r/nextfuckinglevel Jan 26 '23

Each year in an Australian park, hundreds of people bring their handmade cardboard creations to battle in a giant cardboard war known as "Box Wars.

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u/hillbillyscarecrow Jan 26 '23

I fucking love living here why have we not heard of this beforem

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u/h8speech Jan 26 '23

Yeah I’m an Aussie too and have never heard of this.

Just found this though

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u/SomeCuriousTraveler Jan 26 '23

You stole this comment from another dude in this thread

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u/mcfarrow Jan 26 '23

Hrm I think this guy is a robot. Get it!

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u/Doz1525 Jan 26 '23

Bad bot

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u/Threadheads Jan 26 '23

Yeah, why do we get a news puff piece on the Birdman Rally every year and this flies under the radar?

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u/steffle12 Jan 26 '23

You still have a birdman rally where you are?? The Canberra birdman rally was epic, but it got canned decades ago due to public liability insurance issues

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u/Threadheads Jan 26 '23

Yeah, it’s still running in Melbourne as part of the Moomba Festival

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u/Spiniferus Jan 26 '23

Ah such a classic. I miss the birdman rally.

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u/wattlewedo Jan 27 '23

Same in Adelaide. I thought only Red Bull could afford them niw..

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u/MikeyN0 Jan 26 '23

I actually went to one of these. Might've been about 12 or so years ago in Caulfield/Malvern area in Melbourne. Big park and certainly wasn't as crazy as this video but there was a lot of people and a few big tanks/chariots. People bash each other but it's pretty friendly and no one goes all out on strangers, only friends. I remember you would always pick up new weapons on the ground and use that for a bit before losing it and picking up another. Good times.

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u/Articulated_Lorry Jan 26 '23

One of those local things, like the Henley-on-Todd, or the Compass Cup?

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u/SSBeavo Jan 26 '23

Amazon: “See? They love working here.”

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u/WWDubz Jan 26 '23

It’s the first rule of Box War

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u/crypto_4754 Jan 26 '23

I have been summoned

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u/nevershaves Jan 26 '23

The cutest and deadliest foe of all, box kitty.

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u/Bocephus_Clegane Jan 26 '23

Boxing Day looks lit 🔥

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u/Winter-Pineapple1162 Jan 26 '23

Jeff Bezos evilness is living deep inside those cardboard fibers

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u/ColloquialGent Jan 26 '23

Night at the Museum: Amazon is looking lit

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u/Zoexycian Jan 26 '23

Toy Story if it was cardboards

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u/poopellar Jan 26 '23

Things can very tactical and your run of the mill strategies won't work. You have to think out of the box.

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u/Diferentdv Jan 26 '23

Seeing groups of people dedicated to something this absurd.

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u/STATEofMOJO Jan 26 '23

Holy shit this looks awesome...

I have two school-aged kids and they sometimes ask: "if there's that many giant spiders and things that can kill you in Australia, why do so many people keep living there instead if going somewhere more safe!?!"

From now on when it comes up I am going to reply "...probably because it looks fun as fuck" and show them this video 🤣

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

As an Aussie, you can tell your kids we get taught from a very young age which spiders and snakes are friendly or not. Basically, it's don't touch anything or look down burrows. :)

I find the idea of bears or moose very scary myself. I'm not scared of spiders or snakes at all.

I have a large huntsman named Henry that lives in my house. He's great and very nice.

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u/STATEofMOJO Jan 26 '23

Awesome - yeah I suppose a lot of it just comes down to familiarity at the end of the day...

Tell Henry I said what up 😀

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u/Parcivaal Jan 26 '23

Moose are chill as long as you stay away from the young, and it depends on the bear. Black ones are chill, brown ones can be dicks, if a white one see you then you’re fucked.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

I was under the mistaken assumption for years that moose were like horses and the only reason people didn't ride them were because they have antlers or something. It's amazing what's so normal everywhere else. Like squirrels are amazing to me because we don't have them here.

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u/egstitt Jan 26 '23

Squirrels are dicks, but also pretty amazing little ninjas. Moose are freaking gigantic, I learned pretty recently how big they actually are

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u/Fkimstupid Jan 26 '23

Sweden actually tried riding moose into the battlefield 17the century, not so successful.

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u/Intelligence-Check Jan 27 '23

You have a what

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u/C4RD_TP_SG Jan 26 '23

that guy with the bowser shell and sword was vibing on his own

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u/Global_Cold Jan 26 '23

A paper cut you.

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u/ElectroSquid Jan 26 '23

If its on every year, why does this look like it was filmed in 1997?

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u/Skarin_Dovahkiin Jan 26 '23

1997 is a year.

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u/hendralely Jan 26 '23

LOL at the last guy lifting the catapult(?) to throw 😂

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u/Spirited-Historian65 Jan 26 '23

Pretty sure it's a bi plane.

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u/Eccohawk Jan 26 '23

How can you tell the plane's sexuality from just one vid? Seems very judgy.

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u/Massive-Corgi-491 Jan 26 '23

World war 4 - Box wars

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u/ThatFrenchGamer Jan 26 '23

Ok, time to move to Australia

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u/Danclim Jan 26 '23

I live in Melbourne and have never heard of this. It probably did happen once or twice years ago...

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u/Expert-Aardvark7419 Jan 26 '23

They are still going, they do workshops every year, and also run some kid events.

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u/Danclim Jan 26 '23

It looks like Edinburgh Gardens

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u/Zurc_bot Jan 26 '23

Mad Max

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u/PM_ME_FUNFAX Jan 26 '23

Beat me to it

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u/GillesBier Jan 26 '23

Who the f came up with this idea ?

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u/Threadheads Jan 26 '23

I don’t know, but they should’ve been named Australian of the year.

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u/vantaswart Jan 26 '23

Apparently 2 drunken friends in Melbourne, 12+ years ago.

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u/scrambledeggsalad Jan 26 '23

I would totally participate in this. Need to make this go global.

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u/DestroyTheMoon420 Jan 26 '23

All wars should bow be box wars, this is the future this is the apex of humanity.

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u/Fit_Wolverine7706 Jan 26 '23

I am an Australian

Where the fuck does this happen? I dont fucking know.

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u/H809 Jan 26 '23

Minecraft players

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u/AJC_10_29 Jan 26 '23

Someone should edit Minecraft sounds into this

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u/Murder_matic Jan 26 '23

Where else can you fight a tank hand to hand?

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u/Aggravating-Paint100 Jan 28 '23

Well in war. It the amounts of TIMES you get away with it.

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u/LakersFan15 Jan 26 '23

Lol this is awesome.

There's a town in Spain where the villagers fight each other with tomatoes. Reminds me of that.

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u/MyLilPiglets Jan 26 '23

But less messy

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u/Its_coldinRussia Jan 26 '23

Are the pillow fights still a thing too??

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u/AbbreviationsNo4089 Jan 26 '23

Love seeing things like this. Seeing groups of people dedicated to something this absurd. Gives me hope we’re gonna make it.

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u/Coc0tte Jan 26 '23

So many cuts on these people.

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u/Laralas Jan 26 '23

This makes me so happy.

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u/MermyuZ Jan 26 '23

Holy smokes this is dope

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Jan 26 '23

This an example of Australian culture.

Hilarious, interesting, creative and entertaining.

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u/TransRational Jan 26 '23

How do they determine winners?

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u/Sumguy9966 Jan 26 '23

BOX OF WAR BOXNAROK

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u/real_eos Jan 26 '23

r/trebuchet people incoming

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u/Unlucky-Leprechaun Jan 26 '23

I never knew I needed this.

I have found my calling

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u/OmBromThaOhMahGawd Jan 26 '23

Im from Georgia (US) and that looks fun asf

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u/Lumastrisk Jan 26 '23

Damn these Australian Covid camps are getting out of control!

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u/Akabete Jan 26 '23

All for the Almighty God Box

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u/1guywhosaysthe Jan 26 '23

This looks like great fun !

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u/Nottheburger Jan 26 '23

Idk how i find this cute

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u/Conciousfool Jan 26 '23

Ummm this is what I did with my entire childhood. I was born for this shit!!!!! 😍😤😤😄😄😄😃😃 would go to Australia to do this

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u/eurotreker Jan 26 '23

Paper cuts though, outside is dangerous.

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u/Super-Alternative621 Jan 26 '23

War has changed.

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u/brightyogi Jan 26 '23

when i hear the term box war my mind goes somewhere else

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u/lfkor Jan 26 '23

Happens in my local park most boxing days. Have been meaning to go one year.

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u/p1g1nablanket Jan 26 '23

I wish they'd remake the emu war 🙁

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u/copingcabana Jan 26 '23

Is it on boxing day?

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u/Jann0 Jan 26 '23

Revolt of the Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers!

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u/Lethalfurball Jan 26 '23

Led by cats

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u/LongjumpingCheck2638 Jan 26 '23

Looks like homeless wars here in US fighting for sidewalk space

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u/Technical_Yoghurt_16 Jan 26 '23

That one guy with a metal (cardboard colour-painted) sword.

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u/PotatoFondler Jan 26 '23

Everything in Australia wants to kill you. Even their boxes. This makes me so happy.

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u/Jtiago44 Jan 26 '23

And not a paper cut in the battle.

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u/Jtiago44 Jan 26 '23

There's some guy out there selling advertised top tier cardboard at a premium!

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u/JustPlat Jan 26 '23

I hope there's a rule against incendiary weapons...

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u/Caiden9552 Jan 26 '23

Imagine if the Battle of the Josh's evolved into something like this?

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u/Big-a-hole-2112 Jan 26 '23

This is the offspring of the criminally insane. The other aussies didn’t get the “crazy as fuck” gene.

Don’t be surprised when in another few decades you discover thunderdome is real.

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u/Frido1976 Jan 26 '23

I understand how Mad Max came to, if Australians are like this 😍❤️🤣 I also wanna try experience that!

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u/MilkofGuthix Jan 26 '23

The ultimate weapon in this situation

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u/fingernmuzzle Jan 26 '23

My kid did this in middle school- they all had to build a BOAT out of cardboard, whichever one went the farthest in the pool won.

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u/_klover Jan 26 '23

did this at a camp as a teenager. except there was a GIANT blue tarp in an empty field. the tarp was covered in dish soap and water. half my team on one side and half my team on the opposite side of the tarp. boxes on. vision gone. hearing activated. run across the slippery blue tarp towards your teammates voices. attempt to dodge the 15 other boxes running straight across the tarp to their teammates in every which direction. holy smokes good times

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u/hrjwhdbee Jan 26 '23

I want to go there with a functional trebuchet, so I can strike from a distance

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u/SayoraSC Jan 26 '23

This looks like a mosh pit with extra steps

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u/EmergencyWaste3217 Jan 26 '23

Are cardboard icbm's allowed?

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u/BoxcarBuckley Jan 26 '23

Simpsons did it!!

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u/UltraDistructo Jan 26 '23

Cardboard cuts are the worst

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u/The-Mysterious- Jan 26 '23

Its called "Box Worz" not "Box Wars"

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u/Rambo_Sr Jan 26 '23

Sir Bluffkin!

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u/AMonkeyAndALavaLamp Jan 26 '23

That'd be an awesome first episode of CSI: Melbourne :-D

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u/PapaChoff Jan 26 '23

Spend 3 weeks building a rad box car and some twit in the first 5 seconds jumps on it and crushed it.

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u/The-Ultimate-Banker Jan 26 '23

Ahhhh! Paper cuts hurt 😢

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u/Exarion300 Jan 26 '23

You want to next level all of em? Bring lemon juice and everyone will scatter lol

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u/tomistruth Jan 26 '23

The roblox generation grew up quickly...

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u/Big_Treacle_2394 Jan 26 '23

I saw a post on reddit earlier today about marines tricking an AI by hiding in a box. So, you could argue this is the next step and these guys are training for the battle when AI tries to destroy humanity

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u/2into4 Jan 26 '23

Paper cuts galore

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u/redbushcraft Jan 26 '23

So many papercuts

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u/phuzzy1deep Jan 26 '23

Paper cuts galore

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u/brownsbrave1026 Jan 26 '23

We have something similar in my hometown. It’s a boat race across the river and your boat can only be made of cardboard. (Disclosure: they have nets setup to catch all the sunken boats)

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u/PeridotWriter Jan 26 '23

This is proof that people never grow up and remain children at heart

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u/MissTinkering Jan 26 '23

This looks amazing until I remember that I have a serious fear of paper cuts

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u/AzimuthZenith Jan 26 '23

This is the dumbest thing that I had no idea I wanted to be a part of until right now.

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u/A_Toasted_Waffle Jan 26 '23

I remember a quote along the lines of “theres no winning, cause if you’re in the box wars, then you’ve already lost.”

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u/-Rens Jan 26 '23

Only reason to go to Australia

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u/whycantiusespace Jan 26 '23

That one try hard with a flame thrower

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u/Incolumis Jan 26 '23

Better watch out for papercuts!

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u/BobbyFreche Jan 26 '23

I would attach fireworks to mine, and light everyone on fire. Fucking noobs ruin everything

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u/Thewaitin4men Jan 26 '23

everything is fine until the pass royale guy comes with a purple reaper emitting smoke

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u/nancy_mikhaiel Jan 26 '23

I love this so much. Everyone looks so happy and crazy.

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u/Responsible_Job9633 Jan 26 '23

Haven't seen this on Bluey yet

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u/SquashPristine9956 Jan 26 '23

I would just bring pallet wrap roll inside cylinder and knock every fucker out.

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u/These-Assumption-299 Jan 26 '23

I have to say Australians have a distinct culture of their own.

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u/lalauna Jan 26 '23

The most beautifully Australian thing ever

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u/_Denzo Jan 26 '23

We have something like that but with miniature boats in a lake

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u/Some0ne1234 Jan 26 '23

How easy is it to move to Australia?

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u/Clydus1 Jan 26 '23

That's a lot of cardboard cuts

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u/sleepingfox307 Jan 26 '23

The papercuts... oh god the papercuts

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u/KDale202 Jan 26 '23

We used to do something similar in college. We built cardboard boats and tried get the across the pond

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u/MrK521 Jan 27 '23

The paper cuts… dear god, the paper cuts.

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u/qisjhdj Jan 27 '23

Its not absurd. Its a fun way to gather your comunity in an activity outside. Instead of sitting inside and throwing away these boxes, the people have found a way to use all that would've been trash and make something fun.

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u/Jumpy_Solid6706 Jan 27 '23

This is absolutely great! Someone bring this shit stateside! 😄

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u/Easy-Quail3204 Jan 27 '23

Definitely not a “rain or shine” type of event.

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u/WildJoker0069 Jan 27 '23

imagine all the cardboard cuts 🥴

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u/outsidepointofvi3w Jan 27 '23

This ☝🏽 Is my kind of recycling!

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u/Celemiri_ Jan 27 '23

We need an american version. Mostly bc it's hard asf to travel to Australia just for this, and I'm poor.

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u/billy13th99 Jan 27 '23

I’m thinking of that episode of the simpsons where they have a box fight

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u/NickFoster120 Jan 27 '23

I guess the inner 12 year old never left me because this looks like something I would definitely attend

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u/JRF-3- Jan 27 '23

Well I'll be there Next year don't worry

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u/stubstunner Jan 27 '23

Irl Minecraft

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u/DeviceU Jan 27 '23

That's looks like fun!

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u/RabJos Jan 28 '23

This is just one of the training camps held prior to the annual Australian drop bear cull.

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u/IsAndrewTho Jan 28 '23

This is fucking hilariously awesome!

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u/reptar239 Jan 28 '23

So can I bring my cardboard sword with fire runes to add to my DPS

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u/peovtech Jan 28 '23

Glorious! How does one partake in such a worthy endeavour?

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u/Economy_Business6859 Jan 29 '23

CARDBOARD AT-AT IS REQUIRED

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u/Iwillstealyou Jan 30 '23

This lives in my head rent free

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u/Ice_is_frozen_water Feb 03 '23

This reminds me of when I used to make shields out of hard cardboard and wood glue

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u/AncientParamedic2708 Feb 03 '23

Real life clash royale

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u/Thesplitter90 Jan 26 '23

I mean, I wanted to visit, but this sounds even better.

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u/Userreddit1234412 Jan 26 '23

So many guys still living in their moms basement.

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u/MeanMrMaxwell Jan 26 '23

I wish I was. Now I'm old and there's some kid living in mine. I hope he makes the best of it.