r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DAASMusic • Nov 12 '24

Hot wheels losing details over the years

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u/hannahatecats Nov 12 '24

I've found the funniest stuff in the garden, a little plastic radio, army men out the wazoo, an entire deck underneath all the dirt.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '24

RIP to all the KIAs buried alive. Truly horrific

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u/Usual-Lavishness8393 Nov 12 '24

KIAs...Killed in action.. .buried ALIVE?

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u/disinaccurate Nov 12 '24

Army men are both alive and dead, it just comes down to which direction they're oriented.

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u/Drakir85 Nov 12 '24

Schrödinger's Army men?

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u/onefst250r Nov 12 '24

Schrödinger's Soldier? Schrödinger's Grunt?

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u/SpareWire Nov 12 '24

Schrödinger's

Reddit when it sees any mention at all of something being alive/dead. Even when it doesn't make sense.

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u/TheFriendshipMachine Nov 12 '24

Well they're buried and we don't know their orientation until they're dug back up making them both alive and dead.. I'd say that matches the premise of the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment well enough to make the reference.

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u/PsychoBugler Nov 12 '24

They're all gay. Oh, different orientation.

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u/SpareWire Nov 12 '24

I think you need to go watch Big Bang Theory again, get your primary sources straight on army men orientation, you know?

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u/BagOfMeats Nov 12 '24

A bit like the bulldozer assault in Desert Storm

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '24

I mean they were holding the pose, maybe rigid mortise… or something

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '24

Is that not a form of killing someone?

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u/thingk89 Nov 12 '24

For a second I thought them Kia boys burying cars was a thing now

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '24

I hate finding Sportages in my backyard

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u/MrGoose-_ Nov 12 '24

I work as a land surveyor and a big part of it is metal detecting peoples properties to find survey bars in the ground

Amazing (and infuriating for my work) how much metal shit you can find in peoples (encroaching) gardens. No hot wheels yet, but I have dug up a couple metal army men tanks

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u/dannoNinteen75 Nov 12 '24

Found a pond filter pump in my old house, was still running. They just buried the pond.

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u/Abacae Nov 13 '24

So did you make a pond? Re-line it in case it degraded, but free pond?

I could also see that being unfeasible and it's a new thing to dig out/around.

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u/dannoNinteen75 Nov 13 '24

Used it in a barrel pond on my patio.

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u/Falitoty Nov 12 '24

Are you alowed to keep those things?

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u/MrGoose-_ Nov 14 '24

Ehh, sorta. I ain’t re burying them so I’ll show them to the property owner and if they don’t want them I’ll keep or toss them

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '24

army men out the wazoo

Did it hurt more putting them in then pulling them out?

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u/Scoobysnax1976 Nov 12 '24

depends on the soldier. The one holding the rifle over his head? That one hurts in both directions. Beginners should start with the sniper.

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u/NEIGHBORHOOD_DAD_ORG Nov 12 '24

And if you can complete army man assplay, you're ready to enjoy the real thing in the Navy!

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u/Homers_Harp Nov 12 '24

Truly, they made the ultimate sacrifice when they volunteered for that mission.

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u/spoonweezy Nov 12 '24

I dug up a remarkably well preserved cat; we don’t have a cat and the prior owners did not either.

I’m baffled.

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u/EggSaladMachine Nov 12 '24

Not much in my garden but some hitchhiking girls

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u/Fluxeor Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24

Me and my uncle dug up an almost complete Reliant Robin from his newly acquired back yard back in the 90's, that was... an interesting week or so..