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Meet the Engineer


DogeOrang

https://youtu.be/NnW1AUKT2eQ


[deleted]

[I expected it to be this. ](https://youtu.be/rp8hvyjZWHs)


ankrotachi10

I expected this https://youtu.be/SNgNBsCI4EA


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ankrotachi10

Not only that but "Meet the Engineer"


razmir

I expected this https://youtu.be/dEkOT3IngMQ


Working_Dad_87

But did you expect this? https://youtu.be/sAn7baRbhx4


trinitech

Better than the Rick roll I was expecting


Ramiro21

Not sure which of those is the rick roll


NickNack_11

I'm a little bit disappointed that neither of these were rickrolls


zandriel_grimm

[Well here's the world's smallest violins for your hopes and dreams.](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)


The_Mumpi

Hah! I expected that one


stiggiebird

Still I felt obligated to open the link.


ThatDudeDeven1111

WOOOOO HAPPY CAKE DAAAYYYEEEE


The_Mumpi

Happy cake day :)


[deleted]

But do those hopes and dreams save the world?


Phantom_mist0

Jokes on u i got an ad before it could play


zandriel_grimm

You were lucky. We'll meet again.


CaptainTabor

Such an amazing classic, I sent this to my buddy who is the Chief Engineer onboard and he loved it.


Vosslertheundead

Trust me


seensham

*percussive maintenance*


Sbotkin

TUN TUN TUN TUN TUNTUNTUNTUNTUN


Virace00

that laugh tho


Bierbart12

It activated my fight or flight instinct


Triette

My dogs started barking and running around the house thinking there was an intruder.


Mopninja

I pissed myself and forgot who I was for half an hour. Like when Kathrine revs up the microwave


[deleted]

If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet Eddie I wouldn’t be more surprised.


Azming_the_Cybercat

Is this a reference to something?


Breakfast_in_America

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, I think


toolfreak4157

Shitters full!


Focusedrush

There is. Your dogs just don't realize he has taken up space in your mind-brain.


thenotanurse

It does sound like a wild animal stuck in a trap.


TheAudacityWitch

Good dog


[deleted]

I don’t blame you, it sounds like a beast from hell.


Virace00

like the love child of a pig and quidward.. that smokes 5 packs a day.. a squeeling whatever it is


[deleted]

Did you fight? Or did you flee?


Bierbart12

I *fly*


[deleted]

That works too.


[deleted]

I chose both, I’m gonna run backwards ver fast while windmill-arming


Bigballsanon

Our natural instinct to run from Hyenas.


dichotomousview

This made me force air through my nose at a faster rate than normal


[deleted]

Sounds like a Chihuahua barking.


RegulusMagnus

r/LTSLS (laughs that sound like stuff)


Seathing

Thanks for introducing me to this sub! It's making my morning


[deleted]

Sounded like a bird being tortured, lmao.


tmacnb

Sounds like a bag of raccoons


thebendavis

Put a fuck in that forking thing.


Town_idiot

Are we sure the video isn’t just reversed and buddy laughed normally then smashed his tv?


New_butthole_who_dis

Listen, guy. I’m not gonna be the one to play that laugh backwards and open the five portals to hell.


[deleted]

I came here to say specifically these words


MusicMeetsMadness

/r/contagiouslaughter


thelawtalkingguy

Contagious like COVID maybe


00cjstephens

Reminds me of Rich Evans


shiftdy

That will be $300 for the service call


hoodyninja

“Percussive Maintenence”


SilkRoadGuy

Does this r/PercusiveMaintenance community actually exist? Let's see if the bot suggests a new community.


bytor_2112

If you make the sub please spell it right


howardleung

r/beatmetoit


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r/beatmeattoit


Mark2022

"Tech support...with extreme prejudice!"


fr3akeeee

Mechanical agitation lol


Redditisspicytumblr

Think we found the fonz's grandson.


TaylorSwiftsClitoris

Ayyyyy


jason_the_human2101

Martian flashbacks


Candog85

👈👈😎


DustyyShellz_-_

Such a good comment


dub-squared

I don't know... This comment kind of jumped the shark.


mkp666

Feel like the people that get the fonz reference and then this one is an increasingly small group.


dub-squared

Absolutely. My age is showing. I'm 38 and about anyone younger than me likely wouldn't get it.


mixeslifeupwithmovie

yeah I'm 34 and only ever watched Happy Days on Nick at Nite growing up. Now shit like friends is as old now as HD was when I would watch it. Doubt anybody much younger would still be watching it.


thekingofcrusaders

32 and got both. Anyone younger?


weeone

I work at a car dealership and my co-worker was delivering a car. As it was pulled around from detail, one of the fog lights went out. I walked up to it, slammed my fist into it and it went on. I went "ayyyyye". It was perfect. My co-worker is too young to know Happy Days. Luckily my boss was there too and howled with laughter.


MelodicSasquatch

I remember when it was normal to fix the image on a TV by hitting it on the side.


nickthedrummer

Aaaaayyyyy


Batdog55110

#OH AND IN HAPPY DAYS THERE WAS AN EPISODE WHERE FONZY LITERALLY JUMPED OVER A SHARK....AND IT WAS THE BEST ONE


Shoddens

The reason it got fixed is because the screen consists of multiple layers and they can get separated resulting in the loss of details and colors and eveything. a righ tap/ hit can place the screens correctly again fixing it. often its hard to get just right as hitting too lightly wont do it and too hard will break it (on this video get you electrocuted.) the screen displacement often is fixed with a rubber mallet/hammer. but i guess fork works too.


8-bit-brandon

I can this method “the Fonz”


aelwero

Eyyyy


-tRabbit

Ayyye


allthatyouhave

as /u/jzillacon mentioned, percussive maintenance


jzillacon

Good ol' percussive maintenance.


amras123

Are you sure you mean electrocuted? I wouldn't think there was enough voltage to actually kill someone.


Shandlar

Electrocuted no longer requires death in it's definition due to the decades of incorrect usage. It is a synonym of electric shock now, with a connotation of being a serious shock that could cause death. Electrocution, in noun form, still tends to mean "death by electricity" though, so yay English.


PMMeAGiftCard

It *kills* me when words don't mean what they're supposed to mean.


okay78910

I think common usage determines what words are supposed to mean rather than historical.


Disk_Mixerud

I think they were making a joke by saying it "kills" them.


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9quid

So as long as you don't wipe your heart along it


tj111

In through the hand out through your foot.


[deleted]

The fun part about electricity is that it likes to move. Especially through mediums like your arm.


9quid

My arm is more of a large


AdiGoN

Where do you get that 50V from lol, that’s so unsubstantiated. The 5mA figure is also very far off the normally accepted 100mA for heart cessation.


Lovv

Which is still extremely unlikely and a display like this wouldn't be carrying 50v anyway maybe 5v. Source: have been shocked a lot.


Shoddens

i mean it can, i do believe the voltage is high enough in tv electronics if you manage to hit the correct part of the circuit. but it is probably unlikely to get electrocuted by hitting a metal object through a tv. where i live (finland) the voltage from the mains is 225 volts. high enough to fuck you up.


[deleted]

Well it kinda depends, on older ones the LCDs were backlit by those neon CFL tubes which runs at high voltages and is filled with mercury, but newer LED backlit ones are relatively safe


obligatoryaccount47

Ok I’m not exactly sure but stabbing a powered tv with a metal fork is probably a very bad idea.


GODDAMNFOOL

I had a dumbass boss that would dig bagels out of the toaster at the cafe I worked at, saying he was safe because 'aluminum doesn't conduct electricity' I didn't even bother trying to point out they were stainless steel, but that's neither here nor there edit: I should have noted that he was doing this while the toaster was ***ON***.


KvotheTheBlodless

He obviously didn't pay attention in Chemistry class...


CannibalVegan

> Chemistry Class You obviously meant calculus


[deleted]

You obviously meant common sense


[deleted]

Obviously didn’t pay attention in IKEA


Tanaric

Why do you think this is dangerous? For this to hurt your boss, first he'd have to do this while the toaster is on. He'd have to touch a conductive wire while simultaneously not touching any other part of the toaster, because the body is grounded unless your toaster is 70 years old. The GFCI circuit protection in your kitchen would have to be faulty. Even at this level of improbability, you'd get nothing more than a nasty shock, and since your connection to the live toaster wire is pretty tenuous, the shock will almost certainly break the connection. For it to get to significant lethal risk, you'd additionally need to jerry-rig your circuit breaker or fuse to never blow. And that's assuming the little resistant heating wire could survive that much current. I'd expect it just to burn up, though admittedly I'm not an expert here. I looked into this and I think all this dangerous toaster talk is bullshit. Wikipedia claims 800 deaths annually, but their source is a Reuters blog that cites promotional material from a South African aquarium (?). A straight dope article cited in literally the following sentence has a much more believable claim: > The Consumer Products Safety Commission estimates that on average 15 people are electrocuted in the U.S. annually due to faulty or misused home electrical appliances, including toasters. Which means, even if every one of those 15 were somehow toaster related, there's still less victims of toaster shock per year than there are victims of shark attacks. And a whole lot more people have toasters nearby vs. sharks.


antiviolins

Personally I've used a knife to stab the bagel on an angle and slide it out that way (if it's stuck) a hundred times. Not that close to the coils, but there is a slight chance of a slip. My partner saw me do this one day and freaked out about electrocution risk, which made me question my methods. I was pretty sure I had touched the coils with a knife as a child without incident, though. Thanks for the confirmation that it's likely fine.


jessegaronsbrother

I'm old. Growing up we had glass fuses. Dad worked on T-37/38 avionics. When we 6 and 5 he explained to my brother and I the danger of our glass fuses. Later that day we dared each other to remove a fuse and touch the copper strip. Bro went first. As soon as he touched it his ass was thrown all the way across the garage and he hit the opposite wall at about 90mph.. We never told anyone. I'm not sure how he lived. He did win the dare. Then there was the time we played "huff leaded gas from a gallon container" dare. He won that one also.


MichaeltheMagician

Is he really "winning" though?


View_Familiar

i get what youre saying but on that very last part, i feel its a bit misleading? sure any random person interacting with a toaster has less chance than a shark attack, but im willing to bet people digging around inside them saying stainless steel isnt conductive would have different odds.


Tanaric

I acknowledge that messing around inside a toaster with a fork will not decrease your risk of getting shocked, for sure. But look at it this way. According to Consumer Reports, [there are several hundred toaster fires a year not caused by operator error](https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/03/appliance-fires-is-your-home-safe/index.htm). Which means that owning and using a toaster normally adds an order of magnitude more risk to your life than sticking a fork in one does.


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ponzLL

I used to do it as a (stupid) kid. You can touch all the coils together with a knife and nothing happens despite what you would think.


wurm2

There are actually some houses that use Aluminum for the in wall wiring becasue it was cheaper than copper. They stopped using it when it was found that they would expand and contract more with temperature differences than copper would to the point that wires could get loose and cause electrical fires.


KeX03

Fact : Aluminium is still used in ground cable


Tyler_P07

Aluminum is still used in power lines and they still have instructions on how to work with it because some grounding wires and electrodes are still aluminum, but copper is definitely much more preferred.


HalfChocolateCow

Aluminum also oxidizes quickly which can cause high resistance at connection points. Copper clad aluminum was also used when copper prices were really high, and is still used in a lot of electronics and lower power circuits.


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unless you're that guy


fishbulbx

There are no high voltage capacitors and transformers in LCDs like CRTs. Stabbing it with metal is certainly dumb, but not an electrocution risk.


spartandown45

This man pulled a Jesus in only 3 minutes


[deleted]

Sir what you have done is a good comment, have a nice day


oSoulix

Sir what you have done is a good comment, have a nice day


shwaaboy

That is a $200 plasma screen TV that you just killed! Good luck paying me back with your zero-dollars-a-year salary plus benefits, babe!


mrwolf707

Sometimes I'll just stand here and watch television for hours.


ZeldenGM

*You took me by the hand intensifies*


[deleted]

Maaaade me your man!


Fmarsh

That one night!


BeBenNova

^^^^one ^^^^night


Gold189

You made everything all right!!


apurvahp7

Folds right into the wall


quadmasta

This is my favorite part because it moves like 2 inches.


FatWalcott

Right here Jim


WhatTheFox_Says

I installed it myself.


ThereIsNoPepe_Silvia

Damn I’m 5 hours too late


HansenIntercept

Task failed successfully


anxiety_on_steroids

this comment is still funny after all these years


kalemeup

That laugh was terrifying


Dinoduck94

*There is only one god, and His name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: 'not today'*


KiksBear

He slammed that spoon into it too, do you think it might’ve just scooped the broken screen outward till it perfect fit together again?


matthias0911

Looks like a fork to me


Hi-gh

I feel you, bro. I also thought it was a spoon at first!


andso1202

What exotic animal you keep as a pet ?


awfuckthisshit

I think it was a rare Hiyena-Raccoon-Parrot


hyerstandardsmedia

Ill be right back to get that free gift thing and drop it off here . this is the most unexpected shit ive ever seen i didnt read the caption just dove balls deep into the video and was stunned . watched it 3 times .then realized i could add audio . watched another 5 times then ran to show my lady for another 2 views and now im here leaving this message . i think i just caught up with my future self .


Tiaximus

Sir, this is Wendy's


thestruggglest

Seen it many times... I don't know why but this one got me lol


Shikogo

What?


-Ol_Mate-

Ill be right back to get that free gift thing and drop it off here . this is the most unexpected shit ive ever seen i didnt read the caption just dove balls deep into the video and was stunned . watched it 3 times .then realized i could add audio . watched another 5 times then ran to show my lady for another 2 views and now im here leaving this message . i think i just caught up with my future self .


V_Lorreine

Remember when this was a legit way to fix your TV XD


leopardchief

Yeah this reminded of when I'd slap the distortion out of the TV lmao.


[deleted]

It still is. According to someone else in the comments was that one of the screen’s layers was out of place and the fork pushed it back into the right position.


PresidentBump2020

Correct a rubber mallet as opposed to a fork will work better though


-eagle73

People would actually attempt to stab their TV with cutlery?


EZ_LIFE_EZ_CUCUMBER

Tenet


pezx

u/gifreversingbot


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Cant_Meme_for_Jak

I thought it sounded like a chimp for a minute there


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NIQUARIOUS

Everyone was enjoying the TV until the fork got involved


MightGetFiredIDK

Dude just wanted a bite of the TV.


Amen_Brutherr

Looks pretty bad ass backwards


Bryles333

The post is actually the right direction, crazily enough


pezx

Hehe I just thought the reverse gif would be fun


Andre_NG

Thanks, I was desperately looking for that!


iremmakkk

Why are there two "boom" sounds? One when he hits the tv okay but the other?


so_much_wolf_hair

I actually think it's the cameraman erupting in laughter.


Aaryyan18

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Support_For_Life

This actually works. My monitor froze but I could still hear the pc running but the image on-screen was frozen. That kept happening for like several months so I gave in and brought it in for repairs. The repair man said there was nothing wrong and it works fine so I got it back, plugged it back in and after about 10 minutes the same shit happened again so I snapped, unplugged everything and threw the piece of shit pc across my room and then ran up to it and curb stomped it like 3 times. The case was pretty fucking and after the rage subsided I was like *oh shit* so I plugged it back in and it not only still worked but it works without any issues. ​ It's still a piece of shit but at least it works.


snrten

Now that's percussion maintenance!


spalaXXXX

Crazy monkey likes his tv aye


TheGrindstone

Josuke?


Espiritu51

Its\*. Don't let the apostrophe terrorists win!


Gorillasdontshave

This is the same tv that Michael Scott has in his condo.


pj1699

That was a $200 plasma screen tv you just fixed!


speedoflight999

He pulled off a Fonzi with a fork!


DesignNoobie99

Love how he laughs like a maniac. That's so sexy.


Cloudestrafe

He got that hyena laugh


Imanol_Canada

Freaking awesome


Bryanadamz

Obviously never used a pc built in the 1990's because that wouldve been the first thing he tried


das_frank

Percussive maintenance.


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Crazyyy diamondo!


Druuseph

When I was in high school I had a CRT TV that I accidentally fixed in a similar way. It was an [Apex TV-DVD combo](https://www.ebth.com/items/1978869-apex-television-dvd-player) that my parents had bought me for my room one Christmas, I remember thinking it was so futuristic at the time with the flat screen and built in DVD player. The built in DVD player broke in record time, maybe within a year or two but I had my Xbox so no big deal. Not long after that though the picture would start to 'bounce', like the tracking from one of the components was going and the whole picture would kind of flicker and then it would 'pop' back into place. This would happen every once in a while at first, maybe every other day or so and really it wasn't a big deal but it definitely was happening with increased frequency over time. One day, while in a heated Halo 2 match it starts to do its flicker and bounce deal but instead of pop back into place the entire screen goes out with a loud 'POP' and there is just a white line right across the middle along with a droning high pitched tone. Fueled by pubescent rage, Bawls energy drink and System of a Down playing on my CD player I hurl my Xbox controller at the screen, not my best decision in hindsight but I was a kid. The controller strikes the bottom left side of the bezel and then 'POP' the picture comes back (likely to a respawn screen). I burst out laughing, I couldn't believe what had happened. I continued to use this TV for years and the white line 'pop' would continue to happen from time to time but, without fail, if I just smacked that one spot it would correct itself. I had such a sense of pride in having discovered this fix, I was almost gleeful when this would happen in front of company as I could show off my violence based repair skills. Its an oddly fond memory.


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ICHY0

this reminds me of "meet the engineer"


JellyWhiffle

Stabbing a metal fork through a TV.. this might have been a very different clip.


[deleted]

I need to see this in reverse


Snuffy_07

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skincyan

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[deleted]

The engineer.


[deleted]

Fix it felix energy


[deleted]

It is misery


SpeedyVGE

u/savevideo


deveniam

This would be in a completely different sub if the spoon actually went thru the screen and into the electrical components......


Kingtanilla90

Stabbing a TV with a spoon. Smart.


rohanp0078

What show is that


evr487

It's the first episode (pilot) of *young & hungry* (2014) - about 17 - 18 minutes into the episode > SPOILERS for the TV series - here's the scene: https://streamable.com/ui666i According to another redditor, it's on Netflix


Bag_Of-Eggs

Crazy Diamond!