r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/herewearefornow • 2d ago

Can't lie, buzzer beaters look so magical it can feel like they're scripted

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u/Jin_N_Juice-tm 2d ago

Run that magnet theory by me though?

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u/LebHeadSinceWilma ☑️ 2d ago

This is a known fact, believe it or not. The mechanics were detailed in the 1994 documentary “Summertime Switch.”

https://youtu.be/IR6lWj4_B9M?t=6160

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u/Jonasthewicked2 2d ago

I'm weak over here lmfaoooo

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u/Shup 1d ago

go, freddy!

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u/ben10toesdown 2d ago

It's that RDCworld March Madness sketch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-AGMagS1fM

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u/kahn_noble ☑️ 2d ago

I’ll subscribe.

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u/Additional-Bad9220 2d ago

This is hilarious YET true lol. My cousin shop has the DUMBEST convos and yet they can cut

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u/this1chick 2d ago

All the knowledge points dumped into hair none left for much else. 

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u/Mobile-Dust4334 2d ago

Just like all my Skyrim characters

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u/Inside-Is-Winside ☑️ 2d ago

All dex no int. Might not read good but them hands steady as fuccck my boi.

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u/Feeling_Barnacle_584 1d ago

When you around each other 5-6 days a week, any topic will be explored lmao

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u/Iguessimonredditnow 2d ago

Barber Shops will never be lacking in conspiracy theories or special handshakes

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u/No-Tower-5119 2d ago

Has the internet put them out of the bootleg/fight video market?

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u/Iguessimonredditnow 2d ago

IDK, the market has priced me out of going to the barber

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u/herewearefornow 2d ago

I don't believe you.

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u/Insanedolt45 2d ago edited 2d ago

Barbershops gotta be an A rank for attracting numbskulls 

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u/Medium-Science9526 2d ago

My Barber: "You're sandwiched between your parents in bed, who are you turning your back to?"

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u/smitteh 2d ago

The ceiling

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u/DemiGod9 ☑️ 1d ago

So you're just ass up?

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u/Caravanczar 1d ago

I'm laying head to toe. More space

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u/OllyOllyOxenBitch ☑️ 1d ago

I'm going to the fucking floor, foh 🤣

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u/Nearby_Artist_1265 2d ago

I’ve heard a barber argue that that Earth is flat because your ears pop when the plane gains altitude

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u/deykleen 2d ago

That's up there with Steve Harvey's "If we evolved from monkeys why do we still have monkeys" theory.

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u/cygnus2 ☑️ 2d ago

“Why we still got monkeys?” never fails to make me laugh whenever I think about it.

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u/Shan9417 ☑️BHM Donor 2d ago

Wasn't that Katt Williams? Or did both of them make that dumb "joke"?

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u/deykleen 2d ago

When Steve Harvey said it he was on CNN and he wasn't joking

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u/Shan9417 ☑️BHM Donor 2d ago

Oh yikes. I didn't even know that.

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u/ComicsEtAl 2d ago

Yep, magnets is why Shaq can’t hit a free throw. Everybody knows that.

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u/titty_twisters_ 2d ago

And he has no hair, so no need for a barbershop

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u/AnIndustrialEngineer 2d ago

Classic min-max build, like a restaurant that always takes forever and is sometimes just closed at 7pm for some reason but the food slaps every time. 

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u/SoulPossum ☑️ 2d ago

Place by me was only open for like 3-5 hours every day because it was basically a "while supplies last" situation. They'd cook a certain amount of stuff and when they ran out they ran out. I only got to eat there once before they went out of business and the food was awesome. But only being open in the early afternoon when most people in the area are working was not the strongest business decision

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u/bryanramone 2d ago

I mean if they sold out every day and still closed, seems like the easy fix would be make more for the days?

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u/SoulPossum ☑️ 1d ago

Not necessarily. They weren't really selling out because they were popular. They only made enough food for what popular restaurants can clear in like an hour and it took them several hours to move it. They had limited capacity because they didn't really run a kitchen in the traditional sense. They just had several slow cookers of food. It wasn't really a sustainable system

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u/ashycuber 2d ago

I loved my neighborhood barbershop in Memphis and usually nodded my head and smiled along until they started talking about how the Holocaust was a lie and some fringe Black Israelite nonsense. Had to stop going after that 😞

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u/Pandaburn ☑️ 2d ago

I would watch a Lyfe Jennings half time show.

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u/wvumteers4lifw 2d ago

Must be nice having a halftime show 

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u/TheTapeTech 2d ago

HBCU Football Championship Half Time Show with Lyfe Jennings and Charlie Wilson would be a certified hood classic.

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u/Kala_Csava_Fufu_Yutu 2d ago

The best barber i ever had didnt believe space was real (yes and idk what he meant by that either i tried asking). so this checks out

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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars ☑️ 2d ago

I broke up with a girl because she thought space wasn’t real. Of course the Earth was flat too.

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u/No-Tower-5119 2d ago

I stopped messin with a girl cause she said a shot of the earth in a video game wasnt real. Not because it was a game, but because humans have never been to space.

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u/the__ghola__hayt 2d ago

Lyfe Jennings watching other artists do the halftime show: "Must be nice."

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u/7nth_Wonder 2d ago

That may have some truth to it.

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u/More_Macaron_4373 2d ago

A magnet is hilarious 😂

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u/Mr8180 2d ago

The dumber the nigga the better the barber is sending me. 😂🤣😂

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u/Ok-Procedure738 2d ago

Idk but I’ve seen some sketchy ass Bron 3’s hang a left at the last second just saying

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u/Darqnyz7 2d ago

Super hot nuclear take: I think barbers are in the Artist category of professions, and my experience with professional artists are they are not always the sharpest tools in the shed.

You get a couple of them here and there that end up as architects, or intellectuals. But as a rule, a lot of them just don't build on their critical thinking as they grow older.

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u/ogklayz 2d ago

Sadly, this is true. Im exhausted from all the dumbassery I have to endure in the shop when these tin foil hat discussions take place 😫 😩

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u/TedKoppelz 2d ago

Barber said to me once that black people's hair grows straight up bc its their antenna to the universe. Playing along, i asked, "white people don't have them?"

He confirmed my suspicions.

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u/XLauncher ☑️ 2d ago

I used to go to a barber shop where one of the barbers (not the one working on me) and the clients would go back and forth on how America was founded by black men and it was covered up because white people were jealous. And when I say 'founded,' I mean these people really believed the Declaration was written and signed by a group of black men.

The cuts were 15 dollars and clean af, so.

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u/ShikaMoru 2d ago

My first time hearing about this was during Aces vs Valkeries game earlier this week. These guys are really serious about it too

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u/SexandCinnamonbuns 2d ago

Damn, hearing Lyfe Jennings saying “Ay yo you”… at the Super Bowl would give me chills.

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u/OhTheseSourTimes 2d ago

My old barber once told me he believes people used to age up to 600 years old

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u/BToney005 ☑️ 1d ago

Wtf is practice?

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u/Bad_Routes ☑️ 2d ago

It's a vibe check, if you disagree yo hairline will suffer

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u/motocycledog 1d ago

Pfft everyone knows the electro magnet is in the rim not the ball!

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u/jangma ☑️ 1d ago

Beauty shops are similar vibe... My favorite loctitians has a mix of illuminati conspiracy theories and crystal woowoo, and I just smile and hum. Idc if she thinks Beyonce's a MK Ultra agent, my retwists are immaculate and under 2 hrs.

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u/bgva 1d ago

I have a relative who is a barber, and some of the convos we've had really had me looking at him sideways.

https://giphy.com/gifs/9V3e2mxWvD89wyw5l5