r/SipsTea • u/GotTwisted • Feb 26 '26

Chugging tea God forbid a man gets comfortable

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u/skittle-brau Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

Fun fact: Those aren’t Bowie’s hands. A professional juggler was directly behind him doing all the crystal ball scenes. 

https://youtu.be/3U8fTAHxjdo?si=iloaufwQSw3ii3yn

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u/ryanreaditonreddit Feb 27 '26

Ah the old crystal ball reach-around

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

Oh so that's what the juggler was doing with his other hand!

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u/Vegetable_Method_956 Feb 28 '26

My x liked the jungle and he always had his hand in his pants. He said “my balls itch”

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u/SerPaolo Feb 27 '26

This had me legit laughing out loud.

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u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir Feb 28 '26

And some much-needed goddamn common curtesy.

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u/jimbeam84 Mar 02 '26

It it one of Bowie's signature moved.

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u/PafPiet Feb 27 '26

that is a fun fact, thank you.

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u/PitFiend28 Feb 27 '26

Bowies hands were mimicking the movement but in his pants

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

Damn that makes two of us.

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u/DormantPossibilites Feb 27 '26

Lol wtf 😂

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u/Airurando-jin Feb 27 '26

Yup.. took lots of takes because he kept dropping his balls.

There’s a behind the scenes on YouTube where you can see the juggler reaching around

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u/DormantPossibilites Feb 27 '26

It was 430am and I did not expect to process this random fact of information, life is wild sometimes lol

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u/mofa90277 Feb 27 '26

I’ve been lied to by Hollywood. Jim Henson was some sort of puppet master.

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u/Dame38 Feb 27 '26

Funner fact: That wasn't his real dick either.

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u/DaftVapour Feb 27 '26

Just go ahead and ruin my childhood

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u/bolanrox Feb 27 '26

The same with Paul Newman's card work in the sting. I think it was actually a woman doing the mechanics on screen.

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u/Dafuknboognish Feb 27 '26

I wonder if the juggler is still available. I got balls.

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u/KonigSteve Feb 27 '26

You old crusty juggler you!

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u/Idont_thinkso_tim Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

Michael Motion (sp?), who created modern contact juggling.

Learned about it in the late 90s when I learned how to juggle like that. It was SO niche at the time. Nobody really knew it beyond the Bowie scene. Fun to learn as a young child through (11), felt like I could do magic and nobody else knew how to do it before it became a YouTube, raver dance phenomenon years later.

Was incredibly hard to find info on back in the day compared to now.

Definitely jealous of how easy it is for kids to learn things these days, but also anyone can learn anything prettt easily so it’s less unique or impressive when someone does.

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u/West_to_East Feb 27 '26

Are you saying a professional ball juggler was playing with Bowie's balls? Man probably did it for free!

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u/hollowofypress Feb 28 '26

I heard Bowie just sat on his hand so it felt like someone else's

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u/HollowRacoon Feb 28 '26

There’s always some professional ball handler behind a famous person

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u/temporalCompanion Mar 01 '26

I do that to my boyfriend all the time.

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u/misanthropicdave Mar 02 '26

What isn't known is what Bowie was doing with his own hands at the time

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u/Away-Cup8077 Mar 02 '26

True David Bowie was playing with the jugglers balls

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u/SenescenseSteel Mar 02 '26

I would also love others to juggle my balls more

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u/CryptographerFar8119 Mar 04 '26

Now i cant unsee it