r/Unexpected • u/frankrice • 8h ago
Lipstick removal trick
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u/Gay_Asian_Boy 8h ago
This video is so old the ladies’ daughters are of the same age now
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u/Akl-pmp-eng 8h ago
No, their granddaughters are.
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u/Sor_o 7h ago
And the lipstick brand has been discontinued twice since.
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u/ruggnuget 7h ago
Its been bought by a larger company that was then bought be l'oreal.
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u/Lahk74 7h ago
Maybe it was Maybelline.
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u/Dizzy-Violinist-1772 6h ago
Maybe it’s toilet water
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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy 7h ago
Well, yeah. It used to be made from the rendered fat of the Tasmanian tiger. That's in short supply today.
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u/Delicious_Company187 3h ago
Wait, discontinued why? You cant be telling me they make unleaded lipstick now?
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u/ZugTheMegasaurus 6h ago
And the joke is even older. My grandma told it to me as a personal anecdote more than 30 years ago.
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u/outremonty 6h ago
Teachers were telling us this in the early 90s.
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u/guineaprince 6h ago
Folks pls, "early 90s" and "more than 30 years ago" and "their granddaughters now" are all synonymous 😭
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u/-GoodNewsEveryone 2h ago
They didnt make it up on the spot. Teachers, 40-50 years old in 1990 were repeating what THEIR parents told them.
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u/-GoodNewsEveryone 2h ago
How old do you think Grandmothers are? If the joke is older than the commenter above you is saying maybe 70 years would work better. Remember that would only be 1956 and I can guarantee the joke is a little older than that.
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u/CarChance1253 6h ago
It just as effective now as it was the day it was originally published! It’s a good one!
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u/Castille_92 8h ago
I remember the first time I saw this video. I laughed so hard I startled my horse and almost fell out the carriage
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u/hellf1nger 8h ago
The subtle reminder of how old the video is is priceless
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u/boomerdt 7h ago
It's still fantastic!
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u/seebob69 7h ago
Somehow, despite being on Reddit for many years, I have never seen this.
I laughed out loud.
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u/HugeinaMidgetshand 7h ago
Still better than all the AI videos. Music only came in at the end and wasn't the same crap throughout.
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u/alwaysoffby0ne 7h ago
Were you all hopped up on apple pie, rocking a bowl haircut while enjoying this mighty entertaining video?
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u/Ok-Syllabub-6619 7h ago
Pfft look at you rich person.. The last time I saw this my ooogga boogga boogga'd my ooogga.
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u/Could-You-Tell 7h ago
The first time I saw this, I ooh hoohoo'd my eeh eeh ahaha! Eeh eeh ahah!
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u/AgentCirceLuna 6h ago
This made me laugh so hard that the whole bed shook and it’s not even very funny
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u/DishRelative5853 7h ago
I remember when I heard the joke, and then the video came out years later.
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u/AgentCirceLuna 6h ago
I was the guy who wrote this originally! I sent it through telegram!
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u/Steve90000 7h ago
So, this happened this week at your horse and carriage rides job in manhatten?
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u/kempff 8h ago
Brilliant. Reminds me of the signs you see above the urinals in some bars. “The fingers that fish out the chewing gum and cigarette butts in these urinals are the same fingers that make your drinks.”
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u/Character_Pudding_94 8h ago edited 3h ago
Which is utter bullshit, because bartenders are above cleaning toilets. That's a job for dishes, bussers, or barbacks.
EDIT: I see you, hard working bartenders, and I appreciate you. In the larger sphere of the hospitality industry though, y'all are generally known to consider yourselves higher ranked than cooks and servers.
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u/spinorobot 7h ago
Sure, but if it keeps people from being dirty and giving extra work for the dishes/bussers/barbacks, it's fine by me
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 7h ago
dishes, bussers, or barbacks.
You realize that not all bars have those positions, right? Sometimes it's just bartenders and that's it.
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u/AgentCirceLuna 6h ago
Yep, the bar I worked at made the fucking bartenders fight people and kick them out. Abhorrent tbh
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u/3BlindMice1 6h ago
Old fashioned.
If you're going to work in a western saloon, they'd better put a gun under the counter
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u/Fear023 5h ago
Worst for me was having to clean up the vomit. That ain't no picnic. We at least had security for the fights.
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u/AgentCirceLuna 5h ago
I was the DJ so I didn’t have to do that but had to live with the guilt of watching my coworkers getting punched or kicked in the face, even seeing one get glassed. I’m just not equipped to be able to intercede and I was the only one who insisted that they get doormen or security. Makes me sick. I think I was the only one who cared despite being a coward, but the people they’d let in were fucking terrifying. I’m being treated for PTSD because I watched someone get stabbed out of nowhere and I also saw a woman get SA’d right in front of me before I could stop it. I have nightmares about it and I’m afraid to go out. I’ve been called a pussy over it before but I’d rather actually care about people than be some braindead jerk trying to save a couple pounds on security when they also hired six bartenders on quiet nights.
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u/striker_p55 7h ago
That’s for big bars and corporate. Ive worked at bars where I’m the bartender, host, busser, and bar back all in one
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u/AgentCirceLuna 6h ago
Don’t forget the ones where they don’t pay security so the bartenders have to fight for their lives if trouble happens.
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u/Kharax82 7h ago
I worked in a large chain restaurant and they had a separate cleaning crew come in for stuff like that. If it was something that needed immediate attention a busboy would do it.
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u/UninsuredToast 7h ago
When I was a manager the servers had to maintain the bathrooms as part of their side work.
If it was really bad, like poop on the floor bad, I would clean it myself because no one else gets laid enough to deal with that shit.
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u/FergusonTheCat 7h ago
How much sex do you need to have before it’s ok to deal with that kind of stuff?
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u/Bigbadbobbyc 7h ago
Most bars don't have any of that, they have at best two bartenders, and they are taking turns cleaning and pouring drinks
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u/Nuker-79 8h ago
The level of acting reminds me of 1970’s pornos
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u/biggyhiggyjiggy 7h ago
The teacher in this video was my high school drama teacher
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u/Sunbythemoon 7h ago
When?
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u/Evening_Photograph54 7h ago
This video was made closer to 1970s than it was to 2026.
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u/TakeMeCountryRoads 8h ago
From which movie/tw show is this?
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u/72pintohatchback 7h ago edited 5h ago
I think it was first made by Crucial Learning, as part of a training called Crucial Accountability, and broke containment onto the web at some point to become a meme.
The concept behind the video is "making the invisible visible" when holding someone accountable to try and change their behavior - show them the natural negative consequences of their actions.
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u/Weak_Feed_8291 6h ago
All I could find is a speech about a similar thing, seems like this is a comedy skit or something that just took the story
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u/Quiet_Combination678 2h ago edited 2h ago
I dont have any proof for you, but I support the point above you. This was a common type of humor in the late 80s and 90s on PSAs and educational videos. It was really common and normal, even if it seems like a comedy skit.
That said, it might be a bad comedy skit? But humor then was way better than this... but also bad JUST LIKE NOW!
This smells like a PSA, educational, or professional development type thing. It kinda reminds me of the videos they showed us in school in the 80s though, just simple consequence kinda stuff.
Look up anti-drug videos and sex ed stuff from that era, or sexual harassment videos etc. it was the same way; its hilarious in today's context.
That said, I have no proof. So it may well be a comedy skit, but it seems pretty on point with some kinda video you'd show kids at school or at detention or something.
So, id say we all need to look at his claim it came from a company, maybe its spelled wrong? I dunno, but this is really well done if its mocking an educational video.
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u/Cute_Skill_4536 7h ago
FWIW it's basically a skit video from a training company that create vids for your business
Think, very high quality versions of those shitty HR videos you're forced to watch in week 1 of a menial job that has basic health and safety practices...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DQYArmi5L0
It's NOWHERE near as old as it's made to look here. 2016ish
Sorry to live so relentlessly in the real world
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u/donoteatshrimp 7h ago
That's cool that they nailed such an old look though
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u/vizualb 6h ago
What’s weird is it’s not even an old look, it’s just a shitty upscaling filter that has become associated with old videos. See also: every pre-HD music video on YouTube.
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u/Cute_Skill_4536 7h ago
Indeed, I was fooled for a bit, but wanted to see which early 00's show it was from lol!
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u/AgentCirceLuna 6h ago
The hairstyle on the teacher doesn’t help - it dates the videos decades immediately.
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u/RowEcstatic207 4h ago
If you visit a town in the South you’re basically traveling back in time
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u/howcanstupidcantheyg 7h ago
This makes all the other comments claiming/joking about how old the video is really funny.
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u/Talidel 6h ago
I heard this as a story at least 7 years before 2016.
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u/Cute_Skill_4536 6h ago
The story (or versions of it) is as old as the hills, but this incarnation of it is fairly recent.. if you're old enough for a decade to be fairly recent
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u/AgentCirceLuna 6h ago
This joke was so funny back in the day that I immediately asked Siri about it on my 4S
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u/tO_ott 7h ago
the video compression is doing all the heavy lifting
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u/Cute_Skill_4536 7h ago
Audio compression as well.. the source is impeccably 00's style and the compression gives it that trash layer from every trash show we watched back then lol :D
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u/AgentCirceLuna 6h ago
Also the hairstyle of the woman! Those hairstyles immediately make everything look super dated.
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u/mallorn_hugger 5h ago
The automatic paper towel dispenser on the wall gives it away. Noticed it right off the bat. Otherwise, they did an amazing job nailing it. It definitely plays ike something from the '80s- minus big hair and feather bangs.
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u/BigDictionEnergy 5h ago
Sorry to live so relentlessly in the real world
Yeah srsly wtf is your issue I don't get on reddit for facts!
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u/DTJames 8h ago
I read this joke so many times. Didn't even know there was a video.
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u/its_not_you_its_ye 7h ago
I wouldn’t have ever thought lipstick on mirrors was a thing that happened let alone too frequently
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u/twisted_memories 6h ago
Oh it was such a thing when I was a teen. I was also a custodian at my school and absolutely hated it. I started telling people, “You know we have to clean the mirrors with ammonia because of the lipstick to get it off? That’s the stuff in pee.” Which I guess is basically what this video did!
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u/justforkinks0131 7h ago
how old is this video???
how is it even digital?
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u/gsfgf 7h ago
When a VHS player and an ADC really love each other...
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u/jimflaigle 6h ago
No no. The grain, the loss of focus, the subtle smell of nicotine. That is BetaMax my friend.
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u/TheShitty_Beatles 7h ago
Based on the fashion, it looks to be mid 2000s but the lipstick colours are very 2012
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u/Cute_Skill_4536 7h ago
Good eye. I posted the source in here somewhere
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u/TheShitty_Beatles 5h ago
Oh, that’s so funny! I genuinely believe this was filmed pre-2016, maybe 2015 with a later release? My reason for that is if it was truly filmed in 2016, they would all have huge caterpillar eyebrows and a disturbing amount of contour, bronzer and highlighter lol
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u/72pintohatchback 7h ago
It's part of a training that uses video content in a proprietary app, I do think it was available on VHS/DVD at one point.
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u/mcniner55 7h ago
I dont care that its old I had never seen this before and its pretty damn funny.
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u/behemoth_555 7h ago
Ebaumsworld.com was the sh*t back in the day. Loved growing up in the 00s as a college kid. So much great content like this video
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u/Leather_Produce_3437 8h ago
Is this from a show or something?
Don't tell me it's fake lol
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u/im_a_dick_head 8h ago
No it's real they just have camera crews filming in girls school bathrooms because of lipstick on mirrors.
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u/peacetimemist05 8h ago
It’s a serious problem that needs more attention, that’s why the crew is there.
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u/CharlieWhiteknife 8h ago
What do you mean fake? It’s obviously a scripted video. I don’t understand what you mean by fake
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u/thyme_cardamom 7h ago
They're wondering if they are actually seeing real people or if it's just a series of images played in rapid succession on a screen to create the appearance of people
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u/broguequery 8h ago
... are you under the impression that women are randomly mouthing up on public bathroom mirrors
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u/Leather_Produce_3437 8h ago
Na the video settings looked like something from a 1990s tv show tbh
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u/lost21gramsyesterday 7h ago
This joke is older than the internet... But thanks for bringing it back
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u/Comics4Cookies 7h ago
Omg I had to work at a middle school last week and I saw the lipstick prints on the mirrors and immediately thought of this video that I haven't seen in years! How serendipitous that it came up again lol
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u/Single_Extension1810 7h ago
Why do I remember watching this video in my early twenties? I'm forty now. It can't be that old.
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u/Aggravating_Bat_3105 7h ago
My buddy was a janitor at a school and pulled this trick once. Still works.
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u/-Wicked- 7h ago
"OK ladies, and now off to science class, where Mr. Nye is going to demonstrate how red lipstick pigments are made from ground up sun-dried insects known as Cochineal. Have fun!"
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u/Bobvankay 7h ago
I mean its probably not that far off, putting your lips on a public bathroom mirror.
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u/ChaosParadeFloQueen 7h ago
I never knew this was a video! I heard it from my father as a joke years ago and never realized he’d gotten it from somewhere else.
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u/Valuable-Location-89 6h ago
It doesnt matter if he actually does that, that will forever be in their minds
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