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@@legitimate8463 I was thinking of heart attacks. About the likelihood. Sure it's rare, this guy dying in this video from what he's doing is also rare. You could say that to every single video on TH-cam.
And not just generally, but specifically straws. How many other single use plastics have been targeted like that? I feel like more people need to know about greenwashing and be critical on policy, social change and their position in it, but that may be naieve in the extreme to expect of the general population.
Blame us while the only real solution is the source companies finding other environmentally friendly ways of packaging that isn't all plastic. Or still using plastic but a less harmful way of it breaking down but I still think renewables and re-usables is the way to go
@@thaDjMauz bread tabs milk tabs beer and pop plastic holders for thos 6 packs and then plastic grocery bags . Walmart loves selling those garbage fabric 35 cent bags to anyone who forgets to bring their own.
@@danielnanninga I was sad when my area outlawed plastic grocery bags. I used to use them to make yarn which I could then crochet into a reusable grocery bag. I know it's for the better, but man those things were great christmas gifts, and totally free. My family used to fight over who got to get the next one. Now I have to buy things with money like some kind of pleb.
It's funny to think how much of a different experience a deaf person, a blind person and a person who has both hearing and sight would have when watching and/or listening your videos.
Deaf person is less affected than the blind person. Yes he's hilarious sounding and his delivery of jokes is awesome but at least you have captions . Blind person would have no idea what happens in the video as half the jokes are delivered as straight serious and things happen like when he puts a ramp down for the frogs to leave his pool he doesn't even mention it
@@danielnanninga deaf person will probably notice the subtle jokes he puts in every now and then then a fully sighted and fully hearing person. Like funny things in the background, or coke being on the scale before he tested the potato penetration weight
Mad respect for a man willing to strap a laundry basket to his back, put flippers on his hands, and get in a bathtub just to reenact a sea turtle getting a straw stuck in his nose and then slowly dying
Basically everything we were told NOT to do with toothbrushes as children (walk/run around with it in your mouth, using in moving vehicles, etc...) people are doing now with metal straws. Back in the early 90s I remember at least two cases of kids running around with the toothbrush hanging out of their mouth, tripping, and having the brush go through the back of the throat/neck. It's basically a tracheotomy device moonlighting as a straw. I know paper straws disintegrate WAY too quickly, but could we not make them temporarily water resistant with an alginate substance? It would break down in sea water but would make the straw water/liquid resistant enough to get through the beverage. Surely there's a better way that carrying around a human hole puncher.
This reminds me of the time many years ago when my grandma was going to her car from Home Depot with her hands full, holding a wooden dowel in her mouth - only for the trunk door of her car to fly up, hit the dowel, and cause it to impale the roof of her mouth. Thankfully, she wasn't severely injured and made a full recovery.
@@zerotheshortpotato6867 yes. I had them as a kid. There were chocolate and fruity so I could only assume they were Coco and Fruity PEBBLES brand cereal but they were delicious
Funny how somehow 'solutions' to some eco problems are largely immune from public scrutiny. I had been letting my kids use these for a while, but something kept nagging me. Only after watching this did I realise what was bothering me. Metal straws reminded me of the No. 4 Lee Enfield spike bayonet. This was adopted by the UK over the bayonets used by New Zealand and Australia as it was found to be more lethal. I had removed some metal Korean chopsticks from the cutlery drawer because I realised how dangerous they might be, but kept using the metal straws.
this is actually more terrifying than almost anything else I've seen on this channel, and I'm including using power tools with bare feet. On another note I've always heard from a young age to be very careful of metal straws
Sofi 69 other then the fact that plastic bags kill more turtles then straws, and how the plastic won’t decompose until we’re all dead, but that doesn’t really matter, I guess.
I didn't expect to cackle so much watching your videos! Look forward to more. And good luck with the tampon gun situation. Hopefully it's not big deal.
@Ann Piez You are no one to judge anyone's value first of all and as a European I think the spoiled brat here is you since you believe that bullshit. Get educated kiddo. We are also animals and if animals die it's gonna affect the environment which is your freaking home and then you're pretty much a goner. Good luck with that mindset. Sad.
I was trying to make a funny comment then everyone replying is not really getting that this is a joke and no one should die, Licht San. and not everyone in America are spoiled, there are lots of people that have one meal a day, if that. I think everyone needs to calm down and just laugh at the joke I have made for happiness.
That balancing was impressive enough on its own, and you did it while eating spaghetti 🤣👍🏻, legendary, God bless homie, keep it up, I've seen every video and I'm on round 2 XD
I use straws bc I am super clumsy and always spill drinks all over me, and my favorite solution is silicone straws. Too squishy to be dangerous, can cut them if you need them to be a certain length (like for a water bottle), and they come in fun colors
Metal straws are simply a bad idea. Not only are they unsanitary, dangerous in a subtle way that actually can occasionally kill innocent people, but they also catalyze chemical changes in the food substances being consumed. Basically, metals are catalysts that cause chemical changes in organic substances, which alters the flavor of the food in routinely unwanted ways. Some of the chemical changes can also be actively harmful, in that it can convert benign and tasty food molecules into potentially toxic substances, or even into carcinogens. For this reason, it is normally not recommended to store leftover food items in metal containers (even stainless steel, which is still a catalyst) in the refrigerator, but instead to quickly transfer leftover food out of metal containers and into glass or plastic containers instead. The severity of the catalyzed chemical changes depends on time of contact between the food and the metal, but even brief metal exposures begin to cause some chemical changes in the food. For this reason, steel food cans (often referred to as "tin cans") come with a thin internal plastic like liner coating the interior, to keep the food from directly contacting the metal surface. Occasionally, canning problems occur, and the thin liner get holes in it, and this causes the stored food in the can to look/smell/taste foul, upon opening the can with the faulty can liner. Conventional plastic straws are much better. Plastic straws that get properly thrown into a garbage can, normally end up in landfills, whereby they are rather benign and not particularly harmful to any wild animals. Plastic straws harmlessly buried in a landfill do not actually cause environmental contamination or contribute to microplastics in waterways. It is basically only the straws that people litter with, that cause environmental problems for wildlife. The root cause of the problem is human litter bugs, not plastic straws. Additionally, reusable metal straws are not normally provided in fast food restaurants with drive through/takeout windows. Instead, plastic straws are usually still provided by such types of restaurants (where people drive through, consume their beverages, and sometimes toss the used paper cups + plastic straws + plastic cup lids on the ground). Typically only dine in/sit down restaurants provide reusable metal straws, but dine in restaurant customers are not the ones that litter with plastic straws, since it is normal for customers of such places to simply leave their cups/plates/straws on the table when they leave (and a restaurant employee cleans things up and discards any plastic straws properly in a trash can, and thus harmlessly into a landfill, when plastic straws are used). In other words, metal straws do not actually address the root cause of environmental problems associated with plastic straws. The root cause is human litter bugs. Solving the problem of human litter bugs requires societal and legal system changes, not changes to straws made available at dine in restaurants. If the government hypothetically changed the laws to legally allow (and encourage) people to carry around bug spray (or regular pepper spray), and to then spray litter bugs with the spray upon observing someone littering, the problem of plastic straw contamination of the environment might actually go away. Such would be an incomplete solution however, as such small interactions would be unlikely to change the fundamental personality of the litter bugs to get them to truly stop, and some of them might even go so far as to take out guns and shoot the people spraying them, even when they were genuinely guilty of littering. Consequently, resolving the problem is somewhat more complex, as it somehow requires altering litter bugs' personalities. Forcing metal straws on people is not however the solution to environmental problems, nor will it cause a personality shift amongst litter bugs. The metal straw phenomena needs to stop. Real solutions are needed, and metal straws are not it.
normal plastic straws are like the least of our worries, most of the trash-related animal injuries and deaths are caused by discarded fishing gear, which makes up the vast majority of the trash in the ocean.
@woollimy i suggest searching for zero waste lifestyle, steel straws is a just a gateway to the movement. I literally started with just a straw (ngl it looked cool using it) and now i buy things on bulk with my own container. Not everyone that tries is perfectly devoid of single use plastics, but hey it makes a difference.
Is Australia cold, was I high, or theres steam escaping the pasta meaning it's a hot one lmaoooo what a madlad So he's eating some hot spaghetti with a fork, no protection for his face, while stabilising himself on a goddamn rope
good joke but sorry to burst your bubble but metal straws are not as environmentally as people are lead to believe and are in fact worse than plastic straws. you: impossible
@@tommyblade8093 Ok so tbh I can't explain of it all so I suggest you look it up if you want more but ill do my best to explain. Metal straws are more resource and energy-intensive to make than plastic straws. metal straws also are not as recyclable as plastic ones. The main problem people had with plastic straws is that they wound up in the ocean which only happened in California (or at least mainly). The solution might be to have more ways to get the straws to recycling places instead of the trash. also thank you for your politeness, I don't see many people that have that kind of respect.
@@firefox-op1ok It feels as if metal straws would be more recyclable as you can just smelt them down again (some plastics doesn't work as well with being smelted a second time), and that they'd probably be better taken care of (Plastic is trash, metal is reusable is a common thought). In any case.. Here in Sweden restaurants has started using paper straws alot. Probably some kind of chemical to make it a bit water resistant, however i'm guessing it's still good enough for the weather to decompose if it happens to go into the sea or something.
Oh shit hol up lemme cut down this fuckin redwood to make a couple straws that are still thrown away in trash and end up in land fill and I oop and I oop sksksksksksksk
@@victrix7451 hahahaha it funny because straw suppose to suck. hahahahahahahahsahhahahahshahshahsahsahhdafhasdhbjafsdhbdhbashbfhbakdcbjkjhbfkhbkjadskhbjb dkabdasfbkdsbkkbfjkbg *Give me release.32edwqaswwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww*
Yeah, people can die with any object imaginable. It doesn't mean that it makes it dangerous. I almost swallowed a chipped piece from a glass in a restaurant, yet nobody has any concerns about cups made out of glass
I heard a story from a time when I was in boy scouts. Apparently some kid that the leader knew died when he fell and a lollypop broke through his hard palate. The "moral" of that story she shared was not "don't eat lollypops", it was to not do activities like running when you have potentially dangerous things in your mouth.
I totally called this when these first came out, mostly because of all the injuries I've given myself from fairly safe items, so a rigid metal cylinder face sucky thing is crazy.
@princessicy02 I fear you people are all missing the joke. To explain it bluntly- the joke was me swimming into the ocean with metal straws to stab turtles since its more effective at killing them than a plastic straw.
Actually when I was a kid we went at a fast food with my mother, for a reason known only to my child brain at that time, I thought it would be funny to stick 2 straws in my nostrils. Then I proceeded to shake my head up and down, not minding the fact that there was a table right underneath. I turned into a bloody straw fountain for a few minutes. This was the first and last time I've ever put straws up my nose. These things are dangerously sharp trust me 😬
you should test the plastic one too to see if it is any better, also the rig should be adjusted to allow the fork enough space to fully penetrate the ballistics gel. great video👍.
Company: sells metal straws to reduce plastic.. Customer: Wow, great! Company: wraps them in plastic.. *edit* Ouch, this single comment has more likes than all of my videos together ;)
first we had plastic straws wrapped in paper then we had paper straws wrapped in paper now we have metal straws wrapped in plastic next we will have straws wrapped in the souls of our enemies.
Please take everything i say with a grain of joke. Also make sure to Subscribe!
Only if you deliver it with a grain of sugar. Well done!!
No. I'll not be doing that.
I prefer pepper on my steak, but joke tastes pretty good too.
Are you YouSuckAtCooking’s long lost cousin?
overpopulated 3rd world countries dump everything in the sea could not care less about the environment
When you realise this man could die any second in this video
When you realize anyone could get a heart attack at any second
@@lucaslucas191202 thats not how heart attacks work but ok doctor
@@lucaslucas191202 heart attacks are not that likely. You are thinking of brain aneurysms.
@@lucaslucas191202 yea but that not intentional.
@@legitimate8463
I was thinking of heart attacks.
About the likelihood. Sure it's rare, this guy dying in this video from what he's doing is also rare. You could say that to every single video on TH-cam.
The man balanced on a tight rope while eating spaghetti. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
A Z he should just do an entire video whilst balancing on it 😂
He may have discovered a new sport...
My exact thoughts watching this. The mad lad!
Looked more like a slack line to me
No.
Literally insane how marketing geniuses shifted the plastic blame onto us the consumers
And not just generally, but specifically straws. How many other single use plastics have been targeted like that?
I feel like more people need to know about greenwashing and be critical on policy, social change and their position in it, but that may be naieve in the extreme to expect of the general population.
Blame us while the only real solution is the source companies finding other environmentally friendly ways of packaging that isn't all plastic. Or still using plastic but a less harmful way of it breaking down but I still think renewables and re-usables is the way to go
BP started it by making up the personal carbon footprint in 2005 so the consumers would start obsessing over it and leave big oil alone.
@@thaDjMauz bread tabs milk tabs beer and pop plastic holders for thos 6 packs and then plastic grocery bags . Walmart loves selling those garbage fabric 35 cent bags to anyone who forgets to bring their own.
@@danielnanninga I was sad when my area outlawed plastic grocery bags. I used to use them to make yarn which I could then crochet into a reusable grocery bag. I know it's for the better, but man those things were great christmas gifts, and totally free. My family used to fight over who got to get the next one. Now I have to buy things with money like some kind of pleb.
It's funny to think how much of a different experience a deaf person, a blind person and a person who has both hearing and sight would have when watching and/or listening your videos.
Deaf person is less affected than the blind person. Yes he's hilarious sounding and his delivery of jokes is awesome but at least you have captions . Blind person would have no idea what happens in the video as half the jokes are delivered as straight serious and things happen like when he puts a ramp down for the frogs to leave his pool he doesn't even mention it
That’s sounds like a beginning of a joke
@@danielnanninga deaf person will probably notice the subtle jokes he puts in every now and then then a fully sighted and fully hearing person. Like funny things in the background, or coke being on the scale before he tested the potato penetration weight
Mad respect for a man willing to strap a laundry basket to his back, put flippers on his hands, and get in a bathtub just to reenact a sea turtle getting a straw stuck in his nose and then slowly dying
Wait. That WASN'T an actual turtle?!? O-o
KainaX122 ILLUSION 100
Antun Šturlić 100% of breathers eventually die
@@KainaX122 Wait that was a Reenactment?
news05kid it looked so real to me!
You are not human. Ive never seen spaghetti consumed with such grace
what spaghetti
Bitch that's not spaghetti it's clearly fettuccine
And also on a rope
Thanks for putting my name in there :)
*_YOU_* have never consumed spaghetti with such grace.
Basically everything we were told NOT to do with toothbrushes as children (walk/run around with it in your mouth, using in moving vehicles, etc...) people are doing now with metal straws. Back in the early 90s I remember at least two cases of kids running around with the toothbrush hanging out of their mouth, tripping, and having the brush go through the back of the throat/neck. It's basically a tracheotomy device moonlighting as a straw. I know paper straws disintegrate WAY too quickly, but could we not make them temporarily water resistant with an alginate substance? It would break down in sea water but would make the straw water/liquid resistant enough to get through the beverage. Surely there's a better way that carrying around a human hole puncher.
Tracheotomy doesn't go through the back of your throat you dumb hoebag
Human hole puncher lol
There are pretty ok paper straws on the market right now
Needs to also work with hot drinks for disabled people to use them as an alternative
They have really resistant paper straws at ikea
This reminds me of the time many years ago when my grandma was going to her car from Home Depot with her hands full, holding a wooden dowel in her mouth - only for the trunk door of her car to fly up, hit the dowel, and cause it to impale the roof of her mouth. Thankfully, she wasn't severely injured and made a full recovery.
I mean the metal straws solve two big enviromental problems
-plastic
-humans
Iván Eyherabide I mean overpopulation right?
@@gabrielrodriguez8662 there's no overpopulation but ok
@@electricant55 it is. We are a overpopulated speices
Rafał Sobczyk Lol we are overpopulated
@@drawbyheart2774 Nice joke. If we put every human on Earth in a house we'd barely fill up Texas
WHY TF WONT THEY LISTEN TO ME
ALL YOU HAVR TO DO IS BRING BACK THOSE COCO POPS STRAWS THAT YOU COULD EAT AFTER USING
But then nobody will get them anymore because they’ll have to pay for them
Wait, YOU COULD EAT EM? ,_,
Never had em, but they sound good!
@@zerotheshortpotato6867 yes. I had them as a kid. There were chocolate and fruity so I could only assume they were Coco and Fruity PEBBLES brand cereal but they were delicious
Maybe bc you cant spell
Funny how somehow 'solutions' to some eco problems are largely immune from public scrutiny. I had been letting my kids use these for a while, but something kept nagging me. Only after watching this did I realise what was bothering me. Metal straws reminded me of the No. 4 Lee Enfield spike bayonet. This was adopted by the UK over the bayonets used by New Zealand and Australia as it was found to be more lethal. I had removed some metal Korean chopsticks from the cutlery drawer because I realised how dangerous they might be, but kept using the metal straws.
Well, because those are not solutions, market sees demand, makes a product for it. Simple as that. The rest is just good marketing
they will also destroy your teeth.
2:29 "is it just me or does this smoothie taste like blood?"
Imagine looking out your back window and seeing your neighbor balancing on a tightrope while eating spaghetti
I'd try to join
Imagine walking into your neighbor's bathroom and seeing them with a laundry basket and flippers
Madeline Red .. um idk 😐
Slack line, its far from tight lol
@@mymateroog42 Bruh it's still impressive though
Humans: *uses plastic straws*
Turtles: *dies*
Humans: *uses metal straws*
Humans: *dies*
Yep cause that makes sense!
Just use paper straws lol
Just drink out of the fucking cup lol
just inhale the drink through your nose lol
@@xeno2273 i do that
this is actually more terrifying than almost anything else I've seen on this channel, and I'm including using power tools with bare feet.
On another note I've always heard from a young age to be very careful of metal straws
If you're scared of metal straws you can always opt for paper. Paper straws start desintegrating as soon as they come into contact with moisture
Nice next they should make boats out of paper.
good thing we don't put straws in any kind of moisture when we're actually using them
There are pretty good paper straws on the market now
They do make boats out of waxed paper though.@@1BYEBYE1
when the metal straws come wrapped in plastic 😍
Sofi 69 ok genius
Sofi 69 shut up
Sofi 69 other then the fact that plastic bags kill more turtles then straws, and how the plastic won’t decompose until we’re all dead, but that doesn’t really matter, I guess.
N u g g e t real smart person here (not sarcasm)
@Sofi 69 cause you cant eat/ get a thin peice of plastic stuck somehwere, lol
I launched a metal straw with a crossbow at my neighbor at it impaled them wtf they're so dangerous
The Wrong Neighborhood r u an idiot
@@ayanhuda7020 no they're making a joke you absolute moron
r/whoosh
Ayan Hudda you’re Indian
Hold up
When you are drunk the likelihood of you falling flat on your face increases by 60%
Question: if I personally see to it that sea turtles go extinct, can I start using plastic straws again?
"that straw, is 60% knife"
you just can't make this up
Why would he need to?
True
@Federal Bureau of Investigation and this is called a joke…
@Federal Bureau of Investigation joke
Metal Straw
10% Metal
10% Straw
20% Sweatshop
*60% Knife*
100% Reason to remember the name
100 percent stupid
(Not you, metal straws)
A silicone straw is better cause it's reusable but it won't kill you lol
@@0RoarRoar0 Ah,linkin park😁👍
@@BatMan-ke4ov LINKIN PARKY
I didn't expect to cackle so much watching your videos! Look forward to more.
And good luck with the tampon gun situation. Hopefully it's not big deal.
Me: Watches a ‘I Did A Thing’ video
Me 2 minutes later: Realises that a fifth of the video was an intro
Human: dies by straw
Animals: first time?
@Ann Piez You are no one to judge anyone's value first of all and as a European I think the spoiled brat here is you since you believe that bullshit.
Get educated kiddo. We are also animals and if animals die it's gonna affect the environment which is your freaking home and then you're pretty much a goner. Good luck with that mindset. Sad.
Enigma um ok but you didn’t have to say it like that
@@nolongerinuse9687 I can't help myself when I see such stupid mindsets I'm sorry.
I hope humans die
I was trying to make a funny comment then everyone replying is not really getting that this is a joke and no one should die, Licht San. and not everyone in America are spoiled, there are lots of people that have one meal a day, if that. I think everyone needs to calm down and just laugh at the joke I have made for happiness.
"that straw is 60% knife"
*T H O N K*
*S T O N K S*
📈
big brain time
CrispY Donks stock not stonk
@@lucasmallery6678 r/woosh
RoyisDaBEST what
That balancing was impressive enough on its own, and you did it while eating spaghetti 🤣👍🏻, legendary, God bless homie, keep it up, I've seen every video and I'm on round 2 XD
Metal Straw coming with "You may not have tomorrow" is the greatest thing.
Never seen this channel and I thought this was so serious untill he got into the bathtub with flippers and a laundry basket on his back
welcome
@Pug Fister ditto
I got to that part and thought this was actually still serious
i thought it was filthy frank for a second there
how did you watch the first 3 seconds and think this was serious lmao
Metal straws are good for the environment, because they kill humans.
Another reason to get it.
Subcivil we where made by the earth so calm down
@@monkhead7217 and so the other animals but they dont kill the earth.
Edit: Also who do die from metal straws (natural selection)😁
@@ion9218 Some do
Lol why doesnt this have enough likes
i love how the most replayed part of this video is of this guy falling headfirst on the ground
I like the idea of a drinking knife. Youve invented the sequel to the spork, and I need one now.
This whole video just radiates chaotic energy
Jesus in a pogo stick, why does that make so much sense?
This whole channel radiates chaotic energy
Don't you mean this whole channel
PrincessCrystalWriter do I smell a D&D ref?
I was 1000th 500th like
Okay, if you die from a METAL STRAW.
That's just natural selection.
Everything is natural selection
Instructions unclear, got dick stuck in metal straw. Help please.
The Trashman 😂💀. I got my metal straw inside my penis 😩
@@bryceramiro808 my friend, that's called urethral sounding
hi
Respect to anyone that can balance on a tightrope on one foot, eat a plate of spaghetti, and look nonchalant whilst doing so.
I use straws bc I am super clumsy and always spill drinks all over me, and my favorite solution is silicone straws. Too squishy to be dangerous, can cut them if you need them to be a certain length (like for a water bottle), and they come in fun colors
I never thought of cutting them, that's a really handy point!
People: WE DOnt NEed STRawS
Same people: *drinks with straws everyday*
Y’all gotta drink from the cup like adults
@@7eartcat248 can't if you're quadriplegic though.
@@basedbattledroid3507 waterbottles
Like Starbucks lol
Straws are gay...
Enviromentalists: "oh cool finally some ecologic metal straws!"
Metal straws: *are packed in plastic*
Companies: *I L L U S I O N 1 0 0*
Lupo Astronomico environmentalists: *surprised pikachu face*
*Buys the metal straws to reduce plastic waste*
***THEY COME WRAPPED IN PLASTIC***
Metal straws are simply a bad idea. Not only are they unsanitary, dangerous in a subtle way that actually can occasionally kill innocent people, but they also catalyze chemical changes in the food substances being consumed. Basically, metals are catalysts that cause chemical changes in organic substances, which alters the flavor of the food in routinely unwanted ways. Some of the chemical changes can also be actively harmful, in that it can convert benign and tasty food molecules into potentially toxic substances, or even into carcinogens. For this reason, it is normally not recommended to store leftover food items in metal containers (even stainless steel, which is still a catalyst) in the refrigerator, but instead to quickly transfer leftover food out of metal containers and into glass or plastic containers instead. The severity of the catalyzed chemical changes depends on time of contact between the food and the metal, but even brief metal exposures begin to cause some chemical changes in the food. For this reason, steel food cans (often referred to as "tin cans") come with a thin internal plastic like liner coating the interior, to keep the food from directly contacting the metal surface. Occasionally, canning problems occur, and the thin liner get holes in it, and this causes the stored food in the can to look/smell/taste foul, upon opening the can with the faulty can liner.
Conventional plastic straws are much better. Plastic straws that get properly thrown into a garbage can, normally end up in landfills, whereby they are rather benign and not particularly harmful to any wild animals. Plastic straws harmlessly buried in a landfill do not actually cause environmental contamination or contribute to microplastics in waterways. It is basically only the straws that people litter with, that cause environmental problems for wildlife. The root cause of the problem is human litter bugs, not plastic straws.
Additionally, reusable metal straws are not normally provided in fast food restaurants with drive through/takeout windows. Instead, plastic straws are usually still provided by such types of restaurants (where people drive through, consume their beverages, and sometimes toss the used paper cups + plastic straws + plastic cup lids on the ground). Typically only dine in/sit down restaurants provide reusable metal straws, but dine in restaurant customers are not the ones that litter with plastic straws, since it is normal for customers of such places to simply leave their cups/plates/straws on the table when they leave (and a restaurant employee cleans things up and discards any plastic straws properly in a trash can, and thus harmlessly into a landfill, when plastic straws are used).
In other words, metal straws do not actually address the root cause of environmental problems associated with plastic straws. The root cause is human litter bugs. Solving the problem of human litter bugs requires societal and legal system changes, not changes to straws made available at dine in restaurants.
If the government hypothetically changed the laws to legally allow (and encourage) people to carry around bug spray (or regular pepper spray), and to then spray litter bugs with the spray upon observing someone littering, the problem of plastic straw contamination of the environment might actually go away. Such would be an incomplete solution however, as such small interactions would be unlikely to change the fundamental personality of the litter bugs to get them to truly stop, and some of them might even go so far as to take out guns and shoot the people spraying them, even when they were genuinely guilty of littering.
Consequently, resolving the problem is somewhat more complex, as it somehow requires altering litter bugs' personalities.
Forcing metal straws on people is not however the solution to environmental problems, nor will it cause a personality shift amongst litter bugs. The metal straw phenomena needs to stop. Real solutions are needed, and metal straws are not it.
The amount of balance you have to have to eat spaghetti on a balance band like that is insane
Bold of people to assume my Mexican family doesn’t wash the straws & and cups we get from fast food places LMAO
My family does to but my sister hates when we do this Idk why
I KNOWWWWWW 😂😂
@@drwoke8172 because its disgusting
Every. Hispanic. Ever
You wash paper straws?
Am I the only one that saw this guy on my recommended out of nowhere and ended up loving him
amazing! glad your here!
I did a thing I never had a TH-camr reply to my comment thank u so much already subbed btw keep up the good work
Me too 😂
Logan Coussoule same here
I saw him too then thought this guys an idiot but i loved it
The dedication in these videos are insane!
1:57 plastic straws is also reusable, just wash them
I like how the metal straws are supposed to save animals but they are each packaged with plastic
Mine came in a paper package and a hemp string bag!
UmbraMania wow
Chips The Chippy mine isn’t
normal plastic straws are like the least of our worries, most of the trash-related animal injuries and deaths are caused by discarded fishing gear, which makes up the vast majority of the trash in the ocean.
Cameron Eridan it still helps! It’s a good movement😊
Society: “Plastic straws are polluting the environment.”
Other plastic waste: **walks away**
Marketing
stew pidd pee pole
Waste from fishing is around 50% of all waste in the ocean
they attack all single use plastics :facepalm:
@woollimy i suggest searching for zero waste lifestyle, steel straws is a just a gateway to the movement. I literally started with just a straw (ngl it looked cool using it) and now i buy things on bulk with my own container. Not everyone that tries is perfectly devoid of single use plastics, but hey it makes a difference.
@4:44 hahaha
I like the logic and accuracy here.
a straw is 60% knife lol
The fact that those metal straws came wrapped in plastic says something about something and I think it's important.
Is nobody gonna talk about the fact that he legit ate noodles without falling of the rope?
I thought the same thing
Is Australia cold, was I high, or theres steam escaping the pasta meaning it's a hot one lmaoooo what a madlad
So he's eating some hot spaghetti with a fork, no protection for his face, while stabilising himself on a goddamn rope
3:06 So we ain’t gonna talk about what he did there?
Absolute madlad
This guy does so many things in his videos that are worth mentioning
Metal Straws: _environmentally friendly, stupid humans die from it_
Me: I see this as an absolute win
good joke but sorry to burst your bubble but metal straws are not as environmentally as people are lead to believe and are in fact worse than plastic straws.
you: impossible
@fanobennemsi if I die, yes
@@firefox-op1ok how tho? its not that i dont believe but i need you to explain how is metal straw is worse than plastic straw?
@@tommyblade8093 Ok so tbh I can't explain of it all so I suggest you look it up if you want more but ill do my best to explain. Metal straws are more resource and energy-intensive to make than plastic straws. metal straws also are not as recyclable as plastic ones. The main problem people had with plastic straws is that they wound up in the ocean which only happened in California (or at least mainly). The solution might be to have more ways to get the straws to recycling places instead of the trash. also thank you for your politeness, I don't see many people that have that kind of respect.
@@firefox-op1ok It feels as if metal straws would be more recyclable as you can just smelt them down again (some plastics doesn't work as well with being smelted a second time), and that they'd probably be better taken care of (Plastic is trash, metal is reusable is a common thought).
In any case.. Here in Sweden restaurants has started using paper straws alot. Probably some kind of chemical to make it a bit water resistant, however i'm guessing it's still good enough for the weather to decompose if it happens to go into the sea or something.
alex: no one needs straws
me: **looks to the left at my smoothie cup with straw sticking out**
You make the best videos lol. So informative and educational. xD Amazing people you are!
Plastic and metal straws:
Paper Straws: Am I a joke to you?
Yes, you are.
You suck even more.
Bad Boy Blue paper straws are good
Oh shit hol up lemme cut down this fuckin redwood to make a couple straws that are still thrown away in trash and end up in land fill and I oop and I oop sksksksksksksk
@@victrix7451 hahahaha it funny because straw suppose to suck. hahahahahahahahsahhahahahshahshahsahsahhdafhasdhbjafsdhbdhbashbfhbakdcbjkjhbfkhbkjadskhbjb dkabdasfbkdsbkkbfjkbg
*Give me release.32edwqaswwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww*
I've impaled the inside of my mouth with plastic straws enough to know switching to metal straws would be lethal.
Lmao
Really? We use metal straws all the time in argentina to drink mate and there's no concern about this here.
Sylphix there is no concern until there is an accident
Yeah, people can die with any object imaginable. It doesn't mean that it makes it dangerous.
I almost swallowed a chipped piece from a glass in a restaurant, yet nobody has any concerns about cups made out of glass
@@noxustds I'm pretty sure it's a joke
I wish I had the ability of this man. Eating fettuccini noodles on a balance beam without falling.
I heard a story from a time when I was in boy scouts. Apparently some kid that the leader knew died when he fell and a lollypop broke through his hard palate. The "moral" of that story she shared was not "don't eat lollypops", it was to not do activities like running when you have potentially dangerous things in your mouth.
then:
"I technically wanted to use an animal head for it, but that would have been a little freaky"
now:
*sucks a pigs eye out using a vacuum cleaner*
@Tomato I saw that one
Yummy
key word a little
What?
Edit: I found out what you meant, you should really put a time stamp man.
An Alien Life be the change you want to see
mad respect for a zoomer that eats spaghetti while walking across a tight rope
PianoKangaroo13 it’s called a slack line
@@leoli7975 It's a bounce walk
@@leoli7975 ok boomer
ya its called a slack rope up in canada because you know its not tight
the whole time he was on it I just imagined him falling off and flinging the spaghetti all over his garden.
It’s not just sock pistols we have, I have a Desert Eagle in my pants and the pieces to a ak-47 in my shirt
Le JOHN WICK 4 :
"" I ONCE SAW HIM KILLING 300 MEN IN A BAR WITH A FUC*ING STRAW!! ""
Metal straw: impales someone's head
*John Wick wants to know your location*
Man, forget the pencil, metal straws are the new weapon of choice for assassins.
@@vsauceskrrr7588 you beat me to it
It's about a straw not a pencil..You shouldn't forget the class Bruv!!
this happened to some lady in California with one of those metal starbucks straws
This man has a cursed fork.
Why is there no curve.
Don't judge a fork on its lack of curves xD
@@jessiee.2856 lmfaoooo😂😂😂😂😂
And you have a cursed profile picture
@@Sara-ng1lf true
The body standards for forks are outrageous and need to be stopped
Saw the thumbnail.
Also saw this at corner of my eye: "New fear Unlocked, Metal straws: fuck around and find out."
I totally called this when these first came out, mostly because of all the injuries I've given myself from fairly safe items, so a rigid metal cylinder face sucky thing is crazy.
that bathtub scene was oscar worthy
I cried for that turtle, how did he get it to act like that?
He simply showed him a plastic straw
Nah nah, I think it must've been CGI.
bUt He waS jUsT aCtiNg! StUpiT pEoPle
That shell was obviously the best kind of special effects.
Me : Clicks On Recommended
Also me : Realizes that his nails are probably worse than metal straws
Just a joke lol
Envy Fendii let’s make plastic nails
The gamer On steam I agree.
Metal nails
Do not touch the likes! It's at 666!
9:28 nice instrument there mate!
If they can hurt Homelander then they can definitely hurt me
was looking for a comment about The Boys for so long lol
*use metal straws to save the turtles*
Me: *I can just choose to not use straws*
Friends : *USE. METAL. STRAWS.*
Good idea, metal straws will be far more efficient at killing Turtles *dives into ocean with a handful of metal straws*
@princessicy02 Its too late, Im already in the ocean with my metal straws!
@princessicy02 I fear you people are all missing the joke.
To explain it bluntly- the joke was me swimming into the ocean with metal straws to stab turtles since its more effective at killing them than a plastic straw.
@@Rex-sy8ye No ! An explained joke isn't funny anymore !
This guy: Straws can impale you
Me: cHosE YoUr meLEe wEapON
John wick's secret weapon
Strange Doggo well apart from the pencil
@@juanpablocuellarsegura4796 but if he uses this he can put it in his drink and if he gets attacked just take the knife out of the cup
I got a ad for edable straws watching this. Talk about good advertising
The blinking at 1:40 was so annoying, I think someone with epilepsy would've liked a warning beforehand😅 Apart from that, really nice content ❤
Really puts the L in epilepsy
why do i feel like this guy is the kid who went above and beyond for science fair but got 4th place
claire heller nah dude he’s the guy who didn’t give two shits about the fair but always came 1st
PandaAce lmao true
He's the type of guy to build awesome inventions, only to lose for some soda volcano
@@ammagon4519 the classic
Ammagon Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
Lol the metal straw had plastic covering it when he unpacked it
I was looking for this comment lmao
@@fleurwillemsen6929 lol
Lol, I missed that. The world is so dumb...
It defeated it's own purpose 💀
In fairness, the plastic from the metal straw can be recycled; single use plastic straws cannot be recycled at all so its a bit better. Still ironic
The irony of the metal straws being individually wrapped in plastic
100 people die from pencils every year
That’s the straightest fork I’ve seen in my life jeez
It's for spaghetti
Faxxx like who has flat forks
I was just about to comment on that
#NOHOMO
And I'll be the straightest guys you'll ever see
A factory: metal straws will help us to get rid of the plastic in the oceans
Metal straws arrive in the plastic packages.
Not all tho xdd
They come in boxes, what do you do with the throw away torn up cardboard box
@@thegiantrfromsears4336 throw it in the ocean
People should make metal packages now
@@thegiantrfromsears4336 burn it if you have a wood stove or a campfire
I worked as a dish washer... And that is the reason why I will never drink drinks at places besides home with out a straw.
Customer service jobs will . . . fucking scar you for life.......
Actually when I was a kid we went at a fast food with my mother, for a reason known only to my child brain at that time, I thought it would be funny to stick 2 straws in my nostrils. Then I proceeded to shake my head up and down, not minding the fact that there was a table right underneath. I turned into a bloody straw fountain for a few minutes. This was the first and last time I've ever put straws up my nose. These things are dangerously sharp trust me 😬
eh, its just natural selection if a straw can get the best of you to be honest
When a plastic straw overtakes you in the foodchain
I don't know if you talking about humans and sea turtles 😂😂😂
Best comment I've seen in a while
i know this is a joke and all, but what about epileptic people? if they have a seizure while drinking out of one of those straws...
Damn these straws are not only saving sea turtles but also saving the world from overpopulation!
Noice
Icy Pigeon nOIcE
Pls dont get r/woooshh
Haha i thought the same thing lol
@Anonymous User _nOiCe_
When you did the standing rope i had to like and sub XD
Bro actually walked in a tight rope while eating spaghetti. What a legend
Who else got major anxiety when he stuck the knife in his mouth??
Just me? Ok
yep, only you. you know where i get anxiety from? drinking from my metal straw after watching this video
I got more anxiety from him putting the metal straw in his mouth
You must be new around here.
I did
Me
If they’re so concerned about the straws they should be more concerned about the plastic cups smh😑
n o
they r both equally important
Well straws are one-time if they're plastic cups you use more then once
Stop drinking star buck people there happy also dont come back at me I find star buck cups EVERYWERE!! Ugh
Plastic bags
"Just stop using straws" is actually such a great argument. Why didnt I think of that?
you should test the plastic one too to see if it is any better, also the rig should be adjusted to allow the fork enough space to fully penetrate the ballistics gel. great video👍.
Me: has a habit of gnawing on straws
Teeth: stop, Stop! STOOOPP!
Straw: time to end your life
Rendus Pandorus time to buy silicone straws
*live*
Rendus Pandorus The straws want vengeance.
live
ayy same
Nobody :
Companies : *wraps metal straws with plastic*
What else are they gonna wrap it with to sell metal straws at a sustainable price?
This is a *Stupid Comment*
Asiano Casino LOL
Turtles : Am I a joke to u
@@sonofben3322 paper
You balanced so well!
Three years later and I'm still noticing new jokes each time I watch.
Company: sells metal straws to reduce plastic..
Customer: Wow, great!
Company: wraps them in plastic..
*edit* Ouch, this single comment has more likes than all of my videos together ;)
@Ram Ramos r/whooosh
@@luziver1221 I don't think that was a 'whooosh' moment. Joking aside, he makes a point
Well, plastic straws are packed in plastic aswell.
Luziver r/ihavereddit
They should wrap it in metal
Who else realized that when he got his metal straws they were wrapped in plastic?
thank you
Oh shit.. you right
Yeah but they are at least non disposable
Jay Thompson shut up
Least it’s plastic that won’t end up in a turtle’s nose
As an American I can confirm my sock pistol is very effective.
Bruh, you can’t drink a Bloody Mary without a straw tho, it’s like getting tea-bagged by Mother Nature every sip because of the celery sticks
Now that plastic straws are banned I'll have to drink my Starbucks with the barrel of my AK-47 smh 😒
Underrated comment right there
Save the commies
Before I get any more likes I'd like to confess that I stole this from Twitter, and I'd do it again for attention.
Tofol Cano MA IVE GOT STARBUCKS WHERES ME KALASHNIKOV
first we had plastic straws wrapped in paper
then we had paper straws wrapped in paper
now we have metal straws wrapped in plastic
next we will have straws wrapped in the souls of our enemies.
logical
I'll take 17
And then plastic straws wrapped in metal
*plastic straws wrapped in carbon emission*
Ur going to reuse the metal straw so ur only wasting one plastic wrap
"no more plastic straws in paper just paper straws wrapped in plastic"