I love that Flula doesn't just explain how he doesn't understand the expression and how stupid it is but he always proposes a modification to the expression. That's German engineering!
I love how he thoroughly and completely dismantles the phrase beyond recognition, and then offers a reasonable alternative. "Balls on the chair. Boom. Now we are ready for some things."
@@Revoltitionsince that comment I graduated college, got a masters degree, got married, had twins, moved internationally and have a great job. I’m very happy. I hope your life is dope.
This phrase actually comes from military aviation, where knobs on levers were shaped like balls, and to fly "balls to the wall" meant with everything turned up, and the airplane pushed to its limits.
Son of a gun is when Navy sailors got to ports, banged foreign chicks, then bailed. They were usually gunners. And flipping the middle finger during an old English versus French war came from one side cutting off p.o.w.'s crossbow trigger fingers. When the front lines faced each other, soldiers would flip off the other side to show they still had all their fingers.
@@chromaticturtle8657From what i could find, yea. It's from old school speed governors that used weighted balls. At max power the balls would be displaced furthest from the center (or closest to the governor walls).
balls to the wall is a saying dating back to world war 2 because the throttles in fighter planes had bals on them and they stopped at the wall so yeah HISTORY!
Interesting! Another military term that people think is sexual is "shoot/shot your wad". It means the wad of black powder used in rifles. Once you shot the rifle, you've "shot your wad". I used that term once and everyone around me looked horrified 😂
From my personal experience in military, when you push the ball of gear to wall you going full throttle. Similarly for pilot, the knobs on fighter plane created that phrase.
"Balls to the chair." I'm gonna marry the first person I say this to that gets the reference, regardless of gender, 'cause THAT'S the kind of person I wanna spend my life with. XD
Oh man, this just made my day! I have been looking for something like "Vollgas" in English for quite a while and somehow thought it was "full throttle", but now I know it is "Balls to the wall", yay! :D Thank you Flula for being a great English teacher (apart from grammar and pronunciation, #sorrynotsorry )
Watching season 9 of Archer and I heard Ziegler’s voice and immediately I was like, “Is that Flula? That’s Flula!” and so now I’m here again to watch the classics.
OH MY GUMDROPS he's the cutest thing ever! I didn't know he was in Pitch Perfect 2, however I've seen him on a game show (on TH-cam, however) beforehand... how have I been missing out on this cutie??
OMG I love your videos. My mom was from Germany she passed away 12 years ago. I love listening to you because she thought the same things about silly American sayings.
This comes from when airplane throttles had balls on the top of them so "balls to the wall" would be putting the throttles (balls) up to the firewall, or going full throttle
"balls to the wall" 1. term used by pilots. when accelerating quickly, the throttle is pushed all the way to the panel and the throttle lever (ball) actually touches the panel (wall). Hence, balls to the wall.
Balls to the wall is an old steamship term. They ran on boilers. The boilers had large ball bearings in a tube with slots up the side and a stop or wall at the end. The weight of the ball would determine maximum steam pressure. Running with all you had was running balls to the wall. Balls out also came from this meaning you ran so hard you broke through the walls and the balls came out. At this point you wouldn't be going much further. Knowledge for the day
There... you learned something. :) I would bet it's the generational difference. I had heard the phrase before, but while visiting my Oma in Wiesbaden, my aunt took me to Rüdesheim and a bunch of places in the area so I could get my Germany fix and what not. We visited a castle on the way and during the tour the guide actually explained on a renaissance period chest (with a wolf painted on the inside bottom) where the phrase came from. Keep it up Flula! Lustige vids...! :)
Flula It means "we are in a bad situation but we have to fight". Any situation where your balls are against a wall (maybe someone is holding you against the wall for example) is a bad situation, and if your balls are being crushed against a wall you obviously have to fight. So the expression is used to describe a difficult or challenging or even dangerous situation that one may be in, where one has little or no choice but to fight or push through the difficulty. I hope you enjoy this explanation. Your deadpan is great.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first documented use in the English language dates from a 1967 account of a U.S. air raid against Hanoi in the early Vietnam War. Rather than referring to a scenario in a dogfight, where extreme G-forces could conceivably pull looser elements of one’s anatomy in one direction or another, the phrase just refers to opening the throttles. On some U.S. military aircraft, the throttle was actuated by a lever topped by a round knob, and it was opened by pushing that lever forward. And so, to push it all the way toward the firewall was to go “balls to the wall.”
To the people saying this has to do with airplanes, you are wrong. It has to do with an early pressure relief device on steam engines. It was a spinning contraption with weighted balls. As it spun faster (more steam pressure spun it faster) the balls moved outward and the device relieved the pressure (this could act as a throttle also, to keep steam pressure high in the boiler). So when a steam locomotive needed to get somewheres fast, they ran it "balls to the wall" because the balls were full
Most people don't know this, but it's actually an old aviation term. The throttle and fuel mixture plungers often had balls at the end of them, and you'd push them to in (towards the wall) to go faster.
@KevinLakhani I guessed it must be from 'backs against the wall' which means being in a difficult or serious situation, taking its literal meaning from facing a firing squad. In such a situation it'd take some considerable ingenuity, and inventiveness to avoid death, hence 'balls to the wall' means 'take the situation seriously now', put all your mental resources in to finding a resolution as quickly as possible.
LOL (for anyone who's wondering, the expression comes from a speed controller, a governor, on a steam engine that was made with two weights suspended from chains, which would spin and move upward as the speed of the engine increased. if the balls were all the way out, "to the wall," the engine was running at maximum speed. music boxes have a similar speed control mechanism to this day. another variant is "balls out" which has everything to do with the above and nothing to do with unzipping :)
It's an aviation term. Back in WWI pilots would put tennis balls on the trottle, so it wouldn't damage the dash board when you go full throttle.. So when they go full throttle they would "put the balls to the wall".
i don't know if this junge is for real, but he makes some damn good points!!!! XD i always thought that was a weird title, but it's such a badass song, i never let it ruin my morning! XD
In the early days of airplanes, the throttle and other engine controls sometimes had ball-shaped grips. Pushing these controls all the way forward, until the balls were literally against the firewall (the wall separating the engine compartment from the cockpit), would put the engine at maximum power. This is similar to the expression "pedal to the metal" used in cars.
Actually, it precedes aeronautics. Its origin is derived from the operation of steam engines, where the mechanism which throttled the engine was the 'flyball' (centrifugal) governor. As the engine throttle was increased, these balls, which were spinning, would 'fly' outward. Thus, 'balls to the wall' meant full-throttle. (Search for wikipedia for Flyball governor)
I love that Flula doesn't just explain how he doesn't understand the expression and how stupid it is but he always proposes a modification to the expression. That's German engineering!
YOU UTTER FOOL! GERMAN ENGINEERING IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!
😂😂German engineering
This is why I'm immediately subbed to this
jojo reference
@@SpexoHow ?? At this point a piece of dust on my desk could be a Jojo reference
I love how he thoroughly and completely dismantles the phrase beyond recognition, and then offers a reasonable alternative. "Balls on the chair. Boom. Now we are ready for some things."
Poor guy never saw a gloryhole
no replies after 10 years?
@Yelmerald "this not have me to do anything. I just smelled a wall"
-Flula 2011
💀☠️
"Yesterday, I do hear an idiom that do make confusion with me." That was the best 6 seconds of my life.
wonder what you are doing in life now
@@imboerdfromlife I haven't left my computer.
@@Deej-Ay HE'S BACK
Jokes aside, I'm glad you're still alive and possibly doing well in life
@@Revoltitionsince that comment I graduated college, got a masters degree, got married, had twins, moved internationally and have a great job. I’m very happy. I hope your life is dope.
Me too
Balls to the chair. Boom. Now we are ready for some things.
LOVE IT
Chelsee Alvarado...THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! 😂😂😂
I heard sex
Back in the kitchen! NOW!
"We are both in the fatigue place."
The way he pulls off the 🤨 so perfectly is so funny
This phrase actually comes from military aviation, where knobs on levers were shaped like balls, and to fly "balls to the wall" meant with everything turned up, and the airplane pushed to its limits.
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Son of a gun is when Navy sailors got to ports, banged foreign chicks, then bailed. They were usually gunners.
And flipping the middle finger during an old English versus French war came from one side cutting off p.o.w.'s crossbow trigger fingers. When the front lines faced each other, soldiers would flip off the other side to show they still had all their fingers.
i heard it's from the ball shaped pistons in an old radial aircraft engine rubbing against the cylinder walls when you go full power.
I heard it was a prison saying…..
@@chromaticturtle8657From what i could find, yea. It's from old school speed governors that used weighted balls. At max power the balls would be displaced furthest from the center (or closest to the governor walls).
I love his perpetually raised eyebrow.
"leggies are up, and the balls now touch wall"
Nice profile picture dude
you too
I was having a bad day until my daughter showed me this I love loved it
Showed this to my mum yesterday and now she loves flula she wants me to show her a vid every five seconds 😂 even showed my dad and my grandad 😅
If dees are the legs of me and dees are the balls....how....!!!!! LMAO!
Hes a comedic genius
FLULA YOU MAKE ME SO HAPPY WHEN I AM SAD!!!!
"If these are the legs of me, right? And these are the balls..."
"Come now, let us go balls to the walls right now"
Leggies are up!!!
GeneralGrievous8705...THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! 😋😏😋
I... freaking LOVE Flula solely based on these uploads haha
Before I go to bed every night and when I wake up in the morning I watch a Flula video and my life has advanced by many.
amazing.
"BOOM.
"Now we are ready for some tings."
Balls on the chair... BOM now we are ready for some things
Had to subscribe. This guy cracks me up.
Yo shake n bake and i helped!! Uo yo yo baby yo-!@@@@
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balls to the wall is a saying dating back to world war 2 because the throttles in fighter planes had bals on them and they stopped at the wall so yeah HISTORY!
Interesting! Another military term that people think is sexual is "shoot/shot your wad". It means the wad of black powder used in rifles. Once you shot the rifle, you've "shot your wad". I used that term once and everyone around me looked horrified 😂
So, it was like: to 'firewall the throttle' was to 'go balls to the (fire) wall'? That /is/ interesting. Thank you good sir.
DON'T MENTION THE WAR!!
It's also something cops tell you if you've been arrested and they are going through the things in your pockets.
Thank you nation of Turkey
From my personal experience in military, when you push the ball of gear to wall you going full throttle. Similarly for pilot, the knobs on fighter plane created that phrase.
It came from steam engines. The 2 balls on the valve at the top spin outward as the engine rpm increases.
I love these videos! Flula's English is so funny to listen to, and then I can read the comments and find the real meaning behind the idiom.
"Balls to the chair." I'm gonna marry the first person I say this to that gets the reference, regardless of gender, 'cause THAT'S the kind of person I wanna spend my life with. XD
I agree. But I'm already married. However, now my husband and I have the BEST inside joke ever!
What does it mean?
Flula, please do at least one video every day! I count on them to cheer me up when I get home! You are needed!
i love that he makes intense eye contact and stares into your soul
"How this make me EFFEKTIV?"
Oh man, this just made my day! I have been looking for something like "Vollgas" in English for quite a while and somehow thought it was "full throttle", but now I know it is "Balls to the wall", yay! :D
Thank you Flula for being a great English teacher (apart from grammar and pronunciation, #sorrynotsorry )
I absolutely adore the German accent. These videos make me laugh so hard.
Flula, can you explain to me the meaning of.... "shake and bake" ??
Du bist sooooo witzig!!!!!!!!!!! Wenn ich down bin schaue ich mir deine Videos an und muss IMMER lachen!!!! Keep up the good work!!!!! Grosser Fan!!!
*Flula, I notice all your confusions come early in the am. Perhaps try your interpretations in the evening times, my friend. Goowd locks.*
This man has the courage to ask out loud the question we only ask ourselves in our heads. Thank you my good man 😎
Watching season 9 of Archer and I heard Ziegler’s voice and immediately I was like, “Is that Flula? That’s Flula!” and so now I’m here again to watch the classics.
boom
now we are ready from some sthings
Hay you coppyed somewan
OH MY GUMDROPS he's the cutest thing ever! I didn't know he was in Pitch Perfect 2, however I've seen him on a game show (on TH-cam, however) beforehand... how have I been missing out on this cutie??
Calm down you hormonal maniac.
@@LeatherCladVegan coming from a vegan LMAOOOOOOOOO
@@binqilin5088 Who is a vegan?
I am so glad I found your videos! It has been nonstop laughter!!
"Now we are ready for some things."
LOL Flula you are hilarious.
First I get addicted to "My Drunk Kitchen", now I can't stop watching djflula videos. Life is good!
English -> 01:39 - pass auf, guck mal -> english continues :D hahahahaha
this is fucking genius.. plain and simple!
i fell over laughing, now my balls are on the floor
He almost speaks English correctly, but then he realizes it and corrects it...
Balls to the wall MAN!! One of my favorite songs by German heavy metal band ACCEPT. Cant say I have ever thought of the phrase in these terms! Haha
I hope you know Flula, I quote you daily and people think I am insane, but I still do it with joy and love.
Subtitles : "I do not want my testicles touching on my wall or any other wall in the world it GROWS"
"Now we are ready for some things" is ironically the most motivating phrase i've heard all year!
OMG I love your videos. My mom was from Germany she passed away 12 years ago. I love listening to you because she thought the same things about silly American sayings.
This comes from when airplane throttles had balls on the top of them so "balls to the wall" would be putting the throttles (balls) up to the firewall, or going full throttle
You know, for a DJ, this guy's up and ready pretty early in the morning.
"Flula, come on... let's go Balls to the Wall... right now". XD love this guy
im learning more than what 8 years of school taught me
That realization was great! "Ooooooh... Pass auf! Guck mal!" XD Hab' dich lieb Flula!
I agree! There are way too many quotes to choose from. I would end up quoting the entire video. Flula is hilarious!!
"balls to the wall" 1. term used by pilots. when accelerating quickly, the throttle is pushed all the way to the panel and the throttle lever (ball) actually touches the panel (wall). Hence, balls to the wall.
Noooooooo. I thought this was a real dude. 2nd vod in and I caught on. GG tho, had me with the "I make walk wit muh legs, yeauuhh"
It means to go so fast that the gforce pulls the long balled americans junk to the wall.
Oh but now I just lie down like yoga pose.... Haha 🙊
I freaking love you!!! you make my day every time i watch your vids!!
Now we are ready for some things
You get your balls to the wall man!!! Gotta love that Accept song.
Was looking for this comment.
@@hellknightmordred7655 you found it after 10 years!
Funny! And nice to look at too ;) Makes one stop to think about the way we use words.
love his slight wince at the end lmao
All the people who don't get this is a character he's playing/a joke...
Balls to the wall is an old steamship term. They ran on boilers. The boilers had large ball bearings in a tube with slots up the side and a stop or wall at the end. The weight of the ball would determine maximum steam pressure. Running with all you had was running balls to the wall. Balls out also came from this meaning you ran so hard you broke through the walls and the balls came out. At this point you wouldn't be going much further. Knowledge for the day
Well now I’m just staring at ze wall. Dis does not help me. . . Do anything. . . Except stare at a wall.
I love your videos! Will you do one on "Artsy Fartsy?" 😂
There... you learned something. :) I would bet it's the generational difference. I had heard the phrase before, but while visiting my Oma in Wiesbaden, my aunt took me to Rüdesheim and a bunch of places in the area so I could get my Germany fix and what not. We visited a castle on the way and during the tour the guide actually explained on a renaissance period chest (with a wolf painted on the inside bottom) where the phrase came from.
Keep it up Flula! Lustige vids...! :)
I was already laughing when i saw the thumbnail
"How does this do"
"If this is the legs of me"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Flula It means "we are in a bad situation but we have to fight".
Any situation where your balls are against a wall (maybe someone is holding you against the wall for example) is a bad situation, and if your balls are being crushed against a wall you obviously have to fight.
So the expression is used to describe a difficult or challenging or even dangerous situation that one may be in, where one has little or no choice but to fight or push through the difficulty.
I hope you enjoy this explanation.
Your deadpan is great.
After watching three of your videos and laughing till I almost throw up, I'd say you just earned another subscriber
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first documented use in the English language dates from a 1967 account of a U.S. air raid against Hanoi in the early Vietnam War. Rather than referring to a scenario in a dogfight, where extreme G-forces could conceivably pull looser elements of one’s anatomy in one direction or another, the phrase just refers to opening the throttles. On some U.S. military aircraft, the throttle was actuated by a lever topped by a round knob, and it was opened by pushing that lever forward. And so, to push it all the way toward the firewall was to go “balls to the wall.”
"How does make of me effektiv?" LOL you got me there xD
"smell the wall" is a great name for an album
can't figure out if he's saying 'effect fatigue" or "effective"
To the people saying this has to do with airplanes, you are wrong. It has to do with an early pressure relief device on steam engines. It was a spinning contraption with weighted balls. As it spun faster (more steam pressure spun it faster) the balls moved outward and the device relieved the pressure (this could act as a throttle also, to keep steam pressure high in the boiler). So when a steam locomotive needed to get somewheres fast, they ran it "balls to the wall" because the balls were full
“We’re both just in the fatigue place” - what an absolute mood!
I fucking love you mate hahaha what a guy. Too funny keep it going forever. Your like a German Ali G ish
Flula is my new hero!
First person to use "COOK" 1:40
I love this guy so much I wish I could subscribe twice
Is this guy for real. I love it!!!
Most people don't know this, but it's actually an old aviation term. The throttle and fuel mixture plungers often had balls at the end of them, and you'd push them to in (towards the wall) to go faster.
@cosmosman Yes. That's why this guy's several "confusion" videos have so many views and are so widely enjoyed.
@Spooie Close, but it actually originated with airplanes. The throttle in an airplane is like a ball. If you push it in, the throttle increases.
I think it would be less of a yoga pose and more going into the missionary position
@KevinLakhani I guessed it must be from 'backs against the wall' which means being in a difficult or serious situation, taking its literal meaning from facing a firing squad. In such a situation it'd take some considerable ingenuity, and inventiveness to avoid death, hence 'balls to the wall' means 'take the situation seriously now', put all your mental resources in to finding a resolution as quickly as possible.
German Logic is the best. i love these vids
LOL
(for anyone who's wondering, the expression comes from a speed controller, a governor, on a steam engine that was made with two weights suspended from chains, which would spin and move upward as the speed of the engine increased. if the balls were all the way out, "to the wall," the engine was running at maximum speed. music boxes have a similar speed control mechanism to this day.
another variant is "balls out" which has everything to do with the above and nothing to do with unzipping :)
Sehr effektive
Flula, you never fail to impress me.
It's an aviation term. Back in WWI pilots would put tennis balls on the trottle, so it wouldn't damage the dash board when you go full throttle.. So when they go full throttle they would "put the balls to the wall".
i don't know if this junge is for real, but he makes some damn good points!!!! XD i always thought that was a weird title, but it's such a badass song, i never let it ruin my morning! XD
I laughed so hard it hurt....this guys a riot!
rolling on the floor can't stop laughing lucky he did have to take a staple gun to it
i can't squeeze all the love i have for this man out. that's right.
In the early days of airplanes, the throttle and other engine controls sometimes had ball-shaped grips. Pushing these controls all the way forward, until the balls were literally against the firewall (the wall separating the engine compartment from the cockpit), would put the engine at maximum power. This is similar to the expression "pedal to the metal" used in cars.
Actually, it precedes aeronautics. Its origin is derived from the operation of steam engines, where the mechanism which throttled the engine was the 'flyball' (centrifugal) governor. As the engine throttle was increased, these balls, which were spinning, would 'fly' outward. Thus, 'balls to the wall' meant full-throttle. (Search for wikipedia for Flyball governor)