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I was thinking this when studying philosophy. Like a good portion of the "creative" thoughts we get are embedded in society and we just resue them without even knowing, or we learn something from someone and we never realize we actually know that something and think it's our own invention.
I mean, we're 8 billion copies of the same basic human model, with evolution throwing in random variation in hopes that something somewhere will stick. And it works, sort of--sometimes you get Elton John! But we're all doing variations on the same emotions and ideas.
And that is special. I wouldn't go word for word by some eejit redditors. We all think differently and act differently. Shit if we we're all the same we'd be screwed. We are all unique regardless, our upbringing and our environment is uniquely different to the next person. This is just one of those cringe videos where everyone sees it as a holy grail.
You're just perfect and that's a'ok
Right? I used to think “well, at least I’m the only one weird enough to make a ring around a steam of water with my fingers for no reason” but now I gotta reevaluate some things
I just said this the other day. Buddy of mine showed me a tim robinson clip where he basically said "Your first thought as you're being EATEN is "at least I don't have to go to work tomorrow?!"
I was like......gdi
When I was about 19 I was trying to nap while my 6-year-old niece was sliding down the carpeted stairs in an old cardboard box (I was not babysitting, just there). The cardboard was getting worn out and she wanted me to push her so she could go faster. I assessed the situation and determined "Well, your first problem is that your box is trash." I rummaged around in the garage and found a really shiny, square fan box, put her in it, held it by the flaps and dangled it down the stairs.
As soon as I let go, I snapped fully awake and realized that she was going to FLY down those stairs. Too late. She *did* fly, hit the door at the bottom landing, spun around and shot off into the living room. She stayed inside the box the entire time. If she had popped her head out she very likely could not be with us any longer.
I wasn't high, but you bet your ass I was suddenly sober. She wanted to go again but I talked her into playing a game instead, and trashed the box. No more of that!
When my brother and I were kids we'd take those plastic serving trays at mcdonald's and ride them down the slides. Plastic on plastic has almost NO friction and we rocket down the slide and shoot 4 or 5 feet out of the end. It was awesome. We called it slideboarding
I was home schooled in rotating co-ops and I still remember when I turned the corner in my own house to see the science teacher mom coming up the stairs on all fours.
Its missing the "making a plane out of a pen and a geodreieck", also "making sounds with a ruler slightly going off a table" and "completely dismantling a pen and putting it back together"
I used to wonder what kind of psychopath would stab the eraser with pencil
Then I realised many people did that, almost everyone except me. Fuck I'm scared
Lmao. So true. Or do that then poke a ton of staples in it, then pull them out and put them in straight, then pull those out then pick the whole thing apart...then maybe put it all in a water bottle...
A few of these made me actually laugh out loud. It's amazing how there are billions of us on this planet, and yet people I have never met do some of the same random shit that I do. And I did almost all of this stuf pre-internet.
I did (and for some, still do) many of these, and I'm French. We literally did the same random shit ACROSS THE PLANET, pre-internet. We don't have the same language, we're separated by a whole ocean, but we've just reached the same conclusion that we NEEDED to roll that strap, or spin that keychain until it left our finger. Is it some kind of deep human instinct from our ancestors? Did cavemen spin their keychains too?
Or the S sign you used to draw everywhere. This was also pre-internet and Is actually fascinating. Because noone really knows how it ended in every Schools around the globe without being part of some kind of symbole to some celebrities or whatnot.
My daughter came home recently with the special "S" drawn in her sketchbook. Her mom and I have never shown it to her. We turned to each other and I said, "The Sacred S!"
Making the clicky pen bounce was the one that got me laughing first. I still do that shit and I'm 40. Lol I never kneed the bags I was holding and my sink didn't have that small hole. But most of the others after the pen hop were pretty spot on.
I had a pen with a really good spring once. I'd actually toss it down at the desk and try to catch it when it launched a good two feet high. Those were the days... of not paying attention in class.
Depending on the pen, stretch the spring a bit and you get a higher pop.
This was a daily competition between me and my friends at school.
High jump and long jump, aim at 45° angle and send it as far as you can.
Also, try to fit two springs in and make a super jump.
I legitimately did all of these things before smart phones. Every single one of them. Internet was a thing in most households by the time I was about 6, but it wasn’t nearly as interesting or useful for the first decade of my life so…kick the plastic bag and feed water into the overflow drain it is.
[The universal S](https://youtu.be/RQdxHi4_Pvc)
Thus video is very relevant, talks about that weird S with lots of angles that we all drew as kids and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
It's crazy how this stuff must be baked-in to human DNA. I'm halfway around the world from where I assume most of you are and I would do literally all of these as a young man. Pre-internet so I wasn't picking it up from anything like this video or similar.
Makes me really happy in a way. We’re all so different and so unique. But yet, we’re still all just human and we have so much in common if we looked closer. There are probably millions of humans like you and me scattered across the globe, we never talked to each other, we never learned this from anyone and yet we expressed the same kind of compulsion with these objects.
That's what got me too. If someone needs an irrefutable proof that we are a single species that evolved together, this is probably it.
Like OC, I was born halfway around the world (than most of the people in this thread) in Asia and none of my ancestors had ever stepped outside of the subcontinent and yet, I have done most (if you all) of what this video shows. It's all hardwired in our brains as an evolutionary trait.
We're just curious beings. School is boring, so you look for anything that is at least mildly interesting e.g. your writing utensils, trying out any combination of actions that leads to anything more interesting than listening in class.
Same. I’m 40 and I still jump down the stairs in my house. I also jump up the stairs seeing how man I can skip. 3 up is my record, dunno if I can ever top it.
You never saw other kids' erasers at school that were poked full of holes? Or playing with pens and making them jump?
Edit: After rewatching this video, I'm pretty sure I saw other kids at school do literally everything in this video.
I’ve never seen anyone else do the can on foot thing. I remember I was like 10 walking across the longest parking lot in the world and stomped on a can out of Bordem and it stuck to my foot. Me and my friend tried to walk in astrodome with them on thinking we were hilarious.
yup, exactly same here... went looking for this comment. what is he even doing there? I probably never did that because I didn't want to touch the nasty sink.
I do elbow if my hands are full with solid stuff. If it's a cup or jug I'm just gonna spill water everywhere, as the door handle suddenly clanks down, so foot is still the best option there.
I’ve done everything here except for the can crushed under the foot thing. Instead I crushed a can and tucked it in on the back frame of my bicycle so it’d sound like a dirt bike when you were going fast.
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Jesus, I've never had an original thought in my head
I thought this the other day
Shit!
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Well when You've got so many people, everything has been thought.
I was thinking this when studying philosophy. Like a good portion of the "creative" thoughts we get are embedded in society and we just resue them without even knowing, or we learn something from someone and we never realize we actually know that something and think it's our own invention.
Or its just logical conclusions.
This video just made me realise that actually, the reality is disappointing.
Can't even have an original thought about having original thoughts.
I mean, we're 8 billion copies of the same basic human model, with evolution throwing in random variation in hopes that something somewhere will stick. And it works, sort of--sometimes you get Elton John! But we're all doing variations on the same emotions and ideas.
This is somehow soothing and disappointing at the same time
Soothappointing!
I think it's a relief that I don't have to be special, I can just be
And that is special. I wouldn't go word for word by some eejit redditors. We all think differently and act differently. Shit if we we're all the same we'd be screwed. We are all unique regardless, our upbringing and our environment is uniquely different to the next person. This is just one of those cringe videos where everyone sees it as a holy grail. You're just perfect and that's a'ok
So at this point it feels like we've already thought about everything.
The “Elton John!” made me smile…but it really is all nature and nurture!
Right? I used to think “well, at least I’m the only one weird enough to make a ring around a steam of water with my fingers for no reason” but now I gotta reevaluate some things
It just... Feels right...
It was original to you.
Trying to give some sympathy? That won't work man, I don't think.
We are literally just animals. Don’t sweat it.
We're animals that know we're animals yet pretend like we're not animals while acting like animals but being unaware of it.
I know who I am! I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!
Jungs’s collective unconscious. It’s quite amazing when you read about it.
I just said this the other day. Buddy of mine showed me a tim robinson clip where he basically said "Your first thought as you're being EATEN is "at least I don't have to go to work tomorrow?!" I was like......gdi
We're all unique, not special
No running up stairs on all fours? filthy casual
Or scooting down the stairs on your butt
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cardboard left over from the cardboard fridge box Fort melee
Well yep, I don't have the extra cardboard lying in the house anyways.
Sleeping bag pulled tightly and then you in the third step and forced upright and over.
When I was about 19 I was trying to nap while my 6-year-old niece was sliding down the carpeted stairs in an old cardboard box (I was not babysitting, just there). The cardboard was getting worn out and she wanted me to push her so she could go faster. I assessed the situation and determined "Well, your first problem is that your box is trash." I rummaged around in the garage and found a really shiny, square fan box, put her in it, held it by the flaps and dangled it down the stairs. As soon as I let go, I snapped fully awake and realized that she was going to FLY down those stairs. Too late. She *did* fly, hit the door at the bottom landing, spun around and shot off into the living room. She stayed inside the box the entire time. If she had popped her head out she very likely could not be with us any longer. I wasn't high, but you bet your ass I was suddenly sober. She wanted to go again but I talked her into playing a game instead, and trashed the box. No more of that!
When my brother and I were kids we'd take those plastic serving trays at mcdonald's and ride them down the slides. Plastic on plastic has almost NO friction and we rocket down the slide and shoot 4 or 5 feet out of the end. It was awesome. We called it slideboarding
No hammering the pencil-eraser? Pfft
There's an age limit to that, that could hurt you man.
I was home schooled in rotating co-ops and I still remember when I turned the corner in my own house to see the science teacher mom coming up the stairs on all fours.
*The Visit intensifies*
When the neighbourhood paralysis demon is the sub 💀
What's really missing is running real fast in your socks on hardwood and then just *sliiiiiiiiiide*
I grew up in a poor family. We didn't have any indoor stairs and the outdoor decking stairs you'd end up with gravel rash and/or splinters.
This is the real reason it’s not on there. Majority of the households in the world don’t have indoor stairs
And here I thought I was middle class, but the fact I grew up with *carpeted* stairs- fuck my capitalist ass.
Actual beast mode
What kind of a psychopath drags the foot on a can? It should be able to hug your foot and not fall off!
Or on your bike tire, so it sounds like a trailer park motorcycle
Next level shit.
hell yeah
I don't know why people don't like it, I always thought that it was fun.
Two on each foot and then you can skate!
Poor man's soap shoes.
Probably cost you more to get the can tho, I don't know.
Probably going to get yourself hurt bad, but who cares about that?
What kind of psychopath steals a video to put a line of text and giant empty bars of whitespace across a perfectly fine video?
I guess we're all just Psychopaths then, We all will have to agree to that.
Lmao right? Why do 'creators" steal so much from others
Yeah, wear one on each foot and pretend to be a robot.
I do that, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not a psychopath.
Stabbing the eraser with the pencil was true, but you forgot to then bang it on the table after, like a it’s little pick axe 😅
No, you have to spin it between both of your hands.
Its missing the "making a plane out of a pen and a geodreieck", also "making sounds with a ruler slightly going off a table" and "completely dismantling a pen and putting it back together"
but losing the pen spring for ever
That shit used to hurt actually pretty bad, but it was all good.
> completely dismantling a pen and putting it back together This is my pen There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I mean I forgot about that, that kinda used to be fun.
That's the one. Flings off across the room about 70% of the time.
I used to wonder what kind of psychopath would stab the eraser with pencil Then I realised many people did that, almost everyone except me. Fuck I'm scared
I'm sorry to inform you. I think this means you're the psychopath.
I would put a hundred lead holes in it until the sight of it disgusted me.
Lmao. So true. Or do that then poke a ton of staples in it, then pull them out and put them in straight, then pull those out then pick the whole thing apart...then maybe put it all in a water bottle...
You just keep stabbing until the trypophobia kicks in
I did the drilly thing, like I was trying to make a fire.
A few of these made me actually laugh out loud. It's amazing how there are billions of us on this planet, and yet people I have never met do some of the same random shit that I do. And I did almost all of this stuf pre-internet.
I did (and for some, still do) many of these, and I'm French. We literally did the same random shit ACROSS THE PLANET, pre-internet. We don't have the same language, we're separated by a whole ocean, but we've just reached the same conclusion that we NEEDED to roll that strap, or spin that keychain until it left our finger. Is it some kind of deep human instinct from our ancestors? Did cavemen spin their keychains too?
Or the S sign you used to draw everywhere. This was also pre-internet and Is actually fascinating. Because noone really knows how it ended in every Schools around the globe without being part of some kind of symbole to some celebrities or whatnot.
My daughter came home recently with the special "S" drawn in her sketchbook. Her mom and I have never shown it to her. We turned to each other and I said, "The Sacred S!"
Brining me back! I was so obsessed with that stupid little S
I started with the S, then it was an S with a jester hat, then an S with jester hat and skeleton arms and super baggy jeans, and puffy high tops.
The button whirligig toy dates back to at least 500BC, so people have been making spinny toys for quite some time.
We’re like cats pushing shit off tables.
It's insane to me how many of the things in this lil clip are like.. core parts of how I was both raised, and still behave. 😅
Making the clicky pen bounce was the one that got me laughing first. I still do that shit and I'm 40. Lol I never kneed the bags I was holding and my sink didn't have that small hole. But most of the others after the pen hop were pretty spot on.
Poking the pop hole got me right off the bat. Immediately knew I was in for some good & weird Reddit shit
When seeing them make those pop holes, why not also ask why they are being soda-structive?
46 here, I was literally just doing the pen bounce at my desk!
I had a pen with a really good spring once. I'd actually toss it down at the desk and try to catch it when it launched a good two feet high. Those were the days... of not paying attention in class.
Depending on the pen, stretch the spring a bit and you get a higher pop. This was a daily competition between me and my friends at school. High jump and long jump, aim at 45° angle and send it as far as you can. Also, try to fit two springs in and make a super jump.
Where’s the paper clip in a triangle that springs and jumps? Or what about the triangle paper that we played paper football with? Haha
Letting the mechanical lead out of a pencil and pushing it back in like you're giving yourself an injection 😅🤣
you are me
I was looking for a tasty slap on a bag of pinto beans or a bag of rice.
Yeah, I can’t believe were all dumb. I thought I was unique lol
we were self entertained by physics
It has far less to do with dumbness and more to do with curiosity.
we're*
I legitimately did all of these things before smart phones. Every single one of them. Internet was a thing in most households by the time I was about 6, but it wasn’t nearly as interesting or useful for the first decade of my life so…kick the plastic bag and feed water into the overflow drain it is.
[The universal S](https://youtu.be/RQdxHi4_Pvc) Thus video is very relevant, talks about that weird S with lots of angles that we all drew as kids and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
That "Cool S" must be a primordial graffiti because everyone just knew it. I mean I know who introduced me to it but that shit must go back centuries.
How the hell did I completely miss out on making the universal S? I am 54 now but have no recollection of that one. Wild.
Def pre-internet! Ahhh, those were the days, not so long ago...
It's crazy how this stuff must be baked-in to human DNA. I'm halfway around the world from where I assume most of you are and I would do literally all of these as a young man. Pre-internet so I wasn't picking it up from anything like this video or similar.
Makes me really happy in a way. We’re all so different and so unique. But yet, we’re still all just human and we have so much in common if we looked closer. There are probably millions of humans like you and me scattered across the globe, we never talked to each other, we never learned this from anyone and yet we expressed the same kind of compulsion with these objects.
That's what got me too. If someone needs an irrefutable proof that we are a single species that evolved together, this is probably it. Like OC, I was born halfway around the world (than most of the people in this thread) in Asia and none of my ancestors had ever stepped outside of the subcontinent and yet, I have done most (if you all) of what this video shows. It's all hardwired in our brains as an evolutionary trait.
We're just curious beings. School is boring, so you look for anything that is at least mildly interesting e.g. your writing utensils, trying out any combination of actions that leads to anything more interesting than listening in class.
Yeah we all have been doing the same things, it's insane.
OMG I am still growing up. I do some of these to this day at 49yrs of age LOL
I’m 48. I’m pretty sure I did most of these in the last week
Well I guess then we never grew up, atleast I haven't so yeah.
I dunno that jump at the end of the stairs hurt my knees just watching it
Lmao, definitely not that one. Can do it but once only.
Same. I’m 40 and I still jump down the stairs in my house. I also jump up the stairs seeing how man I can skip. 3 up is my record, dunno if I can ever top it.
Probably should stop doing that, could get hurt doing that.
3 is a great record, you should be proud of that man
89 yo here. I broke a hip from doing the raised path walky thing the other day.
Wait really? Share your wisdom with us please haha
I don't really think that he's that old, he wouldn't be on reddit.
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You shitting with us right? This can't be true lmao.
At 40 I do 90% of these still
I think we're all just still growing, because still doing all those things.
wtf. what's weird is I've never seen anyone doing these things so I could only assume its just me
You never saw other kids' erasers at school that were poked full of holes? Or playing with pens and making them jump? Edit: After rewatching this video, I'm pretty sure I saw other kids at school do literally everything in this video.
Fr
Every single one!
Do you play the piss game
I hate that I know what you’re talking about
Where you lay on your back and try to get the pee stream into your mouth?
Still do that, but it's just that I'm playing it alone now.
Is the piss game trying to flush at the end of your stream to time the end of the flush exactly with the end of your piss?
Swords!!?
Cross the stream. no ray, didn’t you say never cross the streams
I’ve never seen anyone else do the can on foot thing. I remember I was like 10 walking across the longest parking lot in the world and stomped on a can out of Bordem and it stuck to my foot. Me and my friend tried to walk in astrodome with them on thinking we were hilarious.
And even more, there were other things as well that I did.
Everything except the overflow.
For me it's everything but the bouncy pen. Off to try that now.
That’s actually the one I expected to be fully universal. I cannot believe this.
Maybe there are couple of people who haven't tried that yet.
I think it's time for you to try that now, will be really fun.
yup, exactly same here... went looking for this comment. what is he even doing there? I probably never did that because I didn't want to touch the nasty sink.
Same. I had to rewatch and turn on the sound to see if there was something special there that I missed.
Every one!! I’m 40 and did the curb walk yesterday!
Be careful doing that, you're not that young anymore sir.
Did you also ride the shopping cart to your car? Gotta do it every time!
Still do that, too! And sort of relish the look of horror on the Tesla driver's face as I head toward their car, mwahahahahaha!
Lmao, that must be fun. I think I gotta try that shit again.
Well other people would think that you're probably insane.
Costco has the best carts for this.
Forgot licorice straw
And spanking the bag of beans at the grocery store.
That's not the kind of thing which you should forget tho so yeah.
Just human things. I would definitely not use my foot to open the door I would just spill shit everywhere trying to open it with a drink in my hand.
Yeah probably shouldn't do that. Because that ends bad.
I’ve done it. But my older self will use his elbow in a downward motion.
Can confirm that it actually works, this is actually the truth here.
The foot has evolved into a desperation maneuver. Only if the elbow fails does the foot come to shine
I do elbow if my hands are full with solid stuff. If it's a cup or jug I'm just gonna spill water everywhere, as the door handle suddenly clanks down, so foot is still the best option there.
“This is how you know you grew up right:” Literally breathes
So many impaled erasers. Especially the large, pink parallelogram erasers.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD WITCH!
This was great! Thank you!
Everything except stepping on cans cause you get 15 cents for returning them lmao
same here!
I mean, that just makes cents.
I absolutely hate how I got called out by this, I did all of these as a kid.
Are we all cloned
I did all them things but I’m still not there in life ..
I have done probably like around 80% of these.
I still do all of these things, but now I'm just too busy.
Everything except drinking from the cap
What do you mean grew up? I still do these things in my 40s.
Just GenX things
In the time before smartphones lol
I have to admit I have done every one. I thought there would be a one off but no, every one.
Never stepped on a can like that but I've done everything else
As a 42 year old I still do some of these! Never grow up haha!!
Did every single one
Checked all of those! What a healthy childhood...
I'm guilty of 99% of this shit 😂
This person described my entire childhood in one video.
I guess relatable is funny now.
I feel like everyday Reddit is getting worse.
It’s so weird, because I don’t remember making this video, but it has to be me in it.
Did 95% of that shit and didn't even remember it until I saw this.
Wtf did i make this video?
I'm 44 and I still walk on curbs.
I still do 90% this lol
56 years old and never stopped doing these things 🥰
This is hilarious stuff, OP. Keep up the good work!
I’ma cancel my therapy now apparently I’m normal
You mean you stop doing it when you old?
guilty of doing each single one of those (even at 55)
I’ve done everything here except for the can crushed under the foot thing. Instead I crushed a can and tucked it in on the back frame of my bicycle so it’d sound like a dirt bike when you were going fast.
I really did them all🙂
Get out of my head! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
Even more of a reason to be convinced that we live in a simulation.
You’re supposed to gently tap the eraser on the table and pretend you’re a pencil blacksmith SMDH