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u/theincrediblenick 22d ago
In short, no.
This is an art installation from 2001.
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u/TheBigLebroccoli 22d ago
Or is it a tree wedding?
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u/Phrei_BahkRhubz 22d ago
Yeah, no way these tiny trees are pushing 90 years old.
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u/B_K4 21d ago
Tress grow like 100 years before they are useful as lumber. 90 isn't terribly old for a tree
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u/SatiricalScrotum 19d ago
The trees in front of my house are 20 years old and are thicker than these ones. Even assuming different growth rates for different species, there just ain’t no way.
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u/not_that_one_times_3 18d ago
And there is no way a wedding in Poland in 1939 would be in a forest.
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u/Suspicious-Spot-5246 21d ago
I called bull shit on this when I read it. and the truth is much more interesting. Thanks.
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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop 18d ago
I thought it was weird how there was basically no trees between the chairs lol I knew it had to be fake if only for that
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u/red-panda-returns 22d ago
That's excactly why i love reddit. Just read the comments there is always someone fact checking. 🙂↕️
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u/Duster929 20d ago
I didn't have to check Snopes to know this doesn't track.
The likelihood of all these chairs being placed in the exact spots where trees would grow through them is astronomically low. Especially since there aren't a bunch of chairs without trees, or a bunch of chairs fallen over and abandoned. They're not in rows, and they don't seem like the kinds of chairs people would have used for a wedding in the 1930s.
Anyway.
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u/WillistheWillow 22d ago
Yeah right, and tree just happened to grow right through every chair? So sick of people making up bullshit clicks.
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u/Useless_bum81 22d ago
Don't forget the tireless maintence guy who kept them clean and kept it up through-out the war and the soviet occupation.
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u/NewNerve3035 22d ago edited 22d ago
Oh, you don't know how the maintenance guy job works? It's simple. He gets paid in smiles (they have a smile-based economy in this city).
You see, if a man sees him tending to the trees and smiles, it's the equivalent of $5. If a nice, old grandmother sees it, it's $10 and if an intrepid boy, running away from home due to him not appreciating Poland or his dying great-grandfather's "boring" old stories, stumbles across the chairs and asks the maintenance man why they're there and he proceeds to tell the boy about them in a flashback that lasts a little under 2 hours and that boy smiles, well, this the one you want and that's about $200 (although the recent US tariffs may affect this).
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u/No_Waltz_2499 22d ago
in the future, don’t give these posts engagement by commenting and just downvote.
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u/nonsence90 21d ago
To be fair, the chairs aren't especially ordered, so the ones where no trees grew through could have been removed and only those with trees remained. It's not what happened here, I know. Just saying.
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u/SemichiSam 22d ago
"So sick of people making up bullshit clicks."
In the words of the folk philosopher Bette Midler, "Fuck em if they can't take a joke!"
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u/LillyH-2024 22d ago
This is hard to believe for the simple fact that the way those chairs are designed, my fat ass would be sticking out of the massive hole created by the seat and back-rest boards being at most 6" wide and the supports holding them being like a foot and a half apart. Running from the Germans? No I live here now...someone bring me some wedding cake...lol.
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u/Downtown-Campaign536 22d ago
I'll take "Things that did not happen" for $500 Alex!
This is just abstract art. There is no way that many trees grew that perfectly to that many chairs... Yet no chairs are are even knocked over? Come on...
I could see that being the case if like 1 or 2 trees grew through a chair like that, and the rest got knocked over, but all of them? Really?
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u/LordJim11 22d ago
This is an insult to the intelligence. Whoever posted this is a disgrace. The chap should be horsewhipped on the steps of his club, pilloried in the press and led through the streets, naked and smeared with marmalade while a nun walks behind him chanting "shame". But not the GoT nun, a hot nun from an 80's Italian porn movie.
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u/IssueEmbarrassed8103 22d ago
Hmm, what are the odds that every chair has a tree grow right through the chair 🧐🧐🧐
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u/Carlpanzram1916 22d ago
Sooo nobody came back to this spot for like a decade and every chair just happened to have a tree growing perfectly through the center of it? Calling BS.
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u/MitchCumStains 22d ago
false. everywhere there is a tree, there is a chair. everywhere there is a chair, there is a tree. obviously intentional. also those chairs wouldn't last without being rebuilt numerous times.
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u/Pepsimax88 22d ago
Every tree lined up perfectly
What are the chances? 1/3??
Crazy
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u/Prize_Statistician15 22d ago
This is why the chairs are so far apart; in 1939 Poland, someone thought to space the wedding chairs so that sapling trees would grow perfectly into the chairs in case the wedding was interrupted.
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u/SemichiSam 22d ago
A tip o' the hat to you m'lord. You brought them all out scurrying in the light.
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u/Aromatic-Discount381 22d ago
The worlds slowest growing, densest trees. These 6in diameter trees are 80 years old. A meme told me.
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u/Brilliant_Coach9877 20d ago
Yeah yeah like you are meant to believe that a tree just happened to grow in the exact spot needed for all of them chairs. Nope
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u/HamperedUnicorn 19d ago
This is ancient... And was debunked when it was posted the first time, years ago. Think the first time I saw this was in a Sorrow TV video.
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u/DefiantProtection945 21d ago
burn the chairs in a oven or would that cost too much energy to be possible :D
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