The Assassin's Teapot Is Weird
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The Assassin's Teapot belongs to a family of similar trick vessels (Think A Drink, Any Drink Called For, Inexhaustible Bottle, The Magic Kettle). They all rely on surface tension and atmospheric pressure to work.
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Would you be interested in doing an episode on poisons specifically the ones that can come from most plants? If you need some pointers you can ask me?
mmm nulled wine, no aftertaste
Air pressure may be pushing the drink up the straw, but you need to suck to *create space for the drink to be pushed into!*
You probably shouldn't suck on straws with the power of your lungs. That's an easy way to inhale liquids. Instead you should use the power of your mouth. I only say this because you seem to be the type who enjoys a bit of pedantic banter.
I don't know about you, but I see this as being able to use magic tricks at kids birthday parties. One kid wants juice, one wants water, use the same pot. Blow their little minds.
Poison the kids☠️
There is a reason why Bozo, the clown, advertised themselves as "a clown for hire".
@@xooox_1777 Not sure if you missed the fact Bozo was a real person(or the mask of one), or if I'm missing the joke within your reply.
@@YukiColburn i think he misunderstood the grammar from that guy, thinking that he was calling the guy a bozo, instead of Bozo as an actual name
@@sxnpyesenpai7424 Yeah, could be that too
Here's a tip: _While your enemy is distracted looking the cool demonstration of the teapot, you hit him with a bat._
Actually laughed, congrats 😂
I used this trick on a geologist once
Does the particular type of bat matter, or will any species do?
@@cactus_juice3217 So you hit said geologist with a bat, a stone or the teapot?
@@yoitsunoookami simple, I distracted him with an obsidian dagger in one hand and a baseball bat in the other
I want one of these, just so I can ask my guests whether they want coffee or tea and serve both from the same pot. Seems like it would be a good party trick.
it would be anticlimactic if everyone wants the same
If you don't want to accidentally consume some of the poison, make sure the poison is poured in the bottom space of the teapot. I see that the the liquid from the top portion does mix a little at the tip with the bottom portion
Wow thanks, the next time I poison someone I'll be sure to put it in the bottom portion.
Yeah, but in the actual design the liquids are side by side. I wonder how the liquids mix in that scenario.
@@neonch1 In reality you shouldn't die from such a minuscule amount of poison. Don't use a poison strong enough for a few droplets to be lethal.
"The dose makes the poison." -Paracelsus
Hey uh, why is there a swat team at your door?
"Don't worry about the poison, there is no poison."
This is how I start all my tea parties.
Sounds like the namington house is a barrel of poison...I mean fun
I have a T-shirt with my character alignment (Lawful Neutral) which says: "There IS poison in your tea, but I have a prescription for it". I love to wear it while we're having boardgame nights, and to offer people drinks... Everyone takes a second to read the shirt, ponder the implications and decide whether they are willing to accept anything from me.
I'm kindof hoping you wear a dashing hat.
I kinda want to go work fast food just so that I can tell the customers this.
"In terms of poison, we have no poison."
Pro-tip for assassins: First pour yourself the non-poisoned drink. You don't want any poison residue left on the spout to get mixed in your drink.
I was thinking about the same thing! I’m surprised no one figured that since the spout is the same for both drinks
Come on, a tiny amount of poison can feel quite fun. :) Cheers!
Arsenic the little old ladies poison of choice is fine in low concentration. It is put in chicken feed to make the flesh pink and increase their appitite. So if you eat modern chicken you are eating arsenic.
Immediately thought about this, but then, the educated enemy would always swap the drinks, or will try to take the one that you're wanted for yourself.
@@arsinclair put the antidote in the safe drink. Down the poison without breaking a sweat, then pour yourself a second round, this time with the antidote. Ask the enemy if he likes another go, too.
It would be much better if you only had a small secret chamber and one murder hole to cover up. Needing to fill the teapot through the murderholes makes it super awkward to use, it would work much better if you just had a tiny container for the poison and just mixed it in to the bulkier liquid as required, with most of it just being a regular teapot with the detachable lid and everything.
Plus, this way it doubles as an actual teapot you can just use whenever.
Alternatively, have left/right chambers instead of top/bottom that you can fill via removing the lid (that seals properly)
Then just move the location of the holes to accomodate this (so on the top left/right of the handle for instance)
Or would that more accurately be the NON-murder hole, since you cover it to pour the safe drink?
Also, if the poison is clear, you don't need to worry about the colors matching.
Me: “…wait I forgot what hole the poison is”
The person I’m trying to poison: what…? Wait a minute
Me, the worst assassin: "Wait, which hole was for the drink without poison?"
I’m sure someone must have died that way. Poor guy. Talk about irony
Haha
😂😂😂😂😂😂
We're not having tea.
@@yolosangels I bet a bunch of them were broken on the inside and both parties died. Don't ever buy the cheap assassin's teapot lol
*First Day As Assassin:*
*"How did he die?"*
*"He Blocked The Wrong Hole"*
Rookie mistake
i was thinking the exact same thing
Lmao 🤣
😂😂😂
Or he forget block one.
This is especially interesting because one of my travel mugs doesn't allow me to actually drink my tea. The liquid gets stuck at the mouth of the lid because there's no tiny air hole on the lid (like my other travel mugs have). Unintentional & undesired magic trick 😆
this is the most intriguing exploration and demonstration of science i have ever seen on youtube besides the backyard scientist. you are an amazing speaker and at explaining things
I want an assassins tea pot literally for the sake of tea AND milk being in together and being all “oh, you want some milk with your tea? Sure” *grabs same tea pot that tea poured from*
…warm milk
Osaki it's going into the hot drink so 🤷🏽♀️
Briljant
I’m picturing pulling a Mary Poppins on my three girls. Lol
It really does sound pretty useful.
Oh, riiiight. The teapot. The teapot for Kuzco, the teapot chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's teapot. That teapot?
He would've still messed up...to many holes. 😆
Yes that teapot!!
(Forgets which hole he has to cover to get the poison) (Pours all three with neither hole covered)
Best comment ever. Cheers!
@@bommelhiro6312
I can resist temptation
I can resist temptation
I can res-
*that’s what she said*
If this guy was my teacher back in the day, I would've learned a lot more. This guy is fascinating.
Here's a fun one. I have a pair of reusable water bottles that I used to use for drinking soda. However, when I first started using them for such, the soda keep going up the straws to squirt out the spouts. I found out that the lids had vents with rubber stoppers that acted like a one-way valve meant to allow air while keeping the liquid from spilling out. This was probably added to make the bottles spill-proof but it was causing the gases in my soda to be trapped and force the soda up the straws and out the spouts. I've since remove the rubber stoppers but I've also switched to using the bottles for water like they were meant to. I can image that if I had found a way to seal both the vents and the spouts with soda in them, the bottles would either explode or become pressurized like a normal soda bottle.
You should put some Mentos in it for extra effect
I never heard of an Assassin's Teapot, I understood everything about it on the thumbnail. And yet, I watched the whole video. You won this time Mr Mould.
Same for me.
But i learnt so much watching the video ... I had to see it 3 times !!!
It's the opposite of clickbait. Miniature says it all, and 100% answers the video title ... But if you watch it, there is even more !!!
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Never heard of it either. And none of us have ever seen it used in any assassin movie.
I think it existed in china
But did you know it was weird?
... oh wait, you did
As a mathematician, cannot tell you how much I appreciate you acknowledging the null drink.
boy
What's 0÷0?
@@UJustSuk69 genius 😂😂😂👌
@@UJustSuk69 Far too much
ah, the power set of the assassin's teapot.
4:40 THANK YOU- I remember in middle school the science teacher talking about cold air pushing the warm air up- then one day the head of the science department was subbing and a student said "hot air doesn't rise- it is pushed up" and the 'sub' goes "sure- but does the hot air not rise." Same thing with people getting hung up on cold objects "transferring cold" in the conduction sense- fine but it is a relative term- but when talking about convection it is back to the same deal with the "rising" air.
This is called 鸳鸯转香壶. Based on Chinese wiki ‘Baidu’ it first appeared in the Han Dynasty. Year 241 BC, after the death of Emperor Hui of Han, his son Liu Gong was made emperor. The late queen Lü Zhi, fearing that new emperor’s mother might vie for power with her, used this kind of pot to hold two types of wine, one of which was poisoned. At a banquet, the emperor’s mother was poisoned to death with this wine. By the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor Zhao Guangyi used this pot filled with wine to entertain another emperor Li Yu. Legend says the fragrance of the wine masked the poisoned wine, leading to Li’s death in Bianjing. Since then, many legends related to this pot have emerged.
One of the times where “oops wrong hole” could literally kill someone
Lmao i'm dead 😭😭😭💀💀💀
@@Chou-shi *literally*
If you oops wrong the wrong person, you're dead either way.
r/cursed comments
LMAOOO
Optimist: "The glass is half full".
Pessimist: "The glass is half empty."
Steve: "The glass contains 50% water and 50% N U L L D R I N K"
Or is it the opposite?
And then there's an xkcd what if about glass literally being only half full. Well worth taking a look.
I was literally typing this exact joke when I saw that you’d already made it.
You can't technically drink anything, it's actually the null drink that's pushed out of you.
@@EdiblePlutonium Actually, that reminds me of something funny: If you look at the thermodynamic behavior of systems with “negative temperature”, they’re “hotter” than systems with positive temperature, with small absolute negative values being the hottest. The conclusion drawn from this is that thermodynamic beta, which is just the reciprocal of temperature scaled by the Boltzmann constant, is a more physically “fundamental” concept than temperature itself, in some sense.
What this means is that it’s more accurate to say that you let the cold in than letting the heat out. Take that out of your null pipe and smoke it.
That phonecall at 0:50 was so bad it was good. Impressive. Quality video as always! 👌
Thanks for telling me about the assassin’s teapot Steve! Now I have the perfect way to dispatch my enemies 🥰
A less deadly version is to have two different teas and have your guests argue what flavor the tea is
Genius prank for the family
😂😂😂😂😂
In Britain thats the more deadly option… you dont mess with the tea
Oh that's evil
@@sauceman2562 bring 2
Classic trick of referring to your enemy as "the enemy" even when they're present, works every time.
Well, of course. How else are they going to be suspicious you've poisoned their drink?
Hiding in plain sight.
Yeah they’ll never suspect it
@@berko2076 Wet donut churros. The fuck?
@@saltyralts Rule 34, dude. Whatever you do, don't Google it! :-P
Great to see you on Qi with this the other day Steve, as soon as they mentioned the assassin's teapot I thought "They really should have Steve Mould back on for this", and then moments later there you were!
"if you put your fingers on different holes different liquids come out" 💀💀💀
"you can put milk and coffee in the teapot instead and make yourself a latte"
coffee fans: WRITE THAT DOWN
In this case, which side is "poison" depends on caffeine sensitivity and lactose tolerance.
I most certainly did write it down. I like cream in my coffee, my mom likes hers black. An assassin's tea pot would allow me to pour both from one pot. I'm going make one now, but with a double wall with a vacuum in the middle chamber to insulate the cream from the coffee so it doesn't get too warm and curdle.
@@taitano12 Can you imagine serving coffee from that teapot to a large group of people? That'd be fun.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 then you'd need a big one
@@trollme.trollmehard.9524 well i meant its not like they put too much caffine or little amount of milk.
I feel like he just tricked all of us into learning physics.
Nice(TT)
Well this is just school physics
@@fear7356 I took honors physics in high school and all I remember is building a trebuchet. Real world knowledge right there. I would’ve rather learned how to poison people😂
My dad's a teacher, I'll mention it to him...
But more interesting and we get to know how to kill someone (jk)
Your acting on being the poisoned enemy is marvellous!
Do you think that would work the same with powder instead of a liquid?
A video about a poison teapot got 7 million people's attention in 6 days. I'd keep an eye out the next time someone offers me tea from their new kettle.
Hahaha
@@jellyfishi_ I'll vote for you then
I just happened to be looking for something to buy, the ex-wife is coming over for a visit.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@jellyfishi_ I hope you never become president you dictatorial heathen
An elementary school science teacher used to say “science doesn’t suck, it pushes.” This has managed to stick in my mind since
And now we are all cursed, thanks. 😂
Explain plz lol
How about weather? Is a tropical cyclone pushing water out of the ocean with its low pressure? What is pushing the moisture if it's not being pulled?
@@callmeshaggy5166 The atmospheric pressure around the low-pressure area is pushing it up.
@@MarekLewandowski_EE that’s the big brain guy right here, pushed my mind into a vortex
The phone call bit was too good
the thing of the straw really reminds me of the difference when it comes to soda vs an ice cream shake and remembering this really made this feel more relative
Wow, this is actually a cool teapot. Sure i wouldn’t wanna poison anyone with it, but the idea of having a teapot that can dispense two different liquids at once seems really nice
And the fact that one of those liquids *can* be poisoned is a nice side-benefit too.
Not that I'd wanna poison anyone with it, just like you man.
@@sirocco2810 you can put laxatives for a prank tho
Coffee in one chamber, creamer or milk in the other
Would be funny if it actually was just made for the novelty and we just assumed it must be for killing!
@@guidorussoheck2100 you monster
bartender : "yes, what can I get you?"
me : "a null drink please"
Whiskey on the rocks, hold the whiskey
bartender: "That's would be 19$ please"
@@yazid6024 ? $19 nineteen dollars or 19$ nineteen dollars signs?
I am your 666th like!
@@sonyabeam292 yogurt
I wanna get one of these and fill one chamber with vanilla extract and the other with a beverage of a similar color (maybe coffee)
The fake lawyer phone call was a good bit and I was smiling, but the hanging up the smart phone on a rotary phone body killed me 😂
Assassin’s teapot:
- “ah a historical curiosity”
Coffee teapot with optional milk:
- “omg every house needs one of these”
Exactly 👍
Yup
you want lukewarm milk just sitting out?
@@LC-hd5dc no, idk how your folk does it, but we usually wash our teapots over here
@@sandraswan9008 some teapots aren't meant to be washed like clay ones. You are supposed to dedicate that teapot to one type of tea so that your teapot gets seasoned like woks or cast iron. Because if you drink green tea from a clay teapot and then make black tea in it, it tastes off.
Some clay teapots can be glazed on the outside and then unglazed clay on the inside.
It can actually be useful to serve coffee, tea and milk at the same time to people instead of poisoning them
Its boring, killing people is fun.
It would be an awesome party trick
It can just serve two different liquids. The “third” is a mixture of the two.
considering that there are only 2 holes per container, one of them being in the spout, and the other one being small enough to cover with a vinger. i imagine it is hell to actually fill it up (you are bound to lose some liquid due to having to put the teapot upside down?), let alone clean it after there has been hot/warm creamer inside, i agree it would be cool tough. maybe if the design would be changed, and there would be a bigger hole with room for your hands to fit in (for cleaning), that can be closed with a sillicone gasket, it might work. seems like a lot of efford for a partytrick tough. also i dont think gaskets with that size can withstand too much wear and tear..
@@chairya2 😎 Well if you cannot handle a teapot, just use a gun. What could go wrong? 🤩
5:10 . with ice cubes, "cold" really is flowing. Ice melts into cold water which mixes with the aqueous drink and creates a new mixture with a lower average temperature. It is different than dropping a sealed bag of ice into a drink which works by heat energy transferring into the bag. The naked ice cube cools the drink much faster.
The click after the phone call got me.
Robber: breaks into Steve's house.
Steve: "could we discuss this over a cup of tea??"
624 likes yet no commant?
@@BobbyRLC whoa.. I didn't even know :/
@@BobbyRLC I don't think we know what to comment ;-;
*Mission accomplished* you've won and achievement (deadly home invasion)
Uncle Iroh does not approve of this
How to get rid of unwanted guests:
“The coffee's fresh, and perfectly safe to drink, not poisoned at all…”
Big brain
😈
How the tea drinkers took over the world.
@東京市 but isn't your guys culture to serve tea for guests anyway? What they drink then...?
Woah so edgy and smort the way you... idk.. said that?
I loved the Princess Bride joke sm
I'm susceptible to panic attacks, so whenever I'm really out of it, I watch the Princess Bride, and the soundtrack is so calming
I love the "filming himself and talking to a fake lawyer on the phone" part
For all of you “what if I cover the wrong hole” folks out there, the bottom hole is not intended to be covered during “normal” use. Always put poison on top and tea on the bottom, reason being the top hole is more ergonomically viable to cover than the bottom. As the poison and tea will mix together in your victim’s cup automatically when you pour them out together, you only need to cover the top hole when serving yourself. I hope it makes sense.
Thanks for the tip bro using it will be easier now 😊😊😊
@@assertingdominance1759 don’t thank me, just hate the guy who threw the instructions away after the box was opened.
Wouldn't do to get it mixed up.
Adding another reason to always use the top for normal. In every clear pot demonstration you can see some of the top liquid flowing back up the spout and into the bottom after the first pour.
However, isn’t that SUPER risky? Should poison be in the top layer, each time you finish pouring, some amount of poison would easily just flow from the tip back to the normal drink in the layer below. So i think its safer to put the poison in the bottom layer
the idea of having a coffee or tea pot with variable milk dispensing capabilities opens so many possibilities for quickly serving a large table specific drinks...
No it's for killing people. Don't do that millennial thing and repurpose it
@@Vicvines you are jack 0ff
@@Vicvines yes exactly. Murder
@@Vicvines Do you want to be first or second served?
Catering companies are kind of ahead of you, there. Dual-chamber pots (not to be confused with dual chamberpots) have been a thing for some time. They just don't try to hide it with little air holes, they use explicitly separate buttons to open each side.
Nice! This cup is cool! Keep up with the unique cups!
It seems some of the top liquid infiltrated the bottom chamber, so perhaps it would be wise for a successful assassin to have the poison down below. Great video!
It's physically hurt me to see that teapot broken with a hammer even though I know it's for a reason
such a pretty teapot. wasted.
yes :( it looked so cool…..
@@mr.wyodak2131 we all felt a pain in our heart lol
I love tea and teapots so that broke me slightly too
He could open in the middle without mashing with the hammer
"If you cover both holes you get the null-drink"
_happy programmer noises_
My brain went split personnality at this point Was exclaiming "useless cluttering !" and "usefully exhaustive !" at the same time
I spit out my coffee on this line. Dead.
@@TexMechsRobot I hope it was the null coffee. easier to clean
Also has potential for a sexist joke.
Unhappy programmer noises (the billion Dollar mistake)
My brother and I used to play with this concept all the time at restaurants as kids. We would plug the tip of our straws and remove them from the glass which would cause any of the drink resting in the straw to stay put.
I have been wanting one of these for having friends over with hot chocolate. Boiling water in one resevior, milk in the other, watch the confusion build.
so basically when you’re a kid and you’re drinking through a straw and you put your thumb over the hole to stop it from falling out so you can, for no reason at all, pull the straw out and let it leak out from the bottom into your mouth. Except for, let’s say, this straw is divided vertically down the middle, and this process repeated, covering both holes, one, or none. Genius.
tbh that explained it so much better-
Yes. A child. Not a 30 year old adult obviously
@@NoThankUBeQuiet my friend who used to work in a cocktail bar would do this in people's drinks to make sure he'd mixed them properly. You could pretend you're doing that 😉😂
I used to cover it with my tongue, tilt my head back, then let it go into my throat
Can u explain ur name to me pls I am a bit confused when one of the letters are numbers (except for the number 12)
“If you cover both holes, you get the null drink”
Only something a mathematician would say
tastes like nothing.
*dies*
And computer scientists
Hehe relatable.
You get /dev/null drink
This!😂😂😂😂
Its the same reason there is a hole at the top of a coffee mug you might buy from Costas, as you drink, air has to flow in to replace the space left from the coffee, or the coffee will not come out.
As you're sucking from the straw, what you're doing is removing air from it. It is then the atmospheric pressure then pressing on the liquid on the outside that causes the liquid to rise. If you tried it on the Moon without atmosphere, likely it would not work. I hope that helps.
It was great seeing you demonstrate this on QI!
the 2D hydrodynamic models are incredibly intuitive
as soon as I saw it, I immediately understood how it worked
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I feel like the thumbnail had all the info to understand how it worked. Very intuitive indeed
When I was a child, I saw a TV show, where they were serving the audience any drink they wanted, from the same jug. I have always been puzzled how that worked, and could never find clips of it online. Now I know, they probably used something like this!
Actually, that was jus magic
@@stxdude830 Proof?
Which one died?
@@desireecalva2627 none he made it up
@@epicspymain691pyaeminthu5 no shit
now i want one. i can use it as a prop during my dnd sessions when im the dungeon master
Imagine somebody trying to assassinate someone with this but makes the poison two different colours, so they don't accidentally drink the wrong one themselves
"This doesn't require you spend the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder, works straight off the bat, no preparation required"
That reference was gold
Yes it was gold
Iocane, though (not caine).
Inconceivable
Yep, it earned them a like right off the bat
@@RFC-3514 right, my mistake
Assassin with ADHD:
"Wait, did I cover the correct hole?"
"What if I poison myself?"
"Did I really poison the other liquid?"
"Is this the teapot they said?"
"Why does it look so strange? They might find it suspicious."
"I wish I didn't apply to this..."
I had exactly all those questions in my mind when I watched this video and yes, I have ADHD XDDD
I have ADHD,
and I love this.
My thoughts lol but i don't have ADHD
Or basically anybody inexperienced guy, who's fully aware he's handling poison he can't see
Yup 👍🏿
That would be great for parties. Ask if they would like water or coke, and you can easily pour them the drink of their choice
Worked Perfectly, thanks!
Imagine pouring two different colored drinks as an assassin. You will be like : "I can explain"
Then you are hanged for witchcraft
now i know what my mom used on my dad...deep video.
Lololol
simple
one is tropical flavored and the other one is hawaiian flavor
Explain what?
Knowing my memory I would end up forgetting what hole to cover to get the poison and end up poisoning myself like a moron.
Sounds like a good detective story where the villain commits suicide in order to frame the hero for murder.
You would compete for Darwin Awards
Id say you wouln't be the first one!
Just remember: the pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon. The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
@@kindoflame I won't say which specific game but this happens in Danganronpa
The description of how random things pop in your head and you randomly explain them is basically a description of how I operate. I’ll be with a friend, or with one of my younger brothers and be like “fun fact: blah blah blah” or occasionally “fun fact… ok, well not so fun, but certainly a fact: blah blah blah.”
This is very much needed for my work. I serve drinks at clubs.
Target: Why are you holding the the teapot like that?
Assassin: *Panicking* Ummm nothing at all that’s just how I hold it
@Amanda Diaz shut your mouth
well im pretty sure you could place the holes on the handle to be way less suspicious although that comes with its own set of problems
😋😉
@Amanda Diaz no
😬
I really appreciate the conversation on pedantry in physics. As a physics educator myself, I come across this all the time (both with students and with colleagues) and you've very eloquently explained why it's okay to use slightly inaccurate descriptions in some cases. I will definitely be using your "usefulness" comparison in the future!
We've been doing exactly this with "the flow" of electricity too, for 124 years (that's how long we've known ot actually flows from negative to positive). In the physics and RnD side of things this is very important. To most on-site technicians it rarely is.
Pedants can be annoying.
@@pr0xZen Does electricity even flow through a wire at all? I was pretty sure it technically traveled in the form of electromagnetic fields around the wire, but that's a pedantic and none helpful way of talking about it for most situations.
there's a new kurzgesagt video called "and we'll do it again". It is based on lying (for simplification reasons) in science. Fits this subject quite nicely.
@@pr0xZen That's what I was about to mention. None of these pedants seem to care that convention current flows opposite the actual current, or at least they don't care enough to petition to "fix" it.
i bought this and it is a bit weird trying to get the liquids in and everything since you have to pour them in a certain way and order, but once you get the hang of it its really cool to use
Thanks! I have so many ideas now!
It's calming to hear that people would rather use it for coffee and milk then for poison
LOL! As written, you're suggesting being a good host before you kill them.
Sure there were such comments, but TH-cam prolly just censored them out lmao
Plot twist: it wasn't a typo
The video is 9 mins and 11 seconds long bru
Well… with lactose intolerance that can be “funny” too then
“Well actually it’s the atmosphere pushing the drink up the straw!”
“Fair enough. _grabs teapot_ Fancy a drink?”
Nice pfp
😂😂😂
lmao
I am reminded of Jackie Chan in Forbidden Kingdom pooring the tea and listening intensely to the ramblings of a child.
oh hello there beat saber person
LMAO! Iocane powder, what a awsome reference. Love it!
The scene in the beginning of this vid reminds me of a scene in "The Princess Bride". Vizzini could have had use for such a tea pot, though even then I doubt it would have helped him.
"If you cover both holes you get the null drink" seriously made me laugh out loud!
Thats for the scrubs that don't have their own super cool assassin teapot.
"Nope sorry, fresh out mate"
Made me laugh cause I have a perverted mind
Oh. My. God.
The 1/2 black coffee, 1/2 milk is possibly the GREATEST unintentional use for an invention EVER!!! Imagine whacking this bad boy out at an afternoon tea party and pouring one friend black coffee, and when your next friend asks for milk in their coffee, using the same jug as the black coffee, you pour milky coffee! That's like the greatest (tea) party trick ever hahaha
I like how jazzed you are about the idea more than I like the idea.
I love your personality
@@PaniniDev if this isn't sarcasm (I can never tell in text form haha), then thank you so much haha, that's a really kind thing to say :)
Absolutely the most wholesome response to an assassin’s tea pot. Design: deception and death
Application: wooing tea party guests
You seem like such a fun person lmao, your tea parties must be a blast
notably if you are using the above and below version not the side by side version, be sure to have the poison in the bottom chamber. The top chamber drips some liquid into the bottom chamber during pouring.
Thanks, I will use this
R.I.P Evil Steve, he was really committed to the part. Mad respect
Considering he committed murder, I'd say regular Steve is the Evil Steve one and mustachioed Steve is Good Steve.
His moustache was planted where he was buried.
The difference between being committed and being involved is like a ham and eggs breakfast. The chicken is involved but the pig is committed.
Poor ol Moldy
Never go up against a scientist when experiments are on the line!
Man, imagine messing up the sequence of holes to cover up and not knowing which drink is safe or deadly.
So I imagined. And what now, Zachary?
@@elfillari You're dead!
@Sarah Bowmer If you've developed an immunity to iocane powder, I believe the correct move is to just pull a Princess Bride and poison both cups with a normal teapot.
Take an antidote just in case
Goteeeem HA!
Not gonna lie this guy is too smart for me and everytime he's saying so many words my brain keeps shutting down lol Keep up the Good work!
i love the princess bride reference in the beginning
Me: smart enough to understand the principles behind the assassin teapot
Also me: not able to remember which hole to cover when I pour myself the tea
Lol same 😂
Same lmao
Lmao 😂
"Fuck it I'll just have both"
and that's how i caused my own death in that hypothetical scenary
"If you plan to poison your enemy, I recommend using liquids of the same color " the suggestion though 😂
He is just demonstrating that two different liquids can be kept inside the teapot
@@michaeljames4875 we know right
No assassin would have come up with that idea!
"Hey, how come your tea is a light brown and mine is a bright glowing green?"
Also make sure that when the liquids are combined, no pesky precipitates form, always check chemical reactivity beforehand. Learned that one the hard way :)
I want one of these simply for the novelty. Dispensing two teas from the same teapot! Or pouring someone a rancid ass drink at a get-together and everyone else a normal one
4:05 no matter what age you are, you always stop and think for a second before spewing out risky words like that 😂😂
That discussion of the "flow of cold" and the idea of "suction" reminded me of an article I read a few years ago where the author proposed there were no such thing as photons, and that when you turn on a torch it causes "darkons" to be sucked out of the object being illuminated. It was a fun thought experiment.
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett
@@AndorianBlues I've never ran the math but apparently if you project a shadow from Earth onto the Moon, that distance is a big enough "lever" where you can get the shadow moving faster than the speed of light without too much effort. It is a fun perspective.
@@AndorianBlues Just this morning my kid told me "When you turn off the light, its like a darkness explosion."
Consider a used and unused candle wick!
@MCSteve the problem is ste stadow is not moving. Or similarly, it you pointed a laser to the Moon, it would not be the laser dot moving. It would be photons moving from us to the moon, creating an illusion of the movement of the shadow/dot on the moon.
I.e. you can't transmit information this way faster than light. The information goes from us to different spot on moon, but not from point a on moon to point B on moon.
Steve: There is no poison in there! Don't worry about the poison! There is no poison!
Enemy: I'm reassured.
All i can think of is "do you sell poison"
@@Colt45hatchback Could it kill a rat? Say, a human sized one, one that looks like this:
Enemy: "Oh thank you, I thought there was poison in the kettle and you were about to poison me with a physic-science demonstrated kettle, where you'll have to cover up holes to give different drinks, but since you said there is no poison, I can rest and have a drink, my dude!"
Just a little side note: Are there many people who get these weird sexual spam posts in the comments of there comments? I'm talking about the post of "B e r k o" . I feel like I'm followed by some bots.
Regarding pedantry: It all comes back to the thing that Box said: All models are wrong; some are useful.
0:41 Westley, take notes!
_"if you want to poison your enemy, I recommend you use liquids of the same color"_
made me laugh
I also recommend pouring yours first - there was some obvious mixing going on in some of the pours.
Yes, Don't take any of the shots
Id be the dumbass who forgets that the poison i chose isnt a clear poison and have a very visible difference between the two.
But then you forget which one your glass...🤣
I can see Mr Bean's version of Assassin make those mistake
"Assasins's teapot" now being used as magicians' toy. How the times have changed.
But they still surprise people.
that's what a time traveler would say
Knives- now used for cooking and magic tricks
Funny thing about poison in any era ever: its kind of like a knife in 2022.
It is really dangerous as a surprise but not so much if you think of it.
The rational defense if you're being serious is to pull Mad Eye Moody: use your own cup pour your own drink accept no substitute.
With a knife, state leaders today have lots of options to avoid being stabbed
The easiest person to kill is your best friend. They never see it coming because what the hell man.
This teapot: **exists**
Yor Forger: I'll take your entire stock