Best HFY story: Huh | 2635 | r/HFY

[@CharlesAhner]

That man has justly earned a 'In My Defense, I Was Left Unsupervised' T-shirt. A best seller, right up there with the, 'Innocent Bystander' T-shirt... 😄

[@chadjohnson7039]

Worked in the scrap industry for a long time. I pressed every big red button I came across, hoping it would make something go boom. In my defense, I spent several years as a USMC Combat Engineer.

[@Dilligaf-m7s]

Well let’s be honest men love things that go boom and cars, now a combustion engine is basically lots of explosions one after another so really we just love explosions 😂😂😂

[@russs8644]

Ate a lot of crayons, I see.

[@Keith_WB2VUO]

Oh yes... 10 years in the Navy taught me that the most dangerous thing in the world was a bored enlisted man. During a Med Cruise in the early 1970's, I helped build a Super BB Gun. We used 3/16" tubing for the barrel and fired it with 4000 psi compressed air. Impressive and scary! We punched holes in 1/4" steel plate with it. Then a bored shipmate decided to try shooting sea gulls with it, and the BB's flew across the base, breaking windows a mile away. We took it apart & hid the parts. Our Shop Chief told us that if we did anything that dumb & dangerous again, nobody would ever find our bodies after he was finished with us... Yep, your Tax Dollars at work!

[@eukaryon]

Finally, tax dollars well spent.🥰

[@cordellej]

we fired full coke cans out of the drill rig pipe in afhganistan lay the drill rig derrick flat then angle the drill head to some random angle with 2 meters of drill rod on it . next ram a full coke can down the drill pipe wrapped in paper so it made a good seal . then hook up the air compressor build up to 500 or so psi and drop the butterfly valve . we never figured out where the cans landed bored british army royal engineers are just as crazy when left unsupervised

[@angrydragonslayer]

please tell me you got to try putting some petroleum jelly in it

[@Matthew-zu6tm]

Sounds about right.

[@Keith_WB2VUO]

@@angrydragonslayer : Nope, plug grease from the rotating hydraulic adapters. Mil-Spec only...

[@Katzztar]

"Curiosity killed the cat...but satisfaction brought him back" THIS is why humans love cats; we have same formula of Curiosity plus boredom equal mayhem.

[@Matthew-zu6tm]

A known varriable. "Boredom breeds creativity". Sometimes; well, most times its destructive. 😅

[@GaryPaschkeSrGaryFPaschkeSr54]

We had similar activities when working our shifts at the Crash/Fire/Rescue at Indianapolis International Airport. One of our privates would break the monotony by building mini-rockets using soda cans taped together and fueled by carbide gas.

[@mfree80286]

Mini-rockets sound pretty cool. Mini-rockets at the AIRPORT though....

[@auly3696]

Damn E-4 Mafia in Space really doing the damage. The Alien is lucky it didn't wake up to the canon just missing.

[@calebtice6668]

Or pregnant.

[@grogvaughan5649]

Sucked getting promoted to E5.

[@Terran.Marine.2]

strategic tactical equipment alternate locale

[@Ibian666]

A button. The kind of button that looked like it wanted to be pressed.

[@beingsneaky]

ikr??? its just begging "Press me, please"

[@sysbofh]

@@beingsneaky And doing luscious noises. That button, let me tell You, seduced me! I'm a victim here!

[@user-iw6bu4iq4r]

Never AND I MEAN NEVER let a human get bored on a battlefield.

[@sysbofh]

Well, it depends on what side are You. Doesn't it?

[@Mikakarot23]

The only thing more enticing than a button, is an enemy button

[@bradleyadams5252]

Calling it right now, that soldier was on something. Drugs, alcohol, a triple-dog-dare from his comrades, something that impaired his common sense and increased his luck.

[@anathardayaldar]

The force was with him and he was with the force

[@cquilty673]

In his defense, he could have been looking for a shower or ratpak. Even stranger things happened in the desert when word got out of somebody getting a care package from home.

[@KwaterbugBUTCHER]

For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice! For the Squirrel 🐿

[@anathardayaldar]

BAD human! BAD human! NO! Gets the spray bottle

[@lungu.v]

Is that you, Gary?

[@robertstoneking7916]

If you don't want a human to pop up and push the button you don't make it red.

[@merlinathrawes746]

The most dangerous creature in the galaxy, a bored human soldier.

[@TheDreadfulDrifter]

Second most dangerous The most dangerous is a human engineer

[@merlinathrawes746]

@@TheDreadfulDrifter I'd say it's a toss up between the two, but I see your point as well.

[@williamcastro3017]

I am glad to hear Your voice again! Welcome back! 👍🏽🖖🏽🇺🇸

[@GaryPaschkeSrGaryFPaschkeSr54]

Glad to read you're settling in at your new home in Portugal. I understand it's quite a fine place in which to retire.

[@anathardayaldar]

I stopped depending on youtube notifcations years ago. Now I keep my fav yt channels as browser bookmarks and check those daily.

[@merlinathrawes746]

I just check my subscriptions list daily.

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great story; Excellent narration! Boredom summons the god Loki!!! LOL!!!

[@mackenziedrake]

That is epic level bored. Thanks!

[@SythDracous]

The fact the Flynn is a "The Dude" insert really didn't help.

[@mfree80286]

For some reason I can't help but cast Corporal Flynn as 1981-era Bill Murray.

[@leightondoswell453]

nice work thank you. hope all is going well fo you.

[@tylerkahle332]

Just checked, i am subscribed and i left a "like". Anyway, i live your content so have this comment as well 😅

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

Yeah, if the Aliens had not made peace I could see becoming a challenge between the soldiers

[@lordgiblets7585]

Is it weird that I want to write a story just so it can wind up on this channel?

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

DO IT I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU.

[@Mortvent]

he's not going to be good E-4 material, and his men are going to hate him if he makes E-5 + in rank with that much aversion to boredom

[@wasseckbigovich2037]

He's already an NCO with corporal so the troops already don't like him.

[@Odd_Interaction]

A famous question from our Platoon Sergeant (clean version), where did fecking Murphy get a recoiless rifle? Our section Sergeant said something along the lines of it wasn’t me, I think he found it in the Armory. I was just glad there wasn’t a flamethrower in the Armory. Also it was always fecking Murphy, not just Murphy. Just always fecking Murphy. Worse was the fact that fecking Murphy had convinced about half of his squad to help by carrying the rounds for the recoilless, while the other helped carry the tripod and recoilless rifle while he gave directions. The Platoon Sergeant made them take all of it back to where ever he had “found” it. I will admit to being disappointed that we didn’t even get to see it in action. Then we had a platoon formation to once again to exercise common sense when being asked to do anything by fecking Murphy. Surprisingly he made Spec4….the Gods truly smiled on fecking Murphy, or at least laughed a lot.

[@willgallatin2802]

As a young cartoon character said on many occasions; BUTTONS!

[@TheRealInscrutable]

Holy heck! That 109K thing is just gone!! Replaced now by a 110K. ( as of 2025-01-11 02:30 CST )

[@Thelnir]

Why is this so easy to see happening?

[@Dilligaf-m7s]

All I can say is thank god he wasn’t an engineer 😂😂

[@kerry.........]

I happen to know that the internet is a black box with a red LED on it and it is held in GB. I saw it on TV.

[@anathardayaldar]

"Hold X to slow down."

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

He activated humans are the main character in the story Divine gift.

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

Nod to another HFY author.

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

Awesome

[@larsharris]

Did you thank Cold War boomer boffin twice?

[@rickjames9524]

Only *GLORY OF THE ULDUAR* WoW players cn understand that the red button MUST BE PRESSED 😂😂🎉

[@RealArcalian]

Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo "Push the button, Frank." --Mystery Science Theater 3000

[@t.p.3456]

For the algorithm 👽👾🤖🌌🛰🚀🛸🌠

[@Kirsten2933]

Like 952 🇨🇦😎👍

[@Jakes3130]

LOL!

[@rlbadger1698]

yea sure

[@Terran.Marine.2]

chimera

[@TheRealInscrutable]

200K

[@merlinwizard1000]

3rd, 9 January 2025

[@Dilligaf-m7s]

All I can say is thank god he wasn’t an engineer 😂😂