The Trouble With Tumbleweed
Director’s commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbHQObTeLDM
Discuss on the reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/fc12xr/the_trouble_with_tumbles/
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Everyone: Oh no! Global Warming, New Corona Virus!
CGP Grey: Oh no! Tumble Weeds!
@Nanook128 No. Storms and other natural phenomena occur as they always did, and people blame global warming because that in turn lets them blame all the usual suspects they already hate. There isn’t enough evidence to support the idea of a long-term increase in climatic natural disasters due to global warming. Its all conjecture.
And even if there *was* such a trend, it will affect each part of the world differently and uniquely. Its silly for any single individual to worry about it, thus. Maybe nothing will happen where you live. Maybe the climate will actually get better. Certain areas of the world will become much more livable if they warm up.
Well I mean coronaviruses over blown anyway
@Brad Haines When you’re 48, I bet you’ll care about climate change. If you live that long.
@Manored There is a trend, and even if the climate gets better in your area you will suffer from the massive displaced human populations and economic deviation.
@IncognitoTorpedo nope. its all nonsense to raise taxes. dont believe me? whats their solution? TAX EVERYTHING. its all just a money grab and PR stunt
Everyone else: AHH corona virus in the U.S
Meanwhile CGP Grey sipping on his coffee: yeah….. *Tumbleweed*
bulla da lulla I mean it’s nice to hear or watch something that isn’t crazy.
The coronavirus is overblown anyway who cares.
@ty ty Yeah People are just using this junk to cash up on money buy buying out stuff and reselling it its ridiculous. About half of the people that got the disease are recovering and that number will probably improve more and more as it goes on. Media is milking this away and overreacting practically on purpose.
Me reading title “well this must be a joke video, right?… right?”
After video : “Tumble weed of death”
“Bouncy and sticky”
I don’t like this…
bungee gum has the properties of both rubber and gum
Assault Gunner
OWO-NOISES INTENSIFIES
perverted male syndrome strikes again
Me: you know…we could probably make a fortune selling these things as fire starters for camping.
Lol xD
Wouldn’t that spread the seeds though?
Those were my thoughts too if they could contain the seeds
0:28 “To intentionally to starve and to die…”
It’s Russian alright.
ok, that’s a good one. Тебя мы пощадим муахаха
@Hitch Geek sorry man i dont speak circuit board
@David The Long Google puts it out as “We will spare you muahaha”
As Boney M. already stated long ago…
“Oh, those Russians!”
Ta-ta-tumbleweed, spreading heaps of noxious seed
There was a plant that we wanted gone
Ta-ta-tumbleweed, choking out the folks in need
And to this day, they still tumble on
Sean Wilkinson Yo, that’s good.
@Sean Wilkinson full lyrics when?
There lived a certain weed
In Russia long ago
It was big and thorn’d,
In it’s entirety a spiky ball
lmao now i cant read this comment without singing it
Austraila: we lost a war against a smoll brain bird.
America: hold my beer.
@W0Y4K Indeed, Emus vs the army with machine guns and the stupid birds won. Oh and we have tumble weed in Australia too. Horrible stuff. Also nicknamed “rollbush” – there’s even streets named after the damn things
At least emus don’t turn into fireballs and launch themselves in every direction when you set them on fire
USA fighting zombies since the beginning
We should have sent the military after it… It wouldn’t have helped but it would nake this video even more hilarious lol.
@Sir Billius Better to lose to zombie plants vs. giant birds. You can’t kill whats already dead
Everyone:
Absolutely everyone: I can’t wait for the continuation of Grey’s series on the Electoral Collage or the Indians or whatever else
GCP Grey: *have you ever heard of tumbleweeds*
Fun fact: Albuquerque builds a tumbleweed snowman every year
it is fun until…
Pretty good way to get rid of them tbh. You can even burn it afters
tumbleweeds when they see a crop: “There ain’t enough room in town for both of us”
the world is big enough. for both of us.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah. AAAaaaaaaaaaah…..
0:34
Me after watching Konosuba
“ Cabbage! Cabbage! Cabbage!”
STEEEEAAAALLLLL!!!!!!
Australia: War on Emus
United States: War on Tumble Weed
Solution: Bring emus to America to fight the tumbles; bring tumbles to Australia to fight the emus!
???
Success!
MJFallout 🙅♀️ their were bushfires in november – january almost everywhere in australia australia is flammable enough already
I hear Emus are tasty burgers. Maybe Australia’s problem is they got too many vegans, vegetarians, and anti-gun activists.
Oklahoman here! One night, I was driving into a storm, and just before the rain began to pour, there was this massive gust of wind followed by a ten foot tumbleweed wall momentarily engulfing the road in front of me. One of the most surreal things I’ve ever seen.
before this video:
me: awww tumbleweed are cute!
after this video:
me: tumble weed are evil.
They’re plotting against us
@Dez I live in an area with whole bunch of brambles and thistles. the idea that those fuckers could move and take over towns is horrifying and infuriating. time to declare war.
When I ran on my high school’s cross country team, we would go running down trails that would occasionally become so clogged with tumbleweeds that they’d be unusable for us short pant-legged runners.
God damn it, Russia.
Also, when did we decide “tumbleweed” is also plural?
Also also, bless you for helping popularize “twenty hundred”
Well researched, well written, well-voiced, well animated–just another highly interesting video from CGP Grey.
“Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.”
Lol
2:47 “A lone tumbleweed can fu- pollinate itself”
*bruh moment intensifies*
It’s basically a whole level above incest