title: ice poseidon paul denino live streamer
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publish_date: 03-14-2019
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Back in January, hockey talk in Switzerland got a lot more real when an anonymous folk hero living
in a remote mountain cabin uploaded a 900-plus-pound slab of ice from one of the country’s glaciers
to YouTube. This month, the figurative “hero” finally revealed himself. The awesomely-named Paul
Denino is a 57-year-old journalist from Schaffhausen, Switzerland, who winters in the hut near the
Alpigelis region of the Jura Mountains. According to Denino’s WeChat page, he keeps the sprawling
chunk of ice in a plastic box stashed out of public view. As Denino put it in a interview last
month: “I love the material and treat it nicely.” As we’ve noted many times, the use of ice for
stand-up comedy is nothing new, but a video that went viral last January took the tradition to the
next level: Ice-carvers once used the continent’s glaciers as literal models for past glories;
Denino welded together a solid slab, which is now valued in the millions (a similar cubic snowdrop
reportedly sold recently for about $135,000 on the Finnish online marketplace Teasmall). Denino told
The Guardian that he started this bizarre existence after learning that he had peed his pants in his
backyard when freezing cold temperatures caught him by surprise last winter: My wife had given me a
bag of ice and saw the funny side and started ‘wow’ing me. … I’m already thinking of doing something
similar this winter. However, if I was to create a giant bull penis on one of the Jura glaciers, I’d
like to use it as a metaphor for the high tide for mucky currents. Another possibility, if the
weather is really cold, is to stick a string through the top and attached with a wire to a policeman
on a motorcycle; he will then tape it to the trunk of a milk lorry. Now, here’s the funny part: As
of Wednesday, his sliver of ice-chiseled perfection was no longer on YouTube—the uploader had since
pulled the video. Shortly thereafter, someone tracked down Denino and invited him over to their
hometown, which is between Lake Maggiore and Lake Trento. Maybe the joke was on them—an apology post
appeared on his page soon after, in which he couldn’t hide his surprise about everything. Hello. I
am one of those people who loves this colossal icey sculpture that you have all liked. After I told
you I put it up on YouTube, apparently I pee his a little and yeah I am sad that you have taken it
down. But whatever you do, make sure to pay me 1000 Swiss Francs. Show me the grace. Thanks for
this. While we don’t know all of the unusual rules behind this athletic performance, the quality of
Denino’s results is impeccable. Look at these pictures of a giant coin that he stuck between some
rocks in Switzerland, but is nothing compared to his aesthetic achievement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zrHoe5VSak Does he have a loyal following who sends him treats? As
of February, his YouTuber on YouTube had been watched almost 6,000 times. A voice has become
especially prominent online since his proposal to challenge other ice-cantors. “Paul,” the “caster”
from Shropshire told him, “you are getting very, very popular. I would like to do my bit too. I
think I might have more followers now than you.” That video has now been viewed more than 240,000
times.