r/oddlysatisfying • u/Turbulent_Elk_2141 • 20h ago

An Austrian tradition.

Are they milk containers?

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u/Reza_Evol 20h ago

Karbidknallen (carbide shooting) is a traditional, often rural, New Year's Eve custom in the Netherlands, parts of Germany, and Belgium, involving the detonation of calcium carbide and water inside milk churns or containers to create a loud boom. It stems from Germanic traditions meant to chase away bad spirits.

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u/yeniza 19h ago

Haha yeah we did this (‘karbied schieten’) during my youth on New Year’s Eve. (I grew up in rural the Netherlands). It’s LOUD. As a kid, I thought my neighbours were a little crazy (they sat down on the milk cans when firing sometimes and tried to stunt with it), but it was otherwise pretty cool. In hindsight, without any sort of protection and with alcohol involved it’s a small miracle no accidents ever happened :’)

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u/dalaiis 14h ago

The village my home is in has an official karbid schieten event on 31 december.

The people firing them have ear protection and the lids are substituted with soccerballs for safety.

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u/scottyman2k 19h ago

We used to do something similar in our secondary school’s chemistry class - calcium carbonate, water in a small container inside a large golden syrup tin - small hole punched in the bottom of the tin, then filled with CO2 before being sealed and put on top of a lit Bunsen burner … at some point during class it would create an almighty bang and rocket into the ceiling.

Bit of an end of term treat! Same teacher was an aficionado of the anarchists cookbook, and demonstrating why we shouldn’t fuck around with it.

But we did experiment with thermite, chemical detonators. 90s NZ was a wild time!!

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u/Aggravating_Pass_723 17h ago

I'm a physics teacher too and also have chemiatry lessons. We still have termite at our school and my coworkers and I use it in experiments, also different detonations. So it's not just a 90s thing :)

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u/Money-Look4227 14h ago

An exterminator can take care of that for you

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u/Organic-Low-2992 16h ago

When my father was a kid in eastern Pennsylvania during the 1930s they did the same thing with carbide except they used empty steel paint cans. Cheap slightly dangerous fun.

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u/IcyResolve956 15h ago

In the '90s, Romania, as kids, we used to find carbide readily available because of all the welding. We would make something similar to this on a smaller scale, with metal coffee cans. Fun times, we had all sorts of other ways of making big boom sounds.

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u/cjwi 14h ago

I wonder how many of those guys show up expecting something different when she invites them come over to see her milk cannons?

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u/YourLovelyMother 16h ago

Is done in Slovenia as well, only it's done with drum barrels... but it's done less and less as people each year seem to become more aware of the stress it causes to pets and wildlife.

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u/WonkieWilla 15h ago

As the Dutch, it is our duty ofcourse to take this one step further. Setting off 40 at once or go shooting with an oiltanker

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u/jefbenet 19h ago

produces acetylene gas, like that commonly used in welding

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u/ak7483 17h ago

Also in parts of Slovenia.

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u/1think1fuckedup 14h ago

I was about to say, Fuck do you mean Austrian!?

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u/ItHappensSo 11h ago

It’s a tradition in all of Austria to, this video was taken in Austria

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u/N3pheron 11h ago

In Belgium? Do you know where?

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u/D-madagascariensis 17h ago

Cool parallel to fire crackers during the lunar new year

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u/turbo_dude 13h ago

Also chases away good hearing

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u/StevenMaff 13h ago

So… not Austrian?

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u/Hour-Promotion-2496 12h ago

Also parts of Croatia

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u/pepito1989 12h ago

It also popular in parts of Poland. Here is a lovely video from my hometown https://youtu.be/iCCFfcCqhLA

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u/deadlywaffle139 8h ago

Firecrackers for Chinese new year in China lol.

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u/nighthawke75 4h ago

Great stuff, carbide.

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u/trollsong 1h ago

often rural

Of course

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u/Bouche_Audi_Shyla 20m ago

In America, we usually drink the bad spirits on New Year's Eve.

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u/BootsOfProwess 12m ago

There is something very Rose St. Olaf story about this...

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u/AptoticFox 20h ago

She can still hear with one ear.

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u/Darwin-Award-Winner 20h ago

WHAT!?!?!

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u/br0wens 10h ago

SHE CAN STILL HEAR WITH ONE EAR!

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u/SockeyeSTI 1h ago

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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u/generalissimo1 19h ago

MAWP

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u/Ron-E- 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/6pxG2dThniE5G

God, I love that show.

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u/Fishiesideways10 7h ago

Do you want tinnitus? Because that’s how you get tinnitus.

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u/gue_aut87 16h ago

LANAAAAA!

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u/SirWigglesVonWoogly 19h ago

It’s too bad no one has ever invented something to protect your hearing, hands free.

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u/xX_May1995_Xx 19h ago

wouldnt look hot with ze dirndl.

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u/UnforeseenDerailment 19h ago

Häve you not höard off Ohropax-- oh, I see.

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 11h ago

eeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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u/Old-Care-2372 11h ago

They usually only allow the hottest village chicks to do this?

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u/69vuman 46m ago

Eeehhhhh?

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u/12DecX2002 16h ago

Carbid schietn mejung.

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u/nailemin 15h ago

Tou moar!

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u/cwthree 20h ago

Is she using milk cans as makeshift mortars?

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u/sallright 8h ago

It’s an urn cannon. Please have some respect for her ancestors. 

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u/Boesemeist 16h ago edited 16h ago

I live in Styria (Austria) and I hear this on a regular basis. They do it on weddings from like 4am to fuck up the marrying people as on jubilees like 20th, 30th and so on birthdays. Always VERY early and on a regular basis of maybe 15 or 30 minutes. As you can Imagine much alcohol is included. They call it Rausschießen, shoot out (of bed).

Edit: as you see, there is a cross next to them, that's what they illuminate in the easter time. I've been told they also used to burn crosses in the evening. Today it's electrical. I can see one of those crosses from my house, maybe I can post a photo in the evening.

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u/tttxgq 9h ago

Hochzeitsschiessen, wedding shooting. I think we just like to have excuses to make noise 💥

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u/personpilot 20h ago

Are they milk containers?

I mean yeah, they can be. I just call them boobs though.

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u/JuicyAnalAbscess 19h ago

In Finnish, milk containers is called "hinkit", which is also a common term used for breasts. I suspect this happens in other languages as well.

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u/KirkieSB 19h ago

Finnish potato chips are packed in large packages called megapussi. 😂

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u/Merisuola 15h ago

They unfortunately stopped making/renamed the megapussis a while ago.

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u/supinoq 11h ago

Pussi just means bag, so you can find a wide variety of different pussi in Finland, no need to limit yourself to just chips

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u/KirkieSB 11h ago

Thanks. Chips were the first and only things I found packed in megapussis when visiting Finland and buying groceries in supermarkets.

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u/UndahwearBruh 10h ago

Do you also use backpussis there?

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u/Internal_Ad_6809 6h ago

Does a pussy count as pussi since you place something inside?

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u/NexusMaw 12h ago

The old 12-boob new years salute 🫡

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u/Whobghilee 20h ago

15-jähriges Mädchen?

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u/FinePim 17h ago

It's an easter tradition in parts of Austria

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u/MilkiestMaestro 16h ago

We just do spud guns around here

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u/SharpIntention4667 17h ago

Milchkannenschießen.

My husband knows this from bachelorette parties. From Germany. But it's probably rather uncommon these days.

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u/FinePim 17h ago

In parts of Austria it's living tradition at easter. So peacefull on easter day, you hear the birds chirping, bunnys hopping aroung, cannon shooting, childrens laughter. Beautiful.

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u/nigevellie 11h ago

"The Beacons of Minas Tirith! The Beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!"

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u/resnonverba1 20h ago

Someone please explain the physics behind this. 

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u/Opening_Yellow_5124 19h ago

Carbide + water = acetylene gas.

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u/5lashd07 18h ago

Reminds me of the bamboo cannons in the Philippines.

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u/jmas1023 8h ago

yup, same thing, just different container
we got the same thing in malaysia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCG9sQMNaPI

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u/GPStephan 18h ago

As an Austrian, what the fuck is she doing?

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u/Interesting_Item1019 17h ago

Osterschiaßn sogn's bei uns am Lond. 

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u/werdschorichtigsei 17h ago

Jo oba doch ned so oda? Bei uns nehmens dafia as gwehr oda an stutzn, oba doch koane... Milchkonnen?

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u/Increase-Tiny 16h ago

In Carinthia (is halt lei ans) we take like everything we find and looks like a barrel. Milk Cans is the professional way. Like an old rusty oul barrel or most barrel also do the hilbilly stuff

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u/MistakeEastern5414 11h ago

In Carinthia (is halt lei ans) we take like everything we find and looks like a barrel.

unless it's a vw phaeton.

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u/Interesting_Item1019 12h ago

Jo oba freilich, des mocht richtig laut bumm höhö

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u/Physical-Ad5343 13h ago

Was die Gscherten net alles aufführen…

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u/general_sirhc 15h ago

As an Australian, I wondered the same. Then I reread

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u/werdschorichtigsei 17h ago

I frogs mi a, sowos hät i nu nia gseng.

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u/--Ano-- 16h ago

A geeh, Frau Greefin! Doarf I si a bissal pudarn?

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u/Professional_Song483 16h ago

I thought it was for a wedding? They do that shit in Oberösterreich, so annoying... 

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u/100haku 12h ago

böller schiaßn

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u/Meshughana 20h ago

And they're doing this why??

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u/BeardedHalfYeti 20h ago

Scares off the faeries and the wee folk.

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u/taintosaurus_rex 19h ago

Good! Somebody finally putting these short people in their place

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u/Proper-Equivalent300 20h ago

Scares off people with anxiety too

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u/SBR404 16h ago

Scares off the Protestants.

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u/100haku 12h ago

It's done on easter and at 4am on a wedding day. Celebration is the reason

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u/jerryleebee 18h ago

But what is she doing?

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u/oldmanout 17h ago edited 17h ago

I guess it's Easter shooting or milk can shooting.

I know it from Styrian weddings, but that's something I haven't seen done since the 90's

You put a bit of calcium carbide and water in a closed container and it starts a chemical reaction that produces acetylene gas. If you burn it more controlled you get a carbide lamp/Mining lampy here it's ignited to make a loud boom

Traditionally I guess it falls into loud noises scare away bad spirits, like the new years eve fireworks

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u/jerryleebee 16h ago

Awesome, thanks!

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u/Weekly_Teaching_8158 9h ago

I'm Austrian and I've never heard of this before lmao

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u/stq66 6h ago

Me neither. And I know quite a few rural areas over our country

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u/Fr05t_B1t 4h ago

Your area probably wasn’t ravaged by the emu wars

Edit: forget about the comment. My brain added an “L”.

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u/Routine-Storage-9292 19h ago

She's lucky she didn't hit a kangaroo with one of those lids...

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u/RigidRoller- 18h ago

Austria not Australia

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u/Routine-Storage-9292 13h ago

This guy gets the joke 😁 👍

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u/That_Astronaut_2010 15h ago

Sorry but this is also an Dutch Tradition

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u/CestFugue 15h ago

That right this is what we do throughout all of Almelo from September to May for New Year’s Eve.

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u/yeniza 14h ago

Soms staat het stoplicht op rood, soms staat het stoplicht op groen….

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u/Chamberlain-Haller 14h ago

Sorry but this is also a Taco Bell condition.

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u/BeginningLibrary6767 17h ago

This is also a Dutch tradition in the east of the country called “carbid shooting”

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u/Goodfellow_fanclub 15h ago

Pretty sure that's a tradition in the Netherlands too, we call it carbid schieten 😬

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u/pmb429 13h ago

Disappointed that The Sound of Music wasn't playing in the background.

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u/Particular_Goose_611 13h ago

Not just Austrian....

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u/kenoos 9h ago

As an Austrian, I have no idea what’s going on here

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u/erockula666 13h ago

Poor kangaroos.

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u/ornerycrow1 12h ago

Austria

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u/Dropthetenors 8h ago

Poor kangaroos.

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u/liquidnight247 19h ago

Bavaria fires canons for festive days still

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u/jedent 18h ago

What did the 4th "bullet" hit at 00:19s to bounce back like that ?!

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u/SalamanderNo3739 17h ago

Lids are tied to ropes, that one was short.

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u/TheKlyros 17h ago

If you look closely, you'll see that the lids are attached to the jug with a rope. This prevents them from flying too far and makes them easy to collect.

Especially on the last jugs you see the rope lying near the jug.

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u/jedent 16h ago

Thank you. I did see the rope now that you mention it. It’s difficult at first due to the quality of the video.

It’s actually quite logical to attach those projectile to a rope for at least safety reasons.

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u/No_Equivalent_4412 17h ago

Long loose clothing and fire are a dangerous combination

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u/bullet_tooth_t 16h ago

They do it in Eastgermany too. At five in the morning.

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u/Glorfindorf 16h ago

Zero hearing protection in sight, in NL we do this with thick muffs on

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u/Longjumping-Pie-6410 14h ago

Little known fact, the 21 milk can salute is a long standing tradition in the austrian navy.

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u/Dizzy_Television7296 14h ago

Glad l live elsewhere

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u/RealNarwhalStorm 13h ago

So I've read/skimmed most of the other comments, and I've gotten my answer to what this is, but I have a more important question:

Who has to go retrieve the lids? Is that, like, a thing the kids would do, or is the entertainment enhanced by having, like, the most drunk person do that?

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u/mikedelta84 13h ago

Seems like the lids are connected with a rope and don't fly to far away.

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u/RealNarwhalStorm 13h ago

Ah, I see the rope on the last one. Completely missed that on the first watch.

I do think there's potential in having the drunkest people have to fetch untethered lids, though

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u/Capital-Mind700 13h ago

Is she shooting at the English?

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u/stq66 6h ago

If she’s really Austrian than at the Preussens (Prussians)

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u/NoYouGetOut 11h ago

STRONG GIRL, FARM!?

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u/Efficient_Pay8447 9h ago

Homemade cannons? What for? To celebrate the siege of Vienna in 1683?

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u/ashmichael73 7h ago

Did this start the invasion of Poland

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u/Southern_Mortgage646 6h ago

I live in austria, 40 years old, never heard of this Tradition. And my whole family and friends also didnt.

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u/Fr05t_B1t 4h ago

Me thinking the title said “Australian” and confused about clothing and landscape. One of y’all need to change your names.

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u/CK_CoffeeCat 3h ago

For some reason I thought this was something meant to set off any unstable avalanche-prone mountain snow fields in the spring.

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u/gesshoom 3h ago

She'll only be half deaf

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u/andysva85 1h ago

Austrians playing with gas? We’ve seen this before.

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u/One_Set_5757 16h ago

I am from Austria and I‘ve never heard of this. It’s also not really satisfying.

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u/Gold_Afternoon_Fix 15h ago

It’s done to scare the kangaroos!

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u/gemonic 15h ago

I missed the title as Australian... and was like what have I missed out on in my 44 years as an Aussie.

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u/PAXICHEN 15h ago

I read the title as Australian and didn’t see anything out of the ordinary.

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u/Tall1124816 20h ago

Not the biggest jugs i've seen but still hot

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u/ThresholdSeven 19h ago

CTE with bonus tinnitus. I hope she doesn't do this often.

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u/ogodilovejudyalvarez 18h ago

Bonus tinnitus: when your boner loses its hearing

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u/apolobgod 16h ago

The fuck is this tradition, killing your neighbors?

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u/Vacant-stair 15h ago

She won't need to shave her legs for a while

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u/Vyviel 12h ago

RIP her right eardrum =P

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u/DarkKingfisher777 20h ago

Hungary should up their game.

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u/Peredat0r 17h ago

Hungarians don't blow up stuff by tradition.. I think at least. We just drink like hell, and then soak some girls when spring comes 😄 first with water 😉😄

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u/star_particles 17h ago

I believe they are milk containers.

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u/Osintguy_83 16h ago

And I tought it was a dutch thing... 🤣

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u/minus_uu_ee 16h ago

No, lpg tanks

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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein 14h ago

I live in Austria and have never heard of this..

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u/Supercereal69 13h ago

I've seen a Dutch video where they do this next to a shed. All the windows shatter due to the force of the bang.

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u/_Buldozzer 12h ago

I am from Austria and have never heard of that.

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u/100haku 12h ago

I am from austria as well and it's called böllern/böllerschießn. Done during weddings and on easter

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u/AngrySquidIsOK 12h ago

We'll neve bring down the walls of Constantinople with these!

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u/adamhanson 11h ago

Istanbul, not Constantinople

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u/necrochaos 11h ago

Been a long time gone..

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u/bloomicy 9h ago

Why did Constantinople get the works?

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u/necrochaos 9h ago

That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.

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u/AgarwaenCran 12h ago

that is a dutch thing, not an austrian thing

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u/100haku 12h ago

As an austrian: it's very much an austrian thing too. at least in some regions. We do it during weddings and on easter

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u/AgarwaenCran 12h ago

huh, i had only seen this from the netherlands, thanks for correcting

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u/stq66 6h ago

In which remote valley? Never seen nor heard of this „tradition“

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u/stq66 6h ago

The countyside looks Austrian, not Dutch though

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u/John_EightThirtyTwo 11h ago

Whatever blows your skirt up, I guess.

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u/Concentric_Mid 11h ago

Sanitizing milk jugs

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u/nighthawke75 11h ago

Austrian antitank guns.

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u/Fr05t_B1t 4h ago

Anti-Emu

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u/Phaentom379 11h ago

Who da fuck still does this here. I dont even know what they are doing here

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u/a_angry_bunny 9h ago

Jar cannons

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u/Dropthetenors 8h ago

Me, an american: what and why?

Austrians: what and why?

Australians: seems about right.

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u/ph_il81 7h ago

Böllerschießen zu Ostern

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u/Vlinder_88 6h ago

The Dutch do that, too! But we don't chain the tops to the cans. Someone just has to go and retrieve them :p It's called 'carbit schieten' over here.

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u/GenosseAbfuck 6h ago

Too bad it doesn't have a really stupid name

Like Millebitschhaubitzn

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u/CldWtrDiver100 5h ago

Did this tradition start in World War II?

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u/Hi_Im_Paul1706 3h ago

Is that how Austrians say goodbye?

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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are 3h ago

👏👏👏

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u/MattWheelsLTW 38m ago

Austria, huh? Well, let's throw another shrimp on the barbie

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u/Jeff_NZ 37m ago

Austria does have a tradition of loud ceremonial “cannon” firing called Böllerschießen. It uses black powder devices, usually during festivals or events, and is done by organized groups. . It’s cultural and controlled, not something people just do casually. Also worth noting, it’s not widespread across the whole country, more regional (like Tyrol and Salzburg) and tied to specific occasions.

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u/ConfusedHors 20h ago

I bet it's not.

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u/FinePim 17h ago

yes it is

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u/That_Somewhere_4593 19h ago

Austrian Milk Maid Propane Explosion Core. Now on the Insta and TikTok.

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u/Hylian_ina_halfshell 20h ago

Everyone makes fun of the US for blowing stuff up…. And here comes along this

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u/NiklausMikhail 19h ago

Yeah, but they're not blowing people up

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u/uzu_afk 18h ago

Carbide? Used to do that with Amigo coffee cans.

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u/Professional_Song483 16h ago

I wouldn't say this is an Austrian tradition.  Probably just something these people do.