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My elementary/middle school had a rumor that a guy died when they were building it. The staircase that went to the second floor went into a sort of spiral that lead to the basement level. So the story was that one of the builders fell from the top before the railings were installed. Everyone accepted it as truth, even some of the teachers. It's probably bullshit. During a school dance some kids went to use the bathroom and supposedly they heard and saw a ghost moving around the staircase. They also showed me a picture they took in the gym where the dances were held and it had a weird streak going across the image which they said was totally a ghost! It was clearly just a lovely picture that was taken with a disposable camera, but they seemed to believe it was proof of the paranormal. That's the only urban legend I remember about my school. One of my friends did try to start one by telling a younger kid about a guy called The Pipe Man who wandered into a big opening in the air ducts as a toddler and became trapped after they put the grate on it. He grew up and became some kind of monster form being stuck in there his whole life. I don't think it caught on.
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Sponge Baathist posted:My school had it backwards and the rumor was that Rod Stewart had 15 gallons of cum pumped into his stomach by Cher on stage. I prefer to think that she snowballed him to give him a stomachful.
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Jul 2, 2019 07:39
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homeless guy posted:the 2016 clown rumors was viral marketing for the new IT movie If it was viral marketing no one confessed to starting it. I would have thought someone would have been able to show proof that it was a marketing stunt. The urban legend of evil clowns dates back to the eighties or earlier.
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Jul 2, 2019 08:22
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Some idiot 15 year old was doing the scary clown thing near the middle school I teach at, terrorizing our kids. Our principal and head of security actually drove out after school and caught the kid. Police were called and he got a stern talking to. Probably scared the poo poo out of him because when I was teaching this kid years earlier he was a loving dorky memelord who ate lunch alone.
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Jul 2, 2019 08:27
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DocBubonic posted:The urban legend of evil clowns dates back to the eighties or earlier. Must have been a thing at least since John Wayne Gacy was arrested in 1978.
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Jul 2, 2019 09:23
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The 2016 Creepy Clown scare was wild: clowns were reportedly sighted all over the US and sporadically throughout Europe, Australia and parts of Asia, shops stopped selling clown costumes, clown warnings were phoned in to schools, police stations issued official warnings, several people got arrested for clown-related activities, actual clowns were doing media interviews complaining about how clowns were getting their reputations dragged through the mud .... There were a ton of viral Youtube videos as well which exacerbated the whole situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_clown_sightings
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Jul 2, 2019 13:01
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A guy I know was going to dress up as a clown for Halloween 2016. After plenty of "anti clown sentiment" he dressed as the guy from Scream instead. He made a long rambling Facebook post how people going around beating up clowns was akin to gay bashing and lynchings. There hadn't been any incident of clown related violence in a hundred mile radius of where we live.
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Jul 2, 2019 15:19
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I'd love to start 2019 version of clown sightings. Let's do it, goons. I have no good ideas though. Maybe horse mask sightings? Guy Fieri sightings? Potatoe O Dyin?
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Jul 2, 2019 16:03
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:I'd love to start 2019 version of clown sightings. Let's do it, goons. Is Slenderman still scary?
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Jul 2, 2019 16:05
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Iron Crowned posted:Is Slenderman still scary? There are these creepy nonverbal twins in the first grade who draw extremely detailed pictures of Slenderman on everything, despite the fact that they can't say a sentence what are their parents loving doing
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Jul 2, 2019 17:13
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:There are these creepy nonverbal twins in the first grade who draw extremely detailed pictures of Slenderman on everything, despite the fact that they can't say a sentence what are their parents loving doing The parents are goons.
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Jul 2, 2019 17:39
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CPL593H posted:The parents are goons. yeah, but not in the way you mean
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Jul 2, 2019 18:13
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:There are these creepy nonverbal twins in the first grade who draw extremely detailed pictures of Slenderman on everything, despite the fact that they can't say a sentence what are their parents loving doing Making homegrown serial killers, I assume.
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Jul 2, 2019 19:01
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:Making homegrown serial killers, I assume. they ARE overzealous huggers...
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Jul 2, 2019 19:19
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i’m guessing in the near future we’re going to have the BABY SHARK massacres
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Jul 2, 2019 19:50
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:There are these creepy nonverbal twins in the first grade who draw extremely detailed pictures of Slenderman on everything, despite the fact that they can't say a sentence what are their parents loving doing I assume they're being raised on a steady diet of YouTube whenever they're not at school.
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Jul 3, 2019 00:44
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I'm not reading 13 pages. Every teacher in elementary school all had a story about trying to push a kids brains back in when they cracked their skull open from leaning back in a chair. My fourth grade teacher had a student who cut her stomach open because she would chew her nails and swallow them. But she also chewed gum in class and swallowed it whenever she got caught. And since gum doesn't dissolve it grew into a giant ball of gum and fingernails and it cut her open and she died.
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Jul 3, 2019 02:19
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bartok posted:The original Ultimate Warrior died because his heart exploded from snorting too much cocaine and he was replaced by the "Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich. The version of this that I heard was that Kerry Von Erich replaced him because the Ultimate Warrior walked out. The Ultimate Warrior walked out because he was sexually assaulted by the Macho Man Randy Savage. Sexual assault was explained to me as "taping a knife to your boner, and then if the other guy tries to stop the knife he's wide open for punches. If he blocks the punches you can cut him with the knife."
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Jul 3, 2019 02:26
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Defiance Industries posted:The version of this that I heard was that Kerry Von Erich replaced him because the Ultimate Warrior walked out. You’d think someone would have noticed that warrior suddenly didn’t have a foot
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Jul 3, 2019 02:38
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Len posted:I'm not reading 13 pages. Every teacher in elementary school all had a story about trying to push a kids brains back in when they cracked their skull open from leaning back in a chair. What the gently caress kind of school did you go to?
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Jul 3, 2019 02:46
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Faces of Death 4 Elementary
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Jul 3, 2019 02:49
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Aesop Poprock posted:Faces of Death 4 Elementary Man, we watched all those movies as kids thinking they were all real.
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Jul 3, 2019 04:08
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Defiance Industries posted:Sexual assault was explained to me as "taping a knife to your boner, and then if the other guy tries to stop the knife he's wide open for punches. If he blocks the punches you can cut him with the knife." Well I never thought I'd say this, but that is some awesome sexual assault.
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Jul 3, 2019 04:16
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Len posted:I'm not reading 13 pages. Every teacher in elementary school all had a story about trying to push a kids brains back in when they cracked their skull open from leaning back in a chair. New kid had run head first into a metal beam in the gym, splitting his head. Then he fell to the concrete floor, making the split open. The principal was literally holding his head shut and was walking him down the halls to keep him conscious while waiting for the ambulance to show up. Kid made a full recovery!
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Jul 3, 2019 04:31
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CPL593H posted:What the gently caress kind of school did you go to? One where they teach you medical horror stories, but not how to persevere through the onerous task of reading thirteen pages.
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Jul 3, 2019 05:12
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I just tell my students that if they hurt themselves doing something stupid, I'm legally required to laugh at them before rendering aid. And since cameras are now nearly ubiquitous, the Ed Code has been changed to require photo/video documentation of the stupidity and posting somewhere as a warning, preferably on YouTube. I think a significant portion of my students believe me.
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Jul 3, 2019 06:44
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Genesplicer posted:I just tell my students that if they hurt themselves doing something stupid, I'm legally required to laugh at them before rendering aid. And since cameras are now nearly ubiquitous, the Ed Code has been changed to require photo/video documentation of the stupidity and posting somewhere as a warning, preferably on YouTube. Boy I bet you wish that applied to the forums!!
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Jul 3, 2019 07:15
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Iron Crowned posted:Is Slenderman still scary? Slenderman has percolated down to the primary school/daycare level of horror. My seven- and five-year-old kids talk about him like some generic boogeyman.
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Jul 3, 2019 08:05
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Groke posted:Slenderman has percolated down to the primary school/daycare level of horror. My seven- and five-year-old kids talk about him like some generic boogeyman. I still can't believe that an interesting post from a throw away photoshop thread somehow became a pop culture icon that everyone from little kids to 60-somethings are aware of.
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Jul 3, 2019 08:23
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Defiance Industries posted:Sexual assault was explained to me as "taping a knife to your boner, and then if the other guy tries to stop the knife he's wide open for punches. If he blocks the punches you can cut him with the knife."
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Jul 3, 2019 10:09
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nankeen posted:also there was a secret courtyard, that turned out to be true, one of my friends was a climber and he broke into it via the roof. it was literally just a walled-in square of concrete with nothing in it but dammit we were thrilled and chilled I heard another kid found it a few years later but he didn't tell anyone when he dropped down and he died down there
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Jul 3, 2019 10:44
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Yeah, I assumed that all the clown sightings were marketing for the new IT movie that was coming out. There was a story/rumour/whatever that "that guy" from the 1980s/90s band Sven Gali went to my high school. I have no idea which member, only that it was "that guy from Sven Gali".
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I just remembered this one. I grew up in a area that was like half white/half Mexican. The white kids spread a rumor that someone died from Mexican candy, which was of course abundant at our school.
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Jul 6, 2019 22:58
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Just remembered a couple. Burt Ward (Robin on the 60s Batman) ended up doing gay porn after Batman because he couldn't get any other acting work. On a related note, straight male porn actors had to do gay porn before they would be allowed to do straight porn.
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Jul 8, 2019 05:27
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Just remembered a couple. The funny thing is that a lot of straight porn studios won't take guys who made gay videos.
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Jul 8, 2019 05:44
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Burt Ward (Robin on the 60s Batman) ended up doing gay porn after Batman because he couldn't get any other acting work. He and West were banging their way through the roster of hot extras and guest stars.
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Jul 8, 2019 17:10
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Milo and POTUS posted:I heard another kid found it a few years later but he didn't tell anyone when he dropped down and he died down there Fun fact: Those useless courtyards in the middle of a building were a pre-air-conditioning form of air conditioning. Basically the hot air will be pushing itself out of the top of that courtyard, pulling cooler air inside the building from the exterior windows.
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Jul 8, 2019 18:05
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Iron Crowned posted:Fun fact: Those useless courtyards in the middle of a building were a pre-air-conditioning form of air conditioning. Basically the hot air will be pushing itself out of the top of that courtyard, pulling cooler air inside the building from the exterior windows.  i never knew that and it's oddly fascinating
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Iron Crowned posted:Fun fact: Those useless courtyards in the middle of a building were a pre-air-conditioning form of air conditioning. Basically the hot air will be pushing itself out of the top of that courtyard, pulling cooler air inside the building from the exterior windows. drat, my building has those but the property owner had the top openings covered
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Kazak posted:drat, my building has those but the property owner had the top openings covered We've had air conditioning for a good 60-70 years now, and once you could just install an air conditioner, no one cared about building around more natural methods of keeping a building cool anymore.
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