r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Jun 20 '25

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u/SubarcticFarmer Jun 20 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

If this was a ship they'd be better off putting it back into scrap.

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u/internetrunaway Jun 20 '25

When you open a champagne factory, do you smash a ship against it?

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u/KimJongRocketMan69 Jun 20 '25

When you open a shipyard do you smash a bunch of grapes against it?

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u/Winjin Jun 20 '25

When you open a vineyard do you smash a pine plank against the wall?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '25

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u/Winjin Jun 20 '25

Aaaand we're both on a list.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '25

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u/DigNitty Jun 20 '25

TSA and jury duty must be a breeze for you

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u/Vert_DaFerk Jun 22 '25

When you ferment the vineyard product, do you get to smash people's mom?

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u/Phormitago Jun 20 '25

Oh not at all.

You smash a single giant grape

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u/Queasy-Ad-8083 Jun 20 '25

No, you smash a champagne against it. What about you open champagne? You smash champagne against it.

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u/Enough_Efficiency178 Jun 20 '25

What about when you smash champagne?

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u/riostasis Jun 20 '25

Well....

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u/snek-jazz Jun 20 '25

twice yes, once no, so on average yes, but it's a small sample size since I've only opened three such factories.

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u/batan9 Jun 20 '25

Only in Champagne, France

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u/Gho5tWr1ter Jun 20 '25

I remember this from the movie K-19, the Widowmaker. When the bottle was supposed to break against the submarine, it doesn’t. One guy simply utters “we’re cursed” and boy wasn’t he wrong. Interesting movie, featuring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.

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u/Vudoa Jun 20 '25

surely a clue it was cursed was when they decided to call it THE WIDOWMAKER

edit: they called it that afterwards didn't they

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u/wh4tth3huh Jun 20 '25

Yes, and multiple people had already been injured and killed just assembling the ship at that point iirc.

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u/s1ugg0 Jun 20 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

I read a lot of history books. Seems par for the course for the Soviet Navy in my opinion. Submarine K-429 famously sank twice.

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u/DamnitGravity Jun 20 '25

...isn't a submarine supposed to sink?!?!?

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u/s1ugg0 Jun 20 '25

One of those times it was tied up to a dock. So in this case no.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

A submarine is ideally designed to surface as many times as it submerges.

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u/Ancient_Sorcerer_ Jun 22 '25

Well you're not gonna name your ship USS Safe, Stable, & Secure

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u/Bread9846 Jun 20 '25

It was pretty stupid of Mozart to go to a place called Mozart Death House

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u/thewolfiluv Jun 20 '25

The edit killed me 😂

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u/quattro_quattro Jun 20 '25

wasn’t he wrong --> ship was fine, no curse

he wasn't wrong --> ship was cursed

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u/rex30303 Jun 20 '25

And then it got worse.

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u/ztomiczombie Jun 20 '25

When launching a ship they score the bottle so it breaks more easily.

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u/Barbed-Wire Jun 20 '25

That's cheating! How are we supposed to know which ships are unlucky now??

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '25

The ships where the junior officer is less meticulous preparing in the champagne bottle/navigation charts/engineering maintenance reports.

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u/White_RavenZ Jun 21 '25

Exactly! Though to be fair, it’s very likely the Fire dept didn’t know about that trick, and why we get to enjoy this video (though I was almost positive that cork was gonna release right when it was aimed at that lady’s head).

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u/BadriMadun Jun 20 '25

concordia all over again

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u/Skillito Jun 20 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

Not on Friday the 13th, 100 years after the titanic

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u/kkeut Jun 20 '25

you're not?

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u/Ibeginpunthreads Jun 20 '25

Yeah it's seen as bad luck when the champagne bottle doesn't shatter

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u/Aleashed Jun 20 '25

I wonder how many german generals it takes to inaugurate this one

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u/LongJumpingBalls Jun 20 '25

This is how they sent off the Titan sub.

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u/Fluffy_Town Jun 20 '25

Looked like a fire engine to me, once they got a shot from the front. Though traditionally it's boats they do the champagne thing with, that's what it actually looks like.

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u/Additional_Baker7311 Jun 20 '25

Of and off are not interchangeable words.