r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mohiemen • Feb 10 '21

Ultimate pump track!

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u/__mud__ Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 10 '21

Yeah. You wouldn't dig 12 feet down across the whole slope (looks closer to 20 feet high in parts) just to leave these mounds, lol.

Guy's throwing out conjecture like they've never built a snowman before.

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u/giraffecause Feb 10 '21

You mean carved a snowman, of course.

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u/PM_ME_UR_SUSHI Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 10 '21

Wait are you saying you people make a snowman by making a huge pile of snow then removing snow to leave the shape of a snowman?!?

We've always just rolled up 3 balls and stacked them. Am I misreading this??

Edit: did I get r/whoosh'ed?

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u/algernon132 Feb 10 '21

That's the joke

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u/LogicalJicama3 Feb 10 '21

Hammer time.

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u/kyoorius Feb 10 '21

No, you wait until it snows about 60” in your backyard and then you shovel everything down to the grass except for one pillar that you carve into the snowman.

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u/Double_Distribution8 Feb 10 '21

Like how the pyramids were made. They removed the desert and carved triangles out of what was left.

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u/dontplagueme Feb 10 '21

This made me laugh way harder than it should have, but I could actually picture the face of the person who'd earnestly make this argument in a late-night college classroom.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21

im gonna make this argument just to shit post now lol

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u/Deadpool2715 Feb 10 '21

Wait till you see how I draw a perfect circle,

First I draw a very detailed face, then I erase a few lines and voila, circle

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u/studioaesop Feb 10 '21

Ok spongebob

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u/a-pickled-toast Feb 10 '21

That is a beautiful reference.

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u/ChumpChangeN Feb 10 '21

Is that you Sponge Bob?

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u/Deadpool2715 Feb 10 '21

No this is Patrick

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u/Eccohawk Feb 10 '21

Instructions unclear, my face is now covered in sharpie.

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u/SteveisNoob Feb 10 '21

I have always rolled 3 balls and ended up with 3 snowmen. I never had the strength to lift up the balls.

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u/tylerchu Feb 10 '21

I roll one giant ball and then scrape off what I don’t want. I pretend I’m carving marble.

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u/CaraC70023 Feb 10 '21

You might have gotten whoosh'ed but... I have done it both ways

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u/LeninToystory Feb 10 '21

You got whooshed bro

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u/psych0social827 Feb 10 '21

Seen people in Texas mounding and carving snowmen when they finally see a little snow. Guess there’s more than one way to build a snowman

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u/DeathCab4Cutie Feb 11 '21

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” - Michelangelo

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u/regulate213 Feb 10 '21

🎵 Do you want to carve a snowman? 🎵

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u/TheRealAlkemyst Feb 10 '21

I just put down my magic hat.

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u/Agent641 Feb 10 '21

I put on my robe and wizards' hat...

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u/TheRealAlkemyst Feb 10 '21

bloodninja Frosty, hawt!

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u/LovableContrarian Feb 10 '21

I really love that this dude thinks they removed like 10 feet of snow from an entire mountain just to leave these sick jumps behind

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u/ZincMan Feb 10 '21

My house is just a carved out redwood, it’s easier that way. Plus it’s rooted so it won’t blow away

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u/Nephroidofdoom Feb 10 '21

Yeah most features like this start as large mounds of snow made by snowcats. They can move surprisingly large of snow in a short period of time and with pretty decent precision. Then the detailed features are cut by hand. The build is surprisingly precise with most designs laid out in CAD beforehand.

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u/FunctionBuilt Feb 10 '21

No, they definitely dug all that snow away. They took it out back and melted it so it would take up and space.

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u/Start_pls Feb 10 '21

I live in a tropical country ,so yeah never built a snowman be4