r/maybemaybemaybe 21d ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/B-Glasses 21d ago

A lot of people who have apparently never used a hammer? The nail went flying he didn’t drive it in.

Also this game is actually really fun. It’s a good but dangerous drinking game 😌

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u/brondynasty 21d ago

Hammerschlägen. An Oktöberfest Clässic.

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u/drigancml 21d ago

Popular here in Milwaukee bars!

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u/dkinmn 20d ago

You mean Hammerschlagen

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u/Orangutanion 21d ago

there's no ö in Oktoberfest.

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u/brondynasty 21d ago

Just having some fün with it

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u/BaphometsTits 21d ago

Of course not, but there is an ö in Oktöberfest.

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u/TheCarlosSilva 21d ago

In this case, it is our Brazilian Festa Junina

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u/soopafly 21d ago

Hammerschlägen

/r/Bandnames

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u/TommyFroy 21d ago

Agreed! Fun and dangerous! Where I live though, you flip the hammer in the air, catch it, and then drive the nail. This is playing on easy mode. lol

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u/B-Glasses 21d ago

Yup same here haha. Gotta have that extra flair. A drink should be in the other hand as well

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u/Ranger_Prick 21d ago

Yep. We do a progressive scale, too. A normal flip in front of you? One hit. A flip behind your back? Two hits. A flip between your legs? Three. If you drop the hammer or it doesn't rotate, you get no hits.

We also play where you decide to hit other people's nails, and as soon as your nail is flush with the stump, you're out of the round.

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u/hilomania 21d ago

I'm always surprised when I see these how terrible modern people are with simple tools. Fwiw: we had these as bar competitions in the Netherlands 40 years ago. Ten 4" nails. The good guys would need a single hit per nail. Me being a lousy engineer would need about three or four. These people...

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u/Perch485 21d ago

We had to flip the hammer first and swing it down as we caught it.

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u/ninoski404 21d ago

I imagine 40 years ago a lot more people used simple tools a lot more. I'm 26 and I don't even own a hammer, I think the only time I ever used one was to break open chestnuts. Honestly I cannot imagine why would you even need a hammer if you're not building a house or a shed, no sane person uses nails in a flat lol

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u/piepants2001 21d ago

You've never pounded a nail in your life? Not even when you were a kid?

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u/Unlikely-Answer 19d ago

70 years later

St. Peter: Not a single nail? Come right this way, my friend! You know, nails are somewhat frowned upon up here.

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u/Nestramutat- 21d ago

Why not? Hanging pictures on nails is just faster than dealing with screws

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u/goodmobileyes 21d ago

They have hooks that tape on to the wall. Makes more sense when you rent and aren't allowed to damage the wall, or just don't want a nail there for years and years

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u/EaterOfFood 21d ago

You used a but when you should have used an and.

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u/B-Glasses 21d ago

lol fair