Same thing happened to me when I fell into my hallway wall last year. The fall was largely handled by the floor but my head just happened to graze the wall and I ended up with a hole like this.
Not surprising as we got to see the shitty building materials and bad work used to “build” the house when we bought. Typical mass development style, matchsticks and tissue paper with a $500k+ price tag.
Dude body checked the wall and his hip cracked it? Body checking drywall especially in its softest spot (between framing) this will be a likely outcome.
Same thing happened with me and my cousin in my room in like 89. We patched it and it happened again when me and my boy had a dunk contest in my room in like 95. Shit happens
God damn. This would never happen in all the cities I've lived in Mexico. Flash back to the states and ice accrued thousands of bucks in wall damages for the smallest things
Houses there are built to be replaced consistently so more people can make money!! And all the people making money from various companies are all connected to companies on the top that own something along the way of everything someone needs to buy or hire someone to fix
I reckon this is why parents had the no playing indoors rule, I mean games like sardines or hide and seek probably was fine, but playing basketball or baseball indoors… smh.🤦🏻♀️
Unless you’re a teenager and have virtually 0 life-skills. Then it’s become harder. Or you have rich enough parents that just pays for everything. Then it’s way easier.
The people aren’t super rich, it’s the country as a whole that is rich. Meaning all the money is in the hands of the top 5%. The rest have paper walls, expensive useless healthcare, and dogfood.
I’d wager the European styles homes last 4 times as long and cost half as much to maintain. Really doubt that tearing down and rebuilding these shitholes every 30 years is saving anyone any money except developers.
There’s a little truth in that. European style homes last longer but I don’t think that most Americans are in the market to buy a property that will last 500 years. Most can’t afford these “shithole” ones.
They aren’t choosing shit quality for shit quality sake, they are choosing what is in their price range and what’s in the market. That style doesn’t exist here and if you wanted to build a home even the same size as a smaller typical European house here custom you’re looking at >3x cost if you can even find a builder willing to do it.
The median size of a stand alone home in my US state is 2000sqf (185sqm). Which is actually smaller than the national median, which is closer to 2,200sqft (204sqm).
In what EU countries are you buying (or even finding?) a home that large for that price?
And I don't mean a mansion or upper-class house -- this is just the size of a standard ass average American middle class home built anytime in the last few decades.
American homes are grotesquely large, and we're absurdly spoiled by the luxury of it without any concept of reality outside our borders. I (intentionally) live in an 800sqft (74sqm) place, not much smaller than the average of all EU countries (which ranges from ~85 - ~110sqm), and people regular think I live in abject poverty and don't understand how I can "survive" with so little space lmao
74sqm is more then plenty room, I'd call that luxurious even.
I am currently looking for a place that has around 25sqm. Havent had any succes yet but thats all I need I reckon. The only thing a large house adds is more cleaning/vacuuming work and more steps to get to what you want.
Hell yeah it is, but my partner and I love it, despite the constant "how can you stand it it's too small" nonsense. It could realistically be much smaller even, just that it's designed so that the living room is a big open space and the kitchen is quite big - which I'm okay with because that's my happy space anyway.
We lived in a 120sqm rowhouse for a while and it was way too big. Cleaning took forever, and other than the bedroom the other 2 out of 3 rooms were never used anyway. Just wasted space. Then I look at these people in the "average" 200+ sqm homes and I'm just like what the fuck are you even doing in there lol
I share this sentiment completely! My dream house is a tinyhouse on a trailer parked somewhere in nature, maybe with a roofed deck at the entrance to chill and workout on warmer days.
It has more to do with historical and cultural differences. American construction goes back to British Colonial times. Wood was the primary choice as a building material because of its abundance. Structures were typically made with large posts and beams. This would have been the case anywhere is Europe where timber was more readily available. Timber framing has a historical precedent in the United States so it also became part of its cultural identity- the same as some European nations that have more access to lumber. Bricks or cement are still used very frequently but not to frame structures. 2x4 framing is just the most cost effective method to frame in terms of material and labor but it also has some advantages like energy efficiency, flexibility to resist Earthquakes, easier maintenance, and easier to renovate. Not to mention houses in the US are much larger than in Europe on average; this goes back to the cultural differences, people are used to bigger living spaces in the United States and efficient 2x4 construction is the only way to financially accommodate that demand. This is in part due to construction methods but it is important to remember that both techniques exist in both places.
Yeah, it is.
The only reason for drywall is that it is cheaper than other building materials. The American living style of living in a house makes it very hard to keep up with housing needs. Building them from brick and lumber as in most European settlements, is just way to expensive for your way of living.
So yeah, money is the problem for why people don't have energy efficient, lumpy, unsteady, short-lived houses with bad fire protection or living quality.
The house I live in was built in 1856 and it will still be standing when Im dead. I can't hear through walls, I almost don't need to heat in winter, the walls are made from bricks so it has a good fire protection. And wont break from a single fistpunsh to the wall.
The Japanese also have homes presumed to have a limited lifespan and be torn down, and are built to those standards. But they also don't treat their homes as a financial asset either.
The other issue is size. Americans could totally have better built homes if they wanted, but they strongly prefer to have 2200+ sqft/204sqm for them and their, maybe, one child, than to live in a 950sqft/88sqm place built to last a century or two.
Probably still would never use brick though, not even steel reinforced. Not the best option when 1/5 of the population lives in the shadow of a world ending 9.0+ earthquake.
Lol.. me and my brothers used to fight all the time and one time the drywall got broken and we put our fighting aside and become a construction team and worked to repair the drywall before mom and dad got home. It was a really good team building exercise for us. The patch that we replaced is still visible at the house lol we didn’t get punished at all. Parents kinda just left it be. I guess they figured “fuck it, it’s patched” and didn’t get it professionally fixed lol pretty wild childhood with 2 younger brothers lol there’s actually one hole that is in a rather unfixable spot because my brother threw a die cast tractor at me and missed. We broke a lot of drywall lol I give parents of multiple boys a lot of respect for the hell they get put through lol
Hah nice. I did this once and immediately grabbed what I thought was plaster out of the basement and patched the wall. What I didn’t realize was that I patched the wall with tile grout lmao.
I sanded it flat so no one has noticed that part of the wall is 10 times harder than the rest of it, but we’ll see what happens when someone bumps into it lol.
You mean by strapping them out with wood or steel studs at 16" o/c, and then insulating the bays? And covering the whole thing with drywall? At that point, why bother with the brick.
It's so funny how you guys act like this is a good solution just because it's the American way of doing things. Objectively, you should be able to fall against a wall in your house without causing damage. It's really not that hard to understand
Homes get damaged in Europe by storms all the time. Our storms are more frequent and more dangerous. Let me know when a 400km/hr tornado rolls through your ville. I’ll call to se how your house is doing. You will not pick up.
It shouldn’t be more than 20. And ideally it’s supposed to be 16-18. Though the builders can just pay off the inspectors or pay the fines and continue with the build
It's pretty standardized. Load bearing walls will be 16" on center for 2x4 or 24" on center for 2x6 boards (usually done for exterior walls to allow a higher ratio of insulation).
Interior, non load bearing walls will usually be 16" on center 2x4s but might be 24" on center 2x4 since structural integrity doesn't matter for non load bearing walls.
He's got a little to much junk in his trunk.
im sorry, why is the word basketball in quotations? lmfao
If that was my kid or his friend. “You ready to learn how to patch drywall?” With a big grin and laugh. He will be learning how to patch drywall haha
Buns of steel lol
Same thing happened to me when I fell into my hallway wall last year. The fall was largely handled by the floor but my head just happened to graze the wall and I ended up with a hole like this.
Not surprising as we got to see the shitty building materials and bad work used to “build” the house when we bought. Typical mass development style, matchsticks and tissue paper with a $500k+ price tag.
If I were their parent I wouldn’t even be mad at them. I’d just be confused and diss appointed that I have copy paper for a wall.
Now thats what I call ‘butt crack’
Damn what is that wall made of, dreams and hope?
Did they use 1/4" or 3/8" drywall or something? That is a ridiculously large hole for that impact.
Was the wall made of tissue paper? He didn't go in that hard.
Great learning trick to teach them how to repair a wall
Had to be green shirts' house, he had that "My dad is going to beat me" reaction.
No worries dad will pay for it
I assume this video is not filmed in germany
“Kid” “puts” “hole” “in” “wall” “,” “well” “attempting” “a” “basketball” “dunk” “.”
More like puts a hole in the "wall"
Paper wall
No horseplay dammit
Good opportunity to teach them how to patch a hole in dry wall properly.
I’ve done that. There may or may not have been alcohol involved…
If that’s all it takes it means the wall isn’t very good
It looks very thin. So cheap sheetrock/dry wall. It was most likely in a basement.
You've clearly never seen drywall before
Dude body checked the wall and his hip cracked it? Body checking drywall especially in its softest spot (between framing) this will be a likely outcome.
Remember to buy made in the USA!
Made in the USA:
Same thing happened with me and my cousin in my room in like 89. We patched it and it happened again when me and my boy had a dunk contest in my room in like 95. Shit happens
Buns of steel
Nah, not really. It's just a wall made of paper. Try and do the same in European/Latin American houses for example...
God damn. This would never happen in all the cities I've lived in Mexico. Flash back to the states and ice accrued thousands of bucks in wall damages for the smallest things
Houses there are built to be replaced consistently so more people can make money!! And all the people making money from various companies are all connected to companies on the top that own something along the way of everything someone needs to buy or hire someone to fix
Genius but fuck that system
Typical cardboard house in a third world country. In Europe you would break your fist before damaging the wall...
Cool. Have fun renovating or retrofitting anything.
man. i had so many good memories with my brother with that stupid thing lmao. i completely forgot until now
Me too hahaha
My brother did the same thing, and put a hole in the wall with knee when he was dunking. We ended up taking a piece of white paper over it lol
That lasted about 45 minutes before we were caught. It’s still a great memory.
is the wall made of toilet paper?
Can't they just play fuckin basketball without recording it
Not his fault tbh
Oh wait ? Among the long list of fake things in the US 🇺🇸 ! There is also the Walls of the houses ???
why tf does everything have to be recorded nowadays?? can't they simply play with friends and enjoy the moment without preparing a setup beforehand?
USA 🇺🇸 quality
🤧
I reckon this is why parents had the no playing indoors rule, I mean games like sardines or hide and seek probably was fine, but playing basketball or baseball indoors… smh.🤦🏻♀️
ITT people not knowing what drywall is
Buns of steel? Walls of paper? You decide.
Buns of paper
Wall made of paper
Good old America. Why bother to build a wall when you can have everything made of crap
Just another American 500$ cardboard house.
American paperboard home?
The real mistake happened at the barber.
That's a stunt movie house. So don't worry.
You can fix it before even your parents notice
That’s what happens when you make walls from paper and air.
Easy fix
Unless you’re a teenager and have virtually 0 life-skills. Then it’s become harder. Or you have rich enough parents that just pays for everything. Then it’s way easier.
Nah it's a good lesson our homes in the country are made out of paper as people say so it's better you learn how to fix them at a young age.
Only in America
That's not a real wall. It's a fake wall.
It's magnets.
Kid gets follow-up drywall lesson.
That's the weakest wall I've ever seen dear god
Why are americans obsessed with making their houses out of cardboard and bread sticks?
Economics. Easier, faster, and cheaper to put up a house like this. Also it’s not very hard to repair or rearrange / remodel.
In tough economic times, we have something to eat.
Cardboard house people.
Why are their walls so… “fragile”? 😭
Because americans live in paper houses
Better than video games
Poor kid lives in a country that makes walls out of cardboard.
Poor kid lives in a country without 3 billion square kilometers of forest.
Poor guy lives in a country where Americans live in their heads rent free
Welcome to America (newer, and more expensive constructions probably)
Next day is drywall class
Lol I did that too, in Spain, and almost broke my coccyx
Your grandma took a little spill at the sand dunes today...broke her coccyx
Not sure what you expect when your walls are made of wet cardboard
Laughs in German
Kids don’t all know how walls are made sadly
I don't get how a rich country has such bad building quality
The home builder got rich by using the cheapest supplies. Brock layers have become rare as house are more studs and tyco wrap
Researching how wealth and resource distribution works and well as the concept of capitalism could help.
More than $36 trillion in debt ain't rich.
The people aren’t super rich, it’s the country as a whole that is rich. Meaning all the money is in the hands of the top 5%. The rest have paper walls, expensive useless healthcare, and dogfood.
oh gosh, that looks like its gonna cost a lot to fix…. hope they didnt get in trouble, lol.
No it doesn’t, it would cost like $5
What do you mean "cost a lot". It's clearly cardboard...
not with his ass 💀
Why make the walls so shite?
They are:
Modular.
Cheaper to build and repair.
Larger houses compared to other countries, massive compared to Asia and the UK.
Economically friendly, trees are extremely renewable.
Smart resource management, we got a fuck load of trees, man.
Only reasonable one is modular, others are very short sighted.
If we built walls in the US like they do in Europe the basic homes would cost $3m.
I tried to have one brick wall and the costs were insane. They make everything 2x4s and drywall because it’s fast and cheap.
I’d wager the European styles homes last 4 times as long and cost half as much to maintain. Really doubt that tearing down and rebuilding these shitholes every 30 years is saving anyone any money except developers.
There’s a little truth in that. European style homes last longer but I don’t think that most Americans are in the market to buy a property that will last 500 years. Most can’t afford these “shithole” ones.
They aren’t choosing shit quality for shit quality sake, they are choosing what is in their price range and what’s in the market. That style doesn’t exist here and if you wanted to build a home even the same size as a smaller typical European house here custom you’re looking at >3x cost if you can even find a builder willing to do it.
Hmm gotcha, a basic home would be a (relatively) large standalone home in this case? Like what you get if you Google for a "typical american home"?
Yeah those would often go for similar prices in the EU.
The median size of a stand alone home in my US state is 2000sqf (185sqm). Which is actually smaller than the national median, which is closer to 2,200sqft (204sqm).
In what EU countries are you buying (or even finding?) a home that large for that price?
And I don't mean a mansion or upper-class house -- this is just the size of a standard ass average American middle class home built anytime in the last few decades.
American homes are grotesquely large, and we're absurdly spoiled by the luxury of it without any concept of reality outside our borders. I (intentionally) live in an 800sqft (74sqm) place, not much smaller than the average of all EU countries (which ranges from ~85 - ~110sqm), and people regular think I live in abject poverty and don't understand how I can "survive" with so little space lmao
74sqm is more then plenty room, I'd call that luxurious even.
I am currently looking for a place that has around 25sqm. Havent had any succes yet but thats all I need I reckon. The only thing a large house adds is more cleaning/vacuuming work and more steps to get to what you want.
Hell yeah it is, but my partner and I love it, despite the constant "how can you stand it it's too small" nonsense. It could realistically be much smaller even, just that it's designed so that the living room is a big open space and the kitchen is quite big - which I'm okay with because that's my happy space anyway.
We lived in a 120sqm rowhouse for a while and it was way too big. Cleaning took forever, and other than the bedroom the other 2 out of 3 rooms were never used anyway. Just wasted space. Then I look at these people in the "average" 200+ sqm homes and I'm just like what the fuck are you even doing in there lol
I share this sentiment completely! My dream house is a tinyhouse on a trailer parked somewhere in nature, maybe with a roofed deck at the entrance to chill and workout on warmer days.
It has more to do with historical and cultural differences. American construction goes back to British Colonial times. Wood was the primary choice as a building material because of its abundance. Structures were typically made with large posts and beams. This would have been the case anywhere is Europe where timber was more readily available. Timber framing has a historical precedent in the United States so it also became part of its cultural identity- the same as some European nations that have more access to lumber. Bricks or cement are still used very frequently but not to frame structures. 2x4 framing is just the most cost effective method to frame in terms of material and labor but it also has some advantages like energy efficiency, flexibility to resist Earthquakes, easier maintenance, and easier to renovate. Not to mention houses in the US are much larger than in Europe on average; this goes back to the cultural differences, people are used to bigger living spaces in the United States and efficient 2x4 construction is the only way to financially accommodate that demand. This is in part due to construction methods but it is important to remember that both techniques exist in both places.
And that's how they learned they are in a Truman show
Great teaching moment on how to patch drywall!
Bro it’s just dry wall. Don’t worry
why y'all houses made of cardboard lmao
most internal walls in most countries are plasterboard, except much older houses.
The walls to separate rooms are made of drywall, because it’s cheap, and easy to make changes to the house layout, run wires, cables, pipes, etc.
Then they wonder why a slight wind completely obliterates them.
What are you talking about... Do you enjoy lying on the internet?
Except they dont...
Source: Am Floridian. We get a little more than "slight wind"
Even the more reason not to have all of your housing made out of nailed wood and cardboard, especially in hurricane prone zones.
That’s not how any of this works.
Capitalism. Always capitalism.
Drywall is some capitalism specific nightmare???😂😂
https://youtu.be/wpxLLCdW_Gc?si=JakH2tZdKho4yCo0
Yeah, it is. The only reason for drywall is that it is cheaper than other building materials. The American living style of living in a house makes it very hard to keep up with housing needs. Building them from brick and lumber as in most European settlements, is just way to expensive for your way of living.
So yeah, money is the problem for why people don't have energy efficient, lumpy, unsteady, short-lived houses with bad fire protection or living quality.
The house I live in was built in 1856 and it will still be standing when Im dead. I can't hear through walls, I almost don't need to heat in winter, the walls are made from bricks so it has a good fire protection. And wont break from a single fistpunsh to the wall.
The Japanese also have homes presumed to have a limited lifespan and be torn down, and are built to those standards. But they also don't treat their homes as a financial asset either.
The other issue is size. Americans could totally have better built homes if they wanted, but they strongly prefer to have 2200+ sqft/204sqm for them and their, maybe, one child, than to live in a 950sqft/88sqm place built to last a century or two.
Probably still would never use brick though, not even steel reinforced. Not the best option when 1/5 of the population lives in the shadow of a world ending 9.0+ earthquake.
In Japan it kinda is a cultural thing aswell. But they dont use drywall that much, its mostly lumber.
But I'm not too informed in the specifics needed in Japan so I can't really talk much about it.
Interesting
Entire country. Huh.
Pfft, that is a little hole; it can be fixed with a drywall patch kit.
The ass of steel
Lol.. me and my brothers used to fight all the time and one time the drywall got broken and we put our fighting aside and become a construction team and worked to repair the drywall before mom and dad got home. It was a really good team building exercise for us. The patch that we replaced is still visible at the house lol we didn’t get punished at all. Parents kinda just left it be. I guess they figured “fuck it, it’s patched” and didn’t get it professionally fixed lol pretty wild childhood with 2 younger brothers lol there’s actually one hole that is in a rather unfixable spot because my brother threw a die cast tractor at me and missed. We broke a lot of drywall lol I give parents of multiple boys a lot of respect for the hell they get put through lol
Hah nice. I did this once and immediately grabbed what I thought was plaster out of the basement and patched the wall. What I didn’t realize was that I patched the wall with tile grout lmao.
I sanded it flat so no one has noticed that part of the wall is 10 times harder than the rest of it, but we’ll see what happens when someone bumps into it lol.
Ba donk a dunk!!! 😂😂😂
As a German I always Wonder about your cheap build Houses
Theye were cheap before 2020 now they are expensive and fragile here (poland) hiting your wall to call someone from other room can breake your wrist
I'd break my hip hitting a wall at home like this
Try that in a European home. It's not as soft for your head if you ram it but it won't break like that either!
Neither will older US homes
On the otherhand, European plumbing is an absolute horror show.
How so?
They should go outside and try that game, it's amazing.
They are overreacting, but it's funny. The infamous hole in the wall. Easy fix, and a great time to show him how to fix it 👍
Im to European to know how to fix a hole in the wall? Is this actually a common diy skill many Americans have?
Yes, it’s really cheap and easy to patch drywall. Makes plumbing and such much easier to update because you just cut out what you need and replace it.
Interesting, didn’t think of that advantage.
I would say it’s common, yeah. Usually one of the first things our parents make us fix on our own, next to the economy.
No but from what I’ve read it is one of the more easier DIY fixes
As a father you can't even be made at the kid.
Perfect time to learn the wonders of plaster🧐
Paper + plaster does not equal to a strong and lasting building material.
Live in cardboard boxes and act surprised.
The Europeans are gonna love this one
In Europe, his pelvis would have been broken.
Good chance to teach them how to repair drywall and paint. It's really not too hard or time consuming of a fix.
Are walls in American homes made from paper?
Paper and toothpicks
How do those houses stays in shape for 365 days without falling apart
I have better one. How those houses cost 2mil XD
Yea see about 80 years ago we figured out building hollow walls with insulation is far superior to solid block walls that don't insulate.
Plus you cut down all your trees like 1000 years ago, so even of you wanted to build properly you dont have materials.
Don't trust me tho, trust the statistics of elder deaths every European heat wave.
You can insulate brick walls though
You mean by strapping them out with wood or steel studs at 16" o/c, and then insulating the bays? And covering the whole thing with drywall? At that point, why bother with the brick.
Thanks for backing me up.
I’m living in a UK brick walled house that’s over 150 years old and is still solid and warm as fuck, that’s the point.
Warm as fuck indeed.
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2025/nearly-600-heat-related-deaths-expected-uk-heatwave-researchers-estimate
North America abandoned the double brick thing like 120 years ago, because it does a piss poor job if you have temperatures outside of 5-20⁰
You know what else has thermal mass? Brick ovens.
Paper with mud in it...
Tell me you are in the US without telling me you are in the US.
Wall made of paper
That is literally an ass hole 😁
Underrated.
Looks like a house built by Lennar Homes. A cumshot from a 95 year old with prostate cancer would cause about the same amount of damage.
“Erm home made of cardboard! 🥴”
It’s an interior wall. And this 150lb kid just rammed his ass into it. Duh.
It's so funny how you guys act like this is a good solution just because it's the American way of doing things. Objectively, you should be able to fall against a wall in your house without causing damage. It's really not that hard to understand
My house’s walls are mostly original from 1794, the kid would just become part of the wall
Im a little heavier then him and can jump against my walls without them falling apart.
My house is made from bricks inside. Like it’s supposed to.
Californian American here! We primarily don’t build with bricks due to earthquakes. :)
Parents are gonna be pissed lol. But dry wall’s easy.
Wall is the right word for cardboard divider ? Huh I guess it is
It's a freedom wall good sir.
This will not end while for them.
In USA you have the FREEDOM to put holes I your wall with your ass!!
Mom always said “ don’t play ball in the hows”
Damn no wonder why you have to rebuild every home in USA everytime there's a bit to much wind.
Homes get damaged in Europe by storms all the time. Our storms are more frequent and more dangerous. Let me know when a 400km/hr tornado rolls through your ville. I’ll call to se how your house is doing. You will not pick up.
I've seen enough videos of places after tornadoes where the brick houses were the ones left standing...
I dont understand how american housing is expensive when its made from tissue paper
Tell us where you live and how much a home costs there
Americans might as well be building their houses out of straw and paper
Typical Sudden Valley home.
While*
Well that house is clearly not up to code lol
No it's just that houses in the US are made up of cardboard
Is your drywall made of galvanized steel? I've never seen drywall not break when struck with enough force
Kid didn’t really hit the wall all that hard. I’d say there’s too much seperation between the wall anchors so the drywall is compromised.
You realize there is 16-24 inches of just...dead space on interior walls...right?
It shouldn’t be more than 20. And ideally it’s supposed to be 16-18. Though the builders can just pay off the inspectors or pay the fines and continue with the build
Again, 16 on center or 24 on center. Weird about loud confidently incorrect here.
It's pretty standardized. Load bearing walls will be 16" on center for 2x4 or 24" on center for 2x6 boards (usually done for exterior walls to allow a higher ratio of insulation).
Interior, non load bearing walls will usually be 16" on center 2x4s but might be 24" on center 2x4 since structural integrity doesn't matter for non load bearing walls.
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Bro what?
Hit him back up when their black friend comes over and flies straight through the door lmao
Im not blaming him
That's what happens when you have walls made of cardboard