Me (13 years old at the time): Dad, Mom’s cheating on you. I saw her making out with this man.
Dad: Listen here, princess. The guy’s filthy rich, and when you have money, it’s normal to have a hot mistress like your mom.
Me: But aren’t you jealous?
Dad: laughs
I was flabbergasted, lmao.
I was 18 years old at the time this happened
I was walking downtown, and this older white wman (he looked like he was in his forties) was walking towards me and said to me “Hey, you’re pretty cute for a little n***er girl”. (I’m Black you can fill in the blanks I’m sure) and he tried to touch me
And that made me so mad, I felt my face get hot, and i just kicked him in the groins and punched him in the face as hard as I could and then ran away from him fast as I could.
Not necessarily unhinged, per se, but I knew a former very high ranking military IED specialist who would sweep the white house and places where the president would be going to before they showed up, every chance he got he bare ass farted on the Bush’s pillows.
He ended up being a pretty shitty guy, but I’m still going to give him Chad points for that one.
I had someone tell me on a first date that they’ve been in love with their younger sister since they were teenagers. There was no second date.
Had a high school friend who relied on the pullout method bc condoms made things “too awkward.” After a close call with a person (I’ll call them X) who’s life was full of drama:
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m very prolife, but if I found out I was pregnant with X’s baby, I would get an abortion.”
I must have made a face bc she then quickly tried to clarify “If it was Y or Z though, I would keep the baby.” 🤦♀️
“Stop thinking so much”
- random professor walking by me
I think I’ve heard more unhinged things that the one I’m about to mention, but the others are from drunk randos making shit up or over sharing I don’t know. The one that really hit me is not as crazy but it still pisses me off to this day and it is far more serious than that drunk guy telling me about how he used to masturbate on the backseats of all buses he could get into.
I’ve had an issue with my legs since birth, nothing bad and in fact went unnoticed most my life. Just how my knees are built. Never caused a problem until in my twenties I started getting into the gym. A bad trainer (student doing practice) in a gym recommended me some exercise after I asked for something to change the routine. Long story short, I fucked up my knees, even longer story shorter, a doc specialized in legs and specifically knees told me my options, from which the most reasonable at the time was surgery. Surgery for both knees, 1 first, then recovery then the other. A total of two year plan for it.
Mind you the problem was a physical one about the angle of the bones in my knees. A long time friend of my parents, who works as a researcher and teacher of biology in the university of my city called for whatever reason and my mother told of my leg problem.
This person decided that it was excruciatingly important to ask that the phone is passed to me, to tell me not to go to surgery. Risky, dangerous, and completely unnecessary, when I can have a completely safe alternative. Take some homeopathy pills they said, that will get your knees fixed without issues. I was so shocked coming from that person… Mind you I was in my twenties, so not an entire idiot, and I knew a bit about homeopathy… Having read “bad science” by Ben Goldacre (highly recommended by the way) and got into a spiral of alternative shit and research on the stupidest things people get into. I even have an official diploma from Boiron that they basically gave to anyone who cared to answer some answers right about homeopathy back in the day and that it was incredibly easy to hack (wrong answer? Click back and you could try again, in fact the points for the diploma were stored in plain sight in a cookie that never got reset, I ended up with like 120 points out of 50, there were only 5 questions by the way). No security needed as it had no fucking value like the rest of homeopathic stuff. Or is it less security means more secure in homeopathic terms?
Any way, I’m getting derailed, this fucking person tries to sell me into the homeopathic shit to fix the angle of my knees… I was so shocked I couldn’t even answer. Just said “okbye”, gave the phone away, and asked my parents to never ever put me in the same room with that idiot. It’s been manybyears now and so far I’ve succeeded in avoiding ever seeing or hearing of that person.
So, homeopathy is based around the whole “hair of the dog” type thing. Like cures like and other silliness. What the ever-loving fuck would be in those pills? “Essence” of bad knees? Hip dysplasia gel? Powdered bees’ knees?
Indeed, you are absolutely right. But how do you compare what is like another thing? The original idea of homeopathy was more straightforward in this sense, it wasn’t “like cures like”, it was more “if you were poisoned with x, then a solution of that x element in really small doses will cause you to recover”. With all the shit I give to homeopathy (because nowadays anyone thinking homeopathy works has no excuse), I have to admire it just a bit in its historical context. At a time when “actual” doctors were trying to heal people with bloodletting and washing hands was not really a thing before stuffing them in someone’s wound… Someone came up with an idea that actually was causing less damage than the doctors themselves were, and the idea, ridiculous as it is with our current knowledge, is not far from the actual idea of vaccines. We just know that a small dose won’t heal you, but it might make your antibodies adapt and learn how to fight something negative. If you think it through, it is not entirely far from that basic starting point in homeopathy. Of course they took it to the limit and then became bullshit. I don’t remember who am I quoting but here goes “the alternative medicine that has been proven to work has a name, medicine” (I’m paraphrasing, can’t remember the exact wording, but I’m thinking maybe it was the amazing Tim Minchin in one of his songs/acts?)
From that point it all went to shit and homeopathy became completely absurd because they started loosening the concepts. “Like cures like” ends up working as “I’ll make some shitty comparison and because it kinda works because I say so, it is similar and will cure you”.
Which is how you end up with the real fun stuff in homeopathy. I’ll be talking from memory from many years ago, so take this with a grain of salt, maybe those products where fringe stuff but I’m pretty sure they were all real and sold.
Are you feeling stuck? Maybe when you are working on something? Maybe your stomach? Maybe you are stuck in a bad relationship? Don’t worry, here’s the amazing homeopathy remedy, a dilution of pieces of the wall of Berlin. If they managed to break through, why wouldn’t you? (yes, there is a homeopathic remedy based on the wall of Berlin)
Are you feeling sad? Glum? Unhappy? Is there an idiom for it? Like for instance “are you feeling blue?”… Don’t worry, here you have a dilution of the color blue in homeopathic pill form. (Yes, there’s a bunch of color based homeopathic remedies).
OK enough funny shit descriptions because I cannot really see how I can even begin to describe the one based on dinosaur bones. Or my favorite, black holes. Yes, somehow they sell the idea that they have diluted a black hole effect in water… Don’t ask me. I can’t understand it either.
So yeah like heals like… But when you can make up the comparison it really doesn’t matter.
New copypasta just dropped.
I’m not sure I catch your meaning. You think I copied this? Or that what I wrote is going to become a copypasta? Because the first one isn’t true, and the second one, I just don’t see it happening. It is just a personal anecdote that i doubt would ever really be of any interest for it to become meme material.
It was a compliment. I found it long windedly funny.
Ah, sorry! Thank you then :) the meaning went completely over my head
To be fair, surgeries for back and knees have a pretty high non success rate.
Still higher success rate than homeopathy
But also a much higher rate of complications.
And a much higher chance of actually improving your life. Besides, depending on the idiot trying to sell you some alternative medicine you might actually be off worse
But they obviously didn’t dilute the radioactivity to 1:100 100 times. It would be harmless if they had.
I’m not sure what you are referring to, but that feels to me like a nonsense generalization. I’m no doctor, so my knowledge of back and knee surgeries is limited to my very own experience.
First of all, I can’t see how my surgeries could ever be not successful. The operation in itself is pretty simple, but incredibly bothersome and it won’t fix my knees, it will just prevent them from getting worse with age. But still it would be hard to fuck it up when it comes to the surgery. But again I don’t know about others.
And second, the doctor was absolutely awesome, although a previous one was a piece of shit that I should have sued for malpractice but I’m not from the USA nor was in the USA so sueing doesn’t come to me naturally and since nothing bad happened I let it go, nowadays I’d have been far stricter, but that was a bad doctor, nothing to do with low success rate of knee surgeries. But that made me abandon that asshole and search for a new doctor and I’ll just say he was incredibly nice, easy to deal with and very professional. And later on I discovered he is also a huge name in the field of knee health issues to the point where many professional athletes go to him when they have anything. Don’t know if that skews my perspective but its hard to think how anything could have gone wrong.
I was watching Young Frankenstein with some friends in college in a secluded part of the student center and some rando came up to us and told us, in great detail, about how her cousin raped her repeatedly when they were younger.
Young Frankenstein was ruined for me and I still can’t watch it a decade later.
“Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s”
That Democrats were aborting babies after they are born, and that immigrants are eating our cats and dogs.
I listened to a video yesterday about the beliefs of sovereign citizens. These whackjobs think the Untied States isn’t a country but a corporation and that they don’t have to obey laws if they opt out of membership. They believe laws about driving only apply to transporting goods and that otherwise you’re merely “traveling”. And other such nonsense I’m not sure how to explain
There’s no such thing as a flu vaccine, that’s why they call it a “flu shot”
I haven’t taken anything this person says seriously since then
Literally yesterday I had a medical professional in a professional setting tell me they could just drink pure fish sauce.
I couldn’t say anything to keep from laughing. I still don’t even know what to say to that.
That doesn’t sound like cheating, that’s more like an open relationship. He knew about it and didn’t care.
I can understand how a 13 yo OP thought it was cheating though. They haven’t said they think it is cheating nowadays :)
The financial incentive makes it closer to pimping than swinging, at least potentially. Idk if the possibility the dad was getting something out of it besides, I guess, sexual pleasure stemming from cuckoldry makes it better or worse…
Or the mom is a sugar baby
As one who was in a similar situation to said dad person, back in the day: ¿Por que no los dos? 🤪
My coworker once started a conversation by casually asking if I’d ever “done anything” with a cousin. Obviously the conversation ended with him revealing he’d fucked his cousin and me saying WTF progressively louder and louder for at least a minute. I work from home now.
And you live with your cousin, right?
You work with Rudy Giuliani?
The Aunt that never finished elementary school once told me:
“I don’t believe in evolution, because I didn’t believe a baby could be born smarter than its parents”
I was 10-13 years old at the time and just didn’t have the patience to deal with that level of stupid.
It bothers me that Creationists somehow think failing to understand Evolution is the same as debunking it.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “No that’s not evolution, that’s just an adaptation.”
Ugh, that’s exactly why it’s impossible to argue or even educate them, their definition is so skewed and the complete and utter lack of critical thinking skills.
PS: I’m gunna use that: “Your failing to understand is not debunking, it’s only showing your complete and utter ignorance/stupidity…”
When I did my PhD, I was chatting with another PhD student there. I told him I went to a museum where they had a really cool lineup of all the early hominids, all the way back to Lucy.
And he said something like “why would you care about all those deformed humans?” So I went “no, I mean, the proto humans, before they evolved into homo sapiens”. I laughed and said “aren’t you too smart to believe in evolution?”
So yeah, you don’t have to be stupid to be an idiot.
Oh jeez… heads up: a lot of racism and very vile unhinged shit being described: (seriously, it’s gonna make your blood boil if you read this, last warning):
So my older brother is a racial supremacist and hates black and brown people.
And I already know what you’re thinking when you hear the term “racist”: “must be a white dude in southern rural US”
No, no no no. We are a family of immigrants. We are non-white. We’re from China.
The first time I heard about this was like sometime around 2017 to 2020. My older brother was complaining about African Migrant workers living in China… a country he no longer has citizenship status in… because he went through the US citizenship process to become a citizen of a multi-racial immigrant country…
So… to reiterate: a non-white immigrant is complaining about other races in his ancestral country that he has no citizenship in… let that sink in…
Literally “White Replacement” Conspiracy Theory, but replace the term “White” with “Han Chinese”.
He complains about ethnic minorities in China “getting special privilages” (aka: “affirmative action”) 🧐
So he dislikes CCP, not because of human rights violations against minorities… no no no, not that, but because CCP is “doing too much to help minorities” (in his view at least, whether or not the CCP actually help minorities in reality is a whole another thing)
He believes there’s a secret plan by the CCP to replace China with African Migrants because of the population crisis… so he thinks the government just wanna fill up the loss of population with random foreigners…
And he calls black people “cockroaches” that “keep spreading too much” by “having too many kids”
But guess what: HE FUCKING COMPLAINS ABOUT TRUMP BEING RACIST AGAINST ASIANS 🤦♂️ fucking irony lmfao (he’s a registered Democrat… I’m pretty sure… supports progressive polities when it comes to wealth, but opposes progressive social policies… so… a social conservative but fiscal liberal??? (is that even a term?)
Dude is so fucking lost into conspiracies, they make my parents look like saints. My parents used to be very prejudiced, but eventually come to be more accepting of multi-culturalism and the idea of living in diversity after spending so much time in the US. And now my mom has to be the one to shut down my brother’s bullshit rhetoric he spews in the livingroom.
Oh, also kinda anti-vax about the Covid vaccine, but somehow okay with a tetnaus shot when he stepped on a nail.
And this is this is also the brother that abused me as a child… constantly fighting me… then want to play with me when bored and has no friends to talk to… then wanna fight me and discard me after he uses me.
Seriously idk why he even became a US Citizen…
The only reason he didn’t vote for trump (or so he says, it’s not like I know what he marked in his ballot) is because he isn’t white, had he been born into a white family, he’d totally vote trump.
I’m so glad, I didn’t end up being brainwashed by those insane beliefs, jesus fucking christ.
No idea where the fuck he got that shit from… so fucking vile…
But then again, he was abusing me when I was around 5 or 6… he used zipties to restrain me when he deemed me “annoying”, played with fire at home, maybe his psycopathy is a gene, maybe a gene that luckily I didn’t get? Random mutation?
Idk… my parents aren’t even this vile in their worst moments, must be a random mutation. Or maybe its environment. Or maybe the internet’s fault.
I just want you to know, I hate having to upvote your comment.
Every post you make makes me wonder how the fuck you’re still alive, my man
The strong sperm won lol
Weird timeline…
I mean I wonder how humanity even survived coldwar…
Heard of Vasily Arkhipov? Stannislav Petrov? What if they weren’t there. Someone else was in control?
We’s be dead.
How the fuck does humanity even exist. Like dozens of “close calls” jesus christ.
My theory is there are 100s of timelines where humanity nuked itself. 100s of timelines where I was never born, or got kidnapped during that “running away” incident, or got murdered by my brother during a fight, or died of suicide.
Sometimes… I wonder if there’s a “plan” for me… if “god” exists… maybe the universe doesn’t let me die.
Like some pre-destination thing. Like how in time travel shows, someone tries to commit suicide but it fails because they are alive in the future so its impossible to die in the past. Like Steins;Gate with Okabe. Or like Final Destination where deaths have to happem in order…
it’s “not my time to die” yet… so death doesn’t let me die till its time.
Just a theory… 🤷♂️
My theory is there are 100s of timelines where humanity nuked itself. 100s of timelines where I was never born, or got kidnapped during that “running away” incident, or got murdered by my brother during a fight, or died of suicide.
From a quantum theory, wave function collapse perspective, that’s as good a theory as any, and it’s also one that that personally subscribe to.
What do you mean by wave function collapse?
Basically it’s related to the uncertainty principle; the cat is both alive and dead until you look inside the box.
Let’s say i’m about to roll a dice. The result of that dice throw is in a state of superposition until it’s thrown. Meaning that until it is thrown, all results exist. And it’s only when the dice is thrown and the result is observed that the wave function collapses to a number from 1 thru 6.
From there, there are two camps of scientists:
One camp believes that all other superpositions dissipate once the roll is made. So if you roll a one, then the universes in which you rolled a 2 thru 6 just kind of evaporate, for example.
The Second camp that believes that all superpositions exist, and branch off into 6 different universes (one where each number was rolled) and they all continue unaware of the other universes existence (Multiverse theory)
Are you sure? This doesn’t sound right
Science is never “sure”. And I’m not a quantum physicist. But that’s the gist of it, yes. I’m not smart enough to know all the details though.
Sounds fairly similar to the logic in the Fermi Paradox, IIRC 🤓🤷🏼♂️
Every post you make makes me wonder how the fuck you’re still alive, my man
Agreed. Seen a lot of his posts around, and Wong Ka Kui feels like an irreplaceable part of Lemmy
It is a common misconception, especially in the US where “white” racism against other groups is so prevalent and extreme, that it is in some way involves or is limited to specific races.
Pretty much every race or ethnic group demonstrates racism against other groups on some level.
Plenty of examples in history where even cultures where everybody is basically the same race, they find reasons to kill each other.
There were hundreds of Mayan city-states, until someone decided to unite them all, and then it was join or die. Sometimes it was just die. They were all the same race, but people like to kill each other, so they invent reasons. We’re weird like that.
Absolutely, humans are pack animals from an evolutionary stand point. Our built in instincts are to form groups for protection.
The leveraging of that for profit/socio-political benefit is the real cancer in this. All of it is despicable, but that’s a root cause. 🤌🏼
Only an American would think racism is a white person only thing. Western racism is nothing in comparison to racism in Asia.
Western racism is nothing in comparison to racism in Asia.
Yeah yelling insults or whatever is way worse than systematically exterminating many groups of people.
You mean because thats not happening in Asia right now?
Well there went your credibility
Yeah, the west would never murder 6 million people out of racial hatred in under 4 years.
He’s originally Chinese not american, and its fine to find it more common for whites to be racists, because in my experience, they are
