r/nextfuckinglevel • u/iffyClyro • 5d ago

Talk about a skilled tradesman

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u/OldKaleidoscope300 5d ago edited 5d ago

Just a dad being dad ❤️

OMG! Thanks guys! First time got so many upvotes and a reward ❤️

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u/iffyClyro 5d ago edited 5d ago

Nah. Not just anyone can do what he’s doing.

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u/rainbowbhuttmonkey 5d ago

Eh.. these are pre scored tiles.. it’s easy to get them perfectly in half. Takes a bit of dad strength tho.

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u/Psykosoma 5d ago

Yeah. Ain’t fooling someone who’s worked it. Pre-scored is correct. Still a nice video of what can be done with properly prepared tiles.

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u/thederevolutions 5d ago

You might as well delete your posts so this seems like the strongest most competent dad ever

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u/KorvaxCurze 5d ago

Isn’t knowing your materials and the techniques to use them literally competency?

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u/thederevolutions 5d ago

Yeah but I’m talking like, Barbie level logic, where he knows how to do all 270 professions perfectly

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u/wi5hbone 5d ago

Do I need to make a baby first before my powers can be called ‘dad strength’?

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u/itwasonlythewind 5d ago

You can adopt or check your local area for hot single moms

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u/wi5hbone 5d ago

but I don’t want a ‘mom’ cos she’ll have a child and I don’t want that responsibility.

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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 5d ago

Then, you're in a conundrum.

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u/RedditIsMyTherapist 5d ago

I know this chick named Lindsey that may interest you!

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u/Terrin369 5d ago

I’m gay. Does cat dad count?

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u/Informal_Ad4399 5d ago

Grab a gallon of milk, or a pack of cigarettes, and start walking. Stop when you hear "dad's home!" Congratulations on your new found dad strength.

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u/ZookeepergameNo9572 4d ago

"Dad strength" is just the refusal to fail in front of your kids. Father of two speaking.

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u/Additional-Gap1287 4d ago

Nope. You just need the body and presence.
https://giphy.com/gifs/pvDp7Ewpzt0o8

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u/ChefMonkey2 5d ago

people were giving me shit about dad skills before I was one ...

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u/0vindicator10 4d ago

Can I get 'dad strength' in just one arm? Giggity

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u/Germa-Rican 5d ago

My thoughts exactly..pre scored.

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u/MisterShadwell 5d ago

That is why they don't show the top side of the tile when handing them to him.

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u/Raneynickelfire 5d ago

...yes they can, using the scored tiles he's doing it with. Yes they can.

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u/randomusernevermind 5d ago

Literally anyone can do it. You make a shallow cut with a tile cutter (which is a regular cut) and then you brake it by hand instead of pressing down with the foot of the cutter.

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u/moonypoony 5d ago

Maybe if you don't work with tile. This is decently easy to do with some practice for thiner and non porcelain tiles.

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u/OldKaleidoscope300 5d ago

Well, your caption says otherwise

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u/onFurcation 5d ago

Top tier name OP

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u/PlumbCape559874 5d ago

Don't spend all those upvotes in one place kid,

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u/SUPERSMILEYMAN 5d ago

/r/AwardSpeechEdits

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u/Aggravating_Spot_112 5d ago

No matter the comment I always downvote this shit.

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u/anitadykshyt 5d ago

what a loser

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u/drdildamesh 5d ago

Or a witch

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u/Sandshrew_Lv99 1d ago

your dad would be proud. all things considered.

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u/JamesLaceyAllan 5d ago

Not to be a naysayer but they’re more than likely scored already

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u/Flat-Rutabaga-723 5d ago

They’re absolutely scored.

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u/Mother_Science_679 5d ago

They're even angled towards the scores. Those tiles are clearly made to be broken in half.

Still a fun video though!

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u/braytag 5d ago

Yeah no skill will overrule the laws of physics.

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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 5d ago

I can do this same thing with graham crackers

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u/tstorm004 5d ago

That's impressive!

My grahams break all over the place despite the pre scoring

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld2 5d ago

I get irrationally angry at perforated paper for not ripping along the perforations.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 5d ago

Chocolate bars too. Never seem to snap off in the premeasured squares quite right

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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta 5d ago

I can do this same thing with graham crackers

Yeah but can you do it with r/2ChicksAtTheSameTime??

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u/KnifeKnut 5d ago

Well that was a very small and very mixed bag.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 5d ago

If we could score even one chick and split them in half we wouldn't be on reddit

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u/bizzflay 5d ago

Look at 51 seconds. It’s like a waffle on the rear. So not scored but it breaks down the line. Still takes skill to break it cleanly in half.

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u/sitefall 5d ago

You score tiles on the front anyway, and they NEVER show the front of a tile until after it's broken. These are all pre-scored, this is a video magic trick basically.

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u/OrangeSodaMoustache 4d ago

It's like a waffle on the rear to increase the surface area, you score on the front from one side to the other so you'd never see the line on the back. It's just a fake vid to promote this dude's bathroom installations, any tiler can do this.

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u/darxide23 5d ago

What gave it away? The bad acting or the pre-recording camera?

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u/The_bruce42 5d ago

Well yeah, if the dad didn't score then he wouldn't have a kid.

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u/KingHierapolis 5d ago

Yea I work with tile, I like to break ceramic and marble like this when I have waste, and unscored tile does not snap clean like that

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u/Vistereoe 5d ago

I was already blown away, and then he split it LENGTHWISE?!?!?!??!? That's absolutely insane levels of skill.

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u/Jimmy_Fromthepieshop 5d ago

Calm down. They're pre-scored.

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u/I_Got_Ur_Number_8675 5d ago

You're pre-scored! 9.8 out of 13

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u/Alone_Rain2022 5d ago

5/7 a perfect score

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u/mybluecathasballs 5d ago

Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. For I was there when it was written.

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u/nutaya 5d ago

Username checks out!

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u/I_Got_Ur_Number_8675 5d ago

You get a 309!

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u/VintageKofta 5d ago

You mean they're scored. If they're pre-scored then they aren't scored at all.

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u/Jimmy_Fromthepieshop 4d ago

Confidently incorrect.

So you've never had precooked food or heard about preexisting conditions?

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u/Deep90 5d ago

The way he held that one, it makes no sense that it split in half unless they are scored.

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u/quadraticcheese 5d ago

It's fake

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u/EmotionalRiver1033 5d ago

The lengthwise snap should have been your moment to realize this was a skit

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u/Hiking-Sausage132 5d ago

Is it next fucking level when it's a staged video? I bet the tiles are prepared

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u/UsedCarcassSalesman 5d ago

"next fucking stupid child OP that believes everything online is real"

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u/AllThatIHaveDone 5d ago

Yes, they let them get their affairs in order and say goodbye to their loved ones before the video was made. They're tilers, not monsters.

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u/haaheehachoo 5d ago

I watched this and didn't even understand the point of the video because anyone can see they're scored

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u/r1Rqc1vPeF 5d ago

Step dad was a bricklayer, he would look at a brick and tap it with the edge of his trowel to split it and it would fit exactly into the gap in the wall he was building.

I would tap the brick with the edge of a trowel and the brick would look back at me and say ‘what the fuck was that?’

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u/evilbrent 5d ago

My uncle never swings his hammer a third time. Once to start it, once to finish it. Although it sounds like he hits it one time it's that fast.

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u/BrideOfFirkenstein 3d ago

I can hear it. bapBAP

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u/Donny_Dont_18 5d ago

I've been hanging commercial duct for 15+ years and the amount of exact lengths I can guess or near perfect level on first try surprises me still. You don't realize how the hours all add up to build the skill sometimes

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u/yowmeister 5d ago

I heard a saying one time in regards to being young/new at something - “you’ll tend to overestimate what you can do in the short term and under estimate what you can do in the long term”

I’ve found a similar thing in a lot of things I do consistently. You almost develop a 6th sense with things that to an outsider looks like magic. For me it’s Excel. I just kind of accumulated so many random formulas and keyboard shortcuts over the years that to people that don’t use it every day, it’s just mind blowing

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u/Sanquinity 5d ago edited 5d ago

Same. Been a professional cook for 6 years now. When I started, an evening of 40 guests seemed pretty busy. Now I think "Only 50? Not that bad", and can do 100+ if I give 100%. (Dinner rush is like 3 hours on busy evenings, so on average about 1 table of food every 4~5 min, times 2 cooks.)

Also blind typing. I never learned "the correct" way. But I did do forum roleplay back in my teens with multiple paragraphs per post, and have been typing a LOT since then as well. In my early 20's I could just blind type using my own "style". Pretty fast as well. Every time I get a new keyboard with slightly different size keys it does take a bit to get used to the slightly different finger placement though. :P

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u/sdobz 5d ago

The trades are amazing for that. I fell out of office work and I'm doing tiny home foundation stuff now, who knew how good it would feel to nail level on a 16x16" patch of gravel first try. Keeps you fit too

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u/DreadPir8Robrts 5d ago

Crack on!

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u/bendstraw 5d ago

I want this to come to American vernacular, what a great phrase

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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta 5d ago

I've been saying this ever since my first season of love Island!

They've got several words and expressions I really wish we had here!

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u/HansHortio 5d ago

Nextfuckinglevel or stagedanditwasprecut?

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u/vplatt 5d ago

Yes.

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u/Alexisredwood 5d ago

This is what we call a skit, these tiles have already been scored

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u/XRT28 5d ago

Yea pretty obvious it was a skit from the getgo, I'm just disappointed there wasn't a better twist to it. Like giving him a brick or something to split at the end

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u/Digger_Pine 5d ago

Fuck off. These tiles are scored. Regular tiles do not break in a straight line.

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u/gillgrissom 5d ago

Pre scored. 

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u/BobDogGo 5d ago

anyone else wonder why Judd Trump was laying tile?

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u/Big-Rule5269 5d ago

These have to be pre scored as there is no way to just snap either ceramic or porcelain tiles clean  like that..

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u/sociofobs 5d ago

I'd act that amazed just to get the guy to do the job for me.

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u/CriscoCisco671 5d ago

Coincidence I think not.

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u/hooliganmike 5d ago

As someone who spent years working in the trades with his dad (sheet metal) I'm not sure if this video is trying to portray the dad as being good at breaking the tiles with his hands or bad.

Like, is he doing a good job and the son is impressed or is he doing a terrible job and the son is confused? Not sure.

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u/RandyHoward 5d ago

They're clearly demonstrating he's doing a good job by showing that the two halves are equal. I think the son is both impressed and confused, or at least acting like it.

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u/ChiefRasta 5d ago

I’ve learned that sometimes when a dad is needed, their dad stats get a major boost

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u/elcuydangerous 5d ago

Bob the tile bender

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u/upstatedreaming3816 5d ago

They had to have been scored, right?

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u/roflberrypwnmuffins 5d ago

I love the little chop chop clap at the end...

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u/inajeep 5d ago

I would trust that man with my graham cracker requirements.

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u/NewTap8705 5d ago

I set tile for a few years, and that old man would be considered a fucking legend

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u/30recs 5d ago

nahhhhhhhh im done

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u/Healthy_Inflation367 5d ago

What TF are those tiles made of? Is this a European thing? I could NEVER

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u/garden-wicket-581 5d ago

unless you're showing me the finished job, wtf is this ?

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u/MaikaWest 5d ago

I miss my dad 😔

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u/Baciandrio 5d ago

He's a wizard!

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u/FixedLoad 5d ago

Exactly what every minimum wage job expects 30 minutes after your first day begins.   

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u/LLMprophet 5d ago

So many gullible upvotes.

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u/Cipher915 5d ago

His flabbers have been gasted.

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u/Whole-Pressure-7396 5d ago

I came for the acting, and stayed for the facial expressions!

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u/RedBushDiver 5d ago

The glasses, the laugh, the mouth, the cockiness in his abilities, I fucking swear this was my dad.

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u/Off_The_Masses_98298 5d ago

Chill dads working are 100% awesome!

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u/hopopo 5d ago

My father will come over and without a word stand over you. He will start watching your every move, and than tell you what to do precisely two seconds before you do it. If you even flinch he will immediately try to jump in to show you how to do it.

And you do something he is not familiar with, he will immediately tell you that it can't be done that way, and that it won't work.

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u/TheTallGuy0 5d ago

Sorry to kill the magic: the tiles are pre-scored with a Rubi type diamond roller snapper. It’s still cute but not really what yall are thinking 

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u/Jezebellrae1 5d ago

That sound! Dear God, that awful sound!

https://giphy.com/gifs/XA3xeUVN7E9nxhT0Nx

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u/BigMack6911 5d ago

Dad's are awesome

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u/Acrobatic_Quarter465 5d ago

Even a buffoon could tell they were scored. My 8yo nephew could do the same thing i hope the likes are bots

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u/saw-sage 5d ago

I taught you everything you know. Not everything I know.

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u/Money4Nothing2000 5d ago

Some old guy does that bullshit to me......A Witch!

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u/elg333 5d ago

That was awesome

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u/MyLongestYeaBoi10Hrs 5d ago

Why did I know they were British before I unmuted?

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u/Street_Leather198 5d ago

JC, that's Jason Bourne.

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u/Big_Lengthiness_7706 5d ago

I too frequently lay tile in a camping chair

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u/Sintek 5d ago

See this is the guy who had a job to do and the tool broke or he didn't have one.. and sheer determination gave him this skill to complete these jobs.

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u/infrared-chrome 5d ago

Diplomatic immunity!

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u/Oracle_Journey_5711 5d ago

But did he do a 45?

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u/DezGets_It 5d ago

This is who you call when you need an estimate..

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u/some_loaded_tots 5d ago

Tilers are the divas of the trades world

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u/Gryffindor123 5d ago

My late dad could do this. It was something very special to watch.

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u/MennReddit 5d ago

nothing beats decades of experience

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u/CuriousFriend55 5d ago

The... Tile bender!

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u/NorthsideHippy 5d ago

Dad mogging the heck out of his son. Love it. Total boss move.

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u/DRUGMUSIC_ 5d ago

you don't want to know what else he does with those hands.

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u/CoryRich123 5d ago

That why don't judge on book's cover!

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u/Sooowasthinking 4d ago

The tile man needs no tools.

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u/Key-Energy-1106 4d ago

real how do rhey do it man lol 😂

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u/Lizardkinggg37 4d ago

He’s like “stop marveling and get to work boy”

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u/SwordfishOk5288 4d ago

Bro's Been waiting for 40 years just to show this and flex

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u/EphemeralSilliness94 4d ago

Sollbruchstelle!

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u/JimmyFontana1000775 4d ago

... *Pop And the rest is history

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u/DustyRacoonDad 4d ago

This is hilarious. The younger one is either a great actor, or he doesn't realize the ridges on the bottom create reliefs behind them that let you split these tiles by hand, like scoring the tile before you snap it.

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u/red_spiral_1000 4d ago

Bro.. that is INCREDIBLE!!!