September 15, 2022

A nice even 10 in the TikTok selection tonight. Some people love them.

1. A series of drawings with an invitation to visualize the artist.

2. Something called "manner leg" in Korea.

3. Living the barefoot life for 25 years.

4. When it's a woman's video at first, but then the edit switches to a man.

5. When white people speak to black people, they only seem to notice that you're black.

6. When you visit your parents, and it's 6 a.m.

7. When he called the little old lady "lovely." 

8. Queen Elizabeth and David Attenborough discuss a sundial.

9. What do you do with a big old baldface hornet's nest?

10. The old bun-in-the-oven metaphor.

21 comments:

JAORE said...

Number 7. So very true.

Lash LaRue said...

#7 is lovely. #10 is adorable.

Darles Chickens said...

Number 10, although it just nosed out number 7.

Flat Tire said...

10 is fun to watch and 7 is so true.

Readering said...

Enjoyed the little old lady with the sundial too. Hope it got moved.

Who knew about chickens?

Baceseras said...

The last one's a little embarrassing. Sweet, but embarrassing.

7 is best, but my favorite is 2.

I didn't get 4 at all. Watched it twice and, how is this possible, got it even less the second time.

Quaestor said...

Regarding bald-faced hornets (Dolichovespula maculata)

There is a Youtube channel called Hornet King operated by a man who removes troublesome wasps using a minimum of pesticides. Nor does he use the common traditional methods such as torches and gasoline, which are needlessly destructive. The Hornet King primarily relies on a powerful canister vacuum cleaner partially filled with clear tap water. He vacuums up worker hornets and yellowjackets by the hundreds, leaving the nests mostly defenseless. Then he removes the entire nest in the most appropriate manner. Some exterminators use a solution of tap water and common household detergent on the theory that the surfactants promote rapid drowning.

Many homeowners are troubled by cavity-nesting species such as the invasive European or "German" hornet (Vespa crabro), the only true hornet in North America. These pests are experts at finding gaps in facia and soffit boards, allowing them to nest inside interior walls and ceilings. Not only do they represent a sting danger to the occupants, but their feces also create foul odors and sometimes severe health problems in humans.

Like the gentleman in the Tik-Tok, the Hornet King also feeds his chickens hornet and wasp larvae, which the birds evidently relish.

wildswan said...

Queen Elizabeth was good. Took the point right away and wanted a change.
Buns in the oven was also fun. Lots of people like babies still.

john said...

#6 Only thing missing is repeated toilet flushing.

#10 Reminds me of those insipidly staged homecomings of daddy from the war that are in the news every couple weeks.

William said...

#5. Harumph. I wonder if he's ever noticed that a similar phenomenon goes on among Black people. Black people have some phenomenally acute hearing at volleyball games.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

7 and 6 - super.

Like sweet corn.

gspencer said...

Bitch, bitch, bitch - life's so hard for us black folk. Blah, blah, blah. Skin color, racism here, racism there. And on and on.

And they complain (and complain) that we notice that all their complaints are about race.

Reap what you've sown.

Susan in Seattle said...

No. 7 was my favorite but 6 was close. Early morning activity was a regular routine when I lived at home, not when I visited, as my bedroom was right next to the kitchen. My mother was 'a lark, not an owl.' And number 7 reminded me of how much I miss her.

Mary Beth said...

Who knew about chickens?

They can be vicious, not just to bugs, but to each other too. There's a reason that "pecking order" is a phrase. They will even peck another hen to death.

FleetUSA said...
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FleetUSA said...

QEII was impressive.

MadisonMan said...

I really have come to loathe reaction videos. They seem incredibly intrusive to me. So I didn't even watch the buns in the oven. Another version I don't like: getting a dog for your kid and then filming then dissolving into tears. Let your kids have some privacy.
I Liked the guy with long hair in the women->man video, specifically his shirt saying "OBEY". LOL.

Ann Althouse said...

"There is a Youtube channel called Hornet King operated by a man who removes troublesome wasps using a minimum of pesticides. Nor does he use the common traditional methods such as torches and gasoline, which are needlessly destructive. . The Hornet King primarily relies on a powerful canister vacuum cleaner partially filled with clear tap water. He vacuums up worker hornets and yellowjackets by the hundreds, leaving the nests mostly defenseless. Then he removes the entire nest in the most appropriate manner. Some exterminators use a solution of tap water and common household detergent on the theory that the surfactants promote rapid drowning."

For all I know the TikTok user here is the same person (or taking the videos from the other site).

Anyway, the person I linked to has another video showing his method, and it is to use a vacuum cleaner to get the flying insects out of the way. What he freezes is, I guess, mainly the larvae, which, obviously, his chickens love to eat.

Ann Althouse said...

"I didn't get 4 at all. Watched it twice and, how is this possible, got it even less the second time."

You do need some background in how TikTok works for this to make sense. TikTok allows you to use someone else's video and then switch to your video. This is called "stitching." So the woman you see at the beginning is announcing that she doesn't like when something begins as a video by a woman and then — via "stitching" — it turns into a video by a man. The complaining woman probably doesn't like men who step on whatever it is the woman is saying, but in this particular example, the man is a rather meek man who seems to have wanted to show his Lego model, and he hears the chiding, feels deflated, and walks away.

Get it?

LH in Montana said...

#6 I laughed out loud. My grandmother used to do that to me before she passed. When I asked her about it, she said she wanted me to get up so she had someone to talk to.

Which leads to the wonderful #7.

Baceseras said...

Get it?

Not really, but now my confusion is better informed.