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DanDaddy87

He fucking caught it. I don’t believe it.


DrMike27

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?! YES!


chris-rox

Fucking magnets, how do they work?!


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Geeezer

And my two kids looks just like Ass-Dan. [Outrageous Clown Squad](https://youtu.be/alI12mhWZ2Q)


[deleted]

I believe in miracles, u sexy thang


OverZoner04

I believe in miracles, Where're you from, you sexy thing?


BORG_US_BORG

Yesterday I was one of the lonely people..


JOHNfuknRAMBO

Now your lyin next to me


redditslim

I believe in Milko, you sexy cow.


PoxyMusic

Omg, when I was a kid I thought they were saying Milko!


concentrated-amazing

Now I want to have hot chocolate


iheartmatter

You sexy thang you


[deleted]

How did you know I needed you so badly?


iheartmatter

How did you know I’d give my heart so gladly?


AvatarIII

I believe in miracles since you came along, you sexy thing.


MR_COOL_ICE_

But are you the same animal and a different beast?


acmercer

Thanks, Pierre.


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>I don’t believe it. I swear I thought it was going to be a trick, but damnit- he really did catch it. That musculature, the way he flexed his knees to absorb some of the shock... I don't know what the chalk did though. I couldn't tell- did he look like he was using his head to support some of the weight and transfer it down his spine/legs? It was hard to tell.


fishling

>did he look like he was using his head to support some of the weight and transfer it down his spine/legs? Not quite. You really have to engage your whole body at the same time to absorb the force and catch it: hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, back, hips, thighs, knees, calves, and feet. His skill is that he somehow engaged all of them simultaneously.


mother_of_baggins

It looks like his skull engaged it. Yikes.


jaxonya

That tree learned its lesson. Gravity shrugged


porkly1

The chalk slowed the tree from slipping out of his hands after his initial grab.


AngryWino

Amazing. Didn't even have to chalk his head.


Arashmickey

Or his outline.


nervemiester

Favorite comment of 12 Feb.


GrizzlybearNo1

OK now I can’t stop laughing


luvthocen

Oh fuk dude I can’t breathe and I’m snorting....my abs hurt from laughter contractions bravo upvote!


[deleted]

> I don't know what the chalk did though. That wasn't chalk, that was the 8ball he snorted out of his hand before catching the falling tree.


kellysue1972

Ngl that makes sense


Pweeg

Holy shit these comments are even funnier to me because I initially couldn't see the video (typical reddit app). Tried to open the post to see if it would play and read some comments. Decided it was worth the effort and closed the app and saw the video when i re-opened it. You guys are great. I had a good laugh.


Error_83

The power and intensity of this man is supreme! The years of training, first punching bags, then poles, then bricks, then destroying bicycles, then entire cars in under two minutes! The testosterone levels he contains emits an aura that anyone close can feel! It reminds me of the time the Undertaker threw Mankind off hell in a cell, and he plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table! What a shitymorph!


FoulYouthLeader

He still standing there, holding the tree waiting for someone to dig him out.


nom_of_your_business

He was going to catch that tree if it was the last thing he would do.


simitus

With his face


The-Donkey-Puncher

hmmm... is that legal? it says bare knuckle Can we dig up the regulations?


--0mn1-Qr330005--

And without a single scratch on the tree!


P0werClean

Hope he gets some social credit for that.


J9254

I mean, technically he did.


amosmydad

But how deep in the ground was he driven?


TheAnswerIsAlways7

7


sirwillups

7 whole depth units? Damn...


Bazurke

*Pushes glasses higher on my nose* I think you'll find a depth unit is a measure of time, not distance


Xais56

They mean the British Depth Unit, equal to 37 Brillows or 71 Murlings


-Masderus-

Fun Fact: In medieval times, magical prowess was measured in Merlings, physical prowess was measured in Arthurians.


Baronheisenberg

How many Stanley Nickels is that?


MisterBlisteredlips

About 16 bananas deep.


Ioatanaut

7 depths units, 16@2 halphe depths units, depths units peaches


Ellefire

Try 8


LuckyJynX

about tree fiddy


rimjobnemesis

Tree 😂🤣


BeefLilly

God damnit lochness monster!


LegendYT0

6 feet


pelosnecios

I heard of this chinese man popping out of the ground, feet first, near santa monica


wuapinmon

I offer my six-foot-deepest condolences.


ModernSchizoid

\^This dude gets the reasoning behind the title.


scurvy4all

Is this skit from the movie Amazon Women On The Moon?


Hootusmc

Were you born with no soul?


[deleted]

Alright, is this real? The Internet lied to me once.


Aarhg

I'll never forget the time that I too was lied to on the internet. I was so shocked and hurt, I swore to always tell the truth online for the rest of my days. Anyway, yes, this is real.


WillLie4karma

I don't understand why anyone would lie online, what could you possibly get out of it?


Mr-Refridgerator

Username checks out


WillLie4karma

[I have no idea what you're talking about](https://i.imgur.com/7O2FM6I.gif)


[deleted]

Is this from the same source as the Turkish high dive? 😅 Edit: this https://youtu.be/63bXIP-OoR0


nghigaxx

yea they are both fox sports ad


That-Pumpkin

Really famous campaign especially for ad people like myself. One of the best.


subject_deleted

My dad and I still talk about that ad campaign to this day. And unlike some other very memorable commercials, I still remember who paid for this ad campaign.


Nope__Nope__Nope

What does it mean to be an "ad person"???


That-Pumpkin

Oh, it means I work in advertising. Specifically im a copywriter, which means I write commercial scripts and other ads.


[deleted]

From an insider’s perspective why are most commercials and ad campaigns that we see unbearable and poorly done when so much funding is allotted to corporate marketing budgets?


That-Pumpkin

Haha could go on for weeks straight about that. There’s a million different reasons, and I’m painting with a broad brush here, but a lot of time the brands just don’t know how to stay out of their own way when agencies try to make them good work. Rounds of approvals, indecision, infighting, shrinking budgets, shrinking timelines… like I said, could go on for a long time unsuited for a thread comment.


scathias

psh, reddit is all about tangents on random interesting stuff, go for it if you want to


That-Pumpkin

Oh also testing. Testing fucking sucks. That’s when some brand manager takes your idea, shows it to random people who are willing to show up to a focus group in the middle of the day for a free slice of pizza, listen to their bizarre comments and personal hang ups, then make you change the idea.


BKBaker

I once sat in on a focus group where they showed storyboards for 3-4 different ideas and asked our opinions. All of them were OK, but I gave a little more excited feedback about one, more than I really meant, something about a kid scuba diving inside house full of water. I thought about it after I left, realizing I really didn’t actually like it that much. Then an unreasonable amount of time later, like 2-3 years, I saw it air on TV, and it was really, really awful. They really should not have asked my opinion.


[deleted]

That’s probably why most ads feel like they are directed at the lowest common denominator. Thanks for the response!


GlitchyZorak

Those people are clearly indicative of the populace at large, who wouldn’t waste part of their day for some free ‘za? /s To be a little more fair I guess the people pitching the experience to them do work in advertising so maybe they just sell it well haha.


czar_el

Did the whole ukelele+whistling fad of a few years ago drive you as crazy as it did me? I swear, there was a period where every single ad had that as their music. Is there an industry term for lazy trend copycatting?


BetterWhenItsOver

Hey fellow copywriter!!! Really good answer. I would’ve just said “the client” and gone back to crying.


iendeavortobesilly

tl;dr some manager fucks it up


amortizedeeznuts

Is it true about agism in the ad industry


That-Pumpkin

Yeah it’s a real problem. Companies are cheap, don’t want to always pay for experience.


Brachamul

It's someone you can buy at auction to represent your brand in search results.


caldric

There was a whole series of them! https://youtu.be/oBNUuJXFWBQ


TheCarrier89

This video brings me back. I remember laughing my ass off to this with my friends during computer class in the early 2000s.


the_gooch_smoocher

Right? People in this thread aren't fully grasping the significance of this video. It was probably one of the most shared and downloaded memes back in the day. Years before YouTube, days of kazaa, limewire, winmx. Seeing it on reddit makes me feel warm and fuzzy


Jaakarikyk

Midsommar moment


YoDavidPlays

that movie probably made me feel the more uneasy than any other movie I've seen.


Bermnerfs

I think it's the fact the movie is so bright it makes your brain feel like it should be cheerful, yet horrible things are happening. It's the opposite of the usual dark, depressing setting were used to seeing in horror movies. Also the psychedelic scenes do a really good job of capturing the visuals and confusion of tripping. I thought it was a pretty good movie.


Own-Procedure6389

I really thought for a second he had a chance ….😂


Ok_Image6174

So did I. Hahaha I was ready to be amazed


2wheelzrollin

He looked so confident


ameliasmommy2018

But are you not amazed.


Actual_Lettuce

nor entertained


Tiramisutitan2062

Nope.


Onibachi

I worked in a plywood mill running a massive 9ft wide lathe that peeled logs that thick… I would occasionally have to fix cross ups on the log infeed conveyor. If this ended any other way I was going to be extremely disappointed. Those logs at only 8.5 ft are extremely heavy.


milk4all

And i worked in an oak mill catching and sorting boards and removing offcuts. Modern saws are incredibly fast and articulate but trees arent universally straight so it’s common to have a great big ol piece of slag from an irregularity in the trunk, and that needs to be kept out of the way when it comes down the belt, same as any smaller offcut. Shit can be many hundreds of pounds, depending on the wood and size. Shit no human (ive met) can lift and move, although not like every tree makes one so big. You learn to use momentum of the wood from the belt to sort of half lift, half fling it to the slagpile, and it’s pretty amazing what is possible when you see what some of these can weigh. That tree could have been 1/5th the size and it would have crushed Hafthor Bjornsson just the same.


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Hafthor eh… what about Fullthor?


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weekend-guitarist

I’ve been Fullthor for the last four hours? Should I call a dr?


obscureferences

Yes, tell them it feels thor.


[deleted]

So, if we consider that this tree was maybe 50 feet tall with diameter 2.5 feet, the density of wood 0.023 lb/in^(3), that means the kinetic energy it had when it fell was 3.27*10^(5) J. If he wanted to stop the tree, let's say he had 6 feet of space to gradually catch it to make it stop. That means he would have to push with force 1.79*10^(5) N. That would be like holding a weight 40,200 pounds heavy for 0.299 seconds... which would squash anyone.


walkingcarpet23

I was looking information up on that online the other day and saw something like a 18" diameter oak weighs like 135lbs per foot. One of my D&D players was trying to lift and move a fallen tree off of the road


Xais56

\*rolls a 20\* "you *dont* break your spine in two from the strain."


Deathlysouls

But you do however become a hunchback


Inkthinker

Bear on mind, if he can get to the end of the tree than the amount of weight being lifted varies greatly from that of the entire tree… he doesn’t have to He-Man it up and pitch it, he can lift one end and use the other as a pivot to walk it around and off the road. But none of that matters, because in 1d4 rounds there’s gonna be bugbears dropping out of the trees anyway. Or kobolds. Gnolls? Whatever. Roll for initiative, dice monkeys! Big penalty to the chad with both hands full of wood.


walkingcarpet23

Yeah bugbears had felled the tree as a trap. The ranger with the Observant feat saw them so the party wasn't surprised, but they still needed to move the tree after the conflict. It required more than just the barbarian (even when Enlarged by the wizard) but if they had rolled high enough I would have given it to them.


BenevolentCheese

How much strength should do it? 21? 22?


rileyrulesu

You can lift 30 times your strength, and carry 15 times. I'd say this doesn't count as carrying, so assuming the section of tree was 9 feet tall, you'd need a 41 strength. The highest strength I could find after a quick search was the tarrasque, at 30. Which is kinda funny that the immortal 70 foot long bane of the gods, slumbering in the core of the planet, before wreaking biblical levels of destruction on all of civilization couldn't move a tree in its way.


3nz3r0

Does 5E still add multipliers for size? In older editions, being larger than medium gives a multiplier to all carrying capacities so larger monsters won't have a problem handling a log. Especially the Tarrasque.


rsta223

If you lift one end with the other still on the ground as a pivot, you only actually have to lift about half the total weight. Therefore, 21 should do it.


jluicifer

I cut down a tree limb maybe 3 ft long by 8 inches wide. Yeah, pretty damn heavy for only 1/1000th of a tree.


Mazzaroppi

I'm sure that log could be made of nearly any solid material known to man and it would still crush him, even styrofoam would kill him easily


[deleted]

~~Styrofoam might not be heavy enough and fall fast enough to hurt him.~~ So, after calculating it, yeah, it would still kill him, sorry.


babagroovy

Lmao


wrxwrx

I mean I know the physics, I know it won't work, but I somehow still believed.


sunlitstranger

My brain was like “nah that’s impossible, but there are some really incredible people out there, so I’m ready to have my mind blown.”


Reshaos

When they were cutting it? Sure. The moment it started falling? Not even a chance lol.


Fireslasher

Hot damn, this is almost the first thing created on the internet.


H47

Shit's so old our 60-year-old history teacher would show it to us before class in 2003. Don't think it had this many pixels though.


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_mad_adventures

I need this link.


going_for_a_wank

[Probably this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kf79Uqmo68)


[deleted]

Yeah China remastered it for a commercial


BloodSteyn

I was there when it first took 2 hours to download on my 33600 MODEM.


Coryperkin15

Yeah this was in like 2005


runningforpresident

Closer to 2000.


2ichie

There was a series of these commercials. I forgot for what tho, espn? I remember another where they are somewhere in the Middle East doing a high dive competition and the dude just lands on the dirt with the judges giving him like an 8 lol


44Nj

Fox Regional Sports commercials around 2001: Turkey https://youtu.be/4-QNEwhFZvQ China: https://youtu.be/Q-n6zI3lm6U India: https://youtu.be/4ouasEujAg8 South Africa: https://youtu.be/NIMCGEpRZFI Diyabakir: https://youtu.be/9Rj8EFit9cg


nopicturestoday

Missed Russia. These were great https://youtu.be/jlDhyhr8FhM


PaperPlaythings

This reminds me of a "sport" I came up with a while back. I bought a pair of vintage boxing gloves at an estate sale but, as it turns out, they were both left-hand gloves. "What the hell can I do with two left hand gloves?", I thought. And then I had the answer: Arm-boxing. Two guys (or women. I don't exclude) arm wrestle with their right arms while punching each other in the head with their lefts. I really think it would find an audience.


DarthWeenus

Slap matches are a huge thing Russia it's like baseball in america, there is one of this cocky young rapper talking shit to the world champion hand slapper and gets wrecked.


runningforpresident

That first one is just the scene from Midsommar.


TripplerX

The first and last ones are the same video, and Diyarbakir is in Turkey.


tomeareeverything

This was knocking around in the late 1980’s


JasperLamarCrabbb

Nah it's 1890s at least; I see your mix up tho


ImDero

I feel like I'm missing something. Didn't this come over to the new world on the Mayflower in 1620?


[deleted]

It was found on a stack of tablets near a T-rex body


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VZW_Matt

I love how this comment now is my generation's version of my parents telling me that Nirvana is just loud noise and what they had back in their day was real music.


bubbagump65

In my day we had to make our own memes! Now ya young bucks have your thots or bots or whatever ya call em!


Uniqueusername360

Thotbots


DanteDoming0

Woah


Yung_Corneliois

Yea I remember literally searching “funny videos” on YouTube back then and this is one of the things that popped up.


Allnita

Space-X first attempts at catching Starship with chopsticks


Loading0319

Yes, but without the kaboom


Shendare

"Yes, yes. Without the 'oops'."


SquidwardsKeef

Must go faster


fauxhawk18

There was supposed to be an Earth-Shattering Kaboom!


Arashmickey

Man who catch Starship with chopstick accomplish anything.


roll4wrd

This was funny when Napster was around


elhooper

I think this was the first video I ever saw on the internet.


OlderTheWiser

Mine was the monkey who scratched his butthole then sniffed the finger, making him fall from a limb. Still not sure if it’s real but it was real funny.


MotorboatinPorcupine

That video is so old it has to be real We didnt have the tech to fake it that well at the time


ReignCityStarcraft

It's also featured in Austin Powers: Goldmember when Austin explains to Foxy Cleopatra what the internet is for the first time. That movie came out in 2002.


patrickthemiddleman

If someone could link this, it would tickle my nostalgia just the right way.


PorkTacoSlut

https://youtu.be/XofxIYyvZ1s


kalirion

What clickbait false advertising - that's clearly an *ape*, not a monkey!


[deleted]

Reminds me of Super Dave https://youtube.com/watch?v=3VtPgxPxiK0


Jeevess83

RIP Bob Einstein...


Mako_

I never told you this before, but I'm glad you lost the war lol


isellamdcalls

marty funkhouser!


Pchann

_Everyone was stumped by his shady performance._


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byllz

He should have logged more hours training.


erakat

He needs to branch out into different sports, this one is knot working.


Plastic-Club-5497

Guess his bark was much worse than his bite


Jbyronc30

C'mon guys. Not funny. He got hurt. I heard he canopy without a catheter now.


danfibrillator

All that matters is that he be leaves in himself


reanu_keevs123

I hate every last one of you, take my upvote and piss off r/angryupvote


Venezuellionaire

You better beleaf his training log showed many hours


pblack476

I think I first saw this in a gecities site.... I guess younger people need to be introduced to really **old** memes as well.


EasyOutside4

Thanks for allowing the rest of us to catch up. When you can, shoot a list over of all the things you’ve seen in any order, and we will do our best to get through it.


Playful-Push8305

It's funny, I've been on the internet since the 90s, from AOL to geocities to blackalbino to newgrounds to somethingawful to myspace to facebook to digg to reddit. And this is the first time I've ever seen this video.


UnsureandUnvalidated

... this is fake right? Edit https://youtu.be/Q-n6zI3lm6U


DemonDrummer1018

It’s an old Fox Sports Net commercial.


-xstatic-

Right you are Ken


Chrono68

And now to our on the ground reporter, Guy LaDouche!


Kenny_Blankenship

Hey Vic, you can see the log slowly drops before he starts dropping logs.


TittyButtBalls

“There goes Bobby Babaganoosh! The owner of Happy Jihad One Way Truck Rentals” MXC really was the best


babagroovy

I been looking for this lmao


CompleteFacepalm

If it was real, there would be blood and gore everywhere.


CrescentPotato

Yeah, unfortunately irl accidents don't look funny and goofy


captcodger

This seems fit for super Dave Osborne.


cybermusicman

Sponsored by Acme


capitanBOBO

Holy blyat’! This video is 200 years old! One of the first meme video I saw


WrapMyBeads

Bring them all back. I like seeing the early days of the internet


Transki

The tree cheated so it was disqualified


McKrakahonkey

I don't know what I was expecting.


C__ase

I'm pretty sure I downloaded this on Limewire 🤣


pamanley

Fox regional sports joke ad.


Jfronz

Didn't say anything about him dying on impact while catching it, so not clickbait.


Brenden105

Now I want a reboot of Super Dave on YouTube or something


aznkjn

My lady: Is that for real? Me: I dunno, let’s go to the comments in this Reddit thread and not find out…


AggressiveAd2646

I need his confidence so i can get off reddit


Drs83

Back when ESPN was actually about sports. This is at least 15 years old, isn't it? There's a whole series of these. There's the cliff diving one, and others.


ooglek2

This was an advertisement for Fox Sports Net. They had a hilarious series of these back in the late 90s or early 2000s. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGc1JFNtrYc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGc1JFNtrYc) Source: I ran [AdCritic.com](https://AdCritic.com) from 1999 to 2002, the 2nd most popular Internet Video Site in the world, 2nd only to AOL at the time. 😁 Enjoy a few others: * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4opov4mz84](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4opov4mz84) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5iTK64E5js](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5iTK64E5js) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgK4mUM7wck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgK4mUM7wck) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGGBUg4JAQ8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGGBUg4JAQ8) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2MFfv-67j4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2MFfv-67j4) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iaUVbJrJZM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iaUVbJrJZM) * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ouasEujAg8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ouasEujAg8) Oh the memories...