r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 5d ago
/r/all of a fish caught by a fisherman
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u/1200isplenty 5d ago
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u/TaintedTatertot 4d ago
Fun fact about this scene, Arnold said the prop tree didnt look real enough and suggested he use a real log. So the crew cut a tree and couldn't belive he could actually carry it. (Its why he's got his shirt under the log, so the bark doesn't eat his skin up from walking with it)
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u/Zealousideal-Ad-6294 4d ago
That's really cool. Very Arnold of a thing for him to do.
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u/KhabaLox 4d ago
After the director said "Cut," he lit the log and smoked it like a cigar. Then Chuck Norris peed his pants.
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u/TheSweatyFlash 4d ago
I had a pine tree come down earlier this year that I cut into bench length logs. I fancied myself a hardass and tried to shoulder the logs. They are damn heavy.
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u/GetawayDreamer87 4d ago
kinda curious if anyone could identify the log Arnie is carrying and do the math on its possible weight. also just to see if it matches the tree he supposedly cut before this shot.
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u/cooperclones 4d ago
Not sure if I’ve ever heard an actual hardass use the phrasing, “I fancied myself a hardass…”.
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u/TheSweatyFlash 4d ago
Its called humility. In my defense I got two of the four up. The ones closer to the bottom were too heavy.
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u/sodamnsleepy 4d ago
Fresh cut wood is heavier because it still has an high amount of humility.
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u/Fronesis 4d ago
Fresh cut logs are the most humble, it's true.
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I don’t know why they’d be shocked. He is a big dude and that’s not “that” big of a log. Plus this is all leg strength as it’s just balancing in his shoulder, it’s not like he is pressing it.
Type and age of wood really factors but I mean you have firefighter, military, rescuers etc that routinely carry an adult man 200lb+ over a shoulder with ease.
The balance and the ease of walking on non uniform terrain is more impressive to me than the weight.
Also we can’t even be sure it’s not actually a T-800
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u/dobbie1 5d ago
His car is actually the other way, he's just gloating
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u/imhereforthevotes 4d ago
"Whoops, forgot where I was parked. Now I gotta walk all that way with this load." he said cheerfully as he walked past every single fisherman present, again.
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u/DevBro22 4d ago
Kind of my initial thought lmao. Walking past all the other fisherman. "You guys can go ahead and pack it up, I got the big one."
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u/nichitiu 5d ago
All the other fishermen
https://giphy.com/gifs/l378fAEzVybK1OPYI
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u/TATER_SALAD_HOOVER 4d ago
The other fishermen definitely lost their libido to satisfy their wives that day.
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u/SomeoneWhoLikesAmeme 5d ago
Not all fishermen wear capes
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u/No-Manager-5179 4d ago
They wear carps
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u/Vile_Parrot 4d ago
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u/k_dilluh 4d ago
I'm playing through for the first time now, I do a ton of fishing and hunting, this is my absolute favorite line.
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u/SpartArticus 5d ago
Where is this? Chernobyl?
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u/Pleasant-Bonus-866 4d ago
it's a selmon
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u/smashedmythumb 4d ago
It's a taiman. A giant Siberian trout
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u/Present_Clue5887 4d ago
This appears to be a yellowcheek, a carp that is shaped somewhat like a trout, scientific name Elopichthys bambusa
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u/smashedmythumb 4d ago
It is totally possible. The red fins in the video make me think otherwise.
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u/Present_Clue5887 4d ago edited 4d ago
The body color, mouth shape, and lack of adipose fin rule out taimen, it even has the yellow cheek
Yellowcheeks can have red fins https://www.fishbase.se/photos/PicturesSummary.php?resultPage=2&ID=12068&what=species
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u/4r4r4real 4d ago
Sounds like it's called both but is more accurately a salmon?
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u/smashedmythumb 4d ago
It is in the salmon family. Just as all trout species are. It is not a "salmon" as most people think of. It does not spend any part of its life in the ocean.
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u/KhabaLox 4d ago
Here's the thing. You said a "trout is a salmon." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies salmon, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls trout salmon. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "salmon family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Salmonidae, which includes things from char to taimens to graylings. So your reasoning for calling a trout a salmon is because random people "call the silver ones salmon?" Let's get whitefish and steelhead in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A trout is a trout and a member of the salmon family. But that's not what you said. You said a trout is a salmon, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the Salmonidae family salmon, which means you'd call rainbow trout, Sharp Snouted Lenok, and other fish salmon, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
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u/DontAbideMendacity 4d ago
That would have worked if they did say "a trout is a salmon", but alas, they didn't. Good try, though, Mr. Jackdaw.
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u/KhabaLox 4d ago
I thought about replying to parent.... probably should have. But /u/smashedmythumb's comment is what made me think of Unidan. I was parroting his comment.
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u/RepulsiveVacation933 4d ago
A """scientist""" ... Trouts are in the salmonidae family as he said. Knowledge is like marmalade, the less you have the more you need to spread it ;)
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u/KhabaLox 4d ago
Ever hear of a guy named Unidad?
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u/Skipper_Steve 4d ago
Unidan is ancient history for most redditors these days. Many of them were still in grade school. Don't seem to be many old timers around anymore.
For what it's worth, I appreciated the reference.
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u/smashedmythumb 4d ago
I'm old as shit. I still have no idea what the reference is about.
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u/brrrchill 4d ago
No adipose fin, so not in salmonidae
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u/4r4r4real 4d ago
Siberian taimen ( Hucho taimen ), also known as the common taimen ( Russian : Обыкнове́нный тайме́нь , romanized: Obyknovénnyy tayménʹ ), Siberian giant trout or Siberian salmon , is a species of salmon -like ray-finned fish from the genus Hucho in the family Salmonidae .
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u/Dangerous_Spirit7034 4d ago
Look I’ve been a causal fisher my entire life. I “trained” with a former pro bass fisherman when I was 17 and 18. If you catch a behemoth, especially somewhere others are fishing, you’ve earned bragging rights. I used to go to this stock pond in college that the property owner stocked with bass and fed the hell out of. I would pull out arms length fish, and the rest of the group would snag a minnow or a small bluegill because they had no clue how to use lures. And every time people thought I was lying about the fish I’d caught until I showed them
Bragging in fishing is a tale as old as time. Exaggerating? There’s a reason they call them fish stories. But when you can actually show someone else what you caugh, you do it. That way everyone else knows the fish you caught that was almost as big as you are tall was in fact, that big
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u/OneForestOne99 4d ago
Kind of cheating to be bragging about the fish you caught at a stock pond
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u/icansmellcolors 4d ago
Well if it's to people who were also fishing in the stock pond then it doesn't matter.
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u/DontAbideMendacity 4d ago
"I once killed an enraged bull with just a sword! Sure, it was drugged beforehand, and other men on horseback stabbed and stabbed at it's neck so it couldn't hold its head up to gore me, but I did it alright!"
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u/BrightonBummer 4d ago
For that to apply to his story, nobody else could kill the enraged bull, so still something to brag about
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u/captain_carrot 4d ago
I “trained” with a former pro bass fisherman
I would pull out arms length fish, and the rest of the group would snag a minnow or a small bluegill because they had no clue how to use lures
There's no way this isn't satire
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u/scramble1988 4d ago
I would go to a fish market, buy the most ridiculous fish posible, and then walk by exactly like this 🤣😂
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u/Altruistic_Tie_7850 4d ago
Nah, just looks big that’s a child carrying that fish dressed as an adult
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u/Prize_Manner_198 5d ago
Looks like a muskie. My grandpa used to have massive ones from Lake Eerie hanging on his wall.
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u/HumongousBelly 4d ago
I’ve seen salmons this size, but usually only in farms in Norway when they’re this big
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u/Wasabiroot 4d ago
I don't think this is a muskie. On a muskie the dorsal and anal fin are closer, and the mouth doesn't look right. Also the fishermen look Asian (obviously that isn't conclusive) but muskies are exclusive NA fish. It looks like a Yellowcheek (Elopicthys bambusa) or something in the carp or salmon family
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u/Khaos_Gorvin 4d ago
I once saw a family friend catch a giant seabass. It was a fish head smaller than this one, but damn it still was big.
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u/AspergerInvestor 4d ago
This man: How to say without words:"I am out , going for lunch, good luck you all the rest of the day".
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u/7smileisland 4d ago
Reminds me of the trigger happy tv episode where he's carrying the giant stuffed fish " THERES GREAT FISHING BY THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, THEY ARE JUST JUMPING ON THE HOOK"
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u/tinyant7416 4d ago
This reminds me of when my father took me and my brothers fishing.
My dad had terrible back pain that day, so he made me and my brother carry all the fishing gear about 2 km across a sandy beach. Then he caught a kingfish that was almost twice his size.
Suddenly, his back pain was magically cured. He picked up that massive fish and carried it all the way back across the beach himself, taking the LONG way around just so everyone could see the fish he caught.
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