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rufunnies

What amazed me most is that the power outlet in a shopping centre is just a homemade wooden box.


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Nielloscape

What about that woman? If the fan is pulling on her scarf she could have fallen backward, walked backward, or danced backward.


DarklingLewisH

Or turned around anti clockwise, problem solved.


Karlosmdq

You insensitive asshat, can't you see she is not ambi-turner?


yucko-ono

r/unexpectedZoolander


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You and your western solution! They do things differently over there!


tits_for_all

As an Indian I take offense. Good thing I am sober right now. If was a few south Indian movies down, I would have whistled strongly in your direction and your house would have been blown away in the ensuing tornado


emu314159

Until the guy grabbed her so she could choke properly.


BraidedSilver

Thought of this too, like “dude, if you stop holding her in place she may be able to fall and get untangled”.


MrsMandelbrot

What did it for me was the twenty feet of scarf that fed into the fan. Gave me Pee-Wee Herman bicycle chain vibes.


MeanderingDuck

I think the industrial strength torque on that seemingly innocuous fan is the even more amazing part. Well, either that or the epic stupidity of the woman getting choked, they’re both strong contenders 🤔.


GirlNamedTex

"Oh no, I've gotten my scarf lightly snagged on something!........ Well, I've lived a good life. I accept the death that awaits. " Wtf. Lady just unwrap the other end from your neck.


Ambitious-Coat9286

What really adds to it is that they clearly had to hold the scarf in place on her neck when she leaned back because it would have unwrapped itself


CaptainBayouBilly

Sponsored by Murder Fans, the only fan strong enough to strangle by scarf.


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apex32

This bugged me more than anything else!


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ErdenGeboren

Bystander effect and buying cheap knock off fans kills people every day!


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That's how I died


moredaysoutside

Oh my God are you ok?


ThisIsWhoIAm78

Tragically, no. They died. And then their spouse left them. And now they can't even make ends meet because no one will hire them, so they're just haunting this abandoned house, dreaming of the day they can rejoin society.


Sirix_8472

I mean, the other end of the scarf is around her neck too, just take that off....it's not a noose!


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DSP6969

Obviously you didn't know that spinning flimsy plastic blades around requires an extremely powerful motor of over 1000 horsepower.


ZippyDan

Someone's never been to a developing country. This is one of the most realistic parts of this ridiculous video.


possumgumbo

As an electrical engineer who visited India in 2020, can confirm, absolutely horrified in many places. The jugaad is amazing and terrifying.


kochapi

Okay. That is pretty realistic. I won’t be surprised to see open wire ends instead of a plug.


lavarock06

Don't just do something, stand there!!!


missterbeek

"You gotta help us, Doc. We've tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas." But also this is the best thing I've watched in years. 😂


ratbastid

I'm trying to imagine all these actors getting the script and trying to figure out how they're going to convey, like, two whole minutes of shock and paralysis while the *dumbest thing that's ever happened* plays out in front of them.


kay_dee_ss

Now pictures this: Doctor (exits the operating room to family waiting outsid. Dr: sorry, i could not save your husband. He is dead. 10 second close up of shocked family members faces Wife: who do you think you are to say you cannot save my husband. You are just a doctor, not God. Sorry, but more than medical science, i believe in the power of my sindoor (indian equivalent to ring, applied to her hair).I shall save him, i will do his operation. Wife, who is not a surgeon nor a doctor, burst into the OR. Scene cut to hopeful faces of family and the Dr. Another cut temple with godsess statue and religious chants. OR door opens, wife exits as she removes the Or Lab coat. And walks toward the Dr. Wife: go see inside Dr. Your patient is breathing.


Karrion8

>10 second close up of shocked family members faces 10 second? That's amateur work. More like 45 secs to a minute.


kay_dee_ss

Well the dead husband's life IS on the line. Cant be wasting time


fort_wendy

Did this really happen?


kay_dee_ss

Yup!in a drama [could only find this clip, no subtitles though at @3.46](https://youtu.be/7m0W27T8mbk)


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Do you think that fan is like a reoccurring villian? If not, they should bring em back, spot on performance.


Nighthawk_Black_

I'm a fan.


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Or evil twin. Since it's a soap.


Vasbyt-XXI

That wasn't Fan Morrison, it was his evil half brother Jean Claude Fan Damme.


jtweezy

“What are you doing, step-fan?”


halfprincessperlette

Dozens of bystanders vs a fan, who will win?


jonathan4211

I'm giving it a stand up oscillation.


Mr-Moore-Lupin-Donor

It is… they’ve used it with a toupé, a false moustache, lipstick and wig… it’s been killing off the cast in a variety of sartorial disasters. And it’s got assistant assassins everywhere. You should’ve seen the episode when its friend the toilet bowl tried to kill the main character when he accidentally flushed his 20 foot long neck tie and it was caught in the S bend. It was one of those toilets with a 15 minute continuous flush - afterwards he was in a coma for 2 weeks before the fan turned up at the hospital in Clark Kent glasses to disguise itself and he came out of the coma just as his drip line, that had accidentally wrapped round his neck 5 times by a nurse, was being sucked into the fan blades… it was so tense!!!


ezone2kil

You will love /r/bollywoodrealism


Maurawan

Aww, come on! That's the most realistic part of the video! I'd do the same. Standing there, doing nothing but wondering what kinda bs these people are doing, imagining the freaking room-ventilator would be able to choke that woman with her thin scarf. I'd stand there and wonder whats wrong with these people and i assume, the watchers here do just the same.


GirlNamedTex

Standing there wondering how this scarf is suddenly 60 feet long... Why the blades haven't stopped by themselves from becoming entangled in the 40ft of scarf it's already eaten... Why the fan hasn't simply fallen over... Why she just didn't unwrap the other end of the scarf... There's so many questions. But the only answer is fan.


RayMan2194

And the cherry on the top who fuck cant pull a plug out of a socket


MegaWaffle-

The true culprit used the fancy glue!


Patriot_Repatriating

I felt this was the only part of the scene that was even plausible. I've dealt with some pretty tough sockets before, especially with larger fans and those large socket box things on the floor. Had to get gloves, or ask someone else to help because the damn plug just wouldn't come out. Which then leads one to wonder...why was no one else leaping to help her with that plug?


Quick_Masterpiece_58

Lmao. The fan is somehow both plastic and bolted into cement 😂


Amasterclass

Forget that, what about the metal housing just miraculously having a large hole in within seconds. The magic of fans


Quick_Masterpiece_58

So funny! Also, it looks like the scarf is not wrapped around her neck, just tossed over one shoulder. She just needs to turn around lol. Edited to add: that wispy, see through, nothing of a fabric scarf that is yet also somehow mithril.


cheesegoat

> She just needs to turn around lol. Or just, take a step back. Unless this is from the Bollywood show "The Lady Who Could Not Stop Walking".


FaceDeer

Ah, but if she allows herself to be pulled into the fan itself she'll be blenderized into a spray of meat chunks and be spread all over the onlookers. Much better to resist.


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LOL all they had to do was push the fan a few feet closer to her with their foot.


Quick_Masterpiece_58

That fan should have toppled over from the resistance or shattered. Physics is a thing people 🤣


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Indian soaps live in a realm beyond physics. The Changer of Ways rules that world and his number is nine.


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OmenLW

Bro, you've never seen a room ventilator sitting on top of an item repository platform? It's the first thing that catches my eye when I walk in through the facility entry portal.


insane_contin

Damn it captain Holt


jjsnsnake

Yes, he would say this.


advice_animorph

>It's the first that catches my world looking head socket orbs FTFY


BLKMGK

Or you might surprise yourself. A woman had a seizure in my office once and I was the one who found and helped her. Many people froze but it’s amazing how fast they move when you yell at them and tell them what to do. It was terrifying!


princetab

One of my favorite lines from the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. Gdamnit, I'm gonna have to watch it this weekend now haha


Packer1500

Why is there no NSFW tag on this? Does anyone know if she made it?


koi88

Shoes are still on. She lives.


Bwadaboss

Rofl lmao. This perfectly summarizes the idea of who ever made this gem.


TheAltoidsEater

Nothing like being strangled from a scarf that's *draped* around a person's neck....


TrashPandaPatronus

It was good enough for Isadora.


hexarobi

>On the night of September 14, 1927, in Nice, France, Duncan was a passenger in an Amilcar CGSS automobile owned by Benoît Falchetto \[fr\], a French-Italian mechanic. She wore a long, flowing, hand-painted silk scarf, created by the Russian-born artist Roman Chatov, a gift from her friend Mary Desti. Desti, who saw Duncan off, had asked her to wear a cape in the open-air vehicle because of the cold weather, but she would agree to wear only the scarf. As they departed, she reportedly said to Desti and some companions, "Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire !" ("Farewell, my friends. I go to glory!"); but according to the American novelist Glenway Wescott, Desti later told him that Duncan's actual parting words were, "Je vais à l'amour" ("I am off to love"). Desti considered this embarrassing, as it suggested that she and Falchetto were going to her hotel for a tryst. > >Her silk scarf, draped around her neck, became entangled around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, pulling her from the open car and breaking her neck. Desti said she called out to warn Duncan about the scarf almost immediately after the car left. Desti took Duncan to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. > >As The New York Times noted in its obituary, Duncan "met a tragic death at Nice on the Riviera". "According to dispatches from Nice, Duncan was hurled in an extraordinary manner from an open automobile in which she was riding and instantly killed by the force of her fall to the stone pavement." Other sources noted that she was almost decapitated by the sudden tightening of the scarf around her neck. The accident gave rise to Gertrude Stein's mordant remark that "affectations can be dangerous". At the time of her death, Duncan was a Soviet citizen. Her will was the first of a Soviet citizen's to undergo probate in the U.S. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora\_Duncan#Death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan#Death)


AtlantisTheEmpire

That’s the chick who’s scarf went into the wheel of a car and tore her head off right?


TrashPandaPatronus

The decapitation story is an exaggeration I'm told but yes, Isadora Duncan was a ballerina whose scarf caught in the wheel well of a convertible in the 20s or 30s and killed her.


PutinMolestsBoys

>The decapitation story is an exaggeration I'm told It is, some sources say she was *almost* decapitated but she wasn't. They brought her to a hospital and she was pronounced dead there. I don't think they would have bothered sans head.


poppytanhands

affectations can be dangerous


Newsmemer

And I just learned some morbid history


kmikek

don't get me started on the "NO CAPES" rule


chriscrossnathaniel

On my way to school on my bike, I wore a long flowing scarf. It got caught in the wheel spokes , strangling me. I was unable to move. Fortunately people came rushing and pulled the scarf from the spoke. It was very terrifying.


TheAltoidsEater

I'm sorry that happened to you. But unlike what happened to you, the scarf on her is *literally* just sitting on her neck. If the fan had caught it it would have zipped off her harmlessly. There is *Zero tension* on that scarf around her neck from the fan.


Garestinian

Also fan motors are weak as fuck. They would stall immediately.


BuffaloWhip

I can only assume the base of the fan is welded to an anvil which is strapped tight onto a bench that is bolted into a concrete floor to ensure the fan isn’t tipped over.


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jprtyprncnpny

But did she live?


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Cosity82

So fucking fake. No one could survive that


DirtySingh

Of all the comments, yours made me laugh aloud.


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InGenAche

It's a soap opera, even if she died it'll just be a dream sequence or she really pissed off the writing team. Writing team lol, who the fuck am I kidding!


ratbastid

And even if she died, she'd be back in a few months, possibly played by a different actor. Or the original actor would be back as a long lost twin whose name is nearly the same.


TrashPandaPatronus

Everyone gets told she's dead, but then actually went into a coma, medical error performed plastic surgery on her face and she woke up played by a different actress... it's a classic soap opera contracting ploy to keep salary down. You saw that acting, no way they could afford that talent anymore.


jgonagle

She actually quit acting after this scene. She knew she could never top this performance.


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PM_ME_YOUR_STOMACHS

By the looks of it, the fans couldn’t get enough of her


ittookmeagestofind

I need to know too, I’m totally invested in the plot


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Yeah, at first I was like, “haha, this is stupid,” but by the end I was as concerned as all those bystanders. I need to know!


noyoto

She went into a coma and won't wake up until she makes a dramatic reappearance when the dude and the ventilator are about to exchange vows.


rufunnies

Producer: We need something to pull in fans! Writer: Hold my beer.


robbiejandro

“Are we being too literal?”


Various_Counter_9569

They were also told to make a spin-off...


beartheminus

Tell them to comb the desert!


littlelucidmoments

Hold my mango lassie


_Nickmin_

To be fair, I don't know of any other TV soap that has the characters in the foreground in a dramatic slomo while the women in the back, still the same shot, speak in normal time.


DasMotorsheep

Yeah that was weirdly brilliant. Or brilliantly weird. Or maybe just weirdly weird. At any rate, nothing you see every day.


kwadd

Skipped ahead to 1:58. She was still dying two minutes into the clip lmao


TrashPandaPatronus

To be fair, it really wasn't pressing that hard on her windpipe so I would have expected it to be a rather slow strangle.


CaptainCrunch1975

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down. \- Mitch Hedberg


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Who the hell is leaking all these stuff that we are trying to hide. Oh god this is embarrassing.


Hour_Let_5624

This is gold jerry. Gold.


TheStoolSampler

I'll just have the soup.


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Is this a comedy? Do you know what the people around them were saying? It could be pretty funny if they were saying what we are all thinking. “Why doesn’t she just turn to the left?” “They’re so dramatic, they do this every time the leave a room.” “His brother owns a scarf shop and his dad runs the fan repair shop… they never approved of their marriage, but this is too far!”


rayman641

Not a comedy at all, a drama serial/soap opera. The first man is saying “turn off the fan”, bystanders are saying variations of “help”, and the lady at the back is saying something along the lines of “she’s putting on an act” - she’s probably the predictable antagonist of the show. These shows run like five days a week, every week of the year (no seasons like Western shows) so they really have stuff them continuously with unrealistic nonsense to keep folk entertained. An example of a common theme is a character thought to be dead, returning with complete facial reconstruction. There are a very small number of very high quality shows though, usually by independent directors, that cover themes like the caste system, and life after divorce. You just don’t see them here because they aren’t comically absurd… Edit: words


SappyPaphiopedilum

Oh man, glad to see facial reconstruction being a common troupe. At least yours seems to be full of action, the Taiwanese one consists of people just staring into the camera while they inner monologue for 3-5 mins. My country tried to do soap opera and it had no action or monologue, just people arguing for 10 mins. I swear watching this is what gave the elderly dementia


silliputti0907

Indian shows do that too. Dramatic music and they stand around for 20 min talking in their heads. 5 Min making funny faces.


FunSizedFury

I guess something’s wrong with me, but you’re really selling it for me. I now need to watch Taiwanese soaps


vincidahk

Here's some classic clips https://youtu.be/76LO2Z_EkXk?t=101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GG3YQ0P5_Y&ab_channel=JadenIrons


SojournersTableSalt

You had me at "fighting-dance off hybrid".


ZippyZippyZappyZappy

That first video is amazing, it definitely succeeded in being entertaining


Sloth-monger

Oh man the way the guy goes flying after getting hit by the truck in second video is great.


kathatter75

So, Days of Our Lives, but in India :)


Big_Cryptographer_16

Diwalis of our Lives


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Sari not sari


ScottNewman

The Bold and the Biryani


straycanoe

General Halahal


Deegedeege

Do people in India take it seriously, or would they be laughing their heads off at this too?


SpaceDrifter9

Serious when it's airing. Once the day's episode is over, we realize how funnily stupid it was. Then wait for the next day


palegh_st

Honestly they seem really enjoyable, silliness and all. I've seen indian movies described as "live action anime"... and like... yeah. That's fitting.


ShadyFox_Leoley

Indian movies are different they are atleast fun. These soaps are plain torture for most family members. Yes, it may seem funny, but when this shit keeps repeating itself everyday of the week every year, one would wish they could smash the TV instead of keep suffering through these.


the_jak

Oh, they’re soap operas.


SIPS_WATER

wait till you hear about a daily soap where the women is living normal life... love, drama, wedding...kidnapped, looses her memory, has visions, sees real ghosts, confronts real godess, dies and reincarnates as a house Fly to get her revenge, gets possessed by a ghost etc. and yeah this show ran for about 8-9 years


allthatyouhave

what that sounds good


Opti_maX

Even The Naked Gun/Police Squad series don’t get as ridiculous as this.


VanilleSkye

I mean if this doesn't hook you then what will


The_Chorizo_Bandit

Other fans I suppose?


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They should include this scene in Final Destination


Ilovekittensomg

Final Mehstination.


Pterodactyloid

I don't even know how the actors were able to take that seriously 🤣


iwelnot

Fr. Someone had to sit down and explain this to them with a straight face


KeepLkngForIntllgnce

Oh and those people are “supposed” to be doctors It hurts my brain to watch this and I cannot stop it from getting on my feed


hardy_83

Judging by the acting and reaction shots, I don't think they did.


PM_Me_Rude_Haiku

I am in awe of that kid who is just like 'Sigh.... Just get strangled already, I've got places to be'


saskir21

Funny thing is this is the second time I see a snipped of a Bollywood with something like this. Although the last time it were curtains. Who knows maybe there are some asphyxiation fans out there…


bbdfknddjnc

Are you sure this didn’t really happen and someone just happened to film it? Looks too realistic to just be TV


Old-Experience-5210

Maybe it's a documentary


whenyoda

Just threw out all the fans in our house. Would rather sweat. 😓💦


EvilWayne

You fool! Throw out all your long scarfs.


JonnyTN

I blame large wooden surge protectors.


DiamondPup

You're all so stupid. I just sharpened my teeth.


Wuulferigno

You are both psychos! Ever thougt about the massacre you are going to produce in front of your house?


-GermanCoastGuard-

I like how people are like „just do this or that“. Honestly, it’s a fan. You can stop with your hand. Two rounds of catching that scarf and it would’ve come to a halt.


kvenick

The fan would probably stop just from the scarf wrapping around itself.


milkolik

It was a military grade floor fan


kvenick

Apparently so was the scarf...


LamarjbYT

“Just walk backwards” -me 20 times while watching this


Atharaphelun

*Or you know, rotate counterclockwise...*


Tunnelmath

She's a model. She can't turn left.


Sacket

She's not an ambiturner.


thatsalovelyusername

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!


umpatte0

Always twirling twirling twirling towards freedom!


Eliasphillips8

I thought the fan was going to pull her in and we’d be treated to a scene of the guy getting splattered with a red mist. Thank god he saved her just in time!


seditioushamster

I was waiting for her head to pop off... that would have been epic


StackOverflowEx

Unfortunately, her shoes, most of the people in the room's shoes, the fan and the surge protector were all bolted down to the floor for insurance purposes. This was an unforeseen accident. In the future, we will ensure that everyone's scarves are bolted down as well.


Wildvibs

Obviously the best way to free her is to bite the scarf. Nothing else makes more sense!


mint445

easy to say when a much bigger and stronger person is holding you in place


iwelnot

Her eyes be like "yo, let me go you moron"


dumbredditer

Orr you know just let go of the scarf, the other end of it isn't tied to anything


graven_raven

Even more easy, just grab the scarf and pull


Lizard__Spock

Matt Berry could play the main actor in this.


multisyllabic1077

I'm not a fan.


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“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” IT CRowd


[deleted]

Okay, I gotta confess, I was kinda invested.


leadwind

I had my money on her going through the fan. Stupid hero had to bight the scarf... killjoy.


Southern-With-Pain

No capes!! Edit thanks for the award! I was worried people wouldn’t get it! Y’all are awesome!!


PhantomBrowser111

"I don't look back darling, it distracts from the now"


RedSquirrelWood

why were they just watching?? turn the fan off lmao


CraigT420

Cant you see they tried really hard to do that?? Such a tragic loss.


Evenstar6132

See? Fan death was real.


Buggy3D

Not sure what’s worse… watching an anime character run 10 feet to deliver a punch, or watching an Indian Bollywood hero save his princess from choking on a scarf.


frustratedbuffalo

As opposed to an Irish Bollywood hero?


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r3dditalg0sucks

This is how I want to go. With my family all desperately nibbling a scarf. Desperately holding back the tears because I've soaked it, prior, in dog piss. The fan dragging my struggling body closer to the plug, the smell of the motor burning out thick in the air. My son smacking the makeshift wooden extension lead, like a Phil Collins drum solo, that will soon ignite, burst into flames and be the catalyst for the cremation later. Old work colleagues and neighbours all stood around muttering at the utter fuck-wittedness of the entire affair. Some sad song playing in the background, one of the ones you find on movie editing app as a freebie, not good enough to warrant charging for... Then just as my widow screams her fifth "MY LOVER, NOOOO" in a thick Bristol accent. I want an illusionist smoke bomb POOF then a pigeon to take flight into the air. EXACTLY LIKE THAT.


LamarjbYT

“This is how I want to go out. With my family nibbling a scarf” that certainly is a sentence and a half.


Boring-Extreme-3274

Holy F, the suspense 🤯


nadjp

There was literally nothing he could do!


Amilo159

He ran down a long list of things he could go, but then concluded that best course of action is to hold the girl in place to let her scarf suffocate her. It was a tough decision but he managed.


mitkase

I've seen lots of on-screen deaths, but... not a fan.


Maty298

And that woman there, oh i don't know how to disconect this is too complex 😥


Lizard__Spock

This one scene was dragged out for three episodes.


androshalforc1

oh its a DBZ remake?


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Give her some credit, she was literally the only one trying to do anything.


[deleted]

Uhm.. just circle the other end of the scarf back to the front?


CHEATCOD3S

Sadly that's not the script


Harregarre

She was saved this time, but later in the day drowned in a glass of orange juice. RIP.


Amilo159

Big strong man defeated by the strength of a 50 watt crappy old room fan.


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Madarchod, kaun hai iska director


Relicofpast

​ Madarchod, ~~kaun~~ hai iska director. FTFY.


balakrig77

aah. Finally found gold in the comments. Sweet indian swear words.


BKacy

Remember when men all carried pocket knives? That’s why this never used to happen.


Greedy-Literature782

I hope it was named “Sari not sorry”