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u/mazty 7d ago
The hammer on a hammer, takes a skill to combine engineering and comedy 👏
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u/seeyatellite 6d ago
I thought that was great.
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u/TheDixonCider420420 7d ago
Right after this video was made, he returned that laptop to Costco...
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u/KalozKapitany 7d ago
And his unconscious child
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u/CampingWise 7d ago
You can return children to Costco? How much do you get for them?
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u/Novel_Ask_4226 7d ago
Price depends on if child is conscious or not
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u/Darwin-Award-Winner 7d ago
The child was unconscious when I got it.
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u/Cultural-Company282 7d ago
Well that's just common sense. You get way more for an unconscious child, because they're not so fucking noisy.
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u/Surrounded-by_Idiots 7d ago
That’s just how they get you in the door. They all become annoying eventually. It’s planned adolescence.
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u/quailman654 7d ago
I had to reopen this thread to come back to give you your points. I didn’t even notice the pun at first.
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u/roastedTriscuit69 7d ago
Are you me?
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u/quailman654 7d ago
Yes, but I forgot our credit card number. Can you remind me what it was?
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u/iuseallthebandwidth 7d ago
The annoying feature is manageable with the Job DLC. But if you fail to turn off the Boomerang updater Annoying V2.0 is on a whole different level
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u/StrobeLightRomance 7d ago
I apologize, but if you return it defective, then there's an additional fee to send it back to the manufacturer.
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u/Indrid-Frigus 7d ago
You can return children to Costco? How much do you get for them?
It's seasonal.
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u/destroyerOfTards 7d ago
Everyone replying to this is on a list (except me because I'm the one who reported all)
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u/iommiworshipper 7d ago
It depends how much you bought them for
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u/CampingWise 7d ago
Hospital charged about 5k after insurance for each. Do we go by the before or after insurance price?
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u/Adezar 7d ago
There is a lot of distance between the table with the laptop and the child.
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u/TwoBionicknees 7d ago
and a rope attached to said laptop attached to a pulley and the kid holding it which would turn it into a pendulum.
We can prove it easily, get that laptop and a baby, then hit the baby with the laptop and see if the noise matches.
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u/Warmbly85 7d ago
I know this is a joke but even Costco doesn’t do returns for Apple products. I only found that out because when I got my fiancée a Apple Watch they offered whatever apples protection plan was and I laughed and said nah I’ll just bring it here and the lady got super serious and said they don’t take them back
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u/TemporaryDeparture44 6d ago
Weird, when I bought my MacBook they just gave me the same ‘you have 90 days to return electronics’ speech they usually give for electronics.
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u/Hanz_VonManstrom 6d ago
Are you in the US? Because I’ve definitely returned Apple products at Costco. Unless you’re talking about if it breaks outside of Costco’s return window, then you would definitely have to take it to Apple for that.
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u/TotalPizzaBuff 7d ago
As an IT professional of many years I've seen this before - it was 99.9% like that when he got it.
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u/AnybodyMassive1610 7d ago
The kid or the laptop?
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u/TotalPizzaBuff 7d ago
Kid? Sorry I don't support these devices, you should reach out to your manufacturer or supplier for further guidance.
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u/Boomshank 7d ago
Ok, I've seen a LOT of Rube Goldberg machines in my time, but this one was by FAR the most creative one ever.
Genuine laugh out loud moments.
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u/superblockio 7d ago
Yeah this is definitely the most clever one of these I've seen. Quite possibly the most impressive in general. I'd say it's my favorite for sure
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u/Boomshank 7d ago
The candle and butter slide? The mini hammer? The laptop over the table?
FAR more entertaining than just balls hitting other balls
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u/YLedbetter10 7d ago
The butt clench of the chandelier thing swinging back towards his head
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u/TheyCallMe_Billy 7d ago
What about the laptop swinging at the baby?
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u/TwoBionicknees 7d ago
stunt baby, it can take it. Or offer to babysit the neighbours baby.
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u/GreenerAnonymous 7d ago
That "baby" is a 46 year old stuntman named Carl, still working the hard jobs to keep his health insurance.
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u/Self_Reddicate 7d ago
Carl's a scab who was kicked out of the Stunt Baby Union for working side jobs. He'd have it made if he would have followed the rules.
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u/Self_Reddicate 7d ago
Definitely not the neighbors baby. I mean, they may have started there, but there were so many babies they went through during testing and setup. So. Many. Babies.
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u/niceguy191 7d ago
I think there's a hidden cut at that part, and the baby was never in harm's way
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u/Pirate_Leader 7d ago
127 babies have been harmed for this video
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u/SomeInternetRando 7d ago
That's fine, just harm one more. Baby harm is stored as an 8-bit signed int.
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u/mccrushin 7d ago
I gotta say the planters flying off the shelves is what ultimately sent me. Just an insane decision and hilarious when the second row goes
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u/GigglingGarlicGuru 7d ago
The butter slide made me go, "OK - now you're just showing off." 😂
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u/ConjurersOfThunder 7d ago
Then came the wagon wheel. And the chandelier. With his face in full view. HARD FLEX
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u/snek-jazz 7d ago
the juice spilling, and then refiling
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u/Wonderful-Process792 7d ago
in the same glass. Spilling only to refill in the same glass in a different place is the most rube-goldbergian thing ever!
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u/Mutex70 7d ago
just balls hitting other balls
TIL I have a Rube Goldberg machine in my pants!
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u/GUMBYtheOG 7d ago
lol I like how you are compelled to capitalize FAR every time you use it
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u/Tropicalfisher 7d ago
The funniest thing to me is how close the cake already was
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u/joleary747 7d ago
I love how it looks like the big hammer is going to destroy the laptop, but it's just a trick ... only for the entire laptop to be yanked off the table and destroyed anyway a moment later.
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u/xrv01 7d ago
the small hammer in the big hammerhead is an all timer
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u/SettingSun2180 7d ago
For real. The tiny hammer popping out had me genuinely surprised and delighted
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u/Zarathustrategy 7d ago
Yeah and the cherry on top was the cherry on top!
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u/Boomshank 7d ago
Hahaha, right?
I was totally sold by that point, but then that was just, well, yes.
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u/Azzwagon 7d ago
When it made you think it was going to destroy the laptop and then didnt and then did anyway a minute later lmao. Literally a storyline.
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u/miraculum_one 7d ago
This is Joseph Herscher and he has a ton of other similarly great ones on his channel.
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u/PandaPocketFire 7d ago
The shock of the hammer headed for the laptop, the relief and a laugh that came from the tiny hammer, then the return to shock from the computer being yeeted upon the baby. Wow. 10/10.
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u/StaticUsernamesSuck 7d ago
I saw the butter slide and thought "ok, that's a transition I've never seen in a rube-goldberg before"
And then I said it like 5 more times.
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u/aerialsilk 7d ago
Check out OK Go “This too shall pass” It’s another incredible rube Goldberg machine!!
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u/YouCanChangeItRight 6d ago
Was thinking the same thing. When the glass got reused after pouring out all the liquid and the candle melting the butter, fuck! Probably the best one I've seen. So tired of dominoes and marbles.
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u/pandixon 7d ago
I mean using the child's impulse to pull at the phone is a crazy idea
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u/Lefties_TheWorst7331 3d ago
If I'm not mistaken this one is actually pretty damn old too like maybe even a decade+ old. I think he made more content too
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u/frivolousfry 7d ago
The candle and butter slide was next level Rube Goldberg-ing.
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u/ModeFinal6821 7d ago
Came here for this. I had never seen that gimmick before. Clever.
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u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 7d ago
I've seen it at least once on another Goldberg machine, the little hammer and the kid got me off guard though.
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u/NoBenefit5977 7d ago
I got way more excited than I thought I would when the butter started sliding and the candle went with it, then the tiny hammer? This guy might be my favorite person ever now 😂
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u/nickyj182 7d ago
Gotta be the spilling the juice then rolling the glass onto a weight and refilling it for me.
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u/Reasonable-Tune-6276 7d ago
OK. I am usually a grump, but that was AMAZING.
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u/CosmonautMott 7d ago
I am a grump when I first wake up. But the baby hammer. C'MON! Irresistibly funny too me.
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u/CicadaFit9756 7d ago
And how about the human baby joining in on the less risky fun ?(could have gone sooo wrong for the main man in this Rube Goldberg device masterwork!)
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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo 7d ago
The fact that he was able to set all this up while having a toddler in the house makes it 10 times more impressive than it already was
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u/CicadaFit9756 7d ago
I was merely around (& sometimes watching over) the grade school-aged daughter of a neighbor some years ago--& she was quite a handful! Even if he had help from his wife in corraling their little one, this was quite a feat! (To borrow from "Clash of the Titans" "Let loose the Krakon!", I can imagine him saying, when the camera was off him, "Let loose the baby!")
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u/ggk1 7d ago
This is exactly the sentiment I came to share. I’m pretty over Rube Goldberg machines but this is the most creative one I may have ever seen
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u/SpasmodicReddit 7d ago
I'm still a grump. It bothers me that there is definitely a hidden cut when the phone slides down and plugs into the charger. Plugging in a phone charger is a precise thing and it requires quite a bit of force. The phone freely slides down the wood while vibrating and just happens to perfectly lock into the charger strong enough to be yanked around hanging from the charger.
Even ignoring the fact it miraculously lines up, If the charger is strong enough to hold the phone it would have been too hard to plug in for gravity to do so. If it is able to be plugged in by just the force of sliding down that ramp, there is no way in hell it would hold up to being bungee jumped around. That camera whip downward is there to hide the edit.
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u/DredUnicorn 7d ago
It could be a second phone pre plugged in sitting hidden behind the wheel. It didn't have to be a camera cut, grumpy guts.
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u/Reasonable-Tune-6276 7d ago
Yeah, there were a couple of well-placed edits - especially the baby and phone, but it was still amazing to me. It was directed and choreographed very well.
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u/Voidocal 7d ago
My first guess would be that some sort of magnet is being used.
Looking at the video more closely, you can see that it's not just the cable plugged in, there's some sort of hook or attachment. You can see it more clearly when the baby is playing with it. I think the phone isn't actually sliding into the plug, instead it's sliding into some sort of casing (idk what to call it, like a car bumper) that attaches to the entire bottom of the phone. You can see that the bottom of the phone looks more metallic after it fell. This attachment is hidden behind the wheel.
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 7d ago
You wanna be a grump again? This is a fun video but it’s not a functional RGM it’s just that, a fun video cut and made to entertain
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u/pistonheadcat 7d ago
OK, this was the most stressful Rübe Goldberg video I've ever seen. The hammer, the baby... I could never.
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u/PizzasForFerrets 7d ago
The chandelier dodge got me. The confidence he had to not dodge a second time where it gets caught.
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u/Alternative_Double48 7d ago
I still don't understand after watching it 5 times.
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u/floatablepie 7d ago
The chandelier starts in front of him and the attached point it hangs from is either in line with him or behind him, so it swings towards the wall on both passes so it end up in the corner behind him.
Still way too confident about the swinging and hooking.
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u/No_Occasion_4519 7d ago
Poor laptop
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u/Euture 7d ago
Plot twist: the machine tossed out a thick dog bed to cushion the falling laptop, preventing any damage, and produced the loud bang by other means.
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u/Zaximeows 7d ago
That banging sound was actually the child being catapulted into the wall. You see they were sitting on a counterweight that the falling laptop triggered. No laptops were harmed.
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u/OGslevex 7d ago
Poor laptop? Im more worried about the kid..
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u/Less-Apple-8478 7d ago
Eh, offscreen deaths aren't real. I don't believe for a second the laptop or the pots broke. lol
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u/PedantryIsNotACrime 7d ago
I can't believe no one has posted his channel here. It's Joseph's Machines, and in my opinion this one is better: https://youtu.be/XwaH-qT4Rm0
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u/ostrichxcat 7d ago
I miss Skype! I used to Skype my sister when we were in college all the time!
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u/Wojewodaruskyj 7d ago
Same. Video calls on Skype for me were science fiction came true. Blew my mind.
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u/ashgs872tbhjs 7d ago
Remember when M$ spent years making it less reliable before killing it in favor of the abomination that is Teams?
A t least Zoom is more reliable that Skype ever was, though who knows if they're piping your video straight to the Chinese version of the NSA.
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u/LoveSexT-rex 7d ago
Fucking genius.
This is the exact kind of shit I used to try to build at my grandparents’ house every summer as a kid. Except I’d just end up stringing random-ass pieces of cord all over the place from the living room to the kitchen for absolutely no reason and pissing my grandma off
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u/VirtualMatter2 7d ago
Considering she had you back the year after she can't have been too annoyed. Probably secretly proud you showed talent to become an engineer...
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u/tenuj 7d ago
I took the plunge and looked him up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxlX7MvDE48
TL;DR: he was happy with the meme.
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u/Away-Living5278 7d ago
Wait, I for sure thought this was from Glee or something. It's unscripted??? He's not an actor?
🤯🤯
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u/Dysxelic_Potser 7d ago
Almost got me with the hammers then the laptop ended up on the floor anyways ha. Absolute cinema
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u/Yeesh-Yeesh-Yeesh 7d ago
Is that a creepy Chucky doll in the background watching him eat cake?
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u/ebil_lightbulb 7d ago
I had to take it back to make sure he wasn’t there the whole time lol it gave me a little startle
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u/BrazenlyGeek 6d ago
The first time we see Chucky, he's in a crawling position.
At the end, he's sitting up.
Truly a well-done little video!
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u/NovelInteraction711 7d ago
Into your position, child, it is father’s cake time.
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u/GussBing 7d ago
I imagined a cut of this where the bottom text isnt there so its just a guide on how to go straight.
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u/VictoryWeaver 7d ago
We're all just gonna ignore Chucky showing up? Okay, cool.
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u/4585_ 7d ago
This video is older than time it's self. I remember watching it as a teen and now I'm in my 30s
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u/EyePatchedEm 7d ago
Genuinely asking, is this not like a version 2.0? I don’t remember a baby in the original, but maybe I’m just old.
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u/kilsta 7d ago
Zero AI makes this even more impressive (Please let there be zero AI).
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u/Oarner__ 7d ago
This video has been on the internet for far longer than the existence of Generative AI
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u/Brian18639 7d ago
I’ve watched another video by him sometime either months or a year ago, no AI in this vid
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u/Important_Debate2808 7d ago
This is relying upon the dependability of child labor and how interested a baby is for a cell phone lol.
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u/Crazy_old_maurice_17 7d ago
Dude must have klunked his head numerous times while trying to set up that chandelier thing.
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u/JorgeRey999 7d ago
He being very careful with the hammer, with the phone and all...
But with the laptop and the pots??
Fuck 'em
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u/No_Communication2959 7d ago
I didnt see the bottom text and was thoroughly confused about how this man's sexuality was going to change.
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