3:54 - Anyone spot the top of that screenshot, Damien has that muffin mouse as his image! And BTW EmKay please stop trying to discourage Damien from "getting side tracked" he's literally giving us a little more information on something interesting, and it's one of the best things about his videos! (He's actually my personal favorite narrator because of this, plus his laugh is great too.) So Damien don't listen to them, they clearly don't know what the hell they are talking about because we all love you and we are here for your interesting information! ❤️
Damiens side tracks of curiosity are my absolute favourite part of these videos, I would religiously watch videos of Damien just diving into information rabbit holes
That hummingbird almost certainly died. Their metabolism is so fast they can starve to death in a matter of hours, and have to go into a coma every night to sleep without starving. Unless whoever took that photo fed it before releasing it, the amount of time it was trapped, and the level of weakness to get caught was almost certainly fatal
It may not have, on a cursory search they can go up to 24 hours without eating, though it's not ideal, and while migrating they can travel up to 600 miles between food stops- but again, I assume, not ideal. They're a lot hardier than people give them credit for.
And I believe their torpor (hibernating) is to conserve energy for warmth- their feathers are thinner than most birds', meaning they're much more likely to succumb to the cold- not hunger.
@@voidilitesingularis while the cold may play a role, their insane metabolism does mean they would starve to death overnight without the deep hybernation. I wrote a report on this just a few months ago for college
17:40 I found where this 'poem' came from! They appear to be from a 2022 Chinese blog post called: 15句让人惊艳的英文短句,中文译文更是美炸了 Google translated as: 15 amazing English phrases, the Chinese translations are even more beautiful! The 8 phrases that appear here are: 1. Lost long forever found 2. Sometimes ever, sometimes never 3. Kill time, or kiss time 4. I want my tears back now 5. You are not afraid of a thousand miles 6. Able was I ere I saw Elba 7. For every heart, you're the beat 8. A wise man does not fall in love The other 7 for the curious: 9. Say love is too early, like it 10. I'll try anything once 11. Sometimes ever, sometimes never (again, but with a different Chinese sentence; Google translated it as 'Sometimes we meet, but sometimes we never') 12. Like is a choice Love is not for you 13. Love goes with the wind, but never goes away 14. All or nothing 15. Rumors stop with the wise
@Meximagician Amazing! And very cool of you to provide this interesting information indeed! And allow me to add one more tidbit about the information you so kindly complied here for all of us... Fun Fact - #6: Able was I ere I saw Elba Is in fact a palindrome, which is a phrase or sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards. And it's my personal favorite on this list since I am both dyslexic and completely obsessed with palindromes and have been since I first learned how to read and write. (So basically, I'm like an idiot savant, in that I read and write things backwards. However, fortunately for me, my level of dyslexia is clearly mild.) So as soon as I read that particular sentence my Rain Man-esque brain clocked it as a palindrome, and I was sitting here thinking, "Oh cool! A new palindrome to add to my collection!" Yes, I do indeed have a laundry list of palindromes that I have both created and collected over the years. And thus here's a few highlights from my curated collection: Do geese see God? Eva! Can I stab bats in a cave?! A santa lived as a devil at NASA Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas Mr. Owl ate my metal worm Rats live on no evil star No sir, away, a papaya war is on! Hope you enjoy these as much as I do! ❤️🌵
me too, I'm glad I'm not the only one who realized. I like Damien and I think he should do more subreddits. He's my new favorite (Lexi left the channel)
Cry rooms should be mandatory in pretty much every public space, and it’s both for the sanity of already stressed out adults but because babies often cry due to overstimulation caused by public spaces, especially noise
@larunaaxthemischievous9762 Honestly, I don't think you realize it but you just made the case for cry rooms to be nonexistent. And I personally would love that if any establishment wants to ban people from bringing babies and small children into places like theaters and cinemas (and even upscale restaurants) then they should be able to enact such a policy if they wish to do so. (And yes, I do realize that businesses have the right to refuse services to anyone, however it's unfortunately been mostly negative since places that tend to act on that policy are doing so sheerly out of hatred, so yes, that should definitely not be allowed. Like we have non-discrimition laws for that very reason. But I digress.) And I mean, it's completely selfish and rude behavior from the parents to bring babies and children that are so young that they cannot sit in their seat and be quite for 2 plus hours, so it's unfair to all the other patrons and to the children as well. Like you pointed out, babies and little kids tend to easily get upset and cry or throw tantrums from over stimulation from being in busy and loud public places. (And if you really got a screaming and crying baby or just a disruptive child that cannot be quite and sit still, then you should be thrown out of the theater faster than Lauren Bober and her "date" at Beetlejuice!) Besides, it's the year 2024 we have access to copious amounts of entertainment that people can easily, cheaply and comfortably enjoy at home. Not to mention the fact that if people can afford 1 or 2 adult tickets and children's tickets to go to a movie or attend a play, then they certainly can afford to hire a baby sitter for a few hours. (And it literally makes no sense to pay all that money for tickets, to only then miss out on most of a movie or a performance because you get up out of your seat and go sit out in a cry room for only God knows how long, and do that more than once. It's completely stupid and a waste of money.)
30:55 The ivory trade is completely illegal in pretty much any country that has a functioning government. With one major exception- if the ivory is over 100 years old, it's considered antique and is legal. I know because I volunteer with a local creative reuse (like a thrift store but for art supplies, fabric, school supplies, and antiques) and we got a solid ivory hand mirror donated. We were almost certain that it was antique because the mirror's surface had dark spots (this only happens with silver mirrors when they get old; modern aluminium ones don't do this without the application of acid) and because of the motifs used in the carvings, but we immediatly reported it to the local authorites anyways. They tested it in the lab using radiocarbon dating to see what year the animal it came from had been killed. They came back with "1820s to 1860s" and we were given it back, along with a lab certificate showing it was genuinely antique, and a thanks from the lab for reporting just in case. We then could legally sell it through our online store, and it was bought within an hour of its posting (for like $700 too. We used that money to host free art workshops for underprivileged kids in the community).
5:40 It sounds like Damien was gonna go off on a tangent about all the cool things you can make with resin pressed leaves, but mid sentence he realized how nerdy that sounded and just cut himself off sadly with “have it forever” From a fellow nerd, trust me, we already think you’re a nerd. Go off on that tangent
A friend of mine in high school had an extra knuckle on all of her fingers, making them look like something Slenderman was afflicted with. Even her thumb had an extra joint, looking like a regular finger. It was totally weird when she did the "spider on a mirror" thing with her hands. She grabbed a guy's face while they were watching Alien in the theater, and he screamed like a little girl.
That can't be true. Babies have the same line by their joints straight out of the womb. He probably just doesn't have a joint there (hence why he can't bend it). I mean, maybe I'm wrong, I'm not the fact check police lol
@@MadAliceInWonderlandbabies are born clenching their fists?? Yours would disappear if you decide one day to never bend it again, then ACTUALLY never bend it again. It may take some time but I’ve seen it begin happening to people with finger injuries who had to splint their finger
Apparently it's actually called symphalangism. That one bone "joint" is actually fused which prevents that part of the finger from bending which in turn also prevents crease lines.
7:47 Save those seeds! This is a cool genetic call back to what melons used to be. Before we had the melons that we have today, they naturally had more rind and pits of pulp, kind of like a pomegranate. And we selectively bred them to have the fruit that is full of just the pope and less rind. They'll swirls are where the Rind would be
20:55 that is called thalassophobia my friend, and you are not alone. In Skyrim there is a ship wreck that cannot be seen from the surface. It took me AGES to work up the courage to swim down to it.
I actually really like Damien getting curious and explaining things from the post because while I'd like to know as well, statistically I wouldn't bother tracking down the source material.
I know someone who found a pea crab, took care of it for a bit, realised that it needed to be ‘put out of its misery’ and for some reason just ate the whole thing (shell included).
21:36 GRAVITY FALLS when he said "this kid is gonna grow up-" i thought he was gonna make a reference and say she was gonna grow up to write 3 journals or sm
14:43 is likely a Ronald McDonald house. They're available for families who have a child in the hospital, so that the family can stay close. We stayed in one for a night when we had to travel for my sister's doctor appointments in Boise.
22:36 is called a fall streak hole aka a hole punch cloud. I could nerd out and give you the whole meteorological process but I will try to put it into simpler terminology. All clouds have water droplets and ice crystals. Every once in a while a small pocket of clouds will “supercool”. Meaning the ice crystals get so heavy that they fall through leaving a gap or in this case they evaporate completely leaving that “hole”. They are usually triggered by airplanes passing through the cloud layer but they can on occasion happen spontaneously.
the extra finger is apparently called "polydactyly" and incredibly rare here duplicate muscles n tendons are also formed because most of the time it's either really hard to move or don't move at all... supposedly a "mutation" but with that word being insanely vague and not really even provable nor decipherable from a genetic variation since gene expression can switch on and off for many reasons during reproduction as the DNA cards are shuffled. Think of it like this, you have the genetic ability to have different colored eyes, but your eye color is what was chosen as the genes to be expressed in your appearance. Which gives the ability for you to then have kids who may very likely have your eye color or a different one. We've all heard about "dominant and recessive" genes but this doesn't really mean what it sounds like. lol
4:06 You see that all the time in animals. Sickly, diseased animals will usually have rubbish hair/feather/scale quality and colour. Just look at before and after shots of animals during the height of their illness and then after recovery. It's like looking at two different animals. Fish are actually the most dramatic examples of this.
@@godofjuggle8158 Actually dumbfounded from finding out about this so late, i absolutely love lexi’s narrations and her personal channel was great (but she stopped uploading there like 9 months ago). Is there anywhere else she’s active?
@@godofjuggle8158 actually dumbfounded from finding this out so late, i loved her narrations but i thought she was on vacation or something? 😭 She also stopped uploading on her personal channel a few months back so is there anywhere else she’s active?
About the heavy cream thing: at least it was still in the carton. I was making cereal once and when I went to pour what I thought was normal milk, what came out was a mixture of liquid and chunks.
16:58 Yeah, sometimes this is just a thing. One of my cats are a big black spot on the roof of her mouth (you can only see it when she yawns). Also, I can't explain why cat owners collect their cats' whiskers... It's just a thing we do.
I see it as a sort of good luck charm. If I find a whisker, it's on a similar level to finding a pristine penny on the ground. It's just something unusual that you don't normally see often, so it feels special and collectible.
I love how at 3:52, the editor put up a screen shot of a text message conversation asking Damien not to get sidetracked, only for him to respond 6 hours later with a confession. The rest of this video is filled to the brim with, "So I looked this up..." Yeah, that checks out
30:29, FYI in many places It's only illegal to buy new Ivory with antique items being exempt, though it's always a good idea to check your local laws first as the cut-off year of what is considered "antique" can vary from country to country, In the UK for example that year is 1918 for items that are 320 square centimetres or less of pure ivory, musical instruments made before 1975 with less than 20% ivory by volume or items made before March 3rd 1947 made from less than 10% ivory.
5:40 When I saw the pressed leaves, all I could think about was "the most important leaf in human history" from Doctor Who 10:53 Oh nooo, that semi crash is a messy disaster, look at all that produce peppering the ground 25:32 Oh god, it's a Skulltula!
2:45 That is a rare birth defect where someone is missing a knuckle/bone in their finger. I can't remember the name off the top of my head, but I'll probably search it up later.
18:37 this happened when I was in high school 😭 a kid at the lunch table got a hamburger bun stamped with an expiration date 2 weeks expired. School did not care one bit
if someone is interested, those princess diana stamps are worth 600 $ six fingers are often a sign of parents that are near relatives like cousins or even closer.
@@elizar666 yes, for polydactylie alone thats correct. BUT they are often a SIDE EFFECT of other syndroms that ARE strongly related to inbreeding like elis - van creveld syndrome, joubert syndrome, thurston syndrome, young madders syndrome, Laurence Moon syndrome. those are all syndroms often found in religious cults and sects like the amish who ALSO marry only people from their kin. ALL this syndroms have polydactyly in common.
@@Asmodis4 but the only thing we can see on her is a normal seeming stature and well developed extra pinky. It just seems unkind and unnecessary to accuse a child of being a result of inbreeding imo
13:06 these are BDSM handcuffs 😄 real police ones are not that flimsy and you can see the little safety lever to release the handcuffs when you lost the keys
@@dreamynyx Yes! You are correct my friend. I just so happen to have a pair and mine are totally legit metal that you cannot open (or wiggle or slide) out of without a key just like the handcuffs the cops use. And yes, they also came with a removable fur covering that slid over the part that the wrists go into, not the chain in between the cuffs, but I ended up not only removing that fur covering but tossing it into the garbage. For two reasons, I am a professional Dominatrix so the last thing my slaves want is to be comfortable, and I didn't realize it at the time I bought them but that fur was actually real rabbit fur. Now since I absolutely do not condone (and refuse to knowingly) wear or use the fur and skin of dead animals, they just had to go. And BTW I know many people don't understand my profession, and think it's disgusting and prostitution, thus morally reprehensible (which it definitely is not since there is zero sex involved with what I do.) So just to be clear, yes I am a weirdo, but a weirdo with principles and moral convictions. 🙃❤🌵
@JPFighter Actually 🤓☝ they are definitely not, and the plastic cuffs that the police use are actually just zip ties, you can buy them at any hardware store (and of course online) in bulk for super cheap so that's why many police departments use them. Besides, the metal handcuffs not only cost more, but they cops are notorious for losing the keys for just forgetting to bring them along. 🤡They are!
@@dreamynyx Oh ok, yeah so it's in the realm of BDSM, (basically I am the Dominate one but just professionally as I mentioned). And thank you! I genuinely wish I could go full on vegan, but would not be able to live without dairy products and I've tried things like almond and soy milk but it's just not even comparable unfortunately. Besides, there is no version of a dairy-less cheese that's actually edible. And my husband is a professional chef so he makes so many amazing dishes for us at home that involve all different meats, however we do not eat any veal because it's just wrong. And we do try to do things like a Meatless Monday, or Tuesday, or you know, a day that ends in Y with a meal that is meat free. And Pro Tip from him: Many veggies make exellent meat replacements, such portobello mushrooms and eggplant. (He makes an incredible Eggplant Parm, if you've never had it then I highly recommend finding a good Italian restaurant and ordering it. You won't regret it if they make it right. ❤🌵
6:18 - Actually 🤓☝️that is a Hydrangea bush, lilacs grow from small plants into trees. None the less, both flowers look amazing, and lilacs smell amazing. (Hydrangeas have no scent.)
@@ericpaul4575 Awesome! (And just doing my unofficial job here of correcting things here in the comment section). So nope, you my friend, are probably more than sane the most, myself included! 🤣 But yeah, no, so basically I'm a life long garden, plant, and nature enthusiast so one of my super powers as a nature nerd girl is the ability to clock plants and critters in mere nanoseconds! Afterall, I myself am a plant, and it takes one to know one! ❤🌵
21:36 she may want to stray from an unknown Oregon town until she much older and may or may not make contact with and inter dimensional demon who wishes to liberate our galaxy
Yes Damian, as someone who works in a produce department at a grocery store, i can say that without a shadow of a doubt, rotten watermelon smells awful. Its in my opinion one of the worse smells i have to deal with.
6:36 My skin does that when I’ve been using too much hand sanitizer (mainly in winter because it’s so cold that running JUST the hot tap takes a full 5 minutes to get Luke warm)
14:25 I really, *reeeaaaallly* hope that this is because of one entitled customer they encountered, and not a reference to that poor lady who was victimized by McDonald's
22:35 That is a holepunch cloud and sometimes you can see a fire rainbow in the tiny wispy cirrus cloud that often forms in the middle. I actually got a picture of one like that once.
I'm 44 and while I knew I wasn't the only one to do it, I haven't heard much about it recently. I don't even realize I'm doing it sometimes. Just be laying there, hand in the air like I'm back in school.
That post with the gray street signs seems like it's in a neighborhood, maybe a more upscale one. My guess is they made them grayscale to not have "garish colors" clashing with the """aesthetic"""
14:35 I'm not sure if this is that, but I think so, in Maine- there is a town that doesn't allow modern commercial buildings , McDonald's in other places operate out of vintage homes with unchanged architecture
29:50 looks like their additional fingers were just accessory digits, meaning they kinda resemble fingers but lack most of the structure and aren't functional. Often it's just a blob of skin with a nail growing from a stalk, it's easily removed by a surgeon.
22:07 Private development maybe? Some areas allow privately owned communities to make their own road signs that don't need to follow the same rules, but the community management is often liable for damages caused by poor signage.
i love when damien narrates because he proceeds to go and look up stuff out of curiosity and it's just real nice to see like yeah!! fact checking!!! learning!!!! yay!!!!!!
35:23 she's the main character. I hope you have your will and testament ready and that you don't have specific haircuts because the Green Goblin might show up at any moment.
14:46 I actually grow these in my yard. They are sort of a mix between cucumber and a watermelon. When you bite it, there are a bunch of seeds (resembling cucumber seeds) inside. They also taste like cucumber, but it's also kind of tart. At my house, we call them "Cucumelons". They also grow on vines like grapes. They are really fun, highly recommend growing them. They work well in salads, but also just for snacking.
I was watching this as background noise while I was drawing Gravity Falls fanart, and I had to stop dead in my tracks at two instances to go "...Stanford?"
13:40 no joke, that stuff's probably perfectly fine. Just got shaken up a little too much in transit. And it would most likely taste better than store-bought butter.
"OMG! There's a mouse in my muffin!" "Oh so sorry about that, it was supposed to be for my cat, here take this one instead, it just has blueberries." 🤣🤣
P.S.- Did anyone spot that at the top of the screenshot at 3:54 Damien has that muffin mouse as his image? And BTW @emkay to do discourage Damien for looking up things and explaining them to us! That's one of the best things that Damien does on his videos!! ( And he's not getting side tracked, it's completely relevant to whatever the post I about, he's doing us a service by providing a little more info and we are all here for it!)
i actually love damiens tangents. it is actually lovly for him to teach us stuff and get to the bottom of the info he sees in the reddit threads he reads.
@@sapphicatsushi a very good question. I know I've made cream into butter in a jar in about a minute once - but I dont know if not having free space in the container would make it slower or not. I know it's easier if it's colder.
Wrong. I doubt the green juice has an addictive as I recently found out in Italy it's illegal to add food dyes in juices and other products. I found the list online: coffe, chocolate, torrone (a type of traditional Christmas dessert), vinegar, fruit juices, wine, beer, oil, water, bread, for some reason rice noodles, sugar, honey, meat and fish. This has to be done because the public has to see the food in it's original colour, otherwise it is considered fraud for the lack of genuinenes or it's state of alteration (I'm guessing if they did something to the food and dyed to to make it look like nothing was done to it). Also we classify dyes by letters. If you go to Europe and a product has a dye intended for a surface or wrapping (think of a cheese crust) the dye has the letter C before the number. Otherwise if it's an edible dye it has the letter E before it. So if you read a label and see something like E followed by a small string of numbers you're reading the correct labelling for a dye indredient. In short it's a food dye, not some weird chemical. I also read that since 2010 in Europe on products containing dyes where extensive research has been done, and proof came out that they have an effect on children, there have to be warnings on labels. And if a product contains a safe plant based dye (like beetroot or carrot derivatives) but in the product it is used to possibly hide the quality of the product it has to be listed as an ingredient. Man European food laws are very strict.
"When your cat holds their tail high in the air as they move about their territory, they're expressing confidence and contentment. A tail that sticks straight up signals happiness and a willingness to be friendly. And watch the tip of an erect tail. A little twitch can mean a particularly happy moment."
“Someone baked a hamster into my muffin” is such a comeback for the intro.
You can tell some of us have been watching Emkay for too long 😂
It should be “Someone baked a Muffin into my Hamster”
@@YuniraFeriniawhat the fuck that’s exactly what I thought 😂
21:37 make sure she NEVER trusts a one eyed yellow triangle
make sure she NEVER makes a portal and finds a yellow triangle muse
dude when I saw that I was like "okay sixer"
It was so hard to not comment this and I’m so happy you’ve done it instead 😂😂🥰
@@gento5o5I literally said StAn PiNeS❓‼️❔❔
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3:54 - Anyone spot the top of that screenshot, Damien has that muffin mouse as his image!
And BTW EmKay please stop trying to discourage Damien from "getting side tracked" he's literally giving us a little more information on something interesting, and it's one of the best things about his videos! (He's actually my personal favorite narrator because of this, plus his laugh is great too.) So Damien don't listen to them, they clearly don't know what the hell they are talking about because we all love you and we are here for your interesting information! ❤️
More sidetracked damien
If they dislike it so much they COULD just cut it out. I'm glad they don't but
They probably tell him that because it gives them extra editing work.
fr! every time he gets "side tracked" i learn new things :)
it's just the situation with robin and the rant timer all over again lol
Damiens side tracks of curiosity are my absolute favourite part of these videos, I would religiously watch videos of Damien just diving into information rabbit holes
"My namien is Damien" needs to make a come back at least one time. Please, Damien.
If this is the official petition consider it signed
Fr@@imperalofficer3350
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Petition has been signed!
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YES
That hummingbird almost certainly died. Their metabolism is so fast they can starve to death in a matter of hours, and have to go into a coma every night to sleep without starving. Unless whoever took that photo fed it before releasing it, the amount of time it was trapped, and the level of weakness to get caught was almost certainly fatal
Yes, sadly as soon as I saw that poor little guy peeking out of the guys hand, I just thought OH NO! 😱
It may not have, on a cursory search they can go up to 24 hours without eating, though it's not ideal, and while migrating they can travel up to 600 miles between food stops- but again, I assume, not ideal. They're a lot hardier than people give them credit for.
And I believe their torpor (hibernating) is to conserve energy for warmth- their feathers are thinner than most birds', meaning they're much more likely to succumb to the cold- not hunger.
@@voidilitesingularis while the cold may play a role, their insane metabolism does mean they would starve to death overnight without the deep hybernation. I wrote a report on this just a few months ago for college
@@voidilitesingularis obviously this can vary by species as they are often very extreme animals but in many species this is the case
17:40 I found where this 'poem' came from!
They appear to be from a 2022 Chinese blog post called:
15句让人惊艳的英文短句,中文译文更是美炸了
Google translated as:
15 amazing English phrases, the Chinese translations are even more beautiful!
The 8 phrases that appear here are:
1. Lost long forever found
2. Sometimes ever, sometimes never
3. Kill time, or kiss time
4. I want my tears back now
5. You are not afraid of a thousand miles
6. Able was I ere I saw Elba
7. For every heart, you're the beat
8. A wise man does not fall in love
The other 7 for the curious:
9. Say love is too early, like it
10. I'll try anything once
11. Sometimes ever, sometimes never (again, but with a different Chinese sentence; Google translated it as 'Sometimes we meet, but sometimes we never')
12. Like is a choice Love is not for you
13. Love goes with the wind, but never goes away
14. All or nothing
15. Rumors stop with the wise
@Meximagician
Amazing! And very cool of you to provide this interesting information indeed!
And allow me to add one more tidbit about the information you so kindly complied here for all of us...
Fun Fact -
#6: Able was I ere I saw Elba
Is in fact a palindrome, which is a phrase or sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards.
And it's my personal favorite on this list since I am both dyslexic and completely obsessed with palindromes and have been since I first learned how to read and write. (So basically, I'm like an idiot savant, in that I read and write things backwards. However, fortunately for me, my level of dyslexia is clearly mild.)
So as soon as I read that particular sentence my Rain Man-esque brain clocked it as a palindrome, and I was sitting here thinking, "Oh cool! A new palindrome to add to my collection!" Yes, I do indeed have a laundry list of palindromes that I have both created and collected over the years.
And thus here's a few highlights from my curated collection:
Do geese see God?
Eva! Can I stab bats in a cave?!
A santa lived as a devil at NASA
Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas
Mr. Owl ate my metal worm
Rats live on no evil star
No sir, away, a papaya war is on!
Hope you enjoy these as much as I do! ❤️🌵
I actually appreciate you getting distracted and explaining some of the really interesting posts.
me too, I'm glad I'm not the only one who realized. I like Damien and I think he should do more subreddits. He's my new favorite (Lexi left the channel)
21:35 that kid is going to grow up to be THE AUTHOR OF THE JOURNALS
Three to be exact. Let’s hope she doesn’t find a strange inter dimensional portal
I hope she doesn't make a deal with a dream demon!
Perfect amount of likes... i shall ruin it
if she gets stranded in another dimension, i hope she thanks whoever gets her out
@@thedorkknight9684 The shade in this 😂😂
Cry rooms should be mandatory in pretty much every public space, and it’s both for the sanity of already stressed out adults but because babies often cry due to overstimulation caused by public spaces, especially noise
@larunaaxthemischievous9762
Honestly, I don't think you realize it but you just made the case for cry rooms to be nonexistent. And I personally would love that if any establishment wants to ban people from bringing babies and small children into places like theaters and cinemas (and even upscale restaurants) then they should be able to enact such a policy if they wish to do so. (And yes, I do realize that businesses have the right to refuse services to anyone, however it's unfortunately been mostly negative since places that tend to act on that policy are doing so sheerly out of hatred, so yes, that should definitely not be allowed. Like we have non-discrimition laws for that very reason. But I digress.)
And I mean, it's completely selfish and rude behavior from the parents to bring babies and children that are so young that they cannot sit in their seat and be quite for 2 plus hours, so it's unfair to all the other patrons and to the children as well. Like you pointed out, babies and little kids tend to easily get upset and cry or throw tantrums from over stimulation from being in busy and loud public places.
(And if you really got a screaming and crying baby or just a disruptive child that cannot be quite and sit still, then you should be thrown out of the theater faster than Lauren Bober and her "date" at Beetlejuice!)
Besides, it's the year 2024 we have access to copious amounts of entertainment that people can easily, cheaply and comfortably enjoy at home. Not to mention the fact that if people can afford 1 or 2 adult tickets and children's tickets to go to a movie or attend a play, then they certainly can afford to hire a baby sitter for a few hours. (And it literally makes no sense to pay all that money for tickets, to only then miss out on most of a movie or a performance because you get up out of your seat and go sit out in a cry room for only God knows how long, and do that more than once. It's completely stupid and a waste of money.)
30:55 The ivory trade is completely illegal in pretty much any country that has a functioning government. With one major exception- if the ivory is over 100 years old, it's considered antique and is legal. I know because I volunteer with a local creative reuse (like a thrift store but for art supplies, fabric, school supplies, and antiques) and we got a solid ivory hand mirror donated. We were almost certain that it was antique because the mirror's surface had dark spots (this only happens with silver mirrors when they get old; modern aluminium ones don't do this without the application of acid) and because of the motifs used in the carvings, but we immediatly reported it to the local authorites anyways. They tested it in the lab using radiocarbon dating to see what year the animal it came from had been killed. They came back with "1820s to 1860s" and we were given it back, along with a lab certificate showing it was genuinely antique, and a thanks from the lab for reporting just in case. We then could legally sell it through our online store, and it was bought within an hour of its posting (for like $700 too. We used that money to host free art workshops for underprivileged kids in the community).
0:30 -There's one that says, "The bathrooms are perfect for quick hooks ups - Mark W."
They should have that one posted on the outside of the door!
5:40
It sounds like Damien was gonna go off on a tangent about all the cool things you can make with resin pressed leaves, but mid sentence he realized how nerdy that sounded and just cut himself off sadly with “have it forever”
From a fellow nerd, trust me, we already think you’re a nerd. Go off on that tangent
Exactly 💯
As a nerd 🤓girl myself, I think that we are all here for our beloved Damien's tangents! ❤️
A friend of mine in high school had an extra knuckle on all of her fingers, making them look like something Slenderman was afflicted with. Even her thumb had an extra joint, looking like a regular finger.
It was totally weird when she did the "spider on a mirror" thing with her hands. She grabbed a guy's face while they were watching Alien in the theater, and he screamed like a little girl.
That's awesome! I'm actually jealous of your friend, oh the pranks I would come up with are limitless, so much fun to be had messing with people!
The fingerlines are crease lines. So if you never bend your finger , then they won't get the lines
So you could tell how much someone middle fingers people just by looking at their hand?
That can't be true. Babies have the same line by their joints straight out of the womb. He probably just doesn't have a joint there (hence why he can't bend it). I mean, maybe I'm wrong, I'm not the fact check police lol
@@MadAliceInWonderland bc their fingers are bent when theyre in the room im pretty sure
@@MadAliceInWonderlandbabies are born clenching their fists?? Yours would disappear if you decide one day to never bend it again, then ACTUALLY never bend it again. It may take some time but I’ve seen it begin happening to people with finger injuries who had to splint their finger
Apparently it's actually called symphalangism. That one bone "joint" is actually fused which prevents that part of the finger from bending which in turn also prevents crease lines.
7:47 Fun fact about square watermelons they're only meant to be a decorative piece as they are unable to ripen.
Aw man
The melon looks like it was trying to become a devil fruit
7:47 Save those seeds! This is a cool genetic call back to what melons used to be. Before we had the melons that we have today, they naturally had more rind and pits of pulp, kind of like a pomegranate. And we selectively bred them to have the fruit that is full of just the pope and less rind. They'll swirls are where the Rind would be
my first thought when I saw that was the old painting of a swirling watermelon. I honestly never really believed that was real but I guess I was wrong
Scientists keep backup seeds in vaults of all the original plants, just in case we ever have to restart food crops from scratch.
@@ZebraLuv glad to hear scientists are prepared for the very real and frightening possibility of sudden global watermelon extinction
20:55 that is called thalassophobia my friend, and you are not alone.
In Skyrim there is a ship wreck that cannot be seen from the surface. It took me AGES to work up the courage to swim down to it.
Some games are literally just thalassophobia incarnate. Like Subnautica.
Others, like Abzu, seem to exist to help fight thalassophobia.
I actually really like Damien getting curious and explaining things from the post because while I'd like to know as well, statistically I wouldn't bother tracking down the source material.
I know someone who found a pea crab, took care of it for a bit, realised that it needed to be ‘put out of its misery’ and for some reason just ate the whole thing (shell included).
...I what? I'd say I'm surprised but
21:36 GRAVITY FALLS when he said "this kid is gonna grow up-" i thought he was gonna make a reference and say she was gonna grow up to write 3 journals or sm
14:43 is likely a Ronald McDonald house. They're available for families who have a child in the hospital, so that the family can stay close. We stayed in one for a night when we had to travel for my sister's doctor appointments in Boise.
23:36 “There’s a purple spot in my water melon” Sir, that’s a cantaloupe
I was looking for this comment lol
There's a cantaloupe in the watermelon?
in Arabic, we call both of them watermelon
THAT’S WHAT I SAID VERBATIM LOL
22:36 is called a fall streak hole aka a hole punch cloud. I could nerd out and give you the whole meteorological process but I will try to put it into simpler terminology.
All clouds have water droplets and ice crystals. Every once in a while a small pocket of clouds will “supercool”. Meaning the ice crystals get so heavy that they fall through leaving a gap or in this case they evaporate completely leaving that “hole”. They are usually triggered by airplanes passing through the cloud layer but they can on occasion happen spontaneously.
Or as he said...
IT'S THE BOILED ONE
the extra finger is apparently called "polydactyly" and incredibly rare here duplicate muscles n tendons are also formed because most of the time it's either really hard to move or don't move at all... supposedly a "mutation" but with that word being insanely vague and not really even provable nor decipherable from a genetic variation since gene expression can switch on and off for many reasons during reproduction as the DNA cards are shuffled. Think of it like this, you have the genetic ability to have different colored eyes, but your eye color is what was chosen as the genes to be expressed in your appearance. Which gives the ability for you to then have kids who may very likely have your eye color or a different one. We've all heard about "dominant and recessive" genes but this doesn't really mean what it sounds like. lol
4:06
You see that all the time in animals. Sickly, diseased animals will usually have rubbish hair/feather/scale quality and colour. Just look at before and after shots of animals during the height of their illness and then after recovery. It's like looking at two different animals. Fish are actually the most dramatic examples of this.
Yay, another Damien vid. You help fill a Lexie shaped void.
DID LEXI LEAVE??? 😭😭😭
@@Ph1sycYh lexi left like 2 months ago
@Ph1syc She left a while back. I haven't been the same
@@godofjuggle8158 Actually dumbfounded from finding out about this so late, i absolutely love lexi’s narrations and her personal channel was great (but she stopped uploading there like 9 months ago). Is there anywhere else she’s active?
@@godofjuggle8158 actually dumbfounded from finding this out so late, i loved her narrations but i thought she was on vacation or something? 😭
She also stopped uploading on her personal channel a few months back so is there anywhere else she’s active?
About the heavy cream thing: at least it was still in the carton. I was making cereal once and when I went to pour what I thought was normal milk, what came out was a mixture of liquid and chunks.
I love when Damien looks into the posts, it's fun to learn more
16:58 Yeah, sometimes this is just a thing. One of my cats are a big black spot on the roof of her mouth (you can only see it when she yawns).
Also, I can't explain why cat owners collect their cats' whiskers... It's just a thing we do.
I can honestly say I have never collected my cats' whiskers.
I see it as a sort of good luck charm. If I find a whisker, it's on a similar level to finding a pristine penny on the ground. It's just something unusual that you don't normally see often, so it feels special and collectible.
21:42 My father got killed by a six fingered man and I've come to england to get my revenge (from Princess Bride)
My name is Iñigo Montoya
@@Xxmidnight_melodyxX you got it
Is your father Bill Cipher by any chance..
@@Beeney3 Bill has three, try again
@@trixsterwolfproductions4488 I know, but he was killed by Ford (who has 6 fingers) who used the Memory Gun to kill Bill.
I genuinely love how Damien does some extra little research into things!
I love that Damien looks things up to find out more about them.
It cant just be me but I appreciate Damien looking stuff up to explain some of the pictures! :)
As a person with ADHD, the thumbnail really intrigued me! Also, "SoMe OnE bAkEd A hAmStEr InTo My MufFiN" in the intro! Hell yeahl
MD fan!!!
MD!!!! YIPPEEEEE!!
21:36 I was born with 6 fingers on each hand too. it’s kinda cool to see what they’d look like if my parents never had them removed.
You two should team up and move out to a small town in the middle of nowhere, that also happens to have a weird one eyed yellow triangle.
Do you write journals and love the strange and overly dangerous perhaps?
@@Xxmidnight_melodyxX … maybe.
@@junodovah2323 😧teach me your ways
@@junodovah2323have you ever worked with a strange living magic Dorito with a tophat?
I kinda love how Damien will go to provide context on certain posts instead of leaving us confused. Thank king ❤
I actually love when Damien gets curious and looks up stuff, that's something I love in his videos. Please don't discourage him from that
Let Damian get sidetracked 👏🏻
(Sidenote, we love you editors, thank you❤)
Never stop focusing on single posts. Focusing on something and getting more info is like my favorite part
I love how at 3:52, the editor put up a screen shot of a text message conversation asking Damien not to get sidetracked, only for him to respond 6 hours later with a confession. The rest of this video is filled to the brim with, "So I looked this up..."
Yeah, that checks out
The fidget cube with the adhd meds reminds me of the time I ordered a vibrator and it came with a voucher for a free bottle of wine.
HELP😭
30:29, FYI in many places It's only illegal to buy new Ivory with antique items being exempt, though it's always a good idea to check your local laws first as the cut-off year of what is considered "antique" can vary from country to country, In the UK for example that year is 1918 for items that are 320 square centimetres or less of pure ivory, musical instruments made before 1975 with less than 20% ivory by volume or items made before March 3rd 1947 made from less than 10% ivory.
5:40 When I saw the pressed leaves, all I could think about was "the most important leaf in human history" from Doctor Who
10:53 Oh nooo, that semi crash is a messy disaster, look at all that produce peppering the ground
25:32 Oh god, it's a Skulltula!
2:45
That is a rare birth defect where someone is missing a knuckle/bone in their finger. I can't remember the name off the top of my head, but I'll probably search it up later.
Did you?
@@Evoimations not yet
18:37 this happened when I was in high school 😭 a kid at the lunch table got a hamburger bun stamped with an expiration date 2 weeks expired. School did not care one bit
if someone is interested, those princess diana stamps are worth 600 $
six fingers are often a sign of parents that are near relatives like cousins or even closer.
LMFAOOO 😭 oh nooooooooo
There's no research to suggest that extra fingers are a sign of inbreeding. It's often a genetic mutation but also sometimes just happens.
@@elizar666 yes, for polydactylie alone thats correct.
BUT they are often a SIDE EFFECT of other syndroms that ARE strongly related to inbreeding like elis - van creveld syndrome, joubert syndrome, thurston syndrome, young madders syndrome, Laurence Moon syndrome.
those are all syndroms often found in religious cults and sects like the amish who ALSO marry only people from their kin.
ALL this syndroms have polydactyly in common.
@@Asmodis4 but the only thing we can see on her is a normal seeming stature and well developed extra pinky.
It just seems unkind and unnecessary to accuse a child of being a result of inbreeding imo
@@elizar666 Exactly what I was thought. That was just impolite.
13:06 these are BDSM handcuffs 😄 real police ones are not that flimsy and you can see the little safety lever to release the handcuffs when you lost the keys
BDSM cuffs are typically fluffy(in some way), those look more like the plastic ones you get from an arcade
@@dreamynyx Yes! You are correct my friend. I just so happen to have a pair and mine are totally legit metal that you cannot open (or wiggle or slide) out of without a key just like the handcuffs the cops use. And yes, they also came with a removable fur covering that slid over the part that the wrists go into, not the chain in between the cuffs, but I ended up not only removing that fur covering but tossing it into the garbage.
For two reasons, I am a professional Dominatrix so the last thing my slaves want is to be comfortable, and I didn't realize it at the time I bought them but that fur was actually real rabbit fur. Now since I absolutely do not condone (and refuse to knowingly) wear or use the fur and skin of dead animals, they just had to go.
And BTW I know many people don't understand my profession, and think it's disgusting and prostitution, thus morally reprehensible (which it definitely is not since there is zero sex involved with what I do.) So just to be clear, yes I am a weirdo, but a weirdo with principles and moral convictions. 🙃❤🌵
@JPFighter Actually 🤓☝ they are definitely not, and the plastic cuffs that the police use are actually just zip ties, you can buy them at any hardware store (and of course online) in bulk for super cheap so that's why many police departments use them.
Besides, the metal handcuffs not only cost more, but they cops are notorious for losing the keys for just forgetting to bring them along. 🤡They are!
@@Cuddly-Cactus Tbh I have no idea what a dominatrix is, but good on you for the whole "not wearing the skin/fur of an animal" thing
@@dreamynyx Oh ok, yeah so it's in the realm of BDSM, (basically I am the Dominate one but just professionally as I mentioned). And thank you! I genuinely wish I could go full on vegan, but would not be able to live without dairy products and I've tried things like almond and soy milk but it's just not even comparable unfortunately. Besides, there is no version of a dairy-less cheese that's actually edible.
And my husband is a professional chef so he makes so many amazing dishes for us at home that involve all different meats, however we do not eat any veal because it's just wrong. And we do try to do things like a Meatless Monday, or Tuesday, or you know, a day that ends in Y with a meal that is meat free.
And Pro Tip from him: Many veggies make exellent meat replacements, such portobello mushrooms and eggplant. (He makes an incredible Eggplant Parm, if you've never had it then I highly recommend finding a good Italian restaurant and ordering it. You won't regret it if they make it right. ❤🌵
6:18 - Actually 🤓☝️that is a Hydrangea bush, lilacs grow from small plants into trees.
None the less, both flowers look amazing, and lilacs smell amazing. (Hydrangeas have no scent.)
I came looking for this comment. I thought I was going crazy.
@@ericpaul4575 Awesome! (And just doing my unofficial job here of correcting things here in the comment section). So nope, you my friend, are probably more than sane the most, myself included! 🤣
But yeah, no, so basically I'm a life long garden, plant, and nature enthusiast so one of my super powers as a nature nerd girl is the ability to clock plants and critters in mere nanoseconds!
Afterall, I myself am a plant, and it takes one to know one! ❤🌵
Thank you for pointing this out, I was hoping someone else noticed lol
@@thomasstropicals7 No problem! And yes it looks like you me and a handful of others here are plant & nature nerds! 🤓💕🌵
@@Cuddly-Cactus I am indeed a plant nerd
21:36 she may want to stray from an unknown Oregon town until she much older and may or may not make contact with and inter dimensional demon who wishes to liberate our galaxy
Yes Damian, as someone who works in a produce department at a grocery store, i can say that without a shadow of a doubt, rotten watermelon smells awful. Its in my opinion one of the worse smells i have to deal with.
rotten plants somehow smell worse than rotting meats. its insane
6:36 My skin does that when I’ve been using too much hand sanitizer (mainly in winter because it’s so cold that running JUST the hot tap takes a full 5 minutes to get Luke warm)
21:36
Does she by any chance have a twin? 💫🌲
And an instant infatuation with interdimesional demons and portals. Also does she live in Oregon?
What could those strange symbols mean? I guess we'll never know
the entirety of this video is just damien going “so i looked it up”
21:38 gravity falls time
14:25 I really, *reeeaaaallly* hope that this is because of one entitled customer they encountered, and not a reference to that poor lady who was victimized by McDonald's
22:35 That is a holepunch cloud and sometimes you can see a fire rainbow in the tiny wispy cirrus cloud that often forms in the middle. I actually got a picture of one like that once.
2:15 I think its like when we randomly stick up our arms when in bed
we?
I'm 44 and while I knew I wasn't the only one to do it, I haven't heard much about it recently. I don't even realize I'm doing it sometimes. Just be laying there, hand in the air like I'm back in school.
That post with the gray street signs seems like it's in a neighborhood, maybe a more upscale one. My guess is they made them grayscale to not have "garish colors" clashing with the """aesthetic"""
14:35 I'm not sure if this is that, but I think so, in Maine- there is a town that doesn't allow modern commercial buildings , McDonald's in other places operate out of vintage homes with unchanged architecture
The lines on your fingers (and other joints) are creases. If the joint doesn't work, the crease doesn't form.
They now require you to have a CostCo membership to buy from their food court, and the Basic Membership is $60
Per hour
The reason Costco hotdogs are so cheap is because their memberships are so expensive, most of their profit is from memberships
Learning with Damien is my favorite emkay bit now
Shoutout to the guy who sent the guy a fidget cube
Never obsolete computers was a service where if You signed up they would replace your computer for free with their computer every so often.
(21:36 welcome back sixer)
4:07 I agree. My hair is naturally a pure blonde, but now it’s the same color as, and shines like, gold.
21:39 close enough welcome back ford pines
That beetle looks like what I've always known as a Christmas beetle, but maybe a bit shorter in the body/abdomen
No no, continue with the side tracking, I like the info on the whyyyys.
29:50 looks like their additional fingers were just accessory digits, meaning they kinda resemble fingers but lack most of the structure and aren't functional. Often it's just a blob of skin with a nail growing from a stalk, it's easily removed by a surgeon.
22:07 Private development maybe? Some areas allow privately owned communities to make their own road signs that don't need to follow the same rules, but the community management is often liable for damages caused by poor signage.
i love when damien narrates because he proceeds to go and look up stuff out of curiosity and it's just real nice to see
like yeah!! fact checking!!! learning!!!! yay!!!!!!
Love how informative Damien is. I genuinely enjoy these subreddit posts like this.
35:23 she's the main character. I hope you have your will and testament ready and that you don't have specific haircuts because the Green Goblin might show up at any moment.
Most egg boilers have room for boiling 7 eggs. The 7 pack is probably aiming for that audience.
14:46 I actually grow these in my yard. They are sort of a mix between cucumber and a watermelon. When you bite it, there are a bunch of seeds (resembling cucumber seeds) inside. They also taste like cucumber, but it's also kind of tart. At my house, we call them "Cucumelons". They also grow on vines like grapes. They are really fun, highly recommend growing them. They work well in salads, but also just for snacking.
I was watching this as background noise while I was drawing Gravity Falls fanart, and I had to stop dead in my tracks at two instances to go "...Stanford?"
13:40 no joke, that stuff's probably perfectly fine. Just got shaken up a little too much in transit. And it would most likely taste better than store-bought butter.
I love it when they reserch the memes and check why and stuff, it's realy interesting, please don't stop!
10:15 green apple juice is common in Mediterranean countries. It is made from green apples.
22:37 I WAS GENUINELY ABOUT TO SCREENSHOT THAT AND REFERENCE IT TO MY FRIEND, YES. YES HIS NAME IS EPHRATA/PHEN-228 AND HE IS AMAZING
"OMG! There's a mouse in my muffin!"
"Oh so sorry about that, it was supposed to be for my cat, here take this one instead, it just has blueberries." 🤣🤣
P.S.- Did anyone spot that at the top of the screenshot at 3:54 Damien has that muffin mouse as his image?
And BTW @emkay to do discourage Damien for looking up things and explaining them to us! That's one of the best things that Damien does on his videos!! ( And he's not getting side tracked, it's completely relevant to whatever the post I about, he's doing us a service by providing a little more info and we are all here for it!)
i actually love damiens tangents. it is actually lovly for him to teach us stuff and get to the bottom of the info he sees in the reddit threads he reads.
2:33 it's a defense mechanism so you don't fidget with the medication lids and break them
I LOVE Damien's tangents of learning, it saves me researching myself and we all learn something, and prevents the spread of misinfo
The cruellest prank - go to the supermarket and shake all the cream cartons until they become butter, then put them back on the shelf
how long will this take
@@sapphicatsushi a very good question. I know I've made cream into butter in a jar in about a minute once - but I dont know if not having free space in the container would make it slower or not. I know it's easier if it's colder.
@@tzisorey mkmk 👍
17:00 MY DOG HAS THAT TOO!!!! I've never seen it on any other dog before :]
First one is the town I work at in NH. Very sad, and it was a business with apartments above it that burned down. Many people affected.
damien after every post: "so i looked it up, and uhhh..."
The guy with the Bill pic doesn’t comment about Sixer…
Interesting…
@@Clock1-work7 because ive moved past that persona, i just never updated my yt account to reflect that
Wrong. I doubt the green juice has an addictive as I recently found out in Italy it's illegal to add food dyes in juices and other products. I found the list online: coffe, chocolate, torrone (a type of traditional Christmas dessert), vinegar, fruit juices, wine, beer, oil, water, bread, for some reason rice noodles, sugar, honey, meat and fish. This has to be done because the public has to see the food in it's original colour, otherwise it is considered fraud for the lack of genuinenes or it's state of alteration (I'm guessing if they did something to the food and dyed to to make it look like nothing was done to it). Also we classify dyes by letters. If you go to Europe and a product has a dye intended for a surface or wrapping (think of a cheese crust) the dye has the letter C before the number. Otherwise if it's an edible dye it has the letter E before it. So if you read a label and see something like E followed by a small string of numbers you're reading the correct labelling for a dye indredient. In short it's a food dye, not some weird chemical. I also read that since 2010 in Europe on products containing dyes where extensive research has been done, and proof came out that they have an effect on children, there have to be warnings on labels. And if a product contains a safe plant based dye (like beetroot or carrot derivatives) but in the product it is used to possibly hide the quality of the product it has to be listed as an ingredient. Man European food laws are very strict.
Fun fact: yellow 5 an artificial dye for example in Doritos can make animal tissue temporarily seethrough
21:50 Are you sure your niece is real? Maybe she's AI!
Oh my gawd bro, (Most) AI has evolved past that.
No, she’s a Gravity Falls character.
9:57
Either that's black mould or Alex Bale's muse got loose.
“pero why???” love this quote
"When your cat holds their tail high in the air as they move about their territory, they're expressing confidence and contentment. A tail that sticks straight up signals happiness and a willingness to be friendly. And watch the tip of an erect tail. A little twitch can mean a particularly happy moment."
28:00 "It's an art installation, so it's not something they did for fun"
Em Kay is the best!!! I use it for laugh therapy whenever im mad, sad, or dead.
if you're dead rn, i hope you resurrect soon!!❤
7:43, fun fact: watermelon used to have rind in that EXACT pattern, before being bred to not have it, meaning this is residuals from their ancestors!
I love how Damien takes the time to research interesting posts and share the knowledge. Unlike Robin who says "I don't f**king care".