A hat worn as clothing is not a machine. However a hat used to transfer force is a machine, functionally identical to the crutch or Sally's pole. Wikipedia lists a hand axe as a machine, which has no moving parts.
@blacktending2 жыл бұрын
An axe is a wedge. Machines don't need to have moving parts they just need to amplify force (I think)
@doughertySD2 жыл бұрын
@@blacktending they just need to transfer force. The wedge and inclined plane are the only simple machines that don't move.
@jonhohensee32582 жыл бұрын
An axe is not a machine.
@doughertySD2 жыл бұрын
@@jonhohensee3258 taken from the wiki for the axe: "The axe is an example of a simple machine, as it is a type of wedge, or dual inclined plane"
@jonhohensee32582 жыл бұрын
@@doughertySD Is wikipedia your god? An axe is a tool, not a machine.
@dascherofficial2 жыл бұрын
She thought a round coconut needed help Rolling. 😂
@josh46012 жыл бұрын
i would argue that the hat by definition, gave a "mechanical advantage" By increasing the length of his arm. If an atlatl is a machine for throwing darts, then the hat is absolutely a machine for throwing coconuts.
@lordtachanka9032 жыл бұрын
Had no idea what an atlatl was before I saw your comment, I thought you meant like darts the bar/pub game 😂😂😂
@niseplank45272 жыл бұрын
Off to Google.
@niseplank45272 жыл бұрын
@You're Gonna Hate This but a wedge is a machine, and so is a lever.
@bassett_green2 жыл бұрын
@You're Gonna Hate This the machine is his arm plus the hat together. Alone, the hat is no a machine. But when combined with the arm, there's a good argument for it
@j_dizzle032 жыл бұрын
@You're Gonna Hate This yeah i got the definition of "a person who acts with the mechanical efficiency of a machine." which had the example of a comedian 😂so if there's any indication he used a machine, this is it
@guythat7792 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the power for a bow and arrow doesnt come from the string being elastic, it comes from the bow flexing
@dog-jk2hn2 жыл бұрын
That is a fun fact
@guythat7792 жыл бұрын
@@dog-jk2hn thanks
@gerardomacias7370 Жыл бұрын
This actually makes sense. Made me think for a moment but then it hit me, punintended. When you pull the string you’re also pulling on the bow staff which causes it to bend. And when you let go, the string moves because the bow staff is returning to it’s original place. The string is propelling the arrow forward but the sting is moving forward because of the bow. All the power comes from to bow staff deforming and reforming to its original shape. There might be more to it but that all I got.
@guythat779 Жыл бұрын
@gerardomacias7370 that's about it yeah, maybe i could add that if you used an elastic string it'd weaken the bow because the energy and force you need to put into it to deform is not high Otherwise well put
@ecothunderbolt2576 ай бұрын
@@gerardomacias7370I will add, this doesn't necessarily mean that flexible string won't work. A Slingshot works by means of rubber bands on a relatively inflexible frame.
@bennyzhitomirsky20762 жыл бұрын
Well, if we want to be technical about this, which clearly we do, one might argue that the core of the discussion shouldn't be around the word 'machine', as in "Is a hat (or a crutch for that matter,) a machine?", but rather on the word 'make' as in "Did HE really make that hat (or crutch), or was it already made and he just used it?"
@jocomfiresin69822 жыл бұрын
There's also an issue with the word fling... Two people shot the coconuts, one just kinda gently moved it along a lever... The other two actually flung it but didn't make their flinging devices... Honestly no one deserved points for this task.
@nitelast2 жыл бұрын
@@jocomfiresin6982 to fling is to throw or hurl forcefully, to hurl is to throw something, and to throw is to propel (something) with force. So i see no problems with the flinging featured in this video.
@nitelast2 жыл бұрын
However neither a critch or a hat are designed for flinging coconuts, so in a sense they did make them into machines for flinging coconuts, even if there was no phyisical changes to the objects themselves.
@nitelast2 жыл бұрын
But either way its all for fun anyway!
@jocomfiresin69822 жыл бұрын
@@nitelast ... Okie... I'll just throw this arrow at your chest... With this 100 pound bow at 3 feet. Hold still my aim is a tad rusty.
@alsu54442 жыл бұрын
The way Bob at 5:34 looked up expecting it to still be up there
@ahabsbane2 жыл бұрын
Alex bringing the tea for it for me, what an absolute gentleman! Personally I would have just picked it up and yeeted it as far as I could. The human arm is an incredibly complex combination of various basic machines, purpose built, for throwing things. And considering I grew the dang thing myself, I'd argue that I made it!
@JIKitty2 жыл бұрын
Sure. But the task says to "make a machine". Something you have already made ages ago doesn't count. You are to make something *now*.
@williamt270011 ай бұрын
I would argue that you would "make a machine" in a sense People say things like "You would make a good actor" and they don't mean create, so you could "make" a good flinging machine
@billyeveryteen73282 жыл бұрын
I'm sure it's been pointed out a few times here, if we're going by the strictest, most pedantic dictionary definition of "machine," meaning a "system that uses some kind of power to apply force and perform a function," then by that very pedantic definition, the hat is a machine, since the hat and Mark combine to form a system that uses physical human power to fling a coconut. And actually, if we're still going by pedantic dictionary definitions, the crutch itself is not a machine, it's a tool, but that would mean that Bob and the crutch combined also formed a machine.
@Baconloord2 жыл бұрын
If we want to get real technical about stuff, Mark and bob should probably be last by distance cause they both have a "practice fling" but the task clearly says "you have 20 minutes and ONE attempt :P
@AllenKnutson10 ай бұрын
I think an "attempt" has to be called. "OK, I'm done practicing; _this_ one shall be my Attempt."
@tapiopuranen882 жыл бұрын
If the crutch which was not made counted as a machine = lever, the hat should count as well. It too extended the reach of arm as a (short) lever.
@Pryexel2 жыл бұрын
3:39 Considering what his coconut throw would be in the grand finale, this is impressive.
@ran.glacialis2 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking
@iliketrains34952 жыл бұрын
At least he can create a good coconut businessman
@SparkeyAvalon2 жыл бұрын
I really was expecting one of the boys to just throw it. And shout "I'm a machine".
@CallMeProm2 жыл бұрын
I feel like you are mixing them up with Bert Kreischer.
@bassett_green2 жыл бұрын
A lever is a simple machine, the hat qualifies
@smokeandkippers2 жыл бұрын
A lever needs a handle and a fulcrum. The brim could be considered a handle but you’re still missing a fulcrum.
@bubbledoubletrouble2 жыл бұрын
@@smokeandkippers Forearm, then. The handle would be the handle of the compound forearm-hat machine.
@smokeandkippers2 жыл бұрын
@@bubbledoubletrouble Ah, if you’re talking about the old “compound, humanoid lever machine” then I’d concede to an elbow, or wrist, at a push. More “flingability”.
@jamesflames69872 жыл бұрын
The fulcrum is the elbow. A handle is not a necessary part of a lever. I lever just uses length to multiply force. The hat is defined as a Class III lever as the effort is applied in between the load and the effort.
@iliketrains34952 жыл бұрын
One of the best moments of series 5 is when Greg and Alex state the contestants' intelligence and Sally starts giggling, knowing she's done badly. Well, she still came second.
@levlowgull3917 Жыл бұрын
I'm currently on a taskmaster-binge here on youtube and I see you in the comments that often that you almost feel like a friend :D nice music taste by the way!
@iliketrains3495 Жыл бұрын
@@levlowgull3917 lol thanks!
@BeeLZBeeb2 жыл бұрын
I’d like a full episode just of Nish laughing
@digitaal_boog2 жыл бұрын
Personally I find that a swallow works best for getting coconuts far away
@HaloInverse2 жыл бұрын
African or European?
@liamshelley49611 ай бұрын
@@HaloInverse Hah? I don't know that
@tylerray13682 жыл бұрын
I'd have died if one of the contestants had a trebuchet guy and just called him up.
@CallMeProm2 жыл бұрын
That's an Al Murray thing.
@oxylepy2 Жыл бұрын
"Are you a machine" Yes, an organism is an organic machine. "an apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task." An arm has multiple parts with definite function which can perform a particular task and apply mechanical power, in this case lobbing a coconut.
@hjt0912 жыл бұрын
The keyword in this task is "make". Bob did not make the crutch, so his attempt should not count. If it *does* count, then Mark's attempt should count as well.
@R.Daneel2 жыл бұрын
The keyword is "Taskmaster". The Taskmaster has spoken. Do you presume to question him?
@Dxella2 жыл бұрын
He made the crutch into a coconut-flining-machine.
@bubbledoubletrouble2 жыл бұрын
@@R.Daneel Contestants certainly do all the time.
@stevesawyer8892 жыл бұрын
@@R.Daneel y
@jocomfiresin69822 жыл бұрын
Didn't you see? He spent decades finely tuning and regularly changing out the parts to his coconut flinging machines engine. Honestly I'd argue Sally and Bob did the same thing. Because importantly neither technically built a machine that throws anything they just flung it themselves. At least for the other two the pressure being applied is done via the thing they created. As for the hat boy... I think he doesn't deserve any points not because he didn't make it not because it's not a machine but because he clearly didn't try that hard. I mean he just picked up a hat and flung a coconut with it. At least Bob seemed to place some level of thought into which object to fling his coconut with while Sally legitimately built a thing then forced Alex... To... Well fling is a stretch it was slowly transported then dropped upon the ground.
@himedo15122 жыл бұрын
A hat used like that is by definition a simple machine
@Robisquick2 жыл бұрын
The hat is definitely a machine. It provides some kind of change in the force other than his hands..
@BurnieBaker2 жыл бұрын
It would be insanely fun to see Tom Scott in a series. And now that I've had this thought- I will be commenting this idea/suggestion on every new video.
@beth12svist2 жыл бұрын
Or Jay Foreman.
@TorQueMoD2 жыл бұрын
I love that Nish made a fucking Coconut bow! That's awesome.
@lred13832 жыл бұрын
definitely the coolest looking of the "machines"
@SephBane2 жыл бұрын
I am surprised that no one tried to build a trebuchet in the 20 minutes.
@Sunprism Жыл бұрын
"I'd say a machine is anything mechanical, really" "Okay, and you've got a hat"
@c.t51362 жыл бұрын
Aisling's attempt depicts my life in a nutshell :-) Absolutely hilarious.
@GolKoshgudorc Жыл бұрын
My favorite definition of a machine, taken from the movie 3 idiots: Anything that reduces human effort [in performing a task].
@dyllock1052 жыл бұрын
Mark absolutely edited that Wikipedia
@RalIix2 жыл бұрын
And so did 1824562657 users after him to the point when the “Machine” Wikipedia page is locked for editing to unregistered and new users.
@TheGruspastej2 жыл бұрын
Probably, but a hat is (or rather can be used as) a machine. A lever is a machine and just like the crutch etc. Was used as a lever, as was the hat.
@TheGruspastej2 жыл бұрын
Should have linked them the page for "simple machines" instead ;)
@GGoAwayy2 жыл бұрын
"No way!"
@user-rc6qm7dt4w2 жыл бұрын
That was the joke haha
@annyone3293 Жыл бұрын
0:47, I was expecting Nish to answer “I AM A MACHINE!” with his fists above his head.
@misterroboto9999Ай бұрын
I don’t see anyone mentioning this, but Aisling duct taped her coconut to a roller skate so it would roll… coconuts are famously spherical, and the roller skate actively impeded the movement down the drive.
@LL-yd8zz Жыл бұрын
I think the hat by itself is definitely not a machine, but when the hat is used to extend leverage by being combined with Mark's arm I think it should count. Though I think that just the human body alone should count as a machine, no hat needed.
@littlehills2 жыл бұрын
hat keeps the sun of the head wile griping the head so MACHINE
@MrSimpsondennis2 жыл бұрын
I mean, by definition you could call an arm a machine.
@IMakeStuff929 ай бұрын
If the crutch is a machine then the hat is too
@redfoxdelta40512 жыл бұрын
I saw "Coconut Flinging Machine" in the title and assumed it was an Allen Pan video. This is good too, though.
@eternaltreasure83332 жыл бұрын
I would love if Allen Pan guest starred on this show somehow.
@digitalk682 жыл бұрын
why were there no European swallows around them? create some springy launchpad and voilà!
@alexanderwingeskog7582 жыл бұрын
That's just nuts!
@jocomfiresin69822 жыл бұрын
Youth in Asia. It's what you deserve.
@ryanjohnson36152 жыл бұрын
A scarf or piece of fabric could have been used to good effect as in a shepherds sling...
@mrSam3ooo2 жыл бұрын
Hats definitely a machine in this context, Gregory is out of order
@j_dizzle032 жыл бұрын
don't let him hear you say that, you'll get the traditional punishment
@quasur57 Жыл бұрын
my body is a machine that turns coconuts into flung coconuts
@stevensavoie856 Жыл бұрын
I'm shocked. She put it on a roller skate and said it would roll farther. No one mentioned that it was already round.
@tallspy71502 жыл бұрын
just adding a comment that the hat (albeit crude) is just as much of a machine as the crutch. neither person made it, and simply used it to fling the coconut. it should have counted.
@GNVS3002 жыл бұрын
Aisling wearing a cone on her head, ready to take on some anthropomorphic peas on her quest to invade Crazy Dave's house.
@elkor1012 жыл бұрын
You could probably use the stretchy thing to make an improvised sling
@Compo852 жыл бұрын
Just had to look it up and one of the definitions of a machine is a 'person' who acts with the mechanical efficiency of a machine. it's only season 5, but still seems like it should be obvious at that point in the show to always look for a loophole, because there usually is one.
@jonhohensee32582 жыл бұрын
Aisling doesn't know what a rollerblade is.
@WillFromFinland2 жыл бұрын
This gets better and better
@forgottenfamily2 жыл бұрын
A hat used in that manner is equivalent to a catapult with an arm length of the width of the brim of the hat
@johncox98682 жыл бұрын
My first thought I am a human machine and I would have thrown it over the fence. And it turns out win.
@borbilla62542 жыл бұрын
We are all Turing-machines..
@mobi2289 Жыл бұрын
Technically, the hat could be considered a lever. Even a rope is considered as a level in terms of calculating mechanical advantage. Betweeen the hat and the crutch, the only mechanical difference is that one is a rigid body, and the other not. So if the crutch is a machine, then so is the hat.
@theyearwas1473 Жыл бұрын
I was thinking about just making a bolo and throwing it but then I remember the wording machine
@dennisbay30352 жыл бұрын
when someone asks you if you're a god, you say, "yes!"
@mudokin6 ай бұрын
Mark himself was the machine, it should have counted.
@CleverGirlAAH2 ай бұрын
This series features some of my favorite British personalities and comics... And Nish Kumar is there too... Loud, loud, loud and obnoxious Nish Kumar...
@Purzius2 жыл бұрын
Such a fun group of people xD
@alistairpbigos251 Жыл бұрын
The crutch was a tool, a machine powers itself or has a power source it then utilises usually not human but animals would count (but kinda a weird one when it comes to humans), so a hand winch is definitely a tool, and electric which is definitely machine, oxpowered….i dunno
@myguyry2 жыл бұрын
Mark definitely edited that Wikipedia.
@mienzillaz2 жыл бұрын
Nope, it was me..
@jocomfiresin69822 жыл бұрын
@@mienzillaz You smell different when you are awake.
@MachineThatCreates2 жыл бұрын
Machine should have some moving parts. With a hat the machine would be your arms.
@andrewmartin86362 жыл бұрын
So I absolutely love taskmaster. So very much. This is one of those episodes I think should have gone differently. It said in the task you get 1 attempt but one of them said I can practice right and tried a few times and got 5 points.
@drewbadger92442 жыл бұрын
He gets 1 real attempt. If he practiced and got a longer throw than his “attempt” that wouldn’t have mattered. He gets 1 attempt that counts, but he can practice before saying this is my attempt.
@andrewmartin8636 Жыл бұрын
@Drew Badger I can see your point but after 14 seasons of this show and how other tasks would have caught my point of view and not awarded points I stick with my opinion. However most of the shows points do depend on how Greg is feeling that day lol
@lukedaykin20672 жыл бұрын
Technically a human body is a machine by definition...
@ianplonka11482 жыл бұрын
These guys have never seen a potato gun. I could have launched that coconut 5-600m
@therealclippitpaperclip2 жыл бұрын
I thought we were using unladen swallows with strings of creeper!
@wpwouters2 жыл бұрын
When do we get full episodes again?
@andurilcuivie2 жыл бұрын
The human body is totally a machine. An extremely complex chemical, biological, physical machine. Now I can’t remake myself for the challenge, but my immediate answer to Alex’s question would have been very different.
@RealRogerMoore2 жыл бұрын
Too bad they didn't have Bert Kreischer on this season. "So I can just pick it up and Chuck it? " "Are you a machine?" "I AM A MACHINE!"
@quinntaylor11702 жыл бұрын
I think mark edited that wiki page and wrote “hat” in himself
@dubious67182 жыл бұрын
Humans are machines, so the easy solution would be just to pick up the coconut and throw it.
@Guided-By-Boognish2 жыл бұрын
Making the coconut heavier would not help lol
@FireManiac582 жыл бұрын
100% the hat is a machine tsk tsk
@NickBurns-ey6od2 жыл бұрын
I'd still throw it
@koru9780 Жыл бұрын
Why don't I remember this?
@scox7748 Жыл бұрын
Disgraceful. I'm bald and a hat is definitely a machine.
@capnandy4622 жыл бұрын
Rules say you only get one fling. Bob’s “practice” fling should have been the one that counted.
@Technodreamer2 жыл бұрын
He did ask Alex if he was allowed to practice, though, and Alex said yes. Fault lies with Alex, not with Bob.
@capnandy4622 жыл бұрын
@@Technodreamer I assumed that meant you could practice by throwing things that were not a coconut.
@candacebarlow9296 Жыл бұрын
I took it to mean one official attempt, not that you couldn't practice. Like once you decided that you had your machine ready and flung the coconut there were no do overs, no best out 3 type thing
@getreadywithmemamma2 жыл бұрын
Not sure how I got here, not sure if I can ever leave now…. What is happening? What is this? What am I watching? To all of these I say I don’t care, I just love it this is absolutely madness incarnate loveliness. Is this the island of broken imaginations and ideas? I love it!!
@rosieanox66692 жыл бұрын
No wayyyyyy I was just watching this episode last night
@travelwell60492 жыл бұрын
Waaaaaayyy
@jocomfiresin69822 жыл бұрын
@@travelwell6049 A-
@deskish3930 Жыл бұрын
if the crutch counts so does the hat imo
@Hephaestus_God2 жыл бұрын
Someone just had to throw it because your arm is a 3rd class lever making it a simple machine
@martincheng46322 жыл бұрын
Mark is just too nice to argue and fight for himself. I think this essentially could be argued like this: hat is more soft thus feminised thus considered not machine because it stand against the stereotype of machine being cold and iron thus fulfilling the masculine characteristics if Bob’s is a machine.
@a_lexine8 ай бұрын
"my body is a machine that turns food into energy, and energy into mechanical work. consequently, yeet"
@homerman762 жыл бұрын
One could argue that the human body is a machine 🤔... However that's a moot point since your body isn't a machine you've made 😜
@lisahenry20 Жыл бұрын
My body is a machine that I have grown myself my whole life.
@nickjimbob27762 жыл бұрын
I like bob, bob is good. I always root for bob, because bob is the best.
@fragglet11 ай бұрын
I feel like this could have been much more interesting if they gave them an hour instead of 20 minutes
@manfredgesink85142 жыл бұрын
Lucky that noone had the knowledge to build a vacuum gun....
@lukecoleman36432 жыл бұрын
just throw it
@crisrody852 Жыл бұрын
Wright brothers liked this video Santos Dumont did not
@berndarndt99247 ай бұрын
Imo there where only 2 machines used.
@DaBaltimoron2 жыл бұрын
No one went up a tall building?
@tonyryder56442 жыл бұрын
I noticed that they start at 5 instead of starting at 3 for a countdown. Is that a British thing?
@Do_not_assume2 жыл бұрын
Nish has to be my favourite contestant. Then Ashley.
@darthplagueis13 Жыл бұрын
Well, I'd argue that whether or not the hat is a machine depends on if it actually improved his throwing abilities in some way. The crutch clearly did that.
@nicolaim42752 жыл бұрын
I see that there are different definitions of machine. I always understood a machine as something that needed an internal source of power (steam, springs, electricity etc.) while anything that was solely powered by a human would be classified as a tool.
@smokeandkippers2 жыл бұрын
Even a basic lever is considered to be a machine.
@nicolaim42752 жыл бұрын
@@smokeandkippers That is why I say there seems to be multiple usable definitions (including describing humans as machines). It just annoys me that there is no real difference between the words tool and machine in English.
@lisahenry20 Жыл бұрын
For this show, the difference is whatever you can convince Greg the difference is so that it's the definition that is beneficial to you
@Cheesemounta2 жыл бұрын
Genuine question but could you just throw the coconut onto a train?
@jamesflames69872 жыл бұрын
Only if you created the train.
@jocomfiresin69822 жыл бұрын
You could theoretically do that for any task ever. No task has never said not to throw a coconut onto a train. However you may not be getting anything out of it... Other then the satisfaction for throwing a coconut onto a train.
@Cheesemounta2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesflames6987 True but Bob didn't create the walking stick
@jamesflames69872 жыл бұрын
@@Cheesemounta He should have been disqualified!
@Cheesemounta2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesflames6987 Lol
@0ooTheMAXXoo02 жыл бұрын
Human body plus a hat is a machine when put together by a comedian or anyone else...
@barsbold2746 ай бұрын
it's bullsh!t that Bob's thing is considered a machine but Mark's is not
@ColAlbSmi2 жыл бұрын
Mark is so useless that's why Greg didn't disqualify him completely, he knew it wouldn't affect the scores later on.
@iliketrains34952 жыл бұрын
Mark was actually winning the series for a few episodes and finished joint second. Despite his epic fails, he was pretty good at tasks
@JumbleJammyJokes2 жыл бұрын
“Fiddly ... How?”
@happilyham67692 жыл бұрын
The hat and crutch are not at all machines. Period.
@thomasshinnick28022 жыл бұрын
Mark definitely edited that Wikipedia
@leftblank1312 жыл бұрын
"I'm going to be a fat indian robin hood....." ehhhhh he's just trying to curry favor..............................