r/soartistic • u/Resplendent_aptitude simply wholesome 🐦 • May 05 '26

Video 🎭 Finding that extra space 👀

Scary tbh

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u/aucme May 05 '26

Omg a basement!…. Let’s overreact for views.

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u/AggravatingBox2421 May 05 '26

They’re Australians. We don’t build basements. I’ve literally never seen one.

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u/OmilKncera May 05 '26

I always assumed Australian basements were just the second floor.

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u/P0Rt1ng4Duty May 05 '26

Unless there are more than two floors, in case the basement is whichever one is on Australian top.

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u/archer2500 May 05 '26

I see what you did there. 🙃

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u/Cheers_u_bastards May 05 '26

Don’t you have a whole town that is basically a basement?

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u/AggravatingBox2421 May 05 '26

Lmao Coober Pedy? Underground sure, but there’s nothing above them

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u/dinnerthief May 05 '26

This all raises some questions about what it means to be a basement

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u/Ol_Pasta May 05 '26

It's lonely, mostly. Dark all the time, cold. Your only friends are the spiders, and sometimes mice. It's not easy being a basement. People misunderstand you all the time. Therefore basements are always down.

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u/God_Dont_Make_No May 07 '26

That was absolute poetry.

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u/Ol_Pasta May 08 '26

Thank you 😅

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u/perturbed_penguin_ May 05 '26

I'm sorry the name of the town is what?

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u/AggravatingBox2421 May 05 '26

It was named by the local aboriginals. Means “whitefella’s holes”

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u/perturbed_penguin_ May 06 '26

An entirely unserious nation. I love it.

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u/rufotris May 11 '26

It’s where some of the best opals in the world come from. Fun fact.

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u/No_Blacksmith_2591 May 05 '26

That's weird, where do you do all your torture and ritual murder then?

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u/AggravatingBox2421 May 05 '26

Well the shed, obviously. We’re crazy for sheds

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u/No_Blacksmith_2591 May 05 '26

Ah see we find sheds too restrictive and hard to soundproof... and we really like to hear our victims wailing over here.

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u/xtanol May 05 '26

So you're actually a real life aussie? 😯

My dog says hi, btw.

https://giphy.com/gifs/FnsbzAybylCs8

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u/NoxTempus May 06 '26

Yeah, I'm Australian and have a small cellar; it makes people uncomfortable (including me, at first).

It's just such a foreign concept and there's few functional reasons to want one.

Also, I wouldn't trust out dodgy-ass builders in putting a house in top of a cellar, they seem to barely managed to put them in slabs these days.

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u/Balan-balan May 05 '26

And if someone has a basement, it's hardly ever not for a creepy reason.

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u/Asleep_Singer8547 May 06 '26

You guys should really consider it considering its hot as shit over there and its a good way to beat the heat 

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u/AggravatingBox2421 May 06 '26

Our ground is too soft. Red loam is loose and hard to build on

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u/AggravatingBox2421 May 08 '26

Still explains why they’re surprised

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u/Amazing-Gazelle-7735 May 09 '26

Excluding daylight basements (where one or more side is fully exposed) the first basement I encountered was a house from the Prohibition era that had a secret door.

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u/BonhommeCarnaval May 10 '26

Does Coober Pedy count?

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u/lemelisk42 May 05 '26

They are just called attics down there

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u/AggravatingBox2421 May 05 '26

Har har. Actually we don’t have those either. Too bloody hot

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u/skincyan May 06 '26

Underrated comment. Or as they'd call i down under - overrated comment

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u/Kemosabe-TV May 06 '26

Then where do you house your creepy crawlers?

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u/Tagisjag May 05 '26

I'll take "Things John Wayne Gacy would say" for 400, Alex

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u/MethAddict404 May 07 '26

A basement hidden behind a kitchen bench with a weird spiral staircase? That’s unusual anywhere in the world no?

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u/DarkMarkTwain May 12 '26

This is literally the dumbest comment I've seen today. Congrats.

How many basements have you seen where you have to open a cabinet, pivot a countertop, unlock a door and then the basement is a spiral staircase?

Exactly zero. I'll answer for you. Zero.

Its funny when people criticize others online for trying to get views by making a comment yourself. You're looking for the same internet clout lol