• PugJesus
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    132 years ago

    Damn, that rumor was still going around in the early 2010s when I graduated high school.

  • @[email protected]
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    322 years ago

    That rumour was everywhere by the end of '94. Not a lot of millenials in high school then. Almost all Gen X.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        Who’s this “we”, white man?

        …I was poor and didn’t have it until I started art school in ‘99

        • @[email protected]
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          I didnt know that only white people had internet access before 99. I’m glad they let us in, eventually. I had internet access at school before 99, but it must’ve been a white school or something.

          It must be cool to be white and immune to being poor.

          Edit: this comment was a Lone Ranger quote. Not just nonchalant racism. I haven’t seen that movie in ages. It is a classic. Carry on friend. I apologize for assuming the worst.

    • @[email protected]
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      I heard it in 5th or 6th grade around 2001-2002. So still millennial. The post says elementary school not high-school… Just not the 90s in my case

  • @[email protected]
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    502 years ago

    Not as impressive but in the town where I grew up there is a really skinny woman who seems to be jogging like non stop. When I was in elementary school there was a rumor saying she had some disease which would make her heart stop if she stopped running and all the kids thought it was true. A few years ago when mentionning it to a younger sister (6 years difference) I learnt the rumor was still going strong when she was a kid, and then we both learnt that it was still the case when our even younger sister (12 years difference) was a kid.

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      232 years ago

      There was an old man and his elderly wife that would take regular walks by my school as a kid. The woman looked like she was made of plastic and the rumors were that she was a giant doll. They called her the barbie lady. When my sister went to school it was just the man walking and the rumors were that he melted his wife and made his cane with her. Kids are WILD. Those poor elderly people were just trying to have a damn walk lol

      Damn… It was just him walking though that sucks :(

  • @[email protected]
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    182 years ago

    Heh. I think that was one of the first things I ever went down a rabbit hole to understand on The Internet. And it eventually led me to learn that with just a bit of yoga (which you should do anyway since it is a great way to improve flexibility and general muscle health) you don’t need to remove the rib. Admittedly, I have too much of a “dad bod” and a “beer gut” these days. But… it is totally a thing.

    • BOMBS
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      52 years ago

      it is totally a thing.

      What was your experience?

      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        It’s… okay.

        Feels like sucking a dick (which is fine if you’re into that, which I am), but with a lot of back and abs discomfort, which I am definitely not into.

        But yeah it’s not actually super hard to do, just needs a few weeks of practice, and maybe a slightly lower body fat percentage so you aren’t getting in your own way.

  • Kben
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    142 years ago

    I heard it was Prince in the early 90s,before the internet.

  • NullPointer
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    322 years ago

    here is another one: did you know that Marilyn Manson was “Paul” from The Wonder Years