PMTPMT DB

Takes

Loss
#PMT-2024-0802-11082
Big CatBig Cat

Jumping at the last second in a falling elevator will save your life

If you're an elevator and it falls and you jump at the end, you survive... I just looked it up. It's not true. It's not true. You would die.

As Big Cat discovers mid-sentence, physics dictates that jumping does not negate the velocity of a terminal elevator fall.
Loss
#PMT-2024-0802-11087
HewyHewy

Chocolate milk comes from brown cows

I thought chocolate milk came from brown cows... I was up north driving past a brown cow and I pointed to my cousin, I said, you know, chocolate milk comes from those things.

Chocolate milk is white milk with cocoa/sugar added; the cow's color is irrelevant.
Loss
#PMT-2024-0708-3159
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Titties are a type of meat

Titties is meat. Great choice. ... They're made out of meat. ... Is it the Mount Rushmore meat that you eat? Fact or fiction. ... I enjoy looking at the meat.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biologically they contain fatty tissue and muscle, but they are not 'meat' in a culinary context. It was eventually removed from his list under protest.
Loss
#PMT-2023-0814-13801
HankHank

Birds are not real and are actually government surveillance plants

Birds aren't real. They're government plant. Have you ever seen a bunch of birds go onto... Have you ever seen them on telephone wires? That's them charging. You've never seen a baby bird.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Birds are biological organisms; the 'Birds Aren't Real' movement is a well-documented satirical parody of conspiracy theories.
Loss
#PMT-2023-0814-13802
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The female orgasm is a myth created by 'Big Orgasm'

The female orgasm. Not real. Big orgasm has been lying to you guys. Girls don't come. They just do it because they like to make us feel bad for coming too quick. Exactly... let's be honest, let's get real honest here. That shit's not real.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
The female orgasm is a biological reality.
Loss
#PMT-2023-0814-13803
Big CatBig Cat

Shark attacks are not real and people just overreact to minor injuries

I don't think shark attacks are real. I just don't think they're real. I think someone hits their leg on like a coral reef or something. I don't believe them. I do not think they're real. I think someone... you're a bad swimmer. You probably stubbed your toe and then overreacted.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Shark attacks are documented medical and biological events.
Loss
#PMT-2022-0718-15918
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

60% of bank robberies go unsolved

My theory about bank robbers is I think you get away with robbing banks way more than we're told... I think like 60% of bank robberies go unsolved. It's a great business model.

According to the FBI, the clearance rate for bank robberies is typically around 50-60%, meaning PFT's claim that 60% go *unsolved* is roughly the inverse of reality.
Loss
#PMT-2021-0908-5781
HankHank

A silverback gorilla could defeat an elephant by choking it out

I'm going to go elephant versus silverback gorilla. If the elephant can fucking get on his back and get him in a chokehold... [A] gorilla can tap out an elephant.

Physically impossible for a gorilla to apply a chokehold to an elephant's neck due to size differential.
Loss
#PMT-2021-0823-13698
HankHank

The Pyramids of Giza were probably built by aliens

I'm going to go with the real pyramids, Pyramids of Giza... the greatest structural engineering ever done, probably done by aliens.

Fact ClaimLifeHotSarcastic
There is no scientific evidence that aliens built the pyramids; they were built by ancient Egyptians.
Loss
#PMT-2020-0501-4128
Big CatBig Cat

Animals likely understand everything we say but are collectively choosing to ignore us

What if all the animals actually understood what we were saying but just just ignoring us... like the minute they figure out that we know shit's gonna get crazy and they can't talk back.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biologically incorrect, though it makes for great comedy.
Loss
#PMT-2020-0403-7030
Big CatBig Cat

I could take a boa constrictor in a wrestling match

I think I could take a boa constrictor. I don't think a boa constrictor could take down like a fucking well... I just punch it in its brain over and over. I would you kick a boa constrictor up doesn't have to take down a boa constrictor our python an anaconda might get you.

A large boa constrictor or python is biologically capable of killing a human, making this a very risky claim.
Loss
#PMT-2019-0715-2022
HankHank

I can catch a fish with my bare hands in a river in Alaska

If I had a day on a river in Alaska, I could catch a fish with my hands. ... I've been watching a lot of Planet Earth. Their method is not that crazy. ... Give me enough time in Alaska.

Catching wild salmon by hand is notoriously difficult for humans without specialized skills or bear-like reflexes.
Loss
#PMT-2019-0624-16749
Ryen RussilloRyen Russillo

Blue suits will be out of style in two years

I think in two years, everybody's been looking at their closet going, why do I have seven different blue suits? So I would get out of the blue suit game right now.

Blue/navy suits remain the most common staple in men's formalwear years after this prediction.
Loss
#PMT-2017-0811-19567
Billy FootballBilly Football

Masturbation makes you gay

This is a life advice that I've gotten. I don't know if it's true. Okay. But I was once told that masturbation makes you gay.

Biologically and psychologically false.
Loss
#PMT-2017-0804-772
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The sun is scientifically cold because space is cold

Where do you land, by the way, on our theory that the sun is, in fact, cold? I'm a fan of the space that just seems to shut everybody down. Space is cold and everyone just... When you said you were willing to hear it out, I was just going to say space is cold. That's it.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Scientifically, the sun is an extremely hot star.
Loss
#PMT-2017-0626-2151
Big CatBig Cat

Diversify your investment by buying scratch tickets in multiple states to become a millionaire

On a road trip, little pro tip, you buy scratch tickets or lotto tickets at every single stop in multiple different states. It's called diversifying your investment. And you will then become a millionaire.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Buying lottery tickets is statistically unlikely to make one a millionaire, regardless of how many states they are purchased in.
Loss
#PMT-2017-0616-19762
HankHank

Apple purposefully sells iPhone chargers that break so you have to buy more

My number one [minor inconvenience] is buying iPhone chargers from, like, a gas station, and then when you plug them in, they just don't work... [Steve Jobs] basically has made a charger that cannot be duplicated... They have chargers that you can charge your iPhone once and it's just charged forever. They just won't sell them to us.

While planned obsolescence is a debated topic, the claim of a 'forever' charger is factually unfounded.