Lmao, I've been meaning to write a shitpost about the wonders of hobby tunneling for a month now.
The time of the surface is over. Let it slumber, rewild. We shall become the kobolds we were always meant to be.
I've had a college buddy who would go to a forest not far from our dorm and just start digging for reasons he couldn't articulate. I joked that this was a chthonic call of his Belorussian blood.
if this isn't a creative writing bit, this guy sounds more interesting than 99% of people I know. there's no reference to secretive paranoia. maybe he's onto something. depending on location, living on the surface might make less sense than being under a several feet of earth for part of the day in 30 years.
if I knew him I would ask if he wanted help.
Redditors "advice" is like :
"Your boyfriend is definitely planning to kill you and leave your body in the tunnel. Break up."
"Your boyfriend is definitely addicted to meth that's why he's digging the tunnel. Break up with him immediately."
"Your boyfriend is extremely mentally ill and a literal troll. Time to break up with him immediately."
"You boyfriend is violating commercial mining codes. Snitch on him to the authorities, then break up with him."
This seems like a good way to die in a cave in? How do you not run out of oxygen? I have so many questions!!
the ground is porous and oxygen flows in through the earth
I'm pretty sure this isn't true, but I'm not a dirt scientist. You might get radon gas seeping through the earth though.
I think it all depends on how much air is flowing through the cave or tunnel (either naturally or with fans) and how many people are in a confined space breathing at any moment. With mining or tunneling you can also hit pockets of methane or other gasses that can be explosive or displace oxygen, but I think that's mostly a hazard in coal mines.
I know 4chan is haram but I love this thread of a dude digging a Vietcong tunnel in his backyard lmao
the post for those who don't want to :reddit-logo:
So, I know this is a weird question, but my boyfriend likes to spend a lot of his free time digging a tunnel on some property that he inherited. I haven't seen the full extent of it, but last I saw it was remarkably deep under the surface. He's spent roughly a year on it, and it's evident. The front of the thing is deep, wide, well put together. At the front, which is the only part that I've seen, he's got cement beams, electric lights, even chairs and a small table. I haven't gone into it, but it looked like the quality severely dropped as the tunnel went further, mostly becoming open dirt with some wood beams holding it up.
My biggest concern is his safety, I'm really worried that he's going to dig too deep and it'll collapse on him or something. I've tried voicing this concern to him, but he just laughs it off and assures me that he'll be fine. Aside from safety concerns, there's also the fact that he doesn't really have a social life, because of this thing. I'm pretty much the only person he still talks to outside of his job, and he doesn't go out and do anything anymore. It used to be that he'd occasionally head out and do some digging on the weekends, but now he spends almost all of his free time out there. He still comes home, but he barely spends any time with me, and I know that he isn't doing anything but digging that damn hole in the ground. This can't be good for his mental health, but I don't know how to convince him to stop. He's always really happy when he comes back from digging, which is why I haven't seriously tried to stop him before, but I was talking to a friend about him, and she told me he might be going crazy. Obviously I don't think he's insane, but I hadn't considered the mental health aspect of this, and I just don't know what to do.
TLDR: Boyfriend spends all of his time digging a tunnel, and I'm worried for both his physical and mental health
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Alright, so I’ve spoken with my boyfriend, and after a good long chat, I can successfully say: Mission Accomplished!
I sat him down when he came home Thursday night and seriously voiced my concerns, both about his safety and about our relationship. He hadn’t realized how big of an effect this had been having on me in regards to our relationship, and he immediately said that he was going to cut the time he spent out there in half. He said that we could spend the entire weekend together, and we pretty much did. Friday night was spent at home, and we went out for a nice dinner Saturday night after spending the day together. We were going to have a nice, lazy Sunday together, but I could tell that he was getting kind of antsy and almost nervous after church today, so I told him that he could go ahead and go to his tunnel early if he wanted to. I won’t lie, I was kind of hoping that he would stay at home, but he decided to go back out, which is alright by me.
I also talked to him about my concerns regarding gasses that y’all made me realize I should be conscious of, and he said that he’d work to get some sort of ventilation system installed ASAP, and that he’d even dig with his dad’s old gas mask if it’d make me feel better.
The only thing that I didn’t bring up was us maybe going to therapy about it, mainly because he said that he’d cut back and I didn’t want to push the issue too far. I think that he could maybe benefit from it, but he’s of the opinion that you only go to therapy if there’s something wrong with you, and I don’t want him to think that I’m saying that there’s something wrong with him. So, all in all, maybe I should have brought that up, but I’m definitely happy with how things turned out, so thanks everybody that gave some advice.
Also, a lot of people were asking why he tunnels, and while I’d asked him before, I asked again, and this was his answer: “It’s just pleasant. When I’m down there, I feel safe and calm, and I’m always happier when I leave than when I went in.”
TLDR: We had a good chat, and he's going to cut back on his tunneling
And this has gotta be some kind of weird writing exercise. OP's absolute refusal to elaborate on exactly how this dude is digging a tunnel is just weird behavior. Unless the dude is Minecraft Steve.
When I’m down there, I feel safe and calm, and I’m always happier when I leave than when I went in.
It used to be that he’d occasionally head out and do some digging on the weekends, but now he spends almost all of his free time out there.
my dude is digging his way towards an SCP
he said that he’d work to get some sort of ventilation system installed ASAP, and that he’d even dig with his dad’s old gas mask if it’d make me feel better.
This has to be creative writing, there's no way
This reads like fairly ordinary dudes rock shit it's just that most of them get into like hurling themselves down a mountain on something two wheeled instead of T H E D I G
Makes sense to me. Physically demanding and you have something to show for it afterwards. Stop doomscrolling, embrace the dig
very judgey comments in the post, and from OP as well tbh, let the man have his fun digging holes by himself!
I'm probably weird, but after reading Holes as a kid I really wanted to dig a big hole
he wanted to get the treasure before the private prison-industrial complex got its grubby mitts on it.
If you know Colin furze on youtube he has a whole tunnel/bunker in his backyard that he has videos about making.
Yeah, he did that with a whole crew though, and even in the amount of digging he did he bent his jackhammer.
the only thing i feel is wrong about this is that he is doing this by himself bring your fellas to the hole
"babe, don't worry it will just me and the boys enjoying my beautiful hole"
:volcel-judge: do not under any circumstances bring the fellas to your hole :volcel-judge:
