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What really happened in real life that if you saw it in a movie you would say "that's totally unrealistic"?
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TheCynicalSaint [they/them, he/him] lemmy.ml TheCynicalSaint@lemmy.ml
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lauha lemmy.world lauha@lemmy.world
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Trump

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Random_Character_A lemmy.world random_character_a@lemmy.world
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Trump

Definitely this.

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mogoh lemmy.ml mogoh@lemmy.ml
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The creation of a new currency made an anonymous person a billionaire, but they never spend a cent.

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Eq0 literature.cafe Eq0@literature.cafe
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Happened to a person I knew: car accident on the highway, car send rolling off the highway down a ramp. ENT at the scene asking “where is the body?”. He walked out without a scratch, not even whiplash.

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SatyrSack quokk.au SatyrSack@quokk.au
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Happened to a person I knew: car accident on the highway, car send rolling off the highway down a ramp. ENT at the scene asking “where is the body?”. He walked out without a scratch, not even whiplash.

ENT at the scene asking “where is the body?”

EMT at the scene asking "What the hell is an ear nose & throat doctor doing here?"

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LouNeko lemmy.world LouNeko@lemmy.world
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A guy like me ending up having any relationship.

Edit: Oh sorry, this is about things that happnend... then nothing I guess.

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IninewCrow lemmy.ca ininewcrow@lemmy.ca
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A community of people praising some local guy as the son of god and repeating that message for 2,000 years and creating a massive global cult that caused wars, genocide and many untold miseries on the population while also enriching, educating and leading global movements

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BananaPeal sh.itjust.works BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-26
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That stupid flying Tesla.

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∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ lemmy.nz luthis@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-29
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Just watching Professor Dave or Crime Zone, there is a lot that happens that is just so ridiculous it would be rejected as a movie script.

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Infernal_pizza lemmy.dbzer0.com Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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ENT at the scene asking “where is the body?” EMT at the scene asking "What the hell is an ear nose & throat doctor doing here?"

Treebeard asking if you can please refer to him by his name

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Hudell lemmy.dbzer0.com Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The creation of a new currency made an anonymous person a billionaire, but they never spend a cent.

Well, if you ignore all the money he made from it indirectly with his company.

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Cosmonaut_Collin lemmy.world Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world
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That stupid flying Tesla.

"flying". I highly doubt it has the air required to travel any great distance. It does however have enough to be the next Tony Hawk Pro Skater character.

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XiJinpingStanAccount lemmy.ml XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml
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A community of people praising some local guy as the son of god and repeating that message for 2,000 years and creating a massive global cult that caused wars, genocide and many untold miseries on the population while also enriching, educating and leading global movements

And the fact it was all caused because some chick get pregnant and her excuse was that god wanted to fuck and like who is gonna say no to that? And her husband believed her.

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folaht lemmy.ml folaht@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-09-01
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"Hacked" into my "mysteriously completely disappeared except for some occasional calls that nothing was going on and things were alright" girlfriend's facebook account, but only was able to stay there for one minute.
She logged in at that very next second and in that one minute I found out that she was cheating, pregnant and planning to marry that guy behind my back.

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Dreamt (1998) that I was in the future (2010), and my street had be turned into a giant bike path and at the end of it there would be a tunnel at the end of my street.
15 years later I was jogging near my old neighborhood and needed to cross a busy road opposite at the end of my street, so in jest I told myself that the tunnel should be finished by now and guessed where the other end would be. Then I jogged through it and marveled at the street I grew up on had indeed turned into a giant bike path.

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Wondered how to pick up girls, found a PUA site.
First chapter: How to most easily start an interesting conversation with just one simple question.
Last chapter: How to have a threesome with two girls who are best friends in five easy steps
Step 1. Be sure to bring a can of whip cream!
Step 2. Here's how to convince both of them to play a game of strip poker with you...
Me: "LOL, yeah as if and why whip cream!? This site is a joke, although that first chapter seems fun to try out."
One minute later, running into the first random girl I see:
Me: "So what's your story?"
Random college girl: "Well... I could tell you but you won't believe it."
Me: "I just read something so ridiculous on the internet, I believe anything now."
Random college girl: "You won't believe it."
Me: "Trust me, I will believe it."
Random college girl: "So me and my best friend and my boyfriend were playing strip poker and for whatever reason, he brought a can of whip cream..."

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redhorsejacket lemmy.world redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
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Treebeard asking if you can please refer to him by his name

Sandman asking if he can come in or not, you keep stopping short.

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TheCynicalSaint [they/them, he/him] lemmy.ml TheCynicalSaint@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-03-10
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That stupid flying Tesla.

In all the other stupid that's happened in the last few years I'd entirely spaced that.

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IninewCrow lemmy.ca ininewcrow@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-13
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And the fact it was all caused because some chick get pregnant and her excuse was that god wanted to fuck and like who is gonna say no to that? And her husband believed her.

The feature of that story always made me wonder how girls tried that over the centuries before one girl eventually had her story stick

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chobeat lemmy.ml chobeat@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2019-06-08
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Electric eels

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muusemuuse sh.itjust.works muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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That stupid flying Tesla.

I actually love that thing. The blowback has been pretty spectacular and everyone is finally in agreement that they hate the Tonedeaf fascist.

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Maeve kbin.earth Maeve@kbin.earth
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#1 "Hacked" into my "mysteriously completely disappeared except for some occasional calls that nothing was going on and things were alright" girlfriend's facebook account, but only was able to stay there for one minute. She logged in at that very next second and in that one minute I found out that she was cheating, pregnant and planning to marry that guy behind my back. #2 Dreamt (1998) that I ...

Surprise ending and I literally lol'd! 10/10

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Maeve kbin.earth Maeve@kbin.earth
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A guy like me ending up having any relationship. Edit: Oh sorry, this is about things that happnend... then nothing I guess.

I'll bite. Like how?

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Maeve kbin.earth Maeve@kbin.earth
Joined: 2024-06-16
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Trump

That was inevitable.

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CedricWhaley lemmy.dbzer0.com CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-09-13
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Trump

Perfect opportunity for a BTTF sequel/reboot.

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Christian lemmy.ml christian@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2020-06-29
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When you collect enough absurdly unrealistic stories you start wondering if your life has been hallucinated. I'll give my Looney Tunes example.

I fell into an open manhole once. I'm not exactly sure how it happened or why I only fell partway in. I didn't fall deeper than my waist. My ex-wife gave me a hand out but we were in a rush and didn't have time to stop and examine or process. It was during a blizzard and I have no idea if it should have been obvious not to walk there and I just wasn't looking or what, my suspicion is that there was a mat or something over it that got covered in snow. We went by that area again like a week later and there was a manhole cover there.

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XiJinpingStanAccount lemmy.ml XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-10-08
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The feature of that story always made me wonder how girls tried that over the centuries before one girl eventually had her story stick

One girl? It's actually a super common thing in myths for gods to go down and make themselves a little demigod. Mary lived in a very hellenised region. So I imagine those type of myths were known to people there via the greeks. She was just following a long tradition.

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CultLeader4Hire lemmy.world CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-28
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Idk why I would ever see it in a movie but I saw a group of crows harassing a hawk then the hawk got sick of it attacked one landed on a branch next to the road and ripped the crows throat out while the other crows watched then scattered. It just seemed so… deliberate. Like I said, idk why I would ever see that in a movie but it felt unreal to watch. I was driving when it happened and I actually stopped the car and stared in disbelief

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CultLeader4Hire lemmy.world CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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Happened to a person I knew: car accident on the highway, car send rolling off the highway down a ramp. ENT at the scene asking “where is the body?”. He walked out without a scratch, not even whiplash.

This kind of happened to my dad. It was in the late 70s and my dad rear ended someone I think. He had a metal steering wheel and bent it forward he hit it so hard but seemed otherwise unphased and was uninjured. They found a bunch of thick black inch long hair in his car and kept asking him where his dog was only to realize it was his lol they figured he was fucked up and his dog was dead but he was fine and there was no dog.

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RiverRock lemmy.ml RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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One time I was waiting at a red light when I saw this lady rip through the intersection going like 60 mph (96 kph) while no shit T-posing on top of a motorcycle. I have no idea how she was controlling it, but it remains the most insane feat of skill I've ever witnessed in person.

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Nangijala feddit.dk Nangijala@feddit.dk
Joined: 2025-02-28
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That stupid flying Tesla.

It becomes worse when you learn the back story of why he sent a tesla into space.

Musk did to tesla what he did to literally every other business venture he's had:

Sees talented people, buys their company, fires or kicks out everybody, takes over and if he can get away with it: takes credit for other people's inventions.

In the case of tesla, he took over the company and kicked out the founder/inventor of these electric car models, snubbed and barred him from having any access to his own creation and as a final petty move, he sent the very car, the founder was owed in his contract, into space. And there was nothing the founder could do about it, becauae elon gets away with everything.

The only thing Elon has "invented" is the cyber truck. He was also behind the genius idea of electric car locks that has cost people their lives because they couldnt escape their cars. Every idea he has, is purely madw because his toddler brain thinks it is either funny or cool and he is rich enough to get away with it.

But yeah,the tesla in space was a literal middle finger to the man who created those cars because elon is a petty, jealous bitch who can't handle that he isn't smart enough to invent something this cool. Toddler logic.

Him taking over twitter was akin to the tesla in space. He was petty enough to spend the money to humiliate and fire all the people he didn't like and turn their platform into even more shit (personally I have always hated twitter with a passion, but not as much as elon hated it).

He cannot create anything. He can only leech off of others and punish them for hqving the talents and intelligence he doesn't have. He is a deeply insecure, pathetic little boy who is stuck in a perpetual hunt for glory so that his lame daddy might actually notice him and be proud of him for once. That's literally also the only reason he cares about Mars. His daddy named him after the massiah in a literal nazi sci-fi book where a guy named Elom colonizes Mars.

I dove into this prick's past shortly after he did the hitler salute and everything about Elon and his life sounds like ridiculous fiction.

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blackbrook lemmy.ml blackbrook@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-03
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This kind of happened to my dad. It was in the late 70s and my dad rear ended someone I think. He had a metal steering wheel and bent it forward he hit it so hard but seemed otherwise unphased and was uninjured. They found a bunch of thick black inch long hair in his car and kept asking him where his dog was only to realize it was his lol they figured he was fucked up and his dog was dead but h...

Wait, so where did the hair come from? Did the shock from the impact knock it off his body?

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godsammitdam lemmy.zip godsammitdam@lemmy.zip
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Most of the fascist US administration's actions.

And the things their supporters say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Xwn21LtHg

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_rat lemmy.ml _rat@lemmy.ml
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Idk why I would ever see it in a movie but I saw a group of crows harassing a hawk then the hawk got sick of it attacked one landed on a branch next to the road and ripped the crows throat out while the other crows watched then scattered. It just seemed so… deliberate. Like I said, idk why I would ever see that in a movie but it felt unreal to watch. I was driving when it happened and I actuall...

I didn't see it irl, only on video. It was a freaking hen. Two crows were 'laughing' at her, so she lunged at one, grabbed its tongue with her beak and ripped it right out. Felt like I'd just watched a snuff film.

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Psydefisch sopuli.xyz Psydefisch@sopuli.xyz
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The 1904 marathon, what a shitshow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_marathon#Summary

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gesshoku lemmy.zip gesshoku@lemmy.zip
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It becomes worse when you learn the back story of why he sent a tesla into space. Musk did to tesla what he did to literally every other business venture he's had: Sees talented people, buys their company, fires or kicks out everybody, takes over and if he can get away with it: takes credit for other people's inventions. In the case of tesla, he took over the company and kicked out the founder/...

Do you have a link for me about the space roadster?
I only found these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster

https://supercarblondie.com/forgotten-tesla-founder-had-to-sue-to-get-special-piece-of-history-tesla-roadster/

I have a friend who is somehow a fan of Musk and I like looking into facts in case the topic comes up again.

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Nangijala feddit.dk Nangijala@feddit.dk
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Do you have a link for me about the space roadster? I only found these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster https://supercarblondie.com/forgotten-tesla-founder-had-to-sue-to-get-special-piece-of-history-tesla-roadster/ I have a friend who is somehow a fan of Musk and I like looking into facts in case the topic comes up again.

Sadly, no. I found out about this stuff last year and a billion things have happened in my personal life since, so I cannot remember where i found the info.

Good of you to fact check, though!

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gesshoku lemmy.zip gesshoku@lemmy.zip
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Sadly, no. I found out about this stuff last year and a billion things have happened in my personal life since, so I cannot remember where i found the info. Good of you to fact check, though!

No worries.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Hope life has been treating you well and if not hope that things will improve :-)

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Nangijala feddit.dk Nangijala@feddit.dk
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No worries. Thanks for taking the time to reply. Hope life has been treating you well and if not hope that things will improve :-)

Thank you and likewise!

Haven't had the best time these past three years and especially not this year where everything seemed to happen all at once. My 2026 is like a plot for a terribly written soap opera. Lost my beloved company, lost both my parents and got pre-stage breast cancer which means I lost my breast too. Lol.

I don't even know if i have the right to feel anything about it because companies go under everyday in this economy, I'm not special in that regard and I still have clients and work.

Can't grieve my parents because they are both still alive and I just made the decision to cut them out, but it's learning all these new things about them that makes everything so much worse than it already was. How do you grieve a parent who's still alive and who never loved you because they don't have the capacity to love?

And with the breast, I can't really react to that either because it was pre-stage, not cancer yet and they cut off my breast before it could get worse, so no kemo for me. How do you take ownership over an illness you never had, but it still cost you a body part?

I don't fucking know, lol.

I don't know anything. I just know that from June to August some things happened and I'm not the same person anymore, neither physically nor mentally.

It'll be fine, though! It's just one of those bumps on the road where there isnt really much of a point to anything other than letting go and stop trying to fix things and people who don't want to be fixed. 🤷‍♀️

Fix yourself instead.

Hugs for you and I deeply hope your life is better written than mine xD

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