar”. I watched expecting it to explode.",
"Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle",
"Watch the original. It’s just…ok. You know?",
"Moment I opened the video I thought I was looking into a mirror",
"It’s a cannagar.\n\nTechnically a blunt, but a solid cigar full of weed.",
"Agreed",
"I still laugh at his version of hamlet in that movie.",
"You wouldn't need to to get high.",
"That's because you probably think freedom is an entitlement that comes without responsibility.",
"why are they both so lovable",
"Very good",
"Honestly I don’t think my comment was supposed to be a parent comment, I meant to reply to someone. Whoops",
"He only partially inhales it, and he smokes way better cigars than you or I.",
"word but what other way is there to eat a reese’s besides chewing it in your mouth and swallowing it?",
"As Ken Kesey once said, dosing someone is the equivalent of raping someone's mind (in the sense of taking without consent). It's actually a pretty fucked up thing to do.\n\nOn another note, what is wrong with the cigar?",
"What is the context for the video? Especially with Ivan Reitman standing in the background? Are they actually making a twins sequel?",
"I’m pretty much a professional trust me.",
"That's just fucking midori and vodka.",
"I live in California and I will get both these men high in whichever fashion they want - vapes, edibles, an amazing blunt - they are like my cool older uncles I grew up with. Either way thank you /u/govschwarzenegger",
"Even more than a blunt, a Cannagar uses weed leaves as the wraps too, as opposed to a blunt which uses tobacco leaf as the wrap for the weed",
"I'd visit a clinic to get your sense of smell checked..",
"Yes so unsuccessful, being a billionaire. Lol\n\nHe’s a con, and massively successful at it. They’re always one grift away from the streets.",
"Oooo sounds pretty noice",
"Sweet opinion you got there. Shame it has no bearing on his success whatsoever.",
"Hahah. This is great, Arnold. 🤣",
"from to much roids",
"Hey! It’s a person who understands that freedom for all necessitates rule of law. I love you!",
"> Him and Stallone are proof that with work your Twilight years don't have to be wretched and feeble.\n\nStallone looks absolutely awful.",
"Uncanny DeVito.",
"This and that",
">Under no pretext must they give up their arms and equipment, and any attempt at disarmament must be forcibly resisted",
"The video title is just \"Danny gets a cigar!\" so it's just a narrative from OP",
"2Twins2Furious",
"Speling error.",
"*uses shaker*,\n*stirs with spoon*\nI am confusion",
"Show me how to use a poison in a defensive manner lmao. Or use my poison for shooting skeet or trap. Or use my poison to put food on the table.\n\nThis example at least is absolutely ridiculous",
"Ikr",
"Have you killed people?\n\nYea but dey war all bayad",
"Getting as jacked as Arnold is going to require PEDs and working out more than an hour a day, 5 days a week. \n\nArnold has supreme genetics and he had to take PEDs and generally work out twice a day, 6 days a week.",
"Happy cake day!!!",
"Good thing the second-class subjects in the background are masked. Wouldn't want them breathing the same air blessed by the beloved celebrities.",
"I was conceived at Disney world while demolition man was playing on the TV",
"OP's title was weird and confusing",
"If /u/Absolute__Muppet is correct, Eddie is stuck in an Amazon contract so Tracy took over.",
"It was Frank all along but Charlie was too fucked up from huffing paint.",
"I love this so much",
"It's been over 30 years and I still can't tell them apart. 😭",
"It was the previne, pre tik tok style of humor.",
"gotta give them credit, they beat seinfeld. i think jerry wanted the show to end though",
"ah twins",
"I don't smoke at all, ever. But if Arnold gave me a cigar of any kind I'd take it, pour a glass of a nice bourbon and head for my patio.",
"Fuck your freedom",
"Ladies and Gentlemen of California, your former Governor.",
"I'm so excited with the knowledge, that he does, in fact, check his mentions from time to time. This would make me so incredible happy I could puke.",
"I ain’t afraid of no ghosts!",
"But would you light it? Because cigars like the type he smokes are particularly nasty smelling. 🤮 and since you don’t smoke, I would think you would not light it. Because, then there is the possibility of you horking your dinner... and that is no fun!",
"he's not a billionaire...we did all this last year. He's up to his eyeballs in debt to deustche bank and others. He'd have more money today if he just put all the money his dad laundered to him in an index fund and sipped mai tais on a beach for the last 40 years.",
"I like the idea someone said in this thread that Charlie would be the only one who recognized Arnold as not being Frank and everyone just thinks he's huffing paint or something. I think it would be funny though at the end they do the twins meta reference and they'll all be like \"Oh wow Charlie how'd your know this wasn't Frank? It's like seeing Frank looking into a mirror.\" haha.",
"Seriously this is the dumbest post ever.",
"Haha so funny getting someone high without their permission /s",
"Googles “Arnold” and every picture is Pat Morita",
"Shit, if I had a son that looked like Arnold when he was only 3 I'd be buying him all the cigars and protein powder he wanted.",
"\"The gang goes clubbing\"\n\nThe gang hears about a new nightclub in town and all of them want to go there. Dennis wants to go there because of all the hot women and extremely rapey reasons, Charlie misread the name and thinks there's something amazing in there, Dee wants a guy, Frank wants to be a high roller and be the focal point of the club and Mac is mostly going along because everyone else is going (and to show off his body).\n\nWhen they get to the club, there's a tough bouncer at the front (Arnold) wearing his signature Terminator look with a leather jacket and sunglasses, that wont let them in.\n\nDee tries to sweet talk him, which goes nowhere. Frank tries to flash money and that goes nowhere, Dennis gets denied for being creepy, Charlie gives him a no-nonsense talk that he's just here to see the amazing thing in there (and gets denied) and Mac completely loses the thread and starts talking to Arnold about bouncing.\n\nArnold then talks about being a tough bouncer, with Mac trying to impress him ( talk about nightclubs being the elite profession of bouncers, the sunglasses to hide him doing ocular patdowns, compliment each others leather jackets as Mac is wearing the duster with Arnold saying it's for protection from blades, etc). Meanwhile the gang all comes up with stupid plans to get into the club. Frank tries to bring an increasing amount of women that he's bribed and either enter with or hide in the throng, Dee tries to enter with the girls (and is treated as not belonging by both the bouncer and girls), Dennis tries to find another entrance and ends up clearing increasingly difficult obstacles on the way inside. All fail pretty miserably, with Dee using increasing amounts of make-up and sluttier dresses, Frank always being spotted.\n\nDennis in particular circles the club and finds a wall surrounding a portion of the alleyway behind the club. He guesses it's a smoking area and goes through incredible effort to clear the wall, tearing his clothes and messing up his hair in the process. Once on the other side, the only door is locked and wont budge. He starts to get pissed, but then sees a vent. We then see him struggling to pull himself through the vent while covered in dirt and sweat and muttering to himself, before reaching grate on the bottom. 'Now to gracefully make my entrance' he says, before we see him dropping hard out of the vent. Standing up covered in dirt and with clothes torn we see Arnold and Mac standing there. Mac starts exclaiming how Arnold suddenly just walked over there right before Dennis exited as if he was psychic. Dennis starts trying to explain how he knows Arnold said he was weird before, but he's definitely not weird and is someone that would be great to have in the club (while looking crazed and disheveled). Dennis says something along the lines of 'what do you say?' and Arnold raises his had and does some gesture. Mac says 'Oh... Sorry Dennis. That's the symbol for throwing you out' and Dennis tells him to stop acting like he knows anything about bouncing and it probably means nothing like that, before being grabbed by two bouncers and thrown out.\n\nMac is then invited by Arnold to go clubbing with him and the two leave. Mac is startled when they enter the nearby club and it turns out to be a leatherman gay club. Mac exclaims about it and Arnold, surprised, apologizes and says he thought he was also gay, which Mac confirms. Arnold asks him if he doesn't like the place, and Mac seems awestruck. A passing guy puts the signature leatherman hat on Mac and another puts it on a happy Arnold without us getting to see more.\n\nAt the end of the episode the gang is complaining about the events of the night and how the nightclub was terrible anyway, at which point Charlie is revealed to have entered pretty easily, having volunteered to help the janitor team out cleaning puke spots in the club, and then left disappointed when it turned out to be just a nightclub. Frank eventually just hired some hookers to heap attention on him, and Dennis and Dee both had some incredibly rapey alternate plan they went with. Dee having waited until she saw a super drunk guy getting into an uber and squeezing in with him, and Dennis saying he waited outside pretending to be an Uber driver that got canceled on and kept an eye out for helpless women (Gang ask why helpless, and he clarifies 'helpless to my charm'). Mac defends Arnold and talks about how much he is teaching him about bouncing and the gang correctly guesses that Arnold took him to a gay bar and he spent the night in a gay orgy.\n\n\nedit: Added Ocular patdown, the actual rapey plans Dee and Dennis went with (including a reference to Dennis being a serial killer), Dennis trying to break into the club.",
"When you start off rich, you need to fail a lot before being completely out. Dude is still a businessman and so still failing.",
"OG memes",
"Oh no, he made a common mistake, probably because he doesn't smoke. WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT HHAAHAHHAAHAH SHAME HIM SHAME HIM!!!!",
"Would be amazing! Do it, gov!",
"IIRC, Arnold tricked Stallone into doing 'stop or my mom will shoot' by convincing him that he was seriously going after the role, which got Stallone to steal it from him.",
"Basically, and they were the worst episodes of the entire series, truly.",
"Especially if he plays macs twin",
"Do you mean to tell me that possibly the greatest breakthrough open-user single-service content generation platform that was YTMND is somehow separate from the social media ecosystem that now includes Vine and TikTok?\n\nFlash back, we're talking about genealogies here, digital evolutionary history, deep memories of the old gods breathing life into the ten thousand things, ya know?",
"If the 60's show was made today, it'd be the 90's show.\n\nThe song '1985' was released in 2004. If it were made today, it'd be called '2002'.",
"Lol such a bird",
"Nothing wrong with getting testosterone when entering your twilight years. My dad does it as well. It's basically just due to your testosterone levels tanking as you get old, and it adds a lot of quality and quantity to your life.",
"Oh no, you're supposed to cut into your leisure time. What tiny amount you have left after work and chores, that is.",
"Link it! Where do I sign this?",
"I dunno dude, the left and right call him a billionaire. He lives like a billionaire. \n\nWhatever helps you sleep at night.",
"Hey, stop being a dick!",
"Those are a couple of my favorite movies and both way ahead of their time! Hadn’t realized they even came out that close together.",
"That’s how you make Twins part 2.",
"Well yes and no, you obviously need to put work on but studies have shown that they increase muscle synthesis even without working out",
"Please tell me they’re making a sequel to Twins!!",
"Are you serious lmao? He's saying you're speculating on the roids leading to his heart surgery, not his use of them",
"*No. Do it sexy.*",
"He was my favorite actor as a kid, too. Hell, he still is. My wife and I love him as we're the same age and know all his movies. He's the reason we made a lot of good decisions in our lives such as getting into bodybuilding and never hiring a maid.",
"Yeah, delicious",
"I’m shit",
"I’m shit",
"Google Jack Lalane to learn about the guy Arnold couldn't keep up with in a work out, and even he slipped as he aged.",
"https://lifeiscrazynow.ytmnd.com/",
"There's a study that compared untrained individuals doing a set, hour hypertrophy workout a few times a week to simular untrained individuals taking testosterone while going about their normal day. \n\nThose taking testosterone despite not working out gained more lean muscle mass.",
"rofl Im crying",
"At this point even if they never get Arnold on the show, I will probably miss remember this post as an actual episode and then remember it fondly in my old age and have my whole family instructed to humor me and pretend they saw the episode too to keep grandpa happy. Please make this episode, or don’t I already saw it just reading it!",
"- Republicans everywhere to women.",
"I can’t express how much I love this idea. And then it can all be explained by carbon monoxide poisoning in the bar so everything is back to normal the next episode.",
"This, plus same thing for weed. There is nothing worse than being the person who barely even knows how to inhale in a room with strong weed and veteran stoners. There's only one way you learn to pass, and that way ends poorly.",
"It’s one of those films I have avoided watching since I was a kid as I remember it being great and don’t want to ruin that.",
"1. I don't think those behaviors you listed are obligatory to \"loving guns\".\n2. I don't think you'll find many liberal gun owners engage in said behaviors.\n3. I think you cherry-picked the worst possible examples of gun aficionados to make a hyperbolic and non-representative point. You can find creepy weirdos in any fandom. I even said that most gun nuts who exhibit the other categories I listed tend to come off as creepy.\n4. As another commenter stated, your comparison to poisons is flawed, at best.\n5. Minus the specific creepy behavior traits you mentioned, I don't think it would be weird for someone to be fascinated by poisons *in theory*. Any kind of mechanism can be fascinating, and the organic chemistry and biological machinery and complex interactions involve could definitely be interesting for a fan or for a professional. In fact, we probably have that kind of interest to thank for many of the antidotes, medicines, and investigative tools we have at our disposal. I'm sure many scientists, researchers, toxocologists, biologists, entomologists, herpetologists, etc. are fascinated by poisons and how they work. Similarly, there is a lot to find interesting and fascinating in the world of firearms.",
"more like interview for bonus for the 4k release of the movie.\n\nalso the cigar is full of weed. kinda a blunt.",
"I laugh I your general direction.",
"Not a pothead and I don't \"have a dealer'. How about it smells like burning buttholes. It stinks to high fucking hell.",
"The first and last time I tried to smoke tobacco I stole a cigar from my dad's office. At lunchtime in school I was all cocky about how I would not only smoke, but that I had a cuban cigar, not a flimsy menthol cigarette. \n\n\nI inhaled. I tried to keep my cool but once back into class my skin was grey and I had cold sweats. The teacher sent me straight to the infirmary where I proceeded to puke my guts out. I spent the rest of the day in ER waiting room. When I saw the doctor he was an older man and he knew right away that I smoked tobacco. It was like that scene in doc Hollywood where they freaked out about a kid who tried his father's chew and the old retired doctor was to only one to know it was no big deal.",
"I don’t know how someone’s own opinion can be this wrong",
"\"prank getting him high\"\nThat's called drugging. But I guess since it's well liked celebrities it doesn't matter.",
"Somehow, this story is hard to believe. It doesn't seem that easy to add something into a cigar. You'd have to unroll it and roll it back again, well enough for an experienced smoker not to notice. Not to mention the smell. I call bs.",
"so do you inhale those, or?",
"> giant rips like they smoke weed\n\nYou don't actually need to do that, doesn't actually help getting high at all. It's just some thing people do mimicking what others (or mainstream media) shows them of how to act according to etiquette.",
"Has to be a bait. Theres no way",
"He looks like he's in his 50s.",
"He's only 7 years younger than Eddie Murphy, so they already had a \\~15 year difference...",
"Thouse",
"Charlie: “How tall is Frank? Frank’s a little little man, you know he’s small and he navigates small places without much trouble. THIS GUY on the other hand is a tree (stands on a stool to demonstrate) you can’t put a tree in small places guys the numbers just don’t work out I’ve done the math”\n\nDennis: “Charlie. First of all, uh nobody understands what you’re going on about right now. And second of all none of us believes you understand the first thing about math. Can you count to 10 yet? We’ve been working on it with you, but you were struggling pretty hard with it last time”",
"Why do I sense a re-boot of TWINS is coming?",
"Plus, wasn't half the fun of the show watching an out-of-touch rich asshole throwing dumb ideas at people and watching them struggle to make them work? Him being a dumb guy was part of the appeal of the show.",
"Exactly. Trump's whole schtick was *always* out of touch \"biznuss bawse.\" \n\nHow *anyone* took him seriously or thought he had any good ideas is still far beyond me.",
"It's funny how the main thing that his presidency left us is \"if enough people say something false then it's true\".",
"Yup. At the time, Conan regularly had a segment on his show where they would make fun of how stupid, mean and egotistical he was. This wasn't a secret. For anyone actually paying attention to The Apprentice, that was part of what made the show entertaining. The appeal was \"What if Scrooge McDuck was a human and we made him boss people around?\"",
"/r/postsyoucanhear",
"Your son's first name wouldn't be [Herman,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8eblBCZXII) would it?",
"4th and 5th wall difference?",
"Not sure why you're getting downvoted because you're correct. A lot of the Chuck Norris \"facts\" used to be Vin Diesel \"facts.\"",
"That..was amazing. Like you are clairvoyant for their r/IASP hijinks. Pitch it to someone in charge!\n\nP.S. Remember to use the phrase \"Visual pat-down\"",
"calm down, it's just a reddit comment",
"That hits the spot.",
"Plus the steroids? Yes you would. Arnie has especially good genetics, but anyone who works out 5 days a week, eats and sleeps well, and is on a healthy amount of steroids would look hench af after a few years",
"But he is a dead ringer.",
"Kind of weird to love abortions tbh. It is a necessary procedure to have in society and should be legal, safe, and accessible. But loving them is a bit much. I know you were probably exaggerating as a joke, but I felt the need to say this before some idiot sees this and says \"see! Liberals love abortions!\"",
"1 hour a day for years is gonna have you looking great. Doesn't really matter if you look exactly as big as Arnie, the rock, whoever. The original comparison was with not looking like a frail old man. You don't need 15 hours a week for that",
"Breaking the “fifth” wall refers to when someone (in character) makes references to the very actors playing them and/or previous work they’ve done. ",
"Most people are overestimating how much work it takes to look good, while underestimating how much work it takes to look world class.\n\nYour bodybuilder friends put in that much effort because of diminishing returns, but 1 hour a day goes a loooong way",
"Weed to me smells like a certain kind of sweat, but not in a bad way at all.",
"This would work better if Dennis was the only one who notices, and he just gets progressively more furious as he fails to convince them it's not Frank and they just go about their day.",
"Mr. Schwarzenegger is an absolute Chad of a person.",
"You're 30 you're supposed to be",
"The squad will owe you a check if this ever gets made. Because its a fucking excellent idea.",
"Dreamgirls?? Nominated for an Oscar for that...",
"They aren't joking it's actually the sequel called Triplets, Tracy Morgan is the third",
"Yep on his way to help the firefighters. Arnold busted that prison wallet.",
"I think it smells of sweat or old tea, as in the beverage",
"I was born the year kindergarten cop came out. Still remember watching it in the 90s",
"He would have been great as Thundergun",
"Damn bro are you listening to my conversations with my fiancée?",
"https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/09/25/twins-sequel/",
"https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/09/25/twins-sequel/",
"https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/09/25/twins-sequel/",
"Yep you can actually inhale them. They're massive and the contents are coated in oils and concentrates so they burn for many, many hours and are give huge ass hits",
"I think it's shorthand for \"love that we live in a society where people have the right to bodily autonomy\", or more simply \"love that the right to abortion exists\".",
"Not really.",
"Step away from Reddit and take some deep breaths, bud",
"Wait, Mac is bi now? I thought he was just gay.",
"I’m very aroused",
"I mean, he sure doesn't look 74-76 like Arnold and Danny. \n\nhttps://img.bekia.es/galeria/155000/155835_cv01.jpg\n\n50s seems right to me. And that's his real age.",
"I didn't say he had heart surgeries due to steroids. Look at the user names, someone else did.",
"He is wearing tons of makeup because he is presenting an award. Go look at some pap photos to see what he really looks like.",
"\"The Gang gets Terminated\"",
"Cannagars can still be wrapped in tobacco leaves, like a nice CT shade wrapper",
"I know someone who works for an actress that was on the pretty popular superhero show and I guarantee you HGH is a part of her daily regiment. Shes not bulky or anything but they're in very good shape for their age.",
"I don't see anything wrong with this provided a doctor is prescribing and monitoring.",
"A) Me, I paid for it and I'll smoke it how I feel like.\n\nB) Depending on the ratio of bud:tobacco, my current tolerance levels, and the scent of the bud, I might not notice until a half dozen hits. And we know at the time that Arnie was smoking bud on the reg, so it probably didn't click with him immediately.",
"Guess it's a no from me dog",
"Holy shit- that's all I can hear now. \n\nShuT UP BuRRD",
"I've always thought Ryan Renolds as a cousin that only refers to himself as R and a meta joke about people getting pics with him happen over the episode would be great",
"Oh damn of course. Changing it now.",
"It was a great episode.",
"But the only oic available is from his role as Penguin",
"For those who are uninitiated, this is the original.\n\nhttps://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com/\n\nIt's an audio clip from one of the first James Bond films.",
"From the same hole?!",
"well that isn't how any of this works. if 'That '70's Show' came out today it would be That '70's show, because its a show about the '70's, not a show about 20 years before production. Same with 1985. They didn't name it because that was 19 years before release.",
"Did he fully recover from that crash? Last I heard is that he was pretty messed up and kind of in a vegetable state",
"If the settings are not relative to time, then if the 70's show had been made in the 70's, it would have been called the 70's show.\n\nSurely you can admit that that doesn't make sense.",
"Through the lens of presentism this sounds worse than it would have been perceived back then. Danny clearly had no intention to rape Arnold. Weed is also a pretty harmless drug, which he knew his friend Arnold had done before and did not have a negative reactions to (aside from common cognitive effects)\n\nThey are both incredibly rich and he knew The guy wasn't losing his job over this",
"We can really say whatever we want about steroids, or testosterone, but the point is they still work out 4+ days a week no matter what. If most of us got test + hgh then it wouldn’t do as much anyway, because you have to alter your diet and exercise routine as well",
"And later in the episode they find out it’s actually Arnold just getting into the mindset for a role as a twin. Plot twist, Arnold reveals he may be Charlie’s dad.",
"whole banana doesnt blend as easily, and can make the unit wobble.",
"I added a bit of detail to it, since people seem to like it. \n\nI've made another episode before where the gang is in Mario Bros (in honor of Day being in the new movie), which I can post if there's interest.",
"They’re making a sequel to “Twins” with Tracy Morgan playing the third brother!",
"I thought so as well but there’s a vid of a kid who only took test and still got bigger and leaner. It was on YT",
"Yes. I do think he won by getting votes from people who liked him for the job. Winning votes is complicated- even with alleged nefarious campaign funding. \n\nAlso, I hate to tell you this, but every single elected politician makes deals to secure campaign finance, whether it be from corporations or their own party. It's the nature of our system as it exists today.\n\nPicking and choosing who you want to persecute for that based on your ideology doesn't pass the most basic smell test for intellectual honesty.",
"Message theb",
"> nothing wrong with loving guns\n\nnothing inherently *wrong*, but it's a little weird to be all about something that's designed to kill people.",
"No, that logic is flawed. They wouldn't make a show about the decade they're currently in. If they made it today, it would be that '70's show, because it's about the seventies. They are currently making That '90's show, because its about the nineties. They could have made it in the 80's and it would have been called that 70's show, because it's about the seventies, not the sixties. They decided to make a show about the seventies specifically, not to make a show from 20 years prior.",
"So awkward focusing on him the entire video lmao",
"*The phone store",
"That's not the only use for guns.\n\nI love archery too, and fencing. Is that just as weird?",
"> That's not the only use for guns.\n\nThan it's a good thing I didn't say it was, isn't it?\n\n>I love archery too, and fencing. Is that just as weird?\n\nYou love *archery* and *fencing*, not *bows* and *swords*.\n\nSee the difference?\n\n\nIt's a bit weird to love *guns*.",
"Mini Disc was a Sony product that was an optical disc in a special housing. The disc inside was similar in capacity to a CD, but was stabilized by the housing, and was magneto-optical allowing for a significant amount of rewrite-ability (in the writeable versions). \n\nGameCube disc were 8cm miniDVDs.",
"It's made with a specific age gap in mind. It doesn't make sense for the 70's show to be made in the 70's because the length of time since matters as much as the time period. It's your logic that's flawed, because your theory that only the time period matters and not the time elapsed since, doesn't stand up when I pushed it.",
"Massage thee",
"Arnold Love",
"That sounds like a floppy disk, but hard. Is this an accurate description of its physicality?",
"True, however you're probably not going to get very high if you smoke weed like most people do cigars.",
"Sort of: https://m.imgur.com/Agqe1Fc",
">> That's not the only use for guns.\n>\n>Than it's a good thing I didn't say it was, isn't it?\n\nYou said they are \"designed to kill people\". That implies that is their primary intent. At the very least, it implies it is an *obligate* design purpose, when in fact *many* weapons are designed for hunting game, target shooting, or competitions.\n\n>You love *archery* and *fencing*, not *bows* and *swords*.\n>\n>See the difference?\n\nThat's an incredible nitpick just to extract an inevitable clarifying reply which you know will render your point irrelevant.\n\nI love guns and I love shooting guns. I love bows and I love using bows. I love swords and I love swinging them.\n\nSo to be clear, you think it's just as weird to love bows and swords?\n\n>It's a bit weird to love *guns*.\n\nActually, if you were the paranoid and judgmental type, one could argue that loving the activity (archery, fencing) is more creepy than loving the device in a vacuum. A gun is a beautiful piece of engineering and machinery, and it is completely harmless if you don't actually *put it to use* via *action*. In fact, there are many people who love to collect items (swords, guns, ancient medical devices) that have no intention or desire to use them, or even knowledge how to, simply because they love the *art* of the object.",
"Don't Mind If I Do!",
"That's awesome. Totally a rock-hard floppy, baby.",
"Bless you! Amazing.",
"Honestly, I'm torn on the issue. On the positive side, it kills a lot of babies, but on the negative side, it gives women control over their own bodies.",
"That's great. I love Arnold. I'm a stud, I'm ballsy. I don't have to find a hide out place like you.",
"Don't be like trump and take the L dumbass.",
"Dang, I've been doing all the time, goes down easy.",
"Who is your daddy and what does he do?",
"I mean... He doesn't inhale it",
"True, but I used too put in two hours a day and never even got close to looking like Arnold currently does. So the statement made, while possibly true in some cases, is not a blanket truth for everyone. Since the statement was made with no qualifiers, my response reflected that.",
"Tracy definitely looks older than 20 years their junior. Agree that he still looks younger, but not that wide a gap.",
"Which is an entertaining concept *for a TV show.* Not as good when you make Scrooge McDuck president irl.\n\nAlso we shouldn't compare Trump to scrooge. He was actually good with money.",
"Nah, you do the interview, then go bang the maid and pay her to hide the kid.",
"WW2 ended 76 years ago\n\nCleopatra died 2051 years ago\n\nThe asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was 66 million years ago\n\nfeel old yet?",
"oh jesus",
"I understand, it just sucks as a person in the south in a red state living in perpetual fear of this. And it can be really hard to move out when your poor. People stuck in these states go to prison while Richie's in CA laugh it up. Its a disgusting double standard that needs to be standardized on a federal level.",
"And there it is!",
"I'm scared for the future 💀👻☠️🤖👽",
"Pot smells like if you put skunk squirt into a jar and let it ferment in the sun for a month.\n\nIt is one of foulest odors on the planet and I grew up cleaning out hog barns.",
"I thought it was burning Styrofoam? Or burning garbage? Now it's fermented skunk musk? Something tells me you're either just a jackass, or your sense of smell is broken. Maybe stop tripling down and not looking like a dumbass anymore eh?",
"You were on steroids at the time? And you kept this up for a number of years?",
"Yeah, all of it. It's goddamn nasty and i wish people would lock themselves in the house to smoke it, and I'm fine looking like a dumbass in an online scuffle against pothead sped.",
"Ahh quadrupling down I see. Well enjoy nobody giving a shit about you and dying alone like the miserable cunt that you are. I don't even smoke pot btw, so enjoy being extra stupid and wrong.",
"I'm not sure what you're asking here. Someone made a comment that you can look like Arnold currently does by putting in an hour a day in the gym 3-5 times a week. I said I regularly spent two hours in the gym and never got close to being as big as Arnold is currently and I wasn't slacking with the weights. I'm confused about what you're asking me.",
"v interesting, TIL, thanks.",
"I have the strongest urge to memorize the url for absolutely no reason.",
"The original comparison made at the start of the conversation included taking steroids as part of the process. I find it unlikely that you did steroids + worked out for a hour a day 5 days a week for like 5 years and didn't end up looking similar to how arnold does here",
"good soundtrack too",
"I think you're reading the wrong comment. The only steroid I've ever put in my body is prednisone and none of the anabolic sort.",
"I’m not a trumper. I don’t really see why people care that he’s a billionaire. He’s a grifter. It’s from ripping off hard working people.",
"Haha. Awesome payback.",
"Okay then in that case your personal experience isn't a relevant comparison for this conversation then",
"The comment I replied to never once mentioned steroids either so it's your comments that are not relevant here. You're replying to the wrong comments or you are imagining things. Either way- bye!",
"Dennis: *twitch* \"Ha! Ha ha! Yeah, Dee looks like a bird, right guys?\"\n\nMac: \"Dude, you're being kinda desperate.\"\n\nCharlie: \"Yeah Dennis, man, the whole 'Dennis calls Dee a bird' thing is a little played-out.\"\n\nDennis: \"But you guys laughed when *he* said it! That's *my* thing, I'm the one who says Dee looks like a bird!\"\n\nMac: \"Yeah, well, when Arnie says it, it sounds funny. When you say it, it sounds kinda... desperate and psychotic.\"\n\nArnold: \"Do you know who also looks like a bird? Dennis!\"\n\nEveryone: *laughs*",
"I can see Dennis’ facial expression now..",
"While I'm not in a legal state, check out \"leira cannagars\" \n\nNo clue if they are any good, but they are rather active on Social Media and you can find out a bit more. Of course they also have the stupid gold leaf stuff but most everything else seem functional\n\nThey are packed so tight that barely any air gets through it, so theres a hole in the middle that the air gets sucked through.",
"It's an idea I had a while ago (I'm sure I'm not the only one) where he shows up as Frank's long lost twin brother, and it's played completely straight with everyone involved just being completely on board with it.\n\nCold Open> Frank and Charlie walking down street, both bump into same guy and get knocked down. Frank does the classic full-body toe to head pan up, Charlie looks back and forth confused as shit. Face reveal is Arnie himseld\n\n\"Goddammit Frank I'm seeing two of you.\"\n\n>The Gang Finds A Twin",
"Tracy Morgan? Oh hell no. He sucks so bad.",
"YTMNDs were the \"Proto-Memes\"",
"It's not a James Bond movie, it's Finding Forrester...",
"Of course it is.",
"Those are triples so keeping the 2-1 ratio it would be about right with the melt from the ice.",
"The Austin Powers, Shaken AND Stirred",
"Boris and Natasha?\n\n&#x200B;\n\nNo\n\n&#x200B;\n\nBoris and Doris!",
"I have to assume that he's trolling. It's not just some random bodybuilder or athlete. It's **Arnold.**",
"Work is so mentally tiring, afterwards all you wanna do is collapse on the sofa, watch Netflix and drink wine",
"I think he’s referring to at the start of the show when Mac was still just banging girls he had the obsession with Dennis’ mum. So taking his previous fetish for older women, his now open homosexuality and his obsession for all things buff it makes perfect sense to cast Arnie as his sugar daddy",
"Needed to feel self important today didn't ya? \n\nBeating on others shouldn't make you feel better about yourself you know.",
"IT'S NOT ABOUT THE FUCKING SITUATION AT HAND ASSHOLE. I'm commenting about your _response_ to it. But you're too short sighted to see that. \n\nI hope you fucking die you stupid cunt.",
"I hope you fucking die you stupid cunt.",
"And for cigars aren't you supposed to just keep the smoke in your mouth and exhale it, with cannabis you have to inhale it into your lungs",
"Yes, those are the standard methods of smoking both. I suppose you might get a little buzzed by holding cannabis smoke in your mouth/throat, but you certainly dont have the effectiveness of pulling into your lungs.\n\nPulling cigar smoke into your lungs is...unpleasant imo.",
"Happy Thanksgiving everyone 😊"
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Arnold Schwarzenegger shares a revenge cigar with Danny Devito for prank getting him high on Twins
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https://youtu.be/WVYmT5UFr8g
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/r/videos/comments/q5bkag/is_candyman_rotten_tomato_score_accurate/
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[
"Rotten tomatoes is horseshit. Worthless.",
"Watched the first minute.\nIs this gonna explain the whole movie?. Is it very spoilery?",
"Nope ,studios buy reviews the same way they buy Oscars and Emmys.",
"What a trash movie.",
"Nothing beats the original with Gene Wilder.",
"I don't know why I watched the whole video. But what pissed me off the most about it was that clearly the dude had never seen the original, or didn't want to acknowledge Helen and the baby, and instead just made that whole thing a separate story. Bad review, tbh. And rotten tomatoes had nothing to do with it."
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Is "Candyman" Rotten Tomato score Accurate?
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https://youtu.be/PO03G2YeJO0
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/r/videos/comments/q5bo7i/the_most_aussie_cooking_show_on_the_planet_nats/
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[
"The tucka-fucka is my favourite thing about Nat.",
"This was great. The pasta, not so much.",
"Discovered his channel at the beginning of the pandemic and it really made the tough times a little better! Been happily watching every since.",
"Me too. This guys a Fuckin gem. And he makes cooking simple.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfZn5w-EcxQ \n \nDidn't think I'd end up watching the full half hour interview a famous Australian drag queen did with this Nat guy... powerful interview. (I did not know either of them until today.)",
">Language warning\n\nFirst day on the internet, cunt?",
"But it’s 99 cents though!",
"His TED talk is funny af too.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_wvCCoigE0\n\nHe's a great guy.",
"I don't know what a goblin's wallet is, but I'm guessing it's gross.",
"He was Reddit famous for a while during the pandemic. Didn't take off like Babish but I enjoy his stuff a lot.",
"Did we just jump backwards two years?",
"Never been to Australia have you?",
"Fuckin' right there's a language warning!\n\n......also, fuck jar sauce!",
"Same here and his [End of Days Bolognese](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_Ze9zIafM) is one of the best recipes I have ever made. If you make it listen to him and add the fucking milk!",
"This one's on me champ\nhttps://youtu.be/74ceC7ERsLc",
"This guy is trying so hard to seem like he doesn’t care",
"Fuck off you are. We have good food here and there are some incredible restaurants outside Melbourne and Sydney.",
"seems more like to me that you've never really bothered to look.",
"The problem is less that there's bad places and more that you don't know where to go for the good food. Theres so much of it in the wine regions near Adelaide and Yarra Valley Victoria. Additionally the Highland regions near sunshine coast have fantastic stuff, same goes for Daylesford.\n\nKey thing to do to find good food is to either find where the good fresh seafood is found, find where the rich like to go on holiday or to look where the good booze can be found. Breweries and wineries worth going to will almost always have good food available either on site or nearby",
"I love how generalising you're being about all your statements. It totally invalidates everything you say.\n\nYou seem to hate Aus. Feel free to stay out then.",
"My experience has been completely different. Friends from overseas in Melbourne and Sydney speak highly of the standard and how much better it is than elsewhere.\n\nThis aligns with my own experience living and travelling overseas. It's hard to find multi-cultural food that meets that high bar Melbourne sets. Sure Italian food is better in Italy. Korean food in Korea. But Australian cities represent one of the few places where you can get such a wide variety of cuisines that closely resemble their origins."
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The most Aussie cooking show on the planet. "Nat's What I Reckon". Language warning.
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https://youtu.be/vBsnDIFbbb4
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/r/videos/comments/q5cya7/the_f1_race_today_produced_this_incredible_wheel/
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[
"Yeah great defending from checo today.",
"Mirror?",
"No they are two separate cars",
"Chills 😭",
"Jesus, that braking is insane. And in the rain no less!",
"Hamilton threw him into the pit lane, was that the track space he was entitled?",
"Nah, just Hamilton pushing another driver off track yet again and getting no repercussions for it.",
"Says video not available even on yt. Thanks tho.",
"Changed my VPN to US and it worked, if you have one."
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The F1 race today produced this incredible wheel to wheel battle
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m28qpUXbFpA
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/r/videos/comments/q5d1by/office_flirt_saturday_night_live/
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[
"She was hilarious as that character.",
"I'm so glad John Goodman lost weight, his breathing didn't sound too great here.",
"I banged the office weird girl after an employee party.\n\nIt wasn't worth it, at all."
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Office Flirt - Saturday Night Live
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-Do30-P8A
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/r/videos/comments/q5d8f7/four_graffiti_artists_get_free_reign_over_an/
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[
"That. Was. Fkng. Dope.",
"That was absolutely brilliant!!! I think my mouth was open the entire time!",
"Right? One of my favorite videos of all time.",
"Cool video. Pretty sure this isn't called stop motion tho. Probably time lapse? Someone more knowledgeable probably has the right terminology.",
"Most of it is called hyperlapse. But the stop motion part would be the sofa surfing for example.\n\nSo this is a cool hybrid of the two.",
"Edit: Alright, I get it geez.",
"Agreed",
"I wonder how much money was spent on paint",
"Damn that was cool, and really well done on both sides of production. I would love to see more of this.",
"This has been one of my favorite videos for years. Awesome art and design, and an equally awesome musical score to compliment it. I'd be surprised to see anything that could top this.",
"I think Ironlak donated it all based on an article I read about it years ago.",
"That's cool, I was kind of expecting something more like Blu though. I guess that's what the argument of stop-motion vs time-lapse in the comments is about. \nhttps://youtu.be/uuGaqLT-gO4",
"Nice concept it's so satisfying at the end",
"I swear David Choe did something exactly like this a few years back, but I can't find a video of it. Anyone know?",
"very common with these brands to sponsor artists.",
"Real cool\n\nWish they did more mural art instead of the tags. Some of the tags are cool but they feel wanting compared to the really cool pieces they're next to.",
"\\*rein.",
"It's a time lapse or hyperlapse. Stop motion refers to things being manipulated between frames to give the illusion of movement",
"Brands? I didn't see them. But I didn't try too hard to actually read the words.",
"ok",
"There are like 10 examples of straight up stop motion in this video. Like the couch/boat, them hoping in the air every frame to make it look like they’re levitating, and they create stop motion in a few of the paintings, like at 1:30 they make it look like there is a beam of light shooting out of the figures foreheads, and at 3:00 they paint a spray paint can, and then make it look like it’s actually spraying paint.",
"four vandals",
"This was a concept submitted to Nike for an ad. Nike went another direction, which turned out being the exact same direction screwing over the creator of the idea. \n\nThey filmed this once they were told that Nike wasn't interested in the idea",
"I think that building was flagged for deconstruction so the owners dgaf, which kinda sucks.\n\nAlso reminds me of this story [where the school let artist have free reign before renovations] (https://www.boredpanda.com/100-graffiti-artists-university-painting-rehab2-paris/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic). I couldn't be paid enough to paint over all that art.",
"> Stop motion is taking still images of frames while a motion is occurring.\n\nThat's a hyperlapse or a timelapse. Stop motion is named specifically because the motion isn't happening during each single shot capture. The motion is done in between frames and implied through multiple frames, but the motion is stopped for each shot.",
"Sofa sailing pirates!!",
"Ok",
"\"Designer\" spray paint brands.",
"[It's the first second of the video](https://i.imgur.com/lD7kIUv.png)",
"Some of that art is very inspiring. Hopefully they kept atleast some of it?"
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Four graffiti artists get free reign over an abandoned building and create this stop motion masterpiece
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https://youtu.be/It9tfX8Ux2o
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/r/videos/comments/q5dj4x/professional_tug_of_war_is_way_more_intense_than/
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[
"I JUST watched Squid Game! Reminded me of that show!",
"This should be an Olympic Sport",
"It was for about a decade at the start of the 20th century.\n\nWhat I want, is the Olympic Boing Splat! Basically the opposite of diving...",
"It used to be but ropes kept snapping and gravely injuring people.",
"I know it would be super unsportsmanlike and possibly dangerous, but part of me just wants to see one side simultaneously release the rope and watch the other side fall back",
"It actually is the technique they use squidgame to win",
"pretty close. Except in squid game they alternated sides of the rope. Here they are not",
"It's like squid game XD",
"Couldn't Japan make a team with all sumo wrestlers and insta win?",
"https://youtu.be/oLompG4k98E",
"That's a very strong rope.\n\nI'm always reminded of reading/getting informed through reddit comments about the dangers of inadequate ropes. There have been deaths and amputations when they snap under immense strain. \n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war#Injury_risks\n\nThis video was still enjoyable and interesting though, for the team, sports and power aspect of it.",
"**Tug of war** \n \n [Injury risks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war#Injury_risks) \n \n >In addition to injuries from falling and from back strains (some of which may be serious), catastrophic injuries may occur and permanent damage to the body, such as finger, hand, or even arm amputations. Amputations or avulsions may result from two causes: looping or wrapping the rope around a hand or wrist, and impact from snapback if the rope breaks. Amateur organizers of tugs of war may underestimate the forces generated and thus, may be unaware of the possible consequences if a rope snaps under extreme tension. Injury is primarily due to the large amount of potential energy stored in the rope during the competition.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)",
"Seems to be different weight classes for total weight of the team",
"They are moving their legs together so synced, it's like a giant centipede!",
"Am I the only who wishes the camera person would get both teams in frame at the same time? All of the videos on the channel are the same, panning from one team to the other. Whenever one team does something interesting I want to see how the other team is affected by it! Interesting video anyway. \n \nedit: here is one where you can see both teams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzKBqnwy4Hw",
"It is less about strength and more about endurance. You lean back and wait for the other side to tire, then you pull.",
"No, they didn’t.",
"It is also very dangerous. If the rope breaks, people can have entire limbs amputated. Neat!",
"reminds me of the famous tug of war trilogy, Human Centipede 1-3",
"The emotion of victory tugged at my heart strings",
"Yes they did",
"Hey it looks like Squid Games drew inspiration from an actual technique.",
"You all clicked on this because you watched Squid Game, just like me.",
"I wonder how much harder they would tug, if they were faced with that?",
"I think it also mostly comes down to you shoes' grip. If that holds, you're basically stuck there. Strength can't overcome friction that easily. The other person's strength is merely to nudge your balance, thus your grip.\n\nBut if you can hold your lean, and your grip. You're not going anywhere, until your leg muscles give out. Thus this comes back to what you were saying, endurance.\n\nMore or less equal strength, stay in form and wait, easy win.",
"Yeah I basically only know from Reddit that you don’t fuck around with tug of war unless you want to lose some fingers.",
"armchair tug o war experts are out",
"Go watch Squid Game, they go into deep detail.",
"It was also an original Olympic sport and has been popular in many cultures for millenia (India, China, Native Americans, etc.)\n\n\nIt's absurd that tug of war isn't in the Olympics anymore, but speedwalking is...",
"Source?\n\n\n\nI've seen this said a lot, but I've never seen any evidence for it. \n\n\nEvery source I've seen says it was simply controversial because of [disagreements on rules. ](https://olympic.ca/2014/07/22/olympic-tug-of-war-and-its-controversial-demise/)",
"What is squid game? I've been seeing it all over reddit lately.",
"**Squid Game (Korean: 오징어 게임; RR: Ojing-eo Geim) is a South Korean survival drama television series streaming on Netflix. Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, it stars Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, Jung Ho-yeon, O Yeong-su, Heo Sung-tae, Anupam Tripathi, and Kim Joo-ryoung.**\n\nMore details here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_Game> \n\n\n\n*This comment was left automatically (by a bot). If I don't get this right, don't get mad at me, I'm still learning!*\n\n[^(opt out)](https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia_answer_bot/comments/ozztfy/post_for_opting_out/) ^(|) [^(report/suggest)](https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia_answer_bot) ^(|) [^(GitHub)](https://github.com/TheBugYouCantFix/wiki-reddit-bot)",
"Its a Netflix show from Korea that has an excellent tug of war game in it with very high stakes.",
"Does anyone else's hands start to hurt watching this?",
"The pacific islands would clear up in this sport. Samoa, Fiji, Tonga.",
"Thanks!",
"Well it's not called \"Tug of Peace\", is it?",
"One thing I noticed was the footwear. I felt like the red/blue team seemed to have better traction and/or ankle support. Near the end, many players for the team in white looked like they were about to compound fracture their ankles.",
"Who else is here because of Squid Game?",
"what did i just watch and why is there no explanation for it anywhere lol",
"that was way less intense than you made it sound like it would be..",
"I am browsing Reddit while watching that very episode, so yep... that's what made me click this. :)",
"At freshman orientation in college, there was a tug-of-war challenge floor by floor for each dorm. Each floor could choose residents up to 1500lbs. The most exciting match was between a floor that chose 6 250lb football player types, and the floor that chose a dozen scrawny 125lb nerds. Any guesses?",
"lol\n\nno way",
"I did not know professional tug of war was a thing. After watching Squid Games, I don't know if I can look at tug of war the same way again",
"I wanted to see if they used the super secret strategy. Turns out huge calf muscles and superhuman synchronicity are probably important too.",
"nerds?",
"-How high?\n\n-idk. 10 stories?",
"I don’t know about why it was dropped from the Olympics, but the “Notable Incidents” table in the “Injury Risk” section [of the Wikipedia entry for Tug-of-War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war) has some pretty grisly references to “avulsions” and “arms severed below the shoulder” and such. \n\n…I don’t recommend reading the source articles for the incidents, by the way, unless newspaper clippings about Boy Scouts getting their fingers sheared off by supersonic strands of nylon rope is your thing.",
"**[Tug of war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war)** \n \n >Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength: teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal being to bring the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing team's pull.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)",
"it's a show... you shouldn't base your knowledge from a show..\n\nIt might probably just be fluff they added to make the scene intersting and add some intensity and drama to it. we will never know until an actual expert tells how it is really",
"\"How to get a vertebral disc hernia\" 😂",
"I was wanting to see if a complex winning strategy, good enough for people to execute perfectly without any practice, could possibly be explained in a 30 secand ride in an elevator.",
"All of the notable incidents of injuries caused have a number of participants that is far above the number involved in a typical olympic contest. I'm not sure I'm convinced this sport is unsafe with only 16 people and an adequately strong rope.",
"The heavier guys individually should have more friction, but my (limited) intuitive understanding of physics does not tell if more points of friction makes up for that.\nThat is, if the teams made sure to make about the weight to begin with.",
"https://what-if.xkcd.com/127/",
"Yeah perhaps injuries were part of why tug of war was originally dropped from the Olympics. \n\n\nBut there should be zero difficulty making safe tug of war equipment and rules today.",
"Yeah the injury section also mentions though that there are ropes and rules that make tug of war perfectly safe. All of the injuries are because of people not thinking about the physics and thus using bad rope, dangerous techniques, or far too many people.\n\n\n>Amputations or avulsions may result from two causes: looping or wrapping the rope around a hand or wrist, and impact from snapback if the rope breaks. Amateur organizers of tugs of war may underestimate the forces generated and thus, may be unaware of the possible consequences if a rope snaps under extreme tension\n\n\n\n>This phenomenon has been studied in ship operations as mooring ropes pose the same risk should they snap.[35] For this reason, specially engineered tug of war ropes exist that can safely withstand the forces generated.\n\n\nObviously if you don't allow the rope to be wrapped around anything, use proper rope like those used for mooring ships, and don't have literally hundreds or thousands of people pulling at once then it's just as safe or safer than countless Olympic sports like pole vaulting, gymnastics, wrestling, etc.",
"They are all on the same side of the rope! They missed one player No. 1 points of advise!",
"I'm genuinely curious- have you not searched and read about it at all since you're obviously curious about it?",
"That was honestly beautiful. Reminded me of synchronized boat racing a bit.",
"You’d probably be way more apt to paying attention if you knew that you’d be falling 10 stories if you didn’t.",
"Feel free to find a better source that explains it.",
"Squid Game Tag of War",
"Their legs are so synchronized",
"Every second thought in my head turns into a Google search. I never understand how people don’t default to it 😄\n\nMy other half asks *people* if they know things ** gasp **",
"Hahah I do as well sometimes.!\n\nI just figure if someone is willing to ask people online about something already, and they’ve been wondering about said thing for a while, that they’d end up just searching for answers people have already given. Opposed to typing the question and waiting for an answer.",
"The England team just looked like a bunch of dads at the village gala, the Republic of China team were 99% leg.",
"Idk, a team of Maori would be pretty epic.",
"So they basically just dump water on peoples heads?",
"The lighter guys would have the same weight distributed on a bigger surface area, which generally means more friction. That's how it works with car tyres at least.\n\nI guess the football players might have more strength per pound, since they have more muscle per bodyweight. That would mean that you get more \"bang for your buck\" with the 6 big guys. Half the weight used for brains, organs etc. also.",
"The strength to maintain grip on the rope would probably factor in too.",
"With modern materials manufacturing, I'm pretty sure you could make that pretty much impossible for a certain thickness of rope and a certain number of players.",
"Yep, and it wasn't even close. It was over in seconds.",
"I can't remember the last time I watched a show while I wasn't at my computer either doing work or just browsing.",
"More like you're jumping onto the ground, and flopping instead of diving.\n\nThink of it like Birds! but with humans. Something you'd see on MxC.",
"Looking at their ankles made mine hurt.",
"you thought adding money to the equation wouldn't increase the intensity to it's highest level?",
"Lol you’re so nice bro thanks 😊",
"Might as well just say the first one since the jig is kinda up after that.",
"Huh?",
"I wonder how much you make as a professional tug of war player",
"God damn wrapping the rope around a hand or wrist seems absolutely nutty unless you are 100% sure your team is gonna win"
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Professional tug of war is way more intense than I thought it’d be.
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https://youtu.be/t7AU5uz4ghM
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/r/videos/comments/q5dp2t/no_youre_thinking_of/
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[
"Ok I laughed",
"i thought this was wack at first, but that shit was mad funny lol",
"It's a common mistake to mix those two up. (edit) reddit is too dim to see sarcasm.",
"Right, thanks for your insight.",
"Haha that's great",
"Funny joke, but four and a half words too long, there was no need to spoon feed the punchline to the audience.",
"Ahhhh sheeeet what's her tiktok!?",
"\"on a portal\"?",
"alright, that one was good.",
"Didn't need the last half-line, the line before it was the punchline.",
"Indians don't speak your English",
"Oh dear. Yeah, you got me on this one. Wasn't expecting that.",
"This was pretty original lol, also this comment section is a cancerous graveyard and I don't know why",
"Word up, holmes.",
"This was actually pretty funny",
"I think I agree. Leaving the complete realisation to the audience makes the joke more satisfying, especially since it’s clear what the final line is going to be",
"I manage a team in India and it's actually so interesting to hear Indian English every day.\n\nIt would be easy to write it off as \"haha they don't English good\", but really it's every bit the legitimate dialect like anything in the rest of the Anglosphere, evolved over 400 years, following its own elaborate grammar and vocab. Contrast that with Pakistanis who, despite also speaking it as a native (though not mother) tongue, do so almost precisely like the Queen.",
"> a native (though not mother) tongue\n\nWhat is the difference?",
"But will you do the needful!?",
"Because it's Reddit.",
"An Indian person is very likely to grow up speaking a mother tongue like Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, and so on. However, because there are *so* many languages, they need a lingua franca for situations where all these people get together, and that's often English because most non-Hindi-speakers hate the idea of speaking Hindi despite it being the most obvious choice.\n\nA mother tongue is the language of your people, your family, your culture. A native tongue is just one you grew up speaking. English is the modern language of business, science, government (kinda), education, but it's not *their* language. Not emotionally, anyway, though obviously I can't speak for the entire sub-continent!\n\nThere are a few hundred thousand English-speakers for whom it's their mother tongue. They're mostly Anglo-Indians, Christian communities, recent transplants, that sort of thing",
"Doesn't that just mean that they have English as a second language?",
"Kind of. The distinction to me is how ingrained in society it is, how comfortable they are with it, and whether they learnt from a book or colloquially. \n\nFor instance almost every Dutch person speaks perfect English, but there's no \"Dutch-English\". They learn it in school as a foreign language, it's used in some universities for some courses, and foreign media is likely to be in English, but it's not a living language with a place integral to their society. \n\nIndia has far more *ownership* over \"Indian-English\", and it's used not as a foreign language which is useful for niche purposes but as an integral part of the culture.",
"Alright, I understand what you mean. There is actually quite a bit of colloquial learning of English in countries like the Netherlands because there is just so much exposure to English. But I understand the distinction between India and the Netherlands since English has such a strong position in India.",
"they're just upset because they thought this was their excel tutorial tab due to the accent and not the relax tab",
"[We know his name.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTaKDnSIb4c)",
"Ha ha 🤣",
"sort of, but they learn it from such a young age that it's more like having two native languages than a first and a second language",
"Pakistan is an awesome country and gets too much hate because the West doesn't want it to succeed (Muslim + lots of socialism).",
"Its president is a millionaire drug-addict playboy famous for his debauched parties, who espouses extremist ideology, mirroring the lifestyles of the rich liberal urban folk who pretend to be devout Muslims whilst drinking, smoking, and fucking their way through life, waiting for an opportunity to find work in the West, [hated by the deeply conservative people they technically rule over, who support the Taliban's policies](https://gallup.com.pk/post/32284). \n\nIf anything Pakistan is flying under the radar at the moment.\n\nDon't read this as me being against Pakistan and wanting it to fail: most of my closest friends are Pakistani as are some of my family. But writing off the West's criticism as \"Muslim+Socialism\" ignores the huge problems in Pakistan in terms of human rights, extremism, and corruption - none of which are getting better all that quickly.\n\nPakistan is rapidly urbanising which, if living standards continue to increase, should handle the problems with their conservative culture somewhat. If global warming and general mismanagement make it impossible to deliver this, it could boil over into something terrible.",
"[Instagram]( https://Instagram.com/shreyagoyal27)\n\n[YouTube](https://youtube.com/c/ShreyaGoyal)\n\nFuck TikTok",
"Oh well THAT was unexpected.",
"good one",
"Just not funny",
"heh",
"Don't pretend Western hatred for places like Pakistan, etc. is due to \"human rights\" or other nonsense. An explicitly anti-socialist bloc composed of NATO and Five Eyes countries isn't a place that can complain about \"terrorism\", \"extremism\" or \"human rights\" of others. It's anti-humanism incarnate. The US is the worst war criminal on earth and probably the single worst global human rights violator and terrorist state, too, with an incredibly extremist and ultra-violent leadership that worships the military, nationalism and capitalism. Hell, comparing Covid-19 numbers for the two countries will say a lot, too, particularly when it comes to \"human rights\" - last time I checked the right to life is quite an important one.\n\nDon't make excuses for the hatred of Western imperialist nations for their victims.",
"Yes... a web portal.",
"Is that a requirement for being a PDF file?",
"Requirement? No. Ability? Capability? Yes.",
"The Indian people bring a very special cadence to English that you really don't see in the western nations. It almost reminds me of Persian or Brazilian Portuguese in the way it flows.",
"Eh, just people in a bad attitude"
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...No you're thinking of...
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"Is this the guy who did a review of a strip club and the owner wouldn't shut up about Trump?",
"YES",
"Interesting concept. \n\nI thought the host was a bit of a douche. A little too snarky without any of the wit to back it up. Kind of a wannabe Louis Theroux, but not able to pull off the whole “straight man interviews weirdo” routine. Seemed a little mean-spirited too, event though it ended on a positive note, it’s obvious they weren’t up front with the trainer about their intentions. \n\nThe editing was atrocious too, they tried milking the “monster” bit way too much. Overall, it was probably some good press for the trainer but also seemed like a parody of a douchey Vice show.",
"Couldn’t agree more with every you said.",
"The editor of this video should be shot. Ok, well at least fired.",
"Maybe it’s part of the show. “Working with Yelp’s worst-rated editor.”",
"One Star Reviews by white Tom Haverford"
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"I really hope they do a sequel of the Social Network, but in like 5 years or so. It’s fascinating what’s happened to Zuckerberg, and where he might end up soon. And the Winkelvoss twins ended up coming back by betting big on Bitcoin. If FB takes a dump and Bitcoin continues growing, they might actually end up overtaking his wealth and influence. It would make for a great narrative at least.",
"Really well edited",
"Surely their stories end after the lawsuit? The Winklevii aren't making money to spite Zuckerberg. \n\nCould do better setting up the rise and fall of a once-innovative rendition of a social network that transformed into the perverse propaganda machine that it is today.",
"I'd watch that! Maybe featuring Andy Serkis as Jeff Bezos?",
"Wow. Very well-done.",
"They might still collide again. I bet a Facebook coin is being looked into…",
"As important and wealthy as zuckerberg is, I really don't envy him. There's far too much responsibility to be head of Facebook, and even doing 100% the right things would make you hated.",
"Honestly amazed he didn't bail as CEO a long time ago after taking it public.",
"Agreed. I like your username btw",
"Using the “5, 6, 7, 8” of the home video as an 8 count to start the video was a stroke of fucking genius",
"Break up Facebook. Then break up *with* Facebook.",
"Facebook does have their own coin.. It's called Diem, formerly Libra. In true Facebook fashion, they tried to overstep their bounds with Libra and it backfired on them, they had to regroup and name it Diem. I don't think it's live yet but its more than a look into",
"This was actually pretty well done. \n\n\n\"are we trying to connect people, or try keep them on their screens as long as possible\"",
"\"we are creating tools that are ripping apart our society\"",
"Lmao it was all so serious until that cut at [0:43 with his ass sticking out and the white face](https://youtu.be/Um_wtZV-sX8?t=42)\n\nThat aside, this trailer is truly beautiful and amazing though. I wish this was for a real documentary.\n\nedit: I tried to look up the \"60 Minutes\" segment about him that was in this documentary. Every source leads back to CBS saying you need to pay for a subscription or tv service to log in and view the video. Classic bullshit.",
"Sorry man, that's wrong. His job as CEO is literally high level decision making for the company.",
"> even doing 100% the right things would make you hated\n\nHe has \"fuck you\" money, he can do whatever the fuck he wants and it won't affect him unless he allows it.\n\nIt's not like his inner circle of friends will hate him for whatever he does as CEO at facebook. \n\nI just wish he wasn't a total fuckwit. If Aaron Swartz was in the same position he would have changed the world and made it better, instead of whatever Mark did which seemed to just double down on making it worse, and continues to do so again and again.",
"was hoping he would smoke some meats",
"If zuck is a puppet, why was he been questioned in Congress about Facebook's behavior?",
"Social media is inherently a double edged sword. We, as individuals, cannot bear tragedy on a global scale. We are conditioned to and capable of supporting our local communities, not our global one. Yet, social media presents us with global tragedy everytime we log on. There is no escaping this. Aaron Swartz, nor anyone else, could not wrought a social media product that \"makes the world a better place.\" Ultimately, it is just an amplifier of the world at large, which is and always will be, to some extent, broken.",
"More reason for me to believe he’s some sort of intelligence asset.",
"I was more thinking along the lines of him fixing or straight up shutting it down and using the profits to \"make the world a better place\" in some way shape or form after learning how horrible Facebook is for everyone except advertisers.\n\nWishful thinking I know. But Mark had plenty of opportunities to actually change the world but for whatever reason does not. It doesn't seem like he's doing it for the money either, he just comes off as weird.",
"<3",
">5, 6, 7, 8” of the home video as an 8 count to start the video was a stroke of fucking genius\n\nwhat's the significance of an 8 count",
"I don't know about most/least interesting, but *The Social Network* covered the period that would be easiest to cover in a film since the setting, characters, and plot are simplest in the early days. Everything since has become almost too complex to cover in a film. I'm not sure if you have a specific period of time in mind, but I would have a hard time imagining a story/film coming out of any other period of Facebook's history than it's founding.",
"In most dance and music, the instructor will count the beat out loud as “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8”, so 2 measures in standard 4/4 time. Before the instruction or practice starts, the instructor will count down the second half of that 8 count so everyone can prepare themselves and then the instructor usually loops back around and starts from one again. \n\nSometimes the instructor won’t start again and the half 8 count is just to remind everyone of the time signature and tempo. When learning a set of moves in a dance class, the instructor will very loudly repeat the 8 count as they perform the moves for the same reason. They might also yell out a shorthand name for the moves to be performed in place of the numbers, so...”5, 6, 7, 8, arms, spin, legs, pop...” etc. while keeping the same tempo. \n\n[Here](https://youtu.be/J_YaxIL8MvM) (at 18 seconds) is an example of that second half of an 8 count used in media. After the initial solo, the band leader quickly performs the 8 count in the tempo of the upcoming song, cueing the band to prepare themselves, reminding them of the tempo and time signature, and ensuring everyone starts at once.\n\nThat’s a long winded way to say it’s a countdown to warn performers that they’re about to start and to remind them to keep rhythm. \n\nThe creator of this video found a random clip of Zuck n Buds counting during a keg stand and decided to clip the “5, 6, 7, 8...” to use as an 8 count to kick off their video. It’s extremely clever!",
"lol why would you shut anything down that makes money? almost by definition, if you're making money in the world you're providing a service that somebody actually WANTS",
"Wow. Very informative. Thanks!",
"FB is such a powerful, wide-reaching behemoth. \n\nThe intelligence agencies beg FB for help, not the other way around.\n900+ Billion dollar company with extensive data on it's over 1,900,000,000 daily users",
"Can't forget the Sweet baby Ray's",
"To be fair, that’s exactly what the intelligence agencies would want you to think.",
"Eh, that’s like saying heroin addicts want heroin. I mean they do, but we know what it really is. None of us want to waste our entire lives here, but here we are."
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https://youtu.be/bIpKfw17-yY??
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/r/videos/comments/q5em3y/america_is_not_the_greatest_country_in_the_world/
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"Very whitewashed view of American history",
"This clip has always been so cheesy to me",
"This show is fucking awful\n\nhttps://youtu.be/UM8wv8QQ-u0",
"Sorkin is the OG of \"and everyone clapped\" writing.",
"This show completely flopped, didn’t it.",
"Which bit exactly was* \"whitewashed\"?\n\nEdit: What -> was",
"3 seasons and a scheduled ending. It lasted an appropriate amount of time",
"Second the motion: “Where is the washing?”",
"So many lines I wish I could remember",
"Wow, so cringe.",
"Because stupid people like the cheesy fake bullshit.\n\nHis shit is fantasyland scenarios for politics nerds, poorly written women, and as the other guy mentioned, \"and everyone clapped\" moments.\n\nI remember an episode of West wing where 2 senators were arguing about a bill and the one with the hardest \"own\" got his way because of his debate bro moment. Shits so stupid and unrealistic",
"Which would only be a confusing concept if you assume most people have a decent level of intelligence. Most people in the west eat so much they start to kill themselves. Why would them wanting to move to a country with many problems be their line in the sand. haha",
"If you’ve ever heard him talk it explains why he writes the way he does. He has so much trouble having words come out of his mouth that he puts ten times the effort into whatever he writes. The result is everything feels planned and there’s not a shred of natural dialogue in sight.",
"But we were great… landing on the moon (amazing technological achievement while minorities suffered/couldn’t vote/redlining) “fighting wars on poverty not on the poor” LOL… it’s a great monologue but the writer has some significant blinders… I agree we aren’t great, but could be, but it’s whitewashing the shit out of our history if you really look at any moment in particular and call that great",
"Because we fuck up their countries\n\nEdit: downvote all you want. It's funny to see us ruin a country like Haiti and then get mad they're poor and desperate",
"As a big fan of Sorkin, nothing you said is wrong. \n\nPersonally, I just really like the fast paced dialogue, and many of the characters he’s created. Just a matter of preference, I suppose.",
"There's no such thing as dragons, but we all watched Game of Thrones.\n\nSometimes we don't want to watch realistic television, because reality isn't that entertaining. I love Aaron Sorkin. He's one of my favorite fantasy writers. His stories don't involve wizards or monsters,or kids who were born with magical abilities to save the world. They take place in a world where capable people work together to solve a problem or create something. Instead of shooting lighting bolts out of their fingers, the characters talk fast and always know exactly what to say. I don't see anything wrong with that.",
"George Carlin talked like it.",
"Thanks.",
"This show is so cheesy and ridiculous, a boomer liberal fantasy, but it's still a fun watch if you don't take it as seriously as the characters seem to take themselves. Their new \"debate format\" that they wanted to pitch to the Republican party, built up over multiple episodes, was hilariously dumb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpEmQeoo414\n\nJust ignore the terrible romantic subplots and its pretty entertaining",
"their climate scene was still on point",
"You're answer is shit. The monologue had nothing to do with race, its not denying any bad parts of american history he was saying America had taken steps backwards when America used to great things. \n\nWhat an utterly perplexing comment to put to this video. Do you really have nothing better to do than to make pretend racial problems for something like this. Stop sewing more division and move on. The world has enough problems.",
"I've only watched clips of this awful show and hate it. Unless it's a deep satire the clips present it as a neoliberal fantasy world where everybody goes to brunch and struggles are thrown away because they make America look bad.\n\nAfter typing that I realize that this is how America actually works. Don't post when you're hungry folks, go to Genghis Grill, that's where I'm going tonight. I wonder if in 800 years there will be a restaurant called Hitler's Biergarten.",
"I still haven't watched it, after having watched all of Sports Night, West Wing and Studio 60.\n\nI know I'll enjoy it, I'm certainly willing to buy into the worlds he writes, but especially after WW, I know I'll be frustrated by, as you say, the boomer liberal fantasy. I haven't watched your link, but I expect it'll be somewhat an echo of the debate between Santos & Vinick in West Wing, Sorkin loving his echos as he does.",
"That and the climate change scene. Starting at 1:20 mostly. Where like the whole news room is like “oh my god what is he saying?!?!?!?!”. I believe climate change will have devastating impacts on our world. But this scene was just ridiculous.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/XM0uZ9mfOUI",
"First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one, the foundation of the greatness he’s referring to is a romanticized whitewashed past that only existed for some… White nationalists love this monologue, ask yourself why, peace.",
"Hahaha the way the pilots shake hands lol",
"So much anti america bs on this site its hard to take anything serious",
"> romanticized whitewashed past that only existed for some…\n\nWhy is it race? He is talking about America the entity. Anyone who is part of America was part of that. Rich or Poor, Black/white/Green, everyone makes up America. No one is looking at NASA like \"Nasa went to the moon, or Neil Armstrong no, America did it. He isn't denying anything that has happened, but highlighting the achievements of America as a whole. \n\nStop adding race into this, you are so far off the mark is getting sad.",
"Yea. America ruined Haiti haha",
"You can call me a liberal, social democrat, whatever, but even I found this show to be so self-aggrandizing and preachy. Every episode was like watching Aaron Sorkin give himself a congratulatory blowjob.",
"This and the West Wing really ruined people's perception on how politics does and should work.",
"The USA has ruined many countries, but Haiti isn't amongst them.",
"Hot take, this scene is misinterpreted as the show telling us how to think.\n\nInstead it's to give you a window into the mind of the main character, a well educated, well spoken, cynical moderate journalist.\n\n(It's also a bad show.)",
"why is he making such a big drama for a banal truth?",
"Way more true now. That ship sailed long ago",
"Actually the US did \n\nhttps://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/us/haiti-us-relationship-explained/index.html\n\n>the US government has long been active in Haiti’s politics. When the slaves in the country fought for independence in the late 18th century, the US provided aid to the French colonists in an effort to stop the rebellion, fearful that the revolt would spread to the US. Even when Haiti gained independence in 1804, it took the US until 1862 to recognize it as an independent nation, subjecting the country to an economic embargo in the intervening years.\n\nhttps://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/12/16883224/trump-shithole-foreign-policy-haiti\n\n>US President Woodrow Wilson sent troops to Haiti for a military occupation that did not end until 1934, and saw the deaths of thousands of Haitians. During that time, the US controlled parts of the country’s government, including its customs and tax apparatus.\n\n\n\nMore recent:\n\n\n\n>The US also supported the regime of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who oversaw a reign of terror that fueled a mass exodus from the island nation. And, as Nathalie Baptiste notes for Mother Jones, during the same time that “Baby Doc” Duvalier was in power, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1983 “announced the four Hs, four groups that were at high risk for AIDS: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin users, and Haitians.”\n\n>The US military returned to the country in 1994 following a military coup that forced out the country’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. \n\n\nI could go more in depth but I'm tired.",
"See the other reply\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q5em3y/america_is_not_the_greatest_country_in_the_world/hg5vulk",
"Veep is much closer to reality.",
"&#x200B;\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW30Zg2PjVI&ab\\_channel=emerson",
"Reposting my comment from last time this was on here (with edits)\n\nThis scene sucks.\n\n* The whole \"people don't like liberals because they lose\" thing is stupid, if it was true then after 2008 liberals would win every election ever for the rest of time. I am a liberal but the whole Aaron Sorkin \"if liberals were just more confident in their views they'd always win\" thing (which also shines through in the West Wing) is demonstrably not true. It's a product of years past where liberals were always in the minority on \"social issues\", especially LGBT stuff (also the Iraq War) - today liberals have won big on some big questions and yet it's that same \"more confident in their views\" vibe that turns many people off.\n\n* The \"sorority girl\" thing smacks of misogyny. Granted it's a dumb question but still. Combine with the later \"we acted like men\" thing.\n\n* The general Aaron Sorkin \"person who Aaron Sorkin disagrees with says something short, Aaron Sorkin avatar character makes them out to be an idiot by spewing out a tight, polished monologue with a million facts and casual insults, other person is totally speechless\" thing.\n\n* For a guy who's all pissed about superlative statements made without evidence he throws the idea of millennials being the \"worst generation ever\" out there with no evidence. Funnily enough we probably are a lot closer to his views on social issues than the older generations. And I can throw out a litany of stats about why millennials are way better than, say, boomers - more educated, less alcohol/drug abuse, fewer teenage pregnancies, less crime, lots of successful entrepreneurs, etc.\n\n* His list of statistics is a random scattershot, and someone else could probably come up with a list that makes us look way better. Also he said we're only number 1 in 3 things but there's obviously a lot more - size of economy comes to mind, that's a big one (also space exploration, by a huge margin, weird omission for someone who later says we \"reached for the stars\" in the past)\n\n* And obviously his \"we used to be\" shtick is just stupid sugarcoating of the past, and anyone reading this can likely run through why.\n\n* Your generation's beer sucks",
"Ah yes. Just fine before that",
"Reddit fantasy",
"What do you mean? Before it was a slave state it was in bad shape? That's a really stupid point if that's what you're saying. Like ridiculously dumb. \n\nAll of those events have contributed to Haiti being in the situation it is",
"THis is actually real though. MIT gives us 20 years before society as we know it collapses.\n(edit: no need to downvote me, I'm just saying. We're fucked.)",
"Have you read any Shakespeare? Sorkin fails spectacularly, if the metric you're holding him to is real life. But he's not attempting to re-create real life or people, he's creating a romanticized version with perfect people who can have tragic character flaws. It certainly can be cheesy if you don't buy into the premise.",
"The report from the show was 10 years ago. \n\nA report released this year with pretty much global agreement says that things are actually worse than expected.",
"Looks like something a young American would post to beg Europeans for karma\n\n pathetic",
"Sorkin started as a playwright. He style of dialogue, the pace, and particularly the spirited monologues that tell a particular moral viewpoint are pretty common in theater.",
"Oh yea. 1804 Haiti was just a booming country. Lol",
"I can't tell if you're pretending to be stupid as fuck or not. \n\nThat's 220 years ago and we fucked them over constantly since then. The United States absolutely has blame for the state of Haiti.\n\nBut yes, slave colony Haiti is so relevant here! Your input isn't incredibly dumb!",
"Got it. America ruined the incredibly industrious Hatian island. No more needs to be said. Fuck.. all the incredible innovations and improvements we have missed out on. God damn it America. \n\nBtw.. keep insulting.",
"America… where they know what’s wrong but refuse to fix it…",
"Kids with hate and 'reality' in mind will never understand that entertainment can be anything and if it's pure drama with fantastic writing and subtle message without nudity and violence, kids don't like it.",
"Such a great show",
">Zooming in/out constantly as if it's an episode of The Office.\n\nYou’re right, but Andy Warhol did it and he ended up with a museum in Pittsburgh and hordes of hipsters and supermodels trying to imitate his entourage ever since lol.",
"Newsflash; it Never Was. Only a white man could say we ever were lol we built this bitch on cruelty evil hatred and sin",
"> Black/white/Green\n\nIt's usually racists who use random colors when describing people like that when they claim they're not racist. Like \n`I don't care if someone's black white, purple, blue, anyone strange comes through this here holler I'll tell em to go back where they come from`\n\n\n\nI agree though, this guy isn't saying \"Make America Great Again\" which people love pointing out racist connotations with. No, he's saying it used to be great in the good old days and should be once again, which has a completely different meaning ^/s",
"> It's usually racists who use random colors\n\nThank god its not \"always use\", or I might be in trouble!",
"No one's actually read Shakespeare... Just the stuff attributed to him. :)"
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"Vox has a helpful explanation, for those unfamiliar with this: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/8/17/17723242/crazy-rich-asians-movie-mahjong",
"Super useful context - thanks!",
"Come to Richmond, BC"
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"Wut",
"“Last time that happened people were taking trains and busses to games” .... um...",
"Nowadays its Hyperloop and Beaming.",
"Yeah I was equally annoyed by that when I heard it",
"Americans call a game football. Proceed to be amazed when a player kicks the ball.",
"You British just dont get it.",
"I think that was referring to the teams themselves.",
"How do teams get to stadiums nowadays? I thought they took busses.",
"Isn't American. Must be British",
"They do, but like from nearby hotels I guess. But IMO, the announcer was referring to taking the bus from New England to Philly the entire way. Same way minor league baseball teams travel now.",
"Hahah ya I get it. He’s a professional. I’m just messing around.",
"Before 1970, the Patriots played in Boston. Now they play in Foxboro which is well outside the city. There's only 1 train that goes there so everybody drives.",
"Lol, fair fair.",
"I think he just said the first things that came to his mind during that split second pause after he said \"leather helmets.\"",
"I happened to be at this game. I remember having no idea what happened until some of the people around me started discussing it.",
"No, they're amazed because he was a quarterback, not a kicker, and the drop kick field goal is never seen in the modern game.\n\nIt was an anachronistic trick play performed successfully by an old, beloved veteran on his way to retirement. That's why people were excited.",
"Tell me you dont understand football without telling me you dont understand football. Which is also funny because /r/nba is your top posted in sub yet you dunking in football as an Australian lol wat",
"Hey if the teeth are bad and some consonants and vowels are skipped in conversation, its probably british.",
"Wut? It’s football.",
"I was there too - that was New Years day right?",
"Here's an article that I found on Google that talks about this play: https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2019/7/16/20686884/doug-flutie-drop-kick-extra-point-2006-patriots-troll-gods",
"what's the big deal here?",
"Extremely rare way to score a point in the nfl. Hadn’t been done for decades before and hasn’t been done again since",
"I've watched football my entire life and didn't even know this was an option.",
"Someone dull the edge on this guy. He's way too cutting edge with this sort of commentary.",
"All 2-point conversions?"
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Doug Flutie executes a rare drop kick for the NE Patriots
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"Have absolutely been called on Christmas morning.",
"Why are my parents just like this",
"\"Hey I just got a new laptop for Christmas and I can't connect to the VPN or domain\"\n\n*\"Merry Christmas to you too. In 2 minutes I will be eating dinner with my family\"*\n\n\"This will just take a second! I can't get any work done and this is critical!\"\n\n*\"Where is your old laptop?\"*\n\n\"Oh, it's in the other room\"\n\n*\"Then go into the other room, get your laptop, and do your critical work.\"* \\*click\\*",
"I wish my situation was that simple lol. I had to go on-site to a medical facility because someone working in a drug locker updated Java on a machine that was running some custom flavor of Java made by Cardinal Health and it broke their ability to track narcotics. I got shitty with my boss (who was also a friend. So I could be shitty lol) because not only was the machine not remotely accessible but users had admin rights to do shit like, update Java 😂 Man I don’t miss those days."
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I will download malware from an email from a Nigerian prince and call you on vacation.
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"Back when metal was alive",
"Yeah but the U.S. version is filthy too",
"The name of this band is Ambience and it's a song from their debut album called [Rising](https://youtu.be/Y2IzmAI1ZH4)",
"To each their own, but imo the American version just rocks harder and better",
"God damn everyone is an absolute unit, especially magneto. dude's in his 60's and is built like a tank.",
"We need one more X-Men reboot, just so we can get Henry Rollins as Magneto.",
"Professor X was flanked by Rogue and Storm because his true mutant ability is how much of a pimp he is.",
"so this is visually A LITTLE different than the US one. i notice the women look a little cuter in the face. this was drawn by an asian animation studio. japanese or korean, i dont remember which. and so i think they made it a little more anime cute like for the japanese audience.",
"I agree, though the visuals in this version really stand out more",
"According to the D, metal never dies.",
"Was there an english dub for this show?",
"It is, the US version is iconic and memorable.\n\nThis ones exciting but not quite at that level.",
"If you dig this I'd suggest the War to end all Wars album by Yngwie Malmsteen\n\nEdit: the song The Wizard has a pretty similar feel to this",
"That brood design was top notch.",
"It's the same show as the US version, just a different intro.",
"I'm a big fan, I think the theme for the US version is better, but the animation in these is way better.",
"It was the Jim lee influence.",
"[Here's the original.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di6DocEkruk)",
"This animation is awesome and way better but I grew up with the original so nostalgia takes the cake"
] | 19 |
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The Japanese animated X-Men theme song is amazing
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE
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/r/videos/comments/q5gfbp/the_ultimate_showdown_4k_remaster/
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[
"That’s a throwback and a half.",
"Saw a comment that mentioned it, unlocked a whole part of my brain that used to exist.",
"I always preferred the other version...",
"This belongs in the Library of Congress as a historically relevant work of art.",
"It’s pretty crazy that like most of the characters that are mentioned are still relevant in some way.",
"pahaaa I thought there would be more penises. Forgot [*that*](https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/330027) one was satire.\n\nEdit: NSFW",
"just gotta say - is that david cross from Arrested Development when he auditions as a blue man?",
"Imagine if The Ultimate Showdown was some distant civilization's only surviving record of most of the characters in it. Sort of like what the [Codex Regius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Regius) is to us today.",
"**[Codex Regius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Regius)** \n \n >Codex Regius (Latin: Cōdex Rēgius, \"Royal Book\" or \"King's Book\"; Icelandic: Konungsbók) or GKS 2365 4º is an Icelandic codex in which many Old Norse poems from the Poetic Edda are preserved. Thought to have been written during the 1270s, it is made up of 45 vellum leaves. The work originally contained a further eight leaves, which are now missing. It is the sole source for most of the poems it contains.\n \n^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)",
"I like this premise, though it could be the reality of Zoomer's children.",
"I think I need to pay Lowtax and SomethingAwful.com a visit to top off this piece of nostalgia.",
"Great Jorb!",
"Well then",
"Let me be the grumpy old man here for a second and complain that the song is literally just 3 minutes of name dropping well known fictional characters in a random order, and for some reason that really bugs me. I don't even know why.\n\nIt's like memberberries, the song.",
"I wish I remembered the website I first saw this. Newgrounds? Miniclip? Some obscure flash website that no one remembers?",
"Yes.",
"my first time",
"The fucked up thing I realised recently is that even though I haven't heard this song in like 16 years back in the day I had the whole list of names they rap memorized and in order, and I can still fucking remember the entire thing. My memory isn't even very good either like I forget most of my life especially after years of alcohol and drug abuse since then, but for some reason my stupid brain is still holding this damn useless rap in my memory bank",
"Back in the days of yore when you realize that everything funny on the Internet was created by either Neil \"LemonDemon\" Cicirega or StrongBad.",
"somehow, I still knew every word",
"Pretty sure it can be easily. I don’t think there are that many strict requirements to get in, just needs to be submitted. There’s all sorts of weird media kept there.",
"I miss the times when I hadn’t seen this.",
"there was a time I could sing this whole song on memory alone",
"To me it's 'Could The Flash beat up Superman?\" playground arguments, the song. All those matchups in a Battle Royale to see who can ultimately beat up everybody. The humor comes mostly from silly matchups or absurd combatants like Mr. Rogers or Care Bears.\n\nThat said, I saw this twenty times before I even knew what the word nostalgia meant.",
"I got about halfway through then suddenly realized that I did not HAVE to watch it",
"Classic",
"Found out this was made by the guy who does Lemon Demon. Pretty neat.",
"It was such a simpler time.",
"Care Bear Stares will never be irrelevant.",
"Neil Cicirega, he also did Potter Puppet Pals",
"Neil is still at it",
"And *Bustin'*",
"It was originally a vector-based medium. It didn't need a remaster.",
"It's pretty crazy that because of the internet, stuff like this will stay relevant in some way decades into the future.",
"What a flash back. I (terribly) animated a video for Lemon Demons Punpkin Pie back in the day and uploaded it to Newgrounds. Time has flown!",
"It'll be fun singing it to future kids pretending we came up with it on the spot, and then crush their dreams when they find out we stole it hahah",
"You poor, sweet, thing.",
"AlbinoBlackSheep.com",
"I remember this being a viral video way back when YouTube didn’t have ads, it wasn’t until last year I found out it’s a real song on an album and someone just animated this to go with it, back when message boards were a thing lmao good times",
"The entire career of Neil Cicierega does.",
"Lmao same, specifically the Chuck Norris part, like why would our brains remember this out of everything else",
"This was in 2005, earlyish internet days. The discussion of who could beat who was still somewhat fresh on forums. Not to mention the golden age of internet videos/animation.",
"I still know every word to the Candy Mountain song from Charlie the Unicorn…. Can’t remember the time/day of the single appointment I have this week though.",
"He is the de facto shadow king of the internet.",
"[This is the superior version!!!](https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/330027)",
"That was it for me",
"As much as I loved this shit as a kid, yeah. It's fucking dumb.\n\nThe popularity of stuff like this is the whole reason we're inundated with shit like Ready Player One, Free Guy, the new Spacejam, etc. Obviously there's a difference between some dude just making this in his bedroom for shits and giggles vs. a big budget studio, but it's all the same and this obviously hasn't aged well. I used to know all the lyrics to this, probably still do, but I'm not about to praise it as a work of art. It was just a dumb little viral video back in the day and you can't really shit on Ready Player One and then turn around and fawn over this.",
"He made this, Potter Puppet Pals, Brodyquest, and Bustin, among others",
"SPOCK the ROCK doc OCK and HULK HOGAN",
"I have the original SWF file still on my hard drive.\n\nSince flash files are vector technically you can release it at any resolution without any loss of visual fidelity.",
"I remember a friend of mine showed me this when I was in high school. \n\nHe thought it was the funniest thing and I was uncomfortable, but I watch it to be polite. \n\nHe turned out to be gay. I have a feeling this should have been an obvious sign.\n\nEDIT: I should clarify that this was 2004 small town Arkansas where people got their asses sent to the hospital for being suspected of being gay. \n\nSo you have to understand that my attitude towards homosexuality was one of discomfort because all I knew, at the time, was that I should feel uncomfortable about it. \n\nI was just relaying my honest feelings of the time. \n\nHow I feel now and then are entirely different.",
"Where? I can’t see him.",
"Most video rips were low quality though",
"The internet was a better place back then even if it took 5 minutes to load this video.",
"I donno man I thought the ultimate orgy was hilarious and way better than the original. Not gay either",
"This reminds me that there once existed a time when we weren't sad all the time.",
"Not gay... yet.",
"Lol, I mean all the homosexual images is a bit much but the lyrics are hilarious",
"This guy Newgrounds",
"Delete Facebook, log off Twitter and stop watching/reading \"news\". \n \nSocial media didn't exist back then and news was actually...sometimes...just news.",
"I barely use social media. No friend, my grievances transcend the internet. My student loans, medical debt, perpetually exhausted aging body and mind, etc, all take their toll no matter how much media I avoid.",
"I did *exactly* the same thing.",
"…valid point",
"still Bustin'",
"Dude's still pumping out original music and creative mixes"
] | 65 |
videos
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The Ultimate Showdown [4K Remaster]
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https://youtu.be/8GY4m022tgo
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/r/videos/comments/q5h8lg/quantum_locking_will_blow_your_mindhow_does_it/
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[
"Fuckin magnets, how do they work?",
"Don’t blink.",
"It's weird how he spliced in audio of himself laughing.",
"Marty has entered the chat.",
"Question!\n\nI levitated bread.",
"Is this currently being used in any situations other than demonstrations?",
"Certain maglev trains.",
"Nothing like how weeping angels would work.\n\nJokes apart, this is so COOL!!",
"I have done nothing but levitate bread for 3 days!",
"Heh heh heh",
"Quantum locking is pretty awesome",
"3:22 is pretty awesome.",
"[ **Jump to 03:22 @** Quantum Locking Will Blow Your Mind—How Does it Work?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GY4m022tgo&t=0h3m22s)\n \n ^(Channel Name: The Action Lab, Video Popularity: 98.04%, Video Length: [17:24])^, [^Jump ^5 ^secs ^earlier ^for ^context ^@03:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GY4m022tgo&t=0h3m17s) \n \n----------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n \n ^^Downvote ^^me ^^to ^^delete ^^malformed ^^comments. [^^Source ^^Code](https://github.com/ankitgyawali/reddit-timestamp-bot) ^^| [^^Suggestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/timestamp_bot)",
"Hi there, physicist/engineer here. Not specifically quantum mechanically focused any longer but I researched within the space for a few years. \n\nFrom what I know, there's few practical applications that are utilizing flux pinning (what this guy is calling quantum locking) on a large scale today. But it's absolutely beneficial for the future. This is more or less a fancy demonstration of properties that occur rather than a key into scalable applications. It's a lot more complex and utilized/will be utilized in different ways as we move forward.",
"*little bits*",
"Thanks. \n\nIs keeping the magnets cold for extended periods an issue or is it easily solved?",
"First off it's important to understand the entire purpose of the temperature maintenance. Colder temperatures allow low amounts of energy within the system, which basically as an ELI5 level goes -> the molecules move slower.\n\nSo lower temps = lower movement = lower energy = greater stability.\n\nBut to answer your question, it really depends on what you define as an issue. For example in other quantum applications such as the internals of a computer, there's been research and development of a very very very small refrigerator that does the trick.\n\nFrom another search, you can see that some applications use something called a dilution refrigerator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution\\_refrigerator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator)\n\nThese are all very complicated systems, but can be broken down into easy to understand parts. So while it's an \"issue\" to have these complex dynamics, it's also \"not an issue\" when you break it down if that makes any sense.\n\nTo tl;dr - yes and no. It's obviously very difficult to keep things incredibly cold, but at the same time, we've got our ways."
] | 17 |
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Quantum Locking Will Blow Your Mind—How Does it Work?
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https://youtu.be/mnZ9wF-Bv1w
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/r/videos/comments/q5h9bt/octopus_playtime_octopus_in_my_house_bbc_earth/
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[
"Do you think this chick watches tentacle hentai?",
"Equal parts adorable and creepy.",
"octopusses are so cool",
"It's Greek. Octopuses.",
"https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-39/reviews/my-octopus-girlfriend/",
"Octopodes",
"Octopus are awesome. You guys should watch My Octopus teacher",
"He is playing <3 Curiosity and play are so important for cognitive growth",
"I need to watch this show.",
"[I'll allow it.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes)",
"Vindication!",
"And play Octodad"
] | 12 |
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Octopus Playtime | Octopus In My House | BBC Earth
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https://youtu.be/TIlM0rtqnxU
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/r/videos/comments/q5hd9e/super_educational_video_never_knew_we_accumulated/
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[
"I'll be real, you had me for the first few seconds",
"This video is highly educational.",
"I think it is supposed to be a joke. Agree that it is not all that funny."
] | 3 |
videos
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Super educational video, never knew we accumulated such a massive debt
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC9Qh709gas?2
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/r/videos/comments/q5hkq5/polyphonic_overtone_singing_singing_two_notes_at/
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[
"That is just unpleasant",
"Glad it isn’t just me.",
"Amazing",
"Wow",
"She's a witch.",
"Technically that's duophonic, not polyphonic. Although old-school synth players would call it paraphonic as there's only one volume envelope.",
"She labeled the video, she's the singer, I trust her word, and only labeled the video after the title of the video.",
"Does she float?",
"Down here we all float gurl.",
"Human theramin"
] | 10 |
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Polyphonic overtone singing - Singing two notes at the same time. - Anna-Maria Hefele
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q5hmlg/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/q5hmlg/deleted_by_user/
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[
"The mask...the memories",
"Kinda made me sad watching this. Things haven't improved as I've gotten older. Great music, movies and games are fewer and further in between. \n\nThen again, I'm sure someone could fill a 5 minutes montage of all the great noughties stuff and it would be just as good.",
"I always love this video. Actually I'm surprised it has so few views.",
"https://youtu.be/PVsj8iBvIU8",
"This made me tear up. We really did peak in the 90s man. Just so many iconic moments, movies, cartoons, music, etc from that little decade. There will never be another time like the 90s."
] | 5 |
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[deleted by user]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncUYKk_CuTM&ab_channel=reviewer221
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/r/videos/comments/q5i79y/bobby_kennedy_speaking_to_the_nature_of_violence/
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[
"I thought he was based but it turns out he screwed a lot of unions and went after the Teamsters & Hoffa like it was his purpose in life. Still better than LBJ or Nixon though of course~",
"What could have been had he not been killed.",
"He went after corrupt unions that were stealing from their own worker’s pensions. He had many other unions presented to him while on the Rackets committee and as Attorney General, and he refused to charge them because they weren’t doing anything wrong.\n\nHe wasn’t going after unions because he hated unions (then he would’ve sued countless others) - he was suing unions breaking federal and state law."
] | 3 |
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Bobby Kennedy speaking to the nature of violence within our society
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https://youtu.be/oKdJ7XotzMc
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/r/videos/comments/q5j40b/dnd_stream/
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[
"Looks well made, but add some description to the post.",
"This stream features a homebrew world Kal'add from my friend EonIan. He is joined by Ginny D as Clover, Harli as Kayori, Hello Operator as Git, Dominic as Solaris, Bri as Bollos, and Matthew as Koros.",
"Thanks! I added a comment with more info"
] | 3 |
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DnD stream
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/q5jjbu/deleted_by_user/
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/r/videos/comments/q5jjbu/deleted_by_user/
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[
"Nearly?\n\nGosh, I might watch just on the cliffhanger.",
"You nearly got COVID ?? \n\nLet me correct that for you. \n\n\"I didn't get COVID while fully vaccinated. Get tested, even though you're vaccinated. Here's something you should read to stay informed about this horrible virus.\" \n\nAsshole influencer !",
"...I'm imagining 2 trains passing...and the video ends.\n\n\n\nDo words mean anything anymore?",
"Stupid video. Move on.",
"Nearly lol",
"Was this a homework assignment? Midterm project in your capstone communications class? Make a video to tell the informed masses what they already know or the uninformed masses what they’ll never take 30 minutes to listen to? Sheesh. Good effort but damn, talk about planting flowers where people won’t water them….",
"nearly got COVID?? I am sure everyone nearly got COVID"
] | 7 |
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[deleted by user]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ__KkzH1U8
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/r/videos/comments/q5jm8u/kids_in_the_hall_a_pill_that_gives_worms_to/
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[
"Riiiight. Could it also give worms to your mom?",
"THIS IS A DRUG FOR THE WORLD THAT GIVES WORMS TO EX-GIRLFRIENDS!\n\nYou just dont get it!",
"Hoo hoo!",
"Any lobster babies?",
"My boss and I like to quote this movie all day long.\n\nMakes us feel good, but, a little dizzy.",
"Thanks for coming in.",
"It was only a couple of flipper babies!",
"You know what cures worms? Ivermectin cures worms. \n\nAnd **not** COVID.",
"Good one dude",
"RED SOCKS",
"[u/redditmp4bot](https://www.reddit.com/u/redditmp4bot)",
"It was only a couple of flipper babies!!!!!",
"Such an underrated movie.",
"Some days it's dark.\n\n🎶\n\nSome days I work.",
"Hey man, you're turning into *that guy.*",
"You're right, but I wouldn't invite you to my bbq if you just say stuff like that.",
"Are we ever going to get the big table in here, or am I going to have to go cut down the fucking tree myself?",
"hahahaha!",
"Another KITH sketch that leaves me wondering...\n\nWas this funny? Is there something I missed?\n\nAm I just too old for this?\n\nA pill that gives worms to ex-girlfriends. Ok, haha, I get it. And the guy is such an oddball. I just don't think it's that funny, you know?",
"**GRIEVO 5EVER**",
"You just don’t get it here!",
"This one always gets me",
"I honestly can’t tell if people are supposed to be laughing or just watching in wonder. Their type of absurdism is just not funny to me.",
"Well this is taken from a movie. In context it's absurd humor. Out of context it's incomprehensible. Brain Candy is awesome though. Highly recommend.",
"Good coffee, Marv.",
"Sorry to hear about your lack of humor. :b\n\nPlease be aware that I am just joshing you and see no problem with other people not liking everything I adore.",
"\"You know, it's the little things in life...\"",
"Kids in the hall is underrated.",
"Wait did none of you watch the show?",
"It’s alright to have bad taste",
"It's you.",
"[Don't forget cancer boy.](https://youtu.be/Lu9wkm82FUw)",
"No one nowadays get this movie because no one nowadays has a sense of humor anymore.",
"Canadians know whats good",
"This thread gave me the epiphany that most people only know them from the movie and not from the series that was on my TV everyday before school and after school",
"30 Helens agree...",
"“These are the Daves I know” song always stuck with me because my dad is Dave and my friend was David so it really hit close to home",
"This urine is greaaaat."
] | 38 |
videos
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Kids in the Hall - A pill that gives worms to ex-girlfriends
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDOg5Ydxg8s
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/r/videos/comments/q5l4bc/timelapse_of_migrating_10_years_worth_of_notes/
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[
"Cool! What’s the app?",
"This is awesome !!!",
"Obsidian! https://obsidian.md",
"What exactly is being shown here?",
"Each dot represents a note, except for dark red ones which are tags, and dark blue ones which are attachments. Whenever a note links to something, a line is created between them. So basically a timelapse of my notes as I import them and link them together over time.",
"Cool, thanks for the explanation!"
] | 6 |
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Timelapse of migrating ~10 years worth of notes into a graph based note taking application
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https://youtu.be/0i-v7edfl-s
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/r/videos/comments/q5llic/wolf_alice_smile_bass_cover_by_julia/
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[
"Can't wait to hear this live. Wolf Alice goes way under the radar",
"You are pretty talanted. This is awesome",
"She's good",
"Oh hell yea new Julia vid",
"You think OP is Julia?",
"OP is NOT Julia. She is in Poland, I'm in the states. I got good ears, she slaps her bass like it owes her money.",
"Yes I know but this guy is saying you are talented lol",
"OP is NOT Julia. She is in Poland, I'm in the states. I got good ears, she slaps her bass like it owes her money."
] | 8 |
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Wolf Alice - Smile (Bass Cover By Julia)
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https://youtu.be/GWBnoLFYdcU
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/r/videos/comments/q5m9qk/bear_grylls_gets_mel_b_from_spice_girls_to_pee_on/
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[
"I’m surprised she agreed to do it and what prevented him from peeing on his own hand?",
"He likes to fake stuff for his show. It's been proven before. I'd bet money he's doing it again.",
"He already drank his",
"That’s how I got her to pee on my hand too.",
"Everything this guy does completely staged",
"I asked a girl to do this and she never called me again this is a 100% true story",
"I was of the impression that urine on a jellyfish sting was a myth in which case this has been made for TV drama.\n\nhttps://health.clevelandclinic.org/pee-jellyfish-sting/#:~:text=Despite%20what%20you%20may%20have,called%20nematocysts%20that%20contain%20venom.",
"I had fun killing him over and over on his stupid Netflix \"chose your adventure\" type of show.",
"Bummer, I thought this was pornhub",
"He still got paid for that. You were probably getting him more money than the average viewer, since you did it over and over",
"Meh, totally worth it.",
"It is, and he probably knows.",
"Pretty much. The idea of peeing on comes from the idea of denaturing the toxin with acid, but 1. there's not guarantee the urine is acidic enough to accomplish this, and 2. urine isn't as sterile as people think, also 3. gross. Packing a bottle of vinegar with your first aid kit when you hit the beach is a much, much better option."
] | 13 |
videos
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Bear Grylls gets Mel B ( from Spice Girls) to pee on his hand, after getting stung by a jellyfish. SFW
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https://youtu.be/z-ZxzDp6xaU
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/r/videos/comments/q5mb4p/1223_pound_giant_pumpkin_timelapse/
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[
"5th place?!? I need to see 1st place!",
"We have a guy in town who grows giant pumpkins every year for the state fair. It's so cool to see him drive them out. They fill the bed of his truck usually. He takes them downtown and let's the kids take pictures with them before he takes off for the fair. My son thinks The Great Pumpkin visits our town every year.",
"Wow",
"The transformer dudes flying around was an awesome touch.",
"I thought it was Robotech.",
"what if they placed the pumpkin in a pool of water to grow? bet it would be nice and round.",
"I love that the plant decided to grow the giant pumpkin not on the nice greenhouse they made but outside.",
"To be fair, the transformer Jetfire was introduced to the series/toy line based on the same model as the original Macross Robotech toy. So you are both right!",
"Reminds me of watching my wife over the years.",
"That's a great idea. I'd like to see that video experiment.",
"If only the king of the hill theme was long enough to cover the entire video.",
"What's with all the soda cans though?",
"Thanks, I hate it. Super interesting, and nothing as wonderful to see as a plant extending its tendrils for ~~flesh~~ sustenance riiiight before bedtime.",
"> My son thinks The Great Pumpkin visits our town every year.\n\nThat has got to be an amazing childhood memory for him.",
"i'm thinking that they must have to prevent this plant from producing other pumpkins at the same time so that it directs as much energy into growing the one as possible",
"Yeah I think he wasn’t sure which one was gonna grow larger/faster when you see the plastic containers",
"Big pumpkin, lil truck",
"My thought exactly. 10 videos later and Im back here now considering starting up a mega pumpkin grow.",
"Size scale. Using a banana would insult the mega pumpkin.",
"It'd probably rot, rather than grow.",
"Need to put it in a bag first",
"I bet it made 100 pies",
"a very briny salt water then.\n\nor another liquid. float the pumpkin in oil. vegetable oil molecules are too large to permeate the pumpkin's cell walls, and you could pump the oil through a filter to be sure nothing's growing in there. if you wanted to go crazy, you could circulate it through a uv box so you never had to clean the filter.",
"1st places are mostly >800 kg, this year my dad went to a harvest contest in Germany and an Italian guy showed up with a 1226 kg pumpkin, which actually overloaded his trailer, he apparently also broke the world record. \n\nEdit: that's 2709 lbs\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/7Mi5Y9s",
"Timelapse pls. Don't forget the soda can for reference.",
"Jeez, that thing looks grotesque. Like it's impressive, but it barely looks like a pumpkin anymore.",
"It's crazy how you can see such big gains in one day I never thought they grew that fast.",
"Nobody could have expected this. \n\nSure, we'll just grow the worlds largest pumpkin for fun, some said, then the scientists had to get involved, then before we know it the great pumpkin began to drain the worlds oceans dry. Sure, we tried to blow it up. But the chunks just ended up spreading seeds of this new, genetically engineered water loving pumpkin abomination all over the ocean, and now here we are, fighting for the last drops of water on this planet. We were all so certain it would be climate change which would do us in. Our hubris. \n\nBut at least we have year round pumpkin spice, so, that's good I guess.",
"If it’s the same year, 1st place at the Puyallup Fair went to this guy: https://www.king5.com/amp/article/news/local/puyallup-mans-1791-pound-pumpkin-sets-new-state-record/281-307850616",
"After it burst through its plastic enclosure, how did you keep critters from eating holes in it?",
"First YouTube comment, \"Dude do an AMA\"\n\nHow in the world did we get to this point?",
"There is a fake Pumpkin head that was very big and part of our local parade every year for Harvest Homecoming. Some called it the Great Pumpkin, and I was fucking scared TO DEATH of it as a kid. That thing would walk up and I would go running, tears in my eyes. The thing just creeped me out. At the time it had these long eyelashes that freaked me out, but have long since fallen out.\n\nHere it is. Remember, someone used to wear it as a suit, and it had long eyelashes. Terrifying.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/1T9Sysq",
"The time stamps in the timelapse are from 2014",
"I still have that same transformer in a box somewhere!",
"I wonder if at the elite levels of gourd growing there is ever tampering. Like what’s to stop someone from injecting their pumpkin with a heavy liquid of some sort to drive up the final weight.",
"Retirement fund.",
"Yeah it's kinda creepy to watch plants grow on time lapse.",
"I kind of wonder though, if Pumpkins as we know them were bred to be more like what we know as a pumpkin today. I feel like this probably looks more like (an extremely large) version of what a natural pumpkin may look like.",
"Plants actually move around just as much as we do. We are just like super speedsters to them.",
"I just saw a Transformer transform and move out in that video. :o",
"I wouldnt dare such a project. I would be to afraid that young people in my small rural village I live in, found out about it and would decide to vandalize/destroy it just for their own amusement. \n\nKudos for getting it so big. Amazing size.",
"First place for 2014 was 1,605lbs : https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article26077372.html",
"I think I was more fascinated by how the plant moved with the sun/weather and watching the piece of plywood warp, either way very neat.",
"How much does the world's fattest person look like a regular person?"
] | 44 |
videos
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1223 Pound Giant Pumpkin Timelapse
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https://youtu.be/28K1g3XzHHo
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/r/videos/comments/q5mhui/trimming_off_excess_mass_of_a_goldfishs_face/
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[
"gross",
"Wow, had no idea this was a thing. \n\n>You may already know that the wens of Orandas, Ranchus and Lionheads continue to grow and sometimes they cover the eyes blinding the fish. When this happens, it’s recommended to cut back or trim the wen. The wen is just a growth; much like our hair and fingernails. It continues to grow for the lifespan of the fish. When the wen becomes so large the fish is weighed down, or the nose or the gills are being obstructed, it’s health is at risk\n\nhttps://goldfish-emergency.com/gfe-knowledge-base/goldfish-koi-health/wen-trim-or-removal/",
"\"The biggest danger is accidentally cutting or stabbing the eye if the fish freaks out while you're trimming\"\n\n*proceeds to spend virtually the entire video pointing the tips of the scissors towards the eyes*\n\nTRIM **AWAY** FROM THE PART YOU DON'T WANT TO STAB",
"That fish spent 8 straight minutes out of the water. How long can that fish go without oxygen before brain damage?",
"Goldfish are carp so they're adapted to be able to live in poorly oxygenated water. And a little Google searching shows they can live up to an hour outside of the water. For fish being in the air isn't quite the same as humans trying to breathe water.",
">For fish being in the air isn't quite the same as humans trying to breathe water.\n\nThat is a great example. Never thought of it that way.",
"I've had to do that with a few of my goldfish. I really love fancy goldfish, but it is a shame how so many of the things that make them so adorable are so harmful to their well-being. I'm definitely conflicted about it, and I do think that the more extreme breeds like Bubble Eyes, Pearl Scales and Telescopes are probably a bridge too far. Still, even Ranchus and Orandas frequently experience serious and incurable issues -- especially when it comes to their swim bladders.\n\nThat said, my fish with the most chronic health issues is also my happiest and most friendly fish. He will play with me for hours on end, swimming around and chilling in my hand. His swim bladder issues are better than they used to be, but he definitely has issues that a healthy fish shouldn't have.",
"I once had a dojo loach (not a goldfish, but another \"muddy water fish\") jump out of my aquarium. She spent an hour or two out of the water before my dog alerted my wife that there was a fucking fish on the carpet. She was super dried out, but after a while in heavily oxygenated water, and once I had cleaned all of carpet fibers off of her, she was good as new and is still alive next to me right now. It's pretty crazy tbh.",
"Poor little thing.",
"Wouldnt that hurt?",
"Breeding genetic defects is wrong in all pets. Dogs with tiny bowlegged legs, dalmations that are deaf, pugs that have difficulty breathing and eating, cats with flat faces that can't really breathe. It needs to stop.",
"If you watched the video you would know.",
"I want to taste a gummy blob",
"Jesus just like, stop breeding them into this miserable existence.",
"Interesting! Thanks for sharing!",
"It's like those dogs that need surgery because their face is so wrinkly they can't open their eyes.",
"I feel like eating some jello right now",
"I thought about that too, I understand he probably made this video for education purposes but they couldn't have figured out a better angle to film at?",
"Really makes the \"remember don't do this unless you really know what you're doing\" ironic, especially as he drops lines like \"don't worry this is just like trimming your hair or nails...they can't feel it...maybe they just know it's happening\" as he later talks about how \"raggedy\" it looks because *it bled into the tissues*, \"i'm gonna leave these bumps alone 'cause they're pretty and 'cause i don't know what the fuck they do\"",
"Anyone have the track name? That song would be perfect for a romantic dinner.",
"trim that spine too. what a horrible way to force fun looking deformities"
] | 21 |
videos
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Trimming off excess mass of a goldfish's face
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https://youtu.be/Kl8xoPbqg-I?t=5
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/r/videos/comments/q5n1re/guy_sings_cover_of_kodalines_all_i_want_at_uncles/
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[
"I counter your video with Larry David telling a woman to shut up at a funeral for crying too loud\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMtYsXSH9kM",
"His voice is so beautiful",
"That was really pretty and very touching. But I wonder - did people clap after? What's the proto there? I mean, you probably shouldn't clap at a funeral, right?\n\nAnyway, I wish I had the talent to do that. I'm not good at funerals.",
"I love these things both equally somehow.",
"I think it’s okay to show appreciation by clapping. It’s a celebration of life and remembrance.",
"\\> I mean, you probably shouldn't clap at a funeral, right?\n\nYeah, traditionally people hold off on applause after a performance (at least in western funeral), clapping would be quite taboo in a setting like this but it isn't uncommon for someone to do a song or poem.",
"Shit man I hope I have a standing ovation at my funeral if not of rousing applause will do."
] | 7 |
videos
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Guy sings cover of Kodaline's 'All I Want' at Uncle's funeral. I found this on reddit before and come back to it every once in awhile
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https://youtu.be/DRCD-zx5QFA
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/r/videos/comments/q5ndqc/zooming_into_the_stars/
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[
"We really are a blimp in the cosmos",
"Please note that this is a visualization based on a simulation. \nThe simulation, in turn, is based on data obtained from the Very Large Telescope Interferometer at Paranal Observatory, Chile using GRAVITY - and if I'm not mistaken, it's [related to this study](https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202037813).\n\nBasically, it's what we think it looks like, based on what our measurements have shown.",
"lmao"
] | 3 |
videos
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Zooming into the stars
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ff29VSvP_s
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/r/videos/comments/q5nuei/still_a_banger_31_years_later_ive_been_thinking/
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[
"This is not a good song",
"Classic 90s….(sigh)",
"\"Banger\" means \"sausage\" to me. It did 31 years ago as well.",
"This was huge in the clubs way back \n\nIt’s a toe tapper"
] | 4 |
videos
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Still a banger, 31 years later. I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iY9hut8kPY
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/r/videos/comments/q5nybq/spam_versus_240v_the_place_was_stinking_for_days/
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[
"Flagged as spam.",
"Why?",
"Haha, why not?",
"This is cool haha"
] | 4 |
videos
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Spam versus 240V (the place was stinking for days)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp-SenNebbQ
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/r/videos/comments/q5o9kr/elon_musks_50k_house/
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[
"Please Suckberg cheated dozens of local Hawaiians out of their land in Northern Oahu to build his hideaway he’s anything but frugal.",
"technically that land would have been bought out by companies who wanted to throw resorts on it. Anyone can freely travel through the majority of the land Zuckerberg bought, that was his intention at least he says. Doubt he is going to throw resorts on it.",
"It's pretty cool that the second richest man in the world (and possibly the first trillionare) dedicates all of his time and energy into helping humanity. I mean, he lives where he works",
"This is like a infomercial for Elon musk lol. Is this made by his PR team? This video is so weird.",
"how did he helped humanity by living next to rocket site?",
"hes a turd"
] | 6 |
videos
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Elon Musk's $50K House
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYvEukUX6ME&t=13s
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/r/videos/comments/q5ojak/fully_grown_man_cries_about_mr_potato_head_for/
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[
"I cant believe this lol.",
"\"This has always been the plan by them.\" \n\nI can see that, bring out a toy and then like the Manchurian Candidate, wait 50 years to make it \"gender neutral\" and \"woke\"",
"The best part of the video was when he started yelling \"F--- You Hasboro!\" \n\nHe calls the left snowflakes and yet he melts down over stuff like this",
"BTW, none of the \"SJWs\" actually cared about Mr Potato Head. These guys are the only ones offended"
] | 4 |
videos
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Fully grown man cries about Mr. Potato Head for eight minutes
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https://youtu.be/W9ofIY3lvng
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/r/videos/comments/q5op25/anthony_hopkins_meets_death/
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[
"In my opinion, Brad Pitt was a terrible casting choice. He isn’t the kind of actor that can portray the subtleties needed for the character as it’s written. He comes across as a simpleton. \n\nAlbeit, it’s not the best screenplay to work with.",
"This was an interesting movie. The ending was not as captivating as I had intended it to be. Do you guys agree?",
"What do you mean as \"you intended it to be\"?",
"when pitt's character gets hit by the cars - i've laughed so hard \n\nit's not meant to be funny , but the suddenness and cgi .....",
"Even Hopkins was not as good as he usually is. Probably because the movie is shit. The movie is just romantic drama with pretend depth.",
"Fantastic movie",
"I was put here at the dawn of earth to feed on the last breath of every one of you fuckers",
"Damn. Of course it is. They all are.",
"This and the end of Cruel Intentions are peak comedy.",
"In his best roles Hopkins steals shows. This wasn't that type of movie. The movie had a great score. Also had nice sets. It was about impending death and how it affects family dynamics. It is sensational (in a figurative sense) because no one ever really has the knowledge that they are supposed to be dead but go on living and in turn have the ability to tie up loose ends before they go.\n\nAlso Brad Pitt was the perfect choice because as they say, the devil appears in temptation. And Brad Pitt is incredibly good looking (this is the basis of the romantic relationship between Death and the daughter). I feel like a difference between death and the devil at this point is also somewhat superfluous.",
"Wouldn't be surprised if it were the same bot that generated that movie's script though..",
"It would have been, at least, a much more interesting film if it had all been about Anthony Hopkins character and Death talking about life, meaning, depth, etc.; rather than about how pretty Brad Pitt is and his wide-eyed wonderment at the miracles of existence.",
"Ok hear me out, I can't believe I'm defending this lame movie lol; I think Brad coming off as a simpleton was an interesting take on Death because if he wasn't naive why would he be curious about the human world or need a tour guide? It's like watching a prince try to use a can opener, he may be powerful but never had the experience, so he's kind of a fish-out-of-water simpleton in a human body. Really underwhelming movie, I wish someone would explore that idea more, gods wanting tours instead of just treating Earth like a playground and having sex with people in the form of animals or whatever.",
"and the movie is too long! running time is 3 hours and 1 minute",
"I love the effect of the distorted glass constantly making my eye think it’s seeing a slowly morphing skull, like a constantly changing impressionist painting of death. \n\nI think it would have been cool if the clock ticking had stopped at some point, if death had stopped time and sucked all the noise out of the room. Maybe there could have been some more subtle background noises that suddenly cease in his presence and everything could have started back up again once the maid interrupts them, that could have been neat.\n\nAlso ofc Brad Pitt is...not the greatest...choice here. I get they’re trying to sUbVeRt eXpEcTaTiOnS but like another comment said, he does come off as a simpleton when he’s supposed to be giving a weighty look. He just looks pleasantly, handsomely vacant.",
"I couldn’t agree more. I love that glass effect.",
"Eh I like it.",
"I like the helicopter scene where he talks about love to his daughter",
"I always thought it was weird how his daughter met Joe at the beginning of the movie. It was fleeting, but they had a connection. Then he comes back as death and basically has no personality, but because he's Brad Fucking Pitt, of course she falls in love with \"him.\" It all seems pretty superficial. I mean, I'd probably fall in love with too... he's a good looking man, but the point is that he isn't even a person. It always made me feel weird that it didn't matter.",
"y'know, despite this movie getting a bad rap, I really love it.\n\nAlso, Clare Forlani....",
"Well said!",
"Its the supporting cast outside of Hopkins and Pitt who destroyed this film. My God... the woman who played Hopkins' daughter was sooooo bad.",
"Yeah she was a lot better in Mallrats lol.",
"Why would anyone be afraid of death if you knew for certain the afterlife existed, which meeting death itself basically confirms?",
"I keep seeing people say Brad Pitt was a bad choice. IMO WRONG -WRONG! He was perfect. Hes literally personifying an entity that has been alive since the dawn of time. Cabin Fever and a lack of emotion should be expected lol And Brad delivers on that - he is cherubic, beautiful like an angel should be, he's devoid of the normal human emotions and responses, that we would look for in a performance. You have to appreciate the message of the story.",
"His naive nature does really add a great element to the character or \"God\" as you say. I thought he was fine. The movie was just too long and it felt like lifting dumbbells at a certain point.",
"I can agree with you there, the pacing could use some work. It's a 'staple' of the two to three years of which movies were made during the time."
] | 27 |
videos
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Anthony Hopkins meets Death
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiXjaPqSyY
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/r/videos/comments/q5oqlz/to_quote_the_raven_nevermore_the_simpsons/
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[
"This is awesome\nI used to watch this as the poetic shaping of my.life.\nThanks.homer",
"Quoth, not quote.",
"Feels weird.... aired 1990?\n\nDamn.",
"kinda boring",
"I like the language used. Creative.",
"Anyone remember details of the rap song of this done of nevermore years ago? Been trying to find it.",
"Yeah, Edgar Allan Poe wrote for the Simpsons around the same time as Conan O'Brien",
"TAKE THY BEAK FROM OUT MY HEART, AND TAKE THY FORM FROM OFF MY DOOR!\n\nAnd a side note... \"I warn you, I don't do the N-word!\" \n- Pratchett GNU",
"I had this Halloween episode on VHS 20 years ago. Used to watch it with my older brother and crack up every time Homer exploded the city with all the lighter fluid he squirted on the BBQ grill. Plus there was a commercial for the Pokémon Red and Blue version. \n\nGood times.",
"Where's that photo of both of them in the writers room eating Chinese takeout?",
"I remember my Highschool English teacher showing us this when introducing Edgar Allan Poe. I remember just thinking, is that Mufasa speaking?",
"[MC Lars - Mr. Raven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGcrsoJazRo)",
"Kelsey Grammer.",
"I was a kid when this came out. Remember watching it live. This whole treehouse of horror episode was well done.",
"Wow, thanks, that's the one, been trying to find that for 6 months!",
"\"Quoth\" is past tense. You can't say \"to quoth\" in the same way you can't said \"to said\"",
"Why you little!!!!",
"It's James Earl Jones",
"It’s ok that was only 10 years ago.",
"31 years .... fuck",
"Quothed",
"Quotheth.",
"Wroth*\n\nIf quoth is the past tense of quote then logic tells us wroth is the past tense of wrote.",
"Lol nice. Shakespeare jokes made me snorth.",
"When I was a youngster, I used to watch this show all the time.",
"Apparently Matt Groening was dead against doing this segment, he worried it wouldn't work.\n\nI like it.",
"Legendary episode.",
"We’ll it first aired in 1990. Maybe people were easier to scare back then.",
"It’s like you wrote this title with out knowledge of the most famous line of the poem… very odd choice",
"No, it’s Darth Vader.",
"You mistake King Jaffe Joffer for Darth Vader?",
"That's mufasa don't insult my intelligence.",
"> Quoth is past tense\n\nYes but the line from the poem is \"Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'\". You can even hear the line at [2:34](https://youtu.be/bLiXjaPqSyY?t=151). /u/garfnodie was pointing out how the title is incorrect if they are trying to use the line from the poem.",
"I am pretty sure it's Admiral Greer. Mufasa does sound a lot like him though so it's pretty easy to mix them up.",
"No, Homer. Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.",
"I LOLthed",
"Fun fact, the Baltimore Ravens are named after this Simpsons sketch.",
"Is it public domain yet?\n(Thanks Disney)",
"I've been a die-hard Simpsons fan almost my entire life and this episode still came out before I was born",
"I got the impression thatthey were trying to reference it, not quite it directly",
"This is that weird era of Simpsons before it entered it's prime, but it still has a weird wholesome charm about it.\n\n\nA comedy show doing a 5 minute segment on a classic poem with almost no jokes is something I can't even imagine today. But this is also the era that had shows like Wishbone.",
"🤣",
"Oh thank god was feeling old for a minute",
"Y'all getting this all wrong. Pretty sure it's Lieutenant Lothar Zogg, dead to rights.",
"I love the simmering rage that has Homer double the ‘Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door’. And him of course going nuts…\n\nIt’s a very Simpson moment….",
"I love the treehouse specials",
"I remember absolutely hating this bit as a child - Not because it was scary, but because I couldn't wait for the 'boring poem bit' to be over so I could back to regular Simpsons.\n\nNow I'm nearly 30 I realise this was one of the best moments of the early Simpsons era, especially the Treehouse of Horror episodes (and that's saying something, as pre-season 12 is pretty much perfect television).",
"When Harvard graduates used to write sitcoms.",
"Always love me some James Earl Jones narration.",
"> I remember my Highschool English teacher showing us this when introducing Edgar Allan Poe. \n \nThis is such an American thing. How much TV do you watch in school exactly?",
"No, they just misquoted and you are trying to rationalise it afterwards like typical reddit neckbeard.",
"Sure you were, Matt",
"[MC Lars - Raven](https://youtu.be/d3z4mY5Xvr8)",
"Dunno. I learned math in American school. They wasted all their time trying to teach me how many yards in a mile, never learned how to add minutes into hours.",
"> This is such an American thing. How much TV do you watch in school exactly?\n\nusually only happens after exams/tests at end of year if you had a cool teacher. maybe a couple half days too.\n\nI saw a goofy movie and monsters inc in school. Also had a motor mech teacher who would let us watch tv the last 5-10 minutes of class.",
">This is such an American thing. \n\nNo, I don't think it is. Many countries have used media in their teaching methods for decades and decades. \n\n>How much TV do you watch in school exactly?\n\nNot much, at least not in the 90's and early 00's when I was in school. \n\n\nI find it hard to believe that you are completely unaware in the year 2021, that media is used in education, and that it is something that has never reached Finland.",
"> No, I don't think it is. I think many countries have used media in their teaching methods for decades and decades.\n\nNo, we didn't watch the simpsons to learn about literature. Just shut up.",
"So you didn't actually read any Poe, you just watched the Simpsons because you didn't have any NCLB tests anymore. Got it.",
"No actually you do not have it, we spent a week reading Poe.",
">No, we didn't watch the simpsons to learn about literature.\n\n\nSo, the person you replied to never said The Simpsons were used to *learn* about literature. He said they were used as an *introduction* to a topic. \n\nYou're telling me that in Finland, every pre-teen and teenager is just completely eager to learn in a completely straightforward way, and that pop-culture references are never used as an introduction to help relate to children and gain their interest? \n\n>Just shut up.\n\nApparently manners aren't taught in Finland either.",
"> So, the person you replied to never said The Simpsons were used to learn about literature. He said they were used as an introduction to a topic.\n\nThat's some hilariously American mental gymnastics. Our introduction to Poe was reading it. And again, you are just saying that you don't go to school for actual education by definition which is just hilarous. You say that there is nothing to be learned, but you do it anyway, because you label it as \"non-educational\".",
"And you can't read Poe without watching The Simpsons? How stupid are Americans?",
"> And you can't read Poe without watching The Simpsons? How stupid are Americans?\n\nWho said I watched The Simpsons because I read Poe? Do you pay attention to who you're responding to? How stupid are you?",
"The irony here is that you're the only one using mental gymnastics. I gave an explanation. \n\n> And again, you are just saying that you don't go to school for actual education by definition which is just hilarous.\n\nDidn't say that. \n\n\n>You say that there is nothing to be learned, but you do it\n\nDEFINITELY didn't say that. \n\n>because you label it as \"non-educational\".\n\nYou're just completely off the rails now. \n\nNobody is doing mental gymnastics here besides you. \n\nYou are pretty prejudice and angry for someone in the \"happiest\" country in the world.",
"uh oh, the alter kockers are having delusions again...\n\nnurse!",
"There's nothing wrong with teaching people through alternative medium to have them engaged.\n\nUsing film reels and short films to teach is nothing new.",
"man can you just shut up",
"I'm not going to bend over backwards to explain the benefits of finding creative means of teaching children different things to someone who is clearly extremely anti-american. We read a bunch of his poems over a couple of weeks, it's a 4 minute video to make a lesson a bit more fun. Your own education clearly didn't instill the values of being open minded to other cultures, thats for sure.",
"I was 6 years old(when this episode aired). I remember when the Simpsons started, my mom wouldn't let me watch it but eventually gave in",
"This is kind of what south park was for me. Similar age and time.",
"Funny that this is probably one of my strongest Simpson memories when I think about an episode yet it came out 2 years before I was born.",
"Yes, according to Wikipedia all works published before 1926 are in the public domain, so the original poem is ok.\n\nThe Simpsons copy of it won't enter the public domain until at least 2085 (although under the current rules Mickey Mouse will be out of copyright in 2023, so watch out for a further extension).",
"In Australia we read it and also watched this for some fun.\n\nWhy are you being such a condescending ass?",
"butt its passed tents, sew it should bee 'misquoth'.",
"oh you can go right to hell.....\n\n\n\nwe're old",
"Love this. Brings back great nostalgia for us elder millennials. Thanks for posting OP",
"LOL\n\nSouthpark was fantastic when it came out. I was in 6th grade.\n\nFor class we decorated the class with paper cut outs of the south park characters, and they stayed until a parent called to warn the school about a terrible terrible show!!! lol.... good times holy shit",
"They cut it off at the best part!\n\nBart finds the story lame, but it is revealed that Homer is terrified.",
"American here. We spent a few minutes watching this and a whole bunch of time with the text. It added a bit of fun to the lesson and did no harm at all. Glad to see my Aussie friends had some fun with Poe as well."
] | 79 |
videos
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To quote the raven, "nevermore." - The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror I, 1990
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmCAx8w6TPg
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/r/videos/comments/q5po8h/gilbert_gottfried_hates_the_ouya/
|
[
"I love when Gilbert Gottfried randomly pops up in my life",
"Gilbert Gottfried is awesome.",
"Voice of an angel. Spreading the good word here."
] | 3 |
videos
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Gilbert Gottfried Hates the Ouya
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