To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”

  • yokonzo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So I have a story for this, one I’m not proud of mind you, but it happened. One time in a lush store they had these bath bombs that were literally modeled to look like cupcakes, I remarked that they almost looked edible. A STORE EMPLOYEE replied with this.

    SE: They are edible.

    Me: what? No they’re not

    SE: oh yeah they’re totally edible go ahead and take a bite

    Me: wait really?

    SE: yeah!

    So I take a bite of the cupcake looking thing and immediately the bitter ass taste of soap fills my senses, my eyes are watering and I spit it out into the trash. I kid you not this was like a punch in the face, I was sweating, I felt a huge headache coming on and my nose was on fire. Again I’m not really proud of this but in my defence, I was a dumbass teenager and someone who I reasonably thought I could trust told me something to mess with me and I took the bait.

    The employee was nowhere to be seen after that, obviously he saw my gullible ass actually did it and got out of there with a pep in his step and a smile on his face. As for me, I had a pounding headache and slightly lavender scented breath for the rest of that day.

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      1 year ago

      I feel like this is a situation where going full Karen would be an acceptable response.

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        1 year ago

        Meh, I was sixteen at the time and way more concerned with my friends laughing their asses off nearby