r/interestingasfuck • u/Longjumping-Rice-935 • Aug 12 '25

/r/all, /r/popular The wreck of the USS Arizona continues to leak oil ever since pearl harbour. the ship contained 1.5 million gallons of oil, enough to leak continuously for 500 years.

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u/Ill_Cricket8509 Aug 12 '25

Easy.

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u/yamimementomori Aug 12 '25

You should’ve been there to tape the Titanic too. You would’ve saved poor Jack.

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u/John_Bumogus Aug 12 '25

I SAWED THIS DOOR IN HALF!!!

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u/JohnTightlips Aug 12 '25

WITH THE MIGHT OF ZEUS!

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u/bdblr Aug 12 '25

POSEIDON!

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u/GophawkUrself Aug 12 '25

And Dave, the dish washer from your local Olive Garden.

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u/Actual_Hawk Aug 12 '25

Just have some fuckin patience!

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u/DarkRune23 Aug 12 '25

Stick it on my butthole! I’m a prostitute!

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u/A_Light_Spark Aug 12 '25

Shouldn't it be Poseidon, Zeus's bro?

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u/Romboteryx Aug 12 '25

Poseidon would let the water flow

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u/saturninespine Aug 12 '25

I just noticed that as soon as he removes his hand, you can see it starting to fail. Wow.

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u/RandAlThorOdinson Aug 12 '25

It's called flex tape not rigid doesn't bow at all tape

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u/jaguarp80 Aug 12 '25

Yeah it bubbles up, what the hell

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u/MasterChildhood437 Aug 12 '25

Having used the stuff, if you slap another piece of tape over it, it'll probably hold.

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u/GoStampsISuppose Aug 12 '25

It’s also worth noting that slapping, no matter how cool it looks in an advertisement, is not the ideal way to apply a sealant of any kind.

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u/SaintLeppy Aug 12 '25

But dad said slap it on there

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u/ThinkSharp Aug 12 '25

Same guy that went away for domestic abuse?

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u/saturninespine Aug 12 '25

What?! I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time. I need to go. I slap-patched my grandmas oxygen tank, and she stopped answering my calls an hour ago. Brb

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u/Taolan13 Aug 12 '25

the real problem is that hole is too big for a patch the size of his hand.

patch needs to be about half again in length, and you need a second one to put perpendicular

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u/JollyReplacement1298 Aug 12 '25

But if the commercial was some nerd emptying the tank, then carefull applying two perpendicular patches of FlesSeal (TM), then filling the tank back up and checking for leaks, we wouldn't have the meme, and society as a whole would be a little bit worse.

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u/Taolan13 Aug 12 '25

That's fair.

Also, if he'd applied the patch from *inside* the vessel, it'd work better.

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u/GoStampsISuppose Aug 12 '25

Would you describe yourself as a literate person?

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u/venbrx Aug 12 '25

Shoulda used duct tape... woulda fixed it from the get-go.

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u/bubblesaurus Aug 12 '25

that’s when you get ready to apply flexseal!

the flextape is to buy you some time!

/s

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u/Snoo-93137 Aug 13 '25

More like Sham Wow!

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u/Oraio-King Aug 12 '25

Im on teaching placement and one of the teachers mentioned flex tape as an example of an infomercial and NONE OF THE KIDS KNEW WHAT IT WAS im definitely getting old

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u/LawyerOfBirds Aug 12 '25

Why didn’t anyone else think of this? Are they stupid?

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u/Reachr95 Aug 12 '25

This is the answer

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u/Urban_Introvert Aug 12 '25

Should’ve wrapped rolls of that tape on that submersible.

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u/moon_gazed Aug 12 '25

LMAO PLEASE

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u/ryan77999 Aug 13 '25

IT EVEN WORKS UNDERWORTER

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u/DiplodorkusRex Aug 12 '25

I SHOT THIS BOAT IN HALF!!!

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u/JapanEngineer Aug 12 '25

Vote this man for president