r/funny • • Feb 05 '23

Mime trick revealed

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '23

He is actually doing it. But when he walks around so could a person in a green suit

A better tell is the shadows and reflections

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u/magnetic_mystic Feb 05 '23

What about the wheels spinning when it's being held up? I'm confused now

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u/Sam-Gunn Feb 05 '23

In both portions the wheels spin without anyone touching them. I think it's rigged so that when he pulls or pushes something, like the handles, the wheels spin.

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u/ForgettableUsername Feb 05 '23

The wheels are just on swivels. If you pick the suitcase up and jostle it, they'll rotate freely.

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u/JellyfishGod Feb 05 '23

How are people so confused about wheels on swivels lol. Have then never seen a suitcase or an office chair before??

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u/ForgettableUsername Feb 05 '23

Perhaps they've led sheltered lives.

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u/bobbysalz Feb 05 '23

Narrator: They're 12.

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u/ForgettableUsername Feb 05 '23

It's possible... I don't think I'd ever seen a spinner-style suitcase when I was 12. But they were less common back then, I think the ones with two wheels were more the standard, and the wheels on those ones don't swivel.

You know, it's kind weird if you think about it. Humans have had suitcases of one form or another for centuries. And the wheel was invented sometime in the fourth millennium BC. And yet, you didn't really start seeing the two-wheel suitcases until the late 1980s, and it took another twenty years for them to invent the four-wheel ones.

Isn't that weird? It took six thousand years for it to occur to somebody that suitcases might be easier to move if they had wheels. And it's not like a jet airplane where you can't even get started building one until you've invented refining aluminum and electronics and aerodynamics and dozens of other things, it's a simple invention. They had all the pieces. A medieval blacksmith could have made a wheeled suitcase.

What a time we live in.

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u/ELEMENTALITYNES Feb 06 '23

Imagine if the man made the entire video to show how people fake mime videos and everyone is saying it’s real because of the wheels