Not exactly a story, but a picture thread on Reddit where a guy posts a photo of his tattoos on his arms, and someone goes “how did you take this picture”, so he posts a selfie showing him balancing a phone on his shoulder, and someone replies “wait how did you take that picture” and then he posts a photo of him taking a photo of him taking a photo… and this continues until he reveals multiple complex camera setups. Such a legendary thread.
Edit: here it is: https://imgur.com/gallery/JThDN
I remember that one!
That hall of fame Reddit thread where a guy announced he will try heroin just one time, then comes back to explain how the experience was and how he will try again. Over the course of many posts we see persons entire life unravel as other posters scream of the top of their lungs for him to stop.
Never figured if it was real or scripted, but hella effective.
As a recovering heroin addict, I wholeheartedly believe his story. His later stories contained some region-specific drug slang and his post-recovery updates were the perfect amount of mundane and specific for me to recognize exactly the same feelings in myself.
Side note: if you’re watching a movie or TV show, one thing that non-junkie writers never get right is withdrawal. They often show characters skipping withdrawal entirely, or show them mildly sick but still moving through the story without any real issues. Worst case, they’ll show a character being sick and then totally fine after a short time. Huge pet peeve of mine. Really undersells the catch-22 you find yourself in when using heroin.
What withdrawal is actually like is pure, unadulterated misery and suffering for two weeks at minimum, followed by months or even a year of exhaustion, depression, suicidal thoughts, restlessness, and feeling like everything is weird and new. It feels like you’re a reptile that just shed its skin and everything is raw including your emotions and thoughts. Those first two weeks are just nonstop puking, shaking, sweating, an uncontrollable urge to kick and jerk your body, total insomnia, scary and suicidal thoughts, full body aches and pains, and enough self-loathing to last a thousand years.
I made it three months cold turkey once before relapsing. Fucking never again. I honestly don’t know how people quit dope before modern medications like Buprenorphine and Methadone.
Feeling like you want to break the cycle of addiction but knowing you can’t get through the withdrawal is an incredibly scary and traumatic experience.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Yeah. That was an interesting read.
Have you watched Euphoria? I’ve never had experience with drugs like that but I feel it’s got representation of addiction and withdrawals. Some recovering addicts say it spoke to them and others say they can’t watch it because it’s too triggering, so I’d totally understand if you haven’t seen it. The special Rue episode in between the two seasons is spectacular at showing a recovering addict trying to talk sense into a struggling one.
Oh yea. /u/SpontaneousH was the account. I think about that story every time I read or hear something about Heroin. Even if it’d be fake, this story influenced my view of heroine more than any movie, video or article about it.
And in the posts continuing, he says, “no I’m not addicted. I can stop whenever I want”
I recall he disappeared for Multiple years and then came back saying he became a junk, had been in addiction clinics and was finally clean after years.
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The body builder forum that forgot how many days are in a week:
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751&page=1
Gold.
The fact alone that it goes on for 5 pages!! Dudes could have used the time training lol
I was scrolling, amazed by the ongoing discussion - just to see this has only been page 1/5. Easter egg.
One of my absolute favorite videos of his!
Has to be trolling
Maybe by the end, but I imagine many body builders start building their body because their math isn’t the best.
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools” -Thucydides
America has prioritized strength over intellect for about a century now. It’s not going great.
I think that’s unfair tbh
What the fuck did I just witness.
This is awesome.
Fucking hell 😂
Once on Reddit I read of someone who grew up in a house where they had a poop knife as part of their standard toilet tool set.
This person once found themselves asking for a poop knife elsewhere, casually, like anyone would ask for toilet paper.
I think a commenter called it “the Mashitty” in the replies, which I found hilarious. That story and comment will forever be remembered.
Hell yea the poop knife. His family had one because their shits would block toilets. He thought it was a normal thing to require and have a poop knife but after going to a friend’s house and asking for it, he discovered that it was indeed (Samuel L. Jackson voice) not a normal thing to possess.
Jeez! Terrifying. Sounds like something from It’s Always Sunny!
This one never struck me as real enough to be exciting. Felt too obviously made up.
It’s a real thing. (At least it says so on the packaging.)
It’s a real thing in the sense that someone ran with the hype, but I don’t think the original story was true, myself.
The story of how a woman lost her daughter because the grandmother didn’t believe that the girl’s coconut allergy was real, despite years of watching the parents trying to find out the allergen so that they could stop the girl from winding up in the emergency room. The grandmother kept the kid overnight and used coconut oil on her hair; the child went into anaphylaxis and died.
The mother said that the grandmother begs her to see her other grandchildren, as they’ve now cut ties with her; the mom’s response was, “You can come over when you bring my daughter with you.”
A horrible story of how some people just believe they know better than everyone, including doctors.
Omg that is so sad
I have legitimate fears of letting my fiance’s crazy conservative parents ever have our kids alone. To this day her dad will come out of nowhere with a 10 minute prepared speech about how covid isn’t real, which is always followed by the entire family being silent and wondering to ourselves, “who the fuck even asked you anything at all?”
Sounds like that old woman never gave up on her dream of qualifying for a Darwin Award.
I put on my robe and wizard hat
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Oh, how sad. Another part of internet history gone
It’s where I first learned that the computer will automatically block your password with ******
hunter2
Edit: why does it not turn into asterisks for me?
I see *******
It just turns it into asterisks for other users. That’s why while you see hunter2, all I see is *******.
Oh man, that sucks. I used to kill time there when we went over our family’s data cap for the month because it was the only place that would load
There are several, but one that kind of haunts my mind is the story from the guy who experienced another life in a blackout and had it all torn apart by that fucking lamp.
Omg! I’m still thinking about that fucking lamp and that reality is just shaped by what we perceive and relay to our minds.
Link? Haven’t heard of this one
Dude got Inner Lighted
“Today you. Tomorrow me.”
This is the one I came to say.
I love this story, wish I still had the link.
The IT department greentext who kept doing nothing and installing Adobe Reader constantly
Was that the one with Google Ultron?
Yes
I think about the jitterbug crew regularly
SR-71 Speed Check
Remember hearing it the first time. There’s a recording here.
This is the best one ever. I had forgotten about it and am literally laughing out loud
The gynecologist who always cut her patient’s IUD strings super short because too many abusive partners were ripping them out.
WTF
Whoa, I had no idea that was a thing. Horrific!
Can we get a link on that?
Sadly no, it was from an old reddit thread I remember a couple years ago
I love this one
The swamps of Dagobah.
Came here to say this.
The guy with the scat fetish that disappeared the moment his wish started to come true
LOL.
I suspect a creative writing course student, but in the internet you never know.
… wut
I think this was it https://reddit.com/r/confessions/s/cJFm6eRXMi (it’s not for a weak heart)
Jesus, Mary and Joseph that poor guy.
I’ve had some “thought I was into this” moments in my life, but thankfully I’ve always started small and worked my way up. Well, with one exception. That was rough. But never anything like that. My God.