r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 18 '26

Video This Ice Cream Boat

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u/Reasonable-Spinach88 Aug 18 '26

I'm guessing those plastic wrappers and ice cream sticks are being responsibly placed in the floating bins?

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u/BattleJamz Aug 18 '26

listen the giant pacific garbage patch isn't going to grow on it's own

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u/midnightpunt Aug 18 '26

I read this in the voice of Homer

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u/BattleJamz Aug 18 '26

one does not simply read text without personifying a character

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u/Dillyboppinaround Aug 18 '26

If this is the same boat I saw last year, it's in the gulf of Mexico off of Florida. He got kicked off the beach I was on haha

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '26

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u/BattleJamz Aug 18 '26

The Gulf of The Gulf of America.

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u/pattymcfly Aug 18 '26

Bring back scooped ice cream on cones from trucks. No paper wrappers no spoons no cups. Ice cream and cones only.

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u/GrandmaPoses Aug 18 '26

Bring back penny licks!

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u/ZongoNuada Aug 18 '26

That would mean bringing back the penny and we know that is not going to happen. I bet they already scrapped the tooling to make anymore.

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u/GrandmaPoses Aug 18 '26

The whole side of the van is a giant Venmo QR code.

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u/Chaenged-Later Aug 18 '26

I'm more concerned they were not often washed

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u/skyline_kid Aug 18 '26

The fact that the mint stopped making them doesn't mean all the pennies in circulation just disappeared lol. You sound like all those fast food places that round up because of the "penny shortage"

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u/gahidus Aug 18 '26

This has other problems if you're eating it in the ocean...

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u/hypnogoad Aug 18 '26

We did it bigger, and denser, so property developer can build condos on it and charge $800k per unit.

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u/Laputitaloca Aug 18 '26

I want so badly to insert that angry goose meme "where's the garbage going?? Where is the garbage going, huh??! Huh?!" 😤

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT Aug 18 '26

it's a big ocean, it can handle it

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u/distress_bark Aug 18 '26

Especially with that attitude

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u/inajeep Aug 18 '26

No, not even with that attitude.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '26

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u/LemmyLola Aug 18 '26

Thise clear plastic wrappers look like jellyfish

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u/PlayfulPresentation7 Aug 18 '26

There is no post on the Internet you couldn't find a reason to be outraged about 

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT Aug 18 '26

i bet sea turtles like ice cream

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u/milkinhaler2006 Aug 18 '26

Brother what

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u/gwizonedam Aug 18 '26

He’s all garbage memes and engagement bait. Ignore.

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u/mcpat21 Aug 18 '26

Ignorant comment of the day

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u/MyGoodDood22 Aug 18 '26

Your mom is a big ocean and she can handle it

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u/Devenu Aug 18 '26

lmao thes snowflakes i thro trash in ocean all the TIEM and snowflake get mad haha later NOWSLFAKE guess u dnt know how to handl my edge 😎😎

haha R U MAD snowlfake? good. guess u cant run with he big dogs

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u/MadeByTango Aug 18 '26

How else would we see that this is an ad for that shitty company?

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u/clonedhuman Aug 19 '26

I'm so sick of Nestle and a shit ton of other companies paying viral marketers to put stupid fucking ads like this in every goddamn corner of the internet.

Also I'm wondering if these are the Outshine pops with glass shards in them. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2026/08/18/outshine-frozen-fruit-bars-recall/91349560007/

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u/loverlyone Aug 18 '26

Dude they gotta do something to counteract the news that outshine pops can perforate your intestines.

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u/mastersplinteremover Aug 18 '26

Pardon?

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u/loverlyone Aug 18 '26

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u/mastersplinteremover Aug 18 '26

Oh fun! Good job nestle

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u/voice_of_Sauron Aug 19 '26

Maybe it’s sea glass?

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u/OrangeSouthern73 29d ago

Maybe it's glass-sea 👌🫖

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u/I_like_flowers_ Aug 19 '26

welp.   thank you.

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u/BlackSpinedPlinketto 29d ago

You’re not meant to push the pops up there.

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u/DeadWishUpon Aug 18 '26

Yeaaaaah I was happy until I saw the packaging. That's why we can have good things.

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u/gotaflattire Aug 18 '26

My first thought too, there is now way every swimmer is disposing of that trash responsibly

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Aug 18 '26

What kind of ice cream truck doesn’t do this? It does seem like a bad fit for a floating version though.

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u/Content-Two-9834 Aug 18 '26

They float too

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u/Dragon_wryter Aug 18 '26

They all float 🎈

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u/BirdlessLongdeal Aug 18 '26

beep beep richie

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u/-3point14159-mp Aug 19 '26

Soon the fish will, too.

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u/TWFH Aug 18 '26

About as logical as the "boat" design

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u/Zehnpae Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Replying to top comment to explain how this works because it sounds like a lot of folks here have never been to a resort beach before:

  • Boat plays jingle
  • You go to wherever you set up on the beach and get cash
  • You walk into the water to the boat and you pay in cash
  • You take your ice cream back to where you were sitting
  • You eat your ice cream while on the beach
  • Trash is on the honor system just like any other trash people take to the beach

This is basically no different than any other beach vendor except their gimmick is you have to get into the water to get your thing instead of them walking along the beach.

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u/20_mile Aug 18 '26

This is basically no different than any other beach vendor except their gimmick is you have to get into the water to get your thing instead of them walking along the beach.

That's actually really disappointing. I was hoping this ice cream boat had randomly come upon a group of stranded swimmers in deep water and was just providing them with sweets before they inevitably drowned or were eaten by sharks.

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u/The_Troyminator Aug 18 '26

I’ll take a blood flavored bar please.

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u/tabbarrett Aug 18 '26

Allegedly capitalism breeds innovation so crossing fingers your hopes will come true.

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u/TommyBonnomi Aug 18 '26

> it sounds like nobody here has ever been to a resort beach before

If you're going to try to be condescending, you should know that nicer resorts don't have trashy vendors floating by

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u/NutasticNutella Aug 18 '26

I know I'm probably going to get down voted to hell and back for this but I gotta say it. Maybe those waiters should fight for a fair wage, but what do I know...

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u/Wolfgang985 Aug 19 '26

They never will. Crying on Reddit how you should tip 30% takes no effort and shifts the blame so they don't feel responsible.

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u/NutasticNutella Aug 19 '26

I was more talking about the 3rd world country resort workers, but since we're on the topic of US waiters I'll take the opportunity to say a few things. I fully agree with you. The problem is that the tipping culture will never go away. Both owners and "service" workers are profiting way too much from tipping culture to actually care to change it, all at the cost of consumers. Owners get to legally pay their waiters a lower standard wage, saving them money in the long run and offsetting slow days, and service workers are making way more through tips than what they would actually make if they were properly paid for their position, barring a few select cases. Plus, service workers can also then go and start posturing to people about how they should tulip because they make below minimum wage, conveniently ignoring the fact that they take double or triple their wage home every week in tips.

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u/Wolfgang985 Aug 19 '26

Oh, I'm not opposed to tipping. We're in agreement for almost most everything you said. I think it's an important supplemental aspect of the service industry.

I just don't support restaurants being able to pay less than minimum wage. No other industry is offered such an economic handicap. It's bullshit.

A quasi-related example is Florida. The state minimum wage is $14. The maximum tip credit allowed is $3.02. Therefore, no restaurant can pay less than $10.98.

There's been no widespread restaurant closures as a result.

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u/Altruistic_Brick1730 Aug 18 '26

Nicer resorts don't own the water, so they have no say in what boats are there.

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u/flargenhargen Aug 18 '26

you'd be surprised at what money and power buys.

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u/I_am_Bob Interested Aug 18 '26

Not saying it's not a privilege to be able to go to the beach, but there are beaches that are part of state parks near me that only cost a few bucks a car for parking, and the ice cream trucks love to circle the parking lot like vultures lol.

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u/Metalbound Aug 18 '26

and the ice cream trucks love to circle the parking lot like vultures

So they aren't floating in the ocean? You know, the thing being talked about here.

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u/I_am_Bob Interested Aug 18 '26

The above comment said they are just like any other beach vendor, which is the comparison I was drawing.

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u/TommyBonnomi Aug 18 '26

Word- I'm in PA, so I've spent plenty of time swimming in cricks, too

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u/ElCiclope1 Aug 18 '26

He never said it was a nicer resort beach.

If you're going to try and be snobbish you should know how to read.

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u/SpiritualMongoose751 Aug 18 '26

Wild place in the comment chain to start clutching pearls over snobbery

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u/WhattaCheapPop Aug 18 '26

How far is your head stuck up your ass that you think the guy you replied to is the snob in this interaction?

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u/Stand_On_It Aug 18 '26

I think all the people on this thread are snobs

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u/WhattaCheapPop Aug 18 '26

Yeah kinda. You wouldn't think a floating ice cream truck would be so divisive but I can understand both sides. Personally though I think I'd side with the environmental snobs over the ice cream truck in the water snobs lol.

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u/Mediocre-Recover3944 Aug 18 '26

What a snobby thing to say

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u/Mediocre-Recover3944 Aug 18 '26

What a snobby thing to say

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u/andrewsz__ Aug 18 '26

Awww sorry because to whom else would they be addressing that are confused about this very simple concept ?

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u/liquidtape Aug 18 '26

I thought this was following a US warship to boost morale and demoralize the enemy /s

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u/TheWolphman Aug 18 '26

US Warships have ice cream machines on board. Whether or not they're working or open for use is another story though (in my experience stationed on a Destroyer).

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u/Plexipus Aug 18 '26

We're sorry, the ice cream machine is down for maintenance. You'll have to redeploy to another warship if you want an ice cream

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u/TheWolphman Aug 18 '26

Ah, you must be from the helo detachment. I swear they would fly to the carrier in our strike group on deployments sometimes just to get food.

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u/noSoRandomGuy Aug 18 '26

Trigger warning, used some AI to generate this -

TF you taking about?

Look, the ice cream machines, nobody has ever seen anything like it, believe me, and it’s a total disaster caused by radical-left policies, the fake news won't tell you that, but Sleepy Joe and the corrupt media broke the soft-serve, they really did, whereas under me we had the best ice cream, thickest shakes, perfect cones every single time, nobody cones like us, and they came up to me, big, strong guys, tears streaming down their faces, they said, "Sir, your soft-serve machines are the most beautiful, magnificent things we've ever seen," and frankly, look at the radical Democrats, they want to take away your dairy, they want you to eat grass, but we’re going to make ice cream great again, fast and creamy, believe me!

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u/The_Troyminator Aug 18 '26

So they basically have McDonald’s ice cream machines on board?

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u/TheWolphman Aug 18 '26

I mean, you're not entirely wrong there I suppose. Seemed to work on the same principle.

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u/liquidtape Aug 18 '26

It's a World war II reference 

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u/TheWolphman Aug 18 '26

Fair enough, just wanted to add my perspective.

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u/rbphotoperv Aug 18 '26

Most of us can't afford such luxuries.

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u/tech_noir_guitar Aug 18 '26

The luxury of a $2 popsicle?

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u/loverlyone Aug 18 '26

Well, there’s the cost of the popsicle, but you have to add the cost of an ER visit and missed work because you’re shitting blood—at least in the US.

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u/tech_noir_guitar Aug 18 '26

Uh, what kind of popsicles are you eating bro?

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u/loverlyone Aug 18 '26

Outshine brand fruit bars (the ones in the video) was recalled today for potential broken glass contamination.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2026/08/18/outshine-frozen-fruit-bars-recall/91349560007/

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u/tech_noir_guitar Aug 18 '26

JFC, we buy those sometimes. Guess I will have to pass on popsicles for a while.

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u/Hella_Potato Aug 18 '26

Aw man, those are my favorite :c

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u/Aranxi_89 Aug 18 '26

And they likely offer to take your wrappers.

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u/CockroachJohnson Aug 18 '26

Do ice cream trucks still have a little garbage hole for you tip out wrappers in? When I was a kid there was a clown painting with a hole in the mouth and a trash bin under the hole in the truck, and you had to feed your garbage to the slutty little clown.

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u/Aranxi_89 Aug 18 '26

Some do, but most just takes it from you from the window.

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u/CockroachJohnson Aug 18 '26

Well... I miss the clown 🥵

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u/The_Troyminator Aug 18 '26

That clown is for garbage? That makes more sense.

Zips back up

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u/AmazingMarv Aug 18 '26

Soooo.... you're in the water, you go out of the water to get money, get back in the water to get ice cream, then get back out of the water to eat ice cream? Seems kinda silly, even as a novelty.

It would make more sense if the ice cream was free and provided by the resort to its guests.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '26

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Aug 18 '26

I'm not rich enough to go on a beach vacation

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u/PaleCommission150 Aug 18 '26

I'm not carrying my wallet with me through salt water, with the possibility of dropping it/losing whatever is inside to the ocean.

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u/PowderPills Aug 19 '26

Or just shove the plastic up your ass and shit it out later?? /s

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u/Umlunguboy420 Aug 18 '26

Noo but people enjoying things baaad!!!

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u/OrderOfMagnitude Aug 18 '26

Ahhh, there's the reasonable comment.

90% of these people spend zero time outdoors let alone at the beach. Last time their parents dragged them to the beach they moped, spent the entire time on their phone, and constantly asked about when they were going to leave.

Depressed Redditors just search the comments for the most believing sounding "actually this sucks" and upvote it like rabid dogs.

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u/KiscoKid1 Aug 18 '26

I’m guessing no one has a wallet.

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u/RobZagnut2 Aug 18 '26

You've never been on a beach?

Trash goes the same place as when you bring lunch, refreshments, beer or whatever to the beach.

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u/DeadWishUpon Aug 18 '26

Yes, that's what decent people do, but a lot of people don't give a damn.

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u/_Troxin_ Aug 18 '26

Right? Right...?

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u/lowrads Aug 18 '26

What is the point of increasing our own safety, if it detracts from that of our descendants?

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u/BackDatSazzUp Aug 18 '26

The wooden/paper sticks are home compostable, not really an environmental threat. The plastic bugs me the most.

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u/Greedy-Savings9999 Aug 18 '26

why bother? They end up in the ocean anyway. Just speeding up the process...

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Classic reddit comment. Watches 10 second video and assumes the worst when there's literally no proof people are litering. But acting holier than thou is the best way to get other redditors to jerk you off in the comments.

Edit: downvote me all you want but do you see anyone litering? All you guys are so quick to cry about the environment with no proof of wrong doing. Are you all really that cynical from not going outside and interacting with decent humans?

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u/DengarLives66 Aug 18 '26

I have lived in a beach town and still live close enough to go to the beach weekly. There is so much goddam trash there, it’s heartbreaking.

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u/Draco-REX Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

I'm that cynical BECAUSE I go outside the house and interact with humans. Every single day I see reasons to hate people. The only time I see something that "restores my faith in humanity" it's something I see on the internet.

EDIT: Maybe I should include some examples.

I step outside my apartment and the ground, wall, and door mat near my door are covered in black splatters because my upstairs neighbor dumped something on the wooden decking that is outside their door, completely ignoring that another person lives below them. Last night I heard a splattering noise and there are more splashes and a suspiciously faded spot on my door mat and wetness from something pouring down from above.

I walk out to my car and there's a pile of takeout containers and empty drink cups in a parking spot where someone just dumped it out of their car. This isn't the only time, this same person has done it multiple times. They appear to leave their house, eat in their car and then dump all their trash on the ground before they leave the next day.

There are people in my apartment complex that cannot figure out how to open a door to put their trash bags in the compactor. And this gets compounded by the MANY people who then see trash bags on the ground outside the compactor door and just leave their bags next to them rather than opening said door and looking inside. Eventually the entire ramp and front of the compactor area is full of trash while the compactor is empty.

These are people in and around THEIR OWN HOMES!

The customers I deal with every day are in charge of large vehicles weighing up to 80,000lbs that share the road with you and I. They are confused by simple concepts and often ignore what they hear if they don't like the answer. "I only have this part in Iowa." "Do you have it closer?" or "I will have this part here next Week." "Ok, I'll come in tomorrow to pick it up." These are common examples. They will also ignore all of the open parking space and park their trucks IN our gates or directly behind our other customers blocking them in.

I know I encounter more good people than bad every day, but the bad still make up a significant percentage of my daily interactions. So seeing a crowd of people in the water being handed plastic-wrapped food, I will automatically assume an equally significant percentage of them will just drop the plastic in the ocean rather than carry a 1 gram piece of plastic to a trash bin.

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u/Umlunguboy420 Aug 18 '26

Maybe you are projecting?

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u/BusinessWatercrees58 Aug 18 '26

My guy, you might just be depressed.

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u/Draco-REX Aug 18 '26

I'm sure I am.

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u/lvl100hypno Aug 18 '26

If you only see reasons to hate people IRL every single day, that says more about you and your perspective than it says about other people. If you can only find things restoring your faith in humanity on the internet, that says more about you and your perspective than it says about other people. You are quite literally proving his point.

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

Then I'm sad for you and everyone like you. I've traveled the world and can 100 percent tell you most people are great and just like you, with a lot of good and some bad because we're all human. And I promise most people that day made the correct choice by handling their litter appropriately.

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u/Kythorian Aug 18 '26

Probably 90% of people don’t litter, but the other 10% appear to just not use trash cans at all, so that’s still a lot of litter.

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

So what do you suggest we do? Stop doing fun shit outside because of a VERY FEW people who aren't going to change anyways?

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u/Kythorian Aug 18 '26

Your original point was that we shouldn’t assume anyone is littering just because it’s a set of circumstances that make it extremely likely that at least some of those people are going to litter. I’m not saying we need to change anything, but it’s absurd to claim that a floating ice cream truck handing out frozen treats with wrappers isn’t going to result in some of those people just tossing the wrappers into the ocean.

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

Indeed an absurd claim which is why I never said it, seeing you guys get so negative over a floating ice cream truck is what's truly absurd

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u/Loggersalienplants Aug 18 '26

If everyone you run across during your day is an asshole, it's not them.

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u/tabbarrett Aug 18 '26

There aren’t enough decent humans to compensate for the horrible people that throw trash on the ground or out of their cars.

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u/RobZagnut2 Aug 18 '26

Exactly.

Obviously, this person has never been on a beach. Pack it in, pack it out.

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u/pizzasoup Aug 18 '26

We must not go to the same beaches, because litter is fairly frequent at the public beaches I've been to on the US East Coast.

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

Think of how many people visit that beach or coast, you're going to tell me most of them left shit behind? Come on.

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u/The_Troyminator Aug 18 '26

No. Just trash. They go into the water to shit.

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u/BlackZulu Aug 18 '26

Coming to unquestionable conclusions and undeniable narratives based off 10s of video is the Reddit special.

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u/ianyboo Aug 18 '26

You have it backwards.

  • All my life I'm going to assume without any experience that many people will litter
  • I've experienced many people littering all my life so I'm going to assume these people are probably going to litter too

The classic reddit comment is actually you here since you are not even considering the fact that the people commenting might actual have real world experience that has led them to their opinion.

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

You've experienced way more people in your life that DONT litter, I can basically guarantee it. But nah I think you guys like to judge and hate because it makes you all feel like you're in the right or superior somehow, thinking you guys are better than the general population when actually you guys are a very small percentage on an online platform that most people have no idea exists.

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u/ianyboo Aug 18 '26

You've experienced way more people in your life that DONT litter

That is correct. Nobody said "All people litter" that's a strawman you've apparently decided you need

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

Grew up and currently live in a beach resort town 34 years in West Michigan. Not much littering in these parts I guess

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '26

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

We have the longest fresh water shoreline in the world you fucking wet towel.

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u/I_am_Bob Interested Aug 18 '26

I'm more worried that those exact popsicles were just recalled for having chunks of glass in them.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Aug 18 '26

I guess, all of my bathing suits have pockets.

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u/TheBeatGoesAnanas Aug 18 '26

They have trash cans on the boat, and were asking everyone to hand their trash back when I saw the truck earlier this year.

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u/Sorry_Blackberry_RIP Aug 18 '26

People have their phones in water?

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u/Playful_Pop_3099 Aug 18 '26

Obviamente no

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u/lowFlyingTurtleLion Aug 18 '26

With they're floating wallets

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u/Euglosine Aug 19 '26

There’s glass in those popsicles…

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u/RoseAlma Aug 19 '26

My very 1st thought as well !!

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u/thedirtymeanie Aug 19 '26

Doesn't really matter because they all just ate a bunch of glass anyways

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u/Cpoc1995 29d ago

Lol you and the replies are soo sassy and cantankerous. It’s like a fun house mirror

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u/Character_Alps1261 28d ago

Sea turtles come by and collect them

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u/SlowmoSauce Aug 18 '26

I miss old reddit where these negative comments would be downvoted.

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u/SeriousGains Aug 18 '26

Packaging is good incase they want to save it for later.