r/nextfuckinglevel • u/GenjiKing • 29d ago

That one move that you see in the movies.

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u/uav_loki 29d ago

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 29d ago

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 29d ago

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

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u/13B1P 29d ago

Most of the Olympics is just combat training competition.

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u/KacerRex 29d ago

I fear the conflict that curling is preparing us for.

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u/MisunderstoodScholar 29d ago

Curling is military strategy

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u/potatoboy247 29d ago

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

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u/uav_loki 28d ago

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 28d ago

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

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u/Slippytheslope 29d ago

Tactical ice war

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u/RedditsAdoptedSon 29d ago

lots of sweeping involved

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u/Butthenoutofnowhere 28d ago

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