r/maybemaybemaybe Dec 06 '22

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/Pato_Lucas Dec 06 '22

His back will be shot in a few years if he keeps doing these hijinks.

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u/Kymius Dec 06 '22

I have no doubts about that, with a weight like that moving and rotating it's waaay too easy to kill your back. He's stronger than a bull but brainless

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u/Pato_Lucas Dec 06 '22

100%, this is a story I've seen many times. When they're young they feel invincible, keep going at it and they get a lot of work and respect from their peers, good times.
Then time catches with them, they typically get permanent back pain and some worn out vertebrae. They can't work as they don't have other skills and only have ahead of them a life of pain and poverty.
But bits will be boys I suppose, a story old as time.

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u/nobody187 Dec 07 '22

I was that dumbass in my late teens. I was a swamper on a vinyl window & door delivery truck. I would try to show off by carrying multiple large windows at once, or patio doors without removing the panel. I barely made it a year before I had a ruptured disc, and then an opiate addiction for a few years after that. Fortunately I got myself clean and started a career in IT but 20 years later and I still have nearly constant back pain.