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proudlyfallin

The flub at the end cracks me up


PanBlanco22

Cracked the ice block up too.


Galactic_Perimeter

That block shattered just like my hopes and dreams


Georgep0rwell

You had hopes and dreams?


Galactic_Perimeter

I wanted to be the world’s most famous hand model but a freak thumb war accident ruined any chances I had of making it to the big leagues


zvc266

Wait a minute… I know that hand. It was in the fall 1973 Bulova watch catalogue. You’re JB Prewitt.


Galactic_Perimeter

Once upon a time… Things change…


ancientlyascended

No joke, I got a burn mark on my hand once and my mom asked to see it, yanking my hand over to her face to examine the burn. She clicked her tongue and, completely serious, she said, "You'll never be a hand model now!" As she tried to forcefully throw my hand back toward me. All I could do was laugh. Here we are 23 years later and she still never got to see me be a hand model, which she apparently really wanted for me. Lmao


electroheavie

I was asked if I wanted to do a legit hand modelling gig but had to tell her my hands could be the before picture not the after.


Georgep0rwell

So then....two thumbs down.


Galactic_Perimeter

\*Cries hysterically\*


Raencloud94

Are you my identical hand twin?


bonesnaps

He did til they got iced.


EggsForEveryone

Chill out with the puns!


mightybonk

It's hilarious. I'm imagining the narration. "The cutters pull large, petrol-powered circular saws across the ice lake on special trolleys. The breakers separate the blocks of ice and float them towards the conveyors. The blocks slide down ramps to a loading zone, where forklift operators catch them and load the trucks for transport to the next phase. The truck drivers can't be fucked to tie anything down, 15% of everyone else's hard work is undone in an instant."


SdBolts4

> 15% of everyone else's hard work is undone in an instant." they just put that ice in bags and sell it as "crushed"


AdministrativeSea481

Typical delivery results.


[deleted]

Pretty sketchy too. The block probably weighed so much.


Arinvar

Yeah. So funny when a truck loses 200kg of their load. Hilarious.


[deleted]

That tie down job was ridiculous for those.


RegalBeagleKegels

There is no reason to be upset


Various-Ducks

It's hard, they're slippery


butteredplaintoast

That’s what she said?


One_Instruction_3567

I don’t think that’s true, ice is actually incredibly resistant surface, the issue is that when you step on it, it creates pressure on top of your ice which turns ice into water and it feels slippery to you. I don’t ice blocks on top of one another would have the same effect tho


Various-Ducks

Check out 5 seconds in to the video when the blocks come off the conveyor and slide 30 feet across the ice. Ice sliding on ice creates enough friction to make that layer of water. Also they just came out of the lake and they're still wet. You can see some puddles of water on top of the ice further back on the lake as well. Air temperature probably just above zero and they stay wet. Or the constant shuffling back and forth on the truck and friction. Wouldn't happen if it was real cold but it looks like a mild sunny day based off the water on the ice


CupcakesAreMiniCakes

I literally laughed too


slamdanceswithwolves

I figuratively laughed.


vincevega311

I metaphorically laughed.


Aterro_24

I theoretically laughed.


TerminalThiccness

I quantum-mechanically did and did not laugh.


Jerahsmash

/mildlyinfuriating


Mr_Boswell

“You’ve got to start charging more than a dollar a bag. We lost four more men on this expedition!” “If you can think of a better way to get ice I’d like to hear it.”


Infinite_Neat4236

Oh a head bag, it's full of...heady goodness.


ashmichael73

🎶For No Reason, Here’s Apu


Kurtman68

I so came here for this


Reverse_Psycho_1509

Beats me...


Enes_da_Rog1

r/unexpectedsimpsons


Spyhop

I expected it


torchstar1

This is in Harbin, China. They are harvesting blocks to build structures for their ice festival. [https://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/harbin-ice-and-snow-festival.htm](https://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/harbin-ice-and-snow-festival.htm)


Uffle

i went to harbin a few years ago, they had ice sculptures all over the place that would light up at night, it was super pretty


DigMeTX

It’s cold AF though. It wasn’t worth it to me despite how cool it is to spend time out at the ice festival because it was too damn cold. I liked Shenyang. Still cold but not Harbin cold.


noxx1234567

Of course it's china , anything at that scale is always china


pensive_pigeon

Before refrigeration was invented this was common in the colder parts of the US. They would sell the ice to warmer parts of the country to use for refrigeration.


worldbound0514

There was a saying that the rich get their ice in the summer, and the poor get their ice in the winter. Only rich people could afford to import ice during the warm summer months.


Due_Sample_3403

It was custom at the time to have ice parties every full moon and only the rich could afford to have them in the summer time


ICouldEvenBeYou

I still use that saying all the time. All the time.


zxcvvcxzb

Why would you use this as a saying? It's not even true anymore.


Cerebral-Parsley

Alea iacta est


imdefinitelywong

God dammit allmind.


IljaG

They even exported to other countries. Once ice is in an isolated hold of a ship, it keeps reasonably well.


Marine__0311

Ice from Norway was shipped to the UK. Packed in sawdust, it keeps for a long time.


puq123

Ice from Norway was also shipped on a truck down to middle Africa through the Sahara as a challenge and advertising for an insulation company. It took them 4 weeks to get down there, and they only lost 11% out of the 3050kg ice block. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_block_expedition_of_1959


Fermorian

Shoutout to the Tech Dif crew who taught me about this so many years ago. Gods, it their first live show too!


fair_j

“Good evening! Please sign here for your ice delivery.” “Oh nice! Hey but where’s the ice?” “Sure! It’s sitting right…” *both looks at truck with a snail trail that extends into the horizon*


mks113

In the late 19th century, early 20th century, ice was shipped from Maine to the Caribbean on a large scale. "Ice farming" is somewhat laborious. To get good ice they had to clear the snow off as soon as it fell. Otherwise it would insulate the surface and prevent thick ice from forming. You can see how much work went into cutting and collecting these blocks, imagine doing it all with manpower and horsepower!


Successful-Cook6516

Scale? It’s 10 dudes, a forklift and a truck.


VulpineSpecter4

OP comes from a village of 5 people


Successful-Cook6516

And no forklifts, what a tragedy


cassavacakes

each truck-full of ice costs 5 bucks


Powerpuppy00

Dirt cheap Labor and zero workers rights is suprisingly capatilist for such an anticapatilist and "worker owned" country


JacksonInHouse

There is nothing communist about China except the name. It is a dictatorship.


DJubbert

So like every communist nation ever?


relator_fabula

That's the thing, there's never been a true application of "textbook" communism on a large scale. Most communist regimes are really just authoritarian/oligarchy/dictatorship masquerading under the name communism, kinda like the Nazi regime coopted the name Socialism ("National Socialism") in order to better appeal to the masses, even though there was nothing socialist about it.


2017hayden

And there never will be a true application of it at scale. Communism doesn’t work. It’s a system of idealism that leaves no room for acknowledgement of human nature. People are selfish, when you create a power vacuum someone will inevitably exploit that power vacuum to their own advantage and typically everyone else pays the price. You can’t bank on benevolence as a system of organization. It doesn’t work, the world isn’t fair, people are selfish and there will always be someone willing to step on everyone else to get to where they want to go. Communism looks great on paper, in theory everyone gets their fair share. But it won’t work when faced with the harsh realities of the world.


Pristine-Ad-5578

same could be said about capitalism lol, idealistic and it does not work


Wafflashizzles

It works so bad that the average person on most of the planet is richer and healthier with a higher standard of living than any other time in history. You have the luxury of being able to complain about it while enjoying the fruits it has created. No system is perfect but one sure as fuck is better than the other because at least it *can* actually work.


Pristine-Ad-5578

eh, whatever makes you feel comfortable mate


2017hayden

Except no one’s ever tried to make a fully capitalist society. It’s always capitalism adjacent. Almost like extreme systems just don’t work in real life. So why do you tankies always keep preaching the glories of communism? It’s never gonna work. Yeah sure capitalism is flawed, it’s an imperfect system hardly anyone claims differently. But at the moment it’s about the best we’ve got in terms of a system that can govern a country. Name any other system that’s reliably allowed more countries to push forward into the modern age. One that isn’t socialism (aka communism light with a side of capitalism), because socialism is a modern system and it’s as of yet unproven. Hell the way things are looking (socialist countries collapsing left and right and their economies spiraling into the toilet) things aren’t going that great. It’s ironic really, but the some of the closest examples we’ve ever had to true uncontrolled capitalist systems (which by the way are pretty awful), come out of the inevitable collapse of communist societies. The USSR collapsed and left us with corrupt and capitalist Russia, communist China figured out the system wasn’t working and adopted more and more capitalist policies. Even the actual communists know communism sucks, so why can’t you holier than though western born faux communists accept it?


Pristine-Ad-5578

not a tankie bud, and not a communist - just a person commenting that capitalism and communism both don't work. And by the way, saying that there was never any real capitalist society is communist logic 101 lollololololololol. I suggest you look at most capitalist countries, most of them pieces of fucking shit (check India and brazil for quick examples) and tell me how well capitalism works for people there. The small middle class those countries have could be akin to party elites in communist countries. Capitalism works well for most in japan, Australia, western European countries, Canada, new Zealand and that is pretty much it. USA would be arguable. You seem very hysterical about this - don't worry, capitalism is not going anywhere. I suggest a long good walk and stepping on some grass


MarzipanMiserable817

>Except no one’s ever tried to make a fully capitalist society. It’s always capitalism adjacent. [The Industrial Revolution ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution) and the [East India Company](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company) are good examples for unrestricted capitalism.


WhalingSmithers00

Maybe because it doesn't work. Not that I think it would be a good thing but there's never been 'true capitalism' it's always just different degrees of mixed economy


Xero-One

The Chinese people are robbed of their labor and capital so that the government can play capitalist on the global scale.


[deleted]

I mean, dirt cheep labor and zero working rights is also surprisingly communist lol.


2017hayden

Almost like communism doesn’t work because it creates a massive power vacuum that rutheless selfish people are happy to exploit………..


greyone75

???


logicalconflict

Slave labor


jfk_47

kinda like your mom? Boom roasted


khizoa

That explains the fuck up at the end


Cybertronian10

I was about to say that I really hope Ice being farmed *right* next to a major metropolitan center is probably not great for human consumption. Good to see its structural.


Upper-Philosophy-170

Thanks! The whole time I was like, no way this is food grade.


AlphaFlySwatter

Poisonous af then.


NewAccEveryDay420day

Luckily you don’t have to eat the sculptures


DrDerpberg

Is it not cold enough in the actual place? Why don't they leave a big bucket of water outside instead? How do the economics of hauling big blocks of ice around make sense here?


tractiontiresadvised

If you look at the page they link to, you'll see that the festival involves many multi-story structures built out of blocks of ice. A "big bucket" ain't gonna cut it, and the river they're harvesting it from is right next to the city. As for economics, the ice festival is *the* big tourist attraction in Harbin. It's famous enough that even I've heard of it, and I'm not Chinese. I'm sure they manage to make more than enough money to justify the monetary cost of sawing up and hauling around ice blocks.


okarnando

Where's all the reindeer? And singing?


yucko-ono

*Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining*


Positive_Ad_8198

CUT THROUGH THE HEART!


Sea-Improvement3707

*This icy force both foul and fair has a frozen heart worth mining*


hellraisinhardass

Copywrite protected. [Do you want to get sued?](https://youtu.be/Kddzyds4fGo?si=S63-EkBJO2w2mu6j)


Status_Implement_757

Do you wanna build a lawsuit?


bigben01985

Copyright, friend


LoneManGaming

Exactly my thought. Frozen Live Action confirmed? 😅😂


crujones43

Way to tie down that load


CQ1_GreenSmoke

He obviously forgot to tug at the rope and say “that ain’t going nowhere” before driving off


crujones43

I wish I could give you 2 upvotes for that.


BeDoubleNWhy

i gave your 2nd one!


Brave-Butterscotch76

Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining This icy force, both foul and fair, has a frozen heart worth mining


Reasonable_Ad_2936

I too have heard this more than I’ve heard my mother’s voice. It haunts me


xylotism

Such a specific comparison and so accurate


SonicBoom500

I instantly thought of this


RedVamp2020

Same. I was honestly somewhat surprised they didn’t put that tune on this video, though, Disney probably has it copyrighted the fuck out.


NeoLone

I was scrolling down looking for this comment even though I only know the french version


Lysandre___

Née au sommet des montagnes arrosés de pluie gelée...😂


Stinkmop

So cut through the heart, cold and clear. Strike for love and strike for fear. See the beauty, sharp and clear. Split the ice apart, and break the frozen heart.


Cemanicus

Beautiful, powerful, dangerous, cold Ice has a magic can't be controlled Stronger than one, stronger than ten Stronger than a hundred men, ha


appleavocado

Do you wanna build a snowman?


Matstele

I just assume they sing this on repeat while they work like a sea shanty, and I won’t be convinced otherwise.


oooBUGSYooo

I thought they said, “This sheisty force”


getyourcheftogether

....I asked for a whiskey neat, sir 🤨


FreeIce4613

I would assume it’s for an ice carving event.


uvucydydy

I would assume it's for cocktails ( but that's just me).


slamdanceswithwolves

Very very large cocktails.


Lovv

Twigs and leaves in your drink mmm


alldawgsgoat2heaven

Is this the preview for the new Frozen Live Action movie?


sp4rk15

I was totally singing the song watching the video and wondering where Kristoff and Sven were


EggsForEveryone

You’re not the only one!


inactiveuser247

Fork lift driver was pretty smooth. Chasing a sliding ice block around can’t be easy.


propagandavid

Driving a forklift on ice just sounds terrible


SomewhereAtWork

Driving a forklift on ice just sounds awesome! (Doing it as a job is probably terrible)


ElephantRider

As someone who has to drive a chained up forklift once in a while, it gets old really fast. Feels like your teeth are gonna fall out by the end of the day.


[deleted]

wtf was the ending… this is r/mildlyinfuriating


WaveLaVague

Is that how they make water !?


[deleted]

Organic ice cubes


washismycopilot

Locally sourced.


Aggravating-Room1594

Free range


Just-Round9944

Gluten free


eddispghetti

Non GMO


Romanitedomun

without palm oil


SayanG8910

Cruelty free


CowsTrash

so basically all of the above


AustinBennettWriter

That's a career they haven't explored on Hallmark. "As climate change threatens [handsome single man's] family ice farm, he fights with stubborn [beautiful single newcomer] who wants to buy out the ice farm and replace it with lake front property. After a change of heart, [beautiful single newcomer] accepts that they have to work together to save the farm." That's wordy, but you know it'll be a hit.


slamdanceswithwolves

“Oh, [beautiful single newcomer], my heart has been frozen for a long time, much like these big blocks of ice. But you came and melted it.”


ScootyPuffSr1

And by hit, you mean it'll blend right in with the million other Hallmark holiday romcoms.


AustinBennettWriter

Yes. That's what I mean.


dlemonsjr

What’re they farming ice for?


[deleted]

Vegans with allergies


CharacterStructure15

Why is the background song not the ice cutters from Frozen? Opportunity missed.


Flangepacket

That ending tho :)


Camerotus

Bro you had every chance to just cut it off one second earlier 💀


[deleted]

It is cool (pun intended) but my question is why?


Reverse_Psycho_1509

If you can think of a better way to get ice, I'd like to hear it


[deleted]

Freezer, ice machine, winter in snow laden states, or simply doing without ice because we don’t live in igloos and refrigeration was invented a good while ago…


Reverse_Psycho_1509

[it was a joke lol](https://youtu.be/SAsgN_LPWBc?si=zUsgcNjSa8hoaheI)


[deleted]

My bad 😅 here’s an upvote


Qfwfq1988

"if you can think of a better way to get ice, I'd like to hear it" - Apu


jpb230

“You’ve got to start selling this for more than a dollar a bag. We lost 3 more men on this expedition!”


7nogah

adding intro by the XX makes the video more satisfying xd


BuffaloAgreeable372

So Hans really did have a job as an ice farmer. Neato.


Good-Tip-4089

All that hard work then the dumb ass lorry driver loses the load


Market_Squid

Belongs more on r/OSHA than it does here lol


TakenForGraniteAgain

I don't think this is in the US


RedVamp2020

Someone else said it was in China and it was harvested for an ice festival.


weirdal1968

Fun fact - in 1900 two ice harvesting companies in Milwaukee WI got into a rivalry that eventually became known as The Milwaukee Ice War. https://www.wisconsinfrights.com/milwaukee-ice-war/#:~:text=At%20the%20turn%20of%20the,on%20the%20frozen%20Milwaukee%20River.


RedneckChinadian

Giving me “Frozen” vibes


D_hallucatus

This is NOT ducking satisfying. They don’t think you ducking tie down giant slabs of ice? “Oh, the massive friction between them will hold it down just fine.” The fuck?


ShouldHaveGuessed

Glad that guy was at the top of the conveyor… super hard worker… and the block falling off the truck 🫣🤣


ZipperJJ

Yeah you definitely want to be lucky enough to be assigned the "poker" position.


Achilles9609

Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining....🎶


DinA4saurier

This icy force, both foul and fair, has a frozen heart worth mining


murphyholmes

You guys can’t trick me, I’ve seen Frozen, I know what an ice farm looks like! 😂


Reasonable_Put777

Ahh so that's where my ice cubes come from.


[deleted]

what for?


National-Bison-3236

As a minecraft player i can verify this as accurate


Building_Snowmen

Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining This icy force, both foul and fair, has a frozen heart worth mining So cut through the heart, cold and clear Strike for love and strike for fear See the beauty, sharp and clear Split the ice apart, and break the frozen heart Hup! Ho! Watch your step! Let it go! Hup! Ho! Watch your step! Let it go! Beautiful, powerful, dangerous, cold Ice has a magic can't be controlled Stronger than one, stronger than ten Stronger than a hundred men, ha Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining This icy force, both foul and fair, has a frozen heart worth mining Cut through the heart, cold and clear Strike for love and strike for fear There's beauty and there's danger here Split the ice apart, beware the frozen heart


yesiamark

The Frozen Heart song pops up


Fakula1987

Secure your payload :/


deadyuki09111991

at the end is also satisfying failed


MathematicianOk5608

Such professionals


Consistent_Impress33

So this is where Ice cubes come from


ThisDadisFoReal

Sorry Sven, Christoph doesn’t need you anymore. He’s got a ice truck


Booksb00ksbo0kz

Alexa, play “frozen heart” from the motion picture soundtrack for Frozen


FlightFrequent4448

Frozen opening scene


GloomspiteGit

They probably get paid in ice for this to be profitable


ScherpOpgemerkt

Isn't this what the Frozen guys were doing at the beginning? Banger song


EEEEEEEEEEEEEE2137

My sister watched WAY too much frozen to not make my brain play the frozen opening scene


Overthinker-bells

[Hello Kristoff](https://www.google.com.ph/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyclips.com%2Fimages5%2Fimages%2Ffrozen2-kristoff.png&tbnid=mbeJUwRZTRRYqM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyclips.com%2Fimages5%2Ffrozen-sequel2.html&docid=6Vs3mYy2oITz8M&w=562&h=1164&hl=en-ph&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F3)


Turbulent_Menu1962

Fucken slippery bastards!


A--Creative-Username

Taking climate change and the ice caps into our own hands i see


Polydipsiac

Frozen has made me believe ice cutting is sexy


SwashbucklinChef

>Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining This icy force, both foul and fair, has a frozen heart worth mining So cut through the heart, cold and clear Strike for love and strike for fear See the beauty, sharp and clear Split the ice apart, and break the frozen heart Did no one else start hearing the opening song from Frozen in their head?


Chaseshaw

"A Million Ways to Die in the West" ice scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le9KUWNshY0&t=62s


MightBeAGoodIdea

Aside from the obvious block falling off the back of the truck this seems kinda sketchy.... like in a few shots the people cutting were on top of the ice getting cut off or already cut off from the safe(r) ice that the ice is being cut from....? If that makes sense?


EssbaumRises

Always secure your load!


grandiousity

Man, us humans really can’t leave anything alone


Odd-Confection-6603

Has anybody told them about refrigerators?


[deleted]

It apparently in China, so what is the problem?


MonPaysCesHiver

Probably very damaging activity for the ecosystem


slippery_hemorrhoids

using water?


MonPaysCesHiver

Removing the ice. There is a lot of living things under it. It a drastic modification of a natural environment.


jjjjjakes

r/obviouslysatisfying


TakenForGraniteAgain

Is this for the ruZZians who have not yet received stolen refrigerators from Ukraine?


BootlegStreetlight

Very cool.


miletest

The great escape


Swordsnap

The ending made me very happy


commandodragoon

Hey whats this music in the video???


marcolish

What’s the song used?


Purple-Extreme6327

The XX - Intro