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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 112 points 21 hours ago (6 children)
[–] somtwo@lemmy.world 52 points 20 hours ago

It's not fair, it sounds so plausible!

[–] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Fuck, yeah it got me too

(in fairness i'm tipsy rn)

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Bro had UHC too

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours 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 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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 7 points 17 hours 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.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago

Would sir like fries with that 🍟

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

also fuckin at it (not completely sober)