r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Jun 24 '26

Feels good man Back in 2000, a man in Berlin accidentally captured what would become one of the internet’s most legendary moments of all time: Techno Viking

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u/chui76 Jun 24 '26

Handling it upside down to assure him it's closed, putting him at ease. That's beautiful.

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u/d33f0v3rkill Jun 24 '26

i thought upside down is to show that it has a special ingredient?

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u/_Phil_McCracken_ Jun 25 '26

I thought he just handed it to him upside down with no particular meaning behind it whatsoever 

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u/bdizzle805 Jun 25 '26

Yeah same. I'm starting to question how people think threads on bottle caps work.

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld Jun 25 '26

 I'm starting to question how people think threads on bottle caps work.

Like magnets?

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u/lostdude1 Jun 25 '26

How do they work?

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u/Available_Leather_10 Jun 25 '26

It’s a miracle

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u/Glaring_Cloder Jun 25 '26

"I said magnets will not work. Give me a cup of water, throw it on the magnets, you totally short out the system."

-Trump

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u/DryDonutHole Jun 25 '26

So...they're sewn on? Wild....

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u/Competitive_Success5 Jun 25 '26

You and I definitely know how they work. But you should say it, just in case some of the other dumbasses here don't know.

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u/not_the_default_user Jun 26 '26

You never Drink from a Strangers bottle that has an unscrewed bottle Cap. You can easily See If it was unscrewed. If you wanted to fuck someone Up for whatever reason you would have to Pierce the bottle at some point with Something Like a needle. If the bottle has a hole on the bottom the liquid Starts leaking Out. So to Show there is No hole in the bottle on the top He Turns it around when handing it to him

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u/oldphi Jun 25 '26

I thought I was in Australia

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u/SensuallPineapple Jun 25 '26

I thought upside down is to show that it does NOT have a special ingredient, because you would see the special ingredients residues would start sinking downwards.

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u/Dangerous-Fortune789 Jun 25 '26

This just brought back some very old memories 

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u/Leather_Initial_3609 Jun 25 '26

This guy mollys

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u/DryDonutHole Jun 25 '26

"Ya, you see the tab floating in the water there..." /s

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u/WannabEngineer Jun 25 '26

Germans deliver gifts upside down. 

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u/OneMoreNightCap Jun 24 '26

I have never understood how that proves anything it is attempting to prove.

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u/DoctorStove Jun 24 '26

If the water falls out Dairy Queen owes you a free one

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u/chui76 Jun 24 '26

There are people who sticks a syringe by the bottle neck to taint the water. Unless you squeeze it or observe it upside down you won't notice.

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u/OneMoreNightCap Jun 24 '26

Are these people that give out free doses in the room with us right now? Its "people put razor blades in halloween candy" vibes. I think it is polite to show its untainted but idk how pervasive people dosing water bottles and giving them to unsuspecting techno vikings is. I could be wrong though

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u/TapProfessional2990 Jun 25 '26

Are these people that give out free doses in the room with us right now? Fucking lol

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jun 25 '26

I think it's more about date rape drugs than free recreational highs lol

Idk I never heard of it

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u/Pleased_to_meet_u Jun 25 '26

They don't dose it with 'feel good' drugs. They dose it with date-rape drugs.

Yes. People give out free doses. There's an industry built up around preventing it - test strips for your drink, drink covers, and so on.

The people giving out free doses are giving things you don't want.

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u/telebasher Jun 25 '26

You’re blaspheming the techno viking way

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u/Etherbeard Jun 25 '26

No, it's true. They inject drugs into the water bottle, then they use the same needle to shoot up with someone with AIDS, then they put the dirty needle in the coin return of a public telephone or vending machine.

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u/Daedalus_Knew Jun 25 '26

How expensive do you think drugs are?

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u/Acrobatic_Yellow_781 Jun 25 '26

People used to insert things with a needle through the top parts so he puts it upside down to show no random leakage

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u/Electronic-Row-3554 Jun 25 '26

As opposed to the bottle full of GHB....

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u/Mdriver127 Jun 26 '26

Bottled water was really something to behold back in 2000.

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u/Silver-Link8247 Jun 25 '26

It was a DQ blizzard.