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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 125 points 10 months ago
[-] somtwo@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago

It's not fair, it sounds so plausible!

[-] kittehx 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fuck, yeah it got me too

(in fairness i'm tipsy rn)

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

I think this site also had a really funny article about an alpha male that touched a tampon and ended up in an ER.

[-] kittehx 4 points 10 months ago

damn, good thing I'm a woman. sending my condolences to the victim and his family

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Bro had UHC too

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

100% something they'd do, which makes it even easier to swallow the onion

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it is fucking sad to say that I had to double check and make sure this wasn't a not-the-onion story.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Honest question. At what point do people proclaim this? Did you read the article or did you internally respond before checking the source?

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

No. You read the headline, and react. Just the same as any other article. Then you see the community posted, laugh, and reply "ate the onion".

See in the 90s, the whole point of the onion (the actual original paper distributed onion newsletter) was to grab peoples attention and fool them into thinking it's a real headline.

Thats what happened here. I believed it was a legit headline. Thus, I ate the onion.

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

also fuckin at it (not completely sober)

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Would sir like fries with that 🍟

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