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What's an urban legend someone's repeated to you as fact? (lazysoci.al)
submitted 23 hours ago by CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al to c/ask@lemm.ee
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[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 8 points 21 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 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 5 hours ago

Sort of? Except it's not like a rite of passage. You just occasionally, for at least 15 years, stumbled over someone who would swear that it happened to them. At least the drop bear gag is so frequent you know it's a joke pretty quickly.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 4 points 21 hours ago

Ah of course leg pulling would make sense