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Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 年前

What's the funniest true story you've read on the internet?

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What's the funniest true story you've read on the internet?

Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 年前
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  • rustyricotta@lemmy.ml
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    I had a really good laugh today when I remembered that the area 51 raid happened. And the Naruto runner.

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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      Oh fuck I forgot about those things

    • SmokeyDope@lemmy.world
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      I occasionally come back to this for a good laugh

      • PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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        Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        this

        Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

        I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

      • TAG@lemmy.world
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        My favorite is https://youtu.be/5RPHkpcH3rI

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          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          https://piped.video/5RPHkpcH3rI

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

  • Hypnotized@lemm.ee
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    The Ryan’s Steakhouse Incident. Stumbled across it over a decade ago and still the memory of it makes me laugh.

    http://www.ihos.com/steakhouse.html

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.ml
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      That…… was amazing.

    • the_doolittle@lemmy.world
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      This is my first time hearing this story and it was well worth the read.

  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Right now it’s still that Republican dude trying to sound like Yoda.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      Ok, so you’ve triggered my personal bugbear with Yoda. Time for a rant. Let me explain:

      Yoda was pitched to Luke on Hoth as the Jedi master who trained Obi Wan. Luke (and us as the audience in 1980) had this expectation of a wise old man if he trained Obi Wan. When Yoda pulls Luke’s Xwing into the swamp and meets with him, he puts on a “Little Creature” persona to test Luke’s patience. Anakin was famously impatient. Yoda hammed up his speech mannerisms to 11:
      “Away put your weapon, I mean you no harm”
      “Help you, I can! Yes! Yes!”

      Once Luke fails this test, and we get to Obi Wan, Yoda drops that whole act.
      “I cannot train him. The boy has no patience.”
      “Too old! Yes! Too old to complete the training.”
      “A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one, a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away! to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was! What he was doing!”

      Then once we get into training, we get the bombs of wisdom:
      “For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force flow around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, yes, even between the land and the ship.”

      You see? Yoda retained a little of that vocal mannerism - easily explained as someone speaking a different language to his native one. For the most part though, his dialogue was pretty natural.

      But then people spent the next 20 years doing Yoda impressions of his little crteature act. So by the time of the prequels, it was expected that Yoda would talk all backwards. So the prequels had him doing that backwards-talk throughout. I hated it then, and I hate it now.

      It’s a crying shame that people coming to Star Wars never get their expectations of Yoda subverted today as we did. Yoda is just too pervasive in our culture. Even my own kids who I tried to shield from all that instantly recognised Yoda when he came on screen.

      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        At least in those cases he’s coherent. I can’t stand it when people do Yoda impressions and don’t make any sense.

        'Mmmm, help can you I ’

        He’s never spoken like that!!!

    • vettnerk@lemmy.ml
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      The what now?

      • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The one you seek, this is.

        • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
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          I refuse to believe this is real, what the fuck

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          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          The one you seek, this is.

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

  • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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    There’s way too many.

    • The guy who tried to kiss his Yale interviewer

    • Poop knife

    • The guy who got a NASA internship who also cussed out a NASA engineer on Twitter

    • Anything involving Tay

    [EDIT] It was actually Yale, not Harvard.

    Some more:

    • Ball pits
    • “a cylinder”
    • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
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      deleted by creator

    • Obinice@lemmy.world
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      Wasn’t that NASA intern a woman?

      • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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        Yep, that was supposed to be a gender-neutral “guy”

    • Moonguide@lemmy.ml
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      Tay Zonday?

      • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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        Nope, Tay the Twitter chatbot made by Microsoft.

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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      Yo what are the first and last ones

      • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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        https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/eqriom/i_tried_to_kiss_my_interviewer_are_my_chances/

        For the second one, just Google “TayTweets”

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          Thanks!

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    Someone on DeviantArt bought a picture of a furry character for $20,000.

  • MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.works
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    Still. That comment on Reddit where the guy talks dirty to his wife. Fails, miserably. So hilarious. Wish i could find it again. “You like that, you fucking …”.

    • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
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      It’s a quote, which suffers from censorship. I’ll let you complete it.

    • Hypnotized@lemm.ee
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      A classic

  • Secret300@sh.itjust.works
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    Double dick dude

    • Inucune@lemmy.world
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      That was debunked as fake.

      • Secret300@sh.itjust.works
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        There was a whole book, damn

  • CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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    True story

    Read on the internet

    You have to see the issue there. The first one that definitely happened that comes to mind is the great molasses flood. It’s not actually a funny thing and a lot of people died, but it sure is a funny concept.

    The Hawaiians adding the Union Jack to their flag for no reason because they liked the design is also pretty top-tier.

  • didiercool@lemmy.world
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    Definitely the guy who overindulged in pot snickerdoodles and then goes out to dinner with his inlaws.

  • Night Monkey@sh.itjust.works
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    HWNDU saga. The Internet historian has a great YouTube video on the whole thing. Absolutely hilarious.

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