Posted: 8/7/2011 5:54:44 PM EDT
| It really seems like a lot of the BS that people believed in in generations passed is simply no longer believed in by people who have Internet access. "Really? Hold on, let me check Wikipedia, urbanlegends and/or snopes." 15 years ago I heard alternative kids talking about alien abductions and having weird superstitions about that stuff. I don't hear these things so much anymore. It's almost to the point that shit that hasn't been sold to the masses must not have existed (such as American automotive companies making OHC, 4-valve per cylinder "hemi" engines during WW2 –– for aircraft). |
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It really seems like a lot of the BS that people believed in in generations passed is simply no longer believed in by people who have Internet access. "Really? Hold on, let me check Wikipedia, urbanlegends and/or snopes." 15 years ago I heard alternative kids talking about alien abductions and having weird superstitions about that stuff. I don't hear these things so much anymore. It's almost to the point that shit that hasn't been sold to the masses must not have existed (such as American automotive companies making OHC, 4-valve per cylinder "hemi" engines during WW2 –– for aircraft). What? 
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I think its balanced by the amount of forwarded idiotic emails. I have an older relative who suffers from Compulsive Forwarding Disease. One of his friends has his own "list" and forwards the same shit to me in duplicate. About a month ago they both hammered me with some kitch patriotic chain email about Navy "seals" with the notorious action figure photo in it. I just lost it. After my reply I got six bravo emails from other people on those "lists" including two of his kids. One of the emails was giant shark nonsense. Off the coast of Florida. You could tell by the background and the dress of the people in the photos that it wasn't Florida. The hoax actually had a Snope's reference page and I was also able to Google up the boats registration in Mass. from the name and reg. number. |
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It really seems like a lot of the BS that people believed in in generations passed is simply no longer believed in by people who have Internet access. "Really? Hold on, let me check Wikipedia, urbanlegends and/or snopes." 15 years ago I heard alternative kids talking about alien abductions and having weird superstitions about that stuff. I don't hear these things so much anymore. It's almost to the point that shit that hasn't been sold to the masses must not have existed (such as American automotive companies making OHC, 4-valve per cylinder "hemi" engines during WW2 –– for aircraft). What? |