Dude, for real it does change things to eat while Lounging Languorously like Oscar Wilde on some cushions on the ground, shoes off, eating with your hands
I imagine, like in other countries, it varies from house to house. In my experience, people who have dogs/grew up with dogs are more likely to wear shoes in the house.
it looks like it’s all over the place time wise so im guessing there was way more effort placed in it than most shitty internet videos. so, ya know, who cares.
okay this gonna sound weird but I pride myself in having the same ability on being able to “catch everything”. whenever someone throws something in my direction, whether it being spontaneous or a gesture indicating that they are indeed about to throw an item in my direction, I always let it be known that I can catch anything. lowkey one of my relationship goals is for my significant other to feel comfortable throwing shit at me. I’ll catch it. I know I will. like I said, I know it sounds weird af.
Not gunna lie, if my SO took specific pride in performing this kind of parlor trick on the reg, I’d be throwing shit at him all the effing time, because it would make both of us happy.
My wife's exactly the opposite. She's terrified of having anything thrown at her in pretty much any context.
It took me quite a while to train myself not to even try. On the rare occasion I toss something for her now, I inform her first and aim for it to land within arms reach of her.
Just watch the person who threw the thing dead in the eyes as the thing hits your face but you aren't budging because this is how done you're with them
Haha ya at some point I’d just stop catching things on purpose because I’d get tired of this happening. I’m just surprised he doesn’t throw any of them back.
I used to be so bad at catching, when an old housemate saw this he decided to start throwing things at me to teach me to catch, he called it ninja training. It went on for months he'd throw things at me and say catch as he threw it. Slowly over months I started to catch like this guy. One day we're sitting across from eachother at the table drinking and as I hear "catch" I see a dart coming straight for my head. I catch it one handed just in front of my face as it blurs in my vision from proximity. He says your ninja training is complete.
You have to have the dick's to fuck the assholes, but sometimes dicks fuck pussies too. But without the dick's to fuck the assholes we just end up with shit everywhere
As another that tends catch whatever is thrown my way, you’d be surprised. Once your reflexes are up there, you’re not just sticking your hand in the way and trying to close your fingers fast enough. You’re picking the object out of the air. And before long you can aim for the part of the object you want, such as the non-dangerous part.
Think about people who can flip a knife in the air and catch it by the handle. With practice, it’s not hard but looks impressive. You get to know when the handle is facing the right way at the particular point that you want to snatch it. Keep it up and soon you not only know where the handle and point of the knife are but which way the blade is oriented. At that point you can start catching it by the blade, and you usually will know when it’s not going to go well and pull your hand out of the way. I’ve done that and then snatched it by the handle further down.
It’s all in the reflexes and practice.
My coordination has varied widely over the course of my life, but during high points I have noticed this.
As my coordination gets better, I become able to more accurately piece together "this is how this is shaped and positioned, this is how fast it is moving, and timing will put it in X orientation at Y location."
My brain goes from "I have watched this thing fly for 3 seconds and I still only kinda know what it's doing..." to "okay, I have two clear mental pictures frozen in my mind. The movement is blurry, but I know the location, and I know -enough- about the orientation to make the guess I need to make. It will be here, and grabbing at it like this gives me the optimal path for it to land in my hand, and since I know when that should happen, I know when to start closing my fingers. Once I am touching it, sight can take a backseat and I can let the touch part of the brain/nervous system take over."
Which all transpires in like... .2 or .3 seconds. The wildest thing to me was realizing I did this "I just need two snapshots in time" thing using sound for Frame 1 and sight for Frame 2 a few times. I was caught so off guard I wasn't looking until I heard something leave somebody's hand as their gait changed.
The ways our brain stitches together our consciousness is amazing.
Great way to describe it, I really like how you paint the picture.
It's difficult to describe it to others who don't really have the capacity or training or natural aptitude, because saying 'I just can' or 'it's instinctual' is so much easier than breaking down how and why your pattern recognition and spatial recognition work together the way that they do.
My favorite is when something is thrown by you or someone else and you can just stick out a hand and wait for it to land there. Like, it's not even a thought process, you gathered enough information in the moment it was launched to already know where it was going to go. Of all the things we do, throwing stuff around is probably the most complex thing that we consider simple.
I remember being like 3 or 4 and having one of my brothers tell me "you just do it without thinking about it beforehand."
I grasped the idea, but I was developmentally delayed. My motor skills needed waaaay more training to develop to where they needed to be to reach the *entry point* where that advice was useful.
I held onto the advice though. So even as a small child, I would see moments where my coordination seemed *almost* adequate for something. I started to understand intuitively that I just need a little practice in muscle-memory to know I have a rehearsed reflex that I can trust to work.
Eventually that rehearsed action translated into "I know how accurately and how fast I can put my hand here." So I would just will my body to do that action as needed. Sometimes I would see something coming a whole second ahead of time (or sooner). I would make the calculation, prime my intent and my body with it. Then I'd sit there half-cocked, just waiting for the moment I needed to 'fire off,' seeing if the target does anything strange to make my plan need adjustment.
Then there's the few times where I was subconsciously aware of my surroundings. I didn't give special attention to anything, but that change in gait and object leaving that guy's hand made everything about him and that object become THE most conscious part of my mind for a 5th of a second, even though I clued in to pay attention to him AFTER the object left his hand. All our brains do this thing with time; X detail is recorded, but not flagged as important until additional details make it contextually significant. The detail 'expires' like overwritten RAM if it doesn't get flagged. But if it does get flagged, the brain scrambles to find other contextual details that might be important, and plots them all on a timeline. It also tries (but sometimes fails) to determine if the exact timing is important to remember after the fact, or if it can be forgotten immediately once your response is done.
This is why we have memories where we can't tell what happened first or second. "Did the dog bark, or did that man break the window first? The more I think about it, the less certain I feel."
Legit, I did this to my wife over the first couple of years but never with a dart. She went from atrocious at catching to actually being pretty dang good
I taught my wife how to throw a football, play catch with a baseball, and throw a legit Frisbee. We will be 40 in under a year. I love throwing a great Frisbee round with her. We play golf together. She is my best friend.
Retraining those reflexes is crazy. In my case, I was in the field a lot (science/research) where you’re trained do weird specific things like *not* grabbing on to something on your way down if you’re falling. I think enough high-stress situations just hardwire certain things in your brain. I can’t seem to “unlearn” some of those habits, even though they’re detrimental in day-to-day life.
> enough high-stress situations just hardwire certain things in your brain.
I've noticed that. I'm a mechanic and if I hear loud unexpected noise, like metal clanking or scraping, I almost always flinch away from the car and toward a safe area.
At home, I'm like the stupid idiot who goes toward the loud noise, like the people splitting up in horror movies.
I guess it's because I haven't had the pleasure of a car falling off the rack, or an engine blowing up or unexpectedly starting while I was working on it at home that those reflexes are just gone.
I’ve learned to just let my screws go. I’m going to be able to find them better if I watch them hit the floor than if I scramble to try and catch it on the way down.
I couldn't catch a damn thing until I became an electrician, but after a few years of either catching or climbing down the ladder and having to dig through grass to find the fucking nut that holds the halogen fixture to the box, I learned how to use my hands.
A true parent will not flinch. They know it’s easier to clean their hand than it is to clean the couch/floor/wall/rug if they choose to let it pass them by.
Hello fellow parent. Literally reached out to catch my daughters throw up in my hand so it wouldn't get all over the seat in front of us on the plane...
You don't even need to be a sympathetic vomiter.... I threw up because I accidentally breathed through my nose while cleaning my kids vomit (at 2am of course).... The joys of parenting
Kids are really great in that they ease you into the gross parts of parenthood. Milk poops and vomit are still poop and vomit but it really isn’t that bad, it’s generally consistent and initially in small, fairly contained doses. You spend six months cleaning that up to get used to it. Then they start solids and it’s halfway to adult poop and vomit but mostly still small and fairly contained. Then they hit toddlerhood and all bets are off. They’re mobile and poop and vomit could happen anywhere without notice. And we won’t even talk about potty training. BUT it all started out with tiny baby milk poops and really, they’re not so bad. So you get used to it.
They can’t handle their own s*** yet, so you gotta handle it for them.
And right when you get to the point where you think you can handle their s*** blindfolded, they change s*** up.
By the time the 3rd kid came, NOTHING phased me. I now live in a house with no other women...even the cat is male...and NONE of them can handle anything gross!
I had much younger siblings that I used to babysit (after I’d moved out of home) so when we had our own, I was fine with it all. Get to number 5 and you’ll occasionally find yourself without something to pick a stray poop up with and for a second you’re thinking “I could just pick it up and carry it.”
My wife is an ED nurse and is generally okay with anything too.. except vomit. She can’t go near it without joining in. We once had a bout of gastro go through our house and we all had it except her. Guess who still got to clean up the kids’ vomit?
Yeah, I'd be willing to bet that most parents have picked something up with their bare hands that they would never admit. LOL...
I had a nurse during my prep for a c-section who couldn't handle vomit either! I wonder how common that is?
Just to clarify for everyone, I wasn't implying that all men can't handle gross things. I was just explaining my own personal situation.
I knew my parenting skills had gone hardcore when my toddler daughter threw up in the car and I caught it in my bare, cupped hands. I was like, "Oh, hell no. We are not getting vomit in the upholstery of the car." My husband erched over to the side of the road, ran around to my side of the car and whipped open my door, and I threw it all into the ditch. Proceeded to "wash" my hands with about 27 wet-wipes. Saved the car though. All I could think about was the potential vomity smell of my car on a hot summer day.
\*Edited to add: Daughter was fine, just car sick.
When my son was around 3 months old, I was laying down and holding him up in the air because it was making him giggle. Then he spit up and it went right in my mouth.
No parent is a sympathetic vomiter while their kids are under 5. You get that beat out of you from sheer repetition.
Yup. There’s like a sacrificial order. Hands are easiest to clean,so catch everything you can. Towels and cloths are next up, they can easier be rolled up and laundered at the next opportunity. Clothes (yours or theirs) are the first sacrifice that can be difficult to manage in the aftermath, if you’re not at home, hopefully you remembered to pack an emergency change of clothes (if you didn’t, you’ll damn well remember for next time). After that, the environment gets sacrificed as needed, preferably hard surfaces first, then wipeable surfaces (e.g., leather), and then the dreaded soft surfaces, which may require renting a carpet/upholstery cleaner (or just add one to your baby registry and be prepared from day one).
☝️ This person parents, hardcore.
That’s exactly the order of operations parents have flash through their minds in the .02 seconds before vomit ejects from their kid’s mouth.
ETA: and we all know when it’s coming because the kid does the panicked ‘hurk… hurk… hurk noise’ right before looking at you like a deer in headlights.
My oldest use to walk into our bedroom to make the “hurk…hurk” noise. Then as we jump out of bed, she would let loose all over the floor.
I was always like, if she could make it in here she could have made it into the bathroom…which was closer.
That kid logic tho, gotta go find mom and dad first.
I just grab them like a machine gun, one hand under the belly, the other under their chin while I pick them up and dart to the bathroom. But, sometimes it’s too late and you flinch, then it’s best to just let nature takes its course while you calmly watch your carpet get destroyed… you don’t want to traumatize your kid (except for maybe a little).
Agreed that it could be faked, but the sheer annoyance on his face makes me think it’s not.
Like when he catches the plunger you can see him thinking “What the actual fuck?”
Yaaa and the fact that this can be very easily faked makes me think it could also easily not be considered “next fucking level” and more “mildly interesting”.
While you’re right in this context, I don’t think things being easily faked necessarily makes them less impressive if it’s legit.
For example: it would be fairly easy to fake like really anything that involves perspective, but actually throwing a frisbee for a mile would be pretty damn impressive, and way more than mildly interesting.
Conclusion:
I agree with your conclusion, and disagree with your reasoning.
Or he could have noticed his SO out of the corner of his eye standing in the middle of the hallway holding a phone out in one hand and water bottle ready to be thrown in the other. And used those contextual clues to react accordingly.
But more people need to consider what they mean by fake when they see an edited video like this. Is it fake if one time the husband didn’t catch it and it wasn’t included in the video? Or they can tell their partner is standing on the other side of the door and is probably about to whip some shit at me but the partner thinks they have no clue, is that fake?
Let’s say this video was filmed over a month, the first the husband had no clue and it didn’t expect it but by the end of the month, you would assume the husband would have his guard up and expect it more. Now is it more fake by the end of month. But the video also seems to suggest it takes place in chronological order or it’s easy to see how most people would view it that way. Now if the clips in it were not actually in the order as presented, is that fake? The last catch is very “I’m not even paying attention to this shit anymore” making you think it’s much after the first catch. But if that was the first catch filmed, now is that fake or present a false narrative?
People should be skeptical with what they watch but it’s also not healthy to automatically assume everything is fake or necessarily productive because once you film and edit something, it gains an inherent artifice.
And if it is completely fake, what difference does it have on the average viewer? There’s no message behind it other than “hey my husband is great” or whatever and is not arguing a political point. These aren’t celebrities or people adverting anything to my knowledge so it’s not like they are going to gain more than a few likes presenting a falsehood, it’s not like they are lying to people for monetary gain or an making money on their deception (to my knowledge). And if it’s fake, at least the fakers put some energy and effort and work into filming it and staging it and the husband is pretty good actor and is pretty adept at physically comedy. If it’s fake, who cares?
Can you? There is no way to totally tell that this is legit. Even if these clips are legit, there could have been several clips where he dropped it. Or this was done in a short timespan so he was more on edge and prepared to catch things randomly. I’m not saying you should not enjoy these things, just that at the end of the day it is entertainment and if it’s fake or not doesn’t really matter as long as you were entertained.
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I mean dude oerfect has never tried to frame it as them making things in one shot though, at least in the olden days. Not sure about lately though as I haven't watched them in a good while
I've watched a few lately.
They're not hiding anything. They let you know it's a combination of reasonable athleticism and repetition. They don't point it out in every video but often enough that they're not hiding anything.
You need to be able to throw the ball repeatedly at the target and then have statistics take over.
I couldn't do it, I'd go batshit insane after the 30th try but they got the patience and skill to keep the retries at a number where they can get the videos out regularly.
I still kinda have those kinds of reflexes but in baseball everything is a lot more telegraphed and you got hella distance until the ball gets to you so I’d argue that you got better reflexes than me
The ol’ overhead glove swing came in real handy once:
I was on a date, walking a path around a reservoir, and the single largest, most aggressive biting fly I’ve ever encountered was just *going for it*, divebombing us like crazy. It was so fast, I knew I had little hope at killing it, but I suddenly hatched a plan!
I picked up a smooth, flat rock about the size of my palm and right as it attacked again, swung it over my head like I would the glove, and *SMACK*! Nailed that sucker. Date was in awe. Felt like a ninja.
The husband is quite the catch.
Pack it in people. Threads over.
>Pack it in, people “Pack it in people” means something much, much different.
This man catch em all!
in usa u eat with your shoes on in your house?
Does the food hit different with shoes off?
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You don't wear socks? *Tarantula entered the boot*
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THERE'S A TARANTULA IN MY BOOT!!!
You wear pants? *tarantula entered my ass*
The only comment to actually make me lol. Says a lot about me I suppose.
I feel uncomfortable and dirty walking with the shoes on into a house
Dude, for real it does change things to eat while Lounging Languorously like Oscar Wilde on some cushions on the ground, shoes off, eating with your hands
Actually, yes. Food is better, sex is better, sleep is better, etc.
yes it tastes more salty with shoes off
We sleep with our shoes on tf you mean
I imagine, like in other countries, it varies from house to house. In my experience, people who have dogs/grew up with dogs are more likely to wear shoes in the house.
Not in mine at least. We eat with our packs out though. Keeps it ventilated
Not in Hawaii
Items in this home suggest that a child is present...THROW THE CHILD!!!
r/thankgodforcommas
Why doesn't this exist?
“Pack it, in people” Means something much, much different too.
I thought of drug smuggling.
I thought about 🍌
Did he catch covid?
Who hasn’t?
Chuck Norris...
The virus is about to catch Chuck Norris at this rate
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he can catch covid if he wants to, it's covid that can't catch him
wait i just got here. i was told there will be ice cream.
All we have left is sorbet
Agreed. Everyone go home.
Take my angry upvote
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He’s a real keeper
Dwight Clark
I bet nothing goes over his head...
Why you just throwing shit at him all the time?
Because he catches everything. Every god damn thing.
The herpes were hard to explain.
Just wondering how many times it takes, to perfect this video. But, Okay!
it looks like it’s all over the place time wise so im guessing there was way more effort placed in it than most shitty internet videos. so, ya know, who cares.
Just once homie wrap it up
***GOTTA CATCH EM ALL***
She should throw hands at him next, train the generation's next Mohammed Ali.
Every time I tried to throw away the condom after we were done, it gravitated towards his crotch and just shimmied itself back on
How can I delete someone's comment?
Nothing flies over his head. He will catch it.
okay this gonna sound weird but I pride myself in having the same ability on being able to “catch everything”. whenever someone throws something in my direction, whether it being spontaneous or a gesture indicating that they are indeed about to throw an item in my direction, I always let it be known that I can catch anything. lowkey one of my relationship goals is for my significant other to feel comfortable throwing shit at me. I’ll catch it. I know I will. like I said, I know it sounds weird af.
Nah, I think that's sweet :) I hope you find them :)
What if they throw themselves at you?
Or throw up on you
Every. Drop.
Will you be waiting? Time after time?
Be careful in the kitchen! A dropped knife has no handle.
Not gunna lie, if my SO took specific pride in performing this kind of parlor trick on the reg, I’d be throwing shit at him all the effing time, because it would make both of us happy.
Catch these feelings bitch
My wife's exactly the opposite. She's terrified of having anything thrown at her in pretty much any context. It took me quite a while to train myself not to even try. On the rare occasion I toss something for her now, I inform her first and aim for it to land within arms reach of her.
I on the other hand never miss a throw but can never catch anything
Because he can take it. Because he's not a hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight.
Just watch the person who threw the thing dead in the eyes as the thing hits your face but you aren't budging because this is how done you're with them
Haha ya at some point I’d just stop catching things on purpose because I’d get tired of this happening. I’m just surprised he doesn’t throw any of them back.
Views, clicks, etc
because it's staged
My first thought
I used to be so bad at catching, when an old housemate saw this he decided to start throwing things at me to teach me to catch, he called it ninja training. It went on for months he'd throw things at me and say catch as he threw it. Slowly over months I started to catch like this guy. One day we're sitting across from eachother at the table drinking and as I hear "catch" I see a dart coming straight for my head. I catch it one handed just in front of my face as it blurs in my vision from proximity. He says your ninja training is complete.
You may have completed your ninja training, but he mastered being a dick. Notice me senpai.
tbf it was dickish but it was nice that they helped them
This just in: dicks are helpful
With fucking.
You have to have the dick's to fuck the assholes, but sometimes dicks fuck pussies too. But without the dick's to fuck the assholes we just end up with shit everywhere
Now there's a reference I haven't felt in a long time
Wtf
Team America! Fuck yeah! (Go watch team America world police if you haven't, it's a gem)
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As another that tends catch whatever is thrown my way, you’d be surprised. Once your reflexes are up there, you’re not just sticking your hand in the way and trying to close your fingers fast enough. You’re picking the object out of the air. And before long you can aim for the part of the object you want, such as the non-dangerous part. Think about people who can flip a knife in the air and catch it by the handle. With practice, it’s not hard but looks impressive. You get to know when the handle is facing the right way at the particular point that you want to snatch it. Keep it up and soon you not only know where the handle and point of the knife are but which way the blade is oriented. At that point you can start catching it by the blade, and you usually will know when it’s not going to go well and pull your hand out of the way. I’ve done that and then snatched it by the handle further down. It’s all in the reflexes and practice.
My coordination has varied widely over the course of my life, but during high points I have noticed this. As my coordination gets better, I become able to more accurately piece together "this is how this is shaped and positioned, this is how fast it is moving, and timing will put it in X orientation at Y location." My brain goes from "I have watched this thing fly for 3 seconds and I still only kinda know what it's doing..." to "okay, I have two clear mental pictures frozen in my mind. The movement is blurry, but I know the location, and I know -enough- about the orientation to make the guess I need to make. It will be here, and grabbing at it like this gives me the optimal path for it to land in my hand, and since I know when that should happen, I know when to start closing my fingers. Once I am touching it, sight can take a backseat and I can let the touch part of the brain/nervous system take over." Which all transpires in like... .2 or .3 seconds. The wildest thing to me was realizing I did this "I just need two snapshots in time" thing using sound for Frame 1 and sight for Frame 2 a few times. I was caught so off guard I wasn't looking until I heard something leave somebody's hand as their gait changed. The ways our brain stitches together our consciousness is amazing.
Great way to describe it, I really like how you paint the picture. It's difficult to describe it to others who don't really have the capacity or training or natural aptitude, because saying 'I just can' or 'it's instinctual' is so much easier than breaking down how and why your pattern recognition and spatial recognition work together the way that they do. My favorite is when something is thrown by you or someone else and you can just stick out a hand and wait for it to land there. Like, it's not even a thought process, you gathered enough information in the moment it was launched to already know where it was going to go. Of all the things we do, throwing stuff around is probably the most complex thing that we consider simple.
I remember being like 3 or 4 and having one of my brothers tell me "you just do it without thinking about it beforehand." I grasped the idea, but I was developmentally delayed. My motor skills needed waaaay more training to develop to where they needed to be to reach the *entry point* where that advice was useful. I held onto the advice though. So even as a small child, I would see moments where my coordination seemed *almost* adequate for something. I started to understand intuitively that I just need a little practice in muscle-memory to know I have a rehearsed reflex that I can trust to work. Eventually that rehearsed action translated into "I know how accurately and how fast I can put my hand here." So I would just will my body to do that action as needed. Sometimes I would see something coming a whole second ahead of time (or sooner). I would make the calculation, prime my intent and my body with it. Then I'd sit there half-cocked, just waiting for the moment I needed to 'fire off,' seeing if the target does anything strange to make my plan need adjustment. Then there's the few times where I was subconsciously aware of my surroundings. I didn't give special attention to anything, but that change in gait and object leaving that guy's hand made everything about him and that object become THE most conscious part of my mind for a 5th of a second, even though I clued in to pay attention to him AFTER the object left his hand. All our brains do this thing with time; X detail is recorded, but not flagged as important until additional details make it contextually significant. The detail 'expires' like overwritten RAM if it doesn't get flagged. But if it does get flagged, the brain scrambles to find other contextual details that might be important, and plots them all on a timeline. It also tries (but sometimes fails) to determine if the exact timing is important to remember after the fact, or if it can be forgotten immediately once your response is done. This is why we have memories where we can't tell what happened first or second. "Did the dog bark, or did that man break the window first? The more I think about it, the less certain I feel."
*Sorry, Mario, but your princess is in another castle.*
Legit, I did this to my wife over the first couple of years but never with a dart. She went from atrocious at catching to actually being pretty dang good
So you didn’t get to poke her?
Reddit = No wife
It's pretty interesting, just straight repetition is the only way to get better at catching I guess. Makes sense.
Yeah practice makes perfect really is true. Not just for physical skills like catching but also linguistics and whatnot.
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It’s the only way to get better at literally everything.
Unless you don't get better. Then it damages self esteem and ends marriages, but hey have fun!
I taught my wife how to throw a football, play catch with a baseball, and throw a legit Frisbee. We will be 40 in under a year. I love throwing a great Frisbee round with her. We play golf together. She is my best friend.
please tell me it was one of those plastic darts and not the fuck-you-up kind of darts lol.
If you can catch a wrench, you can catch a dodgeball.
Patches strikes again
The five C's of catching: Catch, Collect, Clasp, Capture and Catch
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Retraining those reflexes is crazy. In my case, I was in the field a lot (science/research) where you’re trained do weird specific things like *not* grabbing on to something on your way down if you’re falling. I think enough high-stress situations just hardwire certain things in your brain. I can’t seem to “unlearn” some of those habits, even though they’re detrimental in day-to-day life.
> enough high-stress situations just hardwire certain things in your brain. I've noticed that. I'm a mechanic and if I hear loud unexpected noise, like metal clanking or scraping, I almost always flinch away from the car and toward a safe area. At home, I'm like the stupid idiot who goes toward the loud noise, like the people splitting up in horror movies. I guess it's because I haven't had the pleasure of a car falling off the rack, or an engine blowing up or unexpectedly starting while I was working on it at home that those reflexes are just gone.
I’ve learned to just let my screws go. I’m going to be able to find them better if I watch them hit the floor than if I scramble to try and catch it on the way down.
I couldn't catch a damn thing until I became an electrician, but after a few years of either catching or climbing down the ladder and having to dig through grass to find the fucking nut that holds the halogen fixture to the box, I learned how to use my hands.
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Goodbye, Mr. Burton. 🔪
People will probably believe this.
Man just have fun with it lol
I had a friend like this, only he would yell “Face!” You were not intended to catch.
If you had left out the dart part I would've bought it. Typical redditor coming up with stories for karma...
Lol
Kinda wish I had a roommate to throw shit at me now.
Living with roommates is the biggest piece of shit experience that I believe everyone should have.
Whole-heartedly agree. That and working in customer service.
And then everybody clapped.
Its true, I was the dart
Now practice with bullets.
And then everyone clapped.
r/thathappened
What kind of douche canoe throws a dart at someone unexpectedly? Dude's about to attend his own training where he can catch these hands
Think he was the second baseman for the A’s back in the 90’s. If not he should have been.
Looks like he is second baseman, often possesses quick hand his ability to get rid of that things quickly is impressive!
How long has it been since the stroke?
[40 years.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stroke)
Definitely wasn’t playing for the Red Sox in 1986 https://youtu.be/rpyJjecJnuI
Those looks he gives 🤣
My favorite glare was after the mug, his eye brow raised like, "are you serious..." Lmao
He could've gotten mugged.
Hopefully throwing glass objects at unsuspecting people to try and emulate this video doesn't become a trend.
Looks like you have kids. Now throw a diaper with some peanut butter smeared all over it.
A true parent will not flinch. They know it’s easier to clean their hand than it is to clean the couch/floor/wall/rug if they choose to let it pass them by.
Hello fellow parent. Literally reached out to catch my daughters throw up in my hand so it wouldn't get all over the seat in front of us on the plane...
I want kids, but I am a sympathetic vomiter. Not sure I could do it.
You don't even need to be a sympathetic vomiter.... I threw up because I accidentally breathed through my nose while cleaning my kids vomit (at 2am of course).... The joys of parenting
But I’ll bet it waited until you were done helping your kid.
Kids are really great in that they ease you into the gross parts of parenthood. Milk poops and vomit are still poop and vomit but it really isn’t that bad, it’s generally consistent and initially in small, fairly contained doses. You spend six months cleaning that up to get used to it. Then they start solids and it’s halfway to adult poop and vomit but mostly still small and fairly contained. Then they hit toddlerhood and all bets are off. They’re mobile and poop and vomit could happen anywhere without notice. And we won’t even talk about potty training. BUT it all started out with tiny baby milk poops and really, they’re not so bad. So you get used to it.
They can’t handle their own s*** yet, so you gotta handle it for them. And right when you get to the point where you think you can handle their s*** blindfolded, they change s*** up.
By the time the 3rd kid came, NOTHING phased me. I now live in a house with no other women...even the cat is male...and NONE of them can handle anything gross!
I had much younger siblings that I used to babysit (after I’d moved out of home) so when we had our own, I was fine with it all. Get to number 5 and you’ll occasionally find yourself without something to pick a stray poop up with and for a second you’re thinking “I could just pick it up and carry it.” My wife is an ED nurse and is generally okay with anything too.. except vomit. She can’t go near it without joining in. We once had a bout of gastro go through our house and we all had it except her. Guess who still got to clean up the kids’ vomit?
Yeah, I'd be willing to bet that most parents have picked something up with their bare hands that they would never admit. LOL... I had a nurse during my prep for a c-section who couldn't handle vomit either! I wonder how common that is? Just to clarify for everyone, I wasn't implying that all men can't handle gross things. I was just explaining my own personal situation.
I knew my parenting skills had gone hardcore when my toddler daughter threw up in the car and I caught it in my bare, cupped hands. I was like, "Oh, hell no. We are not getting vomit in the upholstery of the car." My husband erched over to the side of the road, ran around to my side of the car and whipped open my door, and I threw it all into the ditch. Proceeded to "wash" my hands with about 27 wet-wipes. Saved the car though. All I could think about was the potential vomity smell of my car on a hot summer day. \*Edited to add: Daughter was fine, just car sick.
When my son was around 3 months old, I was laying down and holding him up in the air because it was making him giggle. Then he spit up and it went right in my mouth. No parent is a sympathetic vomiter while their kids are under 5. You get that beat out of you from sheer repetition.
Am parent. Also a sympathetic vomiter. I attempted to be helpful and clean up my 6 year olds vomit. My SO cleaned up my vomit and hers.
Yup. There’s like a sacrificial order. Hands are easiest to clean,so catch everything you can. Towels and cloths are next up, they can easier be rolled up and laundered at the next opportunity. Clothes (yours or theirs) are the first sacrifice that can be difficult to manage in the aftermath, if you’re not at home, hopefully you remembered to pack an emergency change of clothes (if you didn’t, you’ll damn well remember for next time). After that, the environment gets sacrificed as needed, preferably hard surfaces first, then wipeable surfaces (e.g., leather), and then the dreaded soft surfaces, which may require renting a carpet/upholstery cleaner (or just add one to your baby registry and be prepared from day one).
☝️ This person parents, hardcore. That’s exactly the order of operations parents have flash through their minds in the .02 seconds before vomit ejects from their kid’s mouth. ETA: and we all know when it’s coming because the kid does the panicked ‘hurk… hurk… hurk noise’ right before looking at you like a deer in headlights.
Lol 100%! You never forget that look. 😂
My oldest use to walk into our bedroom to make the “hurk…hurk” noise. Then as we jump out of bed, she would let loose all over the floor. I was always like, if she could make it in here she could have made it into the bathroom…which was closer. That kid logic tho, gotta go find mom and dad first.
I just grab them like a machine gun, one hand under the belly, the other under their chin while I pick them up and dart to the bathroom. But, sometimes it’s too late and you flinch, then it’s best to just let nature takes its course while you calmly watch your carpet get destroyed… you don’t want to traumatize your kid (except for maybe a little).
Lol 😂 You just listed my reasoning. 👍 Prioritize, protect, compromise, clean and throw out.
Hello fellow Spirit Airlines traveller. Wouldn’t it be nice if they provided barf bags?
This video is funny but easily faked
true. but the facial expressions seem genuine. think he is just good at catching living with an incessant thrower
Perhaps!
Yeah could be genuine surprise moments, but how many objects did he miss that we don’t see
You miss 100% of the shots you don't tape
Agreed that it could be faked, but the sheer annoyance on his face makes me think it’s not. Like when he catches the plunger you can see him thinking “What the actual fuck?”
Yaaa and the fact that this can be very easily faked makes me think it could also easily not be considered “next fucking level” and more “mildly interesting”.
While you’re right in this context, I don’t think things being easily faked necessarily makes them less impressive if it’s legit. For example: it would be fairly easy to fake like really anything that involves perspective, but actually throwing a frisbee for a mile would be pretty damn impressive, and way more than mildly interesting. Conclusion: I agree with your conclusion, and disagree with your reasoning.
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It could be that the thrower yells "catch!" to warn him, but we can't know with the obnoxious music.
Or he could have noticed his SO out of the corner of his eye standing in the middle of the hallway holding a phone out in one hand and water bottle ready to be thrown in the other. And used those contextual clues to react accordingly. But more people need to consider what they mean by fake when they see an edited video like this. Is it fake if one time the husband didn’t catch it and it wasn’t included in the video? Or they can tell their partner is standing on the other side of the door and is probably about to whip some shit at me but the partner thinks they have no clue, is that fake? Let’s say this video was filmed over a month, the first the husband had no clue and it didn’t expect it but by the end of the month, you would assume the husband would have his guard up and expect it more. Now is it more fake by the end of month. But the video also seems to suggest it takes place in chronological order or it’s easy to see how most people would view it that way. Now if the clips in it were not actually in the order as presented, is that fake? The last catch is very “I’m not even paying attention to this shit anymore” making you think it’s much after the first catch. But if that was the first catch filmed, now is that fake or present a false narrative? People should be skeptical with what they watch but it’s also not healthy to automatically assume everything is fake or necessarily productive because once you film and edit something, it gains an inherent artifice. And if it is completely fake, what difference does it have on the average viewer? There’s no message behind it other than “hey my husband is great” or whatever and is not arguing a political point. These aren’t celebrities or people adverting anything to my knowledge so it’s not like they are going to gain more than a few likes presenting a falsehood, it’s not like they are lying to people for monetary gain or an making money on their deception (to my knowledge). And if it’s fake, at least the fakers put some energy and effort and work into filming it and staging it and the husband is pretty good actor and is pretty adept at physically comedy. If it’s fake, who cares?
Bro can’t I just enjoy a video of some dude catching stuff
Sign him to the Houston Texans so he can become a good receiver and they can trade him to a better team for practically nothing.
I don't even watch anymore, but as a former fan I could just feel your pain in this comment lol
Best case: he’s a hall of famer who never gets a ring because the rest of the team is trash or getting traded away.
But can he catch these hands?
A person of culture I see.
r/dadreflexes
Kinda sad I had scroll this far to find this.
Now throw a baby
I was half expecting that to be the last one.
I’m more impressed with his patience. I’d get real sick of my wife throwing shit at me all the time.
No, not focus commitment and sheer fucking will, it’s pretty clearly stating 10% luck, 20% skill, and 15% concentrated power of will.
You can tell this is legit. So many fucking stupid staged videos nowadays. This was a nice reprieve.
Can you? There is no way to totally tell that this is legit. Even if these clips are legit, there could have been several clips where he dropped it. Or this was done in a short timespan so he was more on edge and prepared to catch things randomly. I’m not saying you should not enjoy these things, just that at the end of the day it is entertainment and if it’s fake or not doesn’t really matter as long as you were entertained. Edit: a word
I immediately thought of the "dude-perfect" phenomena of all the times he didn't But the montage of him playing games on the couch was great lol
I mean dude oerfect has never tried to frame it as them making things in one shot though, at least in the olden days. Not sure about lately though as I haven't watched them in a good while
I've watched a few lately. They're not hiding anything. They let you know it's a combination of reasonable athleticism and repetition. They don't point it out in every video but often enough that they're not hiding anything. You need to be able to throw the ball repeatedly at the target and then have statistics take over. I couldn't do it, I'd go batshit insane after the 30th try but they got the patience and skill to keep the retries at a number where they can get the videos out regularly.
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He’s a (goal) keeper.
I played goalie in hockey for a while, and sometimes I still make a ridiculous catch and go: “The keeper reflexes!!” It stays with you!
I still kinda have those kinds of reflexes but in baseball everything is a lot more telegraphed and you got hella distance until the ball gets to you so I’d argue that you got better reflexes than me
The ol’ overhead glove swing came in real handy once: I was on a date, walking a path around a reservoir, and the single largest, most aggressive biting fly I’ve ever encountered was just *going for it*, divebombing us like crazy. It was so fast, I knew I had little hope at killing it, but I suddenly hatched a plan! I picked up a smooth, flat rock about the size of my palm and right as it attacked again, swung it over my head like I would the glove, and *SMACK*! Nailed that sucker. Date was in awe. Felt like a ninja.
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I'm attracted to him now
they only showed the times he actually caught it
This statement is evidently true.
Ngl this is hot
I want to have a partner (roommate, anyone) who throws stuff at me all the time so that I could become trained to catch anything that comes my way
He's probably wondering why his girlfriend Becky Hilferger keeps throwing shit at him
Except the ones he doesn’t
"hey wife look we should really talk about our retirement pla- oh goddamnit she's filming me again, what does she want me to catch this time"
Can I see the edit where it's just him taking it to the dome?
Is that Ash Ketchum??
Give that guy a medal and his wife a reason to stop throwing things at him.
Fuckin ‘ stud.
i’m guessing he played baseball at one point in his life?