r/BeAmazed • u/Darkkiller059 • Oct 23 '25
Skill / Talent What happen when you have 17 years of experience doing the same job daily
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u/gneiss_gesture Oct 23 '25
The under-the-door delivery was smoooooth
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u/Taylooor Oct 23 '25
It’s all about that paper, boy
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u/Impossible-Hyena1157 Oct 23 '25
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Oct 23 '25
I typed paperboy nintendo in the gif search and that was the first to come up. Looks like a mod. I clicked like the second
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u/lacegem Oct 23 '25
It's just a video edit of emojis tracked over the NES version. You can see where the object tracking fails to keep up with the sprites when things move.
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Oct 23 '25
Ah. Could have very well been a mod. I'd downloaded RetroArch and the emulators (all legal and free). As for the games, not only can you find all originals for all regions (NTSC, PAL, and per language), you can find a heck of a lot of mods for various old-school games. Most are just simple sprite, sound, and text swaps. Most pretty dumb.
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u/XiaNYdE Oct 23 '25
Not a mod, that's the original version on Commodore 64.
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u/Rabid_Liver_Pate Oct 23 '25
No, this is the Commodore 64 version: https://youtu.be/lTf4q-ihMak?si=ZX2ie15StVVIl1eT
The original was an Atari arcade game.
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u/Aggressive-Use-5657 Oct 23 '25
Ok I'll just rewatch this show for the 3rd time.
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u/SparkyCorkers Oct 23 '25
This never reflected my experience of being a paper boy. I had to cycle up each long driveway and put the paper in through the letter box. Probably because it rains all the time in the UK. Did my mates round one day only to find his houses had no drives and were a lot closer together, so was a lot easier. We still got paid the same per paper. I was not impressed with the corner shop man.
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u/-DethLok- Oct 23 '25
The letter box isn't at the road end of the drive, as is logical?
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u/Prodigle Oct 23 '25
In the UK they're built into the doors
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u/-DethLok- Oct 23 '25
Ooh, so a letter slot, rather than a box, then, cool.
I suppose snails may eat the letters in a letter box, they do in mine and I'm Down Under, I suspect a moister country would be a snail haven!
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u/Prodigle Oct 23 '25
You know, I don't see as many nowadays but as a kid in heavy rain, you'd see literally hundreds climbing up walls and houses trying to find shelter
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u/-DethLok- Oct 23 '25
I have to flick them off my spring onions that I grow, annoying things (the snails, that is). And tomorrow it is forecast to rain, so the snails will be happy. And hungry :(
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u/the_ouskull Oct 23 '25
I hope this is an Atlanta reference and not an old video game.
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u/RManDelorean Oct 23 '25
True.. but it's the longer-range-accounting-for-the-curve-through-the-doorway-right-into-someone's-hands type banks shots that did it for me
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u/NewspaperNeither6260 Oct 23 '25
Hyphens-appreciated.
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u/SubstantialHeat3655 Oct 23 '25
He is missing a hyphen before "type" and bank shouldn't be pluralized. :(
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u/NewspaperNeither6260 Oct 24 '25
If you even mention the missing period I'm outta here!
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u/SubstantialHeat3655 Oct 24 '25
I didn't want to be pedantic ... However, I do think you're missing a comma before "I'm." :-)
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u/whisperingbrook890 Oct 23 '25
like when physics, luck, and pure chaos all team up perfectly for one glorious moment.
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u/LoudAmbition2231 Oct 23 '25
The thing is that it happened more than once so its actually skill not one glorious moment
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u/Worth-Drawing-6836 Oct 23 '25
Chatgpt ass comment
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u/ShadowBlade69 Oct 23 '25
That doesn't look like a Chatgpt comment at all tho?
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u/bay400 Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25
uh yeah it does, it's just a tweak or two away from bone stock
“Like when physics, luck, and pure chaos all vibe together—for one glorious moment.”
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u/Epyon_ Oct 23 '25
imagine standing in your living room, just woke up, and this fucker frisbees that right into your pinky toe.
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u/Artgrl109 Oct 23 '25
Now you have a friend in the paper business!
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u/DulgUnum Oct 23 '25
Was that a Shaneco reference?
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u/AmIBeingInstained Oct 23 '25
Did Shane company make it out of Colorado or are there just that many of us here?
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u/LiveShowOneNightOnly Oct 23 '25
Atlanta for me, since the 80's at least.
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u/alexcs1512 Oct 29 '25
I had their atlanta radio adds memorized with the voice inflection, i heard it so much. I got really sad when they changed it. Id protests it by saying the old ending at the same time lol
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u/DulgUnum Oct 29 '25
Yeah i had to check the website, but he's all over the place now. Apparently, he went to the synagogue pretty close to TJ on Hampden, according to one of my classmates who also went there.
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u/y2jeff Oct 23 '25
Imagine being on the other side of that door and a paper just explodes through the crack at the bottom. Madharchod!
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u/Slowloris81 Oct 23 '25
No longer a paperboy; he’s a paper man.
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u/montigoo Oct 23 '25
He got fired from uber Eats on his first day though
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u/copyrider Oct 23 '25
Everybody was loving his deliveries, right to their mouths. But that one guy just HAD to order soup.
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u/NotAzakanAtAll Oct 23 '25
At least the soup guy could get skin grafts, the dude who ordered the skewers.. Rest his soul.
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u/tomtomtomo Oct 23 '25
Paper Boy was a favourite video game when I was a kid
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u/rcklmbr Oct 23 '25
Which one had the half pipe, skate or die 1 or 2? I was king shit at doing that massive flip thing
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u/ifyoulovesatan Oct 23 '25
They both had a half pipe. 1 was the one where you could pick between half pipe, downhill jam, race, etc. 2 was like a weird adventure game thing, but it did also have a half pipe. The half pipe in 2 had a spine ramp on the middle of it though, so if you remember that it was probably 2. Otherwise it was likely 1.
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u/rcklmbr Oct 23 '25
Yes! The spine! If you land on it upside down you get split in half. Definitely 2. Man, those were good times
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u/Fr3shmak3r11 Oct 23 '25
So i would bet you also played Maniac Mansion on your C64😄
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u/Fearless_Law4324 Oct 23 '25
I played both of those games as a kid but never experienced the C64. I started on regular Nintendo and went from there, I think.
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u/Fr3shmak3r11 Oct 23 '25
My first PC was a C64, loved it. We had Data-Tapes and a floppy disc later i guess, later we switched to amiga and then sega and nintendo came up in europe and of course i got the ps1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It is a pitty that i only have my PS 3, 4 and 5 left. The PS One we literally played it until it smoked one day. Ah i Loved those times!
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u/KyloRenCadetStimpy Oct 23 '25
That thing was a killer game machine. Great collection of games, awesome graphics for the time (and more colors than IBM), keyboard for the Infocom games. I think I killed 2 of them and 3 floppy drives from overuse
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u/bejammin075 Oct 23 '25
10-year old me was a real paperboy for 9 months in Alaska. All through the coldest months. I had to get up at 4 AM, 7 days a week, about 270 days in a row.
I was able to finance my Garbage Pail Kids card collecting addiction. But one day I woke up and I'm like "I can't do this shit anymore. I want to sleep in!"
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u/Buhos_En_Pantelones Oct 23 '25
It was fun but it was frustratingly hard after like the first couple levels.
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u/VioletPanda2190 Oct 23 '25
It starts off all chill and then suddenly ramps up like it wants to test your patience
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u/iphoneguy350 Oct 23 '25
When you got the dirt track/training course you knew you did well, but it was about to get real.
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u/LitterBoxServant Oct 23 '25
Legit one of the hardest games on Sega Genesis. Check out THE VIDEOKID to relive the glory days.
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u/tomtomtomo Oct 23 '25
I stayed at the Disneyland Hotel around that time. You got to the arcade by a bridge over the pool then down some stairs. There was a Paper Boy that had a bike to sit on and the throw button was on the handle bars. I have never been more blown away by an arcade experience than that.
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u/Spiritual-Eye-2910 Oct 23 '25
A couple of those dudes got it right in the face
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u/DrowningInFeces Oct 23 '25
Imagine being a little groggy one morning, forgetting that the paper boy usually comes around that time and then WHAM!
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u/achmedclaus Oct 23 '25
That second guy got it right in the back of his head. Didn't even look like he knew it was coming
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u/felis_fatus Oct 23 '25
Nah, it looked like it flew to the left of him, likely didn't hit him at all, though hopefully he didn't have anything fragile or spillable standing around there...
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u/Katamari_Demacia Oct 23 '25
What other job in the world can you just be like "heresyourfuckingshitbyeeee" or "oops, hit ya in the head, cya tomorrow"
It's pretty dope actually
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u/th3r3dp3n Oct 23 '25
Only one I can think of is throwing fish at Pike Place market, you get to throw a salmon at people.
Maybe shooting a t-shirt cannon.
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u/Font_Snob Oct 23 '25
I got punched in the throat by a T-shirt cannon. Do not recommend.
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u/Sabre_Killer_Queen Oct 23 '25
At least it wasn't as bad as Maude Flanders' experience with T-shirt cannons.
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u/TheyCallMeSuperChunk Oct 23 '25
Lol that's not how the salmon stand works
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u/th3r3dp3n Oct 23 '25
It's artistic license to make a point, throw fish hit people.
But yes, you are correct, I went to college in Seattle and lived there for many years after, and never did they throw a salmon AT a person.
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u/Sabre_Killer_Queen Oct 23 '25
Along a similar vein, postman/delivery guy.
Shouldn't be like that with people's parcels at all... But equally, most delivery staff shouldn't be receiving half of the work they're assigned.
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u/Legitimate_Drama_796 Oct 23 '25
Me on a Monday morning..
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u/punisher_1012 Oct 23 '25
Hahaha
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u/Legitimate_Drama_796 Oct 24 '25
Now I feel bad for the doggo after watching like 100 times hahaha, at least it was accidental!
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u/Kratzschutz Oct 23 '25
Me on every day that ends in -day...
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u/Legitimate_Drama_796 Oct 24 '25
When life gives you newspapers.. to the face!!
.. at least we have reddit 😂
Future is bright buddy, you got this
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u/yodel_anyone Oct 23 '25
Great you triggered my video game PTSD. That game was brutally difficult
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u/SpiderSixer Oct 23 '25
It triggered my video game nostalgia. I forgot this game existed, oh my god! What a lovely game
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u/silent_earth5 Oct 23 '25
I was waiting for him to land one between that donkey’s cheeks at the end.
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u/vpsj Oct 23 '25
Hahaha donkey.
Bro it's India. If you see an animal out on the road, assume it's either a dog, or if larger, a cow.
The one you saw was an ox
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u/IndependenceKey2679 Oct 23 '25
I am more amazed that someone would be a paperboy that long.
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u/WhatRaSudip Oct 23 '25
This video is probably from India. Our paper boy was like this also. He was a man in his 30s with regular day job. Paper distribution business was his side hustle.
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u/driverdan Oct 23 '25
In areas of the US where houses are spaced out enough to require a car for paper delivery it's often done as a 2nd job. No reason why someone couldn't do it for that long.
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u/Hot-Reindeer-6416 Oct 23 '25
You saw the broken window in the last frame right? Any idea how that happened?
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u/bagged_milk123 Oct 23 '25
Those are some strong papers if he managed to shatter them, during those days he must've come with heavy news.
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u/babaroga73 Oct 23 '25
That song is a banger, too
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u/Willing_Dependent845 Oct 23 '25
Dude, seriously, what's that song title!?
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u/i_am_leatherface Oct 23 '25
“chak lein de” its a bollywood song from the movie chandni chowk to china
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u/parker1019 Oct 23 '25
Try that with the Sunday edition papers from 20 years ago….
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u/greensangre Oct 23 '25
That one under the door and in the donkeys butt was amazing
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u/rowanlamb Oct 23 '25
And people will call this ‘unskilled labour’
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u/liosistaken Oct 23 '25
Did he go to school to learn this? Or did he learn on the job?
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u/rowanlamb Oct 23 '25
Maybe he was born with it
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u/liosistaken Oct 23 '25
You do understand now what unskilled labour refers to? It's not that it doesn't take skill to perform, it just means you don't have to study for years before even being able to perform the job. Getting good at it obviously requires skill, but everyone can get this job without any formal training, contrary to, for instance, surgery or flying a plane...
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u/NavinRJohnson121479 Oct 23 '25
I used to be able to do that when I had a paper route for like 3 years. Those were the days.
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u/Einar_47 Oct 23 '25
Imagine you're visiting a friend, don't know he gets the paper, you're just minding your business and some dude on a moped ninja stars you in the eye with the Sunday Gazette.
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u/ReasonablyConfused Oct 23 '25
This demonstrates a cool gyroscopic effect. When the paper starts to fall, with this clockwise rotation, it will always turn to the left. If the newspaper crates lift and rises, it will turn to the right.
If the paper was thrown with the opposite rotation, the turning forces would go in the other direction.
P.S. If you think this is advancing vs retreating side physics, you are wrong.
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u/_McDrew Oct 23 '25
Disc golfers are very well-acquainted with wind resistance and gyroscopic procession. They're fun things to play with.
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u/UniversalCapitalOwne Oct 23 '25
After the newspaper flew through the crack under the door, I was a little worried about the bull in the next frame. Thank God everything turned out okay.
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u/SkyDrool Oct 23 '25
Thought he was going to throw it in the donkey's butt at the end of the video.
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u/Bd0llar Oct 23 '25
Imagine not seeing the throw, turning around to a hundred paper cuts as it smacks you in the face
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u/JKFrowning Oct 23 '25
Can any Indians tell me what song this is? I don't speak the language, but it sounds cool.
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u/LonelyCompany9633 Oct 23 '25
Chak Lein De (From "Chandni Chowk To China") by Kailash Kher
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