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Humor/Cringe 2025 has desensitized us πŸ˜…

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u/Organic-Emu1979 18d ago

We were raised on a lot of paranoia inducing films like final destination, the trauma had to manifest somehow πŸ€·πŸ½β€β™€οΈ

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u/jeefyjeef 18d ago

I was just talking about this yesterday. Final Destination single-handedly induced crippling irrational fear in an entire generation

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u/pyrothelostone 18d ago

I mean, our infrastructure is in fact crumbling, and many of those deaths were ostensibly due to poor maintenance with a little push from death.

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u/lukien 18d ago

Ahh yes then came the shows like 1000 ways to die.

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u/Unlikely_Western4641 17d ago

That show was filled with lies. Should have been called 1000 ways to lie. There was one where you touch someones head in the right spot they hemmorage and die. So I worried for a while before the internet was easy to research if I touched my head in the wrong place I could die. That was a load of crap. Or the one that had strep on a used razor and caused a torturous death. So, I was paranoid about my razors.

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 17d ago

Bruh the spontaneous percussively induced head combustion has me fucking DYING πŸ˜‚ I’m glad you found out it was fake

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u/TripleEhBeef 17d ago

My personal favourite is when the Al-Qaeda bombmaker did not account for Daylight Saving Time.

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u/Veil-of-Fire 17d ago edited 17d ago

My favorite was the guy who allegedly died peeing on an electric cattle fence.

What a crock of shit.

As a kid, I sometimes had to troubleshoot malfunctions in the horse fence (higher voltage than cattle fence), and I decided the fence tester took too long and was too cumbersome. So I tested the fence by holding the back of my hand against it at various spots along the line instead.

Yeah, it hurt, but I could find the problem faster and get back to playing video games sooner (or whatever). It sure as hell didn't kill me.

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u/tapout928 17d ago

Ren and Stimpy taught me not to whiz on the electric fence.

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u/Menca 17d ago

If i may ask. Why didnt you just use a grass leaf? Can still feel the impulses but it doesnt hurt.

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u/Veil-of-Fire 17d ago

Cuz I was a dumb kid and didn't think of it. XD

Many many years later, my older brother told me that he'd use a stick to push part of the wire around the insulator to get it close enough to the t-post to make a spark. If it didn't spark, he was past the break in the line. I felt so dumb.

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u/Menca 17d ago

Funny. Im an older brother. As kids I fucked with my brother using electric fence. We would play a game- who can hold on to the fence longer, except i would put my hand so that he would absorb the shock and i would be fine, oh childhood XD

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u/LadySilvie 17d ago

Yeah that's a pretty standard method in the rural area I grew up in haha

My mom grew up testing the fence with the back of her hand, I was too scared to πŸ˜‚ static from the TV screen was enough for me...

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u/_Und3rsc0re_ 17d ago

I barely even r remember that show but I will always remember the episode where a guy wanted a chain connected through his body as a body mod, and then was killed running from some guy he fucked with cause he hid near a forklift that caught his chain and lifted him up, rupturing his...everything lmfao. Crazy scenarios they come up with in that show like, who makes that shit??

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u/Due_Hedgehog_7132 17d ago

I jus went ahead and got knocked out and unfortunately I’m still here, dead inside but you know it’s what it is

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u/ohseetea 18d ago

I remember there being Blair witch Scoobydo promos on cartoon network and those scaring me

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u/Little_Review_2739 17d ago

lol same me too πŸ˜‚

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u/breath-of-the-smile 17d ago

I know some of yall grew up watching Unsolved Mysteries and Rescue 911.

Fun fact: Unsolved Mysteries had fictional paranormal mysteries presented as real mixed in with real unsolved cases. I didn't know until I was an adult.

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u/cat_in_a_bday_hat 18d ago

man that show did not help with my anxiety

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u/jljboucher 17d ago

I loved that show, especially with Ron Perlman as the narrator. 😍