The early days of Internet bullet boards and forums, that focused on one specific niche. Where I stumbled upon the posts from time traveler John Titor or TimeTravel_0. Good times reading those and becoming fascinated with the what if aspect of it all.
El Psy Congroo!
Check out Paul Dienach. It’s interesting how time traveler stories are so rare compared to abduction stories. I guess it just takes that much more effort.
The holes start to unravel way faster id imagine.
The story of how a woman lost her daughter because the grandmother didn’t believe that the girl’s coconut allergy was real, despite years of watching the parents trying to find out the allergen so that they could stop the girl from winding up in the emergency room. The grandmother kept the kid overnight and used coconut oil on her hair; the child went into anaphylaxis and died.
The mother said that the grandmother begs her to see her other grandchildren, as they’ve now cut ties with her; the mom’s response was, “You can come over when you bring my daughter with you.”
A horrible story of how some people just believe they know better than everyone, including doctors.
Omg that is so sad
I have legitimate fears of letting my fiance’s crazy conservative parents ever have our kids alone. To this day her dad will come out of nowhere with a 10 minute prepared speech about how covid isn’t real, which is always followed by the entire family being silent and wondering to ourselves, “who the fuck even asked you anything at all?”
Sounds like that old woman never gave up on her dream of qualifying for a Darwin Award.
Waffle stomp
So this kid breaks his arms
Honestly this one really does stick with me. Perversely fascinating.
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Just when I forgot about it
What is the context for this one?
On reddit someone did a “I’ve slept with my mother, AMA.”. The story was he broke his arms and his mother helped ‘relieve him’ and then it progressed.
I’m not even saying this to be a broken record, but that site is fucking unusable without 3rd party apps. Just tried to read through that thread and it’s pointless, it’s a complete mess. I need like a picture gallery of the comments worth reading from that thread, lol. 😂
Cuil theory.
4chan, so uh, indelicate:
sister hung herself - must’ve been one hell of a strong rope.
I was looking for this post! Rent free in my mind for over a decade now.
Highly recommend. Weeb falls in love with a Japanese classmate and asks 4chan for advice. It is a whole saga of cringe.
Kevin
Classic
No poop challenge
SR-71 Speed Check
Remember hearing it the first time. There’s a recording here.
The safe
What was in it? Or did we ever get an answer?
Spispopd
Once on Reddit I read of someone who grew up in a house where they had a poop knife as part of their standard toilet tool set.
This person once found themselves asking for a poop knife elsewhere, casually, like anyone would ask for toilet paper.
I think a commenter called it “the Mashitty” in the replies, which I found hilarious. That story and comment will forever be remembered.
This one never struck me as real enough to be exciting. Felt too obviously made up.
It’s a real thing. (At least it says so on the packaging.)
It’s a real thing in the sense that someone ran with the hype, but I don’t think the original story was true, myself.
Imagine how shithouse their diet must be to warrant the need for a poop knife 🤮 drink more clear fluids and up the fiber intake jeeze
Seems more like a bad sewer system or toilet installed.
Disagree- as someone coming from a family with similar abilities, this is more related to volume and personal flexibility. Just because it’s extra large doesn’t mean you have been constipated or not eating enough fibre, sheesh.
Jeez! Terrifying. Sounds like something from It’s Always Sunny!
Hell yea the poop knife. His family had one because their shits would block toilets. He thought it was a normal thing to require and have a poop knife but after going to a friend’s house and asking for it, he discovered that it was indeed (Samuel L. Jackson voice) not a normal thing to possess.
Cum box
Was wondering how far I’d have to scroll to see this one. Those pictures are still burned into my mind.
That hall of fame Reddit thread where a guy announced he will try heroin just one time, then comes back to explain how the experience was and how he will try again. Over the course of many posts we see persons entire life unravel as other posters scream of the top of their lungs for him to stop.
Never figured if it was real or scripted, but hella effective.
Oh yea. /u/SpontaneousH was the account. I think about that story every time I read or hear something about Heroin. Even if it’d be fake, this story influenced my view of heroine more than any movie, video or article about it.
I recall he disappeared for Multiple years and then came back saying he became a junk, had been in addiction clinics and was finally clean after years.
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As a recovering heroin addict, I wholeheartedly believe his story. His later stories contained some region-specific drug slang and his post-recovery updates were the perfect amount of mundane and specific for me to recognize exactly the same feelings in myself.
Side note: if you’re watching a movie or TV show, one thing that non-junkie writers never get right is withdrawal. They often show characters skipping withdrawal entirely, or show them mildly sick but still moving through the story without any real issues. Worst case, they’ll show a character being sick and then totally fine after a short time. Huge pet peeve of mine. Really undersells the catch-22 you find yourself in when using heroin.
What withdrawal is actually like is pure, unadulterated misery and suffering for two weeks at minimum, followed by months or even a year of exhaustion, depression, suicidal thoughts, restlessness, and feeling like everything is weird and new. It feels like you’re a reptile that just shed its skin and everything is raw including your emotions and thoughts. Those first two weeks are just nonstop puking, shaking, sweating, an uncontrollable urge to kick and jerk your body, total insomnia, scary and suicidal thoughts, full body aches and pains, and enough self-loathing to last a thousand years.
I made it three months cold turkey once before relapsing. Fucking never again. I honestly don’t know how people quit dope before modern medications like Buprenorphine and Methadone.
Feeling like you want to break the cycle of addiction but knowing you can’t get through the withdrawal is an incredibly scary and traumatic experience.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Yeah. That was an interesting read.
Have you watched Euphoria? I’ve never had experience with drugs like that but I feel it’s got representation of addiction and withdrawals. Some recovering addicts say it spoke to them and others say they can’t watch it because it’s too triggering, so I’d totally understand if you haven’t seen it. The special Rue episode in between the two seasons is spectacular at showing a recovering addict trying to talk sense into a struggling one.
And in the posts continuing, he says, “no I’m not addicted. I can stop whenever I want”
