HelaSisterOfThor
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May 22, 2017 2:59 PM
HelaSisterOfThor
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LeadByBadExample
Nope. Because my parents aren't fucking idiots.
FrostytheSnowcolt
Yeah, listen to CNN instead. /s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcATG9Qy_A
HAHA5555
she did ...
DeathsDeathOfRats
My mum has discovered you tube. It hasn't gone well.
Virunuss
This shit is the reason I can't recover my accounts from anything before like 2006. All fake info used as a kid.
Canofwhupass
Did internet exist enough for parents to warn about it in 1996?
giveusalol
Last month my folks visited, we discussed fake news and I taught them how to check their sources!
fyaycr
"Avocado cures cancer"
Icomeheretoprocrastinate
As a Mexican without cancer, can confirm.
magratheaistic
Lol
exlurker42
Funny, my folks taught me to question and fact check rather than screaming absolutes at me.
LegitReason
You got good parents.
ZJbrandon
AOL, Yahoo Messenger and AltaVista led us to this!
Arsikere
remember AOL chatrooms and how alarmingly vulgar they were? now we have 4chan
ZJbrandon
mostly i recall yahoo msg rooms, and every first encounter was this: "ASL?", or "got pic"
Arsikere
LOL... ah yes. good times
TechnicalDrift
This is what happens when older generations were never taught how to do internet research.
HelaSisterOfThor
My mom told me the other day my son's asthma flair up was something called thunder asthma. His doc was like wtf?
monkeymuffins
http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/thunderstorm-asthma-the-night-a-deadly-storm-took-melbournes-breath-away-20170308-gut8ur.html
HelaSisterOfThor
All from what she saw on FB. I googled it and came up with nothing.
monkeymuffins
We had a bunch of people in Melbourne, Australia die one night last year because of thunderstorm asthma...
monkeymuffins
The public reaction was pretty incredulous because people weren't aware of it, even some medical professionals. But nine people died. :(
buttsextrex
this is almost better than the one that was basically, 2000 don't talk to anyone on internet or get in the car with strangers..2015 Uber.
Diddyu
But uber has candy!
StonerCatJay
I mean, to be fair they have a rating/review system and it's not like people never took taxis before.
ThisIsALovelyRoomOfDeath
"Literally summon strangers from the internet to get into their car"
buttsextrex
Yeah, I didn't remember the exact wording/have enough characters to type it all
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buttsextrex
But you're ruining my joke..
rshackleford
I also rly like the rating system. Somehow everyone has 4+ stars though
SaintMaceToTheFace
They fire those who do t
SaintMaceToTheFace
Don't maintain high ratings
ddrfr33k
Having witnessed both eras, can confirm.
Arsikere
same
MrPredator
*nods* I want Darwin to rise from the grave and bitch-slap some sense into people.
Arsikere
typically that means said people are dead.
taco1910
So like a new plague, because I'm all for that
Arsikere
word
MrPredator
I'm all for a new plague after seeing some SJW videos on youtube. It just... I have no words that help me fathom this stupidity.
lastminutepanicmode
StonerCatJay
I'll mention something to my mom that I read online and check various sources about and she'll tell me not to tryst everything I read. Mean-
StonerCatJay
(2) while she believes basically everything and warns us about how people are doing shit like leaving AIDS infected needles on gas pump
StonerCatJay
(3) handles. Takes 5 seconds to look it up and see that most of what she says was either a proven hoax or happened once or twice halfway
StonerCatJay
(4) across the country