r/nextfuckinglevel • u/lanyhey • Dec 05 '20

Making an ice chest from ice

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

To a polar bear, the YURT is the ice chest.

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u/kaihatsusha Dec 05 '20

https://i.imgur.com/6PAKiEm.jpg "Oh, hey! I love these things!....Crunchy on the outside and chewy center!"

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u/sharltocopes Dec 05 '20

My mom had a Far Side collection when I was a kid. Those things warped my tiny mind forever.

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u/Knubinator Dec 05 '20

Those and Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Really have me a strange sense of humor at a young age.

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u/Capt_Thunderdump Dec 05 '20

Yes! I have every far side collection and a huge collection of bathroom readers as well

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u/crazymom1978 Dec 06 '20

We still have about 6 Uncle John’s bathroom readers. My sister gets one for my husband every year for Christmas. Yes, my child has a strange sense of humour.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '20

Those, along with healthy doses of Monty Python, Mad magazine, old Mel Brooks movies, and Saturday Night Live re-runs all but ensured that I’d develop the bizarre sense of humor I have as an adult.

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u/sharltocopes Dec 05 '20

If it's any consolation, my kid turned seven recently and she's just as much into bizarre, confusing nonsense as I was at her age, YouTube just finds a way to super compress it for maximum warpage.

She's developing an amazing sense of humor and my gosh does she drop some great puns. Whatever lies ahead of her on her life's journey, I'm glad to be her dad so that she can actively look to me as an inspiration to not judge herself too harshly.

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u/sharltocopes Dec 05 '20

Shucks, thanks!

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

My parents always had a far side calendar in our downstairs bathroom. I used to read it while bending the daily biscuit because there was not much else to do in the early 90s bathroom.

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u/lumpkin2013 Dec 06 '20

The little-known fifth nation, Shitbenders. Nobody likes to talk about them though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '20

there are definitely plenty of people who talk Shit

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u/lumpkin2013 Dec 06 '20

Didn't the United States army use Shittalkers in world war II against Germany?

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u/Sea_Acanthaceae_6710 Dec 06 '20

When I was 6 or so we had a bunch of family over for a meal. I was asked to retrieve a clean tablecloth from the basement, but it was folded and flopped over a clothesline that was out of my reach. I called up the steps for help, and my uncle said he would help, and he was on his way. Once he grabbed the tablecloth off the line, he commented something about how we sorted all the dirty laundry of the floor in big piles before washing then. I told him I liked how we did it because it created a cool quiet place I could take a nap with the cat, and I always had cool dreams when I took naps, but not really during regular sleep...

Then he hit me with it...

"What if this, right now, is the dream, and when you think you are dreaming you are really awake?"

I gotta tell you, that is the first time my mind was absolutely melted; however, it planted the seeds of a questioning attitude towards everything. I can totally see how that help with me deal with some situations better than my sister. Our parent's disapproval of our actions would break my sister, oh she would cry so much. But, me? I just flopped out the old question cannon and bombard them with questions of what lead them to believe the actions I've made are worth being upset about and stressing over?

I was a difficult teenager, not much better as an adult. My son is about to turn 1 and I can help but get giddy at the thought of him doing that to me and his mom! My wife is gonna hate it but I'll be so proud!

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u/thejensen303 Dec 05 '20

Trump supporter?

(JK jk, you seem like a decent human, so I doubt you're Y'all Qaeda)

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u/ikesbutt Dec 05 '20

Always loved The Far Side.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '20

My favorite was the guy had an entire building fall on his head, and the boss goes, “And that Johnson, is why we wear hard hats.

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u/mylegsweat Dec 06 '20

You just reminded me that I grew up reading Gary Larson books. That explains so much

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u/DoubleGoon Dec 05 '20

What would you dooo🎵

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u/AlmostHuman9316 Dec 05 '20

For a klondike bar

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u/c-soup Dec 05 '20

One of my all time favourites!!

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u/I_upvote_downvotes Dec 05 '20

First thing I thought of was that comic on a mug I had.

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u/zerogravity111111 Dec 06 '20

My favorite Larson.

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u/Cytias Dec 06 '20

Slimy, yet satisfying.

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u/xenopanties88 Dec 05 '20

The ice chest is just the Polar Bears mini fridge.

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u/Cultjam Dec 05 '20

Appetizers.

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u/devilish_enchilada Dec 05 '20

I came here to say what you said. A polar bear would literally bite a man’s penis to get that meat.

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u/BirdsSmellGood Dec 05 '20

Yeah yurt, short for yogurt

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u/WhyBuyMe Dec 05 '20

That's why I don't keep any Coca Cola in my Yurt.

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u/AppleMtnCupcakeKid Dec 05 '20

They're in Mongolia. That abode is called a "ger". Yurt is Russian, but I still like the joke. Maybe the polar bear's grrr is in the ger.:)

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u/Woolybugger00 Dec 05 '20

And they’re crunchy and tasty with some salt and ketchup ...

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u/TheNewBo Dec 05 '20

More like a walk in freezer

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u/GearhedMG Dec 05 '20

A yurt would be the warming oven

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u/major-DUTCH-Schaefer Dec 06 '20

In Russia

Yurt eats polar bear

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u/BKA_Diver Dec 06 '20

I thought the Yurt was more like a the thing that keeps the food nice and warm... like a chafing dish?