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An hour of top posts from r/Whatisthisthing on Reddit. Join the community subreddit at / emkay Video credits below.
Narrators:
/ @itsboobin
/ @jaymick
/ @thelexikitty
00:00:00 - why does it exist?? | Robin
00:13:21 - wrong answers only. | Lexi
00:41:48 - critter stairs! | Robin
00:59:11 - using tongue as key? (GONE WRONG) | Jack
01:20:06 - ..and I'm doing just fine | Robin
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r/DontYouKnowWhoIAm | Houston, we have a problem.
• r/DontYouKnowWhoIAm | ...
r/MaliciousCompliance | Me: Sure thing!
• r/MaliciousCompliance ...
r/Nicegirls | she doesn't want much.
• r/Nicegirls | she does... - Komedie
Holy hell I can answer the silly bandz one. It was supposed to be a promotional tie-in with the movie Rio. The silly band was supposed to be a marmoset.
oh my god I think I see it...
@emmigosa trust me, you don't see it. Look up "marmoset silly band" and then you'll see it but I guarantee you weren't picturing it that way 😂
@@pinkski9175 YOU'RE RIGHT, LMAO
Thank you, this was frustrating me since I watched the video when it was published
Omg thank you I was so curious
12:09 “Why is it called an Honest John missile?”
“Because honestly, John, this thing’ll erase anybody and anything with a 5 km radius of its detonation.”
Lol. funny.
Says the one with a rocket launcher that can stop time
@@gangstablook5846 Well, ya got me there. I’m always on the hunt for blood. When you least expect me, expect me.
@@V1_The_Machine Good luck with that buddy
"A former Redstone Arsenal Commander, BG (later MG) Holger N. Toftoy, was responsible for the nickname chosen." -Google
32:56 based on the context, ND stands for negligent discharge, which is essentially firing without proper reason
For those of you who decide to like, thank you (I don't want anyone to feel obligated to, though, so feel free to just read and continue on), but to everyone, have a good day/night
oi josuke
it’s more like accidentally firing
@@WillRunFrom12 accidentally firing is the definition of negligent discharge. ANY unauthorized firing for ANY reason is a negligent discharge and you get an Article 15.
1:46 bro has never heard of Czechia or even seen the word before. Certified American moment
Its not that we havent heard of it, everyone has. Its just common here for people to have trouble pronouncing it, after all it doesnt follow any rules in the English language (since its not american!) so it's confusing to think it's pronounced "checkia."
Literally
I wonder how it’s possible that he has no knowledge of an extremely irrelevant and uninteresting place that has absolutely no place in most people’s lives. One can only wonder. Your ignorance and lack of critical thinking skills is truly baffling.
@@whocares4574 what is this guy yapping on about? 💀 why are you mad that i'm shocked that some people don't know about literal countries?
@@whocares4574 I can't even. Czechia is a beautiful place. Prague, the capital, is definitely worth seeing, especially its breath-taking architecture. It may be irrelevant but uninteresting doesn't sit right with me. And it's always okay to learn about new places.
0:48 I sought out the post myself, so if anyone is curious, it was discovered to be a promotional silly band for the movie Rio. It's one of the marmosets.
thanks for the update :) Also I flipped it 90° clockwise and saw a centaur charging into battle with their left arm winding up to REALLY slam that buckler into somewhere unpleasant (probably a jaw)
@@yeckiLPi flipped it upside down and almost saw a seahorse
I saw a monkey
@@suryanshridesbikesmy money was on Godzilla lol
caliborn 😲
32:36 "what does ND mean?" ND means negligent discharge in other words purposefully firing off a round while ignoring and avoiding proper safer procedure
Thank you for the information!
The freaky garden thing:
That's a Japanese/Chinese shrine! It's used to worship gods or a lost family member (i.e., Grandpa, (rich) Uncle, etc). You're actually very lucky to see that! The dogs look like statues...??? So I'm assuming it's a dog shrine.
Emkay team, please update us at some point. We know something's up
Edit: for those wondering, we've had more missed or late videos, and more compilation videos
Damn, I thought I got here before you for a minute there
What do you mean? Is something going on?
@@rosiebelladonna8160 they've had more missed/late videos, and more compilation videos as well.
What’s going on?
What is happening?
@2:50 Park ranger here, those definitely look like rosary peas. They produce abrin, which is potent enough that ingesting a single seed can kill a human. Native to south Asia, but found as an invasive species all over Florida (not sure about other states).
1:34:56 In case you're wondering a downrigger weight is used in fishing to stabilize the bait. I don't know why you'd need one that heavy, but the ad sells them up to 10 lbs.
on the termite indicator, in the tube under those balls is a stick of wood. the idea is that the balls are held up by this stick, and normally when termites are not present make the green color visible in the small window, but if you have termites they will eat that stick of wood causing the balls to fall down the tube and you will no longer see the bright green ball in the window. indicating you have termites
10:55 The termites eat wood fibers that are in the wall until the match stick drops, releasing the balls. When you don't see the bright green one, you know you have termites
Neat thank you!
Thank you!
1:47 my family is from there, and we’re head there next week! The “Czech” in the word is pronounced “Check” and you can probably figure out how ‘-ia’ adds onto that.
That’s an escalator skirt, it stops things from being trapped inside.
Good for cleaning your shoes too
Thank you
Why is Reddit literally the answer to everything
I know EOD workers being bored is actually a good thing in the grand scheme of things, but it's still kinda funny to have that response.
1:21:23
I mean, illegal bars and similar establishments were called "speakeasies" because the operators needed a way to verify someone wasn't a party-pooper before letting them in. Besides, before central air and heating were widespread, opening your door just to talk to someone would let in inclement heat or cold.
I love Robin as a narrator, really. Just, sometimes, it feels like he thinks the world is only as old as he is. Then again, he seems a lot less curious-natured than Jack or Lexi, and he does make a point about not getting hung up on non-affecting things.
52:30
Having your house buried helps A LOT. My grandmother’s house was similar to this and while she had an air conditioner and heating, it was almost never turned on and like 68 degrees year round in the northern Midwest.
And to expand on “ground is good insulation”, there are some companies that have warehouses in caves in Missouri and Tennessee (probably other places too) because they’re naturally temperature controlled. When I was a OTR truck driver I’ve had to go to Missouri’s quite a few times and it’s kind of surreal to drive a truck through a cave system.
43:13 There are absolutely decorative metal cases/jackets for matchboxes. They’re not that common anymore, but I think there was one floating around my house as a kid.
Yep, my grandma has a porcelain matchbox with a hinged top that has a painted design. She keeps it on a table to use for shabbat candles (she's orthodox Jewish). It perfectly fits an average sized matchbox inside.
Yep those existed, but they went out of use due to the safety match. Old western style matches could be ignited on any rough surface like boots. Or denim so people regularly set their pants on fire. This led to the invention of the safety match which needs the strip on the matchbox side.
Mildy interesting fact:
Magnetron (the microwave part of the video around 24:18 )
Is actually the dutch word for microwave
So a magnetron in a microwave sounds very strange to me as one is a translation of the other but also has its own meaning in english so that's mildly interesting
9:15 That's a flying squirrel, please dry him off and take care of him because he looks very sad :(
I IMMEDIATELY knew the first one. I absolutely adore anoles, they're just so cool!
Same and lyre I didn’t expect to see you here it’s wings
@@user-mf3sj8xp6t ??
@1:00:21 Jack left off the word vase in his search. 'Rose Bowl Vase'. The metal insert is more often referred/marketed now as a ikebana stem holder. The poster was telling the truth, the grid keeps the rose stems or filler like baby's breath, evenly spaced.
For that thumbnail, idk what it's for but it's satisfied when it's brush my leg
Its to keep skirts, lose pants, shoelaces etc from getting sucked into the escelator. Called a escalator skirt.
Free shoe cleaner lol
1:10:07 For anyone that is wondering what island/country that is on the can/beer opener.
It is the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴. It is a pair of Islands that is North of the UK and Iceland is North-West of the Islands. The Islands are a part of Denmark 🇩🇰.
I’m actually surprised I immediately recognized it as the Faroe Islands
Same
where are the hetalia people at??
@@CrazyAuna94 Right here lol
@@allium_lily yeyeyeyeyeyeeeee
Structure at 1:59 looks like something straight out of the game zoonomaly. I know this image has been around before that game came out but dang
1:17 Reminds me of Amorphous Globosis, in which an animal is born as a deformed flesh ball with fur, hair, or feathers.
The Honest John thing is because they just gave weird names. There was a medium-range nuke that was discontinued called the Davy Crockett.
It was discontinued because there was no way to make it go far enough for the blast to not be fatal to the user.
0:54 I know a vast amount of animals (either by name or only looks/attributes) but this has me dumbfounded. I can't make anything out of it. It seems to have a squirrel tail, a pincer, and a bird's head on top. However... now that I look it with my head tilted left I can only think of a sea dragon. A kind of seahorse that camouflages itself as seaweed. That might explain the weird protrusions, but still doesn't fully match its silhouette.
It's already been found. It's a character from Rio.
@@Gamemaster-64what is it
it's a marmoset kicking the air from rio
I was thinking it looked like a kangaroo with a fish by its feet
I was thinking a bird man in a boat. Like a person but with a beak, plague doctor style. He's the ferryman.
1:15:50 It's an old D&D encounter stat block. Jacque was Challenge Rating 3, had 6 Life and gave you 2 Resources on kill.
8:11 The manual for court marshal next to the medal tells the whole story.
33:00 ND stood for Negligent Discharge in that scenario... Gun lingo.
Looking for this one, thanks
@@purplepanda8753 Gotchu friendo! Wasnt tryna be a know it all lol, just helping fill in blanks where I can
Yep, I was headed down here to clear that up, too!
@@MrGunslinger911 Well name checks out lmao
I'm kinda surprised she didn't know that one, given she usually seems to know gun stuff. I avoid them like the plague, but I've heard ND a lot
28:52 There's a really good chance that that's not the only one in the building, especially if that's a common motif in the bathrooms or tables. Making a bunch of cones is more cost-effective than making a safer shape. You'd also have to be crazy strong or affix that thing to a stick for it to be an efficient piercing weapon, and the flat end is only gonna deliver a nice sound or welt.
2:43
So, you’re telling me I’m not safe from even spaghetti?
You're especially not safe from spaghetti.
killer spaghetti
sent to the spaghettigrave
As long as they are cooked, rosary peas are mostly harmless and not deadly. They are dangerous (up to deadly) however if they are uncooked/raw and even worse, when unripe AND raw.
1:41 Czechia (Check-ya)
forgot the e, Check-E-ya
@@caesarzeppeli2594kinda both are valid
why you checking me for?
Also known as Czech Republic
What is this thing: image of a woman
Someone: a taco
1:28:52
Yup. I work in an injection molding plant. Each part made comes from a cavity in the mold. So, they have cavity numbers. If I find flash (excess material) or a short (missing material), I can tell my supervisor I found it on cavity 8 or something. Saves us the trouble of having to figure out which mold section it came from. They can adjust how much material is going into the cavity, or identify if the mold is broken/not seated properly and is allowing material to squeeze out the sides. And then our job goes from nonchalantly dumping handfuls parts into boxes, and goes to miserably sitting at a brightly lit table having to inspect each part individually to figure out when the issue started, and if it'll continue after whatever fix that was done. Usually for the rest of the order over multiple shifts. I got to do that today. Oh joy.
11:26: that's like an origin story for a body horror SCP anomaly.
I really love the combination of you guys haha, Robin is just very calming and has quite a logical feeling to their answers, Lexi is just funny and very shocked by some of these while Jack on the other hand is quite funny and very relateable haha, love u guys!
Thank you for adding chapters back to compilations 😊
3:38 wrenches that big have a tapered end so you can put a pipe or some other big piece of metal on the end for more leverage. You can't get enough torque with the wrench by itself
9:07
Nebraska. I only know that because that state was just added to American Truck Simulator and I'm participating in the Cruising Nebraska event.
1:23:41
Oh yeah! That would hold paper cartridges for muskets and the like! (Pretty much it's a musket ball with a pre-measured amount of powder. Bite the end off, sprinkle a tiny bit in the flashpan and close it, pour the rest into the barrel and pack the cartridge down like a regular musket ball).
I honestly thought it was North East
I swear car people are like MatPat being able to identify and name every single animatronic but x1000 😂
51:12 Those clay hands and rods with string are for cube shaped hanging planters. The hands fit the underside corners and the rods slide over the top corners.
Thanks EmKay now I'm addicted to this subreddit lol, it's so fun to browse and try to guess what each is before reading the comments lol.
1:21:36 - "Mooooooom can you bring me more hooot pocketttssss I'm raiding in WoW and can't get up, Moooooooooooom!"
1:18:34 For some reason the "what is.." that you said in this specific time was in perfect tune to "what is love - by gliese" in the first 03s of the song.
1:02:00 about: your excessively sweaty hands might be ‘dishydrosis’, and feet are affected as well . Sometimes little whiteish dots appear. My dermatologist had me apply antiperspirant a couple times daily. Went away with age.
cylinder could also be a way to keep people from driving their cars into the park in washington state where i lived they usually make those things out of wood
The Bone dice are just a 'knucklebone dice set,' sold as a toy even now.
The 'ant collector' is called a pooter and they are often used by entomologists for any king of small insect.
March 17, 2024 - Stainless steel soap is a piece of stainless steel, in the form of a soap bar or other hand-held shape. Its purported purpose is to neutralize or reduce strong odors such as those from handling garlic, onion, durian, guava, salami, or fish. No published scientific studies are known to have
13:00 -- Those purple lights would very unlikely be from grow lights; mainly because grow rooms are typically dark rooms without any windows, so you can precisely control the plant's day/night cycle. They have to have a certain amount of pitch black time to control different stages of their growth. I used to grow indoor "medical" (i..e legal) marijuana.
You also wouldn't want the neighborhood to know there's a grow room in your building, making you a prime target for theft. I grew all my batches of plants in separate tents with reflective aluminum siding on the inside -- so you could barely tell the grow lights were turned on when you were inside the room.
I'm happy everytime you post really made my day :)
0:55 looks like some sort of dog with a bone at their paws. with the type of fur shaping you see rich people have with their pets many years ago
for those brush things on the escalator, I use it as a show cleaner
@1:25:48 I remember being made to use one of those at primary school to suck up worms for some reason. I forgot they existed until just now, and wish it had stayed that way
"ND" stands for negligent discharge
2:40 "isn't nature gorgeous?"
1:47 the country is pronounced check-E-AH, formerly the czech (pronounced check) republic. it is where my late dad was from and i thought i'd correct it as the country means a lot to me
I hated the blister picture and also why does that tree look like something that would gladly cause multiple war crimes in both Alaska and Vietnam 😢
Lexi nailed the pronounciation of "Dak kant spiegel"
Source: i'm Dutch
12:45 I actually got to see this and me and my friends thought it could've been some sort of electromagnetic storm. Guess we weren't even close.
Re: 52:25, I live in a split level house and my first floor is half underground (about four feet), the eye level windows on the first floor are at ground level outside. Being partly underground does actually help a lot with temperature control, as the first floor stays relatively cool in the summer (never goes over 79F even without any A/C during weeks with 85--95 temps), and relatively warm in the winter (never goes below 58ish with the heat off even during months of -10--10 temps), while my second floor in the same situations would reach much more extreme temperatures
A CZcams video
no
Maybe
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I don't think so
No shit Sherlock
I love this, so much info you did not know existed 😃
"Ahhh... it's the gooch cooler"
Words I did not expect to hear today.
0:11 the green boi.
49:09 That socket is pregnant and apparently pretty worried about it.
02:36 : yeah, that's definitely two earthworms doing what comes naturally. Fun fact: in earthworms, the mating process can take up to 24 hours, and they repeat it every week or so.
The hair cutting tool with the spirit level is called a creaclip and youre supposed to tip your head upside down and clip your hair into it then cut and you end up with face framing layers. I had one. The fringe one is smaller and less curved.
1:07:55 Hey! these are from a game called Knuckles! typically made from bones but also modernly made from plastics
Seeing the angry mama made me laugh so hard. My grandma has one and I didn't think many people had one as well
I always knew in the back of my mind the the escalator skirt had some function related to safety, but my whole life I saw it as a free shoe cleaning.
ND is negligent Discharge when used for weapons (most commonly in the military)
The silly band in question at 0:46 is either a wishing lamp or Santa's sleigh (lean your head right 90 degrees)
Istg if Robin isn’t dyslexic I’m going to be very confused. Either that or just say “Well I’m dumb” and move on LOL
Chair with long arms: That's the first thing that popped into mind! 🤣 Legs up!
26:13 my immediate thought was " vintage marble run "that
You often find the glass bowls with the mesh on graves so you can arrange the flowers neatly
1:00:11 is a flower frog. you use it to arrange flowers in it that have cut stems. It holds them straight up in the water. Ceramic flower frogs are very popular on the internet these days.
That cookie cutter looks a little like a bird chilling out on a vine. 0:48
it's obviously a toothbrush!
15:01 That's a fence post driver. You put the open end over the top of the fence post. Then using the handles on each side (we can only see one but there's one on the opposite side) lift it up and throw down forcefully. It acts as a hammer to knock the fencepost into the ground.
Yesss!!! I would so set up those mitigation machines to play loud farts for avalanches, echoing the beautiful symphony to the towns of the foothills. 😂😂
Entire country of Czechia: exists
EmKay: WHATISTHISTHING
Considering many Americans probably think Czech is a language they speak in the city of belgium, which is in the country of europe on the polish continent I'm not surprised😂 If they heard of these places in the first place or even know continents exist😂
39:11 I've seen the mirrors on an inside corner effect before in a hotel room (Etap hotel, Belfast), it's surprisingly very hard to "do stuff" (to your face, hair ,etc) with it
0:47 it appears to be a dog holding out its paw
10:32 And neither does "Bluetooth" and we still use it
3:42 - I think those wrench are usually used with hydraulic jacks and/or cranes to push/pull the wrench end around the bolt/nut.
Once I saw how people doing this with manual chain crane.
But that wrench was only 52 mm sized, much smaller than this monster (it's like 300..400 mm I think).
3:44 I AM SO GLAD THEY PUT THE BANANA FOR SCALE OMG
28:55 ice pick. Warm water in center so it doesn't make your hand cold, its for when your bucket of ice from the hallway freezes solid.
ND stand for negligent discharge. There are 2 types of unintentional discharges with forearms, accidental, and negligent.
Accidental is usually caused by a malfunction, for example when i was on the rifle range the trigger disconnect on my M4 sheared off and caused the rifle to go cyclic (full auto) while in semi auto setting.
Negligent discharge is when someone's just a dumbass, and their life is about to get a lot more difficult because of it. If you have a negligent discharge in the military your about to have the worst time of your life.
22:04 it called Canting (read; tcanting), a patterns tool on BATIK (not Batique) an Indonesia's traditional clothes patterns. It works like a fountain pen.
Why was the narrator changed 3 times
edit: its a compilation of different videos
When the rose bowl was called lame. Every American college football fan went just a little bit feral. Very famous stadium for college football post season.
46:02 it's called a tire lever it usually used to remove the tread off of mtb(mountain bike) wheels to either replace the inner tube or to add/remove the tire sealant in tubless tires
10:18 oh god I’m drinking that exact flavor of monster right now 😭
2:32 the worms: uh we are in the middle of something?
18:50 If you are unaware at one point the area now known as a the North Sea was (in prehistoric times) above land. It was full of Mammals and trees and was almost all below sea level. But around 6500 BCE a Tsunami from a North American Great Lake sunk it, England was the Highest peaks of this region many proto-human artifacts like spearheads and knifes have been fond from this area, even fossilized footprints. This area was known as Doggerland and I wound recommend doing research on it as it is quite fascinating.
I have brownies today!!
Hope they're good
Didn't ask but nice
Thank you!
@Mrpuggo0322 sorry that was rude actually
@@ItsWolf0 what?
obviously the big wrench is functional. clearly its an iconic, large, impractical weapon for a fighting game character, and now that they've inherited it, they must honor the decades of wrench combat experience with countless battles to come.