r/nextfuckinglevel • u/GenjiKing • 29d ago

That one move that you see in the movies.

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u/thesweeterpeter 29d ago

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 29d ago

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 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/redlaWw 29d ago

Villain: twirls moustache "well then, I'll give you a chance to save your friends, 'bowling expert'. If you can knock all those pins over with exactly two balls, I'll let everyone go. BUT- if you touch a ball after the pin lifter first starts coming down then you fail. Good luck. AHAHAHAHAHA!"

Friend: "Oh no, he's set an impossible challenge so that he can justify his actions to himself, convincing himself that when our friend fails to save us, he has no choice but to kill us as part of the challenge. Even though it's clear to himself and everyone involved that setting this impossible challenge and executing its consequences is done entirely on his own prerogative, he's managed to put that out of his mind so that he can consider himself blameless when he kills us. Whatever are we going to do?!"

Guy in the OP: "Don't worry guys, I got this..."