The teacher challenged his students to remove a mandarin from a glass full of water without spilling a single drop

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/5581d219ce4f.mp4

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DmMacniel@feddit.org · 70 pts · 3d (26 replies)

take the glass, drink the water, pull out the Mandarin, no drop was spilled.

spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app · 31 pts · 3d (9 replies)

Would you want to drink water ten+ kids put their hands in?

irish_link@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3d

In the voice of Rocky and Bullwinkle announcer

Joins for

Immune system boost!!

Or

Sicknes of 100 hands!

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 6 pts · 3d (2 replies)

There are clubs in Los Angeles where children's dirty bathwater cocktails sell for $50.00 a glass.

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d (1 reply)

That seems low

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 3d

A connoisseur, it seems, has entered the chat...

ryannathans@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 3d (4 replies)

If you think that's dirty just wait till you have kids

user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 3d (2 replies)

Well, exactly the problem. It's not just any hands, but child hands.
When I dig through my memory, my hands could've often been classified as biohazard. Genuinely.

We had a separate toilet room with no sink. I've used to spend a lot of time closed there. I've also played with wet toilet paper, modeling it into shapes.
Remember, no sink. So, how did I get it wet? Yeah, just like that. And I didn't necessarily flush before.
Sometimes I even used turds wrapped in a layer of toilet paper. It was warm and squishy.

ryannathans@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

How long ago are we talking 👀 toilet fister

reptar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

Toilet Fister lol. Did Voyager do tags? Oh, yes it does. Sweet

spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app · 3 pts · 3d

Grosser things existing doesn't make this magically OK.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3d (2 replies)

thenextguy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3d (1 reply)

To Monty!

fartographer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

Give me the kniiiiiiiiiife

Pleeeeaaaaaaaase

Lauchmelder@feddit.org · 7 pts · 3d (10 replies)

the water is laced with rat poison...

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 14 pts · 3d (3 replies)

Good thing that I'm human :)

Lauchmelder@feddit.org · 3 pts · 3d (2 replies)

But you're not the one having to drink the water

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 4 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Well i guess this would then surely fail under lab (rats) conditions. :(

Lauchmelder@feddit.org · 1 pts · 3d

you are mocking this cruel torture these children are going through. god will have no mercy when you stand before his heavenly gates

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

that's bad

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

The glass comes with a free frogurt.

mechoman444@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Schrodinger's mandarin?

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

That's bad!

FanciestPants@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

Or maybe just as bad, it's had like 12 school kids' hands dunked in it before you get a chance at this strategy.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3d

Imagine the gotcha on that one!

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d

Too much mustache, I'd lose at least a drop or two

communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 3 pts · 2d

That's just spilling it into your mouth.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 3d (3 replies)

The winner is the teacher's daughter. She watched him test it the night before at home.

thenextguy@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 3d

Or an older sibling who had this test last year.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d (1 reply)

I would've never suspected that stirring water would make something that size rise up.

prowe45@piefed.social · 8 pts · 2d

But you see, the key to the trick is that size has nothing to do with it, nor does weight. It's all about relative densities. The orange is almost entirely water, with just enough other stuff in it to make it sink. Even a bowling ball will float in water if it weighs less than 12 lbs.

jdr@lemmy.ml · 63 pts · 3d (1 reply)

"winner" spilled several drops, stab that orange with a pencil

stembolts@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2d

Yes! I also came here to criticize the little girl.

Allies unite, I ain't allowing that munchkin no stole valor.

CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 3d

That hug from her friend was so genuinely heartwarming I couldn't help but smile.

urno@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 3d (1 reply)

What a wholesome antidote to the darkness that pervades. No AI, no screens, just kids learning. Love it.

Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 3d

In those darkest of times when a smile is so far, remember. Remember jenkem.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2d (1 reply)

I would've drank the water

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d

That was my first strategy. Then, after watching a few attempts, I adjusted that strategy to "set up a new cup and I'll do it" because that water would have been nasty as soon as the first kid dipped their hands.

jello@programming.dev · 23 pts · 3d (3 replies)

I feel like a drop would have spilled had she gone first. Part of this challenge is to let others fail so that you can succeed in the aftermath

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 3d (1 reply)

The cup is filled to the same level when she sticks her finger in, as it was at the start of the video. Also, the water gets refilled throughout the video.

towerful@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2d

Yeh, it's clear there is a suitably similar amount of water in the glass each time, even when there is water in the dish below

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3d

Applicable knowledge.

Hupf@feddit.org · 16 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Step 1: put the plate on the glass as a lid

Step 2: hold the two together firmly, quickly turn them upside down

Step 3: trivial, the next person can easily figure it out from here.

skoell13@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d

Love that trick. You can even do it with a sheet of paper (if there's not too much water in the glass), put it onto a table, and pull the paper out.

nexguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Pour some water into the dish then get the mandarin. No water spilled.

psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 3d

Sir this is the science class, not english.

gmtom@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d (3 replies)

So we now have bots posting Facebook slop on here? And the users are upvoting this shit?

Seems like Lemmy is doomed to go down the same path as every other social media.

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d (2 replies)

The difference is the comment section here has some coherency to it, isn't sorted to drive engagement, and the platform encourages discussion rather than trying to simultaneously make you interested in this thing but also the next thing so you don't spend too much time talking about this thing instead of seeing ads.

And no one is trying to use the comment box as a search engine or to message their granddaughter.

I also don't expect to see many comments on the race of the kids here.

Maybe the community will eventually go to shit here, too, but the difference between the various social media sites isn't just the content, it's the way the site is run and the kind of people it attracts and keeps.

gmtom@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Reddit, Instagram, Facebook and every other social media didn't start that way either, they started off good, but then they got worse over time

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

Yeah but I'd still argue it wasn't the content that caused that, other than having content attracted more people and there could be some critical mass (though I think it's about when the medium attracts a more mainstream audience that includes people who don't like to think more than they absolutely need to).

JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Use something sharp with low volume (a needle/fork?) so it doesn't spill over.

gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 5 pts · 2d

chopsticks

wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

I would have taken the L and fisted it for the next person

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 2d

It's refilled

Janx@piefed.social · 4 pts · 3d (8 replies)

Can we not teach children this stuff, please? I need to be able to win bar bets in the future...

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 20 pts · 3d (1 reply)

damn teachers, teaching kids about physics

Janx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 3d

Exactly! 😂

Cityshrimp@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3d (4 replies)

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted when its obviously sarcasm… right? Right???

0ops@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 3d

Lemmy astounds me sometimes

starik@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 2d (1 reply)

At least half of lemmy users are autistic. I’ve never seen a group less capable of picking up on sarcasm.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

fewer

Janx@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2d

That's okay, it wasn't that good of a joke. I did edit the wording to make it more obvious, though...

baltakatei@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 3d

I want to be smarter than those around me without me having to put in any actual effort.

Avicenna@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1d

It is funny how even after so many failing each kid still thinks they can magically do it with the same way despite being subject to same physics laws

spacehulk@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2d

Add salt?