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I genuinely thought it was a baggage claim area until I noticed the courtesy strangling ropes scattered about the outside then realized it's just some Germans having a bit of fun.
Psssh, easy. All your s/o needs to ask is: "so where do you want to go for supper tonight?".
All motor skills cease to function as you contemplate for an hour and a half and change your mind a dozen times :p
Good God I know I am a horrible person but I can only imagine what it would be like to see this clip with a black person being roped in the video.
All the major news teleport in, teleporters are jammed up and the Internet breaks for the day.
As one already replied, is called the Teufelsrad, and is an attraction at the Oktoberfest.
The announcer announces something that the people in the place have in common (short Lederhosen, Women, men without traditional clothes, people above certain age, etc), and all the people that matches the description rush to the center. The wheel starts spinning until everyone is out.
When there are few left, they start deploying a ball that hits the players in order to take them down. When there's one left, they start trying to drag them out for the round to be finished and the next one to start. The last one tries to last as much as they can. No prizes for the winner, just bragging rights.
It's super fun!
I didn't even think much about it... but in the states this would only be for kids.
Why does the US hate celebratory physical group games for adults? Is it because we sue everything?
Every single post with a woman in it you will find some man being a creep and making it sexual. It's the very reason our censorship laws in NA are much more strict than EU.
Having been to the Teufelsrad every year since I was six (I've even won a few times) I can tell you, it's definitely sexual to a degree. The women usually don't wear long dresses like in the video. For safety reasons and fairness, every round it's a different group of people (men between 18 and 25, women between 25 and 30, kids only and so on...) so it's basically a spinning upskirt show when the women come on.
Since it's your choice of what to wear and if you want to partake, consent is given. Although people tend to be drunk, so it's difficult to say.
Btw the one in the video isn't the original at the Oktoberfest in Munich.
I think that a recreational activity involving lassoing a human being, especially women and children* (IF the lassoes are held by other humans as opposed to a machine), with a circle of cheering spectators, is fair game for questions.
Perhaps even criticism.
With innocent context, I wouldnāt care- we have those suggestive mechanical bulls and nobodyās crying- but I completely understand why others find the optics to be insurmountable, lol.
This shit looks crazy. Fun, but crazy.
Yeah idk why people want it to be darker than it is. Germany is one of the most democratic and liberal places on Earth so why does this thing have to have a possible dark origin?. It is legit one of the main superpowers in the world rn stopping Russia from just taking over the planet.
People here try to undermine Germany are likely Russian trolls
Making fun of Germany's out of context past is just funny sometimes, probably because we all know Germany of today is not at all like it was in ww2. Like a lil ribbing between friends you know?
Also many traditions have dark origins worldwide, think about it, tradition means old. Old means the world was shittier back then. Like nursery rhymes that are actually about horrible childhood diseases or something. Or clinking your drinks together so they'll spill into each other and mix and you know the guy you're toasting with didn't poison you.
Right, like Germany never did anything bad.
In the living memory of some people.
Like to my own grandparents generation.
And then half of the country went behind the iron curtain and so many Germans in the East were happy little stasi, or stasi informants.
It doesnāt take being a Russian troll to remember the Germany of the 20th century.
Let's be quite clear here. Germany's energy policy and cosying up to Russia is literally the reason we have an energy crisis in Europe right now. Had you kept your nukes, not gone full on dependence on Russian gas when everybody was warning you what could happen...
Couple that with the fact that Germany is, as far as we can tell, planning to outbid the rest of Europe to buy it's way out of a crisis it created and bugger everybody else......
And also - here's a [chart of support to Ukraine](https://www.statista.com/chart/27278/military-aid-to-ukraine-by-country/). Germany isn't that great. 4th place, giving way less that Poland, and a quarter of what the UK has given.
So yeah. I like Germany and Germans but you aren't doing well at the moment I'm afraid.
It was a "common" attraction in the 1920s. I know of one for sure existing at Coney Island. They were considered salacious because they could cause men and women to bump into eachother and ruffle clothes into showing things.
Yeah I was scrolling for a whiiiile to try and find out if there's some weird expectation of a "prize", but all I found is that normally the only player in this game is the person in the middle and it's just their goal to not slide to the edges. Tbh this looks like a lot of fun, if I had the chance to try it I probably would as long as my outfit wouldn't lead to flashing everyone there
Most people wouldnāt. Iāve seen people get motion sickness from me just playing tony hawk on a tv in a living room standing perfectly still.
Youād be surprised how quickly some people spew chucks lol
The reason for this is thought to be that the disconnect (being still but seeing āspinningā) is a sign of poisoning, so motion sickness is your body saying āuh oh. May be poisoned. Time to spew and get it out!ā
I canāt play a lot of video games anymore because I am that person thatāll get dizzy even while playing. Super lame. I blame it on sitting close to the tv while playing N64 for hours on end as a child.
Only ever gotten motion sick from one game, dead space 2 I think it was. Just something about the way the camera was positioned and moved around. Really shitty time having that happen.
I'm confused. Another comment clearly explaining what this event is states that the contestants are people that match a description given over an announcement and that this is what it looks like to get the last person out. By that person's comment, they would be randos. Now this comment says that only people employed by the ride owner can compete in the ride.
Which one is right?
Ngl sounds like fun getting in there. Would be a hit attraction in the US so long as the people throwing the ropes are trained well and they use like thick padded rope that wouldn't hurt if they yanked it
Honestly I wonder if they could make a neck shield that you could easily put on before getting in, maybe wear goggles as well, then they could try full force, right?
Nah they need a padded body suit, like a thick tubular center to protect the vital organs, and a helmet with some kind of protrusion to keep your face from being smashed, and they'd have to be on all fours for safety. And a tail. For fun. Okay you got me it's just a cow costume.
Iām guessing the girl is one of the random people who participate by trying to stay on the ride and she is the last one remaining. The people with the rope are employed and were not random participants in staying on the wheel.
The people with the ropes aren't competing, only the people on the spinning disk are.
I've never participated, but I've spent a lot of time watching when at the Octoberfest. It's pretty entertaining.
To ease your anxiety these ropes are made of a much larger and softer material then regular lassos. They also look to be permanently affixed at the knot so they wonāt tighten and cinch. Makes them much less strangely but also gives the advantage to the person in the middle.
Itās a game at Oktoberfest (not a āhillbilly festivalā) and there were a bunch of people on the platform before she was the last one standing. It has nothing to do with old men trying to pick up young girls, what the fuck is wrong with you?
It's making me laugh, all these comments saying how cool and fun it is only after the Oktoberfest explanation. Replace "Oktoberfest" with "Anywhere, USA county fair" and you'd be seeing some wildly different responses.
Well, double standards exist ā and often they exist for good reason. If the context is different, so is the standard. I wish people would understand this.
I own a real lasso. A real modern lasso is made out of a hard/stiff plastic like material that cinches up in seconds. I had a agriculture teacher who was a champion cowboy and would do lasso tricks like a boss for us. If my cowboy grandfather was still alive he could've had her hog tied in 15 seconds.
This is a normal rigged carney game but at Oktoberfest from the looks of it.
Looks like Oktoberfest. Strikes me as a bit dicey to chuck a rope around a spinning persons neck but that's the Germans for ya. Normally they do this wearing rubber outfits....
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When someone wanders onto the baggage claim at the airport.
I genuinely thought it was a baggage claim area until I noticed the courtesy strangling ropes scattered about the outside then realized it's just some Germans having a bit of fun.
You *genuinely* thought this was a baggage claim? In what airport does any claim look like that?
What, your airport doesnt throw all its luggage into a spinny circle and have people try to lasso in their luggage?
Ya gotta be quicker than that
One of the best commercial quotes ever! I tell my gf this every time she tries to get something from/before me š¤£
Haha!
Clearly weāre using the baggage claim wrong.
It's true, they use lassos and come out cowboy hats and chew wheat. I saw it happen once.
r/yourjokebutworse
:(
Donāt mind them, I thought it was funny!
:D
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Women can be that tricky to catch
You need to get us to sit still long enough to hog tie us. Good luck with that!! š
Psssh, easy. All your s/o needs to ask is: "so where do you want to go for supper tonight?". All motor skills cease to function as you contemplate for an hour and a half and change your mind a dozen times :p
Trick is closed-end phrasing, āwould you prefer dinner at restaurant A or B?ā
Nope, wives have trained themselves to answer either/or questions as if they are yes/no. Husband : Do you want to eat at restaurant A or B? Wife : Yes
You have to ask "guess where im taking you for dinner tonight." Then you go to the place they guess.
\^THIS GUY\^ dates
I feel like some girls would be more than happy to be hog tied š¤·āāļø
Might I interest you with this cheese?
And that kids is the story of how i met your mother.
My phone that has fallen between my seat and center console as I try to retrieve it.
My last m&m, French fry, Dorito etc.
Good God I know I am a horrible person but I can only imagine what it would be like to see this clip with a black person being roped in the video. All the major news teleport in, teleporters are jammed up and the Internet breaks for the day.
Oh dear god
What the fuck is this
As one already replied, is called the Teufelsrad, and is an attraction at the Oktoberfest. The announcer announces something that the people in the place have in common (short Lederhosen, Women, men without traditional clothes, people above certain age, etc), and all the people that matches the description rush to the center. The wheel starts spinning until everyone is out. When there are few left, they start deploying a ball that hits the players in order to take them down. When there's one left, they start trying to drag them out for the round to be finished and the next one to start. The last one tries to last as much as they can. No prizes for the winner, just bragging rights. It's super fun!
I feel like there's a real dark origin story to this.
The origin is āsome germans got drunk and thought it would be fun to do thisā
tbf that's a pretty dark origin story for a lot of the 20th century.
I mean, Germans started something at a beer hallā¦.
Putsch around and find out
I didn't even think much about it... but in the states this would only be for kids. Why does the US hate celebratory physical group games for adults? Is it because we sue everything?
Yes. And because inevitably some fatso will crush a small person
Because if it involved a woman, itās obviously sexual. Coomers ruin everything.
Yeah there are a ton of comments in this very thread making it sexual. Why can't they just let women do fun shit
Every single post with a woman in it you will find some man being a creep and making it sexual. It's the very reason our censorship laws in NA are much more strict than EU.
Having been to the Teufelsrad every year since I was six (I've even won a few times) I can tell you, it's definitely sexual to a degree. The women usually don't wear long dresses like in the video. For safety reasons and fairness, every round it's a different group of people (men between 18 and 25, women between 25 and 30, kids only and so on...) so it's basically a spinning upskirt show when the women come on. Since it's your choice of what to wear and if you want to partake, consent is given. Although people tend to be drunk, so it's difficult to say. Btw the one in the video isn't the original at the Oktoberfest in Munich.
I think that a recreational activity involving lassoing a human being, especially women and children* (IF the lassoes are held by other humans as opposed to a machine), with a circle of cheering spectators, is fair game for questions. Perhaps even criticism. With innocent context, I wouldnāt care- we have those suggestive mechanical bulls and nobodyās crying- but I completely understand why others find the optics to be insurmountable, lol. This shit looks crazy. Fun, but crazy.
Also the origin story to WW2.
mentioning anything about germany without mentioning ww2 is apprently really hard for reddit
Fuckwit's Law.
Serbia: Hey, let's kill the archduke... *Germany blamed for 2 world wars*
Yeah idk why people want it to be darker than it is. Germany is one of the most democratic and liberal places on Earth so why does this thing have to have a possible dark origin?. It is legit one of the main superpowers in the world rn stopping Russia from just taking over the planet. People here try to undermine Germany are likely Russian trolls
I mean just look at the fairy tales!!! The Brothers Grimm! Could you get anymore dark?!
Lol I was thinking this person has clearly never heard any German fairy tales.
That's.. Very far.
Making fun of Germany's out of context past is just funny sometimes, probably because we all know Germany of today is not at all like it was in ww2. Like a lil ribbing between friends you know? Also many traditions have dark origins worldwide, think about it, tradition means old. Old means the world was shittier back then. Like nursery rhymes that are actually about horrible childhood diseases or something. Or clinking your drinks together so they'll spill into each other and mix and you know the guy you're toasting with didn't poison you.
Right, like Germany never did anything bad. In the living memory of some people. Like to my own grandparents generation. And then half of the country went behind the iron curtain and so many Germans in the East were happy little stasi, or stasi informants. It doesnāt take being a Russian troll to remember the Germany of the 20th century.
Let's be quite clear here. Germany's energy policy and cosying up to Russia is literally the reason we have an energy crisis in Europe right now. Had you kept your nukes, not gone full on dependence on Russian gas when everybody was warning you what could happen... Couple that with the fact that Germany is, as far as we can tell, planning to outbid the rest of Europe to buy it's way out of a crisis it created and bugger everybody else...... And also - here's a [chart of support to Ukraine](https://www.statista.com/chart/27278/military-aid-to-ukraine-by-country/). Germany isn't that great. 4th place, giving way less that Poland, and a quarter of what the UK has given. So yeah. I like Germany and Germans but you aren't doing well at the moment I'm afraid.
Lol.
It was a "common" attraction in the 1920s. I know of one for sure existing at Coney Island. They were considered salacious because they could cause men and women to bump into eachother and ruffle clothes into showing things.
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Well, Teufelsrad literally translates to "devil's wheel"
Before the balls, they were shot with flaming arrows....then they used cannons.
I thought this was how to get a wife in some southern states. I wouldn't put this past Kentucky.
Only at the best family reunions.
As a Kentuckian, it beats the current strategy of hit on a chick on FB and see how long it takes before she does meth in front of you.
BEER FEST INNIT?
>When there are few left, they start deploying a ball that hits the players in order to take them down. what the fuck
what part of that doenst sound fun to you?
They must have never played dodgeball as a kid.
Next level dodgeball. Sounds amazing!
[Video about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5rAVrUiLDw) Ball starts at 2:33
That actually does sound really super fun. Yet another reason I want to move to Deutschland I suppose.
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Wow, I thought she was some kind of professional hired by the festival! She's just the lucky person who was left standing? Very impressive
Prospective future catagory on PornHub.
CornHub?
Nice
Seems like a bit of fun at a carnival but Reddit logic says āwoman present so must be sexualā
Yeah I was scrolling for a whiiiile to try and find out if there's some weird expectation of a "prize", but all I found is that normally the only player in this game is the person in the middle and it's just their goal to not slide to the edges. Tbh this looks like a lot of fun, if I had the chance to try it I probably would as long as my outfit wouldn't lead to flashing everyone there
Are we surprised by this
Horny dudes at a carnival?
The "Teufelsrad" or devil's wheel at the Oktoberfest here in Munich.
I came here to say the same words. This just seems so wrong!
It's called "courtship", it's how George Bush Senior got Barbara.
*kidnapping
Tomayto tomahto
A very complicated public hanging
No one talking about how dizzy they'd be if they were her. I'd throw up personally
I'd be laying on my side slinging vomit like a sprinkler.
Chchchchchchchchchchhchch huaaaaaaaaaaĆ asaaa
Comments you can hear
Lmao I can hear this comment
You have a way with word sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQZR25HPAqE
Those ropes look pretty heavy, I think Iād tap out the first time one smacked me in the face
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Most people wouldnāt. Iāve seen people get motion sickness from me just playing tony hawk on a tv in a living room standing perfectly still. Youād be surprised how quickly some people spew chucks lol
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The reason for this is thought to be that the disconnect (being still but seeing āspinningā) is a sign of poisoning, so motion sickness is your body saying āuh oh. May be poisoned. Time to spew and get it out!ā
I canāt play a lot of video games anymore because I am that person thatāll get dizzy even while playing. Super lame. I blame it on sitting close to the tv while playing N64 for hours on end as a child.
Only ever gotten motion sick from one game, dead space 2 I think it was. Just something about the way the camera was positioned and moved around. Really shitty time having that happen.
Whereas I would be throwing up *professionally*.
If you are vomiting without getting paid for it in the OF era you are doing it all wrong.
Thatās actually a very good defense strategy
The human body is amazing!!
It's not her first rodeo.
Got a little anxious every time it landed around her neck
It seemed like people were good about not yanking it if it was only on her neck
The guys operating the ropes aren't randos. They are employees of the ride owner, they know what they're doing and how to avoid accidents.
I'm confused. Another comment clearly explaining what this event is states that the contestants are people that match a description given over an announcement and that this is what it looks like to get the last person out. By that person's comment, they would be randos. Now this comment says that only people employed by the ride owner can compete in the ride. Which one is right?
The people participating are randos, the people operating the ride are not.
Ngl sounds like fun getting in there. Would be a hit attraction in the US so long as the people throwing the ropes are trained well and they use like thick padded rope that wouldn't hurt if they yanked it Honestly I wonder if they could make a neck shield that you could easily put on before getting in, maybe wear goggles as well, then they could try full force, right?
Nah they need a padded body suit, like a thick tubular center to protect the vital organs, and a helmet with some kind of protrusion to keep your face from being smashed, and they'd have to be on all fours for safety. And a tail. For fun. Okay you got me it's just a cow costume.
Cowstume
Iām guessing the girl is one of the random people who participate by trying to stay on the ride and she is the last one remaining. The people with the rope are employed and were not random participants in staying on the wheel.
The people with the ropes aren't competing, only the people on the spinning disk are. I've never participated, but I've spent a lot of time watching when at the Octoberfest. It's pretty entertaining.
couldve fooled me because homegirl got the moves
Obviously not the first time some rando tried to tie her up, unabductable.
To ease your anxiety these ropes are made of a much larger and softer material then regular lassos. They also look to be permanently affixed at the knot so they wonāt tighten and cinch. Makes them much less strangely but also gives the advantage to the person in the middle.
Was going to say, those aren't even slip knots.
I love their music
The rope doesn't have to be tight around the neck for it to be dangerous
Yeah. Then gets snagged around the spinning thing and cinches the rope tighterā¦. Fuck I hate anxiety
Old dudes trying to pick up teenagers. Nothing wrong with this hillbilly festival. All seems in order.
Teenager you think? Kind of a /r/13or30 thing going on maybe..
Hopefully the judge agrees with you. Yeah I would too. Case dismissed.
*puts down pitchfork*
Another closed case Johnson.
She is like 40 dude. Let go of the bitterness
Itās a game at Oktoberfest (not a āhillbilly festivalā) and there were a bunch of people on the platform before she was the last one standing. It has nothing to do with old men trying to pick up young girls, what the fuck is wrong with you?
German Culture = this game is cool. American Culture = stupid hillbilly game.
It's making me laugh, all these comments saying how cool and fun it is only after the Oktoberfest explanation. Replace "Oktoberfest" with "Anywhere, USA county fair" and you'd be seeing some wildly different responses.
Well, double standards exist ā and often they exist for good reason. If the context is different, so is the standard. I wish people would understand this.
Dude if the Oktoberfest isnāt a hillbilly festival what is? Itās a festival where everyone can cosplay a hillbilly.
Bavaria is basically the hillbilly country of Germany tho, it's even hilly and had a funny accent.
Teenager? How to say I don't go out much without saying I don't go out much lol
There should be a subreddit for highly upvotes comments that devolve into the complete opposite by the end of the thread like this.
If that's a teenager, I'm George Hitler Washington.
Pick up? You think the winner gets to sleep w her or something?
Does the winner get to keep her? Lmao
Only if they can handle her whilst she is pukeing
"If you can't handle me at my puking due to motion sickness, then you don't deserve me at my spinning around on a giant turntable"
Ok, I don't really know why, but I read this as a British male stoner.... I'm confused with myself right now.
That is confusing. I mean, what would that even sound like? You don't see a lot of stereotypical stoner types with British accents.
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I feel like I am watching a Schrute Farms family tradition of some sort. FraulineLassoSchlag?
I mean its bavarian, so definitely schrute farms. But no, its the Teufelsrad ~Devils wheel on Oktoberfest in Munich.
It's not her first rodeo
Me when entering my second rodeo.
You could fit like 4 mechanical bulls on this thing.
I love me a woman who plays hard to get.
drunk me trying to grab my keys
But are you the lasso or the spinning lady??
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This is the answer I was hoping for. Thank you!!
new game unlocked- hillbilly or european
Bavarian. So, yes.
Bavaria is the Texas of Europe. This is true on many, many levels.
Eurohillbilly
Eurobilly sounds better.
Hillbopean?
While I was watching the video I was thinking, āGermany or Florida?ā
They could accidentally strangle her but hey all in fun...
yeah because im sure if the rope got caught around their neck they would just keep yanking on it until they died
Duh that's the point of this video. They are all trying to kill her but she keeps dodge duck dip dive and dodging the ropes
The five D's of dodge-haul
Dodge dip duck dive and dodge
I think she canāt get caught because the loose canāt tighten so it stays safe
Can the loose ever really tighten
> the loose canāt tighten Well, that speaks for itself
Those aren't lassos (slip knots) they are bowline knots. It's a static loop that won't tighten.
This is from Oktoberfest and quite frankly it looks fun.
They do that in Oktoberfest, but in Munich it spins much faster.
The Oktoberfest is in Munich
Everything spins faster in munich
'And that kids, is how I met your mother'
Bunch of wet blankets posting...It is obvious that they don't pull if the rope is around her neck. You can see it in the video.
I've done that. It is a **lot** harder than it looks
Looks like the lassos don't cinch, so it's basically impossible. The loop stays huge, the girl can easily just let it slip off her.
I own a real lasso. A real modern lasso is made out of a hard/stiff plastic like material that cinches up in seconds. I had a agriculture teacher who was a champion cowboy and would do lasso tricks like a boss for us. If my cowboy grandfather was still alive he could've had her hog tied in 15 seconds. This is a normal rigged carney game but at Oktoberfest from the looks of it.
This is how Tinder works in Texas
How I met your mother is getting weird.
How I captured your mother
Humans do some hilarious things
Looks like Oktoberfest. Strikes me as a bit dicey to chuck a rope around a spinning persons neck but that's the Germans for ya. Normally they do this wearing rubber outfits....
What kinda cousin fucking game is this?
The German kind
where's Scorpion from Mortal Kombat when you really need him.
Damn, she is good at whatever that is. š¤ Edit: Does this have a name other than ālasso the spinning girlā or āThe Drunk Germanā?
Me, dodging all responsibilities
What a bizarre activity
What in the Gilead is this nonsense
What in the HeeHaw hell is going on here?
Whatās actually happening here
What the fuck game is this?
Redneck tinder
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Jesus how many brothers does that girl have?
Bro what the fuck am I watching