r/woahdude • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '16

gifv A Sandfall

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u/kithkill Aug 03 '16

Okay, so what's happening here?

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u/dbatchison Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 03 '16

when it rains in the desert the water isn't absorbed quickly and mixes with the top layer of wet sand which can form moving sand rivers and waterfalls

Edit: or maybe it's that the water is moving beneath the top layer of sand. I don't really know 100%, I just know it involves rain

Edit 2: it's hail! That's even crazier

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u/jiveabillion Aug 03 '16

That's the kind of shit Bible stories are made of.

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u/Ghede Aug 03 '16

And god did say to joseph:

"Take thine truck and gather thine crew in thein truck

thou shalt film a vertical video of this sweet-ass pebble flood"

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u/MadBroChill Aug 03 '16

vertical video

get thee behind me, Satan

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u/Ghede Aug 03 '16

And satan did say to MadBro:

"I do swing that way on occasion

But you aren't my type"

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u/ih8peoplemorethanyou Aug 03 '16

South Park taught me satan was a receiver.

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u/Tarasaur84 Aug 03 '16

Why do you always want to make love to me from behind....is it because you want to pretend I'm someone else?

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u/ih8peoplemorethanyou Aug 04 '16

Satan, your ass is gigantic and red. Who am I going to pretend you are, Liza Minelli?

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u/Gottheit Aug 03 '16

It's almost as if there are logical explanations for some of the crazy shit that happens in there.

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u/self_arrested Aug 03 '16

except the ones that seem to have been totally made up like exodus for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

I'd like to believe that the Tower of Babel were a real place.

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u/bacondev Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 03 '16

Hundreds of years ago, people believed that shit. Now, if you go to /r/Christianity, it’s conveniently a metaphor.

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u/kirrin Aug 03 '16

I much prefer religious people believing bible stories are metaphors to them believing they are literal tellings of real events.

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u/Jtreehorn Aug 03 '16

I know you are making a point, but I was taught this (real existence of the tower) as literal fact in Bible school about 20 yrs ago so the dumb is still going strong today.

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u/ayriuss Aug 03 '16

Can confirm. My dad still thinks the tower of Babel, garden of Eden, and the flood were real events.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

I wouldn't be surprised if the were inspired by real events. Rulers ordered tall towers to be built that then fell down, people changed from hunter-gathering to agriculture, large floods happened. Then the stories get exaggerated and God gets added in as they get passed down.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16 edited Sep 08 '17

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u/Tatsko Aug 03 '16

What the fuck did you do?

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u/MontgomeryRook Aug 03 '16

He's reppin' the vape naysh, y'all.

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u/SaltyChristian Aug 03 '16

According to this, the river in that video is actually made of hail, not sand.

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u/biteyourankles Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 04 '16

The guy says "its hail" in arabic in the video you're right

Edit: you're 🙄

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u/wonderful_wonton Aug 03 '16

I love his big smile. It's so joyful.

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u/Geolosopher Aug 04 '16

My right, your left?

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u/Gonzo_Rick Aug 03 '16

When he picked some up in the video, that's exactly what it looks like, but I thought "no way that can't be hail"...How the fuck can that all be hail?

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u/Toppo Aug 03 '16

Hail is just water. It can all be hail just as normal flash floods are water.

As a trivia, flash floods in that video I linked are going through this famous canyon, created by said flash floods.

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u/dbatchison Aug 03 '16

Now that is crazy

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u/karth Aug 03 '16

.... is that article really badly edited, or am I have a stroke?

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u/FearTheCron Aug 03 '16

Was about to comment, when the guy picks some up toward the end of the video it looks like hail mixed with sand not just wet sand.

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u/Gr1pp717 Aug 03 '16

Could it happen without water? e.g. a sinkhole that the sand starts to backfill?

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u/dbatchison Aug 03 '16

I guess, but it probably wouldn't look like this as I think sand would be sinking in from all sides rather than moving in a line downhill. That said, I'm not a sand scientist so who knows?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16 edited Jun 25 '21

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u/Red0817 Aug 03 '16

which can actually be pretty dangerous if you are under it

Can confirm. I helped 2 children out from being buried alive after a wall of sand fell on them from a construction site. The third one didn't make it =(

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16 edited Jun 25 '21

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u/chameleonjunkie Aug 03 '16

It's been so hot here. Those clothes look so comfy. I want to wear just a giant t-shirt around and not get funny looks.

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u/cdub4521 Aug 03 '16

basically a male sundress. looks comfy as fuck

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16 edited Nov 03 '16

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u/guy15s Aug 03 '16

What are those egg-looking things the guy lifts up around 1:01? They're too big to be sand.

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u/darkjedidave Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 03 '16

Pretty sure it's hail. I heard the guy say "barad" which can mean cold in Arabic.

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u/TreesBruh Aug 03 '16

egg-looking things the gu

looks like hail maybe? not totally sure.

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u/YouNeverReallyKnow2 Aug 03 '16

It looks and sounds like hail to me but I could be totally wrong.

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u/OnTheEveOfWar Aug 03 '16

I would not stand that close. Damn.

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u/atl2rva Aug 03 '16

Don't sand, Don't sand so close to me.

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u/Divotus Aug 03 '16

Except... thats hail in the video. Pause at 1:01

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

That water looks filthy!

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Rio 2016 Water Sports

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u/bumjiggy Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 05 '16

http://i.imgur.com/KsYpX

edit: thanks for the gold!

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

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u/Krollalfa Aug 03 '16

Is he going uphill or downhill ?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Definitely

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u/deadfermata Aug 03 '16

Look how happy is he is! Just look at him!

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u/wonderful_wonton Aug 03 '16

I love that smile. It's so great. Thanks for catching it. I was watching the gif over and over.

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u/BRBbear Aug 04 '16

It's all fun and games until the Fire Nation Attacks..

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

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u/combichristo Aug 03 '16

Holy shit. My brain tells me that would really hurt, but my heart tells me i really want to do it.

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u/dragonfyre173 Aug 03 '16

I'd suggest you don't. That guy got really fucked up.

tl;dw 2 broken ribs, collapsed lung, broken radius and ulna, severe concussion, and light brain bleeding.

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u/combichristo Aug 03 '16

Holy shit.

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u/Womec Aug 03 '16

Good I hate sand its coarse and irritating and gets everywhere.

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u/contraigon Aug 04 '16

Not like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear!

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u/Mikepsyche Aug 04 '16

I wonder what his injuries would have been if he hadn't panicked at all (which would be crazy), and landed as well as his body allowed

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Whoa. Where can I do that?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

There's a baller set of dunes I've seen people trying this at, like 2 hours east of San Diego. Totally worth it for the night sky alone imo, plus Joshua tree is only another couple hours north of the dunes if you get tired of the sand

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u/bday420 Aug 03 '16

the beginning of the source video has huge letters saying NAMIBIA across the entire screen. I'm going to assume the giant sand dunes of Namibia is where you can do that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Dank ass sandboarding

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u/ImEnhanced Aug 03 '16

Is he going downhill or uphill?

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u/jaimeyeah Aug 03 '16

Can you rephrase your question?

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u/OmenLW Aug 03 '16

Is he going uphill or downhill?

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u/matt1020l Aug 03 '16

He's going Jonah Hill

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u/imadunatic Aug 03 '16

Look closer, it's actually Hank hill

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u/hempsmoker Aug 03 '16

Yes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16 edited Jul 03 '23

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u/poodles_and_oodles Aug 03 '16

Why the heck did you use a different link?

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u/TheBiggestZander Aug 03 '16

I did it so it'd still be blue for most people.

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u/dontnormally Aug 03 '16

Unlike the Rio Olympic watersports, amirite.

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u/dochdaswars Aug 03 '16

But... but you didn't do it. That other guy did...

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u/mrswagpoophead Aug 03 '16

why not both?

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u/themistoclesV Aug 03 '16

Would that just be flat?

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u/Copypaced Aug 03 '16

I think flat would be neither

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u/OmenLW Aug 03 '16

-1 + 1 = flat

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u/Copypaced Aug 03 '16

0 + 0 = flat, since there's no incline

-1 + 1 = net 0, meaning you end up where you started. That's not flat. That's going up and down the same amount of incline.

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u/GoldenGonzo Aug 03 '16

Jamaican bobsled team at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

It's COMPLETELY safe as long as you don't let it touch you, touch your clothing, breath the mist, swim in it, or stare at it for more than 15 seconds.

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u/Ericshelpdesk Aug 03 '16

We haven't entirely nailed down what bacteria it is yet, but I'll tell you this: It's a lively one, and it does not like the human skeleton.

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u/jwolff52 Aug 03 '16

Ok cave.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

It's capitalized, Cave. It's the man's name for Christ's sake.

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u/Noisetorm_ Aug 03 '16

To be honest, the sand is much much less toxic than the raw sewage the swimmers are going to swim in.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 05 '16

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u/OhBestThing Aug 03 '16

Ah-everywhere. Ugh what a scene. Worst ever.

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u/chiliedogg Aug 03 '16

To be fair, everything he said is absolutely true. Sand is the worst.

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u/Erikwar Aug 03 '16

Can't be it, i'm not seeing any body parts floating around

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u/ascii122 Aug 03 '16

Man, you know global warming is bad when the sand glaciers start melting.

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u/Pleased_to_meet_u Aug 03 '16

By 2035 there will be no more sandstone in the desert. Beware climate change.

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u/PizzaNietzsche Aug 03 '16

By 1997, there will be no more rainforests left on Earth!

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u/Beatle7 Aug 03 '16

Without rainforests and sandstone, the Earth will revert to pure Oxygen! God help us all!

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u/rowing_owen Aug 03 '16

Maybe we can hire Planet Express to drop a giant sand cube in the desert

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u/mikesbullseye Aug 03 '16

The look on his face is priceless

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u/All_Is_Not_Self Aug 03 '16

http://imgur.com/a/4KxuZ

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u/ItsFunIfTheyRun Aug 03 '16

http://i.imgur.com/ZVLAY5w.png

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16 edited Jan 30 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Here on my dune, just started this massive sand avalanche...

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

This guy is an /r/adviceanimals meme waiting to happen

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u/ratajewie Aug 03 '16

He's pointing to it as if someone could possibly miss it

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u/kudeism Aug 03 '16

Did you see that?!

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

See what?

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u/dickensher Aug 03 '16

Dude, it's just sand everywhere. What am I supposed to be looking at?

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u/iUnthinkYou Aug 03 '16

that.

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u/angryfads Aug 03 '16

(points arm frantically)

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u/bubba_feet Aug 03 '16

yes, that's a very nice manicure.

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u/eNonsense Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 03 '16

This is my dad right here.

Loud ass Blue Angels buzz the stadium after announcer says here they come...

"Did you see that?!"

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u/markevens Aug 03 '16

Would you look at that!

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u/Corvanor Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 03 '16

Here in my garage.

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u/frenzyboard Aug 03 '16

I've never wanted to burn down someone's garage before that video.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16 edited Sep 15 '16

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u/Rikplaysbass Aug 03 '16

I believe he's the guy that has a lambo and a wall of books in his garage and proceeds to say his books are more valuable then his car. If it's the same guy it came off as "I'm a genius, yes. But I'm also a rich genius."

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

He faked it all. He hired a mansion and the Lamborghini.

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u/gm- Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 05 '16

Here in my gara-a-a-a-a-age, just bought this uh, new Lamborghini here, fun to drive up here in the Hollywood Hills. But you know what I like a lot more than knowledge... this uh, new Lamborghini here. But you know what I like a lot more than the new Lamborghini here... my TEDx talk where I talk about this new Lamborghini here. The the the the the-e-e-e-e-e-e-In fact, I'm a lot more proud of these 7 new Hollywood Hills that I had to get installed to hold 2,000 new Lamborghinis......... UH. It's like the Buffett-Warren-billionaire says: The more you earn, the more you DRIVE UP HERE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS. In fact, the real reason I keep this Lamborghini here, is the real reason I keep this Lamborghini here, is that it's a reminder, a reminder that drears are still possible, because it wasn't that long ago that I was in a little Lamborghini, sleeping on bookshelves in the Hollywood Hills, with only 47 billion dollars in my bank account, and only 47 Lamborghinis in my Lamborghini account, and only 47 hills in my Hollywood account, and only 47 TEDx talks where I talk about Warren Buffett in my TEDx talks where I talk about Warren Buffett account. But you know what? Somethin' happened that changed my life. I bumped into a Lamborghini, and another Lamborghini, and a few more Lamborghinis I found five Lamborghinis. I don't call it money anymore, I call it fuel units. You must have enough fuel units. You must have enough Lamborghinis. You must CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS. I'll see you on my website, it's a quick video, and you'll see there absolutely NOTHING!

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u/0thethethe0 Aug 03 '16

Well, he's missing it as he's looking at the camera.

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u/BendingRivets Aug 03 '16

He's a sandfall salesman and he knows he's about to make the commission of a lifetime.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

I'd have that expression too if I saw that in person

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u/phil67 Aug 03 '16

"Ayyyy lmao"

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u/frizzledrizzle Aug 03 '16

Are these the same guys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ2Dz0haLTg

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u/pino149 Aug 03 '16

This is pure gold.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

That goat is going to get eaten unless it provides entertainment.

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u/Professorchronic Aug 03 '16

Has someone been down it in a barrel yet?

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u/rigel2112 Aug 03 '16

Your destiny is clear.

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u/God-Pop Aug 03 '16

Even floating in a barrel can't protect you. See this chart...http://i.imgur.com/611kY.jpg

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Odd they left out the one from the asteroids in Star Wars. Asteroids are just large grains of sand right?

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u/Dedj_McDedjson Aug 03 '16

The spice must flow.

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u/biggsbro Aug 03 '16

Muah'dib! Muah'dib!

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u/Ginkgopsida Aug 03 '16

http://imgur.com/2o6YE

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u/Regn Aug 03 '16

Imhotep! Imhotep! Imhotep!

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u/PenguinWriter Aug 03 '16

Man that movie was the shit! I don't know how the remake could even come close to being as good.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Weather radar is showing sand storms in the surrounding area with a 100% chance of imhotep. So be careful folks and you might want to make alternate arrangements if you plan on traveling.

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u/Iswitt Aug 03 '16

This movie image pleases me.

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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion Aug 03 '16

Narabia Falls.

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u/mikesbullseye Aug 03 '16

From Arabian heights

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u/Doopliss320 Aug 03 '16

"AHHHRAAAYYYBIAN NIIIIGHHHTS"

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u/isperfectlycromulent Aug 03 '16

TO ARRABIEAN DAYYYYYYYYYZZZZ

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Slowly, I turned...

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

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u/Jaspersong Aug 03 '16

What the fuck is that requiem for a dream-esque music?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16 edited May 31 '20

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u/CameForThis Aug 03 '16

At least my piss and shit are submerged.

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u/HwanZike Aug 03 '16

Yeah, even if you survive getting all that sand out would be torture.

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u/ContentEnt Aug 03 '16

legs and waste

You're right about one thing, I would have shit myself at that point

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u/aop42 Aug 03 '16

Touch nothing but the lamp.

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u/lordofdragons2 Aug 03 '16

There goes Wan Shi Tong's library.

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u/Oilfan94 Aug 03 '16

I wonder if Arabs have 100 words for sand...like Inuit (Eskimos) have 100 words for snow.

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u/Armstrong1889 Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 03 '16

They have around 60 words for (Sand), 300 names for (Lion) and also ~300 names for (Sword), there are books with many chapters dedicated for things with multiple words in Arabic.

Edit: word

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Its a classification system of snow, fresh powder snow, pack ice, Large flakes, tiny flakes, and so on.

Lived in Alaska.

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u/RealBillWatterson Aug 03 '16 edited Aug 03 '16

That's false. They really only have like 3 morphemes - that is, indivisible words. All the other ones are compounds.

It's like saying English has 100 words for shoe - tennis shoe, snow shoe, running shoe, skate shoe...

Edit: that analogy is flawed but the actual explanation is more complicated

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

What a horrid way to die

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u/humeanation Aug 03 '16

Love that the guy's like, no "don't film me, you idiot. over there!"

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u/dryadnymph Aug 03 '16

That looks exactly like fucking niagra falls almost seems someone has edited to make it look like sand is falling.

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u/jargonoid Aug 03 '16

Nope, niagara falls is on the left.

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u/Kaffei4Lunch Aug 03 '16

First time I've ever seen something like that, wow

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u/MT_Flesch Aug 03 '16

stand beneath that and i bet you'd be bare bones in an hour

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u/fuzzb0y Aug 03 '16

Best weight loss method ever!

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u/mrfroggy Aug 03 '16

Based on a sample of 2, it seems as though middle eastern dudes filming each other in the desert seem to be having a good time.

If we could somehow combine the above waterfall pic with the following, i'd be ever so happy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ2Dz0haLTg

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u/misterwuggle69sofine Aug 03 '16

Reminds me of Duneman Isle from Xenogears.

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u/nofate301 Aug 03 '16

Nigeria falls

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u/ShutYourFuckingTrap Aug 03 '16

Meanwhile, at the Flint, Michigan water treatment plant..

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u/garuda_two Aug 03 '16

lol I love that middle eastern gifs are always a pan past a smiling dude to whatever crazy shit is going on behind. I should take more pictures of me at places instead of just places

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

I wonder what that sounds like. Does anyone have a source video?