DonQuixoteDonFlamingo
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This is some John Henry shit right here.
Feb 9, 2016 4:16 PM
DonQuixoteDonFlamingo
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This is some John Henry shit right here.
GoldenFloor8
This guy is one bad mother fucker
loooo8asdf
Seems it would be easier to start a hospital
vauhtihirmu
If you're flowing in money it is. For a poor village it's probably easier to clear the mountain than gather the money for the hospital.
AgentDucky42
Hello, my name is Dashrath Manjhi. You killed my wife. Prepare to die.
LADYTHUNDER777
Why doesn't think have more likes. Lol
leeloumultipass
Princess Bride?
AgentDucky42
Princess Bride.
thegreatninjaman
that probably could have taken half as long if people helped him.
vauhtihirmu
In the comic it seems like people did with him doing most of the work. It also seems like the village is a poor one, and people might not(1)
vauhtihirmu
have the time or energy to help since much of it is already devoted to keeping their family from starvation. (2/2)
jnet1985
Not so secret tunnel?
onemilliondollars
Just like that dude in pokemon.
LukeDeVari
What?
Schmuck4hire
Yeah, but that was more just to get some alone time with his girlfriend. Not quite as noble... XD
Elphienis
And all he had to do was break a rock he could of walked around
worldsokayestspeler
Could've*
dizzyturtle
I think the distances are off. From Wiki: Dashrath shortened travel between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya town from 55km to 15km
norrec
single-handed? the dude's got two hands! This makes me question everything
Talonotw
Pretty sure he just crushed it with the weight of his massive balls
rollingdashacredotcom
Hey Das. What are you going to do today? Same thing I do every day...try to take over the world! And also fuck this mountain up a bit
JJWoodSculpture
In America he would still be waiting for permits and approval of his environmental impact statement.
Mooxim
Yeah so what? That's like the first thing I did in Minecraft.
fartharder
How u mine fish?
Artebudz
That was certainly a mountain of work to get through.
AxelSss
Wouldn't it have been quicker to build a hospital in their own village?
KainYusanagi
Sure would. Now, who's gonna be the doctor? ...Yeah, that's what I thought.
AlwaysTrustTheManInABigWhiteVan
http://imgur.com/UWyZCd3 my nigga
Rickman1945
You're just making a mountain out of a mole hill.
pyronyzen
Correction, he made two mountains out of one
DrumbobHittypants
Correction: he made a molehill out of a mountain!
NetworkDude
When you put your mind to something, I mean REALLY put your mind to something, you can do some amazing shit. Never give up.
EnemaBucket
Why didn't they just use noclip?
vauhtihirmu
Asking the real questions right here!
azazyel
Instead of bringing the mountain to muhammad he just said, fuck this mountain.
PARCOE
What the fuck are you saying ?
Mcknizzle
That is the Manji Pass now.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
[Citation needed] "After 22 years of work, Dashrath shortened travel between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya town from 55km to 15km"
recycle4science
STILL PRETTY FREAKIN IMPRESSIVE
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
No doubt about that.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi "path 360 ft long, 30 ft wide and 25 ft high through a hillock using only a hammer and chisel"
Shadeslayer2806
They're making a Bollywood movie on this guy's life story.
IOnceOwnedMoonMoonButOnceHeTriedToLickMyBallsAndRanAwayIMissHim
They already did. Its called Manjhi.
norrec
if this 'mountain' was only 360ft wide and 25ft high, why couldn't they just hike over that? wouldn't that take like 10 minutes?
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
I thought so too. Dig a half-height canyon and a ramp on both sides with the stuff digged out. Must be more to the story, I guess.
DavidAndrews
If you google map Dasrath Manjhi Road it's way more easy to see why this was helpful.
afriendofmine
It seems the wife died _because_ of hiking that. It seems to be super steep, which makes it pretty dangerous.
norrec
ah, so it was the comic about a sick wife and running _around_ the mountain that was misleading. my bad
DavidAndrews
the injury that caused his wife's death was hiking an unsafe path over the mountains to bring him lunch.
SlowMoE30
yeah, well I look at cat pictures.... so....
MrRandom314159
To him, the mountain murdered his wife. So he murdered the mountain.
L3mmiwinkz
Get a diamond pickaxe next time
hitshappens
But then, he walked 1000 Km to the capital to tell the government to pave the road he carved out.
TylerTheAnarchist
Yes because paving the road is such a difficult task you must asked the government to do it for you. But clearing a mountain? No problem.
hitshappens
A) don't be so pretentious. B) If you live in rural india, and you have no idea how to pave a road, it's pretty damn hard.
LoTRFanatic42
No one with him was dying on that journey.
Malkiot
That 'mountain' doesn't look like anything you'd need to go around. Go over it.
hitshappens
Yea...ambulances can't go over that. The mountain took 2-3 hours to climb over and the same amount of time to drive around.
Malkiot
How does a 100m thick, 8m high mountain take 3 hours to traverse. I get that a sick person couldn't traverse it on their own, nor 1/?
Malkiot
an ambulance but transporting someone with a stretcher(ICE)? A picture of the original hillock would be nice.2/2
TresusIbor
Eh, I can imagine groups of healthy individuals, but holy shit there's no way a stretcher would result in anything but more injuries.
ZaWithDude
That doesn't look very big... was going OVER it like entirely impossible?
vauhtihirmu
All the surfaces on it look very steep. Unless you're Spider-Man or have mountain climbing gear, you're not going over it. And you're not(1)
vauhtihirmu
going to risk the possibly only doctor in the region dying from a climbing accident even if you have the gear. (2/2)
ZaWithDude
Thought about that. How hard would the return be. It didn't look like Everest style big from the photo, more like rural giant hill big. Eh.
infaredbeam
that looks pretty climbable... i would climb up and over vs the 70 km run to the tune of foggy mountain breakdown
NuclearNinjaruu
Looks more like a hill than a mountain :S
RexFury
Yea theres got to be some part thats not too hard to climb over
Aelinsaar
Technical term is "Hillock", so yes. Still incredibly impressive.
Blacole1985
Look at all his free time without a people nagging him...
ShamelessOToole
Poor English and badmouthing someone's actual dead wife.. 1200 upvotes. Wow.
Blobpie
Absolutely barbaric
theballsareonyourface
Fucking neanderthal level of savage
ruferto
you're not wrong, but you're mad wrong
5aminsd
dude...
repostforupvotes
He should have just gotten naggers to do the work for him.
Patilistan
http://i.qkme.me/3r6n42.jpg
theredbully
Not a single people, wow must be nice
ICanSeeForever
Yeah but he probably forgot to take out 22years worth of garbage...
Ander49
Holy. FUCK.
Satinsball
I'd be twice the doctor, but I certainly wouldn't be a spouse....
captianfabulous
Damn.
PenisFacts
Trigger!!!!!
PenisFacts
I commented trigger because it was in the actual post, I now realise by commenting it on another comment I seem a fool. My bad!
Devante
hashtag livin the dream
srymissclick
loool
barfburger
savage
Idonthavealottosay
My first thought
HiMyNameIsSavage
I confirm
Zokathra
As a married man I get this. I'm not laughing, though.
AnythingMuchShorter
No, we're not really allowed to laugh anymore. Unless its some shit she's relaying from a chat with Allison and Wendy, then it's mandatory
Pyrohawk
She's near isn't she?
Zokathra
She's never far. Except emotionally.
Ihmhi
bruh.
TheGreenFairy
I'm a wife and I shouldn't have laughed at this. But I did.
Zosoled
Bruh.
sendmeyourhuskys
Muh heart
Maniacxxl
That hit too close to home.
StarlessSky
It would have been so nice if someone helped out with some heavy machinery... See also the power cube project.
stygyan
The power cube should've stayed under the ice, Nick.
InfinitusEquitas
Or just some drills, and explosives. Seems like the kind of job a village can tackle in a week.
StarlessSky
Explosives can be pretty dangerous.. Shrapnel, etc.
Khyron2k
Given the apparent poverty I wonder if the reason he did it himself is because he owned the only pickaxe in the village.
vauhtihirmu
From the story I gather it was a very poor village. Unless someone cared enough to give them tools and/or hire a company to do the work (1)
vauhtihirmu
they're likely not getting those tools. (2/2)
InfinitusEquitas
I would agree, except that stonework is something that has been done with very few tools historically, so even if it were the case, I think
InfinitusEquitas
doing that same work alone.
InfinitusEquitas
it would have been better for the guy to focus the energy otherwise. A 100 people can do much more more, faster together than one guy
irrimn
And it could have been done in just a few minutes with enough explosives...
AromaTaint
"Hello USA, I know where is cave with terrorist"
MinisterOfSillyWalkies
Oh, first world problem solvers.
warick
This is exactly how we became the first world!
BlankMage
"I don't see why we need explosives. Can't we just build another hospital next to the sick people?"
afriendofmine
I feel so disgusted by having chuckled at this. First world people are sometimes ridiculously unaware of the reality of the rest of us, haha
MinisterOfSillyWalkies
In-fucking-deed!
InfinitusEquitas
Yup, admirable as this was, explosives would have gotten the job done in days. But then again, rural india, he literally might not know.
slowthinkerfastdrinker
And this was in the 50s.
elpher
Before dynamite and whatever
Cheomesh
I am 300% sure he isn't allowed said things.
InfinitusEquitas
Maybe not traditional high powered explosives, but he could have found out how to become allowed, or worked to get someone who is...
InfinitusEquitas
or experimented with other alternatives... besides explosives are not exactly uncommon in a farming setting.
verotica
this is rural India, the farmers don't all have guns and they have lions to deal with i don't think many will have explosives.
InfinitusEquitas
Do they have gasoline? Barring even that could he not get a drill, some wood and water?
afriendofmine
This is like the 50s rural India. I don't mean to be an asshole, but how was he supposed to learn all this, assuming he even knew howto read
InfinitusEquitas
Why assume that he didn't? Even if he didn't he could learn to read first. I don't mean to take away from what he did, it's amazing, just
InfinitusEquitas
labor.
InfinitusEquitas
seems that with that level of motivation he could have done it faster with application of of something other than just personal manual
Starsfreaky
There's an old American legend, forgot the name, where a black man with a sledge hammer went up against a steam engine to keep his job.
somethinclever
Yeah.. I can't quite place the name.
devo27
the name is in the text under the last picture...
Starsfreaky
So it is. I didn't recognize it cause I couldn't remember the name.
BroJustDont
Lol you remind me of me
GothamsHeckling
John Henry. John Henry! JOHN HENRY WAS A MIGHTY MAN!
RelativeVelocity
Born with a hammer, born with a hammer right in his hand!!
Nalikill
"Before I let your steam drill beat me down, I'll die with this hammer in my hand." Has stuck with me throughout my life, the power of work.
ekwalters
a steam SHOVEL, I think it was.
Anonaru
There was a steam shovel that became part of a building. The comment is about John Henry
Starsfreaky
He won, but died.
AFelineMassofEyes
Remember him when someone insists "hard work never killed anyone!"
BlankMage
I always felt like he kind of lost in that regard.
AsYetUntitled
That's pretty much what the Luddites did. They failed too.
phasmafelis
Luddites didn't hate machines. They hated abusive bosses. Bosses pretended they hated machines to make them look bad.
dpidcoe
ha! That's exactly what a machine-hating luddite would want people to think.
betaborp
There is a Pixar short about him, John Henry. It's on Canadian Netflix (not sure about America, sorry, eh)
ThatWeirdGirlInTheFront
I saw it recently. I had never heard that legend before (I am American) and I was enthralled!
n7warrior
I'm in america and saw it in part of a short films collection.
ggfk
It's in the collection with Frozen Fever
iguessihaveto
Just gonna leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO7hVfRi8Ro
happyenough
That song it well known in the UK too I think. I learnt about it as a kid.. Its a beautiful song.
Heavyoak
I saw that movie in highschool.
dookieshootz69
born with 20 pound hammer right in his hand
MhuzLord
John Henry was a steel-driving man...
turkeydonkey
lordy, lordy
sobeboy31
I really hope this is a reference to the "the day john Henry died" by the drive by truckers
SaintMaceToTheFace
Johns Henry was a Mighty man, Yes sir!
Lunakat504
He was born with a hammer in his hand
initialo
Who never really gave a damn, only thing he worked on was his tan
SadFaceHappyFace
.
shaftinferno
Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man.
AMartianPotato
Always upvote Martian references.
tastelesshuman
John Aaron is the original and real life 'Steely-eyed missile man'.
AppalachianAdventurer
As someone who was in elementary school in West Virginia.... This was drilled into our heads (pun intended.)
MageFace
I grew up in California, we got it a lot here too. And Paul Bunion(sp) & his blue ox Babe (I think) and Johnny Appleseed.
hsummer32
There's a pretty good Disney short about it
waynethainsane
And the movie Tall Tale!
Halosos
Anyone got a source that works in the UK?
n7warrior
On Netflix
TheOriginalYeti
And a good Futurama episode!!!
MessageMeYourDickPicks
don't forget spongebob
strawberrycocoa
You dare neglect Saul of the Molemen?!?!
flipjum
Is that the one with the country songs?
TheOriginalYeti
Yep!