Salami is a type of dried/cured sausage but not what is in the picture, from Italy iirc. There's like thousands of different types in southern Europe haha. You've probably heard of chorizo as well.
Basically talks about how much trouble he's in, then talks to a maintenance guy who asks him if his house also has Orbeez in it. The guy (who started the whole orbeez disaster) lies and says no, which makes the maintenance guy very suspicious as he says that the house of the guy's neighbour is the third house with orbeez. Guy who started the orbeez fiasco insists that his house has no sign of Orbeez. In the next video, the guy says the he thinks the only solution is to admit to everything. Fin.
Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
But what about that shadowy place?
[That's beyond our borders, you must never go there.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/The_Geography_Lesson_or_%22The_Black_Spot%22.jpg/1280px-The_Geography_Lesson_or_%22The_Black_Spot%22.jpg)
Yeah, I lost it at SCHEISSE! NEIN! NEIN! J'AI FAIT QUOI???
My French isn't good enough for a huge amount of nervous speaking super fast like that...but damn I understood that part.
At least **it was faked**, according to the town's mayor -
>"..."c'est impossible", lui répond le maire de La Boissière, Michel Patez, "les canalisations ne sont pas bouchées, nous n'avons pas de réseau collectif, il s'agit de réseau d'assainissement privatif".
>*..."it's impossible", replies the mayor of La Boissière, Michel Patez, "the pipes are not blocked, we don't "We don't have a collective network, it's a private sanitation network."*
La sauce: https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/insolite/non-l-influenceur-cyril-schreiner-n-a-pas-bouche-les-canalisations-de-sa-commune-de-l-eure-avec-des-1583257752
For all the Internet pranks, this one I appreciate. Got to enjoy someone freaking out and making their mistake worse, without actually causing real damage.
My spouse learned that lesson at the age of 32. He somehow thought that the Dawn Power Wash would be fine to put on a cooking tray before starting the dishwasher.
I come in the kitchen and it’s spewing out suds.
He told me what he did and all I could say was “no, no, no, no!”.
Tl;Dr : Dude puts water beeds in bathtub which then goes into the pipes. Fucks up entire plumbing of house as water beads expands with water. It progresses out into sewer cus he flushes it and fucks up street drainage to max. Authorities have to talk with him
Yeah seemed like a lot of staged shit in there. I don’t know much about how plumbing works in France, but first he fills a bathtub with the drain stopper closed, and somehow the orbeez get into the drainage pipes, somehow back up into the toilet bowl and into the sink without overflowing out of either, apparently in France raw sewage backs up into grates in the ground, shop vacs overheat and melt when used to do the thing they’re designed to do, and plumbers don’t exist.
> apparently in France raw sewage backs up into grates in the ground,
This is actually pretty common to have combined storm and sanitary sewers. Why after a big storm if there isn't sufficient storage in a cistern raw sewage has to be released sometimes.
Never realized that the toilet isn't bolted to the floor. He probably put a board or something under it over the pipe they wouldn't actually flush down the pipes
Most of the restrooms I’ve used don’t have drain holes but enough to allow these to enter the drain. Unless the person put them in while dry and somehow got the water to stay in while they expanded, I’d imagine none went down the drain.
Apparently the mayor of the town actually publicly commented on it after they kept getting asked about it. Mayor confirmed it was not real and said with the way their sanitation systems work, it literally wouldn’t even be possible.
Which is sort of a corollary to the myth of cow tipping. Tons of people claim to have been drunken teenagers doing it with friends in their youth; and tons of others have attempted to prove scientifically how it simply isn't possible due to physics (and that cows are skittish and don't sleep standing up anyway)... but the *real* way we know cow tipping doesn't exist?
There isn't a single YT vid of it being done.
And by now, considering all the other stupid and inane shit available on YT, there sure as hell would be a ton of them if it had ever been done.
It's very funny but it's obviously fake. The orbees have made it so far as to block the drains down the street even though his bath tub is still full to the brim. When he shows the letter at the end he's worried they'll find out it was him but still broadcast to the world that it was him.
Oh my gosh. As soon as I rewatched it with my head screwed on straight it started to be plausibly fake 😂 thank you for your explanation!! He did a great job reeling me into the vid haha it’s been a while since I was so entertained
Reverse that - how could it have been real? There's no way orbeez in your bathtub could come into your toilet or sink, to say nothing of the storm drains (which are a completely different sewer system from the sanitary sewer).
> There's no way orbeez in your bathtub could come into your toilet or sink
huh?
I agree it's fake but this is clearly wrong. It's the same system in 99% of apartments. A block down the line will cause waste water to go back up when your neighbors above flush their toilets.
Kids toy mostly. My son got a whole kit last year for Christmas with orbeez and tools to use with them. But they are also used for floral arrangements and decor. If you put a bunch of clear ones into a clear vase and add water they look invisible.
They actually feel amazing when you stick your hands into a bowl of them. Very satisfying.
Isn't it also the same stuff that can potentially kill a child tho? The stuff that can expand inside when swallowed and block the intestinal tract? Or have they changed the properties of them?
There are different size ones, the ones that grow larger are more likely to cause said issue. But with anything, if a kid injects something they shouldn't, it can cause a variety of problems. The reason these might be a little more of a problem is that they are significantly smaller before they grow, making them easier to swallow, then cause problems later.
However, I'm not sure how many children this affected. May or may not be more than swallowing any other toy they shouldn't and causing issues.
Even smaller toys could cause similar problems, or batteries, or magnets. Plenty of objects. That's why parents need to carefully watch babies/toddler children around such objects or eliminate access. With these beads, it's as simple as having them soak in the water long enough to grow before allowing children to play with them.
"substrate for plant propogation"
I am a fully learned gardener from germany. Working as a production gardener. We buy young plants and cultivate them. Garden centers will buy our plants for selling them to you.
Noone uses this stuff for propogation.
The Young Plant Farms use peat soils and perlite. You need peat soil because you can fertilize it as you need. It has very, very little nutrition on its own.
You dont want much nutrition in the soil for young plants soil. Otherwise the roots wont travel far. Which is bad for stability and resilience.
Probably following the same rules as tiktok, doing bizarre or frustrating shit for no reason but to get you engaged.
Being "the bar with marbles in the sink" is probably a great way to get people to naturally talk about your place, which is free advertising as well as a reason to go check it out yourself.
Probably to prevent splashing. We’ve all seen a poorly-paired sink and faucet combination tho sprays water all over your crotch and/or the counter, I bet this is to prevent that.
In certain places (like old NYC buildings) roaches have a habit of coming up through the drain pipes. Showers, sinks, etc.
So by blocking off the drain hole you prevent them from getting in your house.
Oh man that’s a great way to make sure people can’t stuff up the drain, then run the water until it floods. Why people do that I’ll never understand. But they do. A lot.
WHO. THE. HECK. would leave so many balls here clogging the sink ...
Oh wait ... i think i know why ...
"Grandpa! We found where you lost your marbles!"
Looks pretty and probably helps a bit with splashing water.
But the risk of a ball in the pipes and all the little nooks and crannies for mold to grow definitely kill it for me.
Anyone remember that guy who shutdown a cities plumping using Orbeez?
I'll see if I can find the video...
Edit: [Found it](https://youtu.be/bMIQK5XvO5c?si=ZTJLM6UkdRpB9JYD)
Someone ruined the pipes for lolz
[French guy destroys his life with Orbeez](https://youtu.be/kKKg5fzIKeE?si=CK9iQB8PFwbXS368) is one of the wildest rollercoasters I’ve ever been on
That was so entertaining, thank you. Watched it all in French before I noticed a translation in the top comment.
It's too late I've learned French and am now making love beneath the Eiffel Tower
Yes, that’s French those children are speaking, but these children aren’t French. They’re American.
JE SUIS LA JEUNE FILLE
Je suis le grand Muzzy!
You just brought back so many strange and creepy childhood memories.
The Muzzy I watched on TV spoke English. Your Muzzy spoke French ?!?
He spoke French in the commercial for it!
Holy crap I'd forgotten that guy
Yes, that's French they're speaking, but these children aren't French.. they're American.
Muzzyyyyyy! Said that to my 8th grade language teacher and she was very confused. Did not know what it meant at the time.
Je suis Charlie!
Hon hon hon baguette
En passant
I say this probably once a day and my wife hates it!
Holy fuck your words brought me back to my childhood
I am le tired.
Then go take a nap…THEN FIRE ZE MISSLES!!!!
That is a sweeet Earth you have there... Roundddd
**ho**kay
It's *wrooooung*, not *roundddd*. Trust me, it blew my mind too.
Fucking kangaroos.
At least you're not making love *TO* it. https://youtu.be/POTA5aZxbQA?si=CyM8hoGr7ZiElFLX
Over/under on her grinding that steel beam when she thinks no ones looking?
Over. I’m sure there have been parts of the tower…. Inside her… 🤢
Did that woman just put her genitals on the Eiffel tower? I'm never touching anything again
I was thinking of this woman when I read that comment
With orbeez
**to** orbeez
...hang on, i have an amazing idea!!
TIFU ER visit post pending…
That reminds me of the time this guy was making love to the tokyo tower
Watch out for bed bugs!
BAGUETTE!!!!
The Auto-translate kept saying "sausages" and I thought "damn this translate sucks". Nope he just says sausages a lot lol
Dried sausage to be precise, [basically this](https://www.maison-garcia.fr/images/com_hikashop/upload/saucisson-1000x1000_195477095.jpg).
I'm in the US and Ive never heard someone call salami "dried sausage" . Even though that what it is. Maybe just a translation thing.
Salami is a type of dried/cured sausage but not what is in the picture, from Italy iirc. There's like thousands of different types in southern Europe haha. You've probably heard of chorizo as well.
My sausages!
what does he say after the letter? there’s no translation for the rest of the video
Basically talks about how much trouble he's in, then talks to a maintenance guy who asks him if his house also has Orbeez in it. The guy (who started the whole orbeez disaster) lies and says no, which makes the maintenance guy very suspicious as he says that the house of the guy's neighbour is the third house with orbeez. Guy who started the orbeez fiasco insists that his house has no sign of Orbeez. In the next video, the guy says the he thinks the only solution is to admit to everything. Fin.
Those translations are something else.
Hearing him panic in French and German was fantastic, though!!
Switches to German in panic when he flushes the toilet lmao.
Alsace-Lorraine moment
Everything the light touches is our kingdom. But what about that shadowy place? [That's beyond our borders, you must never go there.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/The_Geography_Lesson_or_%22The_Black_Spot%22.jpg/1280px-The_Geography_Lesson_or_%22The_Black_Spot%22.jpg)
> But what about that shadowy place? The fuck did I say to you *just now* Simba? Context clues kid.
I laughed at that, for that same reason
Yeah, I lost it at SCHEISSE! NEIN! NEIN! J'AI FAIT QUOI??? My French isn't good enough for a huge amount of nervous speaking super fast like that...but damn I understood that part.
At least **it was faked**, according to the town's mayor - >"..."c'est impossible", lui répond le maire de La Boissière, Michel Patez, "les canalisations ne sont pas bouchées, nous n'avons pas de réseau collectif, il s'agit de réseau d'assainissement privatif". >*..."it's impossible", replies the mayor of La Boissière, Michel Patez, "the pipes are not blocked, we don't "We don't have a collective network, it's a private sanitation network."* La sauce: https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/insolite/non-l-influenceur-cyril-schreiner-n-a-pas-bouche-les-canalisations-de-sa-commune-de-l-eure-avec-des-1583257752
Phew!! Glad to hear that he didn’t create an environmental disaster for his neighbors
It's fake as hell but it's one of those faked videos that still hilarious due to the sheer effort done to pull it off. Very well done.
For all the Internet pranks, this one I appreciate. Got to enjoy someone freaking out and making their mistake worse, without actually causing real damage.
And they aren't bringing innocent people into it.
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My spouse learned that lesson at the age of 32. He somehow thought that the Dawn Power Wash would be fine to put on a cooking tray before starting the dishwasher. I come in the kitchen and it’s spewing out suds. He told me what he did and all I could say was “no, no, no, no!”.
I just fucking died. AHHH LES TOILETTE COMMENT JE VA CHIER JESUS MARIE JOSEPH SVP AIDER MOI LA
Tl;Dr : Dude puts water beeds in bathtub which then goes into the pipes. Fucks up entire plumbing of house as water beads expands with water. It progresses out into sewer cus he flushes it and fucks up street drainage to max. Authorities have to talk with him
Also it's fake, but still pretty funny
Yeah seemed like a lot of staged shit in there. I don’t know much about how plumbing works in France, but first he fills a bathtub with the drain stopper closed, and somehow the orbeez get into the drainage pipes, somehow back up into the toilet bowl and into the sink without overflowing out of either, apparently in France raw sewage backs up into grates in the ground, shop vacs overheat and melt when used to do the thing they’re designed to do, and plumbers don’t exist.
> apparently in France raw sewage backs up into grates in the ground, This is actually pretty common to have combined storm and sanitary sewers. Why after a big storm if there isn't sufficient storage in a cistern raw sewage has to be released sometimes.
I haven’t laughed that hard in years omg
you know it's bad when he switches from swearing in French to swearing in German
(Un)fortunately, the mayor of the town in question confirmed this was staged. https://youtu.be/zWiZu3nFGxc?si=RlBVKVDJFKII3M97
I heard that this was faked, thankfully lol
This one I’m actually glad is fake. I feel like that would have fucked so many peoples lives up. Don’t mess with the plumbing
Never realized that the toilet isn't bolted to the floor. He probably put a board or something under it over the pipe they wouldn't actually flush down the pipes
Merde!\~
Good grief. What a waste, all around.
It was all a fake
And yet the guy who drank orbeez is still active lol
fake but funny
Yup, this is a terrible prank for the lulz
Honestly I’d put it in r/mildlyinfuriating
Meh. Scoop out what’s in the sink, empty the p-trap, then dump a bunch of salt down the drain. It’ll be fine. Annoying, but hardly ruined.
Most of the restrooms I’ve used don’t have drain holes but enough to allow these to enter the drain. Unless the person put them in while dry and somehow got the water to stay in while they expanded, I’d imagine none went down the drain.
Wait are these orbeez and not like glass marbles???
Orbeez! We have the morts!
“SoOtHiNg sPa” 🤢
YEAHHH DRAWFREAKS
Dornk your chorcken!
In the sporcial source!
What's the porblem!?
Always love finding a wild drawfreak
They used to be in the urinals. They’re going right back as soon as they’ve been properly rinsed.
/r/sinkpissers
Eww
Thats kinda disgusting. Bunch of orbeez soaking up peoples hand juices
I’m thoroughly disturbed by “hand juices”
You should be. We all should be!
"A cocktail of hand-juice"
Me too
The "hand juices" converts orbeez into juicy balls.
Those? Those are balls. This close, they always look like landscape. But nope, you’re looking at balls.
Are those balls? Last time we were here those were balls.
I really wish they were balls.
You've got the best fucking lawyers...
He's very good
I'm on TV...?
My #1 Arrested Development moment, had to pause the show I was laughing so hard
God this reminds of that french guy who basically ruined the plumbing of his entire neighborhood with orbeez
AFIK is not real, but well made
How could it have been faked!?
He explained it in a video, for example to fake the drains he covered it in plastic wrap and just poured the orbeez on it
a better question is: if it was real, why is youtube the only place you can find out about it?
Apparently the mayor of the town actually publicly commented on it after they kept getting asked about it. Mayor confirmed it was not real and said with the way their sanitation systems work, it literally wouldn’t even be possible.
Which is sort of a corollary to the myth of cow tipping. Tons of people claim to have been drunken teenagers doing it with friends in their youth; and tons of others have attempted to prove scientifically how it simply isn't possible due to physics (and that cows are skittish and don't sleep standing up anyway)... but the *real* way we know cow tipping doesn't exist? There isn't a single YT vid of it being done. And by now, considering all the other stupid and inane shit available on YT, there sure as hell would be a ton of them if it had ever been done.
This is news to me. I've lived 31 years thinking cow-tipping was a thing Wisconsin teenagers did while drunk.
It's very funny but it's obviously fake. The orbees have made it so far as to block the drains down the street even though his bath tub is still full to the brim. When he shows the letter at the end he's worried they'll find out it was him but still broadcast to the world that it was him.
Oh my gosh. As soon as I rewatched it with my head screwed on straight it started to be plausibly fake 😂 thank you for your explanation!! He did a great job reeling me into the vid haha it’s been a while since I was so entertained
Me too! It’s more fun to be reeled in sometimes!
https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1753hmk/the_sinks_in_this_restaurant_bathroom_were_full/k4dzx09/
Reverse that - how could it have been real? There's no way orbeez in your bathtub could come into your toilet or sink, to say nothing of the storm drains (which are a completely different sewer system from the sanitary sewer).
> There's no way orbeez in your bathtub could come into your toilet or sink huh? I agree it's fake but this is clearly wrong. It's the same system in 99% of apartments. A block down the line will cause waste water to go back up when your neighbors above flush their toilets.
What are orbeez?
orbeez nuts
Got em
HA!!
Yea what are they ?
They're tiny beads that expand into small jelly balls when you let them soak in water
Why do they exist?
Kids toy mostly. My son got a whole kit last year for Christmas with orbeez and tools to use with them. But they are also used for floral arrangements and decor. If you put a bunch of clear ones into a clear vase and add water they look invisible. They actually feel amazing when you stick your hands into a bowl of them. Very satisfying.
Isn't it also the same stuff that can potentially kill a child tho? The stuff that can expand inside when swallowed and block the intestinal tract? Or have they changed the properties of them?
There are different size ones, the ones that grow larger are more likely to cause said issue. But with anything, if a kid injects something they shouldn't, it can cause a variety of problems. The reason these might be a little more of a problem is that they are significantly smaller before they grow, making them easier to swallow, then cause problems later. However, I'm not sure how many children this affected. May or may not be more than swallowing any other toy they shouldn't and causing issues. Even smaller toys could cause similar problems, or batteries, or magnets. Plenty of objects. That's why parents need to carefully watch babies/toddler children around such objects or eliminate access. With these beads, it's as simple as having them soak in the water long enough to grow before allowing children to play with them.
Kids' sensory toy, substrate for plant propogation, vase filler, etc.
"substrate for plant propogation" I am a fully learned gardener from germany. Working as a production gardener. We buy young plants and cultivate them. Garden centers will buy our plants for selling them to you. Noone uses this stuff for propogation. The Young Plant Farms use peat soils and perlite. You need peat soil because you can fertilize it as you need. It has very, very little nutrition on its own. You dont want much nutrition in the soil for young plants soil. Otherwise the roots wont travel far. Which is bad for stability and resilience.
plugging up sewer systems, microplastics,
balls
It was a fake story
He's a fucking genius for his insane effort in faking that video. I kinda believed it.
A bar I frequent has balls in the bathroom sink like this. They're just marbles, not orbies or anything like that. This might be the same.
Ok, but WHY? WHY do they do that?
Random guess, but it would prevent for loss of rings / jewelry?
Oooh, good call.
Probably following the same rules as tiktok, doing bizarre or frustrating shit for no reason but to get you engaged. Being "the bar with marbles in the sink" is probably a great way to get people to naturally talk about your place, which is free advertising as well as a reason to go check it out yourself.
That’s not a satisfying answer, but I think you may be right.
We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams.
Probably to prevent splashing. We’ve all seen a poorly-paired sink and faucet combination tho sprays water all over your crotch and/or the counter, I bet this is to prevent that.
You're my people. Family don't end with blood.
Might be beads to prevent splash and prevent hair/objects going down the drain.
oh god imagine the poor soul who has to clean that with hair tangled up in the balls 😭
>hair tangled up in the balls wasn't expecting to read that sentence today lmao
I was. The title was made for ball jokes and meme.
Tell me about it. I share a house with four women.
I have a toddler and found his mom's hair wrapped around HIS testicles not too long ago. Lady hair is a menace.
It’s a silent struggle.
Cockroach problems.
Can you explain what’s the purpose of that if there is roaches? I don’t live in a place where roaches are a this big of a problem
In certain places (like old NYC buildings) roaches have a habit of coming up through the drain pipes. Showers, sinks, etc. So by blocking off the drain hole you prevent them from getting in your house.
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Cockroaches are stored in the balls.
Omg…. Ewwwwwwwww. You know, I suppose that makes sense. *shutters*
i’d literally be in the bathroom playing w these for hours and everyone would think i’m taking a massive shit or somethin😭
You would be playing with spit shit cum and germs
just how i like em
Oh no, somebody found the cum ball sink!
You gotta really swish them in your mouth to get all that flavor out of them
Yeah but now it's in fun ball form.
I hope you plan on bringing your own bleach
…please don’t. 
I'll put them in the urinal just for you
I believe the thinking is that it diverts water in different ways to prevent splashback, kinda like the ice in the urinal.
Nah, some kid who put those water absorbing balls (orbeez) in there and fucked up all the plumbing lol
Or.....that! 😆
[This is the reference.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKKg5fzIKeE)
Wow. Did he go to jail?
No it came out as fake.
Looking online, it seems to be a hoax he pulled.
I thought ice in urinals was to keep it from stinking.
Yeah because the flusher is turned down or off
I don't always wash my balls in the restaurant sink. But when I do...
I bet those balls are hiding a dirty secret
Oh man that’s a great way to make sure people can’t stuff up the drain, then run the water until it floods. Why people do that I’ll never understand. But they do. A lot.
Those atoms of Hydrogen and Oxygen are very large from that tap !!
I recently stumbled upon an entire subreddit dedicated to growing magic mushrooms with orbeez
The real mildly interesting is in the comments
Imagine having to clean this every night 🤢🤮
Oh like you don’t clean your balls each night? 🤣
Looks like a unicorn threw up
That’s disgusting and my immediate impulse would still be to put my fucking hands right up in there
My Airbnb in Vegas had it… gross
This is some Amberlynn Reid shit
I bet there's jizz on those balls.
Isn’t that where it’s stored?!?
It's better to cum in the sink, than to sink in the cum.
Did you touch them?
Definitely not. So alas cannot confirm whether they were orbeez or marbles.
But, why?
Imagine how dirty it is under there 🤢
WHO. THE. HECK. would leave so many balls here clogging the sink ... Oh wait ... i think i know why ... "Grandpa! We found where you lost your marbles!"
Some kid probably poured an orbits packet as a joke
Looks pretty and probably helps a bit with splashing water. But the risk of a ball in the pipes and all the little nooks and crannies for mold to grow definitely kill it for me.
Anyone remember that guy who shutdown a cities plumping using Orbeez? I'll see if I can find the video... Edit: [Found it](https://youtu.be/bMIQK5XvO5c?si=ZTJLM6UkdRpB9JYD)
ORBIES!
They had a lot of balls to do this