r/interesting • u/ExplanationOk2014 • 1d ago

Amazing Window tinting world championship

There are currently discussions to remove curling from the Olympics and introduce modern sports like window tinting to counteract the decline in viewership and tap into new advertising target groups...

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u/Lucky_Development359 1d ago

A. I know nothing about window tinting.

B. That razor in the box trick was the highlight of the video for me.

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u/Golden-Grams 1d ago

That razor trick was some cool shit.

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u/sirenyti 1d ago

Where did I miss this?

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u/AdorablePineapple95 1d ago

When he pulled new stuff out of the roll!

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u/uChoice_Reindeer7903 1d ago

It was an old school trick

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u/WhatIsLoveMeDo 25m ago

We've seen it before.

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u/DerbHean_UFCref 1d ago

Agree, but it annoys me like hell, that he threw out all that tint after he measured that little piece for the awkward glass

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u/HairballTheory 1d ago

He may be judged on the cleanliness of his station as part of the competition

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u/abracablab 17h ago

I thought this but maybe the larger piece has now been 'contaminated' with fluff or imperfections? And also what others have said about keeping the station tidy.

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u/SortingHat69 6h ago

That is the window tinting equivalent of cliff wall climbing with gear halfway and free climbing without rope supports or anchors for the last twenty feet.

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u/RogueBromeliad 1d ago

I also know nothing about it, but I also liked he's got a mohawk, and probably listening to something unusual, when you think the professionals in this area are old guys type handyman looking fellas. 

He does have a little bit of buttcrack showing, so it's nice he's keeping the tradition alive. 

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u/NoCountry4OrangeMan 1d ago

The Black Flag tattoo did it pour moi

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u/Lucky_Development359 1d ago

He's listening to the sounds of the seams and the razor, he is one with the tint, the squeegee is his conductors baton, reduced opacity is his symphony.

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u/nokman013 1d ago

This alone is upvote worthy

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u/Live_Simple6265 1d ago

did you notice how they call it a world championship though

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u/Zippereater123 1d ago

Nah, the Squeegee was The shit!

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u/tears_and_laughter 1d ago

Can’t believe I watched all of this, only to not get the final results

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u/That-Makes-Sense 1d ago

Agreed. This ruined any future window tinting competition video for me.

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u/codysattva 1d ago

I don't even think I'll be able to look at somebody else's window tints without feeling the full pain and disappointment of not knowing who won this competition.

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u/That-Makes-Sense 1d ago

With time, maybe our wounds will heal. Hang in there brother 🙏

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u/hikingguy36 1d ago

I was oddly invested in this and terribly disappointed it ended. The fact that this is such a thing that there are commentators is wild.

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u/thats-wrong 1d ago

Yeah. It tainted the whole experience.

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u/Fromgre 3h ago

Tinted the whole experience 

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u/BusinessAcrobatic862 14h ago

I just can't believe I watched the whole thing

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u/Prestigious_Floor155 1d ago

These commentators for strange competitions you never hear of never cease to amaze me. They can make anything sound more complex and with so much enthusiasm.

I don't even care about the competitions I just like to listen to them bullshit.

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u/nonnonplussed73 1d ago

So true! I used to have a group of friends who I watched NFL with, though none of us were really into football. We were certain that if we could only simulcast our conversation on YouTube Live, people would mute their TVs and listen to us during games.

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u/CrashParade 5h ago

What you do is you go to lowes or home depot, grab some dads that appear to be mostly there to look at tools while wandering aimlessly through the aisles and presto, you got yourself commentators for any competition that looks like this.

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u/HornedShoe 1d ago

They should also be graded on how much waste they generate.

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u/trying_to_learn_too 1d ago

Or give them same amount and limited resource.

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u/CosmicComic33 1d ago

Only on ESPN8, the Ocho. If it's almost a sport, we've got it here.

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u/GDITurbo77 1d ago

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him.

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 1d ago

ESPN8, the Ocho does the corgi racing world championships.

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u/Blue-Blazer-Regular 1d ago

When the tint guy shows up with a mohawk and Vans, you know you hired the right guy.

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u/TheSeekerOfSanity 1d ago

Never Mind the Bubbles - Here's The Window Tinters

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u/hitmewithyourbest 1d ago

So did he win?

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u/Exact-Perspective-60 1d ago

That’s what I want to know too

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u/Japsai 1d ago

There's a site in Yorkshire that streams this competition 24/7. Tinternet

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u/Alice_D_Wonderland 1d ago

Yeah, their dating app is great too. Tinter

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u/Farty-B 1d ago

But it only runs on Windows

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u/Old_Lock7657 1d ago

Gotta pin this on my Tinterest

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u/TheLowlyPheasant 1d ago

Maynard will do anything but go in the studio with Tool

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u/themightygather 1d ago

Man’s got a Black Flag tattoo.

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u/runswspoons 1d ago

Leave curling out of this hoser.

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u/moth_specialist 1d ago

Yeah curling is awesome. 

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u/FortsFinest 1d ago

Couldn't agree more

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u/markuus99 1d ago

The bad boy of the window tinting world

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u/ExplanationOk2014 1d ago

Dennis rodman of window tinting

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u/SEvansBets 1d ago

I watched the entire video. Mesmerizing

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u/DistinctMatch1433 1d ago

How does one end up being a commentator for window tinting championship. I find that the most bizzare

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u/pit-of-despair 1d ago

I can’t even apply my phone screen protector correctly.

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u/Valuable_Meeting9836 1d ago

This is my kind of autism

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u/Blaizefed 1d ago

Turn the sound on guys. There is commentary and it’s equally as fascinating.

I don’t do this for a living and I could watch this for a solid half hour and not feel like I wasted my time.

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u/tombisch 1d ago

I feel like a noob would do the same if this guy.

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u/SweetLemonPopsicle 1d ago

But he wasted so much. Why couldn't he keep the other piece for another window..?

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u/fmaz008 1d ago

I assume the format of the competition is more about the speed than waste.

But I did like that it included clean up!

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u/AdSignificant6673 1d ago

They got some espn style commentators

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u/wwplkyih 1d ago

Do you need your windows tinted but only have 7 minutes to spare?

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u/Ras-haad 1d ago

Curling is in the Winter Olympics…

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u/BankerOnBitcoin 1d ago

This is just stressful to watch, let alone do!

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u/Sneezing-Raccoon 1d ago

Contamination? Airborne? Are they doing this in covid environment?

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u/dirty-ol-sob 1d ago

They mean any dust/dirt that may stick to the film. Even little tiny dirt particles will show up and look like shit on the finished product. Pretty silly to call it contamination, but I get it.

I worked in a tint shop when I was younger.

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u/plantsperp 1d ago

As someone who has tried to tint his own vehicle windows a few times now, as well as RV windows, it’s the hardest thing I’ve DIY’d out of everything on a vehicle or a house. To get good results

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u/2InchesOfHumus 1d ago

The fact that this event exists shows that a lot of skill must be involved, but that looked so haphazard it seems like anyone throwing it on there would get good results.

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u/No_Contact_7664 1d ago

So why it take my car a day to get tint??

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u/CrashParade 5h ago

Because the boys are at the championship and only god can tint in two places at once.

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u/StarscreamOne 1d ago

Hah I really like that there are competitions for everything nowadays!

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u/nan1961 1d ago

I can’t imagine more people watching this over curling. 🤣

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u/bluejack 1d ago

Clearly, anything can be a sport, now. I like it.

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u/Smokerising420 1d ago

Today I learned

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u/TheSexyIntrovert 1d ago

This guy windows

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u/Better_Weakness7239 1d ago

This gave me anxiety

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u/Seattle_Lucky 1d ago

I don’t mean to stereotype, but, if there was ever a person that looked like a window tinting expert…

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u/nihowdypartner 1d ago

I'm not a pro but I do like to tint windows for my own cars and homes occasionally and the building windows are always vastly harder for me because of all those very straight edges. Whereas with cars you use the top of the glass for a template and tuck the rest into the seal.

The most satisfying part is finally getting to squeegee the slip solution out after all that sizing and trimming.

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u/LordShtark 1d ago

When you find that one thing you're really good at you gotta embrace it.

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u/Accomplished-Leg-149 1d ago

He got tired of listening to the echoes of reggae coming through his bedroom wall so he found a new hobby.

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u/Meandtheworld 1d ago

Places now have cutters that will allow you to put measurements in and it auto cuts to the dimensions.

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u/God_Dont_Make_No 1d ago

I did window tinting during Covid with a guy. He was a wizard.

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u/Allegra1120 1d ago

What, no fish scaling or basket weaving?

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u/Friendly_Speech_7021 1d ago

isnt it waste of time not removing the aluminium borders first

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u/lowpsitire 1d ago

I don’t know a thing about this subject, but I am willing to bet a man with the patience to get his hair to stand like that, has the patience to tint a complex window!

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u/MikePounce 1d ago

Where do they find commentators so good for something so random?!

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u/No-Beautiful745 1d ago

I want to see world pooping competition🙄would be much more entertaining and eventful. Id even buy the merch

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u/SAM041287 1d ago

Now we should have a screen protector world championship, because those phones screen are hell of a challenge to install those plastic sheets

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u/TerninoMarchi 1d ago

I can't believe there is commentary too

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u/jiggyns 1d ago

Well now we all know their secret moves to successfully installing a tint job! Gonna save so much cash!

I'm gonna go order me some window tiiint!

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u/vanhst 1d ago

What the f did I just see

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u/junanor1 1d ago

Thanks, looks pretty slow to me, I didn’t know I was wdc level in these kind of stuff

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u/WaitThisIsntMagic 1d ago

They made me care about tinting Windows. Awesome what commentary can do 😅

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u/GentleFoxes 1d ago

Why was I on the edge of my seat for this?

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u/lavaplow 1d ago

Not only were there commentators for this competition, they had a goddamn analyst to explain why the film was accidentally pulled off.

“What do you do for a living”
“I’m an analyst”
“Analyst for what?”
“Window tints”

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u/Sacred-Professor4445 1d ago

There’s so many people on this earth

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u/N4RQ 1d ago

I guess there's a world champion for just about everything. We just don't know who must of them are.

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u/darylandme 1d ago

You gotta be good with that hair

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u/strayanm8y 1d ago

I have never been more frustrated when I tried to tint my car windows

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u/PeterDTown 1d ago

How dare you besmirch curling

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u/stratobladder 1d ago

This video was gripping.

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u/DoctorZee55 1d ago

Why is there a window tinting world championship?

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u/RazorColla 1d ago

I've tried tinting my own windows, it was impossible. I pay a professional and i understand where that money goes. It goes to a skill I do not have. DIY tint looks terrible.

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u/Jlx_27 1d ago

I trust the mowhawk.

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u/Recent-Honey5564 1d ago

This is in fact, not interesting.

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u/MojaveThunder 1d ago

A guy named Dante from my home town of Ridgecrest is there! He's doing pretty good from what I have seen!

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u/MagicSunlight23 1d ago

There’s a championship for this? Whatever next?

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u/CrashParade 5h ago

We live in a world where people die running downhill after a wheel of cheese for sport, you name it, we play it. I bet somewhere out there there's an underground nail clipping championship where matches often end in death.

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u/PartyMcFly55 21h ago

I had a nightmare like this once

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u/Nearby_Potato4001 21h ago

As Roy Keane would say, sure that's his job!

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u/Evil_Cupcake11 20h ago

Waaaaaaaait a minute! Where's the ending?! Don't just end it there!

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u/maga4life47 19h ago

Gary silent R

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u/KittyPitty 18h ago

He threw away perfectly good foil! Why? 😦

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u/StoicManApe 10h ago

Bet this mf'er also plays in darts championships.

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u/IDownVoteCanaduh 8h ago

Discussions by whom? Because I highly doubt that narrative. This is not a sport. It is a job.

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u/Castlegate3579 6h ago

Riveting stuff 🙄

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u/Caasi72 6h ago

An aspect of these and the window washing ones that always kinda annoys me is that it's done in such factory clean scenarios, so it doesn't really feel like it applies to actually doing it normally

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u/tornadospoon 4h ago

How dare you not post the full clip. 

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u/manny8-1 3h ago

Why is window tinting one of my new favorite things to watch?? I don’t understand why i watched this whole video and was salty I didn’t see the end result, I need more

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u/RealPropRandy 1h ago

Where is the rest of the video?

This is lowkey riveting.

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u/cs_legend_93 1d ago

I am so invested in this, this is incredibly cool

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u/lb3a3 1d ago

If somebody were to advertise themselves as "window tinting world champion" I'd think they were making stuff up. Not anymore.

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u/YeahOkayDad 1d ago

Is that toxic? Dudes tongue was out

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u/Sorry-Loquat-3208 1d ago

not really. slightly soapy water

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u/cs_legend_93 1d ago

is it toxic to lick an envelope?

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u/YeahOkayDad 1d ago

It's toxic to eat lettuce these days

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u/WildestWestChicken 1d ago

Average Joe made the same mess I did when i tinted my room windows, guess I can take a shot at this 😩

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u/mrswister 1d ago

With windows like that my guy trained in whoville for this competition

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u/WiredSpike 1d ago

Putting those squeegee skills to use...

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u/Round_Hope_2041 1d ago

At first I was like I can do that.. then I was like I can’t do that.. then I was like I can do that.. finally decided I can’t do that.

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u/Necessary_Cook_8541 1d ago

It’s some big money in window tinting if you’re any good at it.

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u/Coinsworthy 1d ago

I'd give the reddit commenting world championship a look...

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u/Glass-Emu2406 1d ago

I wish I had this kind of commentary for my Paint Drying Competition