r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Akaki111 • 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/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/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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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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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/hendralely Jan 26 '23
LOL at the last guy lifting the catapult(?) to throw 😂
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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/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/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/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/TheDevilsAdvokaat Jan 26 '23
This an example of Australian culture.
Hilarious, interesting, creative and entertaining.
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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/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
There's some guy out there selling advertised top tier cardboard at a premium!
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/SquashPristine9956 Jan 26 '23
I would just bring pallet wrap roll inside cylinder and knock every fucker out.
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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.
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u/hillbillyscarecrow Jan 26 '23
I fucking love living here why have we not heard of this beforem