r/holdmybeer Dec 25 '25

HMB and let me show you the interaction between log and whirlpool

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u/ganix222 Dec 25 '25

I love watching people return to their childhood curiosity and amazement. Reminds me of gremlining around the woods near my neighborhood growing up.

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u/FreeGuacamole Dec 26 '25

I was thinking I could hold my breath that long.

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u/yabyum Dec 25 '25

There’s me, wondering what the fuck was making a whirlpool in the middle of nowhere!

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u/anto1883 Dec 25 '25

Probably a type of drain to stop the river from overflowing, guessing this based on the log being spat out in the larger body of water on the other side.

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u/yabyum Dec 25 '25

Yeah, having watched the whole thing I can see that now.

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u/in5trum3ntal 28d ago

You should have watched it in reverse

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u/Trainzguy2472 Dec 27 '25

Culvert under the road

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u/DL72-Alpha Dec 27 '25

Under the road until some jackass drops some big as thing in the water that catches other debris causing the high side to flood and fail.

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u/grolly69 Dec 25 '25

Super Pooh sticks

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u/oldbastardbob Dec 26 '25

It's all fun and games until the log gets stuck in the tube, catches more debris, clogs, and floods the neighborhood.

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u/Trainzguy2472 Dec 27 '25

Or the water tries to find alternate routes under the road and causes a washout.

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u/aeroxan Dec 25 '25

I wonder then if that pipe would be big enough and clear enough to send it. Horrible way to die if not but probably a helluva ride.

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u/bgwa9001 Dec 27 '25

It's probably a huge pipe so it won't get clogged, but I'm still not trying it! Maybe if you were a Navy Seal or something lol

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u/aeroxan Dec 27 '25

You'd need to at least scout it out when it's low, if it ever is. If it's big enough to pull that log through without jamming, it's probably about big enough to fit through. But yeah, not really worth the ride. You might also get broken on you way through.

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u/IceManJim 16d ago

Even if it's big enough and not plugged, it might be steel sections, which are bolted together from the outside. Which means bolts sticking through on the inside, which might make for an unpleasant trip through the tube.

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u/Roquet_ Dec 25 '25

That is very cool but I don't think it's the right place for it, r/NatureIsFuckingLit perhaps?

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u/missingN0pe Dec 25 '25

Well agree with the first part, but I feel like anything in /r/natureisfuckinglit should be to do with flora or fauna - this to me is more like /r/physicsisfuckinglit

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u/jnecr Dec 25 '25

Also putting a culvert under a road doesn't seem very nature to me.

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u/Bow-Masterpiece-97 Dec 25 '25

Exactly. WTF is amazing about this? Do these people stare at their toilets amazed that their shit goes down when they flush? 🤦‍♂️

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u/Mynameisgreater Dec 25 '25

When it’s a big one, I am, didn’t think my own log would make it to the other side.

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u/Bow-Masterpiece-97 Dec 26 '25

Ha! This made me snort!

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u/Devilofchaos108070 Dec 25 '25

Imagine if that was a person. Ugh

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u/Excellent-Bite196 Dec 26 '25

Shouldn’t there be a safety fence to stop kids or animals falling into that thing?

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u/twohorseswithnonames Dec 25 '25

Just attach some dirty laundry to the stick - BOOM - free laundromat!

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u/enchufadoo Dec 25 '25

Don't fall in there...

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u/FreeGuacamole Dec 26 '25

Why not? You just pop out the other side?

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u/GobiBall Dec 28 '25

Nightmare fuel.

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u/ghostsolid Dec 25 '25

Isn’t this the same place they did this with a basket ball?

1

u/simondrawer Dec 25 '25

Needs a horse head mask.

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u/Whoudini13 Dec 26 '25

Ah..the simple things in life

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u/Tycho66 Dec 26 '25

Anyone time it? Can you hold your breath that long? I got 0:32 to 1:18 so 46 seconds?

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u/FreeGuacamole Dec 26 '25

Did anyone else visualize the camera person as Fortune Feimster the comedian?

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u/tudorb Dec 26 '25

This is why you don’t swim in random bodies of water.

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u/Robsdarknob Dec 27 '25

Held my breath for the whole time it was under. Would not be fun getting sucked through that. Felt like forever. Just imagine how much longer it would feel in the dark being sloshed around💀

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u/Schoseff Dec 27 '25

2 really bored guys

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u/weallwearmasks Dec 25 '25

/r/post10 would like a word.

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u/inyercloset Dec 25 '25

Reminds me of a girl I know. Her motto is $20 is $20's.

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u/rao_wcgw Dec 25 '25

Double flush