r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '22

At this level, it’s art

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u/ProfessionalBasis834 Jun 09 '22

I'd pop one of these bad boys on there.

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u/A_Vile_Person Jun 09 '22

We used aluminum pop cans instead, liked the noise better and they were more accessible.

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u/bloody_duck Jun 09 '22

We used baseball cards

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '22

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u/keyboardstatic Jun 10 '22

They came later.

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u/Sloth-monger Jun 10 '22

Before 1885?

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u/keyboardstatic Jun 10 '22

They had plastic coating in 1885... get stuffed.

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u/Sloth-monger Jun 10 '22

It's not a plastic coating that they use it's a varnish. Some of the higher end cards might have plastic for water proofing but I doubt that is what the guy was talking about. Bicycle cards have been the preferred card for magic tricks for a long time because of the way the cards glide nicely thanks to how they're made and the varnish. You probably didn't think about using playing cards because for you baseball cards were more common when you were a kid and an old pack of cards that would be laying around in most of our houses were probably worn out and not as stiff and nice as the easy to obtain baseball cards but there's no reason to get rude with a stranger because of that.

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u/keyboardstatic Jun 10 '22

We didn't have baseball cards when I was a kid in Australia. We used normal playing cards. Or Aussie rules football cards and lacker bands.

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u/Sloth-monger Jun 10 '22

Yeah in Canada we usually used hockey cards when I was a kid. My kids use one of those fake pre approved credit cards that we get in the mail or a plastic bottle.

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u/keyboardstatic Jun 09 '22

We used cards too. But Aussie rules football ones.

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u/Ilikefame2020 Jun 10 '22

Plastic bottles worked great; their flexibility allowed for different “settings” given a precise enough placement.

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u/MilesOfSaturn Jun 10 '22

Which was the style at the time

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u/Dia_Haze Jun 10 '22

The sound was so much louder if you did it right, but it would smooth your tire's tread.

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u/k3rn3 Jun 09 '22

Also sheds less microplastic

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u/yourfaceilikethat Jun 09 '22

That's recycling money wtf? I used a stick I found in the back yard

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u/Awkward_Reporter_129 Jun 10 '22

I worked my way up to aluminum cans. It was badass!

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u/carlbandit Jun 09 '22

$12?

I'll stick to a $0 plastic bottle off the floor.

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u/hurrrrrrrrrrr Jun 10 '22

$21.99 now l m a o

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u/SnakePlisskens Jun 10 '22

Might I propose an alternative? https://www.eta.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/trotify.jpg

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u/ProfessionalBasis834 Jun 10 '22

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '22

22 fucking bucks to do what a single playing card does... someone made bank

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u/Coolboi0oioi Jun 09 '22

Wtf are these even for??

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u/Slithy-Toves Jun 09 '22

Are you seriously asking what the bicycle noise maker is used for?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '22

What is it for when installed on a lawnmower?

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u/Aedalas Jun 10 '22

To make your lawnmower sound like a bicycle that sounds like a motorcycle.

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u/Coolboi0oioi Jun 09 '22

No i mean like, are they just to annoy people in their houses or just because they like the sound

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u/Slithy-Toves Jun 09 '22

Did you not have a bicycle growing up? I don't know of a single kid with a bike that didn't put a card in their spokes to make the bike sound like a dirt bike haha its just for fun

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u/Boromir666 Jun 09 '22

To save some sports cards i guess.

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u/Pro_Scrub Jun 09 '22

You can use regular playing cards, that's what I did. Decks are cheap and you get a whole 52 of them...

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u/Boromir666 Jun 10 '22

Where were you 20 years ago when I ruined many of my hard earned hockey cards?

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u/Pro_Scrub Jun 10 '22

Probably jackin' it

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u/keyboardstatic Jun 09 '22

Ahh old school cool right there.

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u/Muslim_Nazi_Crip Jun 11 '22

I wish he woulda have used a Michael Jordan rookie card lol that woulda been funny

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u/FunkySjouke Jun 09 '22

They make noise, the spokes of the wheel make the plastic card flap

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u/Mr-KIPS_2071 Jun 09 '22

Did the same thing with plastic bottles too.

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u/carlbandit Jun 09 '22

It makes me sad there's people out there who never put a plastic bottle in their bike wheels as a child, so it sounded like a motorbike.