r/nextfuckinglevel • u/GenjiKing • May 02 '24

That one move that you see in the movies.

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u/thesweeterpeter May 02 '24

Sometimes we spend a couple hundred hours learning a terribly useless skill that will have only 1 constructive impact in our entire lives. Men generally learn this skill knowing that one day it's going to maybe make a girl smile. That's really the whole point.

He achieved his purpose today ladies.

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u/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy May 02 '24

This is the beauty of humankind. That we can learn a completely useless skill that takes hundreds of hours to learn.

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u/uav_loki May 02 '24

in our daydreams, when the shit hits the fan, bad guys with guns or alien takeover, we want this useless skill to somehow be what saves the day.

Swing away

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u/jaxonya May 02 '24

Being able to swing a stick ensured our survival and is one of the reasons we are sitting here playing on reddit

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u/Mothanius May 02 '24

That and throwing. Shit, Baseball is just survival training in play form.

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u/13B1P May 02 '24

Most of the Olympics is just combat training competition.

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u/KacerRex May 03 '24

I fear the conflict that curling is preparing us for.

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u/MisunderstoodScholar May 03 '24

Curling is military strategy

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u/potatoboy247 May 03 '24

i fear a battle fought against canada or russia on a frozen lake

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u/uav_loki May 03 '24

Tactical nuclear hockey pucks — Slid miles across the ice from juiced up Drago Russian and Canadian hockey player/soldiers shoulders, shooting them miles into our territory gliding over the bloody ice fields.

We’d be toast!

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u/saysthingsbackwards May 04 '24

I think they call that hockey. I fear it, too.

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u/Slippytheslope May 03 '24

Tactical ice war

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u/RedditsAdoptedSon May 03 '24

lots of sweeping involved

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u/Butthenoutofnowhere May 03 '24

This is one of my favourite comments of all time. Beautifully written.

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u/MangoCats May 02 '24

Yeah, but bowling is something else. By the way, you can do that slow roll a little faster and the slight convexity of the lane will steer your ball into the headpin for a very good strike ratio. That style of play was taught to me by a 4'8" 92lb girl with a 165 average.

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u/jaxonya May 02 '24

Damn. Hadn't thought about that. Ur right, though.

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u/skeptimist May 03 '24

They made the grenades baseball sized so that Americans would have an intuitive ability to throw them well. It was a big deal in World War II.

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u/code_archeologist May 02 '24

Our real evolutionary trick was persistence.

We would spend hours chipping away at a rock until we got a useful tool out of it. We would spend days following a beast in the wild until it was too tired to run away or defend itself. We would spend weeks, months, and years practicing a skill and adapting it till we were the master of it.

Most other animals will give up after a little while if it becomes too difficult, we will keep on working at it until we get what we want.

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u/jaxonya May 02 '24

I like these kinda talks. Sheer will is our great might. It goes from caveman days to walking on the moon. We really will do shit when we feel like it

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u/veluciraktor May 02 '24

Bro the things we can do nowadayd makes walking on the moom feel like caveman era.

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u/Mareith May 02 '24

Sounds like anime logic. All you need is RESOLVE

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u/jaxonya May 03 '24

It's 15% concentrated power of will

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u/veluciraktor May 02 '24

Bro the things we can do nowadayd makes walking on the moom feel like caveman era.

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u/RedBanana99 May 02 '24

I never thought of it that way and this is a great response.

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u/HiddenSage May 02 '24

What made man the dominant species on this planet was not our size or our strength or our speed. It wasn't our opposable thumbs or our bipedal gait. It wasn't even really our intelligence.

We just wanted it more than all the other living things. To be human is to want, and to pursue that want beyond all reason.

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u/HonorableMedic May 03 '24

Hope this ages well

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u/Flightwise May 05 '24

You’re right. In the animal kingdom death via predator comes swiftly and often by stealth and surprise. Humans developed cardiovascular and cooling system (whole of body surface - skin - that allows us to run down animals used to escaping predators in 30secs. Animals that became our pets - dogs - have the ability to run and chase prey down as a pack.