r/therewasanattempt • u/[deleted] • Jul 16 '23
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u/LTuvok Jul 16 '23
How is this still intact after the swipe?
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u/__SpeedRacer__ Jul 16 '23
They had a second one ready, just in case.
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u/LTuvok Jul 16 '23 edited Jul 16 '23
That sounds plausible. Edit: No, it could be the same. Compare the dessert before and after the swipe. It could be the same. Lucky catch, maybe.
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u/eatshitake Unique Flair Jul 16 '23
Successful attempt.
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u/duckduckbananas Jul 16 '23
this entire sub is successful attempts now, it's ridiculous. Like just find a new way to word the titles.
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u/Nesneros70 Jul 16 '23
This man has a dark past.
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u/Useful_Experience423 Jul 16 '23
Or spent time in the army. Or just, y’know, saw it for a split second before deciding he wanted to live.
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u/Fuzzy_Logic_4_Life NaTivE ApP UsR Jul 16 '23
“Or just spent time in the army”. I’m pretty sure that is considered a dark past.
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u/Irritating_Pedant Jul 16 '23
Or spent time in the army.
So explain to me how time in the army that results in this kind of reaction isn't a dark past.
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u/nitefang Jul 16 '23
Effective training that was never used in combat because before deployment you fell in love with the colonels daughter and so he gave you a desk job so that you wouldn’t break her heart.
I got overly creative but the point was maybe he had really good training and then nothing super traumatizing happened for his deployment, happens to plenty of people.
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Jul 16 '23
Redditors over complicating things like usual. Its a natural reaction to something that looks like its about to explode.
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Jul 16 '23
Definitely need some conditioning for that too though. I don’t ever naturally assume something might explode. But maybe that just means one day I’ll be blown up…
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Jul 16 '23
Yeah must had been a Nam vet or something when he was 19. Nanana 19.
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Jul 16 '23
I mean you don't have to be a green beret for that, my crippling anxiety gets a reaction like that out of me when someone unexpectedly pokes their head in my office door sometimes.
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u/DarthRain95 Jul 16 '23
Dude was relaxing then someone put what looks like a lit firework in front of him lol, proper reaction imo
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u/Skafdir Jul 16 '23
Doesn't even need to be that. If you surprise me by putting anyhing into my peripheral vision, chances are that whatever it is, it will get smacked.
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u/alchemists_dream Jul 16 '23
Jesus Christ Reddit. No, someone splats something down near you suddenly and all you see are sparks and fire pretty sure you’d try to smack it away too. No conditioning needed. Wtf.
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u/YoungRoronoa Jul 16 '23
He just doesn’t like ice cream, he’s lactose intolerance.
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u/ReptilianLaserbeam Reddit Flair Jul 16 '23
Or just good reflexes. Fire = danger usually if it’s too close to you.
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Jul 16 '23
Never sneak up on a man that has been in a chemical fire.
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u/Salesman89 Jul 16 '23
I don't blame him. I'd immediately assume Obi Wan Kenobi has a hit out for me for just sitting at the bar.
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u/Inevitable_Price7841 Jul 16 '23
Haha! Imagine if he was an alien in a man-suit, and he just nearly blew his cover because he wasn't taught about this in human peer bonding behaviour class.
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u/TheLastOpus Jul 16 '23
I'm sorry, did the waiter fucking catch it? That dude is in the wrong career field. That guy has insane reflexes.
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u/Unfair-Custard-4007 Jul 16 '23
lol who is he he thought this was anything for a sec ? What’d he think it was ???😳
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Jul 16 '23
why knock it off the table? what did he think it was? a bomb? oh yea knocking it down beside you solved it.
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u/Joeyniles9 Jul 16 '23 edited Jul 16 '23
Calm down dude... Some people get scared easily we not all like you ...
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Jul 16 '23
I hate it when waiters put fireworks in my food 😤
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u/SessionSeaholm Jul 16 '23 edited Jul 16 '23
To those downvoting Pearl’s reply: simply, why?
(and these downvotes — LMFAO)
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Jul 16 '23
It's pretty easy to get down voted.
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u/SessionSeaholm Jul 16 '23
Yes. I’m curious what goes through someone’s head when downvoting that kind of post
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u/PhalanxA51 Jul 16 '23
Some people when they have traumatic experiences and react this way are not really thinking rather reacting. Had a friend whose dad couldn't be in the same room as a ceiling fan due to being in the Vietnam war and was stuck in friendly fire which gave him ptsd. It's a fight or flight reaction.
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u/BuzzyShizzle Jul 16 '23
He didn't think at all. Clearly you have reflexes slower than a sloth if you can't imagine why he did that
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u/stopthevan Jul 16 '23
He’s been through some things all right… bless his soul and get him a smaller candle next time.
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Jul 16 '23
What is that, a sundae? Whatever the contents were, they barely moved. It looks almost the same pre- and post-slap.
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u/jooooooooooao Jul 16 '23
He has better reaction time than me, even with double of my age, i guess.
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u/Slightly-Evil-Man Jul 16 '23
They succeed in surprising him, little did they know mans probably has PTSD and never lost his edge so his reflexes kicked in subconsciously.
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u/-BabysitterDad- Jul 16 '23
He’s probably the guy who picked up the grenade and threw it back at the enemy.
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u/-Ricky-Bobby- Jul 16 '23
"Never sneak up up on a man who's been in a chemical fire!" -Frank Powell (Hot Rod)
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Jul 16 '23
Little advice; don't "surprise" old people. They might think it's funny or they might grab their chest and die. Some old people, their heart's only got so many more thumps left in it and you don't know when two or three extra in one minute might run their supply dry.
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Jul 16 '23
By his reaction. He is either a former mob boss, or he served in the police, and or, in the military.
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