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My school just got renovated and the main thing everyone is obsessing over is the "Lamborghini of hand dryers". We got Dyson Airblades in the bathrooms. (along with a bunch of other neat stuff)
mom bought one for about $1,100 and I bought one as well for about $1,200. came with a car cleaning wet/dry vac set curtain wet/dry vac set also these turbo cleaning attachments! I would always use it to clean polish and suck shit off the car till I realized I was f****** up all my paint!. Rip Kirby g5
Probably shouldn't mention the bloke who fell in love with an Austin Metro City. This is bad enough. But if you know the A+ series engine you know it has a nice small exhaust pipes... Which you don't want to be inside when the wife's just come back from shopping and the exhaust is nice and toasty... Cue the fire brigade, an angle grinder, and thou...
Just binged everything you've made. Quality stuff all around. Funny and informative, like Jay Foreman. I have no doubts that, if you keep this up, by this time next year you'll be big. You rock, keep it up!
Dyson is the most convenient yet most expensive products on the market. They are also the only vacuums that have purposely built in failure mechanisms. Usually under the form of "permanent filters" that clog up and overheat your motor until it burns. As a former vacuum repair guy, id say to stay away from dyson unless you have money to throw out the windows. If you want actual lasting quality, look at german brands.
My family has had two Dyson vacuum cleaners for 6+ years, is this just a fluke or are German vacuums gonna make my pussy explode from how good they are?
So about those Kirby vacuums. My parents bought one from a salesman around the year 2001. The thing is an absolute tank and is still operating to this day.
Both my parents sold Kirby vacuums door to door and that’s one thing they always said was that they were tanks we own 2 older ones and they both still work amazingly well
Me too. Though mine might be from 1999. Weighs a ton, hate carrying it upstairs, but the only maintenance it's ever needed is some new rubber belts & hepa filter bags. Recently found the carpet shampoo that came with it.. Still smells & works well.
I know this video is a year old, but I want to say that I worker for a week as a Kirby salesman, and quit when I had realized the full extent of their sleaze. To start with, the ad for the job was very misleading about it being a sales job and was listed under a different company name. Second, the guy running the place was obviously giving fake hope of a higher position by pretending a new store needed management and "would you like to possibly take that position?" Despite there being someone underneath him already who could take it if there was one. They claimed to have a certain weekly wage, but you could only make it if you did a stupidly high number of showings in a week, so you relied almost completely on commissions. Commissions were stupid because you COULD sell for factory price if you wanted, but they suggested as much as tripling the price, and the sales tactic was to try to get the person to pay as much as possible, then you made half the difference. They didn't necessarily prey upon the elderly and feebleminded, but those are the vast majority of people they could trick into letting them into their homes. Which they would do under the pretense of giving away free house cleanings or showcasing an entirely unrelated product. Their credit system also didn't have any interest, but they would regularly lie and tell people it did to convince them to pay more or think they were getting a better deal.
I had a job interview at a Kirby store/office/whatever years ago. The ad said management opportunities, no experience required, etc. Was super vague but screw it I decided to check it out. I didn't know until the interview that it would be selling vacuum cleaners. The interviewer also wanted me to cut off my long hair, with the reasoning of, "Nobody is going to let you into their home to make a sale if you look like you're going to murder them.". I honestly didn't think I looked _that_ cool but hey I guess the guy saw potential in me. Anyway, jokes on him since I made a killing during my short time as a murder contractor. I learned a lot in that interview, specifically that people still let vacuum cleaner salespeople into their homes. I could have double-dipped and sold them a vacuum first, but I figured that was greedy and would all but ensure I got caught.
I will say this though, the sales technique may be harsh, but the vacuum itself is awesome! I have never purchased my own because of price, but I have on more than one occasion let the sales guy in just to get my living room vacuumed! I had a second hand Kirby at one point and it worked great for about 5 years after getting it! I still dream of buying one brand new one day!
My ex-husband's grandmother had this REALLY dope setup: a central vacuum. There were these hose size plugs all over the house next to power outlets. She would carry around a vacuum attachment and hose and plug it in to each one as she went along the house. It would suck up the dirt and dust and take it through to a central unit in the basement. She would call a service and they'd send a truck out every now and again to empty the unit like some gargantuan vacuum bag. It was so cool. I've never seen one before or since. It was so much lighter for her to carry around rather than a huge vacuum, she never had to replace bags. It was just so cool. She designed the house herself and it had tons of little quirks like that that actually were ingenious but not standard. I loved it. But she only spoke Italian so I could only understand so much. I found a lot of it out just through watching. I'm not sure if they're still a thing today, I would assume not, mostly due to the massive fire hazard I assume they were. But if they are id love one. Just for the novelty.
absolutaly still a thing in higher end homes, now you even get ones for the kitchen that are a little flap under the counter you just brush shit into and it automaticaly turns on and sucks it up
They absolutely still exist. Nowadays however; I believe that they are really only found in recently built high-end houses, as well as many houses that were built in the late 1970's and early 1980's, when Central Vacuum Systems were a new & exciting fad that homebuilders liked to include in their building plans. My first 2 houses (as well as the house I currently live in) were all built in the late 1970's, and all 3 of them included a still fully-functional Central Vacuum System. I live in Alaska, and it is not uncommon to see many houses up here that were originally built with this type of vacuum system, even if they seem to have since fallen out of favor among most homeowners. I, however, still have all the proper vacuuming attachments for my system & enjoy using it since it still functions great after all these years!
Its extremely common in north america. Im very unsure why it hasnt caught on elsewhere. Its more durable as the unit doesnt get moved around and banged against walls. You can put a more powerful motor as weight isnt an issue anymore. The advantages go on and on.
Fun fact: the plague upon home design that is interior carpeting only became popular due to the 'convenience' of the vacuum cleaner. Now that they didn't need to take their floor fuzz outside to simulate a night with the missus, people were finally able to achieve the longstanding dream of growing bioweapon colonies in their polyester petri dishes.
When I was a kiddo id beg my parents to take me along if they were going to the hardware store. I'd go and many times I blew people away with my dirt devil, Eureka, bissel and Hoover knowledge. I always told my mom “im gonna be a vacuum salesman when I get older” lol A child with ADHD will notice every detail if it's something that interests us. Dirt Devils were bottom of the list in the 90s they sucked but didn't suck like it was supposed to. Eureka was the middle product and Hoover was Top Shelf.bissels we're uncommon but id rate them better than Eureka and close to hoover.
Just commenting to say that Tim Hunking has uploaded to his channel the the secret life of devices remastered (were some of the clips are from, go check him out, dude is a legend)
To be fair to Kirby though, they're worth every penny. My parents still have the one they bought 30 years ago and still runs very well. It's definitely a vacuum you only buy once, especially since they have a lifetime warranty on their equipment.
I dread watching each video because one day ill end up with no more to watch. ;_;. I'll pateron you as soon as i can afford it thanks for video. I very much like.
A family member gave me a Dyson vacuum they no longer had a use for. That thing is pretty amazing tbh. Also as far as Kirby vacuums are concerned, those things have a lifespan greater than most humans. I work in high rises. I've seen cleaning people with Kirby vacuums 30+ years old that take a daily ass whoopin and just don't die.
Here is the original work of Tim Hunkin on vacuums. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CJlrbMHLBd4.html It was enhanced with machine learning technology.
Informative and funny as hell. Binge-watching your videos while working nightshift. Makes it so much more toleratable, thanks. The fact that the background railroad @7min is directly where I live screws with my mind a bit not gonna lie.
Shame you have to shoehorn so many childish political digs into an otherwise entertaining video. Best leave that stuff for the comments section... Looks like the EU is deflating now it's done sucking from the UK.
Isnt rule 34: "if it exists, there is porn of it. If not, there will be." Annnnnnd i immediately realise i have probably had enough internet for one lifetime.
I live near the actual Hoover building. It’s a Tesco now, but legally speaking they can’t remove the Hoover branding on the roof, so it’s still the Hoover building, but there’s a bunch of Tesco signs around it...
It would be great to see a video about door to door salesmanship and how it sucks, similarly telemarketing and cold sales, one of the lowest forms of getting clients for businesses
One day, a Kirby salesman came to my door to try selling me a vacuum. He said I’d get some free cleaning spray just for talking to him. The he guy spent an hour showing me how it worked and I guess he thought I was going to buy.... I didn’t. And he took the spray.
Wait so when was the carpet sweeper invented?If they really went from banging out carpets just straight to the vacuum why did they invent the carpet sweeper afterwards? Did they invent the carpet sweeper because the old vacuums use too much electricity and they wanted to know an electric option? Was the carpet sweeper invented first but you left it out of this video? I just tried googling it and all I could find were sites that specifically sell carpet sweepers to diners. I guess it makes sense because if you were 24 hour diner you don’t want to plug in a loud vacuum when you could just use a carpet sweeper. Because they don’t need electricity they’re better for kitty cats too.
There's a great Inside The Factory episode that shows how the iconic Henry hoover is made. It's well worth a watch even if you think Gregg Wallace is a bit weird.
A salesman once tried to sell a friend of my great grandma one by pushing in through the door and pouring powder on to the floor for a demonstration. The house had no electricity.
We had vacuum seller at home 10 years ago, he was selling some rainbow for like 2500 eur, I am really glad that my mom had only debts and not money, so she could not buy that shit. I was studying technical shool in that time, he was saying such shits....and his demonstrations....my karcher for 80 eur can do it too even without noble named functions and filters. 🙂 When you buy something from home seller, think about that you have to pay mainly his salary or margins, realy value of that products is just small percentage of that price. It's like a religion, they try to convince you that your grand grand grand kids will die when you buy vacuum cleaner in local electroshop. 🙂
We got a pure metal Kirby from a door-to-door salesman in the late 90s. Cost a fortune & weighs a ton, but to this day, it still works like new. & after all these decades, the carpet shampoo that came with it is still good.
Awesome video and I love it. Although showing Dyson is kind of hilarious. Dyson has very poor performance for the money. I have tested vacuums many years and traditional bagged vacuums always performs better than Dyson.
I sort of noticed this also. Years ago (when I finally met the vacuum cleaner of my dreams.. A shoulder carried Shark which had the fault of never needing any replaceable parts.. you just washed the filters,) I had the advantage of trying out a small colorful portable Dyson vacuum cleaner out there in the store [Bed Bath, and Beyond]. It literally didn't suck.. though the price, certainly did.
Ahhhhh, f**k! ....Now you tell me!? .....if only I'd known about the sheath! (I could have avoided all this swelling and multiple lacerations on my penis, obviously)
