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Okay, never seen this before lol (short Twitter clip) (Original Post) Pluvious Jan 2026 OP
That's got to be AI. Emile Jan 2026 #1
But why? JustKay Jan 2026 #2
IKR ! Pluvious Jan 2026 #11
They're not too bad depending on the water conditions... MiHale Jan 2026 #3
These discs can actually occur naturally. progressoid Jan 2026 #7
Carpe Carpum! Probatim Jan 2026 #4
I don't know if it's real or not but the idea is wonderful. Biophilic Jan 2026 #5
Glad you were entertained - check out reply 7 Pluvious Jan 2026 #10
See ice fishing in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan ... Donkees Jan 2026 #6
Seems like a lot of work just to get motion sickness. LudwigPastorius Jan 2026 #8
Pretty cool...literally! Totally Tunsie Jan 2026 #9

JustKay

(146 posts)
2. But why?
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 02:09 PM
Jan 2026

That's an awful lot of ice chopping to fish while twirling in circles.
Some people will do anything for attention.


Pluvious

(5,410 posts)
11. IKR !
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 02:03 PM
Jan 2026

In reply 7 they mention that they do things like this because they have nothing better to do lol

MiHale

(13,072 posts)
3. They're not too bad depending on the water conditions...
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 02:17 PM
Jan 2026

Gotta clean it good and cook right away…he did it correctly, deep scoring to break up the little bones good spices…has a cod-like flavor, maybe catfish is closer…it’s a mud fish so the better water the better flavor.

progressoid

(53,218 posts)
7. These discs can actually occur naturally.
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 04:42 PM
Jan 2026
Ice discs form on the outer bends in a river where the accelerating water creates a force called 'rotational shear', which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around.[2] As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice — smoothing into a circle.[3] A relatively uncommon phenomenon, one of the earliest recordings is of a slowly revolving disc spotted on the Mianus River and reported in an 1895 edition of Scientific American.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle


https://www.tiktok.com/@weathernetwork/video/7305123389780315397



But I've seen other videos of people making their own.

https://icecarousel.wordpress.com/

https://youtube.com/shorts/7cDswmIUwYg?si=XHJonkPCFeZ8iuHk

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSpV-8CEhhL/

?si=S3eRwOr17bJs1F6S



Here's the world record holder:

Fancy a spin? Quebecers in Abitibi break world record for largest ice carousel

An ice disk bigger than four CFL football fields has made a group of friends from Quebec's Abitibi region world record holders.

Jean-François Richard, along with ten of his friends and colleagues from Clerval, Que., about 100 kilometres northwest of Rouyn-Noranda, built the world's largest ice carousel last week, setting it spinning on Dec. 7.

"At this time of the year, there's not so much to do over there," Richard told CBC's Breakaway. "It's cold, not enough snow to do snowmobile, so we just decided to say, 'Hey, let's do it!'"

...https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ice-carousel-world-record-1.5392242




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