This year, I'm all experimenting-with-colorsed out, so we won't be doing the traditional Painting of the Fairy Lights. Perhaps we'll do it again next year, but I've been seeing some small progress on the "make colored LED light sets exactly how I want!" front - a few people have sent me some sets where they 1) have a yellow (!) and B) that yellow is really just a white LED with a yellow cap! So maybe next year the mysterious festive lighting conglomerates of the world will finally get their act together in the particularly pedantic way I want them to.
@christophercoleman31623 жыл бұрын
Are LED Lights or conventional Christmas lights better?
@TechnologyConnections3 жыл бұрын
@@christophercoleman3162 I am firmly in the incandescent camp for multi-colored light sets because those blue LEDs are just too dang piercing. For plain warm white, I'm cool with LEDs except for my all-time favorite light sets, the twinkling kind, which just can't be duplicated well-enough in LED. If you haven't seen the earlier experiment videos, what I hope is that some manufacturer starts making multi-colored sets which have warm white LEDs but colored caps, therefore achieving their color through filtering and not the monochromatic color canons of LEDs today, but I fear they wouldn't sell well because people are monsters.
@Majromax3 жыл бұрын
@@TechnologyConnections Inexpensive LED lights also flicker, being built around a half-wave rectifier with little to no smoothing. The resulting mains-frequency flicker is noticeable to some and _really annoying_ to a subset of those. I'd love to see an LED string with an adjustable constant-current power supply ("dimmable," no flicker), but no dice on those in big box stores.
@josegljr3 жыл бұрын
Your jokes are priceless
@christophercoleman31623 жыл бұрын
@@TechnologyConnections Thank You, my family has always used incandescent bulbs. Last year we purchased LEDs to save energy, and the tree didn't look the same after that. This year we decided to go back to incandescent bulbs. I think that they are just the perfect balance of warm light and color.
@introvertairways3 жыл бұрын
“Seasonings Greetings” would make a great quote for a towel or kitchen apron. He needs to make this into some merch.
@cosmicrider58983 жыл бұрын
I thought he was talking about blues clues...
@roorunstronghammer3 жыл бұрын
Problem with that. You would be miss spelling "Marry Christmas."
@KnappstersaurusRex3 жыл бұрын
Buddy have you never been to a TJ Maxx or Marshalls or any other store ever? It's already a thing, I'm pretty sure my mom has multiple things that say that.
@SelecaoOfMidas3 жыл бұрын
I smell a merch opportunity for this channel...
@rkan23 жыл бұрын
Don't give his merch any ideas!
@andymation3 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, I was helping decorate our tree one year. We had already strung all the bubble lights, and they were lit up and bubbling. I went to hang one small but heavy little ornament, but it slipped from my fingers. As it fell, I naturally followed its path down with my eyes. And at that moment it struck the tip of a red bubble light... which then exploded liquid into my face and onto the ceiling. I then ended up at the ER getting my eyes flushed with water. Needless to say, we never used bubble lights again. Despite that, I still actually have fond memories of watching their dangerous bubbling glow.
@aaroncarson3 жыл бұрын
Well that’s a rollercoaster of a comment.
@my3dviews3 жыл бұрын
You should have been wearing safety glasses and a respirator while decorating the tree. What were you thinking? LOL
@aaroncarson3 жыл бұрын
@Pennsylvania _Mike National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation comes to mind
@matthewcalifana4883 жыл бұрын
That,s Cool ! think might have thrown out but maybe one or more in thje attic , i,ll take a look when the snow flys .
@Flimzes3 жыл бұрын
@Pennsylvania _Mike 19th century
@vwestlife3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure you'll be amazed to learn that people actually used to clip candles to the branches of their Christmas tree. Yes, *candles,* which you light on fire, directly attached to a highly flammable object! To be fair, they were only lit for a short time, and kept under constant supervision when lit. But these clip-on candles were what the first electric Christmas tree lights were designed to emulate, and were initially made by telephone company engineers using the tiny light bulbs (made by Western Electric) used in telephone operator switchboards.
@OhNoTwist3 жыл бұрын
Can confirm. My family has a book that covers Christmases for different generations of our family members going back as far as late 1700s. I cannot remember which decade, but there is a story in there about one of the Christmases and lighting the indoor Christmas tree with candles. Apparently each family member had a section of the tree to watch to look for fire. Was written in a way that made it clear this was pretty common at the time.
@mynameismads25163 жыл бұрын
We still use candles
@jonaslinter3 жыл бұрын
@@mynameismads2516 So do we. Although our christmas tree is actually a tiny very much alive tree so it is less dangerous
@hardrays3 жыл бұрын
revival!
@philiproszak16783 жыл бұрын
Yes! I always thought that bubble lights were meant to replicate candles on a tree. I thought they were really interesting but had a hard time finding them as a kid. Eventually, I found a single bubble light night-light.
@AveryTalksAboutStuff3 жыл бұрын
I now want a kitchen towel that says, "seasonings greetings".
@marbleman523 жыл бұрын
Avery....Good one...clever..!!
@FrothingFanboy3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure that phrase has appeared on some kind of product before.
@AveryTalksAboutStuff3 жыл бұрын
@@FrothingFanboy probably, but if this channel ever adds something of the sort to a merch lineup I'm totally there to support the channel XD
Apparently this channel suddenly needs a teespring
@adamradford80533 жыл бұрын
"Where is he..." "Seasonings greetings" Oooh. Oh. You sneak.
@adrinavarro3203 жыл бұрын
I lost it
@qualle92573 жыл бұрын
At first I honestly thought he just had a little too much nutmeg....
@lindendrache89983 жыл бұрын
Is this a joke that only Americans get? I don't get it, can you please explain? ^^
@AtomicBoo3 жыл бұрын
@@lindendrache8998 seasoning (as in seasons of the year, winter, summer) and seasoning as in stuff you put to your food, garlic powder, salt, onion, peper. "Seasoning greetings" something like that.
@deathcamel3 жыл бұрын
I had to pause the video and collect myself after that one.
@bimlauyomashitobi4213 жыл бұрын
And just like that, this man has near single handedly brought back bubble lights.
@IanRoach173 жыл бұрын
Literally about to go out and get some rn lol
@stellanstafford60253 жыл бұрын
@@IanRoach17 same
@cetheral18813 жыл бұрын
@@stellanstafford6025 yes indeed
@JerrSpud3 жыл бұрын
they never went away...I've had a set for years
@bimlauyomashitobi4213 жыл бұрын
@@JerrSpud and people still have old cars with tailfins, doesn’t mean that they’re making a comeback.
@jmholmes833 жыл бұрын
“He probably just wanted to make... a thing... and these are them.” Made me laugh harder than it should have 😂
@lasdernas3 жыл бұрын
"a. This is a no-effort-november" "2. I like these things"
@Patrick94GSR3 жыл бұрын
Home Alone reference 😂
@user-le8ul4nr5t3 жыл бұрын
@@Patrick94GSR and consitency takes effort, too.
@human.earthling3 жыл бұрын
I thought he was going to say, just kidding, I’ve taken it apart right here with the magic of buying two of them.
@xarin423 жыл бұрын
Imagining the people writhing at that brings me slight joy.
@jayhom53853 жыл бұрын
Hahaha. I do that unconsciously since my brain forgets where it is. I have internal pointer issues.
@tichu73 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad Alec lives in the age of KZbin. 20 years earlier, and Alec's humour and passion would be wasted on a class of Gr 12 Physics students waiting for the lunch bell.
@zsin1283 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@mgelliott863 жыл бұрын
Man I'd have loved him as a teacher
@sirpretzel8223 жыл бұрын
I could imagine him doing vhs educational videos that the teacher rolls out when they're too hungover to teach class
@ENCHANTMEN_3 жыл бұрын
"Menards" sounds like a pirate who just got kicked in the groin
@Pacvalham3 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2ilpZiZereUps0
@tawabunny3 жыл бұрын
@@Pacvalham perfect
@UnitSe7en3 жыл бұрын
Save big money.
@jaredbaker54473 жыл бұрын
@Alec Mesa I work at one and I can confirm, if it isn't hardware related it's either menards brand or some weird off brand crap. Even with an employee discount I'd rather shop anywhere else for something
@crowing73 жыл бұрын
They have one of the most obnoxious yet catchy jingles. Even if you're not a fan, it will get stuck in your head for days!
@lauraainslie67253 жыл бұрын
I married into a bubble light family in the early 90's. Discovered the first year that the bulb bases fit beautifully into that other holiday decorating item that peaked in the '70s: The fake plastic candelabrum you put on your windowsill. We found bubble lights with white bulbs (not at Menard's) and now my mother is a fan.
@steamnstuff3 жыл бұрын
The "pop" the lamps make when they start bubbling is called superheating. In a nutshell it occurs when an absolutely flat surface (Glass) does not provide any starting point for the liquid to start bubbling. The liquid will become hotter as its boiling point till the stored energy its too much and - pop- it boils rapidly. you can observe this phenomena sometimes if you heat milk in an absolutely clean cup in an microwave. Everything looks good, till you touch the cup. Then the impulse you are causing lets superheated water in the milk boil rapidly, causing the milk to overflow. And burn your hand. In chemistry labs we use "Boiling rocks"; Small chemical inert stones with a high and rough surface area to disturb the liquid enough to form the first bubble. In reactors superheated material can cause big problems. Nearly burned the lab down with one...
@jamesmiller41843 жыл бұрын
These of course, would be an accurate physicist's explanations for the explained/proposed observed phenomena. Physics is (not are) fun ... but hard. . : .
@niles61593 жыл бұрын
I thought maybe that the crystals (salt?) were added to help prevent this superheating and act as "boiling rocks". Wasn't talked about much in the video.
@katrinajudeelle27403 жыл бұрын
❤❤❤
@siarles3 жыл бұрын
I once somehow managed to superheat water in a pot on my stove. I was just starting to think it was taking longer than usual to boil and leaned in to get a closer look, when suddenly a single huge bubble of steam formed in the bottom of the pot and splashed about half of the water out onto the stove and floor. Fortunately there was enough water that it was too heavy to splash very high and thus didn't hit my face, but I still had a mess to clean up.
@nidking24003 жыл бұрын
Is that why you sometimes had to flick them to get them going? There just wasn't a good nucleation site so you had to make your own?
@user-le8ul4nr5t3 жыл бұрын
I think this is the closest we've ever been to a no-effort-november video that's actually no effort.
@bubbledoubletrouble3 жыл бұрын
So it took him plenty of effort to get around to no effort.
@PhilipHowson3 жыл бұрын
Surely these should be rebranded as "RGB Lights with integrated liquid cooling" and sold to gamers ?
@johnsmith-js9nv3 жыл бұрын
Hilarious and true.
@donovanwisdom3103 жыл бұрын
"Ruth Gator Binsburg"?? I'm not a gamer :-(
@williamreid62553 жыл бұрын
Yes, they should. And don’t call me Shirley.
@alexanderespinoza3 жыл бұрын
Just picked up some 240hz Razer bubble lights myself
@ameliabrittain1583 жыл бұрын
@@donovanwisdom310 this is outstanding and I wish I could give you more than one like
@JayLeePoe3 жыл бұрын
_ah, yes, the lightbulbs that double as lvl 1 alchemical weapons_
@jefftitterington76003 жыл бұрын
True genius to use "alchemical", not boring old "chemical!" 🤣
@Uultraaaviolettt3 жыл бұрын
The “seasonings greetings” pun is way more clever than it has any right being.
@JanBabiuchHall3 жыл бұрын
Straight up murdered me. Couldn't even blink for a solid 5 seconds
@jivjov3 жыл бұрын
The long hold from the camera was phenomenal
@Firefin3 жыл бұрын
wow my brain is so smooth that I didn't even get the joke until you mentioned it
@Uultraaaviolettt3 жыл бұрын
@@JanBabiuchHall I could tell he was building up to something and I still had a visceral reaction to hearing it but that IS the mark of a good pun.
@TheGlock30owner3 жыл бұрын
It is nearly "Dad joke" worthy!
@phobozad3 жыл бұрын
I lost it at the 11% rebate line. For a second I thought you were going to break into a full Svengoolie-like Menards commercial parody.
@neillthornton11493 жыл бұрын
It must be some kind of inside Menards joke, cause I didn't get it... I didn't even know what Menards was until I googled it. West Coast doesn't have them.
@calvinkatt6623 жыл бұрын
@@neillthornton1149 In the part of Indiana I live in, we have one Lowes, one Home Depot and two Menards. It's a midwest thing.
@woodlandwonders68873 жыл бұрын
@@neillthornton1149 Menards is famous for offering a 11% rebate on purchases. Rebate comes in the form of a store credit so it's a way to get you back to the store.
@jrunsvold3 жыл бұрын
@@neillthornton1149 This may help you understand: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2ilpZiZereUps0
@Arbbal3 жыл бұрын
@@calvinkatt662 You save big money, you save big money, when you shop Menards.
@Ticktok_of_Oz3 жыл бұрын
I love bubble lights and grew up with them. When I finally bought my first christmas tree as an adult, the first thing I did was go out and buy two long strands of them. My wife had never seen them before and was so entertained by them, as well as me being that excited over something.
@maaltagabriel3 жыл бұрын
"A: this is no effort november 2: I like these things."
@dewiz95963 жыл бұрын
No Effort November.. . finally, finally something to like about that horrid month. . .
@zachk73053 жыл бұрын
Omg, I didn't even catch that when he said it. Amazing 🤣
@davidt-rex20623 жыл бұрын
WE should extend it into Do no work December
@cryptid43513 жыл бұрын
@@dewiz9596 hey, be nice, it’s my birthday month
@s3mp3rfi3 жыл бұрын
A sick reference to Home Alone
@fluffycritter3 жыл бұрын
The solvent in these is the same stuff as what’s used in drinking birds. Versatile stuff for all SORTS of kitsch.
@dennis81963 жыл бұрын
Drinking birds more often use tap water, it's the evaporation that makes them work. No need to use anything more than water.
@kierenevans25213 жыл бұрын
But quite nasty. Use of chlorinated solvents is on the way out industrially and academically.
@theleva73 жыл бұрын
@@dennis8196 OP's talking about DCM or some other solvent inside the bird. The stuff that moves up and down the stem.
@orbitingancient3 жыл бұрын
owo
@FemmyFoxxo3 жыл бұрын
@@dennis8196 It uses the solvent for the stem of the bird. You use water to cool the bird which then causes the solvent to climb the stem
@Grow_Everything3 жыл бұрын
You saying, "A and 2" while listing points at 4:30 is possibly the most subtle Home Alone reference ever. I love it.
@donhall342311 ай бұрын
Hmm, I would have said Car Talk. Good catch!
@3Cr15w3113 жыл бұрын
"metric degrees" - can't believe I've never heard Celsius called that before. It made me giggle.
@StefanBrodd3 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't "metric degrees" be Kelvin though? 🤔
@vorrnth87343 жыл бұрын
@@StefanBrodd Both are metric .
@ElectraFlarefire3 жыл бұрын
@@vorrnth8734 But which one was he using? He didn't say! He only narrowed it down to metric! (And I refuse to use the internet to look it up or even consider that 39 degrees could only sanely be in C, I understand it gets cold in that part of the world so I'm free to assume that 39k is the normal winter temperature there.)
@jakeaurod3 жыл бұрын
Even Fahrenheit degrees are metric.
@huuskari1743 жыл бұрын
@@StefanBrodd there isn't a thing called kelvin degrees, they're just kelvin
@kaitlinomalley56773 жыл бұрын
My grandparents still have these. They're probably from the 70's too.
@PanAndScanBuddy3 жыл бұрын
You can ask your grand parents when they were born. They might be from the 70s after all.
@haj982 жыл бұрын
I love bubble lights! These are really different from the ones I had as a kid in the 80s, which actually did have serviceable parts. They were smaller, the glass tubes were separate, and the bulb was a normal Christmas light. They basically took a normal string of lights and clipped the little plastic base around them and then slid the glass tubes into the base. You could sometimes get the base to clip around other random lights on the tree and space them out more if the lights were the right shape. They didn’t pop or make much noise either. I wish we still had those types of bubble lights!
@twistedscamp10 ай бұрын
If you look hard enough this type can still be found. I have found them at random craft and hardware stores.
@davidtt25259 ай бұрын
I too grew up with these and they were smaller back then (60's). They did make the same bubbling sound as the larger ones. I'll have to see if I can find them and look at the construction. I don't think they could come apart. Great memories. ❤
@TheKazragore3 жыл бұрын
"But A: [...], and 2: [...]" This is the quality script writing we subscribe for.
@LelouchVee3 жыл бұрын
Writing that was obviously actual effort in the No Effort November, so 'boo'
@christophersummers19393 жыл бұрын
@@LelouchVee copy & pasting from the 'home alone' script is minimal effort at most
@stonent3 жыл бұрын
Buzz needed to go to D next.
@wetworkwolf3 жыл бұрын
I didn’t even notice! XD
@DisasterxUs3 жыл бұрын
That opening pun made me physically ill. Good start 😂
@ColdIronGaming3 жыл бұрын
Dude, you're a Midwestern treasure. Don't ever let anyone take that part of you away and remain proud for all of us Midwesterners.
@sparkysheep3 жыл бұрын
I continue to love the fact that you do ACTUAL captions for every video rather than just having auto-captions!! I appreciate that very much (and nearly lost it at weird Christmas tree rustling 😂)
@sivalon13 жыл бұрын
TIL I’ve been missing out on additional TC weirdness by not having CC on.
@davidfrischknecht82613 жыл бұрын
Automatic captions are worthless.
@CRT.v3 жыл бұрын
seconded! i usually don't NEED them here because he speaks clearly and doesn't mix distracting music in, but i always appreciate that they're there and that they're done right. accessibility is good and appreciated!
@JB2X-Z3 жыл бұрын
"Seasonings greetings!" AAAAAUGH I cannot BELIEVE that caught me off guard like that
@aschmelyun3 жыл бұрын
These lights will always remind me of being at my grandmother’s house around the holidays.
@danielbrendemuehl78413 жыл бұрын
50% off and an 11% rebate on EVERYTHING!!! I love the midwest lol.
@tkefan293 жыл бұрын
Until you have to wait for a rebate check to arrive xD
@donna300443 жыл бұрын
Our family had these in the 1950s, and they were my favorite things on the tree.
@VaultDwellerGal3 жыл бұрын
My grandma has been using these bubble Christmas lights for years, and I never really gave it much thought until now. I’m guessing she’s had them since the 60s, as she has a lot of mid-century stuff that has come back in style recently. The lights are pretty cool now that you mention it.
@arfles3 жыл бұрын
My grandparents have lights like these and I LOVED them as a kid and still do. Glad to see they are made still.
@aoeuable3 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile, in Europe: Actual candles.
@dr.eldontyrell-rosen9263 жыл бұрын
🔥 omg 😳 🔥
@endless22393 жыл бұрын
the best way to 'light up' a Christmas tree.
@Kaepsele3373 жыл бұрын
To be fair, they are not left burning unattended and a fire extinguisher is kept close (or at least a bucket of water). It could be argued that unattended incandescent bulbs are more dangerous.
@Hans-gb4mv3 жыл бұрын
Never seen them myself and I don't think anyone over here would still try that after a hotel once burned down after a candle on a nearby table lit up a tree during a new years eve party.
@camelopardalis843 жыл бұрын
@@dr.eldontyrell-rosen926 Is this a joke or are you really surprised to hear that? I know the US only from t.v. shows and films and now that I think of it, I think I've never seen a (fictional) US American have actual candles burning on their tree.
@500spyder3 жыл бұрын
My parents had these when I was growing up and they still do. Most of the bulbs are still going. Some light up but don't bubble anymore.
@OwenOrsini3 жыл бұрын
"this website I found" >Wikipedia screengrab never change
@oz_jones3 жыл бұрын
No Effort November, using Wikipedia as a source. Tracks.
@TylerBundy2603 жыл бұрын
"... and I got an 11% rebate on EV-" Season's Greetings from Menards!
@josephbennett34823 жыл бұрын
He was about to say: Amazon , but didn't want to advertise Amazon or encourage people to shop on Amazon.
@oz_jones3 жыл бұрын
*Seasonings greetings
@Platitudinous90003 жыл бұрын
Nah, it's Menards. They've got 11% rebates sometimes
@TylerBundy2603 жыл бұрын
@@Platitudinous9000 more often than not, lol
@jacksonbryantfilms3 жыл бұрын
@@josephbennett3482 someone’s not a Midwesterner. Menards runs “11% rebate on EVERYTHING!” promotions quite often.
@brothertaddeus3 жыл бұрын
My mom loves bubble lights. Every year our Christmas tree was adorned with them, and the same set lasted for decades. When they finally burned out, finding replacements was a nightmare, but luckily I was able to score some on ebay on the cheap. And nowadays, I have a set of bubble lights for my own Christmas tree.
@twistedscamp10 ай бұрын
Look at small, independent hardware stores. This is where I have found the most bubble lights.
@tjkilen82083 жыл бұрын
As a Midwesterner (WI), I just want to say I appreciate the Menard's gags.
@ericgulseth743 жыл бұрын
Wonder big he saved big money at Menards...
@morg7773 жыл бұрын
Back when I worked there 25 years ago, every time that jingle came over the TVs we'd sing under our breath "shave big monkeys at Menards!" Ah, the memories.
@samuelhammons25283 жыл бұрын
@ TODAY!
@TV-8-3013 жыл бұрын
In CO, never seen a Menards :(
@khatharrmalkavian33063 жыл бұрын
OMG, this thread has so many jokes that were lost by just a word or two. I mean look at this "Mx. TV-8-301" person... That "a" just ruined the whole joke! COME ON!
@jscollett3 жыл бұрын
Quote from my Midwestern wife in the form of a jingle: "Save big money at Menards!"
@ZGryphon3 жыл бұрын
The approximate equivalent here in Maine is "I shoulda bought it when I saw it at Marden's!"
@performa95233 жыл бұрын
ALL RISE FOR THE ANTHEM OF THE MIDWEST.
@songwriterjj60223 жыл бұрын
I always sing it as "spank your monkey at Menards!" Sorry.
@scheppa20003 жыл бұрын
My favorite Menards knockoff commercial kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIukgWBur5ySrNE
@precisionguesswork53943 жыл бұрын
"Seasons Greetings to you all from Menards"
@benjidog15143 жыл бұрын
My mom would put these on our tree. She loved them so much. These bring back so many nostalgic memories and make me miss her.
@l0os1763 жыл бұрын
"Carl, it's 1941, and we're knee deep in the war! What have you engineered to help us?" "Bubbly Christmas lights!"
@raccoon6813 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing
@Turbobuttes3 жыл бұрын
You need something to lift up your spirit in those dark times, watching your countrymen and potentially family members contribute to the chaos and destruction elsewhere in the world.
@skrenos3 жыл бұрын
I mean, to be fair, he filed for his patent in November 6. Pearl Harbor happened on December 7.
@raccoon6813 жыл бұрын
@@skrenos Well then it's a good thing he got in early.
@steveurbach30933 жыл бұрын
How many months HAD the patent lawyer been working on those drawings BEFORE filing?
@KurosakiYukigo3 жыл бұрын
That opening joke had me seriously questioning my Patreon pledge
@vect0r8583 жыл бұрын
Do you feel a-salted?
@WarrenGarabrandt3 жыл бұрын
It reaffirmed my pledge. Every time Alec makes a joke like this it proves to me that I'm in the right place.
@ZGryphon3 жыл бұрын
I know, right? You just want to go and click to a higher tier.
@haxney3 жыл бұрын
It made you question whether you needed to double it?
@YetiFell3 жыл бұрын
I mean no effort november was on the menu, so you got what you ordered I guess :P
@moose35410 ай бұрын
Thanks for doing this video. I first saw these lights when I was a little boy in the 1950's. My grandparents had them and I was totally fascinated by these lights. We have these lights today to relive that wonderful childhood memory.
@matthewbulger69863 жыл бұрын
"He probably just wanted to make a thing..." That thing being money!
@VoidplayLP3 жыл бұрын
"And this is them!"
@HallowqueenCrafting3 жыл бұрын
I have fond memories of these being on the tree at one of my grandparents homes. I grew up in the 80, so well past their heyday, but that set of grandparents was known for being especially frugal, so it doesn't surprise me that they're a throwback from even earlier.
@MidnightToTwelve3 жыл бұрын
This drifted ever so closely to being an ad for Mendards lmao
@kennethd49583 жыл бұрын
Save big money at...
@SD-de4do3 жыл бұрын
Have you ever been to a Menards and then not talked about it? It's like a circus full of wonderful, weird shit.
@menhirmike3 жыл бұрын
"The Advent of electric lighting" - that's a good christmas pun.
@reneejones63303 жыл бұрын
I love bubble lights! I wish I knew what happened to the replaceable-bulb ones that my parents had in the 1960's.
@ReverendTed3 жыл бұрын
0:17 - I am so delightfully angry right now. You know the "don't laugh, it'll only encourage him" grimace? Yeah, that one.
@redyau_3 жыл бұрын
If you were following his Twitter, you'd have come prepared!
@ReverendTed3 жыл бұрын
@@redyau_ My decision to stay off of Twitter has finally paid off!
@aigledemasyaf3 жыл бұрын
Exactly how I felt.
@syd.a.m3 жыл бұрын
I bet you didn't see that cumin.
@awo1fman3 жыл бұрын
@@syd.a.m 🙄 Please, no more pun-ishment! 😎
@NicholasRankin463 жыл бұрын
As a Wisconsinite, the Menard’s gag definitely made the video for me. Keep up the amazingly entertaining and educational work!
@jonasistaken2 жыл бұрын
Agreed, having been a 10 y/o boy it didn’t take long to turn into “Save big money at my na(r)ds”
@blaster-zy7xx3 жыл бұрын
There is great period resturant on the island of Captiva on the west coast of Florida called The Bubble Room. Thay have hundreds of them. It is worth seeing. The desserts are awesome!
@woohoo83153 жыл бұрын
I laughed loud and hard at the 11% rebate cutoff. As a fellow midwesterner, Menard's 11% rebate weeks are a big part of my life as well.
@MichaelSteeves3 жыл бұрын
You do recall some culture's traditions of putting lit candles in Christmas trees? No way that could be dangerous!
@lsorense3 жыл бұрын
But they are pretty. I have no idea what we were thinking.
@Eidolon1andOnly3 жыл бұрын
That's actually why electric Christmas lights were invented.
@VladMcCain3 жыл бұрын
“Some”? More like everyone in Europe. Tho the practice came from the Norse combined with the invectus sol practices, that the mid (around the Lutheran reformation) Christian church adopted.
@Qardo3 жыл бұрын
Well, originally, we just burn the whole tree and it is supposed to last the whole winter season.
@endless22393 жыл бұрын
yes, generally the same cultures that build their houses from nice and flammable wood.
@XCharger3 жыл бұрын
i love how the list was made using both letters and numbers, "A... and 2..." 8D
@davidbarmann3 жыл бұрын
A Mad About You reference I believe.
@dphoenix13 жыл бұрын
@@davidbarmann Or Home Alone, where Buzz is listing the various reasons it's no big deal Kevin got left at home. Because of this scene I use "A," "2," and "D" whenever I can for three-item lists. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYeqk3d7dtN3r9E
@AliceC9933 жыл бұрын
"This website I found..." _Wikipedia_ I lol'd
@DaedalusYoung3 жыл бұрын
Fun thing is, many years ago, I actually did accidentally find Wikipedia for the first time, before it was so well known as it is today. And it was amazing how much useless knowledge I could spout and tell people "there's an awesome website I found that is like an encyclopedia, and you can help write the articles!"
@Attoparsec3 жыл бұрын
You should cover an "oil rain" lamp, I was just thinking about how weird those things were.
@thefaboo3 жыл бұрын
My grandfather had one of these. As a kid, it was *so* cool.
@420frankp3 жыл бұрын
Do you mean those old ass lamps with the tiny drops of oil sliding down what looked like fishing line? Grandparents had a couple of those.
@oliverunderwood943 жыл бұрын
my family had a like, Greek garden-themed one? it was so cool but so gross cause the strings would collect dust
@pulsecodemodulated2 жыл бұрын
I'm Australian, so I had never seen lights like until about a decade ago when I saw some KZbin videos about them and ended up importing a few boxes from the US, along with a 300W 240-110V stepdown transformer. I also bought a couple of boxes of the potion bottle ones from ThinkGeek when that was still a thing. I love that noise they make as they first 'explode' into bubbles after powering on.
@ButCritically3 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate the effort you put into captioning the videos, even in "No Effort November". It makes it much easier for me to understand!
@RikaRoleplay3 жыл бұрын
I imagine he reused the script and timings from a teleprompter, but hey, that's video editing/ cinematography for you.
@RetroGameSpacko3 жыл бұрын
Absolutly never heard of them before... interessting
@willlllllllllllllllllll3 жыл бұрын
Same, is this just something that isn't common in Europe?
@georgiadronefootage41363 жыл бұрын
I'm in the US and never heard of them. And I'm 35 not some young guy.
@aj3833 жыл бұрын
I'm 37, and we had them on the tree every year when I was growing up in Oregon.
@Sarah-cc1wc3 жыл бұрын
@@willlllllllllllllllllll I'm am american and this video is the first time I've ever heard of them. Could be a Midwest specific thing, or they're just a thing of the past at this point.
@chrisjlocke3 жыл бұрын
Never seen these in the UK.
@Kilo6Charlie3 жыл бұрын
My mom had these as year-long lighting decor. Often we would find ones that had mysteriously vacated all of their fluid with no trace. Either the bulb wasn't fully sealed and the bubbling boiled it all off, or it burst somewhere and there was a quickly-dried puddle of the stuff in the carpet. Couldn't have been safe either way
@sdstorm3 жыл бұрын
"They were standing together on the countertop and cheerfully wished me a good morning. And that could only mean one thing," LSD!
@travcollier3 жыл бұрын
Could you imagine him on LSD... Or even high? He's already inordinately fascinated by seemingly mundane things. It would be like double rainbow, but about a toaster. Now that I mention it... I'd watch that
@bryanp.13273 жыл бұрын
I knew a friend who swore, under the influence, that condiments in the fridge were dancing and singing la cucaracha to him.
@Formedras3 жыл бұрын
@@travcollier Didn't he already do that?
@jakeaurod3 жыл бұрын
Would that be Captain Disillusion?
@someguystudios233 жыл бұрын
1:07 I was shook when I didn't hear the VSauce theme start playing
@alessandrogrillo11263 жыл бұрын
Or does it?
@MrTrickBrick3 жыл бұрын
@@alessandrogrillo1126 🎵 Doooo--
@lilitharam443 жыл бұрын
They are my fav lights! Thanks for doing a show on them. They got Really hard to find from the late 90's until recently and yeah, they are pretty expensive as far as lights go. Consider them more as entertainment than lighting and that helps take out some of the sting!
@jamesc49993 жыл бұрын
Thank you for adding captions to all your videos!! I'm not deaf but I still like having them on, so thank you!
@SytanOfficial3 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love these types of lights. My Grandmother's second Christmas tree used to always be covered in them, love you Grandma
@dan13ljks0n10 ай бұрын
Bubble lights were the highlight of my Grandparent's Christmas tree each year. It was the only place I ever saw them - ever. I was fascinated by the bubbles, though the base would get pretty hot as far as I couls tell.
@CRT.v3 жыл бұрын
"I, a Midwesterner, obtained these at--" and in that moment, the sound of banjos mysteriously filled my mind
@horseenthusiast12503 жыл бұрын
Like Dionysus enchanting sailors with the sound of flutes, except Midwestern
@PengusKhan3 жыл бұрын
If you've never shopped at Menards, you'll never know what its like to save big money
@Harey04073 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, I knew he was going to say Menards before he said it. Because I am also a midwesterner.
@epitomeofoops3 жыл бұрын
@Wandy Wexler Weslon The Menards jingle features a banjo. Get wrecked.
@shinji3913 жыл бұрын
Banjos are too far south for us in the Midwest. We play guitars and basses.
@partycatplays3 жыл бұрын
"Seasoning's Greetings!" - would you call that our "pun"ishment?
@reallyria111 ай бұрын
Thanks for this blast from the past! Growing up in the ‘70s we had these on our tree for sure. I had no idea they are still in production. Enjoy!
@nothanksguy3 жыл бұрын
The menards references are appreciated greatly. Made 3 trips on friday to get my parents house decorated in festivus lights
@paulhaynes80453 жыл бұрын
Means bugger-all to us on the other side of the Thank God It's There Ocean though ...
@paulhaynes80453 жыл бұрын
@Pennsylvania _Mike that was in English - the clue's in the name....
@DeviantOllam3 жыл бұрын
I remember these and it's so cool to see an explanation of their inner workings... and to learn that they're for sale again some places. 🎄💡☺️
@volvo093 жыл бұрын
I had been stocking up on them over the years :) i love them.
@grumpysteelman3 жыл бұрын
Good to see you over this way - always enjoyed watching your stuff
@DeviantOllam3 жыл бұрын
@@grumpysteelman thanks! I always enjoy watching Alec's videos very much :)
@davebeedon34243 жыл бұрын
We had bubble lights (among other decorations) on our Christmas tree in Rochester NY in the late 1950s. They were cool.
@drcarrot4153 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, I was waiting for the annual holiday light rant from Technology Connections.
@nvrndingsmmr3 жыл бұрын
The "Seasonings' greetings" joke made me guffaw loudly. Brilliant! Thank you for showing us these! I've never seen them before.
@kevinclark62910 ай бұрын
Brilliant!!! This worked to get my bubble light bubbling! Thank you!
@jmc12953 жыл бұрын
if you watch Home Alone 2, there is a scene when they are in the auditorium in which you can see a Christmas tree full of bubble lights
@user-yw8sr3uj1w3 жыл бұрын
I was about to say this
@ericw3573 жыл бұрын
And Donald Trump!
@LilnutSox3 жыл бұрын
@@ericw357 if you watch on Netflix they cut Donald trump out 😂
@ericw3573 жыл бұрын
@@LilnutSox No kidding! Was watching it 2 nights ago w/the kids (3 and 5) on Disney+ and I jumped up and shouted "holy shit that was Donald Trump!" The wife was not pleased.
@Silly-g3 жыл бұрын
They are also in the end of “A Christmas story” I think.
@croquette_fr3 жыл бұрын
"We need to talk about the way 'Fig' is stylized here" : Why not but no word about the phallic shape of the bulb in the patent?
@cjc3636363 жыл бұрын
LOL! The drawings did resemble some unnecessary restroom graffiti I'd seen once.....
@charleshettrick24083 жыл бұрын
The indent at the top is for a wire hook to wrap around and hold the tube vertical. The originals shipped with a black soft iron branch hook. The screw socket base had a spring clip to clamp on branches. If not for the wire hook at the top there was little chance getting the tubes vertical. Those old lights only tolerated a few degrees off vertical and each bulb was different. After a few installs you got to know how much off vertical each tube could tolerate. Many the time I cut a notch in a branch to get the clip and hook correctly oriented. Changing to soft plastic bases with intergal branch hooks from hard Bakeolite and adding "salt" instead the round metallic heat concentrators made hanging the lights much easier
@TroaBarton3 жыл бұрын
My dad loved these and had them on every Christmas tree growing up, they were my favorite as well. Thank you for the memory.
@johnbelli93903 жыл бұрын
"Electric lights on cost-cut strings," still safer than burning sticks of grease (candles).
@KSignalEingang3 жыл бұрын
"...these are a few of my favorite things."
@kalpaucjusz87413 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I have a photo of my grandparets and christmas tree decorated with burning candles. I still have small candle holders with a clip and pointy thing where you stick candles.
@russlehman20703 жыл бұрын
My mom spent the first eleven or twelve years of her life on a farm without electricity (born in 1933). She told me that they put candles on Christmas trees, but would only keep them lit for a few minutes at a time, with buckets of water ready to douse the tree if it caught fire.
@burgeal3 жыл бұрын
There were a variation of this that was modular and worked off the smaller bulbs. Source: a favored ornament from my childhood.
@jamesodenbach68763 жыл бұрын
I had a version of these that slipped onto mini lights when I was a kid! They were so cool! I wish I still had them. not sure if they used the same liquid or not, but they were a very similar design, just with essentially a replaceable bulb as they just friction fit on a standard mini light socket.
@dashcamandy22423 жыл бұрын
1:09 - Well, it's probably safer than having actual _lit candles_ in a Christmas tree...
@zakathvs42093 жыл бұрын
RIGHT?!
@jamesmiller41843 жыл бұрын
Well, in the really olde days this was done. Not sure what the safety/disaster record was but, some research could reveal some answers. (The Germans may still, in some areas.)
@SteveAkaDarktimes3 жыл бұрын
Id rather have a wax candle that I can put out instead of Boiling chemical liquid in a fragile vial.
@jonaslinter3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesmiller4184 My familiy still does it that way. Though we only light the candles once or twice. Now we use a little tree in a pot that we reuse every year. An alive tree is obviously less dangerous.
@EnbyFranziskaNagel3 жыл бұрын
@@jonaslinter my family does that as well In addition to the electric lights. Though there have been years were we didn't light the candles once.
@erikklein76183 жыл бұрын
The mini bubble lights that my family had when I was growing up had replaceable bulbs and you could pull the glass vial out
@boogiedaddy34343 жыл бұрын
I love the theme song of this channel. It reminds me of shopping at the mall with my mom in the 80s (in the best way possible).
@PixelatedH2O3 жыл бұрын
In nearly 40 years alive I don't think I ever heard these existed until now.
@millomweb3 жыл бұрын
I'll take that and raise yer to 55 !
@DasAntiNaziBroetchen3 жыл бұрын
I gotta reduce that by 13, but I'll offer you a different continent instead.
@billkeithchannel3 жыл бұрын
I seen them for the first time a couple seasons ago at a local donut shop tree.
@jasonashley98533 жыл бұрын
Lol we had them when I was a kid at like 10.
@Pickles18643 жыл бұрын
I've been looking for them for a few decades now since I first saw them on family friends tree and have never seen them since. I just found them today at a Wilco and bought them. So glad they're still around.
@securi-t3 жыл бұрын
I'm going to start referring to my Christmas tree as a "kindling cone."
@Puddingskin013 жыл бұрын
You mean to tell me that my Christmas tree spontaneously bursting into flames isn't supposed to be a normal part of the season?
@patrioticanarchist9913 жыл бұрын
The random fire brigade always brings the family closer together
@force3119993 жыл бұрын
it was always that way on the Simson's
@susanbellman309310 ай бұрын
You can get some that plug directly into a wall socket. Also, there were glass devices where holding a bottom reservoir would the fluid to boil up to a top ball. So fun.
@CalebFrey3 жыл бұрын
Hey we have these on our tree! Same set since the early 2000s, they all still work. I had always assumed they were full of water, but had never bothered to actually check. Can't wait to see this year's holiday special videos.
@psygnale3 жыл бұрын
Really?? In the 70's almost every household in my extended family had those things! ...but then again we also had lawn darts so...
@JohnMichaelson3 жыл бұрын
We had these, lawn darts, and the obligatory faux-wood paneled station wagon in the driveway. And yes, they were popular around our 'hood as well.
@pouringblood3 жыл бұрын
I hope you kept the lawn darts... kinda hard to find banned items... (for a reasonable price) _which sucks because_ *LAWN DARTS ARE FUUUUN*
@fyrrydr4g0n3 жыл бұрын
My dad had one of these when I was young, and over the years I figured out that it was an oddball; the base was green (one color, unlike every other one I've seen since), and the vial was filled with clear fluid (also unlike every other one I've seen since), and it was mounted in a candlestick instead of on a string. I ended up buying a different one at a garage sale a few years later. It was black on top, orange on the bottom and orange fluid in the vial, and it came in a night-light base. Probably a Halloween night-light, which I then used as a white noise generator and night-light. Yes, they do make enough noise while bubbling to be heard.
@chaseohara47813 жыл бұрын
I actually adore bubble lights... They make me so happy
@tskmaster38373 жыл бұрын
"Still, slightly safer certainly seems separate." Imagine my disappointment when I didn't see any outtakes. Either well done or well hidden.
@paulbrogger65511 ай бұрын
Our family had these when I was a kid. Most creative use: My dad affixed them at ~1-foot intervals along the rail lines in our extensive bedroom HO train layout. In the darkened room, the bubble lights turned an otherwise unadorned plywood base into a fantastical, colored landscape for nighttime runs of the Bubble Express!
@JohnSmith-rm5sf3 жыл бұрын
"Seasonings' Greetings!" ... "I have some standards!".... Hmmm....
@wimwiddershins3 жыл бұрын
"and that could mean only one thing..." I was thinking; left the gas on = neural damage.