Holy moly, the Internet thrives on bullshit.
You best not believe much you see on the Internet! So much crap is made up and goes viral for surprise the almighty dollar.
The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google
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#52Funnily enough, the Guinness Book of World Records started for a similar reason, settling barroom trivia bets
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#53I'm struggling to identify what it is about this nostalgia that infuriates me so deeply. Perhaps it's just fascinating to me that so many people find it fun to be in stupid situations. I find it barbaric and twisted. More productively, I wonder how people would respond to this after having grown up with the boundary of their 30s knowledge horizon roughly equivalent to that of humanity's experts 10yr prior. Anyone bor…
I honestly believe we live our lives for the moments that aren't spent learning.
Facts are facts, and that's just about it.
This behavior is "fun" because their bullshitting about Steven Tyler led to them meeting up with some girls, going to some bars, and having a good night out.
It's weird how all these advancements in technology that were supposed to free up our time have just taken up more of our time.
It's sad, really. Learning used to be an adventure, and sometimes you were wrong. It was a game, even if you knew the answer beforehand.
Now it's a chore, and I really don't see all these bullshit facts being removed from our society today, even though almost everything is a few taps of your iPhone away.
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#54I'm happy that it's over.
My step-dad always posed with his fact-knowledge as if it was the holy grail of wisdom. It even led to this bullshitting in the link. If he didn't know something, he made it up. Or he would tell us about some (anecdotical!) evidence for this and that.
Today, I just flip out my smartphone and look it up and after that, everyone learned something.
Sometimes the facts are so ridiculous or shocking that knowing the truth can be funny or exciting too :)
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
My rule goes further: it's called the phone stack. I suggest you try, it's pretty awesome. Rule: all phones head down in a stack. That's it, go enjoy people a little
Sounds awful. For me social situations always tend to be boring or exhausting after a while and then my phone is my saviour until I feel like getting back into the action again. Without it I wouldn't even attend.
Yep, it is an extroverts world out there.
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#56If he wants to engage people he should switch to trolling.
Yes, because attacking people and bullying them is a wonderful way to make friends and influence people.
I think s/he means the type of trolling where you pretend to be monumentally stupid to see whether other people catch on, eg 'what do you mean the world isn't flat, I've been up in a plane so don't think you're fooling me with that round nonsense.'
I don't go in for this but I do find it entertaining to read sometimes.
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#57Read any newspaper article on global warming - the comments section is guaranteed to contain humongous amounts of bullshit. Actually, the comments section on just about any news article is guaranteed to contain humongous amounts of bullshit.
OK, it's not really the fun entertaining sort of bullshit, but you've got to take what you can get.
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#58The bullshit didn't even have to be believable: "Marilyn Manson was the kid that played Paul from the Wonder Years. Also, he had a rib removed so he could perform autofellatio." Kids everywhere believed that. Hilarious.
Right, like "Vaccines cause autism" and "Homeopathy is something you should say without laughing". Also hilarious. There's a dark side to bullshit. There's a side which creates endless pain for no good reason, because things 'sound good' or are 'too good to check' and nobody likes a party-pooper, do they? Especially when the party-pooper is pointing out how this little piece of bullshit could kill someone. No. Go alo…
Yet "vaccines cause autism" has spread like a virus over the Internet. I had never heard about it before the recent (ten years) memification. It's not like the recipients google it and go "no it doesn't" because it you really do you might as well go mad about the insane "facts" put forth. Google and the web in general probably spread as much bullshit as it kills. It's complicated.
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#59Read any newspaper article on global warming - the comments section is guaranteed to contain humongous amounts of bullshit. Actually, the comments section on just about any news article is guaranteed to contain humongous amounts of bullshit. OK, it's not really the fun entertaining sort of bullshit, but you've got to take what you can get.
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#60If anything google made all types of bullshit more accessible.
Just search for articles about: Non-stick pans, chem-trails, hollow-earth theory, etc. etc.