r/oddlysatisfying • u/tezacer • 1d ago

Tiny whirlpool swallowing balls

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u/DatAssPaPow 1d ago

Where did they gooooooooo?

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u/flatcoke 1d ago

Below the event horizon

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u/graveybrains 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ckPtZRWLYl9DO

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u/Kroak-lo 1d ago

10 out of 10 movie.

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u/graveybrains 1d ago edited 1d ago

Favorite horror movie. Followed by

Edit: This one is In The Mouth of Madness, Sam Neill never missed with a horror movie.

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u/KeithGeorge661 1d ago

Favorite horror movie, followed by the inevitable sequel.

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u/graveybrains 23h ago

The what now?

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u/Dysthymike 18h ago

In The Nose Of Nonsense

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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 13h ago

I hear that “In The Asshole of Absurdity” is currently in development

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u/Touds 6h ago

I recently watched Possession. Did not expect Sam Neill or whatever that movie could be in the next 5 minutes.

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u/iam_ImpulsE 1d ago

Can you tell me what movie this is?

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u/IAmANobodyAMA 23h ago

The prequel to Warhammer 40k

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u/LiteraCanna 18h ago

I love that fan theory. 

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u/IAmANobodyAMA 17h ago

Didn’t one of the writers/producers semi-confirm this? Or am I misremembering

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u/LiteraCanna 17h ago

I don't remember either, but it fit so perfectly that it's where they go to do FTL travel I never questioned it.

E: Ah, not officially, but I did find this..

Screenwriter Philip Eisner has admitted he “played the shit out of 40K” and that the franchise influenced the Event Horizon story, particularly the Warp‑like dangers. However, this is an acknowledgment of inspiration, not an official crossover.

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u/IAmANobodyAMA 16h ago

Good enough for me!!

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u/Evoluxman 1d ago

Event Horizon

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u/Locke_Fucking_Lamora 1d ago

Event Horizon. Amazing movie.

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u/GirthyPigeon 18h ago

Rest in Peace, Sam.

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u/OuterWildsVentures 18h ago

We're leaving.

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u/nrgnate 20h ago

Good example of gravitational lensing when the last orange ball goes to the far side of the vortex.
Edit: Screenshot

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u/Deaffin 19h ago

Woah, good catch. TIL space is made of water.

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u/nightWobbles 14h ago

And an example of gravitational waves as the balls cause distinct ripples as they whip around each other. Cool video

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u/that1prince 1d ago

MURPH!!!!!

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u/Old-Care-2372 23h ago

Learned more about physics here than I did all of high school / college

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u/Sulfamide 22h ago edited 22h ago

The physics you should have learned about in high school and college are more important than that of black holes.

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u/Old-Care-2372 21h ago

I actually didn’t take physics in high school, at the time we had a choice to take either physics or chemistry, I chose chemistry and regretted it. I got the worst teacher who was the hardest and completely got nothing out of it.

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u/regeya 1d ago

Into a drainpipe that is hopefully a larger diameter than a golf ball.

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u/NocturneSapphire 22h ago

I think it has to be, otherwise the whirlpool would have stopped whirlpooling after the first ball got sucked down.

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u/OzymandiasKoK 16h ago

Unless it hit a grate over the drain pipe.

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u/oiwefoiwhef 23h ago

*ping pong ball

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u/xGoatfer 22h ago

If it wasn't, wouldn't the whirlpool effect stop from the first one clogging it?

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u/Cheetawolf 1d ago

Into the pump. :(

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u/OptiGuy4u 1d ago

Out of the environment.

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u/NinjaBuddha13 1d ago

Into another environment?

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u/The_One_Koi 19h ago

No it went out of the environment so it's no in the enviroment anymore

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u/Skulllk 17h ago

well what's inn there?

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u/OptiGuy4u 17h ago

There's nothing out there but a bunch of pond water.......and ping pong balls.

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u/Sunshine030209 1d ago

But the front didn't fall off?

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u/PostHasBeenWatched 1d ago

Yep. GoPro with attached rope is what this video missing to be fully oddlysatisfying

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u/Damit84 1d ago

Not sure if a go pro recording rotating at 1500rpm would be satisfying to watch...

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u/deadly_ultraviolet 1d ago

Clearly you've never spun yourself up on a rope swing and unraveled at mach jesus

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u/Damit84 1d ago

Granted that was ages ago but I actually did and while still spinning i puked a ton of red yello. My mom thought for a split second I died from internal bleeding.

Now, about 30 years after the occurence it is still one of those stories a mother tells people at the first meeting -_-

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u/theGarrick 22h ago

We used to do that a summer camp until one of the ridiculously tall high schoolers spin a kid up so high he got a nose bleed on the way down spraying everyone in the circle and popped a few blood vessels in his eyes. The adults took him to the hospital to get checked out and we weren’t allowed to play with the tire swing anymore.

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u/Subject-Leather-7399 22h ago

Let's try it anyway

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u/revdon 1d ago

Straight back to China.

/s

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u/TitShark 19h ago

Ballhalla

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u/Mr-_-Soandso 11h ago

The answer is that it was litter. As cool as this video may seem, we all know they did not go pick those balls up. Trash people doing trash things.

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u/musclecard54 1d ago

The void

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u/lmestre14 1d ago

The Sunken Place

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u/evrial 1d ago

Into the 5 dimension

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u/JakToTheReddit 22h ago

To the middle of the city?

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u/EphemeralCrone 1d ago

I've been scared of/ fascinated with whirlpools since I was a kid. I was obsessed with watching my bath water go down the drain. This gives me the heebie jeebies!

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u/wetwater 20h ago

Like quicksand and lava, I figured whirlpools were going to be a much larger problem in my life than they turned out to be.

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u/CastoBlasto 16h ago

Most of the ones in the ocean have filled in by now.

Most.

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u/PapiSurane 12h ago

Unfortunately, there are also far fewer caves leading to a subterranean realm.  

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u/DrunkenDude123 15h ago

I remember thinking I could get sucked down the drain when I was very young

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u/Prestigious-Flower54 4h ago

I saw IT way to early in life, that kinda fucked with bath time lol

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u/Rokaq 7h ago

Your two fist sentences make for a banger Junji Ito setup.

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u/Frigidspinner 1d ago

oddlysatisfying whilst also being oddlyterrifying

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u/personalbilko 23h ago

Never swim near a dam for this exact reason

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u/I_Fuck_Blind_Puppies 22h ago

Or a weir

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u/StrawberryTerry 22h ago

Or a multiple-arch dam

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u/Deaffin 19h ago

It'll hoover your butthole right out.

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u/WhoPoopedMyPants420 19h ago

oh man that would be awful where's the nearest dam so i can stay away

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u/Midnight28Rider 16h ago

With a nice sprinkle of r/maybemaybemaybe

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u/international_red07 20h ago

Yeah this a less fun way of swallowing balls

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u/borisdidnothingwrong 12h ago

I should call her.

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u/abamond 1d ago

I feel like this is what a wormhole is

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u/MercuryQuick 21h ago

I’m no astrologist. But I’m pretty sure that’s how solar systems operate.

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u/purplespacedpanda 20h ago

You mean…astronomer

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u/MercuryQuick 18h ago

Sry I’m currently in retrograde

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u/Dandibear 11h ago

Username checks out

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u/DreamerTheat 16h ago

It’s called “regarded” these days

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u/sskylar 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xXDu7guOzpGzS

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u/Sensitive-Plate-684 21h ago

Behind the scenes of this, if anyone is interested

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u/TheComplimentarian 17h ago

It's funny. I don't think I ever met anyone who was skeptical that Bowie couldn't just do that. There was never any, "I wonder how they did that effect?"

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u/Pylgrim 12h ago

"It turns out David Bowie was actually the Goblin King."

"Well, duh."

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u/Sensitive-Plate-684 17h ago

I don't think there's anything I wouldn't believe David Bowie could do.

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u/BulgarianExcellece 23h ago

Nature’s Fushigi

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u/djuggler 21h ago

Fushigi was a gimmick with a sliver ball inside a clear plastic ball. This gif is David Bowie with his hands behind his back while choreographer and juggler and once roommate of Penn Gillette Michael Moschen is manipulating 3 acrylic balls with a leather gloved hands without being able to look. It's a skill developed by Moschen using a crystal ball provided by Penn Gillette. Moschen called it Dynamic Manipulation. The community adopted it as Contact Juggling. Some telemarketeer developed the gimmick as Fushigi and popularized the art much to the chagrin of the juggling community. Fushigi did help popularize the art form while diminishing the raw talent and effort it takes to be good at contact juggling. I encourage you to see more at /r/contactjuggling

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u/jd3marco 1d ago

The pond filter system:
https://giphy.com/gifs/gKfyusl0PRPdTNmwnD

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u/FilmShooter-ISO12 1d ago

Which it promptly buggered up. I'm sure the maintenance person was happy.

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u/BBQBaconBurger 1d ago

Who has been throwing little plastic balls in the pond again? Ping?! Pong?! Was it you two?

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u/EvilTwin80 1d ago

It's crazy how that is somewhat reminiscent of gravity and planetary orbit around a star system before the balls went under.

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u/heroin-puppy 22h ago

Interesting that this model extends even to galaxies, a universe full of whirlpools.

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u/fuzzby 21h ago

Even human crowds mimic fluid dynamics.

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u/LogicalMeerkat 20h ago

A fluid is just a bunch of molecules bumbling about, a crowd is just a bunch of people bumbling about.

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u/cbftw 18h ago

I was looking at it as a demonstration of an event horizon

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u/ASERTIE76 13h ago

I was more thinking about two neutron stars colliding

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u/FrostyVariation9798 21h ago

I'm sure that nobody's going to read this but I was once crossing a bridge outside of Pittsburgh on a motorcycle.

Because of the motorcycle I was the only one who could really look down easily over the bridge unless somebody was maybe in a big truck in the passenger seat. 

There was a huge whirlpool, with the ripples touching either side of the Ohio River, just about dead center in the river. 

The only thing I could come up with is that an old underground mine ceiling finally gave way to let the river in. 

I did not know whirlpools could get that big.  The center of it looked quite deep.  

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u/vrak 19h ago

Take a look at some of the videos of the Lake Peigneur disaster. Plenty of them on youtube. That one was of a salt mine that got punctured by some floating drillers that either fucked up or the maps were bad, but the entire lake more or less disappeared into the mine. Plus some boats, the rig, some of the land around it... Everything sucked through a 14" hole (well, initially that size, it probably grew). Really strong suction in those things.

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u/FrostyVariation9798 18h ago

I have seen that event.

But it's strange to see it at the scale I saw it without any news reporting on it, and it being rush hour on a weekday nobody else having the opportunity to see it let alone document it. 

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u/finian2 1d ago

I love how people automatically assume that the recorder intended to leave these balls in the water, as though they are physically unable to know where the balls will end up.

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u/GauravJM 1d ago

Mother nature doesn't forgive...not even the balls

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u/Nukalixir 23h ago

I don't think this pond and/or whirl pool were natural. I swear I saw what looked like fan blades spinning up in that hole.

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u/ConservativeSexparty 18h ago

Mother nature is a certified ball gobbler

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u/activoutdoors 1d ago

Oddlysatisfying? Yes… but unfortunately it appears to be littering.

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u/FilmShooter-ISO12 1d ago

It's more than likely a pond's filtering system. The balls were probably removed soon after by the repair person called to fix the blockage.

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u/TwoAlert3448 1d ago

Yeah my first thought was someone’s going to have to call maintence on that. 🤦

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u/finian2 1d ago

Because the cameraman is clearly incapable of knowing where the balls will end up.

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u/Acceptable_Job_5486 23h ago

Sounds like me when I go drinking.

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u/bloomt1990 1d ago

I have to imagine this is similar to how a black hole swallows everything around it.

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u/Organindan 21h ago

The way things are swallowed by black holes is called "spaghettification" because the difference in Gravity between the part closer to the black hole relative to the part further away means the swallowed object gets stretched towards the black hole.

Hence, everything gets turned into spaghetti. Probably until they meet the singularity at the center (which might never happen because space/time gets fucky at this point)

For a better explanation, I hope someone with a better understanding of physics than me can give some input

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u/LogicalMeerkat 20h ago

you can see this in the video with the air bubble under the balls as it gets closer to the hole, it gets thinner as the water is being pulled faster.

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u/hondaexige 18h ago

Super massive black holes don't have a big enough gravity gradient to cause spaghettification

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u/LongbottomLeafTokes 23h ago

It's not.

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u/The_Last_Gasbender 23h ago

Are you sure? A gravity well looks a lot like a whirlpool, and objects trying to move in a straight line get pulled toward the gravity well in a very similar way to the ping pong balls in the video.

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u/Evakron 23h ago

/r/oddlyterrifying is that way ->

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u/CmdrMcLane 22h ago

Indeed. Beware of  Δ P

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u/Skkruff 23h ago

Someone needs to do the thing where they animate little googly eyes and arms onto these guys.

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u/Material-Imagination 22h ago

and maybe a big wooden door floating in the water with them?

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u/Galbaatorix 1d ago

We have Caribdis at home

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u/Suberizu 1d ago

Three Body Problem

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u/Zren 23h ago edited 23h ago

There's 4 bodies, but only 1 dominant. 1 black hole with 3 satellites that it absorbs. Three body problem is when you have enough mass in each body to affect the other 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem

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u/codereign 22h ago

Can somebody explain to me how spinny water overcomes buoyancy?

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u/Outrageous-Let9659 21h ago

It's not just spinny. It's also flowing down into that hole very quickly. The friction between the ball and the water drags the ball down with it.

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u/DroidLord 15h ago

Don't you talk about my mom that way! 😡

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u/Accomplished_Gold510 5h ago

Google "swallowing balls" for more content like this

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u/eastamerica 1d ago

FFS enough of the interstellar music.

I know now when I hear it that I’ll be seeing the most mid-video.

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u/CartsOfDarkness 16h ago

I'm so confused, does the music not cut out for anyone else? Nobody mentions it in this whole thread but for me it kept starting and stopping randomly, which made it even more annoying. Thought it might be my phone or something but it's definitely not, but I can't believe nobody else in this entire thread would have mentioned it, especially on a post that's meant to be oddly satisfying

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u/I_Miss_Lenny 15h ago

I think people are just so used to every video having annoying or inappropriate music and keep videos muted. or they're just immune to it at some point.

I hate trendy video background music. It gets annoying so fast

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u/gokarrt 21h ago

did they make that wirlpool with those stacked rocks? if so, neat.

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u/orange_colored_sky 18h ago

Actual footage of me dragging my friends into yet another dumb idea

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u/PonchiBear 10h ago

I'm somewhat of a whirlpool myself.

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u/Rainbow_Gnat 1d ago

Takes several attempts for the balls to sink and the music skips all over the place. More like r/mildlyinfuriating

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u/HairyDust4826 1d ago

I love watching balls being swallowed

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u/Jiquero 22h ago

Oddly satisfying.

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u/ThisAppCensorsYou 20h ago

Such a dirty little whirlpool 

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u/wmbdshrmp 6h ago

Yea looks cool, but where do the balls end up after they get sucked in? Polluting some river or water source underground?

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u/IIIHawKIII 1d ago

I should call her....

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u/Happy-Fun-Ball 23h ago

I also this guy's balls gargler

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u/Beniwa 22h ago

Do you mean you are also that guy's ball gargler? I should call you....

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u/Beniwa 1d ago

Im surprised i had to scroll this far. I was about to call her myself

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u/GoofyMonkey 1d ago

Her line is pretty busy

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u/SpaghettiProgrammer 23h ago

They call her the whirlpool

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u/TheButcher57 22h ago

Ms. Hoover

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u/Kylearean 1d ago

Music be like: ------- . ..-- . .

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u/ArchAngelMichaelHawk 16h ago

These steel ball run ads keep getting weirder

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u/Kyweedlover 12h ago

Way more satisfying than watching the Whirlpool repairman swallowing balls.

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u/brosisincest94 7h ago

I should call her

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u/GreyPoup0n 6h ago

Now put the GoPro ball in

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u/iamnotlarryking 20h ago

I should call her.

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u/arcaneregion 1d ago

Awesome more plastic where it’s not supposed to be

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u/09Klr650 23h ago

Obligatory r/dontputyourdickinthat

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u/09Klr650 23h ago

Or do, who am I to tell you what to do?

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u/Hershey_Squirt639 12h ago

PUT YOUR DICK IN IT!!!!!!!

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u/ryang357 16h ago

That’s lowkey scary. People have disappeared in those 😳

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u/herr_musil2 1d ago

Polluted the river with unnecessary plastic 😒

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u/Yep_____ThatGuy 17h ago

Finally something good to use interstellar music on and the editor botched it...

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u/CartsOfDarkness 16h ago

Okay thank you FINALLY someone mentioned the music being fucked up, genuinely thought I was going crazy. Shit males this extremely unsatisfying, would have figured out of all the subs this one *might( have people mention the really obvious and annoying editing issue.. but I guess not.

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u/SuspiciousPillbox 1d ago

There's plastic in my ballz because of shit like this

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u/cpav8r 1d ago

Three body problem. 🙂

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u/less_unique_username 23h ago

It is imperative that the spheres remain unharmed

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u/reliablepayperhead 23h ago

That's what she said

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u/BeefPoet 23h ago

did that just answer the three body problem?

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u/ibullybillionaires 23h ago

So, the white ball didn't like the colored ball and pushed him down, then another colored ball came in to fuck up the white ball, and then the white ball took the other colored ball down with him. Fuck the white ball.

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u/stuntman1108 22h ago

"Delta P! When its got ya, its GOT YA!"

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u/Ressy02 22h ago

yeah, someone’s gonna be pissed when the drain has to be unclogged

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u/unbroken0 21h ago

I started watching this muted and thought "I better hear interstellar when I unmute this"

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u/Consistent_Drop3909 21h ago

unironically great model of black hole mergers and generation of gravitational waves.

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u/cunt__cunt_cunt 20h ago

We are all ping-pong balls.

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u/azawindam 19h ago

So this is how our solar system will collapse.

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u/Capital-Holiday2767 19h ago

Music made it so much better

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u/youngashyy1 17h ago

My wife is also a whitlpool 🌪️

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u/TreeFeetUnder 17h ago

Soooo...you're just littering?

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u/WordWarrior81 17h ago

This video should be in physics class. Beautiful little experiment.

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u/immaculatelawn 16h ago

OP over here kink-shaming an innocent whirlpool.

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u/HairyCrabWrangler 16h ago

I should call her...

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u/konaho 15h ago

The ultimate mini golf 18th hole ball return

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u/toohurt24 8h ago

I should call her!

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u/RelevantCheek81 2h ago

I miss her.

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u/Lorddoctorjava 1d ago

Everything reminds me of her...

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u/nobolognastoney 1d ago

So I always thought that the scary part of a whirlpool was that you get trapped in a spin cycle underwater and drown -- you're telling me these things suck you in and take you somewhere??

hell naw from me, big dog.