Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record - Gizmodo Comments

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

smeee — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:40:32 EDT

Take 4 bottles of bubble mixture, dump them into a fountain, stand back and watch.

smeee

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

deedrit — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:07:45 EDT

haha! Awesome.

Where the waffles!?

deedrit

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Valicious — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:03:42 EDT

every time someone mentions this to me or the fountain begins stray dogs from all over the hood pass by.

Valicious

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

MinceyFresh — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:57:11 EDT

@Scott: I'm 99% sure you were being sarcastic, but in case you were actually looking for the song, it's "Riff" by Sander van Doorn.

- Your friendly neighborhood trainspotter. :P

MinceyFresh

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

bosskev — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:05:16 EDT

@MrBlahBlah: A belated thanks for the link, fun video

bosskev

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Ariel_Wollinger — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:06:26 EDT

so cool!!!

Ariel_Wollinger

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

jsin1276 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:22:10 EDT

Who cares?

jsin1276

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

islandhopper — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:59:54 EDT

@92BuickLeSabre: yes, the Analrapist would be proud! lol

islandhopper

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

TOWken22 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:39:34 EDT

What a great way to cap off Earth Week

TOWken22

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

auroragb — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:44:42 EDT

@djheath: bukkake spectacular

auroragb

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

thebear91 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:15:26 EDT

1499 students walk away thirsty and have bad breath.

thebear91

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

wonkydonky — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:04:42 EDT

Holy Breugel Awesomeness!

-Otherwise, not surprising. Much like the state of Maine, there really isn't that much to do in Belgium; other than drink beer; and get frisky with the mooses; and build new highways for the drug traffickers; and play wack-job-junkie-pervert shooting gallery at night in Brussels; and marvel at the depraved crappiness of the train station in that town; and wonder if Timmy from South Park was allowed to write the Belgian Train Schedules, -and create the Flemish Language, -because French is clearly better than Flemish; and wonder if all Belgians are somehow the products of incest based on how they look; ok, -other than that, not much to do there.

wonkydonky

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Bokusatsu_Tenshi — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:00:25 EDT

Moving right along...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

alterboy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:54:23 EDT

I love the rave that breaks out after.

alterboy

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Scott — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:23:11 EDT

and where do I get the soundtrack for this movie?

Scott

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

ANoel — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:13:55 EDT

@Siouxperman:
"Your comments make me want to drive down the road and throw a bunch of garbage out the window of my car just because I can!"

I really wouldn't want even you , Mr. Stupidman, to injury yourself.

ANoel

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

kbarrett — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:52:15 EDT

As long as the world fears us, they can hate away!

kbarrett

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

mricyfire — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:48:29 EDT

and the world hates America and our wasteful habits...

mricyfire

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Siouxperman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:10:52 EDT

Love reading all the environmental wacko commenting here. Your comments make me want to drive down the road and throw a bunch of garbage out the window of my car just because I can!

Siouxperman

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Red3y3Ninja — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:32:45 EDT

oh the humanity...think of all the children...

I wonder what their carbon footprint was and how many belgian waffles they have to give up to make this stunt carbon neutral...

crazy europeans...

Red3y3Ninja

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

XJ_4x4 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:26:24 EDT

Nice camera work. Almost missed the damn beginning :-/

XJ_4x4

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

jp5065 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:23:09 EDT

Starving children all over the world, watching on their OLPC's, shed a tear.

jp5065

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

CutePuppyz — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:17:10 EDT

Think about all those Coke reward points...

CutePuppyz

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

reddingofish — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:59:25 EDT

Watch the Mythbusters on it. They tried lots of different things.
@Noobs-R-Us:

reddingofish

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

se7a7n7 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:56:22 EDT

I like how it turns into a rave

se7a7n7

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:43:10 EDT

@stonefry: The Wave is so 1980

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

MrBlahBlah — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:16:34 EDT

@stonefry:

I know, it had so much potential.

MrBlahBlah

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

stonefry — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:13:50 EDT

This would have seriously been 100x cooler if they didn't all do it at the same time. Some sort of cascade would have been awesome. It could be easily coordinated by one guy standing on a table and pointing from one end to the other.

stonefry

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Noobs-R-Us — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:08:56 EDT

Wouldn't this work with just plain carbonated water?

Noobs-R-Us

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

redkitten — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:07:59 EDT

that's very unusual: local students usually waste beer.
YES, they throw good Belgian beer at each others whenever they can!

redkitten

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

GOKOR — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:04:54 EDT

I did that off the balcony of a San Juan hotel room one day, with everyone's cars waiting to be valeted down below.

Funny for me, I was able to duck out of sight and not be caught...down below, well, I quickly went downstairs minding my own business and there was couple really pissed off valets covered in Pepsi.

GOKOR

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Jesustron — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:41:23 EDT

I thought this was a still from the next harry potter movie.

Jesustron

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

MrBlahBlah — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:33:54 EDT

still nowhere near as cool as this

MrBlahBlah

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Rabid Penguin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:22:22 EDT

What a huge waste. I bet each bottle of soda was individual packaged in over sized card board boxes when delivered to them too...

Meh. I suppose this is the best use for diet soda. They may as well make it look cool because it sure tastes like shit.

Rabid Penguin

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

bandit — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:21:39 EDT

Where's the 600 FPS digital camera when you need it??

bandit

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

bigpolla — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:17:38 EDT

what the fuck cameraman?

bigpolla

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

skc15 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:15:29 EDT

And there was much rejoicing! Hooray!

skc15

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Rain-man — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:10:17 EDT

Pretty cool. Too bad the camera-person missed the beginning and most of the video was on an angle. Do it again!

Rain-man

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

jibbly — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:53:59 EDT

No one has mentioned the best part...IT ENDS WITH A TECHNO RAVE PARTY!

Hey fun boys, watch out for the cd changer in the trunk yah?

jibbly

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

LoganSix — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:51:40 EDT

@demiwashere: Seriously! What an awful angle to take for that stunt. Hmmm, I'll just aim in the middle and zoom back and forth. Idiot.

LoganSix

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

EnochLight — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:51:34 EDT

@demiwashere:

Agreed!

EnochLight

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

ps61318 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:51:29 EDT

@PsychoCemia: @TendoMentis:
Beer and reconstructive surgery (hopefully not at the same time)...

Ok, Leuven is now officially on my list of places to visit.

ps61318

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

AddyDugdale — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:50:00 EDT

@demiwashere
Yeah, he missed the point of the whole thing. D-, see me after school.

AddyDugdale

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

demiwashere — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:29:29 EDT

im sick of retarded camera men

demiwashere

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

PsychoCemia — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:28:55 EDT

Mmmm...Leuven! I was there a couple months ago visiting the Stella Artois factory.

PsychoCemia

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:23:34 EDT

I'm sure the rain helped in the clean up. Wow, I wonder what all that caffeine will do to the local sewer wildlife?

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

92BuickLeSabre — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:18:10 EDT

It's rather reminiscent of a miracle occurring during dinner in the refectory of the Order of the Blue Man Monastery (patron saint Tobias Funcke.)

The most random yet precisely accurate comparison ever.

92BuickLeSabre

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Rexter — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:03:27 EDT

hahahha oh wow

Rexter

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

zarchitect — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:51:06 EDT

world hunger - meh
high unemployment - meh
environmental awarness - huh?
over-consumption - shrug

1500 bottles of soda, 1500 matching rain gear, and a crap load of menthos - FTW!!!!!!

world is officially doomed

zarchitect

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Tjoez — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:46:59 EDT

I participated in this event!
Even though we all had poncho's, we did get really wet, but it was really fun.

Tjoez

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

SockMonkey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:43:43 EDT

What? No video?

SockMonkey

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

studio72 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:46:05 EDT

Sure thing ! Being a belgian, it makes me proud of being a member of that Sub-culture ;o))

studio72

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

xint — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:23:28 EDT

@djheath: WHAT?!?

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA1!!!

xint

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

strider_mt2k — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:20:31 EDT

They deserve an award.
I mean look at all the folks that won't have to DRINK that poison now.

Good work!

strider_mt2k

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Zaxxon Q Blaque — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:18:39 EDT

Yep, non-sticky soda FTW.

Zaxxon Q Blaque

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

TendoMentis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:13:25 EDT

Ah, Leuven. I had my right arm reconstructed at the teaching hospital there.

Good times.

TendoMentis

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

FThorn — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:11:57 EDT

I just don't get the interest in this stunt. I guess it's a European thing and I just will not understand.

FThorn

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

desostros — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:11:56 EDT

Makes me proud to be Belgian

desostros

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:00:54 EDT

@TetsuBo: He's right though, diet softdrink isn't sticky.

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

TetsuBo — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:50:12 EDT

@mumin: Nope, that's not it. The sweetener adds to the reaction, Mythbusters did a thing on it.

TetsuBo

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

mumin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:07:34 EDT

the reason (and really the ONLY reason) you use diet coke is exactly for it NOT to be sticky afterwards...

mumin

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

Diplomate — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:05:26 EDT

What 1499 people and NO prematures?!?!?! ;)

Diplomate

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

djheath — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:30:38 EDT

Ejaculation spectacular!

djheath