I was fortunate to be involved in such an endeavour when I was a kid. Complete strangers, very little talking, we knew our job, we got in there and got the job done.
The Sacred Hole
Submitted 11 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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TheNitroZeus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Doing God’s work
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How’d you guys know it was done?
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You all stop, look at the hole, and collectively have that feeling of it being done. There’s no need for words. You came together, you dug a hole, now to go back to your separate vacations/lives and think back wistfully on the better days in the hole.
Demuniac@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s just done when it’s done, or when mom calls for you to go home.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Our forefathers had the great wars.
We have sandholes.
smeg@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The children, they yearn for the mines
69420@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is why children are called minors.
257m@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Its because the children yearn for the mines.
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
LOL, I’m 52 and I’d be all over this.
“What y’all doin’?”
“Making a hole.”
“Why?”
“No reason.”
“Got another shovel?”
anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Why”
This right here shows you’re 52.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I used to live in Louisiana and had a friend with a house on one of the enormous lakes there. I was hanging out there one day when he decided to move a big slab of steel-sided building that had been lying in the water there for years. He wasn’t doing anything productive with it, just wanted it moved 30 or 40 feet to one side, so he hopped into the water with his snorkel-equipped ATV and started fucking with it a little bit. Within ten minutes or so, about 15 of his neighbors had shown up in their snorkel-equipped ATVs (without being called or anything communicative like that) and started “helping”, which amounted to everybody randomly nudging the slab from all sides without budging it even an inch. Eventually they gave up and drank beer.
shadowSprite@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thus the true meaning behind the phrase boys will be boys
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Reminds me of that Irish home that the news thought was a meteor strike, when it was in fact just made by some lads the day before for the hell of it.
Sometimes guys just wanna dig a random hole. Peak “boys will be boys” right here.
Lightsong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Women want to know what we want, when it is really this simple, a hole, some shovels, and the boys.
Damdy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And cool sticks
enki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
To be clear, the text in the bottom half of this meme is 100% accurate, though rarely, if ever, spoken out loud. When you approached The Hole, you’d briefly exchange glances with the other diggers, they’d nod, silently acknowledging a new ally and, without a word, affirming “you know what to do.”
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Growing up in a village, we did this sometimes near a pond. Instead of sand, it was soft clay. It was fun to see it fill up with water when it got deep enough.
octoperson@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Boys? Don’t dig deeper than you are tall, ok? Sand can fall in on itself. If it’s up to your waist, we dig you out. If it’s over your head, we don’t get to come to the beach again.
Got that, boys? Okay. Grab a spade.
terminhell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jokes on y’all, I’m 6’4" XD keep digging
Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Just keep making it wider as well as taller.
thorbot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is MY hole!! It’s meant for MEEE
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Great story
papalonian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
2 weeks later, the hole has stairs carved out of the relief of the wall, children wearing hard hats are calling up to their parents asking for 5 for minutes at the beach.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 months ago
Parents: Have you seen my boys?
DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The hole must be dug deeper. DEEPER.
CopernicusQwark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Rock and stone?
ezures@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
We dig, for rock and sand
Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
ROCK AND STONE to the bone!
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felixwhynot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Holesome!
Moose@moose.best 11 months ago
I’ve literally experienced this. We ended up with like 10 guys and the hole was about 5 foot in every direction by the time someone shut us down.
bestusername@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I always take a full sized shovel to the beach, none of this small plastic shit, and it always attracts positive attention from kids and dads!
kayaven@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I remember doing this at some local body of water that isn’t really big enough to have waves. The boys group as a collective would often dig a hole close to the water though instead of a bit further away.
It actually had some use though: once the hole was wide and deep enough, you could flood it with water. Since the water level was quite shallow, the sun heated up the water quite a lot more, which felt like having created your own private jacuzzi.
It was awesome and I fondly look back to those memories of some boys having a common goal despite not knowing each other. Good times.
sibannac@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I miss doing things for the sake of just doing them. I don’t have enough of that in my life.
ickplant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s called play, and it’s what we do as kids naturally. Play is just as beneficial for adults. Go play!
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 months ago
This is also how the pyramids happened.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve been thinking the same, only literally. I think mining for ore and minerals predates building pyramids. Once you start mining, where do you put all the useless rock you displace? You have to move it, obviously, or you won’t be able to get to the mine, and you need to store it as efficiently as possible so as to minimize the labor you spend on an unprofitable side task.
Sooner or later you’ll have a pyramid whether you wanted one or not.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I’d, as a grown ass man, absolutely help a bunch of kids dig a big ass hole on a beach. Hell, I’d go grab the “snow” shovel out of my car (solid reinforced plastic, favorite of anybody who’s used to working with snow, never seen anyone break one yet) and really move some material.
DanglingFury@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you build a great hole, beware of the great pile being built next to it.
Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Someone will turn that into a sandcastle I’m sure
Or it will forever be a mound. Untill the tide comes in.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I love this in theory but digging deep holes in sand is extremely dangerous and I hope this funny meme doesnt encourage anyone to actually put themselves in danger
OGrumpyKitten@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Found the not a boy
woodenskewer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nothing wrong with some trench brace awareness.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
💀 lmao
RunningSpaces@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yep pretty much!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Round up the boys and let’s start digging to the Earth’s core. If we get enough, we could be down there by supper time!
erranto@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most men don’t accept other men digging their holes.
erranto@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why the down votes, aren’t heterosexual men against being penetrated ?
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A lot of people yearn to be part of something bigger than themselves, something truly glorious, something that can give their life purpose. Some people climb the corporate ladder, others join the military, and some will selflessly dedicate their life to charity. But deep down, all we truly want is to not only see a really, really deep hole at the beach, but to know that we contributed to making such a big, cool hole in the sand.
ickplant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can this be lemmy copypasta?
Oyml@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A lot of people yearn to be part of something bigger than themselves, something truly glorious, something that can give their life purpose. Some people climb the corporate ladder, others join the military, and some will selflessly dedicate their life to charity. But deep down, all we truly want is to not only see a really, really deep hole at the beach, but to know that we contributed to making such a big, cool hole in the sand.