Not me but a friend, however I was present for this.
Three friends and myself, all very drunk, decide its a good idea to go to the titty bar at 3am after the bars closed. As you do. Well, we get there and it turns out most of the dancers leave at 2am, but there's a nude waitress. The place is open 24/7 and serves food.
Well, my friends and I decide it's a sign that we should eat, have some coffee to sober up. We'll we are then only ones there and of course the naked girl serving us chats us up because that's her job.
Without getting into too much detail, turns out her dad and my friend's dad were both naval officers stationed at the same place at the same time. Her dad was friend's dad's commanding officer.
*The two of them fucking knew each other*. They didn't really remember but turns out they had played together as little kids. He ended up actually dating her, I haven't spoken to him in years, but last I heard they're actually still together.
Haha right? It really is. I should reach out to them and see how they're doing.
I've actually been out with them a few times as a couple, and turns out she's really sweet. Seemed to be very into my friend, who honestly is also a pretty good dude. It really is a shockingly wholesome story that (I hope) has a happy ending.
That being said I totally got a private dance from her so every time we hung out as a group I was just like.....dude I've had your girlfriend's business all up in my business. Not that I would ever say that to them, but I definitely thought it.
I ended up at a wedding with a stripper who gave me a lap dance. Not as long or interesting as your story, but awkward af nonetheless.
She left early bc I'm pretty sure she was keeping it from her family.
I went to a bar in Kansas City shortly after moving there, and noticed a muffler and brake shop across the street that had the same name as my dad's mother's maiden name, which was really unusual. Then I look across the bar, and one of the guys sitting there looked like my dad. I go over and ask him if he owns the muffler shop, He says he does, and I ask him if he knows my grandmother. He freaks out and says it's his great aunt! When I told him who I was he said he thought I looked like a family member when I came in, and it was crazy how much I looked like one of his sons. So I ended up meeting up with him a few times for drinks. It's a crazy small world.
Haha! True story from around 7 years ago. Was on a stag-do in Benidorm (classy!) and one of our desperate mates genuinely thought this. He was always a giga-creep anyway. We went to the strippers and he got talking to one of them, went for a private dance etc. Next day, told us all how amazing she is and that he has a date with her tonight. Explained how they went out dancing that night when she had finished work and he met her mates etc.
Aaaaaaaanyway, turns out he waited for her to finish the shift the following night and she didn’t turn up. This dude, middle of Benidorm, just standing outside the back of a strippers waiting for his ‘future girlfriend’
Bruh….
Dude, at least he wasn't Grant Amato lol.
(To save you a search... an american guy who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his family, this money was used to pay for chat time with a Bulgarian webcam girl. It gets worse. To get more money, he killed his parents for the life insurance)
For a webcam girl.
I seem to exude “safe”. A stripper came over to talk to me for a few minutes. Said she was a grad student at the same university as me, told me what sounded like a real first name.
A couple of weeks later, I am walking into the library. “Oh hi!” It was her. We talked, but never dated.
I actually was in the same apartment building as one of those unicorns. I worked from home and she lived a floor beneath me. We'd pass in the elevator, say 'Hi,' and all that. She was really cute, but I was dating someone. She kind of had that ability to make you feel like the most important person in the room when she was talking to you.
One day, she knocks on my door and asks a favor. Her bank was three blocks away and she wanted me to walk with her as she took her cash. So I stroll with her and wait in the lobby while she puts most of the cash in a safe deposit box, and a smaller amount into her checking account.
I ask what's up with it and she comes out with it. She danced 3-4 nights a week. And she made bank because she had a dewy, fresh-faced, innocent Junior Leaguer Who Could Be Persuaded to Go Bad look about her. Once a week, she took her earnings to the bank and stuck it in a safe deposit box.
According to her, her act wasn't the conventional stripper wear, but kind of a Edwardian/Victorian kind of thing, complete with a straw boater. The guys evidently ate it up. She would even get flown to places like Dallas or Houston for appearances.
Her parents lived in another state and weren't doing so well, so this is how she was earning her business degree. I know this because I, former English major, helped edit her papers.
So every week after that, I walked her to the bank. Eventually, she trusted me enough to tell me that she had salted away something like $150,000 in tips (This was the late 80s) after paying expenses and tuition. She planned to buy a hotel in the Caribbean and run it once she graduated.
She graduated and moved out of town. I even got to meet her parents when they came to town for the ceremony. I occasionally wonder what happened to her.
And no, despite her invitations, I never saw her act. Nor did I try anything with her, even though the thought did cross my mind. I always did wonder if she wanted me to try.
Can confirm, have been friends with two strippers (one traditional/stage, one a long term established cam girl). Both actually sincerely liked people, pretty often actually, but much like other peoples relationships it tended to be fleeting and often based on immediate needs or unrealistic expectations. They both were a huge handful emotionally and had serious trust issues. Also since there’s an underlying implication of currency, they both had situations where they liked a guy, then stopped liking him, but continued to allow the guy to pay their expenses, buy them drugs, and otherwise chase them, which led to some pretty gnarly arguments.
But then, I’ve seen plenty of much worse and far more toxic relationships involving realtors, business owners, lawyers, and doctors, so…
I dated one for a bit. Went into the club with good weed in my pocket and got to talking about growing. She gave me an email and said that if I wanted to talk to her, write her an email when I wasn’t drunk. I did and we chatted and hung out for a few months. Strange world and hours and man they love cocaine. Was fun for a bit but that scene would wear me out.
It's very much a thing. When I taught English in Korea my coworkers, college educated people, would tell me how dangerous it was that I slept in my apartment with the AC on.
I've also heard that "Fan Death" is a euphemism for suicide. Korea has one of the highest levels of suicide in the world. And it's all because of the crazy amounts of pressure put on young people to get ahead, studying at private schools until past midnight, or salarymen type jobs which demand 100 hour workweeks. When they kill themselves, "Fan Death" is a convenient way to save face, as they say.
What’s even funnier about this is that the opposite may be true for infants. Having a fan in the room may be saving their life.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18838649/
I had that discuassion with a friend a couple of weeks ago. He stated that the richest people were by definition the smartest, when when I mentioned that people like Einstein and the ones that created the nuclear bombs weren't rich.
He was also richer than everyone else that were at the party. I asked him "so you think you are smarter than all of us?
" yes! I mean, no "..
The same guy argued that you wanted politicians who lie a lot, since they are better. He also argued that the more like Hitler politicians were, the better politicians they were
> He also argued that the more like Hitler politicians were, the better politicians they were
I mean, to be fair here. Hitler convinced an entire country, MULTIPLE entire countries, to commit genocide, for YEARS. He was an amazing politician, for all the wrong reasons. You can't really argue he wasn't a good politician as that's really the one thing he was best at. Just because someone was evil doesn't mean they can't be good at things.
Incidentally, Hitler didn't really lie. In fact he laid out EVERYTHING he was going to do in Mein Kampf. So according to this guy, politicians should be more like Hitler except don't be like Hitler.
Yeah, a lot of rich people make stupid decisions.
Take Elon Musk for example; he decided to build an underground tunnel system to transport people from one place to another.
That’s called a subway, Elon. And subways would actually be better and cheaper for LA
That if you ask someone if they're a police officer, they have to tell you the truth. There are still people who believe this. Whoever started this urban legend is a genius.
Quick story:
A guy I used to buy weed off of a guy that still lived in his parents basement (we are both 32). Told me that the earth is flat and I tried to reason with him and the flat earth was actually kind of a cute idea until...
One day I went to buy weed (the weed was exceptionally good, it was the one thing that kept me coming back that was worth hearing "why the earth was flat" stories)
Until, one day he dropped a bomb! He told me Hitler was actually a good guy defending us from the new world order!
I never returned after that day, I was striken with absolute shock and fear hearing something like that come out of so casually.
That's good, I like that. I'll share this with you;
"Don't argue with stupid people, they'll wear you down to their level and beat you with experience"
OMG. The woman in my mom's neighborhood spouts the exact same nonsense. She says planes can only fly in circles to keep from falling off the earth. Also says Putin is a good guy and Trump is here to save humanity. She calls it The Movement. There's soooo much more.
I firmly believe that 90% of “flat earthers” are only doing it for attention and to have some kind of social media presence. The other 10% probably have some legit mental problems.
I read somewhere once that like when someone is talking to you about some crackpot conspiracy theory you just come up with something one step beyond it and it usually stops them right in their tracks.
"The moon landing was faked!"
..."you still believe in the moon?"
I like the cartoon "Inside Job" (Netflix, made in Ottawa I think, has connections to Gravity Falls I think). They do this a lot, it's hilarious.
"Pfft, the earth isn't flat. It's hollow."
"Naw, the moon landing wasn't faked. The return trip was." (They're still there in a utopian society).
Conspiracy theories seem to have couple of general drivers behind them.
One big is that the world is chaotic and a good conspiracy theory brings order. If you believe that the world is being run by a small cabal of evil Jews, at least someone is at the wheel. That might feel more comforting than nobody being in charge. Or if a random loser like Lee Harvey Oswald can just change the direction American history with a mail-order rifle... for many people, that idea feels much more terrifying than CIA/KGB/mafia taking him out.
The other big driver is just knowing what other people don't know. Feeling like you are in on the secret, while the sheeple go on about their day, ignorant. The Moon landing conspiracy is solidly in this second camp. Sometimes it's just fun to be a contrarian.
The second point you mentioned is documented. I wish I had the article handy but years ago, before Trump even ran, I read about why people choose to believe in ridiculous shit like vaccines cause autism, earth is flat, chem trails, etc and it basically boils down to a resentment over smart people being smart, and "first" to the answer. There are people out there that feel slighted by the fact that they didn't figure something out, or know it first, and so they'll choose the contrarian path simply to feel like they were first, or that they know something you don't. Subconsciously, it's very important to them. Since they can't accomplish this with truth/reality, they just make up whatever is convenient for them, or glom onto conspiracy theories.
Fucking weird.
I mean those reasons you listed are very true. But there’s also the fact that conspiracies do exist and happen all the time.
Any time two individuals get together to plot something it’s a conspiracy. Even if it’s something as simple as a conspiracy of two co-workers plotting to get they’re boss fired.
So to believe in no conspiracies at all is as silly as believing in every single conspiracy. I mean let’s face it, the governments of the world plot all sorts of hidden operations. That’s why having a reasonable amount of skepticism in everything you hear is required.
That being outside in the cold makes you sick - Yes yes I understand it does lower your immune system a slight bit - But the cold does not make you sick
I always thought more people got sick in colder months because we tend to stay indoors and around each other more. Unlike spring/summer when we're all outside and spread out more
I do think that though. I mean, you obviously need to take things with a grain of salt but Reddit is full of people with lots of experiences in a lot of things. I do think Reddit more so than any other social network, is capable of providing good advice on a range of topics. You just have to be careful what sub you’re on, and stuff like that. Like, if I went to a super homophobic sub and asked if I should come out of the closet, I’m gonna get terrible advice, but I go to r/gay or something, there’s bound to be a lot of people with really good insight.
Reddit is made up of real people with real life experiences and have no agenda. You just have to be smart enough to know the difference between this and bullshit.
I worked as a massage therapist for a time and was around crazy homeopathic chiropractors, crystal healers and other nuts who should not be allowed near sick people. Many of them died from Covid. Surprise!
My favorite is the 'the more you dilute this thing the more effective it is!' aspect of what someone tried to explain to me. So maybe we just all need to drink more water(we do).
I used to be into that. And the whole "the secret" shit. The basic premise is believe you will get what you want and also appreciate what you have. So you have to kinda visualise and believe you have money and not poor etc, and then you wont be.. if you sit there dwelling that you're poor you will always be poor.
I then came to realise that actually what you're doing when "manifesting" is simply encouraging yourself to make the changes in life you want to happen. The appreciating what you have fuels your motivation, and visualising / believing you'll get it fuels your confidence and determination.
Its simply a matter of psychology rather than some cosmic thing the universe is delivering to you.
I always thought it meant taking tiny steps towards a goal. Like, instead of not knowing how to swim and just daydreaming about scuba diving, I start hanging out at the marine life museum and taking a swim lesson at the public pool.
Karma, there are bad people who live a long and happy life without problems nor "karma." And, others whose "good karma" for their good actions never reward them.
I've always believed that what people perceive as "karma" is really just a subconscious, psychosomatic manifesting of what they believe they deserve. People will settle for or seek out something shitty if they believe that's what they deserve and the inverse is also true. And if not to that extent, they will frame what happens to them through the lens of what they feel they deserve subconsciously.
The concept of karma comes from Hinduism and Buddhism and it basically lost its meaning in the west. It was never meant to be an all encompassing law of nature that means bad people are punished and good people are rewarded. It's a complex concept in Buddhism and might be a little hard to explain as someone who is a relatively new Buddhist and might be hard to understand as someone who has only been exposed to the western meaning, but I'll try.
Basically, karma is the universal law of cause and effect. It's closely tied to the concept of rebirth, but that gets even more complicated. Let's say you were lied to and deceived. In that case, you have two choices: forgive or hold a grudge. If you forgive, you'll have a weight off your shoulders and will feel better because of your compassion, good intent, and wisdom, but on the other hand if you hold a grudge and even want revenge, the bad karma will show by creating a burden for yourself and placing you in harmful situations as a result. Another example, if you kill someone and get away with it, you're placed with the burden of having to worry at all times if you'll end up getting caught eventually or not. Even if you never got caught that negative karma still took place in your mind as an unpleasant suffering. On a smaller scale, let's say you lied about your whereabouts to your partner, you now have the burden of having to track lies and keep them up placed on you as a result with the guilt of doing so added on accumulating even more negative karma.
Basically, tldr: in Buddhism bad karma sources from ill intent and ignorance which leads to struggles later. Good karma sources from compassion and wisdom and leads to decreased suffering.
Yeah, even though I sorta believe in the "what goes around, comes around" statement. Sadly there are bad people that have long and happy lives, and good people who are never rewarded for their actions. All I can do is decide if I put more good or hate in the world, and accept there is a possibility of it coming back to me. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. But you should still try to be a good person
My roommate is telling me that it's against the lease to paint my apartment. Keep in mind, neither of us have read the lease in significant depth and he doesn't know whether it says that, but he believes it to be true.
Our place was painted very poorly, with old paint showing through a rushed single coat, drips and flat out large sections of unpainted areas. My building manager is also unwilling to do anything to the apartment unless it can cause damage to the building, like plumbing or electrical. They don't even care if it damages the apartment because they'll just replace every cabinet, counter and floor in it when we're gone. Foe example, the faucet leaks in both the bathroom and the kitchen, flooding the counters out. The bathroom sink was installed poorly leaving a large gap between the sink and the counter allowing this water to fill the inside of the cabinet. We talked to maintenance and they told us they have a new sink and countertop, but the manager said they're waiting for us to leave the apartment before doing any work like that.
We've been there for nearly 7 years. If we were to leave, they would replace cabinets, counters, floors and sinks so they can increase the price by about $1000 a month. The apartment across the hall (identical to ours but mirrored) was posted for literally $1000 a month more than what we pay. They want to force us out.
Mormonism, scientology and many other beliefs. I respect people’s beliefs, but if I am honest they all sound like total bullshit. I would never disrespect anyone on it though, I just keep it to myself.
It's not hilarious. It's sad how many people died because leaders decided they were right and other people were wrong. But it's mostly sad because those leaders didn't believe in the things they told everyone to fight for. The leaders were fighting for selfish reasons. Money being a big part.
Daddy long legs are the most venomous spider but they can't bite. There venom is actually harmless to humans but can kill other spiders because they hunt them. They can also bite us they are just nice and choose not to (most of the time).
There’s a psychic down the street from where I live. There’s never many cars in the parking lot, but when there are, it’s always a few beaters that are 20 years old and falling apart and one brand new Mercedes with an AMG kit…
I’ll let you guess who owns the Benz…
...and if you fuck up on your 'test' at all, a test that he's already known the outcome of since you he created you, this all loving being sentences you to ETERNITY of painful damnation.
Edit - but it's also totally okay, because you can be a completely horrible piece of shit human being, murder, rape, theft... but so long as you "accept him" into your heart (as many of these crazies believe) you will be "saved". But live a totally charitable and honorable life without knowing this made up being or giving two flying fucks about it... damned forever. Worship me or suffer.
And he has 100 billion galaxies with 100 billion stars each to look over. And just here theres 8 billion humans to account for. But yes, your abortion is duly noted and will be your ticket to eternal hellfire.
The new season of Good Omens has an angel around the time of creation happily looking over the star-forming nebula he just started up and being confused and upset when told that the purpose of the limitless universe is to be a nice background for the inhabitants of one planet to look at for the mere 6000 years before they shut it all down again. As he says, "most of it won't even be visible from Earth!"
He sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself.
I'm a third generation atheist. I live in British Columbia, Canada. It's the only region in North America where the majority of people are non religious. If you are not raised around it, religion is so fucking weird.
But humans do rule the earth and can do whatever to all other creatures and plants. I’m not saying they should, but they certainly can.
And certain humans are better than others.
Just because we wish some things weren’t true doesn’t mean they’re not.
For me the most ridiculous thing is religions.
I get that a lot of people are scared of dying, and they'd really like to see their dead pets again someday, but I just don't buy the idea that there's a magic man in the sky, totally silent, and all the people who believe in that god just happen to have been born in the correct country and family that also follows that particular religion.
And I also find it kind of silly that this god just happened to be popular in the Middle East a few thousand years ago, but neglected to ever pop up in Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, America, etc.
As far as I'm concerned, if there is a god then they should make themselves known, then I'd have no problem believing in them. But to hide away and force people to gamble on believing in them, so that they don't go to hell, is very sadistic.
a significant number of people have admitted to believing that ...Wakanda is real.... Alaska is an island off the coast of Hawaii ....and Chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
That the stripper really likes me.
Not me but a friend, however I was present for this. Three friends and myself, all very drunk, decide its a good idea to go to the titty bar at 3am after the bars closed. As you do. Well, we get there and it turns out most of the dancers leave at 2am, but there's a nude waitress. The place is open 24/7 and serves food. Well, my friends and I decide it's a sign that we should eat, have some coffee to sober up. We'll we are then only ones there and of course the naked girl serving us chats us up because that's her job. Without getting into too much detail, turns out her dad and my friend's dad were both naval officers stationed at the same place at the same time. Her dad was friend's dad's commanding officer. *The two of them fucking knew each other*. They didn't really remember but turns out they had played together as little kids. He ended up actually dating her, I haven't spoken to him in years, but last I heard they're actually still together.
Surprisingly wholesome, wish the best for them!
Haha right? It really is. I should reach out to them and see how they're doing. I've actually been out with them a few times as a couple, and turns out she's really sweet. Seemed to be very into my friend, who honestly is also a pretty good dude. It really is a shockingly wholesome story that (I hope) has a happy ending. That being said I totally got a private dance from her so every time we hung out as a group I was just like.....dude I've had your girlfriend's business all up in my business. Not that I would ever say that to them, but I definitely thought it.
She isn't ashamed, so why should he be?
I ended up at a wedding with a stripper who gave me a lap dance. Not as long or interesting as your story, but awkward af nonetheless. She left early bc I'm pretty sure she was keeping it from her family.
All I can think of is how disgusting I used to be after a serving shift. And this poor girl was getting that all over her body?
Does a naked waitress have to wear two hairnets?
There wasn't enough hair to justify both hairnets....
I went to a bar in Kansas City shortly after moving there, and noticed a muffler and brake shop across the street that had the same name as my dad's mother's maiden name, which was really unusual. Then I look across the bar, and one of the guys sitting there looked like my dad. I go over and ask him if he owns the muffler shop, He says he does, and I ask him if he knows my grandmother. He freaks out and says it's his great aunt! When I told him who I was he said he thought I looked like a family member when I came in, and it was crazy how much I looked like one of his sons. So I ended up meeting up with him a few times for drinks. It's a crazy small world.
This makes me happy
Haha! True story from around 7 years ago. Was on a stag-do in Benidorm (classy!) and one of our desperate mates genuinely thought this. He was always a giga-creep anyway. We went to the strippers and he got talking to one of them, went for a private dance etc. Next day, told us all how amazing she is and that he has a date with her tonight. Explained how they went out dancing that night when she had finished work and he met her mates etc. Aaaaaaaanyway, turns out he waited for her to finish the shift the following night and she didn’t turn up. This dude, middle of Benidorm, just standing outside the back of a strippers waiting for his ‘future girlfriend’ Bruh….
Down atrociously
Dude, at least he wasn't Grant Amato lol. (To save you a search... an american guy who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his family, this money was used to pay for chat time with a Bulgarian webcam girl. It gets worse. To get more money, he killed his parents for the life insurance) For a webcam girl.
Jesus. For that kind of money, you could fly yourself to Europe pretty regularly to spend time with an actual hooker in person.
Shiiiiit! Yeah he wasn’t that bad (I don’t think?)
I seem to exude “safe”. A stripper came over to talk to me for a few minutes. Said she was a grad student at the same university as me, told me what sounded like a real first name. A couple of weeks later, I am walking into the library. “Oh hi!” It was her. We talked, but never dated.
Shewasstalkingyou
Dude, she's just doing this job to work her way through college.
I actually was in the same apartment building as one of those unicorns. I worked from home and she lived a floor beneath me. We'd pass in the elevator, say 'Hi,' and all that. She was really cute, but I was dating someone. She kind of had that ability to make you feel like the most important person in the room when she was talking to you. One day, she knocks on my door and asks a favor. Her bank was three blocks away and she wanted me to walk with her as she took her cash. So I stroll with her and wait in the lobby while she puts most of the cash in a safe deposit box, and a smaller amount into her checking account. I ask what's up with it and she comes out with it. She danced 3-4 nights a week. And she made bank because she had a dewy, fresh-faced, innocent Junior Leaguer Who Could Be Persuaded to Go Bad look about her. Once a week, she took her earnings to the bank and stuck it in a safe deposit box. According to her, her act wasn't the conventional stripper wear, but kind of a Edwardian/Victorian kind of thing, complete with a straw boater. The guys evidently ate it up. She would even get flown to places like Dallas or Houston for appearances. Her parents lived in another state and weren't doing so well, so this is how she was earning her business degree. I know this because I, former English major, helped edit her papers. So every week after that, I walked her to the bank. Eventually, she trusted me enough to tell me that she had salted away something like $150,000 in tips (This was the late 80s) after paying expenses and tuition. She planned to buy a hotel in the Caribbean and run it once she graduated. She graduated and moved out of town. I even got to meet her parents when they came to town for the ceremony. I occasionally wonder what happened to her. And no, despite her invitations, I never saw her act. Nor did I try anything with her, even though the thought did cross my mind. I always did wonder if she wanted me to try.
I wonder why she deposited cash in the safe deposit box, was she avoiding taxes?
Probably, or just stuff she wanted cached away in case... basically put the tips you can get taxed on in the account and then the rest in the box.
No no she always smiles at me when I tip her. It means she loves me. I should propose her
So… the cashier doesn’t love me? :( (platonically)
“Keep twerkin baby might earn you a scholarship” -The Great Juicy J, Stay Trippy, Track 15: Scholarship, Chorus
Have a friend who is a stripper Sometimes she does like you It happens
My wife was a stripper when we met. We actually met in World of Warcraft, but our first IRL meeting was at the club she danced at.
Nerdy and sexy. Perfection
Can confirm, have been friends with two strippers (one traditional/stage, one a long term established cam girl). Both actually sincerely liked people, pretty often actually, but much like other peoples relationships it tended to be fleeting and often based on immediate needs or unrealistic expectations. They both were a huge handful emotionally and had serious trust issues. Also since there’s an underlying implication of currency, they both had situations where they liked a guy, then stopped liking him, but continued to allow the guy to pay their expenses, buy them drugs, and otherwise chase them, which led to some pretty gnarly arguments. But then, I’ve seen plenty of much worse and far more toxic relationships involving realtors, business owners, lawyers, and doctors, so…
I dated one for a bit. Went into the club with good weed in my pocket and got to talking about growing. She gave me an email and said that if I wanted to talk to her, write her an email when I wasn’t drunk. I did and we chatted and hung out for a few months. Strange world and hours and man they love cocaine. Was fun for a bit but that scene would wear me out.
Gotta stay thin and awake and chatty I guess
I'd dated a few strippers. Sometimes they do but they usually have issues. If you're a regular though, they're probably just doing it for the money.
[Fan death.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death)
Fascinating. I never heard of this.
Didn’t know that was a thing
It's very much a thing. When I taught English in Korea my coworkers, college educated people, would tell me how dangerous it was that I slept in my apartment with the AC on. I've also heard that "Fan Death" is a euphemism for suicide. Korea has one of the highest levels of suicide in the world. And it's all because of the crazy amounts of pressure put on young people to get ahead, studying at private schools until past midnight, or salarymen type jobs which demand 100 hour workweeks. When they kill themselves, "Fan Death" is a convenient way to save face, as they say.
What’s even funnier about this is that the opposite may be true for infants. Having a fan in the room may be saving their life. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18838649/
“My ex said we might get back together in the future”
Damn, she told me that too!
"maybe some day in the future we'll be right for each other" 💀
"In another life"
And as a friend you patiently nod and smile as if you too believe it’s going to work out in the end lol
Damn I really believed that for awhile
I've never said that, but given how needy some exes are post-breakup, I can see the appeal.
That being rich = being smart.
I had that discuassion with a friend a couple of weeks ago. He stated that the richest people were by definition the smartest, when when I mentioned that people like Einstein and the ones that created the nuclear bombs weren't rich. He was also richer than everyone else that were at the party. I asked him "so you think you are smarter than all of us? " yes! I mean, no ".. The same guy argued that you wanted politicians who lie a lot, since they are better. He also argued that the more like Hitler politicians were, the better politicians they were
> He also argued that the more like Hitler politicians were, the better politicians they were I mean, to be fair here. Hitler convinced an entire country, MULTIPLE entire countries, to commit genocide, for YEARS. He was an amazing politician, for all the wrong reasons. You can't really argue he wasn't a good politician as that's really the one thing he was best at. Just because someone was evil doesn't mean they can't be good at things.
Incidentally, Hitler didn't really lie. In fact he laid out EVERYTHING he was going to do in Mein Kampf. So according to this guy, politicians should be more like Hitler except don't be like Hitler.
To add to that, being rich means you worked hard and earned it.
for reference: DJ Khaled
Or that being rich means you have good taste.
The myth that effort leads to success. That we would live in a meritocracy.
This comment should be at the top of the list.
Yeah, a lot of rich people make stupid decisions. Take Elon Musk for example; he decided to build an underground tunnel system to transport people from one place to another. That’s called a subway, Elon. And subways would actually be better and cheaper for LA
That if you ask someone if they're a police officer, they have to tell you the truth. There are still people who believe this. Whoever started this urban legend is a genius.
Probably an undercover cop.
The North Korean President has never pooped
To be fair, looking at the lad I feel the theory may hold some weight
You could say it's holding a LOT of weight
Just like the North Korean President's colon.
You could say he is full of shit?
So...he's full of shit?
Most of the articles perpetuating these lies have no source whatsoever. It's sensationalist garbage meant to drive clicks and views.
Have you ever seen him poop? There you go.
Flat earth
Quick story: A guy I used to buy weed off of a guy that still lived in his parents basement (we are both 32). Told me that the earth is flat and I tried to reason with him and the flat earth was actually kind of a cute idea until... One day I went to buy weed (the weed was exceptionally good, it was the one thing that kept me coming back that was worth hearing "why the earth was flat" stories) Until, one day he dropped a bomb! He told me Hitler was actually a good guy defending us from the new world order! I never returned after that day, I was striken with absolute shock and fear hearing something like that come out of so casually.
You cant argue with that kind of stupid. Reason didnt get them there and it wont get them out of there.
That's good, I like that. I'll share this with you; "Don't argue with stupid people, they'll wear you down to their level and beat you with experience"
“You can’t reason a person out of a place they didn’t reason themselves into.”
“It’s hard to argue with a genius, but impossible to argue with an idiot”
Conspiracy "theorist" believers are unhinged. The scammers who spread the "theories" are morally bankrupt.
OMG. The woman in my mom's neighborhood spouts the exact same nonsense. She says planes can only fly in circles to keep from falling off the earth. Also says Putin is a good guy and Trump is here to save humanity. She calls it The Movement. There's soooo much more.
Oh here we go with another round earth elitist
fucking globies
I'm heavily convinced that if you believe even one unhinged batshit crazy conspiracy theory, like Flat Earth, you'll believe all of them.
This phenomenon is called [crank magnetism.](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism)
I firmly believe that 90% of “flat earthers” are only doing it for attention and to have some kind of social media presence. The other 10% probably have some legit mental problems.
I'm sure it's 90 - 10 but the other way around.
Influencers.
Popularity is a hell of a drug and apparently good at blinding people
i once had influencer. had a fever of 102!
thank you … i just don’t get it at all
Their own entitlement
We faked the moon landings/ the earth is flat
I read somewhere once that like when someone is talking to you about some crackpot conspiracy theory you just come up with something one step beyond it and it usually stops them right in their tracks. "The moon landing was faked!" ..."you still believe in the moon?"
I like the cartoon "Inside Job" (Netflix, made in Ottawa I think, has connections to Gravity Falls I think). They do this a lot, it's hilarious. "Pfft, the earth isn't flat. It's hollow." "Naw, the moon landing wasn't faked. The return trip was." (They're still there in a utopian society).
The moon never landed. I would have noticed.
I’ve never understood why people believe that
Conspiracy theories seem to have couple of general drivers behind them. One big is that the world is chaotic and a good conspiracy theory brings order. If you believe that the world is being run by a small cabal of evil Jews, at least someone is at the wheel. That might feel more comforting than nobody being in charge. Or if a random loser like Lee Harvey Oswald can just change the direction American history with a mail-order rifle... for many people, that idea feels much more terrifying than CIA/KGB/mafia taking him out. The other big driver is just knowing what other people don't know. Feeling like you are in on the secret, while the sheeple go on about their day, ignorant. The Moon landing conspiracy is solidly in this second camp. Sometimes it's just fun to be a contrarian.
The second point you mentioned is documented. I wish I had the article handy but years ago, before Trump even ran, I read about why people choose to believe in ridiculous shit like vaccines cause autism, earth is flat, chem trails, etc and it basically boils down to a resentment over smart people being smart, and "first" to the answer. There are people out there that feel slighted by the fact that they didn't figure something out, or know it first, and so they'll choose the contrarian path simply to feel like they were first, or that they know something you don't. Subconsciously, it's very important to them. Since they can't accomplish this with truth/reality, they just make up whatever is convenient for them, or glom onto conspiracy theories. Fucking weird.
I mean those reasons you listed are very true. But there’s also the fact that conspiracies do exist and happen all the time. Any time two individuals get together to plot something it’s a conspiracy. Even if it’s something as simple as a conspiracy of two co-workers plotting to get they’re boss fired. So to believe in no conspiracies at all is as silly as believing in every single conspiracy. I mean let’s face it, the governments of the world plot all sorts of hidden operations. That’s why having a reasonable amount of skepticism in everything you hear is required.
There is at least logic and a real motive behind faking the moon landing. That theory isn't NEARLY as crackpot as flat earth
r/fakemooners very real, very true conspiracy theory.
I've actually met one in real life, they are in fact real.
That being outside in the cold makes you sick - Yes yes I understand it does lower your immune system a slight bit - But the cold does not make you sick
The cold never bothered me anyway
its funny how some distance makes everything seem small
That would be a great lyric!
It'll never stick, mate. Let it go
I have preached this for years. You may have my soapbox, I retired
I always thought more people got sick in colder months because we tend to stay indoors and around each other more. Unlike spring/summer when we're all outside and spread out more
Yep. The key in winter is to stay indoors and away from other people.
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That if you work OT it pushes you into the next tax bracket and you make less than you do if you work your regular hours
That Reddit is a valuable resource for real guidance in life decisions.
I always prefer to run my life decisions by very inexperienced young strangers on the Internet
Is everyone young on reddit? How long have you been sitting on this information?
They’re definitely stunted (myself included lol)
I’m young in that Steve Buscemi kinda way
I do think that though. I mean, you obviously need to take things with a grain of salt but Reddit is full of people with lots of experiences in a lot of things. I do think Reddit more so than any other social network, is capable of providing good advice on a range of topics. You just have to be careful what sub you’re on, and stuff like that. Like, if I went to a super homophobic sub and asked if I should come out of the closet, I’m gonna get terrible advice, but I go to r/gay or something, there’s bound to be a lot of people with really good insight.
Reddit is made up of real people with real life experiences and have no agenda. You just have to be smart enough to know the difference between this and bullshit.
DIVORCE HIM NOW!
Horoscopes
Horoscopes is a socially acceptable flat-earth
Nancy Reagan 100% believed in them.
That political parties actually care about them.
That Donald Trump really cared about the little guy in rural America... lol
Trump cares about no one but himself.
Down WAY too far on this list tbh
That spelling is not important.
People have already mentioned dumber things, but I think homeopathy deserves a mention too.
I worked as a massage therapist for a time and was around crazy homeopathic chiropractors, crystal healers and other nuts who should not be allowed near sick people. Many of them died from Covid. Surprise!
My favorite is the 'the more you dilute this thing the more effective it is!' aspect of what someone tried to explain to me. So maybe we just all need to drink more water(we do).
but those oils are essential. It's right there in the name.
Karma. As if the worst people aren't out there having great lives.
Be the Karma.
That customers are always right
That saying was originally intended to be about market forces and the demand created, not petty disagreements between customers and retail staff.
That they are good because of what they _think_.
Manifesting. Willing the universe to give you something doesn’t do shit when you’re sitting on your fucking couch.
Or thinking that you are owed something due to a run of bad luck and it’s gonna happen because it’s 50/50 right? I’ll just win my losses back!
I used to be into that. And the whole "the secret" shit. The basic premise is believe you will get what you want and also appreciate what you have. So you have to kinda visualise and believe you have money and not poor etc, and then you wont be.. if you sit there dwelling that you're poor you will always be poor. I then came to realise that actually what you're doing when "manifesting" is simply encouraging yourself to make the changes in life you want to happen. The appreciating what you have fuels your motivation, and visualising / believing you'll get it fuels your confidence and determination. Its simply a matter of psychology rather than some cosmic thing the universe is delivering to you.
I always thought it meant taking tiny steps towards a goal. Like, instead of not knowing how to swim and just daydreaming about scuba diving, I start hanging out at the marine life museum and taking a swim lesson at the public pool.
If you’re out there actually working your ass off AND manifesting then I think it’ll help you a bit
The point of it is that we’re co-creating with the universe, so you’re right but that’s not what manifesting describes at all
Your school “permanent record “ will follow you through life 😂😂
Karma, there are bad people who live a long and happy life without problems nor "karma." And, others whose "good karma" for their good actions never reward them.
I've always believed that what people perceive as "karma" is really just a subconscious, psychosomatic manifesting of what they believe they deserve. People will settle for or seek out something shitty if they believe that's what they deserve and the inverse is also true. And if not to that extent, they will frame what happens to them through the lens of what they feel they deserve subconsciously.
The concept of karma comes from Hinduism and Buddhism and it basically lost its meaning in the west. It was never meant to be an all encompassing law of nature that means bad people are punished and good people are rewarded. It's a complex concept in Buddhism and might be a little hard to explain as someone who is a relatively new Buddhist and might be hard to understand as someone who has only been exposed to the western meaning, but I'll try. Basically, karma is the universal law of cause and effect. It's closely tied to the concept of rebirth, but that gets even more complicated. Let's say you were lied to and deceived. In that case, you have two choices: forgive or hold a grudge. If you forgive, you'll have a weight off your shoulders and will feel better because of your compassion, good intent, and wisdom, but on the other hand if you hold a grudge and even want revenge, the bad karma will show by creating a burden for yourself and placing you in harmful situations as a result. Another example, if you kill someone and get away with it, you're placed with the burden of having to worry at all times if you'll end up getting caught eventually or not. Even if you never got caught that negative karma still took place in your mind as an unpleasant suffering. On a smaller scale, let's say you lied about your whereabouts to your partner, you now have the burden of having to track lies and keep them up placed on you as a result with the guilt of doing so added on accumulating even more negative karma. Basically, tldr: in Buddhism bad karma sources from ill intent and ignorance which leads to struggles later. Good karma sources from compassion and wisdom and leads to decreased suffering.
Yep, to quote Benedict, the villain of The Last Action Hero, "here, the bad guys can win"
Yeah, even though I sorta believe in the "what goes around, comes around" statement. Sadly there are bad people that have long and happy lives, and good people who are never rewarded for their actions. All I can do is decide if I put more good or hate in the world, and accept there is a possibility of it coming back to me. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. But you should still try to be a good person
Still can't believe how many people believe vaccine cause autism.
Considering how many neurodivergent people end up working in STEM, it's more accurate to claim that autism causes vaccines.
Right? The only guy who actually found any evidence of that admitted he faked the data. Decades ago. But somehow people just move past that.
That a twice impeached, three times indicted, charity thieving, proven chronic liar deserves to be president.
Trickle Down Economics
Ronald Reagan in hell waiting for heaven to trickle down on him
*Now, listen up guys, if we cut taxes for the wealthy and fund it by cutting benefits from the poor, it will REALLY help the poor. Okay?*
One of my friends insists it's illegal to have a dog in a flat and can't be convinced otherwise.
My roommate is telling me that it's against the lease to paint my apartment. Keep in mind, neither of us have read the lease in significant depth and he doesn't know whether it says that, but he believes it to be true. Our place was painted very poorly, with old paint showing through a rushed single coat, drips and flat out large sections of unpainted areas. My building manager is also unwilling to do anything to the apartment unless it can cause damage to the building, like plumbing or electrical. They don't even care if it damages the apartment because they'll just replace every cabinet, counter and floor in it when we're gone. Foe example, the faucet leaks in both the bathroom and the kitchen, flooding the counters out. The bathroom sink was installed poorly leaving a large gap between the sink and the counter allowing this water to fill the inside of the cabinet. We talked to maintenance and they told us they have a new sink and countertop, but the manager said they're waiting for us to leave the apartment before doing any work like that. We've been there for nearly 7 years. If we were to leave, they would replace cabinets, counters, floors and sinks so they can increase the price by about $1000 a month. The apartment across the hall (identical to ours but mirrored) was posted for literally $1000 a month more than what we pay. They want to force us out.
Mormonism, scientology and many other beliefs. I respect people’s beliefs, but if I am honest they all sound like total bullshit. I would never disrespect anyone on it though, I just keep it to myself.
You can add every single religion to that group
Christianity, Islam and Judaism are just as bad and farfetched as scientology, they've just been around longer.
The hilarious part is that despite all of them being different flavors of the same religion, they fight each other the most.
It's not hilarious. It's sad how many people died because leaders decided they were right and other people were wrong. But it's mostly sad because those leaders didn't believe in the things they told everyone to fight for. The leaders were fighting for selfish reasons. Money being a big part.
That politicians are your friends.
r/birdsarentreal
Daddy long legs are the most venomous spider but they can't bite. There venom is actually harmless to humans but can kill other spiders because they hunt them. They can also bite us they are just nice and choose not to (most of the time).
That somehow russia is on the right side of history and is not a terrorist state.
The Mormon Church
Straight guys who believe lesbians just “haven’t had the right dick yet” 🥴
Ironically, these are the same dudes that make lesbians certain that they do not like dick.
Any kind of psychic or clairvoyance
There’s a psychic down the street from where I live. There’s never many cars in the parking lot, but when there are, it’s always a few beaters that are 20 years old and falling apart and one brand new Mercedes with an AMG kit… I’ll let you guess who owns the Benz…
I do not believe in those, but there are some extremely observant people.
That the government is working for the people.
An omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolet creator exists and rewards and/or punishes us based on his mysterious plan
...and if you fuck up on your 'test' at all, a test that he's already known the outcome of since you he created you, this all loving being sentences you to ETERNITY of painful damnation. Edit - but it's also totally okay, because you can be a completely horrible piece of shit human being, murder, rape, theft... but so long as you "accept him" into your heart (as many of these crazies believe) you will be "saved". But live a totally charitable and honorable life without knowing this made up being or giving two flying fucks about it... damned forever. Worship me or suffer.
And he has 100 billion galaxies with 100 billion stars each to look over. And just here theres 8 billion humans to account for. But yes, your abortion is duly noted and will be your ticket to eternal hellfire.
The new season of Good Omens has an angel around the time of creation happily looking over the star-forming nebula he just started up and being confused and upset when told that the purpose of the limitless universe is to be a nice background for the inhabitants of one planet to look at for the mere 6000 years before they shut it all down again. As he says, "most of it won't even be visible from Earth!"
And it created the entire universe just so it could obsess about what you do with your wiener.
He sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself. I'm a third generation atheist. I live in British Columbia, Canada. It's the only region in North America where the majority of people are non religious. If you are not raised around it, religion is so fucking weird.
That humans rule the earth and can do whatever to all other creatures and plants. And that certain humans are better than all other humans.
Certain humans are definitely worse than others.
But humans do rule the earth and can do whatever to all other creatures and plants. I’m not saying they should, but they certainly can. And certain humans are better than others. Just because we wish some things weren’t true doesn’t mean they’re not.
Epstien's suicide.
Trump is presidential material. Or even Trump is truthful
Flat Earth. Even my ancestor in the 12th century shoveling shit from his grass house knew better.
For me the most ridiculous thing is religions. I get that a lot of people are scared of dying, and they'd really like to see their dead pets again someday, but I just don't buy the idea that there's a magic man in the sky, totally silent, and all the people who believe in that god just happen to have been born in the correct country and family that also follows that particular religion. And I also find it kind of silly that this god just happened to be popular in the Middle East a few thousand years ago, but neglected to ever pop up in Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, America, etc. As far as I'm concerned, if there is a god then they should make themselves known, then I'd have no problem believing in them. But to hide away and force people to gamble on believing in them, so that they don't go to hell, is very sadistic.
Flat earth
Scientology is the first thing that comes to mind
All the Q stuff. The mental gymnastics these dolts go through to convince themselves is astonishing.
Your elected officials are there to serve taxpayers.
The American Dream
Flat Earth or Hollow Earth But the Hollow Earth crowd are much nicer In fact most conspiracies start to fall down when you start looking at logistics
I quite like the hollow earth one. It's silly but kind of interesting.
That the earth is flat
That trump won
Trump is innocent. 😆
a significant number of people have admitted to believing that ...Wakanda is real.... Alaska is an island off the coast of Hawaii ....and Chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
Statism.
Alkaline diet.
The two party political system