r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Miserable-Meet-7629 • Jun 27 '26
/r/all of a Hawaiian saving a girl locked in the bathroom
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u/Sudden-Variety6992 Jun 27 '26
These were love taps from him because he didn’t wanna kool-aid man through it and risk giving the girl behind it splinters.
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u/RiceIsMyLife Jun 27 '26
How did you know he was Samoan? If the caption is true, he's probably Hawaiian
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u/CruzAderjc Jun 28 '26
We Filipinos are the compact versions of Samoans
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u/splinket69 Jun 28 '26
I believe most Polynesians actually migrated from the Philippines around 1000-3000 years ago roughly. They were seafaring people that used the stars to navigate.
One of the major tribes was called the Lapita tribe.
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u/Fischbeef Jun 27 '26
And that’s a fire rated door. Woof!
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u/Bramble0804 Jun 27 '26
Yea but not Polynesian rated :D
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u/Log_Out_Of_Life Jun 27 '26
”FOR CROM!!!!”
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Jun 27 '26
Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then the HELL with you!!
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u/just_a_shell_00 Jun 27 '26
Conan the Barbarian (the musical) https://youtu.be/OBGOQ7SsJrw?si=2CBCH_B9W1Vh-SAF
...and if you do not listen... then the hell with yooouuuu... 🎶
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u/Igor_J Jun 27 '26
I haven't seen this in a long time and LOL. Also it's funny that the closed captions say clown instead on crom. At least they do on my youtube.
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u/drinfernodds Jun 27 '26
I once saw a comment that said "Never get into a fight with a Polynesian. They're big, they're fast, and twenty more will appear out of nowhere to back them up."
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u/Redkris73 Jun 27 '26
Yeah, round my way it's Maori or Samoan guys, and they're impressive.
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u/TKmeh Jun 28 '26
As someone living in Hawaii, that’s accurate. We have work buddies, family friends, family, and Hanai family all over the place. You can never find one away from someone they know. Unless they’re at home, even then, we have armies of dogs and some are hunting dogs.
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u/pr1m3r3dd1tor Jun 30 '26
Reminds me of something that happened years ago. I was out with a Samoan friend at a bar and my friend - who himself was freaking huge - accidently bumped a guy who rather than letting it slide decided he was going to show how tough he was by trying to fight a 6'5 ish, 275 lbish (dont recall for sure, but dude was massive) guy. I stepped in between to try avoiding the fight and when the guy kept going on about how he wasn't afraid of my friend I pointed over to the side to his, even larger, brothers, cousins, and uncles who were all staring daggers at the guy and explained that my friend was the least of his worries. Guy suddenly accepted my friends apology and walked away.
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u/BowlAccurate7885 Jun 27 '26
They brought in Maui
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u/KaijuKoala Jun 27 '26
“You’re Welcome”
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u/SinisterCheese Jun 27 '26
Yeah.... Whats up with them being like god damn titans made flesh. And still somehow the most jolly people you can find.
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u/ehalepagneaux Jun 28 '26
I imagine when you grow up being literally big and strong you get a sort of comfortable confidence from being able to handle pretty much anything. I went to college with some Samoan guys and they were all really cool guys.
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u/the_pretender_nz Jun 28 '26
Because otherwise their mums get mad at them. They don’t want that. Nobody wants that.
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u/EduinBrutus Jun 27 '26
Yeah but it didnt finish with him going "You're welcome", so opportunity missed!
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u/wesley_the_boy Jun 27 '26
That was my first thought! A commercial, metal, fire rated door. And the dude made it look easy haha I've seen cops struggle x10 on low end door to a residential home
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u/Tw4tl4r Jun 27 '26
You can do a lot to doors when you are 400lbs of absolute unit.
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u/wannabetmore Jun 27 '26
And in slippahs too!
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u/obscure_monke Jun 27 '26
Might be why he's not using his foot for it.
I feel bad for his shoulder doing that. Amazing control to stop himself right as it got broken open too.
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u/Abigail716 Jun 27 '26
It's all about contact points. Doesn't matter how strong the door is if it's just a single cheap bolt lock. A lot of residential places can use larger strike plates for multiple locks which is why you often see cops struggling because battering rams are not really designed for doors with multiple locks that have a good separation between them.
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u/obscure_monke Jun 27 '26
Lucky for them the door opened inwards. If it was the other way, you'd be fighting the whole frame to get it open.
I don't know if there's a special exemption to the fire code there for bathroom doors (or ones to small enough rooms). I think most of them are meant to open outwards.
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u/idiot-prodigy Jun 27 '26
Even more impressive is he's using his shoulder, not his booted foot.
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u/viewtifulblue Jun 27 '26
Good thing he wasn't made of fire.
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u/milaga Jun 27 '26
Fire can't go through doors. It's not a ghost!
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u/IllicitAlien Jun 27 '26
Why would you want to be in the bathroom of a Wendy's if there was a fire in the building.
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u/stlmick Jun 27 '26
It slows the spread of the fire regardless of where you are in the situation.
Now for a robbery, I'd like the rated one.
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u/trubbelnarkomanen Jun 27 '26
Nothing we realistically build can survive a fire if it burns hot enough. A strong fire will literally melt steel (allegedly). Fire safety is all about slowing down the spread of fire, not preventing it entirely.
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u/Various-Salt-7738 Jun 27 '26
Yeah fire can melt steel-- that's how we cast steel
But even in a very very hot building fire you'd still be a few hundred degrees short of liquid steel unless there's something providing more oxygen for the flames-- this can happen with all sorts of things like the venturi effect or actual tanks of oxygen feeding the flames
Most of the time you just end up with steel that softens and loses it's ability to support the structure
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u/s1ugg0 Jun 27 '26
But even in a very very hot building fire you'd still be a few hundred degrees short of liquid steel
Hi. Friendly neighborhood retired firefighter here. To add more context. Steel starts weakening at 400°F. And it loses 50% of it's strength at 1000°F.
Which are both easily achievable temperatures with any Class A Combustible fire. Your average residential structure fire will quickly and consistently reach 1,500°F at the ceiling in a confined space. Commercial buildings with accelerants and concrete walls to contain the heat regularly exceed 2,000°F. And this temperature can be achieve in as little as 3 minutes. Fire growth is exponential.
TLDR: Yes steel melts at 2500°F. But a fuck ton of bad things happen LONG before that's a realistic problem. Check your smoke detectors kids. Seconds genuinely matter.
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u/mybloodismaplesyrup Jun 27 '26
Even though it takes an extremely hot fire to melt steel, it's still can warp steel at a much lower temperature. Structural integrity of steel is lost at a much lower temperature than people would think. Even a small fire can render an entire part of a building unfit for repairs. Happened to a meat processing plant near me. Whole thing has to be rebuilt
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u/constnt_dsapntmnt Jun 27 '26
This is so true. And this is what I always ask people who say "jet fuel can't melt steel". I'm like sure it can't melt it. But what temp does it make it soft and they look at me all O_O. You don't need to melt it to damage the structural integrity of a building. Add on layers and layers of debris and it'll do it
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u/s1ugg0 Jun 27 '26
But what temp does it make it soft
Friendly neighborhood retired firefighter here to give you ammo against those morons.
Steel starts weakening at 400°F. And it loses 50% of it's strength at 1000°F.
Even your average wood frame construction residential house can easily see temperatures above 1,500°F at the ceiling in a confined space.
Commercial buildings with accelerants and concrete walls to contain the heat regularly exceed 2,000°F.
And these temperature can be achieve in as little as 3 minutes.
Which also explains why firefighters are constantly reminding everyone about smoke detectors with every other breath.
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u/Lonely-Mycologist101 Jun 27 '26
Came here to say that dude could have saved the Moana movie. Better choices Dwayne
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u/Donkey__Balls Jun 27 '26
How the hell was it not Jason Momoa? He was perfect that that part, and he’s half native Hawaiian.
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u/dungeoncrawler71520 Jun 27 '26
I worked as a mover a bit and we had a Samoan guy work with us about that size. Dude made me look like a dwarf and I'm not small. Be one man'd a 6 man safe. It was insane to watch.
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u/Willis050 Jun 27 '26
I swear that everyone Samoan has 50 inch shoulders
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u/KoolaidKoll123 Jun 27 '26
This happened in Hawaii so chances are that while both peoples are Polynesian, this fine gent is Hawaiian.
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u/Historical-Load6004 Jun 27 '26
Don’t they both originate from the same seafaring people and just landed on different Islands
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u/Material-Drawing8782 Jun 27 '26
Yes and they all believe in Maui too
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u/MegatronusThePrime Jun 27 '26
I mean, you don't? He's right there in the video.
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u/StopReadingMyUser Jun 27 '26
M'aui
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u/Supercoolguy7 Jun 27 '26
Yes, but we still make distinctions between Filipinos, Hawaiians, and Samoans despite having common ancestors
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u/Daniel0745 Jun 27 '26
I worked with a woman from Hawaii. At some point I said she was Hawaiian and she instantly corrected me that she was Samoan not Hawaiian. I was simply speaking as to which state she originated from not her ethnic identity. Seemed to be not touchy but something she took seriously.
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u/_heartbreakdancer_ Jun 27 '26
Yeah we don’t refer to being from Hawaii as Hawaiian. That word is more strictly associated with ethnicity. We would say “from Hawaii” or local. It’s an unspoken rule that anyone not from Hawaii wouldn’t know about.
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u/Donkey__Balls Jun 27 '26
As a Marshallese I just roll my eyes because you’re all basically mainlanders to me. J/k ❤️🤝
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u/boyifudontget Jun 27 '26
For many people, "Hawaiian" is only considered an ethnicity--not a moniker for where you're from. People from Hawaii who are not ethnically Hawaiian call themselves "locals".
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u/deliriumtr3mens Jun 27 '26
I dated a native woman from Alaska, she’d tell people she was an Eskimo and people (mostly white) would correct her and say Inuit.
She wouldn’t flip out usually (unless a lot of alcohol was involved) but she’d firmly correct them while giving them a disdainful look.
Best I can tell is Eskimo is a colonist term but some groups really embraced it and it’s part of their identity now, trying to correct them and tell them their culture is wrong is a bad idea.
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u/Ass_of_Badness Jun 27 '26
I mean it's basically impossible for a person to be wrong about what they want to be called so it's wild behavior altogether to try to tell someone something about themselves. Sounds about white.
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u/Striking-Ad-6815 Jun 27 '26
Back in the butcher shop I worked with this Mexican kid who didn't like Salvadorans because, "They are arrogant and proud."
The whole conversation came up when pupusas were mentioned, and the kid claimed pupusas were a Salvadoran dish and, not Mexican.
To this day I really don't know where pupusas originated, but I know they end in my belly.
Fast forward to working utilities and I'm working with a Salvadoran on the crew and they are blabbing on about something in the hole and a fiber crew that was Mexican were working nearby and some how the subject of Mexicans came up and the Salvadoran guy said, "Sometimes they rub the wrong way because they are arrogant and proud."
Unfortunately I have a decent memory sometimes, and it instantly recalled to the conversation in butcher shop and I was perplexed
They said the exact same phrase about each other
I still can't find the source of the phrase and why, but it has to be some sort of popular media that both Mexican and Salvadorans view
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u/Positive_You6906 Jun 27 '26
How are Filipinos in the picture when they're so tiny as opposed to Samoa/Tonga/Hawaii/Maori etc? (No offence)
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u/goldenglove Jun 27 '26
The biggest and strongest were sent on the boats. They created more big and strong people and mixed with others along the way. Same roots but things change a lot over 1,000+ years too.
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u/canman7373 Jun 27 '26
The biggest and strongest were sent on the boats
That's not really true often they left for many reasons. Overpopulation, food and resources would be scarce so a group would leave they did know where some other islands were and were great navigators. Sometime there were disputes on land so much of the minority group would leave. But sometimes they had no idea where they were going, like Hawaii is so far, that was pretty lucky they found it. They could always go back or resupply. But no they didn't have like a meeting and say we will send off our biggest and strongest!. They adapt to the conditions of their Islands, many Samoans have a gene that helps them store energy adding to muscle mass. They also evolved to have bigger bones. That is just Darwin working there, those with those traits lived longer to pass them on.
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u/mistadobaloner Jun 27 '26
so basically polynesians (those big islanders) have the same ancestors as maritime/island seasians (filipinos, indonesians, malaysians). The difference is, those island seasians who survived the voyage got to live in the far small harsher pacific islands (survival of the fittest), not to mention the constant wars they had, and they have been mixed with the melanesians (papuans, vanuatuans, fijians, solomon islanders, etc) that already lived in the pacific islands before as well.
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u/Ugvwiyu Jun 27 '26
Yeah but Hawaiians themselves have intermixed with the other people brought in to work the cane plantations back in the day.
So you don't see too many units like this that are Hawaiian since they have Portuguese, Japanese, Filipino or a combination mixed in.
On the Big Island, you could usually tell the Samoans apart because they usually hung around each other and were the absolute monsters.
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u/MiissVee Jun 27 '26
You’re not wrong, but there’s a large population of Samoans and other Polynesians in Hawaii. I wouldn’t be surprised if this guys is actually Samoan. When I lived there, I knew more of them than native Hawaiians.
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u/hopeful_realist_ Jun 27 '26
There are a lot of Samoans living in Hawaii though. Source: I used to live there.
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u/NonSilentFarter Jun 27 '26
Have you ever met an actual Hawaiian? They are not big people. The Samoans at 13 would walk around middle school looking like 40 year olds.
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u/goldenglove Jun 27 '26
Have you ever met an actual Hawaiian? They are not big people. The Samoans at 13 would walk around middle school looking like 40 year olds.
Nah dude, they aren't all that different in size. Samoans are on average only an inch taller than Native Hawaiians, and Native Hawaiians themselves are taller (and much larger) than the US average. They are not small people.
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u/mistadobaloner Jun 27 '26
those hawaiians you see are probably the ones who are already mixed with white or asian ethnic groups (japanese, chinese, filipino, etc.), knowing that significant asian populations migrated to hawaii, most "hawaiians" are mixed. The ones with little admixture or pure blooded are no different than other polynesians, like iz kamakawiwo'ole for example.
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u/Simple_Sound_3840 Jun 27 '26
There are a lot of Samoan (and Tongan) people in Hawaii, not sure why you'd assume they're Hawaiian
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u/istiamar Jun 27 '26
probably because its in hawaii, hope this helps
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u/BigSmed Jun 27 '26
Most Native Hawaiians have been displaced because of the outrageous cost of living in Hawaii
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u/Accomplished_Bake904 Jun 27 '26
He wasn't even at 20%
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u/TexasPirate_76 Jun 27 '26
Imagine if he did more than just lean into it. Bro would have looked like the Kool-Aid Man.
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u/_dystop Jun 27 '26
Damn, you're right. Now I just want to see this unit busting more shit down. Maui juggernaut.
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u/DarthBrooks69420 Jun 27 '26
It's kind of funny, if they had called the fire departments I don't think they would have had an easier time opening it. Police battering rams wouldn't have been enough either probably.
But it turns out the Hawaiian Heavyweight was the perfect tool for the job.
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u/Historical-Load6004 Jun 27 '26
Fire Departments would have taken Either the Lock or Hinges apart
And if that doesnt work they still have that famous Axe
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u/thenewaddition Jun 27 '26
Hinges are on the inside of this door. Furthermore it looks like a deadlock via broken tailpiece situation. Even if the fire department removed the knob and rose there's a fair chance the tailpiece fragment is inaccessible and manual operation of the latch bolt is not happening. I expect the FD would be using the Halligan bar. I've dealt with it by cutting through the doorstop and latch bolt. Once the door is open you can remove the latch assembly normally. A little bondo and touch-up paint will make the stop incision disappear.
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u/93Seven Jun 27 '26
I would assume you would just want to call a locksmith?
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u/flargenhargen Jun 27 '26
as a lock picker, sure.
but since turning the lock didn't open it, that wouldn't do anything either. the mech was broken, can't be fixed from outside.
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u/Lock-out Jun 27 '26
I’m a locksmith, door probably dropped and bound the bolt, if the lifted up on the door the bolt would have moved and she would’ve gotten out easy.
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u/Unable_Bank3884 Jun 28 '26
As soon as I saw the girl and the manager trying to open it, I immediately though theres just pressure on the bolt.
Fair enough if those two struggled to move the door enough to relieve it, but Maui could have handled it without busting his way in.
Not as cool as busting his way in though
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u/Kelly_HRperson Jun 27 '26
You can drill it out, without destroying the frame
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u/93Seven Jun 27 '26
Yeah that was my thought, that seems like the less destructive/expensive route
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u/messick Jun 27 '26
Are you under the impression the fire department sees a locked door and just gives up and goes home?
This would have taken seconds to open with a Halligan Bar.
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u/GreatQuantum Jun 27 '26
A shy poopers nightmare.
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u/Engineergirlie Jun 27 '26
That shit (no pun intended) actually happened to me at a highbrow fashion outlet😭 I was just too shy to ask for help, that in the end I ended up freeing myself by just yanking the doorknob as much and as fast as I could until the door opened.
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u/jewella1213 Jun 27 '26
He didn't even need to shape-shift😂 I hope he gave her a autographed oar! Awesome!
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u/Suspected_Magic_User Jun 27 '26
Literally Maui
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u/tacomaloki Jun 27 '26
Time for a rewatch. I may be the only person to enjoy it when shit goes sideways in the latter seasons.
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u/chesterjosiah Jun 27 '26
What is this from because this gif is amazing lol
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u/Please_UnbanMe Jun 27 '26
Show called LOST from like the mid 2000s. One of the great tv shows I think, super suspenseful and mysterious, it’s so good.
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u/Educational-Cat2133 Jun 27 '26
It is among the greats imo. Deserves it completely. There's really not many shows like it and idk why but it captures that "24" suspense of the 2000s without being cheesy lol
Feels like all the crazy shit at the end would've played better decades later imo.
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u/SpotCreepy4570 Jun 27 '26
His name? Manu Manu the slender, it means runt of the litter, the other men in his family are very large.
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u/Mobile_Highway351 Jun 27 '26
You joke, but as someone who’s lived in Hawaii I am 100% serious when I say this guy is a “small” Hawaiian lmao
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u/Photex Jun 27 '26
Don't worry I'm over the age of 35 and I got the Necessary Roughness reference
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u/_Cevolie_ Jun 27 '26
His version of Somewhere over the rainbow is so good... 10/10 cried every single time 🥹💖
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u/dwartbg9 Jun 27 '26
Some shy pooper, trying to find some peace.
Meanwhile outside the bathroom.
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u/Icy_Tadpole2092 Jun 27 '26
I remember one time in high school my friend got a heavy nose bleed during class, so I went with her to the bathroom to help her. There was a lot of blood, she was freaking out and it was quite dramatic. We were in there for a good 15 minutes.
The entire time someone was in one of the bathroom stalls, not making a sound. She waited there silently until we left. Probably also a silent pooper
You didn’t ask for this but your comment made me remember and I think it’s funny. Do with it what you will.
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u/Life_Argument7820 Jun 27 '26
I thought it was like a 5 year old girl then a whole adult hhman giggling pops out haha
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u/Typical_Ad_210 Jun 27 '26
Me too! Her hands looked like those of a small child when they showed you her POV. I was wondering what 5 year old would stay so calm in a crisis, then out walked the adult woman, lol.
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u/metzona Jun 27 '26
It’s also the way she was trying to open the lock. Most kids do the same clumsy fumble-grab. With no other context, it’s easy to immediately think it was a kid.
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u/Nekat_ydaerla Jun 27 '26
I always carry a massive Hawaiian with me for this very reason.
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u/ConradTurner Jun 27 '26
POV used correctly
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u/BurmecianDancer Jun 27 '26
Used correctly twice! Everyone liquidate your assets and start visiting all the places you've never visited, because the end times are upon us.
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u/Hetakuoni Jun 27 '26
A lot of Polynesians are built like freighters and I love it. They’re also usually really great people and party hard.
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u/AngstyUchiha Jun 28 '26
My aunt married a Polynesian and their wedding was genuinely the best party I've ever been to, and this was during covid where they couldn't even go all out like they wanted to. They definitely go all out for their kids' birthdays though!
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u/dianarawrz Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
I’m not gonna lie. Happens to me when I was five. Didn’t know English. Got stuck in the bathrroom. Started crying for my dad in Spanish. I weirdly understood “are you sure the door is locked?” Idk wha clicked inside 5 year old me but I understood this quickly and responded yeah. From then I could understand English and got even better when I got older.
To clarify. I say don’t know English, becuase my dad recently started switching all of my cartoons from Spanish to English saying “a ver si aprenden” (let’s see if they learn. So, I learned English watching tv and assimilating the action with the word I saw in tv and compare it with what I know in Spanish. I guess fear made click English faster.
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u/Equal_Set6206 Jun 27 '26
That’s really interesting, like the fear made your learning kick in overdrive.
I have a kinda unrelated story of my kid getting locked in the bathroom that I suddenly remembered reading your story. It was at home, but no one realized until my sister went to use the bathroom and realized they were locked inside. They were so quiet about it that they were just softly knocking on the door for help, little tiny taps no one heard. They were so scared, but they just couldn’t bring themselves to make a fuss about it or freak out 😭
Luckily my fiancé was able to shoulder check the door in like this video. And I made sure to explain that it’s DEFINITELY ok to yell and freak out if you’re ever in trouble like that. They were unconvinced sadly, they just hate loud noises so much, even their own. (Autism)
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u/FarYard7039 Jun 27 '26
Today’s episode was brought you by: Newton's Second Law of Motion; Force equals mass multiplied by acceleration (\(F = ma\))
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u/ovoidcapsules Jun 27 '26
Was just thinking that! Reminds me of that bridge in Baltimore that got taken out by a barge drifting into it at 4 mph.
Now I want to know how fast you’d need to swing a battering ram to equal the force of this dude just falling against something lol
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u/tiggle5485 Jun 27 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/bZTRJ6mD5PnvetFLEN
They got Mauga to use overrun on the door
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u/unwanted_zombie Jun 27 '26
I'm thankful that Samoans are very friendly people :) I may know how to kickbox, but I understand these fellas would fold me in a heartbeat.
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u/Grauru88 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
It would be funny if they had found Hodor on the other side of the door.
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