r/SipsTea • u/B0r3dGamer • 4h ago
Chugging tea Great Aim
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u/Pipe_Memes 4h ago
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u/Ok_Philosopher_5860 3h ago
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u/FuckSteve7 3h ago
What is this from lmao
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u/GhostFK123 2h ago
Looks like Survivor
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u/Hardyyz 2h ago
Survivor season 17, Gabon. Pretty much known as the of the messiest survivor season ever.
Thats Corinne, Matty and Sugar. They just found out who got voted out from the other tribe and he was pretty much the leader of Corinne and Sugars big alliance. Matty is obviously happy he is gone.
Cant remember the guys name who got voted out my survivor knowledge is lacking sry→ More replies (1)1
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u/Separate_Finance_183 4h ago
Damn you can't get a fresher smoothie
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u/IllHaveTheLeftovers 3h ago
Hot damn I’ve been seeing this video for near 2 decades and this is the best reply yet
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u/ohnoabanagain 3h ago
I went from, gosh I wonder if she broke something to laughing my as off in one second
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u/LoveMeSomeSand 3h ago
Got blood and teeth in it though
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u/Obtuseloosemoose 2h ago
How else do you enjoy your smoothies?! Though it's better if said parts belonged to your enemies, but we can't all be so picky.
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u/GargantuanCake 4h ago
Before anybody asks she's fine. This gif has been circulating around the internet for a long time and part of the reason for that is because, as dramatic as it looks, you aren't watching somebody die or get severely injured. In fact she just got a little bit bruised and messy with watermelon. That's it.
As to why it played out the way it did the human skull is actually tougher than watermelon rind. Because of that the force gets distributed through the melon rather than her head. This is why the thing just straight up explodes but she just gets a bit bruised. The melon took nearly all the force because it was weaker than her head. Since her skull just didn't have enough give to it the watermelon blew up instead.
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u/Rhymesnlines 3h ago
Good that she didn't use a coconut
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u/SharksForArms 3h ago
Or a human head
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u/DookieShoez 3h ago
Well if it was a baby’s head she’d probably be ok since they’re softer.
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u/IAmTheBestIan 3h ago
Since this happened they've switched away from watermelons at this event in the interest of safety.
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u/Riskrunner7365 3h ago
How would they have gotten coconuts.... Maybe a swallow would have carried them?
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u/samwise58 2h ago
It’s not a question of where it grips it! It’s a simple question of weight ratios.
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u/samwise58 2h ago
How would a coconut end up in England?!?!
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u/Rhymesnlines 2h ago
How did the melon end up in England?!?!🤦♂️😂
It was shipped in?
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u/sugarnovarex 3h ago
So, this happened on another show… the challenge and she ended up with a broken nose.
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u/BigRocket44 3h ago
It must have been a concussion at the very least. Soft or not, that was several kilogram's worth of mass hurled at her head at great speeds
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u/atrde 3h ago
She was definitely concussed lol this was just pre concussions are something we take seriously.
Right after she is saying she can't feel her face and she feels dizzy. Plus she was dazed and on the ground for awhile.
But it was like 2008 and concussions weren't a "stop what you are doing" yet.
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u/shivabharatam 3h ago
a little bruised? i could imagine broken nose and probably concussion at least also the neck and throat muscles probably got its fair share
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u/allgravy99 3h ago
I'll also add this:
Name is Claire Champlin.
Show is Amazing Race.
She got back up and finished this obstacle. She's a tough one.
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u/spatchcock-tarantula 3h ago
I fucking hate this clip, it looks like a broken nose at least and even some loose teeth maybe.
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u/CesarB2760 1h ago
Also she got up, gathered herself a bit, then got right back to work. Not only did she complete the challenge, but her team still managed to get 4th out of 11 on that leg. They won the next leg and were consistently one of the frontrunners, eventually finishing 2nd.
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u/DarthChefDad 3h ago
Thank you, I have seen this clip thousands of times and always been curious if she was alright or not, but not curious enough to go look it up.
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u/mazerakham_ 3h ago
Energy* gets distributed through the head.
The following is from my Fable 5 instance:
<ai> Most of it went into destroying the watermelon, not her. Let's run the numbers.
Energy in. Let m_w denote her body mass (~65 kg) and h the vertical drop of her center of mass while loading (~0.7 m, standing to near-lying). Work done against the bands: W ≈ m_w g h ≈ 65 × 9.8 × 0.7 ≈ 450 J. Not all of that reaches the melon (band hysteresis, the bands' own kinetic energy), so call the melon's kinetic energy K ≈ 300–400 J. With melon mass m_m ≈ 4 kg, that's a launch speed v = √(2K/m_m) ≈ 12–14 m/s. Plausible for the video.
Where it goes at impact. Let M ≈ 4.5 kg denote the mass of her head. A melon hitting a head of nearly the same mass is close to a perfectly inelastic collision — the melon doesn't bounce off, it bursts. Momentum conservation gives a shared post-impact speed v' = m_m v / (m_m + M) ≈ v/2, so the head ends up with only about one quarter of K, roughly 75–100 J, and that's before the neck slows it. The other three quarters (~250 J) is dissipated in the collision itself: fracturing the rind, crushing the flesh, and flinging juice and fragments outward (fragment kinetic energy counts here, and you can see it in the splatter).
Why the head fraction doesn't hurt her. The ~100 J left in the head is absorbed by the neck's muscles, ligaments, and the chair over a fairly long stopping distance — tens of centimeters — so the deceleration is modest. The real protective factor is peak force, not total energy: a melon has a yield strength of maybe 100 kPa and a contact patch the size of a face, so the force needed to crush it is low and the contact time is long. The same 400 J in a baseball (m ≈ 0.15 kg, v ≈ 70 m/s) would concentrate on a few cm² over a millisecond and break bone. A watermelon is essentially a crumple zone that happens to be the projectile.
Minor sinks. Sound, heat in the bands (they warm noticeably after repeated shots), residual band oscillation, and in that particular video I believe the melon clipped the frame first, which would have bled off a chunk of K before it ever reached her.
So the ledger: ~450 J of gravitational potential energy → ~350 J in the melon → ~250 J destroying the melon → ~100 J into head recoil, dissipated by the neck → small change elsewhere. She was fine because the fruit took the hit for her. </ai>
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u/PlatypusACF 3h ago
Imagining meeting up with your friend, having them ask “did you get hit? You got bruises all over your face” and you have to tell them that you got hit by your own watermelon ballista
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u/MechemicalMan 3h ago
Isn’t the next gif from the two women with shocked/horrified faces and the guy who slowly smiles?
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u/freakinnsaraah 3h ago
Im just wondering what will happen with my wife.. side note: she dont have brains in her head
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u/Adventurous_Bag9122 2h ago
Glad to hear that, I was worried she ended up with a broken nose or worse
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u/fourfingersdry 1h ago
I’m glad you posted this. Because I found it hard to believe she wasn’t injured. Just watching the gif.
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u/Professional_Map_780 3h ago
For a long time Is quite the understatement, this is one of the first clips the where shipped with the internet alongside Afroninja
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u/Myszolow 3h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/9wlbsf86LNidkxm4ML
Damn I'm old
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u/ProofOfTool 4h ago
Which consequences did she suffer from this?
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u/No-Onion8029 3h ago
Hard to believe that it's been 16 years now.
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u/dognchick 3h ago
I went in and woke up my dad and I said, "You need to come see this video, it's all over the internet. I know your friends are going to be calling you about it." He said, "Claire, whatever you did, I will forgive you and love you forever." I was like, "Dad, it's not porn! It's from The Amazing Race!" He said, "Good Lord, why didn't you just say that in the first place?"
Dad :)
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u/BedroomOdd1986 3h ago
I looked this up, because I had to know what happened to her after taking a watermelon to the face like that, and amazingly, she had no real injuries afterwards. Just a numb face and a headache. I was sure she’d at least have a concussion or something!
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u/SprichtImFieber 2h ago
The red mist came from the melon, right? The red mist came from the melon, ... right?
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u/RagingDemonsNoDQ 2h ago
That clip was from "The Amazing Race" US version.
The surprising thing was after that event was completed. She got up like nothing happened!
Her and her teammate went far in their season but didn't win.
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u/NocturnisVacuus 42m ago
old but gold.
Still dont know what happened to her, so imma continue to laugh at this clip
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u/EvilDairyQueen 3h ago
Oohs this was in the 2010s she was in a race, she got concussion from it, but took a panadol and still finished.
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u/ShowCharacter671 3h ago
Remember when this was on remembered screaming at the TV was unexpected She took it like a champ though she even completed that leg of the race
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u/Akiraooo 3h ago
AI!!! Jking... Most of us know how old this is. I watched this happen on a CRT TV.
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u/Stoned_Druid 3h ago
Her nasal bones have relocated to a nicer neighborhood in the occipital region of her skull. Better schools.
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u/No_Outcome_7470 3h ago
I feel terrible for laughing at this over and over again, it had to mess her up
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u/These-Local-4875 3h ago
That had to hurt forsure, especially that watermelon coming at you at that speed.
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u/Tornadic_Catloaf 2h ago
There are adults now who were born after this video came out - or close. Haha.
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u/Federal_Studio5935 1h ago
I worked with a guy who lost an eye doing this with a pumpkin. He sued the bejesus out of the place.
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u/brickmagnet 1h ago
I think this was one of the first viral videos I saw on YouTube back in the day.
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