"I'm the main character, they have to see my face!" "But..." "I have plot armor, ok?"

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Im the 1000th person to like this, wao :}

Wife: no, wear a helmet

Don't worry I'm Main character English: BOOM headshot

Tis the greatest ad!

I know! I was so excited thinking I had a new show to watch in place of Norsemen

I thought it's danish social ad

Yeah, we all just watched it.

It's an ad from the Council for Road Safety, about always wearing a helmet when you go biking.

Oh! I didn't get the point of that till now. Thanks.

Its an amazing testament to the way danes fuck with eachother

yes!

You've really b.en paying attention.

The sound when he puts his helmet on 😂

I would've liked for his mistress to be a giantess who towered over the army and forced him into wearing his helmet as a nod to norse mythology.

Except for the fact that they wouldn't have called England England because England didn't exist at the time. But still a pretty impressive advert for bike helmets.

I'm going to be honest. I didn't know this was an add till it was over and I started reading the comments. Haha.

​@@JFP1988 Sure England existed at the time. It wasn't the modern country, of course, but it had been the land of the Angles (the Germanic tribe of that name, as in "Anglo-Saxon" ), hence "England", for centuries before the Viking invasions. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles

I fully agree.

historians would've rated this higher if he didn't have tattoos. They're pretty cool tho ngl

Have you seen Norsemen?

@@Eric-ld4mz exactly what I came here to say. Literally one of the best shows of the decade. I need subtitles for it though lol.

@@Eric-ld4mz I was just going to recommend that one also. It's hilarious!

In Germany we have Sketch History, which is excactly that, and it's hilarious

I hate when I try to invade england and forgot my helmet at home

Who envies the Danish?

@@DarkAngelEU Did you not see this PSA? It is glorious.

And the best restaurant in the world

@@pvlgs Well we may have the best restaurant, but generally speaking our food options suck compared to other countries. 1 expensive joint doesn't do us much good :L

@@DarkAngelEU People who aren't Danes.

Dude could be a convincing main character in any historical film from that period

They should do a whole commercial series with him. This format could be used with so many things

A character in the Witcher too

@Ammar Yasir you mean as thick as one lol

huh, maybe that's why we call it 'Helma', which is pronounced almost like 'Hjalmar'

In German we have the name Helmut. But this name means something like "guardian" it does not literally mean "helmet warrior".

Kabuto for weebs

I know, just imagine if he did not wear a helmet when hitting his head at the end of the video.

That's what a good wife does.

@@xRemRooodx i bet he would have died

You meant "What a scary lady!" haha

Arrow to the knee...😏

same

This comment deserves more likes.

um no?

@@Odinistruth yes? I doubt your Danish is very proficient if you think commonly used modern slang is the only form of Danish.

It probably did on more than one or two occasions.

@@GVBiggs524 i mean it still is a thing for military,helmet feels like shit if you wear them for a long time

@@ogaimon3380 True that, Hamidi, I do agree, but that misery is nothing to getting smacked on the head with shrapnel, a war hammer, mace, or sword...

This conversation is as old as the existence of helmets probably.

@@El-Burrito as old as the guy who wore a saber tooth lion's head and pelt. He just had to make sure the beast was dead tho.

It sounded like his voice cracked haha

I totally understand, have you seen nordic women? The vikings sent the men to fight to give the opponents a sporting chance

@@joaovc2002 Pretty sure they sent women too

Its actually spelled "ja" but to be fair Danish has some of the weirdest spellings

@@madseskildsen3915 but that's not ine of them

It takes one to know one it seems.

That type of helmet with mail attached to it looks dope af Edit: I just found out that type of helmet is called a Vendel helmet

Svend

Guys with itchy scalps?

@@Lo-tf6qt not really. Vendel is the name of a hustorical period in scandinavia between the bronze age and the viking age. Vendel period helmets are very similar but it's a typical viking age helmet. I agree both vendel and viking helmets look savage with mail. Especially when the mail covers the whole face. The less you look like a human the more frightening you are. Same with corinthian, samurai or crusader helmets.

@@cheersbro7347 Ah I see, cheers man

not fear, respect

@@h0rk3d I feel when it comes to marriage those two arent that different from eachother lmao

Behind every successful man is a surprised mother-in-law. Behind every successful man stands a woman; and behind her, his wife.

yep, soft western boys fear the womans. You are softer and more tender every day, it's sickening to see it

@@toostrong1814 Most warrior cultures have reason to fear women. Mainly because they could and many still can kick your ass just like a man.

Odd seeing you around

Or a condom. "You can go looting and pillaging all you want but you have to waer a helmet."

lol you just show up here

@@yoink-qo8yb what?

Yes, right after "I love helmets" skateboard video.

lol history channel don't have accurate representations of vikings sure, but this video isn't accurate at all either

@@caramel7556 teach me sir wise

@@h0rk3d It feels more like comedy when watching this video. But i get your viewpoints regarding the make up and the scenery

Well it may be better than the history channel but this isn’t very historically accurate either because of the clothing. But it’s a funny video and historical accuracy isn’t very important for this kind of media.

Well the scenery and costumes are way off as well...

danish state sponsored ads, they had the cash to do it, and they did

Thanks for your comment, I very much agree. And this ad make me rpoud of my country. About the time of your comment, another commentor was impressed by the 11.000 "likes" already. Now it's at 190.000+ likes. But for me this ad worked. 2 years before, my firend had a bicycle accident and, not wearing helmet, hurt his head and completely lost any short term memory ever since. That didn't make me wear bicycle helmet. But then a year ago - *this ad* did.

For everyone else reading this, keep in mind, these ads were made for the cinema, hence the larger production funds and length of it.

Food for thought there... Sounds like a life rule. If you feel dumb yelling it at the top of your lungs it was a silly opinion.

@@Aabergm Absolutely! Ehm, I mean: "ABSOLUTELY!" Not feeling silly now so I'm fine. Or am I not?

@@DreadX10 Hey, Vsauce! Michael here

@@fisch37 Hey Michael, not Vsauce.

similar corollary rule. If the world would be a really shitty place if everyone had the same philosphy you do, it's a bad one

i'd say lucidcharts is better but yeah this is a close second

Personal favorite is the suicide bombing Volkswagen ad, they never published. That shit was fucking hilarious.

Vad

Er mit spogsmål

Pit viper instagram beats it by a little

Most importantly, you are here to tell the story.

I had a class mate who luckily wore a helmet when we (my class and I) one afternoon rode our bmx bikes after school on the local bmx track. He had the most awful crash I have ever been a witness to. We had to call the ambulance and everything. The doctor told his parents that the helmet saved his life as it was literily broken in half. He doesn't remember his crash but he made a full recovery. The thing with helmets is that you don't need them until you REALLY need one. Which is the reason why it's so important to always wear one!

I didnt wore a helmet in 6th grade, when riding downhill from school. It was silly i thought. My smart front wheel tire lock loosened and ejected my wheel from the front fork. I took some serious damage on skin and pride. Doctors told i was pretty lucky. No matter how silly i look. Helmet is a go to. Wont risk my life again.🙌

Ditto!

@@grantparker5670 Gracias parece divertida

i genuinely came to the comments section to see what the show was called....now i feel dumb lol

"Damn, this is better than vikings", I joked to myself, then he hit his head and now it IS better than vikings.

Another vote for Norsemen. Bloody funny.

genius comment

yes, 100%

Him hitting his head on the way out was funnier imo

Yeah, but without the helmet on, his skull would be the one dented.

"I told you"

Then they meet the Irish who fought naked with no armour at all and get massacred, and have to move to Iceland while the viking era ends behind them.

I would watch that for the entertainment value alone.

"Always extinguish fires" "Make sure you're buying quality merchandise" "Always tell someone if you're going on a trip"

@@geroutathat Just to point out that safety is an illusion some cultures really dig into for no reason other than saving resources.

@@DarkAngelEU you try working on roof that's 45' without a harness or rope and then come back to me and say that safety is an illusion. safety is very much in your own hands.

Yeah sorry but U.S commercials has that "join our cult" vibe 😂

Happy smiling family, running through sprinklers in the yard with the sun out and neighbors bringing picnic supplies. "Side effects include moderate to severe rash, abdominal ulcers, hemorrhoids, severe anxiety, suicidal thoughts, death, and in some rare cases, hiccups."

@@SukatoKjolen if it can give you hiccups then they shouldnt be able sell them that's too dangerous.

Their director told them to do it happier and with their mouths open.

yeah, it's fucking annoying and it's in ad after ad after ad, it's insulting to the viewer to suggest to them that everyone is that happy, that much of the time

Basically my dad

@gabber 0 At least they get women, unlike your people.

No ones happy if mom's not happy.

@gabber 0 it's not a negative, more that your Mrs always seems to know best

Perfect ja

Hey, its happy wife, happy life.

Thats danish women for you - to mess with them ( I am a danish man) 😅

Very in character for northmen though. You don't refute the counsel of your wife.

Women have been dealing with jackasses since time immemorial...

Norse women keeping their husbands in check is even depocted in old norse art and poems

wife: Wear your helmet Svend: ya...

@@matiasmattera6650 That's how it'd be too xD

Happy wife, happy life

you Simps love it don't you? LOL

@@HTSW clearly you've never had a gf or wife.

I laughed when they yelled back "We can't really hear you!" lmao

I love how he stops laughing as quickly as he started

Kind of a bad choice in having him be old imo. Puts the idea that he's lived this long while not wearing helmets. Not to mention the association with wisdom and old age a lot of cultures hold. Then to top it all off they have two people who've never seen a battle insist on him wearing a helmet lol

@@solaris0000 The thing about comedy, Realistic analysis is a completely unnecessary component, and in fact, often detracts.

@@thecocktailian2091 I'd agree if I knew I was watching a joke going into it but that isn't what happened. You actively have to think to understand what is going on. Plus the joke still hits better anyways if my critiques are taken into account and fixed. Also you did exactly what you hounded me for. the lol meant it was all in good fun but you had to come in and push your glasses up the bridge of your nose and say "actually" :p

Yup

There's a Norwegian comedy like this already, it's called Norsemen.

@@romxxii yeah, it's great, I already watched all seasons :D

@@romxxii Thanks for that. I'd never heard of it. Just watched the first episode. Very funny.

@@romxxii I thought this was from Norsemen until the end, very funny safety ad.

For real.

or a shield is good too

id take spear but ok

I was talking about defensive kit. But yea a shield is also pretty good.

Why would they wear helmets, everybody in Hollywood knows that helmets or armor, in general, can't protect you from sword cuts and thrust, after all, expensive and definitely too heave to wear steel plate armor was created for middle age calisthenics and CrossFit to post in middle age social media.

@@libertyprime1614 quality shitpost this

Look up "The Tufty Club", UK campaign many years ago, all I'll say is "poor WIlly Weasel"....lol.

New Zealand did a drunk driving ad that's pretty iconic amongst kiwis

"embrace life"

@Timothy Mckee Ah, a Man of Taste I see... ;o)

@@Luke-tt3dt w plates pretty funny

The Oscar would still go to the helmet for best performance. That wasn't a stunt-helmet when he hit the gate!

The extras on the other mountain were pretty stand up too

@@Namchild Agreed! Some serious stand up skills there!

Exactly what i thought, im really curious what happens next. Maybe they should continue it and make a series 😂

I thought it was from that one series Norsemen

Check out Norsemen

Perhaps he wishes to cultivate a "Svend the Helmetless" nickname to inspire carelessness among the Berzerker crowd?

Svends and His Helmeted adventures part 1: Phantom seas.

I'd like to see a whole series about a bunch of safety adventures, like he's cutting some englishmans throat out and everyone asks him to wash his hands afterward.

@@sirkane5727 that actually is a brilliant idea even though dark lol

Netflix wasn't involved.

Good casting director, clearly. :D

They just picked random Danes. They're Vikings after all.

@@Ryan_Winter yep that explains it. all the warriors would have been women living out a power fantasy instead of any comedy or drama, or, well, any plot at all.

@@Johnconno if you say so, chief

It was that sort of laugh that says, "everyone else will join in any second now", but nobody did which made it super funny.

omfg no kidding, I had to come to the comments to see if anyone else talkin about it

So gd funny

@Hamza Mansoor Easily the best part hahaha

He must've overheard his wife lol

he loves his wife lol

Feminist joke

@@aurelvlaicu2717 That's just how married couples are,m8.

@@aurelvlaicu2717 really isnt tho

If the missus says to wear a helmet, you listen

If "To the ships" isn't a catchy phrase, then idk what counts! :-D amazing clip, indeed!

Exactly, and it was a good length of time to absorb the message, see an argument from different sides, and allowing us to visualize consequences without openly telling us. (The wife and children) Rather than the super flashy, seizure inducing ten second ads we have now. Although I do like the hard bass sometime.

Also, relatively accurate depiction of how people actually talk. I could definitely see my friends and me holding a similar conversation.

It's an add for the government traffic safety council

@@alexandrbatora9674 Yes, but is it annoying? No. Its glorious!

Well, it's made by actual Vikings

@@AVKnecht there are no vikings, scandinavians yes, but viking is a word like pirate... so as long no scandinavians are raiding england in longships killing priests and other good stuff, there are no vikings. yeah im fun at parties.

@@QuolashMCDuck How dare you call us pirates!! Just kidding, and while you are technically correct, the meaning of a word can change from its original intent, so it isn't wrong to call them Vikings if that is the common description of the old norse people understood by the majority.

@@AVKnecht danes

@@danielkarlsson3624 Viking was actually a verb, at first. To go a viking, that is, to go a raiding. They were called Norsemen, and similar. But yeah, it got changed into a noun.

Plus, Mando gets it; He only takes the helmet off to clean it!

@@lassechristensen6680 The first thing I had in mind, watching this video xDD 1:52 That Old Guy laughing, kills me all the time

@@lassechristensen6680 it was cancelled during COVID, maybe they'll bring it back? I could just be naively hopeful tho

why did no one recommend Vikings lol

Vikings tries too hard to be a "serious" drama imho. Norsemen however is a hilarious dark comedy.

@@sitter2207 Vikings is the first thing that I thought of, though I haven't even watched it (yet?)

Jokes on you, you can't unconquer England this way

The eternal a*glo strikes again

@@adude8424 Did you... Did you censor the word anglo?

@@adude8424 why did you censor anglo

@@adude8424 Dude, say after me: ANGLO!

_Hostile glance._

@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking _stops laughing out aloud and giggles while bowing head_

I think it almost killed him too.

I rofl’ed

So then you are dead now?

No reason to wear helmets on bikes if the infrastructure makes it so you don't have to mix with dangerous high-speed traffic. Helmets suck, safe cycling infrastructure rules, greets from the Netherlands.

@@frisianmouve you can get brain damage from just falling off your bike, you don't need to be hit by a car. No human is infallible so its always a good idea to wear a helmet while cycling.

@@wellshit9489 It's always good to wear a helmet while driving a car, after all car crashes cause head injury. Dude, we don't have to mix anywhere with cars where the speed limit is over 30km/h, helmets are just an easy way to blame safety on the cyclists instead of their infrastructure planning. Nobody except tourists and speed cyclists wear helmets here because it's so safe.

@@wellshit9489 But how often does it happen that somebody just randomly falls off their bike and also falls on their head? I don´t think it happens very often.

@@frisianmouve the difference is that a helmet literally won't do shit in a car crash unless you don't have air bags nor wear a seatbelt for some reason.

cant see shit cuz of the helmet man!

Almost as if there was a subliminal (not really subliminal) message

@Taramafor Haikido BUT IT RUINS ITS BRAIDS!!

@JZ's Best Friend good one!

Sure you are. But do you control the rain?

F

he's a wise man

@@ppizarror There is no reason to yell at your family.

His wife: Are you challenging me?

@Taramafor Haikido if you are not familiarwithsomeonethen you are propably not family eh. "Vikings talk loud and yell a lot". Just another reason why I hate tv shows like vikings. The fictional viking character has become something that is considered factual. Do hell's angels shout a lot? What about the bandidos or canonballs? Btw, Vikings didn't have braids nor did they have beaded hair or undercuts or stupid weaved leather armor. Dude looks like some kind of steppe horsewarrior whose mother was a slav.

Raid all you want but wear a helmet. She is worth listening to.

Veitch is still live and kickin, aye!

It's cute, adorkable

which movie

I love Scandinavian humor.

adorable, cute? what are you 12?

still nothing next to Spartans, who would comb their hair MID battle. They would even polish the inner side of a shield pre battle just to see themselves better while doing so.

@@Kid_Naps that'd myth

you mean the most hollywood viking ever. They'd wear it in a heartbeat if they could afford it.

@@vittxrio5198 issa joke. Vikings where known for caring about hygiene and their hair

They didn't have braids, undercuts, fur shoulder coats, weawed leather armor or beads in beards. That dude is somekind of steppe horse warrior slav mix.

Honestly that whole thing could have led into a whole "kamelåså" bit and I would not have been disappointed.

This was straight out of "Norsemen". That show is gold.

He should have answered"That's coz you have helmets over your ears, buddy!"

LOL same

Yup, that answer reminded me the kamelåså issue, maybe understanding each other wasnt really important when fighting

TATATATAAA TATATATAAAA TATATATAAAA TATATAAAAAA

xD true

Aye aye captain

id still put the " i love helmets" guy

Exactly what I was thinking. This is a great public service announcement lol.

The Danes of all people have become better at British humor then the British

Did you hit your head? Its just a flesh wound...

It is actually very similar to "Norsemen" on Netflix.. If you enjoyed this you should check it out.

If you want more Monty Python-esque vikings I recommend "norsemen" on Netflix.

The main character is an expensive actor with an expensive face. The troops are cheap extras. Of course they can cover their faces with a helmet. Todd Cutler (of Todd's Workshop) explains a lot of reasons that movies are fake in the same ways in at least one of his videos. -PS: I was lost in Philmont and somehow wound up at the Aztec Mine (old, mined out gold mine) before my crew. I'd hate to think of what would have happened if I went in early, as I hit my head [hard] on the ceiling within seconds of going in (and putting on my brain bucket). I suspect that 14 year old me wouldn't bother with the helmet.

The Mandalorian :3

@@Ohhwell Ik, but most movies don't have the character wearing those.

@@arohk4415 That isn't medieval. Good one tho

The Mandalorian's helmet IS his face.

like that friend that yells out loud that you have a crush on someone when that person is around and you're like "bro stfu"

And then the other guy is "I can't really hear you." Gold.

Or the manly "..it messes wit muh braids", reverberated across the whole valley along with the stifled wince.

danish state sponsored ads, they had the cash to do it, and they did

Since I lost and found this video again, I've made it a habit to start my day by watching it at least once a week. Yes, I'm not kidding. I get a good laugh (while maybe discovering a new tiny detail), my mood gets so much better. And I think a bit more about safety. I guess I might grow tired of it, but I haven't reached that point yet.

If you liked this you'd love the series Norsemen.

@Kazumaf Bro. Why.

At home you know always who is the general and who is the soldier, thats today so and why it shouldnt be different in the past? xD

@Kazumaf who the fuck even brought it up

@Kazumaf I just feel sorry that you thought this would be funny but fun fact... It made you look stupid

@Kazumaf how about we do so anyways

Except that big-ass horse, sadly. I mean, it's a fine, beautiful horse - but early Medieval horses in Scandinavia were on the small-ish side.

@@FrikInCasualMode true, but at least he's on a horse and I can chalk that one to set designer's or director error

@@FrikInCasualMode Denmark, tho. Importing more impressive beasts from the south (where heavy cavalry was starting to become important by this timeframe) would hardly be far-fetched, especially as this lad seems a bit of a hors fancier (hyuck hyuck).

I remember those. Vaguely.

The other helmet is real as well, it is the Gjermundbu helmet - among one of only a very few viking made helmets still in existence and to my knowledge its the only intact viking helmet ever to be found in Scandinavia.

Legends! The both of you

Isn’t it a gjermendbu? Edit: Nvm, just read the replies

@@shade90 it is so strange that only one helmet was found. You'd think more people would have used helmets back then.

@@gulliverthegullible6667 Well it did make their head itch

Maybe he wasn't wearing his helmet.

so he was a traitor too Odin

Thankfully he failed.

@@yakojjy Imagine worshipping marvel super heroes.

@@triplehmafia6556 Imagine worshipping deity, not from your continent.