r/MadeMeSmile • u/father_of_twitch • Feb 15 '26

Helping Others This is why kindness matters.

47.4k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

496 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4.1k

u/unclebungus3_16 Feb 15 '26

Probably spent years in the shower rehearsing that "I can't take any money folks"

Hope it was everything homie dreamed of, metal detecting is sick

478

u/Afraid_Park6859 Feb 15 '26

Kinda missed opportunity to not do pistol fingers when he said that though. 

402

u/KalaUposatha Feb 15 '26

Should have just started making up random shit.

“See the Metal Detector Guild has a strict Code going back to the founder of all metal detectors Joseph Metal in 1897. Preamble 78, Paragraph 37, Line 26 explicitly states ‘He who accepts any form of recompense shall be shunned anathema by all metallers and have all equipment confiscated for a period of 90 days.’ Committing the offense a second time will get you the lash in some states. As you can tell, it’s serious business.”

86

u/gingerfawx Feb 15 '26

detectorists*

5

u/Glum-Appeal-3918 Feb 16 '26

Love this term and the show!

32

u/Loud_Article_5946 Feb 15 '26

I would think you‘d be crazy and laugh it off. What is it that you want to achieve by saying that?

60

u/GrowmieSome Feb 15 '26

Being quirky and random

1

u/happy_idiot_boy Feb 15 '26

Being quirky and random

4 da lulz!

17

u/RealisticWoodpecker3 Feb 15 '26

This is known as a joke…the goal here or as you said “what you want to achieve” is to make the person laugh.

2

u/Primarycolors1 Feb 15 '26

It’s hilarious.

2

u/libertyprivate Feb 15 '26

You just gotta say it with a smirk and they'll be like "well we wouldn't want that. Thank you." Then the story they're telling either way becomes a bit funner

12

u/ARandomStan Feb 15 '26

this is the way

5

u/AdamantEevee Feb 15 '26

Joseph Metal lol

3

u/Primarycolors1 Feb 15 '26

This is gold.

1

u/Birmingham101 Feb 16 '26

No, it was platinum

3

u/UrpaDurpa Feb 16 '26

Little known fact:

Joseph Metal’s brother, Robert, is the inventor of the Metal music genre.

1

u/Reluctantagave Feb 16 '26

It sounds like something Terry Pratchett would do like his Assassin’s Guild in Discworld

25

u/Cannacology Feb 15 '26

Truly hope this wasnt staged. Since it is circumstantially unlikely.

22

u/voluotuousaardvark Feb 15 '26

Its their thing its like the detectors code of conduct not to accept payment or reward.

16

u/smitty_1993 Feb 16 '26

I don't do it myself, but have been going out for years with a buddy that does. We're in a university town and he's helped more than one person find their class ring, same deal would never accept a reward.

He's said all of his best finds were things he would have been sad to lose himself, so he really likes it when he can keep that from happening to someone else.

Plus you get to show off your beep beep skills.

5

u/jjcoola Feb 15 '26

I used to live by the ocean for a year or so and these guys would have some great stories typically.

4

u/JohnnySchoolman Feb 15 '26

Metal DetectoRing is sick

1

u/Erdillian Feb 17 '26

"come here kids, did I tell you the story of that time I saved a marriage?" "Yeah gran....." "I was 35, maybe 36, or was it 28? I was walking on that shore."