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BlueCaracal t1_iy05jas wrote

Ripping apart a phone book is more about technique than brute strength.

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Bizprof51 t1_ixzvnfk wrote

She might have been strong, but there is a trick to ripping big phone books. You bend the spine and rip in the direction of the bend. Not too hard after some tries.

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SonnyListon999 t1_iy0m7vz wrote

The spine was thick with glue. You snapped the rigid fragile spine and the rest was relatively easy.

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Axolotlist t1_iy2rfqg wrote

Yup. I used to be able to rip really thick ones in half. It's all in the technique. Looks impressive as hell though. One thing no one can rip apart though, is two phone books with the pages interleaved. I think myth busters tried that once.

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tech405 t1_iy1i29j wrote

You can also see the first inch or so was pre cut

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Auran82 t1_iy2oud5 wrote

Didn’t realise you could circumcise a phone book.

The more you know.

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Lerichard52 t1_iy06pbq wrote

What’s a phone book?

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_iy0u032 wrote

The thing we're going to beat the crap out of you with, yet leave no marks.

Get the fuck off my lawn!

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1000Hells1GiftShop t1_iy1sx70 wrote

>The thing thing we're going to beat the crap out of you with, yet leave no marks.

Bars of soap in socks?

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RogerRabbit1234 t1_iy0ztqd wrote

Part of the internet they used to print out as late as like 2010, for people to throw away.

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AliBarberTheSecond t1_iy2o2fs wrote

Just had some delivered in Brisbane, Australia.

It's about 2/3" thick. Not even worth rolling up to whack flies with

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Mattist t1_iy0eiz9 wrote

Instructions unclear, phone in half.

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Xcitation t1_iy05dda wrote

13 or 30

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Cetun t1_iy0eiff wrote

Either way she'd probably win a fist fight.

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ComradeGibbon t1_iy32x24 wrote

I would let her win.

^^because ^^it ^^would ^^hurt ^^a ^^lot ^^less ^^that ^^way

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3eeps t1_iy0ij96 wrote

Legs

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dillrepair t1_iy13nz3 wrote

Like… she’s just a good looking woman is all… in good shape. That’s not intimidating at all. It means mountain biking for days.

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coffeebeards t1_iy1b3mp wrote

Serious question:

Were there gyms or did people have weights at home? I don’t know anything about this era but I would assume it was a very… woman cook and clean and the man goes out to work and comes home sort of deal.

Would a female bodybuilder be very taboo or am I totally off base?

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Finnyfish t1_iy1ceus wrote

She’s probably pretty young here, and perhaps was an entertainer.* But most people wouldn’t have gotten too worked up about it. The 30s weren’t all that buttoned down.

*Google says yes; she was a stunt performer in the movies. And she began to develop her physique while using exercise to help recover from terrible burns as a child.

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Skyblacker t1_iy1fcpq wrote

Bodybuilding in general was more fringe back then.

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SuperRette t1_iy0w7t3 wrote

Lots of folks in the comments can't accept a strong woman, smh

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NotAPreppie t1_iy1bxly wrote

No doubts on her strength but tearing a phone book is more a of a fear of trickery than strength.

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dillrepair t1_iy13ulq wrote

I thinking she’s great… not at all intimidating just in great shape living that best life. My whole life I’ve been raised by or partners with strong women. And I respect them… probably more than they know

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bucketbot42 t1_iy021fy wrote

She looks like a little girls head on a full grown adults head. I know I can't do that though!

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EthanG_07 t1_iy04pb9 wrote

she looks like fuckin she hulk! no doubt she’s shredded, but ripping a phone book is about technique and not really strength. could’ve displayed her doing literally anything else.

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Bean_Juice_Brew t1_iy0lj8y wrote

This is actually pretty easy if you know the trick. I'm a relatively scrawny dude and I can manage it.

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kstinfo t1_iy1kz7z wrote

For all those geniuses who say it's easy if you fan the pages. Zoom in. She didn't.

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Holiday_Feed7477 t1_iy1vq9g wrote

There's actually an easy way of ripping thick books like phones books. I've done it myself a bunch of times. All in the technique.

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VeloEvoque t1_iy07dw1 wrote

James Michener beach reading, you say?

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magicspellingbee t1_iy0nhrj wrote

Where the hell can we find a phone book to try this out?

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tech405 t1_iy1jwcs wrote

I found a link that said she was the original founder of muscle beach.

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ramblecrazed- t1_iy2l5dq wrote

Can this one bust a watermelon between her thighs?

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Wes_oo9 t1_iy2v8i1 wrote

Old timey muscle mommy.

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castor666 t1_iy0hr94 wrote

The trick is to put the book in a owen at 50-75 celcius for an hour. Looks the same but now it’s fragile.

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Heyo13579 t1_iy11cla wrote

There’s a MUCH easier way 😂 you just take the book and scrunch it together just enough to separate all of the pages then you rip it in half. Scrunching it like this makes it so that your really only tearing one page at a time

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SirGlenn t1_iy1v3jj wrote

Don't mess with Relna,!

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happygato t1_iy27thi wrote

What is a phone book?

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wtgriffi t1_iy2edpx wrote

Hey I was still using that!

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awesomethingness t1_iy3lbcz wrote

Had to do a double take. I thought she was casting off the last vestiges of traditional garb by literally ripping a skirt away as it was being worn. Even with the point-of-force mechanics, ripping one of those books is impressive, though.

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chocki305 t1_iy4e5np wrote

Ripping a phone book in half, is a trick.

Dosen't mean shit. The trick is to seperate the pages.

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kstinfo t1_iy1koox wrote

She's a cutie but that top is not flattering.

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TA135713 t1_iy1o7oy wrote

Did anyone ask?

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strangway t1_iy1olxh wrote

I didn’t mean to offend you with my personal opinion. There are many who find women with big arms sexy and I respect that opinion, too.

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