What's Beneath Quicksand?

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[@Thoughty2]

Have you ever had a sloppy encounter with quicksand? Also, consider checking out Keeps at www.keeps.com/thoughty2

[@kyallogideon8625]

I have, many times...I drowned I tell you...sad...i never died...These dreams in my head

[@hilltopboyz3002]

I love how you advertise

[@Cheezymuffin.]

I think instead of shear sheer strength, you mean friction coefficient. Shear is the force perpendiculair to a plane But how easily things slide past each other is the field of Tribology. Shear strengt is a material property, that yes could be regarded as the viscosity of a solid, but it's within the object. 2 objects rubbing together experience friction, which is dictates by hardness, surface roughness, lubrication, normal force etc. Not the shear strenght of the material.

[@kippu57]

When I was 12 years old I fell into a big, deep mud pit. I was stuck and sinking in the freezing muck for nearly two hours and sank over my head before I was rescued.

[@mrtielk2000]

Speaking of your sponsor, can you do a video on hairloss? I am 38 and have never left my house without my hat on. I have long thick hair. My half brother who never wears hats is two years younger than me and is almost totally bald. How/why is this?

[@justatogepienjoyingchocolate]

I never would've thought I'd ever see quicksand fetishes and hair-loss remedies in the same video

[@BaldTorment]

A 2 for 1 discount

[@msprincesss115]

or at all... lol

[@botslayer9814]

@@BaldTorment I’d buy 2 quick sands for 1

[@ChrisWilliams-on9sm]

..... I'm right there with ya

[@StatikkPhonk]

yeah cuz this genius creates videos about sand and then out of nowhere hair xD

[@SethWestmore]

When I was a kid I always thought quicksand was going to be a bigger challenge in life.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Isnt it weird this is not taught at schools? But well, not even actual History is taught, so whatever. Most in school's history class is not even real... so...

[@ravenlord4]

Same with lava. As a child I was certain that same day I would have to flee from it.

[@miloselfesteem2326]

Im brutally disappointed by the lack of relevance that quicksand has played in my life.

[@eddvcr598]

That and meteors.

[@alexgulino335]

@@eddvcr598 To be fair, a meteor only plays a role in your life for the amount of seconds it takes for the shockwave to hit after the light has. depending on how far away it is you could have a couple minutes before you're fucked. The tunguska Meteor blew up over siberia in 1908 and people said in London that they could read a paper at midnight with how bright it got for a little while. Anyway when it blew up the shockwave was so powerful it leveled every tree in about a 750 km area all facing outward from the center. There were just a small number of the trees that were left standing up still... but they were missing every single needle and branch on the tree so it was literally just the trunk pointing upward(they were pine trees so just the 1 main trunk). It exploded overhead like the one in Russia in 2015. The shockwave was so powerful that it literally ripped off every branch and needle while leaving the tree still standing directly under it since the shockwave was coming straight down. It also cause the ground to look "Like a rug that has been bunched up". The force was so strong form the explosion that it caused the ground to ripple like water. Anyway, off to learn more terrifying info that can't be used to save myself...

[@ChristeneDelacruz2014]

When I was young me and my friends got so scared with quick sand that we checked if the ground was solid before we stepped on it. We lived in an urban zone. 🤣🤣🤣

[@nightcorevx9302]

"Who was attacked by an apple" damn I was again eating and almost spit all of my food thanks to your brilliant joke. Love them!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍😁

[@snw273]

I've watched the how to escape from quicksand part about a dozen times but it still hasn't sunk in

[@GrymmSoul]

"Hasn't sunk in"...that means that you've learned the skill to escape right?

[@HalleluJah337]

Beautiful

[@zephiiawoods4157]

How dare you make a pun this good

[@rolceron]

It’s rare to encounter pun people on KZbin

[@sosshaawnbeats]

stealing this + if ppl don’t laugh i’m saying “guess that didn’t sink in either” lol

[@JeffKing310]

It turns out that quicksand and citizen’s arrests are much less part of my adult life than I expected as a kid.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Isnt it weird this is not taught at schools? But well, not even actual History is taught, so whatever. Most in school's history class is not even real... so...

[@randomguy9305]

@Noctis Lockhart that's a bot

[@wilson5284]

I need people that would throw bodies in quicksand or knock them out and throw them in quicksand in by the time they woke up they said it was done too late. Explain this because this was 10 years ago

[@Weirdkauz]

I instantly had a vision of what you must have expected adult life to be… made me lol and then giggle for quite a while. Thanks!

[@JeffKing310]

@@Weirdkauz 👍

[@newns9649]

This video brought back memories of the time I was being trained to be a wilderness guide and lost 30 minutes, 2 canoe paddles, and my left boot to being stuck I quick sand, as well as the time a Crain fell into lake ontario off the burlington peir, so they brought a bigger one to pull it out but that fell in aswell.

[@MrHeroicDemon]

I am Canadian and I felt this.

[@gay4pay882]

Was this in runescape? Damn

[@newns9649]

@@gay4pay882 no it was real life.

[@gay4pay882]

@@newns9649 oh thank god, a least you didn’t lose your runescape items

[@xScooterAZx]

"Crane" falling off you mean.

[@dyscotopia]

Kudos to the model demonstrating quicksand safety. Should keep the stinkers happy. I recall on a long walk with my ex, being against a river bank and seeing the rays of the setting sun casting a shimmering path across the sands that led to a tree studded rocky outcropping that demanded our presence. We soon realized our mistake as each step produced an increasingly vigorous suction at our feet. Unlike the woman here, we had no training, but a rapid ligjtfooted skipping motion got us out alive. Completely ruined my fancy new Japanese sneakers tho. There was mud up to our ankles.

[@lavapix]

I really didn't need to know there were people called Sinkers.

[@cutesalem394]

Russians call it quicksand 😏

[@timmimagic2]

I think our man is telling us something without saying it...

[@Nathriel]

"Ah Herr lavapix, you've been sinking about zat too hard."

[@KCOWMOO]

the winkers are even more creepy

[@ladycheyne5607]

@@KCOWMOO I'm half afraid to search for the meaning and half burning up with curiosity 🤪🤣

[@Practicality01]

I was not prepared for the video about quicksand to suddenly turn naughty.

[@AxxLAfriku]

OH NOOOOOO!!! Most people agree that my vids are the worst on KZbin. I agree to disagree. Please agree to disagree with the haters, dear jeff

[@DamienBoath]

"Hi, Naughty2 here..."

[@mortzon5681]

Me neither

[@benli5906]

@Comrade Chungus iz called reverse psychology

[@Morrison_Builds]

I'm not mad lol

[@wendypetersen7529]

I absolutely love your channel, it gives me a real boost while I take care of my 96 year old dementia father. Your narrative always makes me laugh and is an absolute tonic for my bipolar depression. Thank you from the bottom of my heart - and please keep on with your information.

[@alanmlkbanda]

“Unless you spend your week-ends bench-pressing minis..." 😂😂😂😂 lost it

[@monas.6839]

My 7 year old self watched so much Gilligan’s Island, I was certain quicksand would be my cause of death as an adult.

[@SeanCarterCFH]

I think the person responsible for the last rating added to that shows ratings over their existence was from me as a kid. Because I talk about the show to peers and their eyes glaze over and they lose consciousness... 😪

[@theradionicrevival8068]

It still might

[@peeko_luxx2873]

Yoooooo gilligans island was awesome! Hahaha forgotten it existed, appreciate your comment.

[@martyzielinski1442]

It’s never too late to succeed....

[@willshad]

I thought it would be headhunters.

[@Senzeni]

Park in quicksand, that spot is yours forever.

[@plug1461]

That’s just it’s name it’s a park with tidal water people don’t tend to walk on it. But it was funny seeing the diggers stuck

[@kierram2920]

Lol, you got that right Senzeni

[@Strawberryknight]

Someone will park on top of you, and then someone else will park on top until it stacks up so high that it parks on surface as the hole is filled.

[@SayWord666]

😂😂😂😂

[@justanickname479]

What a revelation

[@nado7707]

Thoughty2 if you had been my teacher in school I would have loved learning. Thank you I love hearing your stories and equally love learning from you. Keep up the amazing work 👍🙂

[@PKAdventures]

15:04- Fleshy Tent Peg is gonna be my new thing to call people when they make me mad

[@TheGamingLagoons]

I don’t like quicksand. It’s coarse and rough. And it gets everywhere

[@michaellewis7409]

Would Anakin like quicksand?

[@alifmuhammadchicago]

Rofl

[@au7923]

Lmao star wars reference

[@alba2162]

It doesn't get everywhere, everywhere gets it

[@davemiller401]

Wooo Anakin Reference FTW! If only we could get Natalie Portman to cover herself in mud!

[@Happensmaker]

Quicksand survival guide: Wait can you repeat that, I was totally distracted

[@vladimir0903]

wait... he was talking?

[@tkestrel2100]

I totally had to rewatch that part a few times so i could get all the info that was being given.....

[@anmolverma6389]

The question is "where did he get that clip from"?

[@CynicalOldDwarf]

@@anmolverma6389 Appears to be Blackpool when they were still pumping untreated sewage onto the beach.

[@CrashM85]

I was mostly thinking "Is she swimming in an oil spill?"

[@d18p]

2:23 Damn you bro! You got me there laughing, I needed it 😅 😂 🤣

[@eman2498]

I always wondered how this stuff works. One more mystery off my bucket list, thanks Thoughty2!

[@samtorento4493]

"Balls-Deep in Quicksand" will be the name of my first album 😂😂😂

[@Homoparanoia]

Omg I’m making a band called piss jacket and I’m definitely using this 😂

[@JohnFourtyTwo]

@@Homoparanoia You can name the backup group this.😁👍

[@cycloneninja7004]

I was paying attention I swear... it was the woman that distracted me in the end I had to watch the survival tips twice...three times

[@tentaclefather2069]

Only three I had to re watch like 15 times

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

Morpheus: How many times is Agent Smith going to shoot you in the face before you pay attention?!

[@ethelredhardrede1838]

@@AceSpadeThePikachu Mr. Aanderson, I wiiiill shooooot him as maany tiiimes aass I wissh tooo beecausse he iss aa viirus.

[@mtshyna]

Lmaoooooooooo. Understandable 😆

[@livedandletdie]

He's become a great sinker, I never sinked about it in sat way.

[@unclemarksdiyauto]

Very interesting as always! I wondered all the questions you answered about quick sand. Hoping never to need this knowledge, but you never know!

[@interloper6874]

There was a clay quarry that me and my friends used to hang out at when we were young, some spots that looked solid would immediately start sinking when you stepped in it, normally it wasn't bad and we got out quick enough, but once my friend got sucked up to his waist and just kept sinking so I pushed a bunch of dry dirt and sand on to the area around him and me just going off the hope that it might give a solid spot to push against, and it actually worked. We never walked through that specific spot again.

[@dylanvincent5683]

"According to Newton, yes the same one who was attacked by an apple " killed me 😂

[@Enzo012]

There's a perfectly dry tunnel system you fall into that contains exactly the item you've been looking for and a gigantic snake like creature you must heal to get past.

[@dradenlol8667]

You reminded me of an angery memory and I am unpleased

[@cadencevancel959]

The Basilisk???

[@cadencevancel959]

Genuinely can’t tell if this is referencing Minecraft mine shafts or Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets or maybe it’s both??

[@dradenlol8667]

@@cadencevancel959 Star Wars 7

[@Enzo012]

@@cadencevancel959 Star Wars Rise of Skywalker. Not a film I'd recommend watching if you haven't seen it.

[@ValentineNTT]

Loving this content, entertaining as always!

[@markosp]

13:15 you can hear a fart

[@Rudderify]

Can’t forget the quicksand scene in Blazing Saddles.

[@PhayzinOut]

"Welp boys, the break's over. Ain't gonna get no tan no way, no how" 🤣

[@jaredszigeti-jonasson]

An absolute classic

[@SamuelRodriguez-mr4hd]

Looked like oatmeal

[@zairamatt7308]

Will see that movie.

[@donsal.t.1765]

I wonder how turned on the sinkers got with that one🤔

[@HarryBalzak]

I guess I missed the part about what is beneath quicksand.

[@parallel8502]

D r o w n i n g j u i c e .

[@roshill2010]

Sorrow n sadness :P

[@swawssfm9760]

its actually a magical portal to narnia

[@clover-il7tf]

Bones.

[@Ekafeman]

murder victims

[@smeliscave]

Wow dude your content has improved so much! Keep up the nice work

[@JhoTerra]

I got stuck in some sort of quicksand at a beach as a teen. It got up to my waist and I was just sort of standing there, completely unable to force my legs out. I had some understanding that I could go slow and steady and yea, im here typing a comment years later lol. But the danger was actually the tide. Had I been an idiot and failed to calmly ooze out my family would have never known what happened. This video unearthed that memory, leaving me with a new and exciting addition to late night what-if horror scenarios. Thanks!

[@DavianSinner]

"Your chips are in need of urgent lubrication!" LOL

[@caimaccoinnich9594]

This is a very serious emergency🧐 Laughing is not appropriate 🤣

[@blizzard1198]

15:33 he's telling us how to get out of quicksand and showing a woman modeling in mud and putting mud all over her body

[@davidthornton3597]

Right I was like is she trying to seduce us into the sand 😂

[@siamsurf]

Oh, I just realized I missed what he talked about there...

[@sourotaste5784]

Honestly is it some kind of churel.

[@mrkozak]

sus fem

[@alexgulino335]

I remember him saying lay back and made circular motions but not the context edit: there is a terrible joke to be made.

[@BrettonFerguson]

Don't forget Blazing Saddles. "Damn that was lucky. We darned near lost a 400 dollar hand cart".

[@davidarundel6187]

90 mile Beach in new Zealand, has pockets of quicksand along it. Mum used to live there as a kid & saw several cars get lifelong free parking. While about a dozen people run around the partially devoured car, to try & stop it sinking further , while help ran to the nearest farm. Never heard if the cars got towed out, so after this, will presume the owners chose the lifetime free parking offer - oh, if you drive the beach north to the exit/entry point, any insurance you hold, becomes nul & void, due to QUICKSAND, + it's Not, a Road - it's a beach, used as a road, which has nearly wiped out one species of shellfish found nowhere else on earth. Namaste 🙏 💟

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

People literally get a kink with quicksand? Just when I thought I've seen it all, I get proven wrong.

[@JsDs1020]

there is an ass for every seat.

[@NightBazaar]

@@JsDs1020 Unless there are more asses than available seats. In that case, you'd need to round up more seats in order to accommodate the extra surplus of asses.

[@1SCme]

@@NightBazaar Wouldn't it be the opposite, that you would need more seats for there not to be an ass for every seat? This would be the norm, since there are more human seats than human asses. Though you could have 1 ass shifting seats, or 1 large ass using multiple seats simultaneously, so you could still claim there is an ass for every seat, just not an ass for every seat simultaneously. Gawd, how does anyone ever learn English as a second language?

[@IvanOoze1990]

I forgot all about this. Maybe it's a good thing 4chan is dead.

[@pubertdefrog]

Everybody has a kink, don't act like you don't have a weird one

[@stefanbezema]

*Sinks through quicksand* " Hey you, you're finally awake"

[@davood123]

@Sandman Slim its a skyrim thing

[@kaelking8248]

Now we know where the Dovahkiin came from

[@djshanz8585]

Why did your comment make me laugh out loud like an idiot 🤣🤣 thank you for this

[@sagarah8217]

You and your writers, are brilliant. Shout out to the editor too

[@doopapoop5234]

I’ve learned about this in science but it sounds so much more fun when you explain it

[@eddvcr598]

How to survive a quicksand: Get uncomfortably sexy

[@guppymoment]

;)

[@guppymoment]

🥺👉👈

[@sylvester-capitalized]

@@guppymoment d

[@teonyi]

The things that a human can get off to will never cease to amuse me

[@diogenesdacynic8656]

Rule 34...

[@0Raik]

Sandy be*ches everywhere

[@travisgartside409]

Some peoples kinks instantly make me realize how vanilla "basic" my down and dirty game is..... hell sometimes I feel so infantile I'm more like vanilla soft serve, not even real ice cream! Hahaha!

[@liverpool0690]

LMFAO

[@VentDeux]

Nothn is weirder than animal sex

[@therealveridicalyt497]

6:24 - 6:50 That honestly taught me more about colloids than me chemistry classes

[@Markfr0mCanada]

That sample footage of how to survive quicksand had me in stitches!

[@caducl]

"Honey where is the van" "I-I swear it was right here" "God damit frank not again!"

[@hunterw9270]

“honey you said to park at this spot again because you liked it” “FRANK did you leave the keys and door unlocked?” “martha you had the keys” “frank i cant move” “martha??? i cant either!” *both stop on the top of the camper* “ha maybe this was a good idea we are gonna live frank” *tide comes in*

[@kiraej]

@@hunterw9270 pls my neighbors are called martha and frank

[@jessicaparker2655]

@@hunterw9270 lol-

[@themessageman2463]

Lolloloolololollllloolollooollllollooloollololllooooolllololooolllllllloooooooooo

[@adolfgaming1761]

The Van is a sinker

[@thecellulontriptometer4166]

There is an error in your analysis. Just as there are different kinds of sand, there are different kinds of quicksand that vary in their density. There is quicksand that will swallow people because it has pockets of air in it caused primarily by methane from decaying plant matter beneath it. These bubbles reduce the density well below that of the human body, and yes people do sink in it. That is why quicksand in jungles and other places with a lot of decaying foliage are so dangerous compared to coastal sand only quicksand. Perhaps a little more thorough research about the topic is needed.

[@EvilFookaire]

Also, not everything that we call quicksand is actually quicksand.... turns out we can be quite ambiguous with our usage of words.

[@thecellulontriptometer4166]

@@EvilFookaire Very true. In sand deserts around the world shifting dunes create voids beneath them that one can be sucked into that is often called "quicksand" because it behaves like quicksand in some ways, but there is no water involved and is really not quicksand at all.

[@rondelby2482]

They never mention peat bogs that can swallow you up on here. The bogs is a morrass of rotted slimy vegetation from moss and it can float over a deep body of water If you step through the crust of it, you will go under. But nothing is ever mentioned. The scene in Tarzen there the 2 guys go under is not quicksand but in reality is a bog...

[@thecellulontriptometer4166]

@@rondelby2482 Technically speaking the scene in Tarzan would not be termed a "bog". --- Where are bogs found in the world? Bogs are generally found in cool, northern climates. They often develop in poorly draining lake basins created by glaciers during the most recent ice age. The world's largest wetland is a series of bogs in the Siberia region of Russia.Sep 12, 2012 bog | National Geographic Societywww.nationalgeographic.org › encyclopedia › bog and - The combination of lack of oxygen, lack of minerals, and highly acid condition greatly retards the action of bacteria and fungi, the usual decay organisms. With the retardation of decomposition of the dead moss, a Sphagnum peat develops under the living plants. This is particularly the case in areas where there is a mean annual temperature of below 10 °C (50 °F), which also retards decay. In tropical environments, the decay of plant matter happens far too quickly to form what scientists would call a bog.

[@rondelby2482]

Yes research...The Tarzan scene was good but they need to go to those places and of course with oxygen tanks and do a video to see if such soft places will swallow up a human.

[@rytramprophet843]

my time at the beach has taught me a lot about this subject. for fun i would go into the soaked sand, stand still and then sort of jiggle my feet and legs thereby causing the sand to become viscous and allow me to sink into it. I learned that i could get quite deep doing this and i also learned that the sheer suction made it nearly impossible to straight up pull my legs out. I came to the natural assumption that because my jiggling would allow me to sing because it made the sand viscous that if i jiggled more i could pull one leg out at a time. Stillness = hard and motion = soft. the sand needs to be soft in order for you to escape.

[@joehooper89]

Working pipeline maintenance you run into ditches that go down to the water table often and when it's in a river basin you run into quick sand all the time. If you happen to miss the pallets we toss in to stand on and sink up above your muck boots there is one trick that works everytime. If you're worried about running into it while adventuring take a hollow walking stick, tubing of some sort, and if you get stuck just slip it down to the bottom of your feet before trying to pull it out. The suction from pulling does the work for you by pulling the air down your makeshift straw and breaks all the suction pressure and you can come right on out. It works if someone is trying to pull you or an object out as well, I've always wanted muck boots with this concept incorporated into it by having a flexible vent straw that runs externally from the top of the boot to the bottom of the sole. Would have saved me a lot of hip and knee pains walking in muddy conditions

[@TrickyDickie]

Mario taught me the dangers of quick sand

[@davidprodigy5833]

That, and Star Wars.

[@littlebear7307]

Same

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

Indiana Jones was a professor on the art of quicksand too. He teached me not to use snakes as tools to get out of Quicksand.

[@snoozyA113]

I really thought you meant Thoughty himself bc he has a mustache or that the games made you aware but idk which 🤣🤣🤣

[@termeownator]

Man, that's actually some horrorshow shit. Make one wrong move and you have to choose between slowing suffocating in quicksand or being burned alive by that jerk of a sun

[@shadowx8405]

Dry quicksand, like grain in a silo, is TREMENDOUSLY dangerous. Either you get assistance ASAP, or make your peace, because you’re about to kick off.

[@michaeljedd9359]

isn't dry quicksand just sand? like at the beach.

[@southaussielad2496]

Grain silos are 1000s of times more deadly than quicksand, fall in one and you're almost guaranteed to meet your maker

[@AshesAshes44]

Oh pshaw, getting out of a silo is easy. Step 1: Find your lighter so you can see what you're doing...

[@ebogar42]

@@southaussielad2496 Sounds fun if there was a hole at the bottom you could pop out of. 😁

[@ericturner6286]

@@AshesAshes44 🤣

[@supersophisticated9943]

It's amazing how much more swearing was in this than, like, any other ep by Thoughty2. Oh, and the mention of quicksand fetishists. I was NOT expecting that, however, I've already known partially about it. This video actually, somehow, taught me more about that than quicksand itself.

[@mmmnahfam]

Watching this and getting an ad starting with "Drowning in emails?" is marketing genius 😂

[@HerbertFilby]

"I always thought that quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be. Because if you watch cartoons, quicksand is like the third biggest thing you have to worry about in adult life behind real sticks of dynamite and giant anvils falling on you from the sky." ~ John Mulaney

[@drnutso8507]

The last one is still something you have to worry about, if you play minecraft.

[@gay4pay882]

@@drnutso8507 of course not, i have a sex life.

[@BrettonFerguson]

I've always wondered how many people have to die before the government does something to regulate the piano moving industry.

[@Terryg1968]

""Introduce fresh water into the quicksand, to re-liquify it, and pull yourself out". What about urine? Because I'll probably be releasing plenty.

[@andydecock5894]

And what if you get thirsty?

[@codycampbell8657]

@@andydecock5894 urine

[@codydaniel3097]

A piss/sinker fetishists dream death!

[@tabby73]

I have no experience with quicksand but once during an unexpected heavy downpour I ran through a muddy puddle, maybe 3-4 inches deep, nothing dangerous, with my flip flops and one got stuck in the mud. It was incredibly difficult to get it out, it was as if the wet mud held onto it with all its strength. I can only imagine how hard it must be if both your legs and bottom are stuck in such a substance. Scary!

[@joebuzz2758]

I busted out laughing when you suddenly said, "when you managed to stop shitting yourself!" 15:37 lol 😆

[@nandyace153]

This video was actually pretty scary for me to watch. I was stuck in quicksand-like mud when on a canoe trip in high school. Like you said, it came up just past my waist and I was stuck for probably close to an hour. We were able to wedge me out with canoe paddles, creating pockets of water to get out. At the time it just seemed kinda funny, but looking back that could have been so bad lol!

[@isabelp187]

Me and my big sis got stuck in quicksand on a farm when we were kids, it was so f-ing scary, we were like 6 and 8 at the time, and we were across the paddocks all alone, it was one of those things were one of us got out and then fell in pulling the other out, it got to a point where she just ran away, i dont even remember how i got out but it was so scary lmao

[@huayujie143]

This happened to me on a canoe trip with my dad as a kid. It was scary at the time but luckily my dad was a quick thinker and got me out. Quicksand movie scenes always hit different after that though

[@Vikanuck]

“First I’ll just use my arms to pull out my legs, than I’ll pull my arms out with my face.”

[@terry2295]

and then you suffocate floating in quicksand

[@Vikanuck]

@@terry2295 It’s a quote from The Simpsons oh pseudo knowledgeable one.

[@dom85ross]

@@terry2295 Simpsons did it!

[@davemiller401]

Homer Reference FTW!

[@KCOWMOO]

may as well dive in head first

[@WaldoReyJr]

Great, informative & humoristic video on the subject. Thanks. (I'm a quicksandoholic since childhood...)

[@chadportenga7858]

11:10 "What is the chicken $hit & nuggets...?" That's funny!!!

[@deeznuts8659]

Anakin after he figures out that sinkers like sand: "I killed them all. Not just the men, but the women, and the children too. They like sand, so I slaughtered them like sand!"

[@tombentley4322]

Bruh

[@michaelstark8720]

hahahahahahaha They deserve it for liking sand anyway

[@deeznuts8659]

@@michaelstark8720 exactly

[@zhaff-ud6rh]

most underrated comment on youtube

[@venomousslime6797]

@@michaelstark8720 at least in the way they do. (and even that isn't fully a justifiable reason for them to die)

[@HarryKenyon]

Growing up in the 80s I thought quicksand was everywhere

[@KCOWMOO]

me2 even my parents would tell me not to fall into quicksand when I went outside to play

[@arthas640]

I thought that Morse Code, Quicksand, and petty criminals pretending to be monsters/ghosts would be a much bigger issue in my life. 80s and 90s television made you think that quicksand was just something that happened in any forest or jungle

[@arkia...a]

lol

[@alexanderlohmann1096]

Well, isn't that exactly what the video says? Quicksand IS to be found everywhere in the world ...

[@sneakyratsniper]

@@alexanderlohmann1096 well not always in the back garden

[@TimHesse36]

too funny. i saw a video with quicksand yesterday on tiktok. and i asked myself, whats beneath it? and now your video is showing up on my youtube :D

[@nug-beats]

"hey, 42 here" is what I hear every intro lol.

[@conradgaunt]

well, im going to tell you my experience with quicksand . i discovered some on a beach in spain , several times . walking along ..all of a sudden you "fall in a hole" .. it doesnt matter if you stand still, or move , as coastal "quick" sand has absolutely zero boyancy , you dont get "stuck" .. you instantly sink into it . my father grabbed my arm and pulled me out . very frightening as a young competitive swimmer, the problem being you cant/dont float in quicksand . after being removed, we positioned our family patch next to the sand to rescue unuspecting victims .. but .. the first group of people who walked past.. walked straight over the top of the quicksand! .. 10ft futher down the beach .. they disappeared into the quicksand , and we jumped into rescue mode .. later on, my father lowered me into the quicksand , now 40ft from its original location , and i was able to get a toe onto hard ground (the gravel floor) .. but i guess what im trying to say is .. you dont sink into quick sand , you fall through it at roughly the speed of a ball dropped out of a window .. its called "quick" for a reason .. if you're sinking into sandy mud.. it aint quicksand .. and quicksand has no "edge" .. so you cant pull yourself out , as the edge collapses . if youre on your own , and you sink into to quicksand that is deeper than you are tall .. your head is going under in..about 3 seconds .. maybe non-coastal quicksand is more forgiving .. but these are more like bogs and swamps , more viscous , and not liquid like coastal quick sand . as a child of about 8years old, the fact that underground water causes patches of coastal quick sand to move about very quickly was the creepiest aspect . the films dont tell it the way it is .. and if bear grills jumped in to demonstrate his ability to extract himself out of a pool of mislabeled "mud" (as he likes to do) , he'd be f***ed in about 4 seconds.. but then again ... i saw him demonstrating how to cross an alaskan river in winter (obviously you run over the frozen/ fallen trees to get to the other side ..rather than straddle it and carefully crossing, as being soaking wet doesnt affect your survival chances..apparently) ..because as you know , when surviving in alaska , its best to run around like a careless t*t .. i ignore him . hope this helps

[@jessicapace9689]

Thank you!! Very helpful :D thank you and your father for saving lives. Truly a hero!!!

[@beefnugget2494]

15:57 I was in my kitchen watching this video and I stepped aside to grab a drink really fast and when I came back, this is what I saw and thought I was on a different video

[@myselft36yearsago]

Lol

[@chazclark86]

I got caught in quicksand when I was a kid 🤦🏻‍♂️ scariest moment in my life, also most embarrassing. Had to get rescued and then air lifted to a hospital. Ended up just under my shoulders, once my waist went under there wasn’t anything I could do. Just sucks you in and holds you tight. I did struggle and was panicking like a mf’r. And because my friends were freaking out as well. I lost my trainers but kept my life, tide came in 20 minutes after I was free, so I would have drowned. Was crazy, always stuck with me. Edit I wasn’t too far from Morcombe, was in another small town. I remember those cockle pickers because it was the same sort of quicksand.

[@mikeloether8207]

I completely lost it at "What the chicken shiten nuggets?" ROFLMAO!!!!!!! I'm using that from now on! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@leeSouthend]

"What's Beneath Quicksand?" Anyone with dirt on the Clintons.

[@msprincesss115]

@Sandman Slim .. u don't wanna know.. lol

[@paulstandaert5709]

I'm not familiar with anyone who was buried for having dirt on Trump. For all we know, they are both corrupt, but yet some want the gubbies to make our life decisions for us. Sounds like a bad idea.

[@Bushmaster10MM]

IeeSouthend.... Ba'dum Bum !! 🥁

[@fuckgoogleforever]

Like Trump or not, he doesn't have over 30 friends that have died mysteriously lmao

[@paulstandaert5709]

It amazes me how people are so worried about big corporations having all this power, but are willing to put government officials high on a pedestal. If you don't like big corps, don't give them your money. There are options. But with the gubbies, if you don't like them, you have no choice when they have the power. Democrats and communists are getting more and more synonymous each day.

[@frankjoz2803]

15:30 This is the best footage you have ever shown. If you pay close attention there's someone talking trying to explain stuff.

[@mike7652]

Watched three times, still didn't process the info. I'll just avoid sloppy wet areas I might sink into.

[@W1LDTANG]

@@mike7652 Facts!!! ALWAYS sink into wet areas, and proceed to make them sloppy... NEVER sink into wet areas, that's already sloppy! That is a rule to live by, as you never know what you may come out with; b/c then you can only pray that penicillin can cure it... Lmao. 🇺🇸🐍🇺🇸

[@davidshelley6598]

Really enjoyed this episode!

[@jeremybutterfield6024]

This was possibly one of the best you tube videos I have ever seen. Sincerely

[@xylisisvarlett3734]

Thoughty2: let me explain how to escape quicksand. My attractive female assistsnt will demonstrate

[@manyu9294]

I think it's a male

[@angelicaantezana9114]

My initial guess: Most likely a lot of bones, including a bunch of random items like shoes, bikes, and whatever you might find in a dumpster yard.

[@NickRoman]

lots of shoes!

[@msprincesss115]

my guess was normal solid ground,.. eventually.. lol.

[@piglungz3166]

Well I guess it’s nothing since it’s apparently impossible to sink

[@EvilFookaire]

So... free food, free bikes, free shoes? Sounds like paradise to me.

[@angelicaantezana9114]

@@EvilFookaire Ha! IF you can get it out, otherwise it’s a big trap. 😂

[@GamersBay]

I got stuck in quicksand hiking up a trail as a kid. It literally swallowed my entire leg, I thought I was going to die. It took both my brother and his friend over a half hour to pull me out of it. I ended up losing my shoe to it, but at least I was alive. There was no way to tell it was quicksand either. The ground was wet from a recent rain, and nothing about where I walked looked unusual at all.

[@TheDramacist]

That shoe will be fossilised in a museum a million years from now

[@williamhearn3296]

I laughed my ass off with the apple attacking Newton joke 🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻

[@Downbubbles2]

I’m just imagining that there’s rule 34 quicksand “art” Lives up to its name.

[@KittAnimations]

"If it exists there is pron of it" But the real question is why it exists

[@clorinde69]

@@KittAnimations Why not

[@maki49574]

You dont need to imagine, because there is.

[@dextersuarez9948]

How long is this dude going to be 42? He doesn’t age.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Isnt it weird this is not taught at schools? But well, not even actual History is taught, so whatever. Most in school's history class is not even real... so...

[@JUNYABUNGZ]

He uses keeps on his body

[@ablebaker8664]

I'm still wondering what he did with Thoughty1.

[@Phantom914]

@@ablebaker8664 Survival of the Fittest dude.

[@suave605]

@@slevinchannel7589 yes it’s true, exactly how the greek history is stolen. It’s actually Albanian but they never had time to raise a writer to write down their doings. The greeks which were a very small country wrote down our history since they had time whilst we were always at war. Like even if people learn the truth that it’s stolen, no one will take action upon it, because the amount of time it will take to rewrite the ‘ Greek ‘ history into Albanian would be tremendous.

[@irishninja9857]

Used to work on the coast in Texas and some of those creeks and river banks are basically quick sand. You could easily get stuck if you stepped in and were by yourself. The more you try to pull your legs out the deeper they go and the muck just sucks right up against you and makes a vacuum. I doubt you would sink enough to be an issue but you def dont want to be stuck in a creek bed in SE TX.

[@Wondercool923]

This dude is so clever with interesting facts but so funny at the same time XD "it's probably best if he just stand there watching you squirm like a dying salmon"

[@hunterclementine3268]

Thoughty2 could kill 10 people in front of me, and still convince me I killed them.

[@parallelworlds7405]

Lmao

[@livedandletdie]

It's okay, I could kill Arran "Thoughty2" in front of you, and he would still convince you that you did it.

[@svccscvv6214]

You'll probably believe he's tryna save them

[@Commander_Krill]

“Balls deep” 😂

[@obiwan8972]

Ayyy...... Anime balls deep squad???

[@nelsonx2377]

BallsDeep69?

[@omen-200]

Just 6 more..

[@lady_k5588]

I'm making some oobleck directly after I'm finished with this video. Looks super cool

[@ImprovementGang]

Movies were to blame for this fear when I was a kid. Now, I cannot imagine how I would feel if I lived in an area that had sinkholes like that or perhaps a job that exposed me to them

[@HexNottingham]

I've been stuck in quicksand before. It was frightening. This was in Virginia Beach at Sandbridge, summer 1999. Sandbridge, like it's southern neighbor, the Outter Banks, is really a gigantic sand bar, with an ocean on one side and a bay or sound on the other. It's scary to think that just three feet below those parking lots, those houses, those playgrounds, is quicksand. I know because we were building the big picnic shelters that you can use today. Each leg had to rest in an empty oil drum whose bottom is 4 or 5 feet below the surface. When they were all about level, concrete would be poured in to anchor them. We had one of the holes dug about 3 feet deep, and I was standing nearby with a grade rod. You can't get right at the edge of the hole, because the more you dig, the more surrounding sand falls in, making the top of the hole wider and wider. I was asked to check grade, and when I reached the stick into the hole, some asshole pushed me. Had I went in head first, I would have died a terror and panic filled death with no one being able to save me in tyme. But at the last split second as I was tipping, I jumped in order to right myself. I was immediately up to my knees with nothing to reach for. Not even sand, as the hole was shaped like a crater. I've had a strong fear of quicksand since childhood, and as I was slowly sinking, I asked the others that were standing around, "Are any of you going to do anything, or is this the way I'm going to die?" (I was already almost eye level with the surface sand, and their feet.) The foreman on the backhoe positioned the boom over top of me, curled the bucket, and lowered it down. I reached up and got a firm two hand grip on the bucket edges, and without warning, he just began to raise the boom. If I hadn't immediately let go, my legs would have instantly begun to rip apart at the knees. Partially out of pain and anger, I hollered at my boss like he was an idiot. He lowered the boom again, and I told him to remove his hands from the controls. This took all of the full body strength I had, now with agonising knees and ankles, to hold fast and slowly work my legs and feet back up mere centimeters at a tyme. When both feet were finally free, my arms utterly exhausted, my legs extra heavy from being caked with wet sand, he raised me up and over to the dry surface. When I landed, I limped over to the nearest park bench and told them to leave me alone for the rest of the day. Think about that the next tyme you're at the beach. Especially those that are based on huge sand bars. Just three feet below you.

[@cozy6560]

way too long

[@HexNottingham]

@@cozy6560 What is?

[@jessicapace9689]

Thank u for ur story!!! And it's definitely not to long!!!!! And, I'm sorry what happened to u!!

[@LadyOrion2012]

terrifying

[@Holmesy87]

15:30 - I'm gonna need source on that video package. For science, to erm...study further on survival in sand. Ahem.

[@filopat67]

Me too, there's a mud pool near by, I must be prepared.

[@theblacksavaga]

@@remy5405 you dropped something 👑

[@dominiquemoon9712]

I really love your videos keep up the good work

[@X2notT]

that last part though🤣🤣🤣

[@Traumachu]

8:36 "Hey, that sounds like me!"

[@coltennial9513]

Did anyone else worry about quicksand as a child despite the fact that there is such a low chance coming across it?

[@Jeffrey.Kennedy]

Ive always worried I’d never see it too. It’s been a life goal of mine to get berried alive in quick sand, I just couldn’t imagine a better way out of this world.

[@coltennial9513]

@@Jeffrey.Kennedy lmao what a way to go.

[@KimonFrousios]

It's not THAT hard to come across it. What's hard is finding one deep enough to be a life threat. Sandy beaches usually have a layer of typically ankle-deep quicksand near the waterline. And if you live away from permanent water, mud and bogs after lots of rain are pretty much he same principle as quicksand and can get pretty deep.

[@EslayerTM]

i think we all did from cartoons lol

[@violetdusk1968]

I lost my sandal in quicksand from a creek, they were brand new too I even tried to dig them out but never found it.

[@BerxationCrew]

Lol I've been stuck in quicksand, exams, traffic and a crossword.😂

[@JMM57]

I remember walking into a deep mud puddle as a kid thinking it was quick sand... nope just mud lol

[@MikeSmith-bn1qr]

Yeah, I didn't hear a thing he said when he explained freeing yourself from quicksand thanks to the visual.

[@violetdusk1968]

I'm a woman that is straight and I didn't hear a thing at that part. So much for retaining the tips.

[@Xbob42]

@@violetdusk1968 Oh I was retaining a couple of tips alright.

[@Psichotica7]

@@violetdusk1968 Very strange, I'm a straight woman too who didn't hear a single thing during that part. Many things were going through my mind, "Oh, a sexy scene" "the dudes will be distracted by this" "unfortunate because this is the most important info in the whole video" "yeah, she's pretty" "She looks very familiar" "Kate moss perhaps?" "No, Claudia Schiffer?" "No, Gerogia May Jagger or Scarlett Johansson" "Oh, shit I missed that whole segment".

[@oximas]

@@Psichotica7 we are all just a bunch of lesbains LOL

[@redgiant2617]

Lol same

[@villanex3708]

"Next after you done shitting your self" that caught me off guard there LOL

[@sunnyquinn3888]

I feel like gels should be a separate category of matter, since it's like a mostly solid that behaves like a liquid in some ways. I used to think the same thing about powders but now I kinda get that powders are solids, just with very tiny particles.

[@zendan37]

I've been stuck in quicksand, only calf deep. I did it on purpose as an experiment! [duh!] Once the water from between the sand grains had been forced to the surface by me jumping up and down, the sand set like concrete. I had to spend many minutes digging the hard sand out from behind my feet manually. By this time the tide had come in and filled a channel between me and safety. I had to swim thirty yards to shore. There was no danger of sinking in the sand, but there was a distinct danger of being drowned while anchored by my feet.

[@InuranusBrokoff]

That's actually quite interesting, glad you freed yourself in time. I.agine doing the same thing, but coming face to face with a gator, mountain lion, or Kirby salesman...

[@Trollificusv2]

We discovered that when the water of the Virgin River (at about 2500 feet below the level of the high mesa) is at a certain level, the sandy bottom turns to quicksand all over the place. It was shallow, and there was a group hiking, so we were good to play in it and experiment. I could definitely tell that the sand put actual pressure on the submerged body parts, more than just sand packed around it. And 6 feet of the stuff would be quite deadly.

[@Freekniggers]

15:29 that's the funniest survival instructional ever.

[@gothixx3176]

You make science fun wish I would have had your videos in school , probably wouldn’t have dropped out😬😂

[@MLhub.]

thanks for this Snoty2 !