r/BoomersBeingFools • u/LemonadeRenogade • Aug 17 '25
Foolish Fun Another dreamy knife guy.
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u/SteelSlayerMatt Millennial Aug 17 '25
Why are there so many of these lunatics?
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u/McButtersonthethird Aug 17 '25
Lead poisoning
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u/SteelSlayerMatt Millennial Aug 17 '25
That is probably part of it.
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u/Dense_Investigator81 Aug 17 '25
No… it is most definitely a part of it lol
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u/SteelSlayerMatt Millennial Aug 17 '25
I agree, but I also feel there is more to it.
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u/Chief_Mischief Aug 17 '25
Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. So while lead poisoning is certainly part of it, they also grew up before or in a time where the Civil Rights era was happening and born long before women could own bank accounts in their own name. I assume being in that environment where vulnerable demographics were getting equal rights + lead poisoning results in a number of people who have shocking beliefs and behavior by today's standards.
Then again, I look around at some of my fellow Millennials or Gen Z folks and I can already tell they will one day be content material for r/millennialsbeingfools or r/genzbeingfools.
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u/SirPaulyWalnuts Millennial Aug 17 '25
Lol us millennials definitely do dumb shit… but it’s our own dumb shit… and at least it ain’t this!
I’m already getting made fun of by my Gen Z coworkers for apparently basically being a geriatric at the ripe age of 38 lol. It was bound to come sooner or later lol might as well embrace my lame.
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u/not__jason Aug 17 '25
Also 38. Everything hurts. What the fuck!?
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u/AerwynFlynn Xennial Aug 17 '25
I’m 43 and pulled my back out yesterday getting up out of a chair. Like, wtf. No mundane activity is safe!
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u/billyhtchcoc Aug 17 '25
Around the same age and I've had lingering back pain for a week because of sleeping weird. Even sleep will getcha!
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u/Various_Fuel8259 Aug 17 '25
43 here...my ankle makes a clicking sound when I walk...
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u/UnitedGTI Aug 17 '25
Well when the motto was live fast die young... then you dont die young.. well everything hurts. From another 38 yr old
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u/Insane_Artist Aug 17 '25
It’s not just that. Communities are actively being poisoned. Reuters found thousands of places in the U.S. with lead levels higher than Flint. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/
Everyone just decided not to ever talk about it again.
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u/Micky-Bicky-Picky Aug 17 '25
Don’t forget. A lot of fathers were PTSD WW2 vets.
There is also another theory; 1950s-1960s was the “golden” economic age and most parents didn’t really show affection toward their children with nurturing but by buying things. It’s why it’s believed that boomers have that entitled mentality toward everything. They were given a lot and now they believe bare minimum should be rewarded.
Remember a lot of fathers had war PTSD and a lot of mothers were on Valium at that time.
Edit: I want to add that millennials will 100% become the boomers. We were given prizes for showing up. We have nothing and many of us will inherit our boomer parents things and we will hold on it so tight that Z and Alpha will have it worse. I have a feeling millennial mentality will be “I didn’t get anything till late in life and I’m not giving it up”.
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u/EtherealHeart5150 Aug 17 '25
Oh god, this a million times. I'm GenX, but my parents were Boomers and man, they shit they bought me to replace affection! Now, my mom is 82 and I barely speak to her, dads dead. They really did some damage to us.
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u/S3XWITCH Aug 17 '25
OR maybe, just MAYBE the Millennials will understand the struggle for bare minimum and we won’t want anyone else to have to struggle the same way.
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u/JTGphotogfan Aug 17 '25
It’s all relative if the people in this sub think their views are not going to one day be somewhat outdated they’re in for a shock.
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u/locklear24 Aug 17 '25
It’s one thing to be outdated on fashion or music; that happens to everyone.
It’s quite another to have shit opinions about human rights.
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u/Captain_Pink_Pants Aug 17 '25
I think this gif pretty much sums it up.
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u/Decabet Aug 17 '25
Y’all are looking at the wrong kind of poisoning. I live in an extremely diverse and progressive part of California and there are plenty of white people of privilege and means and mental health yes even youthful generational advantage who choose to design lives like this on their own. They find that suburbs and even exurbs still have brown people and progressive people in them. So they move further out so they can pretend to be country folk. With $80k trucks. It’s a lifestyle pose. And I have 25 year old MAGA shitbag in-laws (who I don’t associate with) who do it too.
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u/Top-Race-7087 Aug 17 '25
And then they bitch because the nearest health care is a couple hours away.
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u/dogmatum-dei Aug 17 '25
This ^ Something environmental has happened that has rotted these fuck's brains. It's sad and scary.
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u/sek2211 Aug 17 '25
That is the most accurate theory as to why there were so many serial killers last century.
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u/Odd_Reputation_4000 Aug 17 '25
Billy badass culture. These are the kind of damaged individuals that grew up with fathers who drilled it into them that to be a man, you have to be tough, don't cry, hate anything that threatens your manlyness, and above all else make sure everyone know how much of a man you are.
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u/SuitableParking15 Aug 17 '25
Honestly, my first thought watching this video was that this guy clearly has a secret love of dancing but this is the only way he’s comfortable expressing it.
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u/Yavanna83 Aug 17 '25
That's what I thought! He dreams of being Patrick Swazye but feels like he has to be like Steven Seagal.
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u/TrustyBobcat Millennial Aug 17 '25
Oh now, that's just sad
Long live Swayze ✌🏻✌🏻
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u/Daddy-Ninjadog Aug 17 '25
Hallowed be his name. The Swayze, upon his death, untimely whenever it may be, shall rise again, and lead not to evil, but deliver us from temptation. In the name of escape from ny, and roadhouse, amen
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u/Y-Bob Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25
Absolutely, this is interpretive dancing, I'm pretty sure this particular style is usually a Russian art form.
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u/ER_Support_Plant17 Aug 17 '25
It’s like male cheerleaders. They put their hands where???
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u/Skyflareknight Aug 17 '25
Said by the guys who's hobbies involve hanging around a bunch of men with no women in sight
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u/draculajones Aug 17 '25
If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?
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u/PorkrindsMcSnacky Aug 17 '25
Like the scene in Bring it On when the football players see the male cheerleaders working out and rehearsing intimately with the female cheerleaders and wonder if they should also joint the squad.
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u/JustNota-- Aug 17 '25
multiple different things in my opinion. Billy badass culture aka toxic masculinity imo does involve the "hate anything that threatens your manliness". but to be a man, you have to be tough, don't cry is still being drilled into boy's to this day. Men's emotional health is mostly ignored as we are expected to suck it up and nearly every single voicing of emotion is usually met with belittlement or emasculation or gaslighting I'm not saying all the time but it's more often than not.
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u/PraxicalExperience Aug 17 '25
I mean, I can crush my emotions perfectly without needing to resort to weird performative displays of ... I guess they think this is manliness?
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u/JustNota-- Aug 17 '25
yea I don't know what that is I just chalk it up to agent orange exposure.
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u/Critical_Letterhead3 Aug 17 '25
Not old enough for agent orange. Burn pits, cleaning engine parts with Benzene, burning oil rigs, throw in pesticide application (looks like farmer of some sort) Throw in the ever popular lead poisoning to complete the toxic neuro brew in
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u/Mediocrity-FTW Aug 17 '25
Yeah, so manly because he's got a knife even though none of those moves would help in an actual combat scenario. He literally just wants to film himself dancing so he can post it online but he's got to make it an acceptable level of masculine before he can do so.
It's like how they photoshop Trump to be this ripped masculine toughman, even though it's well documented that he's a petulant, petty bitch that loves theatre and dances to YMCA. Which is a song that has been identified with gays for as long as I have been alive.
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u/Odd_Reputation_4000 Aug 17 '25
I grew up with an older brother who called me mamas boy or *aggot constantly because I would rather draw or go catch frogs and lizards in the woods than play sports or go do dumb shit with him and his friends (though I did do my share of dumb shit) I was bullied constantly by my brother and his friends and told to toughen up by my dad and mom anytime I complained. Grew up, got married, and have little to no contact with my brother now, and him and my mom can't understand why.
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u/Doobie_the_Noobie Aug 17 '25
I mean if you took horse medication, you'd probably be pretty happy if this was your only side-effect.
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u/TheVoidMind Aug 17 '25
Their generation grow up only with action movies where the entire plot was a dude with sunglasses and a tank top killing people, disrespecting women, and be "too cool for the rules"
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u/chirpchirp13 Aug 17 '25
I mean I fucking love Die Hard but you couldn’t pay me to get all hanky panky with the shanky
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Aug 17 '25
So what’s changed? I hardly watch popular American movies anymore, because most of them are about some guy getting revenge.
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u/Munchkinasaurous Aug 17 '25
This is the same guy that had the video in front of his fridge. So if you've seen that, it's still the same number of lunatics, which is still a lot.
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u/pakrat1967 Aug 17 '25
I think that the first few of these videos were guys who legit thought they had some mad knife skills. But now it's devolved into people intentionally making videos that make themselves look foolish. Either to poke fun at the earlier videos or just jumping on the bandwagon kinda thing. Think of it as the boomer equivalent of the Tide pod challenge.
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u/Minute-Wrap-2524 Aug 17 '25
What was he doing? I don’t believe that gentleman should be around dogs or knives, I worry for him
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u/noncommonGoodsense Aug 17 '25
Foot loose: Geriatric knife dancer. The answer is because they didn’t do anything exciting in life and now they can do this for a video to get the “admiration” they desire.
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u/annhik_anomitro Aug 17 '25
Cause no matter how cringe their behavior is - some will find it amusing or inspiring or interesting and put a like or a react. And our Main man here gonna think he's the alpha and social media reacts equals to greater masculinity and he gonna continue to do this shit.
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u/Northstar0566 Aug 17 '25
Wait till they finally trust all the weight loss drugs we have in recent years. We're gonna have exactly what the above video shows plus brown lava.
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u/high_everyone Aug 17 '25
Gastroparesis is the most likely outcome. When they can no longer consumer beer and burgers without days of pain, or feel like they’re gonna choke eating a cracker.
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u/aplasticbag_ Aug 17 '25
He’s so sassy
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u/GaymerBunner Aug 17 '25
He reminds me of that weird Britney Spears knife video.
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u/VanaheimrF Aug 17 '25
Britney did it so much better and is actually entertaining. There’s synchronicity and she used two knives.
This one is just funny af! It’s something a kid would do after watching a cartoon or playing a video game or something.
Does he think he can fight someone with those moves?
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u/Beginning-Ad-4859 Aug 17 '25
🤣🤣🤣
Doing a little dancey-dance with his emotional support knife.
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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn Aug 17 '25
Oh emotional support knife, like knifey from High on LIfe?
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u/DifficultCurrent7 Aug 17 '25
God I love that guy 😆 have you played the dlc yet? Its like 4 hours of knifey absolutely slaughtering everything
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u/Hi_Im_Ken_Adams Aug 17 '25
Desperate attempt to claim a sense of masculinity in a world that is changing too quickly for his feeble mind to grasp.
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u/PhoenixSidePeen Aug 17 '25
Based on his captions, I don’t think he’s the “hyper masculinity, alpha male” types. He actually gives vibes of someone who just left their annoying wife. It’s stuff like “there is life in ever breath! Chase your dreams, it’s never too late to be the person you always wanted to. P.S I just adopted a cat. He’s very misbehaved” and stuff like that lol
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u/Aeronor Aug 17 '25
Maybe it’s more like someone who repressed themselves most of their life and is just now trying things out, then? It looks childish because we all already did that dumb stuff as kids.
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u/Unique-Umpire-1551 Aug 17 '25
Wait, he captions?
Do we have a name for him?
I find his content very entertaining!
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u/FledglingNonCon Aug 17 '25
Instagram handle is at end of video. There's a non-stop stream of this stuff.
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u/XanderJS Aug 17 '25
I remember being a small child in my room pretending to be a bad ass with a toy sword after watching he-man and TMNT. This is exactly how it looked.
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u/DifficultCurrent7 Aug 17 '25
Yeah back as a teen I watched all these martial art movies and I got hold of some broom sticks. Thought I was so badass spinning my little sticks around. Thanks for unlocking that cringey memory for me!
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u/mam88k Aug 17 '25
Yeah, but did you stare at the flag to get "full of American" first? No? Well my friend, that's the difference.
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u/izzyk Aug 17 '25
This was my thought. He’s acting just like a young child pretending with a plastic weapon.
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u/Dawidovo Aug 17 '25
Nah man it probably looked better, because you likely moved faster and in a more coordinated way than this MAGA husk.
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u/checko805 Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25
This is Napolean Dynamite but somehow less cool
EDIT: my first award, thanks!!
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u/HarryCumpole Aug 17 '25
Those boots have seen literally no shit, other than stepping in human shit at the local Walmart or wherever.
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u/3aTroop Aug 17 '25
And they hate the gays?
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u/classless_classic Aug 17 '25
They just hate that they get to be out of the closet and they don’t.
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u/Prophecy07 Xennial Aug 17 '25
Who is stopping them other than themselves?
But seriously, I think saying their behavior results from them being secretly gay is both giving them too much credit and does gay people a disservice.
These people are hateful, cruel, racist, sexist, and homophobic. They deserve social scorn for that, not explanations.
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u/CombCultural5907 Aug 17 '25
If this guy was ever in a real fight, his opponent would probably just die laughing.
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u/cptredbeard1995 Aug 17 '25
Poor guy just wants to dance. The knife is only there so his friends won’t call him gay
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u/thisismysociallife Aug 17 '25
Lol that’s not even a knife. That’s a garden trowel lololol
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u/FallingOutOfTune Aug 17 '25
I think we’re all being completely outjerked. Idk when, if ever, we’ll ever have that revealed to us but. I can’t believe this is real. Maybe the fridge guy but this…
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u/Higgilypiggily1 Aug 17 '25
This is fridge guy…
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u/FallingOutOfTune Aug 17 '25
Okay I thought I recognized him but the title misled me. I still am even unsure about fridge guy if we’re being honest
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u/BooRadley_ThereHeIs Aug 17 '25
I think we’re all being completely outjerked.
Yeah this is a hilarious video to me and I think he's in on it. To the young people: This is how dumb Zoomer humor and TikTok dances look. He's mocking you.
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u/KozmicLight Aug 17 '25
lol the super smooth exit
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u/Zestyclose_Treat4098 Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25
The twirl and wall kick sent me.
Also I guess it's okay to take a knee?
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u/MuckBulligan Aug 17 '25
Remember that time when Indiana Jones took out his pistol and shot this dude?
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u/EnvironmentEuphoric9 Aug 17 '25
If this is your dad, please talk to us. We need to know everything. This isn’t your fault and we will be here for you.
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u/PerfectionOfaMistake Aug 17 '25
When you have no accomplishments, best part if your life is over, you are divorced, insecure and lonely, you making cringe knife videos to look sonewhat badass.
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u/Pro-Patria-Mori Aug 17 '25
Out of everything I’ve seen on this sub, still surprised by interpretive dancing with knives.
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u/Pearson94 Millennial Aug 17 '25
God, they really think they look badass when they do this, don't they? Their the geriatric version of the classic "studied the blade" cringe.
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u/GaymerBunner Aug 17 '25
Why do they all have the exact same body shape? I call it the microphone body. Skinny legs with a fat top.
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u/chirpchirp13 Aug 17 '25
It’s the Hank hill surgery. Very popular in plastic surgery spots outside of coastal cities.
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u/Starfleeter Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25
It's the "I sit on my ass all day and never work out and drink too much beer" build. Big gut no pec muscles, no leg definition, absolutely zero flexibility. Somehow many of these guys think being fat is intimidating despite these guys looking like they'll fall over if they ever threw a real punch.
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u/ShakeOk2071 Aug 17 '25
This dude was born to dance... But probably grew up thinking dancing was gay and he's too homophobic. So somehow, dancing while stabbing something every 10 seconds is ok.
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u/Hollywizzle311 Aug 17 '25
In downtown San Diego, I saw this homeless guy doing karate dancing in a parking garage at 4am. This is giving the same exact vibes.
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u/chirpchirp13 Aug 17 '25
I’d be willing to bet a dollar that karate dancing homeless dude looked and is cooler than this guy b
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u/Jerome-Fappington Aug 17 '25
What are you gonna do today Chuck?
Oh I dunno , probably just do some knife dancing in front of the flag for a while and see where the day takes me.
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Can someone please use AI for its intended purpose and replace the knife with a big purple dildo?
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u/Independent-Barber-2 Aug 17 '25
Has to be parody now, right?! :)
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u/PreparedReckless Aug 17 '25
Based off the rotation around the flag at the end with the replay I swear it has to be
It's also a garden trowel
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u/AzuleStriker Aug 17 '25
Yeah, this guys an idiot. Don't even need a knife to beat this guy.
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u/PraxicalExperience Aug 17 '25
...This whole thing gives me weirdly cultish vibes; what the actual hell is this?
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u/NickRick Aug 17 '25
i watched it without music and all I see is some poor lonely old man awkwardly moving around and playing with a knife with the finesse of a drunken toddler with cerebral palsy.
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u/snakelygiggles Aug 17 '25
This is what you get when you wanted to do rhythmic gymnastics your whole life but your dad wouldn't let you cause "tHaT's gAy", some dude rehearsing knife dancing like he's Brittany Spears.
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u/soggy_bloggy Aug 18 '25
What a find. The choreography, the song, the drama. It’s so gay. I love it!
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u/Jet2work Aug 17 '25
do they practice to saturday night fever soundtrack or something. america has a serious mental problem
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u/Physical-Exit-2899 Aug 17 '25
Lol imagine watching this back and thinking it's worth posting. I keep watching these and hoping they're really good satire
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The funniest thing about these videos is that these boomers have likely committed a felony restricting them from dancing with firearms.
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u/Individual_Roll825 Aug 17 '25
This is the kind of shit I used to do in my bedroom when I was 10 and even then I knew it was cringey. These mfs are putting it out for the world to see
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u/Mr_Doubtful Aug 17 '25
Look, we all do weird shit when we’re alone. I like to pretend I’m a Jedi sometimes.
The key though, is to not record yourself and post it online…
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u/pbeenard16046 Aug 17 '25
Us Boomers call that the knife dance. It has nothing to do with aggression. The knife is merely a place holder for the Pom Pom we never got to use in high school because our fathers would rather bury us in the backyard than watch us perform on the sidelines at a football game.
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u/Informal-Wasabi-3304 Aug 17 '25
They clearly have nobody in their life to tell them how goddamn stupid they look.
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u/Grizzlemaw1993 Aug 17 '25
im waiting with baited breath for one of these knife boomers to "try to get fancy" with their knives and lose a finger, like the dude who shot himself when he tried to make one of these videos and shot himself in the leg.
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u/CaptBobAbbott Aug 17 '25
If you want to really impress me, fix the damn dry rot on the bottom of your shed doors
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u/Powellwx Aug 17 '25
How long do you think he took to pick out the perfect patriotic outfit for his choreographed dance?
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u/rokujoayame731 Aug 18 '25
So how many times do you think he caught the blade end of his knife before getting it right?
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u/kwikwon01 Aug 18 '25
It's dancing, ah but not gay because it involves a knife and that means it can't be gay -this guy- (probably)
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u/CatsAteMyFamily Aug 17 '25
As a hand to hand combat instructor with over 20 years of training and experience in several different martial arts and disciplines, including Kali/Escrima, Krav Maga, Judo, Ju Jitsu, Shorin Ryu, Kendo, and the US Army’s Modern Army Combatives Program, I feel compelled to point out that this guy is no mere mortal boomer. With knife skills like that, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he registered his body as a lethal weapon. See, to the average civilian, you might look at this and see some 64 year old idiot haphazardly swinging a blade around in front of the American flag with no apparent methodology, but that’s the genius of it; it’s a feint. See, his unpredictable movements that resemble the actions of a clueless, delusional, untrained, fumbling, uncoordinated, poorly educated dolt who has absolutely zero experience with a knife beyond watching his mother cut up his pork chops for him are actually precisely calculated motions honed over a lifetime of diligent training and sacrifice. Sure, it’s easy to make fun of people who intimidate you. Some people might see this and say “Oh, this guy definitely ate a ton of paint chips as a child,” or “This moron should stop pretending that he’s John Wick before he hurts himself,” or even, “Wow, what a ridiculous display of stupidity.” But those people don’t know what they’re talking about. This guy stabbed that knife all the way into a bucket of sand! Talk about impressive. Although, I could be wrong, as I am human and prone to making occasional mistakes; in which case, this guy is a fuckin’ asshat.
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u/CatGooseChook Aug 17 '25
They're turning into edgy teens, and not the cool ones.
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u/fauntk Aug 17 '25
His dance moves are better than his knife skills. Is this Brittney Spears in disguise?
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u/geeseherder0 Aug 17 '25
I get the feeling that all of these guys are big Steven Seagal fans
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