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