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#shorts In 1808, an unorthodox duel over the streets of Paris would become the first instance of air to air combat in human history.
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@derweibhai

2 years ago

So how do you convince someone to pilot your balloon?

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@lightgrove7751

2 years ago

The great tragedy of the simp in a blimp

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@littlespinycactus

2 years ago

Poor pilot. Didn't think it through.

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@huyra8019

2 years ago

mr. grand prix had a cool ass name

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@TheIITroubleIIMaker

2 years ago

Wow this takes the cake for human ingenuity in dueling.

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@phoule76

2 years ago

"no aiming for the balloon!"

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@skunkrat01

2 years ago

"The first instance of air to air combat in human history" 😆
When WWI first started, the aeroplanes were so primitive they didn't even have guns on them. Most aircraft was doing surveillance, but if they came across an enemy plane, the pilots would literally fire pistols at each other

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@flowerpotshmoo

2 years ago

This is HILARIOUS 😂

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@rajasimanta

2 years ago

I guess this was before the phase “Bros before Hoes”

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@Bigern2998

2 years ago

That must have been an incredible woman!

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@Joybuzzard

1 year ago

Why is this not a movie yet? With Johnny Depp and Keanu Reaves, fighting over Isla Fisher.

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@LordMarcus

2 years ago

Why the monotone?

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@danthieman7858

2 years ago

The days before online dating

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@cliftonsargent1572

2 years ago

Dam that guy is the definition of pathetic, he finds out that his girl is getting stretched out by another dude and his small brain says “race” to win her love? She is having sex with another person there is nothing after that. Move on and find another why would your want to be with someone that cheated on you

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@WeirdWonko

2 years ago

This must be nonsense. There's just so many strange things in it. This story is just too good to be true and looks made up.

Come on. The seconds are with the duelists in the balloon? Why would they, who would risk his life so easily? Even if we assume that death was not necessarily intended, and they expected the hit balloon to go down but not so fast that people would be killed, this sounds too risky. And the pellets could hit your eyes or so.

What are the actual references? Every article on this I found is either based on other articles, or references the same article of a British newspaper from 1808. Any French references of such an event maybe? In one of the many comments someone somewhere wrote hat he actually tried to find some and failed. No, all we have is an article in a British newspaper about something that allegedly happened in another country which one does not like anyway.

And I also seriously doubt it would work like this at all. A blunderbuss is a near-range weapon, they do little harm after 40 feet or so, and here we have 80 yards. Wikipedia tells me that the shot spread is nearly one meter at ten yards, so 8 metres at 80 yards. Makes a balloon hard to miss. But would that do much to a balloon? Observation balloons were used in wars, and they were not so easy to take down even with gun fire from planes. Bullets just pass through, and it needs a lot of holes to make the gas escape so quickly that it goes down rapidly, so that "M. Le Pique and his second were both dashed to pieces on a house-top", like the original article says. For sure a blunderbuss sounds like something that makes big holes into the stuff you shoot at or rip it all apart, but it does so only at short range. But taking a balloon down with a single shot is something lots of people would expect to happen, and so did the inventer of this story.

Those names looked at least somewhat strange to me. I first thought "M. Granpree" (Mr. Bigprize?) does not seem to be a real name, but Granpré exists, grand pré would mean large meadow. So far, so good. But "M. Le Pique", the stinger? When you search for it, the balloon story comes on top. Does not look like a common name. And if you just search for the lady's name "Tirevit" ("tirer vite" woud be shooting fast" I guess), the first Google page nearly exclusively comes up with this story. This just isn't a name.

Or is it? Thanks to a friend who did some more search, we find the Wikipedia article "Prostitution in Paris", listing Rue Tire-Vit among the streets related to prostitution. Oh, and as a bonus, "vit" is also a synonym for "penis".

So, in short: Miss Prostitution-Street, who has some liaison with Mr. soundslike Bigprize, gets penetrated by Mr. Stinger, leading to a duel where Bigprize penetrates the Stinger's balloon. A 200-year-old joke.

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@10191927

2 years ago

😂 Why duel in the air? Couldn’t finish it the old fashioned way

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@someotherdude

2 years ago

a seriously stupid way to die

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@gorgeousgino3260

2 years ago

Dang bro those pilots had balls

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@tredubbz

4 months ago

This is the most French thing ever. Seriously. Hilarious 😝

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