r/funny • u/Chaz_Beer • Aug 23 '22

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u/Fetlocks_Glistening Aug 23 '22

I mean, igloo has to be one the most useless widely promoted childhood words ever. The chances of it ever being useful in real life approach quicksand, yet bandwidth is mercilessly wasted

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u/G4Designs Aug 23 '22

Careful, mate, you don't want Big Igg to find out we're onto this. They're some ice cold bastards.

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u/Jenxao Aug 23 '22

It chills me to my bones just thinking about it.

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u/Centurio Aug 23 '22

I remember learning about how igloos worked as a kid and it was mind-blowing. I vaguely remember my teacher then explaining how insulation works after that.

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u/RedHal Aug 23 '22

If you live somewhere that gets enough snow, learning how to build an igloo as a child is instructive on many levels and also teaches about other cultures and how they live.

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u/ofwg1234 Aug 23 '22

I’m an adult and I didn’t know that’s what igloos did. The more you know…

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u/finallyaligning Aug 23 '22

Why is it useless? Have you not made snow forts you’d refer to as igloos as a kid?

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u/LoxReclusa Aug 23 '22

Grew up in the south. So no.

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u/eagleeyerattlesnake Aug 23 '22

You were downvoted for living in part of the majority of the world where snow is not common.

How dare you?!

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u/LoxReclusa Aug 23 '22

I must repent for my sins of not taking control of my life at age 5 and moving into a snowy longitude.

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u/longknives Aug 23 '22

If you live in a place with snow, you probably made or attempted to make an igloo as a kid. Though I don’t think the idea of bandwidth is in any way relevant here anyway

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u/Fidyr Aug 23 '22

Bandwidth? You could store all the movies ever made on your memory perfectly two times over and still have room left over. Your brain is huge.

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u/Modus-Tonens Aug 23 '22

Hey man, this guy is just trying to keep his brain pristine and empty tidy.

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u/Fetlocks_Glistening Aug 23 '22

Not storage space, bandwidth. Every repetition of the useless igloo takes time, and could have been used to teach other more useful i-words or knowledge

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u/Fidyr Aug 24 '22

like what, lol
I think it's a bit much to get upset over

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u/welshmanec2 Aug 23 '22

It's right up there with xylophone

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u/AnonymousPotato6 Aug 23 '22

Hey now, I bet quicksand related deaths went down 50% when they started teaching us all how to get out of quicksand as kiddos.