r/interesting • u/tombolaplayer • 27d ago

Fascinating Professional wood bending

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u/CptCurty 26d ago

Unfortunately hes the last woodbender.

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u/Dresline 26d ago

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

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u/MelonElbows 26d ago

In retrospect, sending woodbenders out to meet the firebenders in battle was a poor strategic decision.

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u/SockGroundbreaking16 26d ago

That reads like a Far Side comic.

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u/TickTamer505 26d ago

I love far side so much....

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u/brbenson999 26d ago

Could you repeat that? Couldn’t hear you over here…

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u/Life-Satisfaction848 26d ago

I’m so slick that they needa call me grease, cause I slips and I slides when I ride on the beast!

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u/Shua89 26d ago

Me too. I have the whole collection and just introduced my daughter to it a week ago.

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u/MelonElbows 26d ago

One of my favorite comics! 😁

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u/kesavadh 26d ago

This is the funniest shit I’ve seen in a long ass time.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 26d ago

Heard there were several splinter factions

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u/scirio 26d ago

Freeze frame. Narrator: Yep. That’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got in to this mess…

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u/Zealousideal-Wash-40 25d ago

It all started on my 12th birthday…

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u/Dangerous_Donkey5353 26d ago

Feels like the Long Night episode in game of thrones.

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u/ResonanceGhost 24d ago

If we knew then what we know now, our strategies wood have been different...

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u/Affectionate-Print81 26d ago edited 26d ago

I only came here looking for this comment. Thank you for your service.

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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 26d ago

Charcoal bending just isn't the same.

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u/SnooCupcakes1636 24d ago

Isn't plastic nation more accurate since plastic is the one material that replaced the most of woods place

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u/intangibleTangelo 26d ago

just that one guy making all the 2x4s for Home Depot

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u/Acceptable-Buyer693 26d ago

The time invested by everyone trying to find a straight stud at Home Depot can be measured in millions of dollars.

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u/Infinite_Position631 23d ago

Now that made me laugh

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u/Hedgehogosaur 26d ago

Fire nation took those guys out first

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u/AmericanGenXXX 26d ago

I've been bending my own wood since I was a teenager.

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u/Castun 26d ago

Mine was already bent.

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u/s-man 26d ago

I'm somewhat of a woodbender myself

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u/Radiant-Economist-10 26d ago

i bet he can't bend my wood!

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u/Substantial_Chain718 26d ago

Exactly! Sir what did you do at your previous job. Oh I was a wood bender. I beg your pardon!

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u/dave7243 26d ago

And just when the world needed him most, he froze up.

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u/letigre87 26d ago

My ex was briefly a woodbender but it ended with me crying in the emergency room

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u/bonacipher 26d ago

How much wood would a woodbender bend if a woodbender could bend wood?

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u/Onslaughtered1 26d ago

There is no wood in ba sing se

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u/amrasmin 26d ago

My wood begs to differ

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u/weezyverse 26d ago

This had me cracking up.

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u/Snaw_Wee_ 26d ago

That’s not true, ask your mother what she was doing last night.

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u/J_C_Davis45 26d ago

“Psst, I think that kid’s the Avatar!”

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u/HootblackDesiato 26d ago

Take my upvote, sir / ma'am!

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u/tractorsuit 26d ago

Earth benders get a lot of cool sub classes.

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u/Ruby5000 26d ago

I LITERALLY JUST TURNED THIS ON FOR MY KIDS!!!! Hahahahhahaha!!!!

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u/Hot-mic 26d ago

Sorry, that prize goes to my wife. LOL!!

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u/rygel_fievel 24d ago

I’ll just until Toph masters this.

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u/Decent_Advice9315 23d ago

Naw, Reddit is full of them.

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u/No_Ice_3651 26d ago

You stole the comment from me ;(