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What's an urban legend someone's repeated to you as fact? (lazysoci.al)
submitted 16 hours ago by CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al to c/ask@lemm.ee
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[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Crikey what an unusual story! With no twists in the tale or deviation at all. Why do you think they all tell it as first person?

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I genuinely have no idea. If only one or two of them had gone the "personal story" route I might have actually believed the tale. But one person after another reporting it as "I did/saw this" just baffles me. I don't know if it's confabulation or some kind of leg-pulling exercise.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

It's the Chinese expat version of drop bears, then?

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 13 hours ago

Ah of course leg pulling would make sense