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30 Funny Responses By Gullible People That Believed These ‘The Onion’ Articles Were Real
The term 'fake news' has been everywhere - especially on, well, the news. While platforms like Facebook are being forced to take steps to prevent the spread of false information, this does not prevent lazy people from being tricked by satire organizations like 'The Onion.'
'The Onion' is a satirical 'media outlet' that was created by Scott Dikkers in the late 1980s. In a speech at Marquette University in his home state of Wisconsin, Dikkers clarified that satire articles and fake news are completely different. "It's satire. It's totally different from fake news, and it bothers me when those fake news organizations are basically out there printing lies or propaganda label themselves satire." Fake or not the following list of people who allowed themselves to be misinformed by 'The Onion' shows just how little research people do when it comes to their news sources. "If 'The Onion' ever wrote a story that fooled people, that was an accident, and that was because they didn't know better," Dikkers said. Scroll down to see the stories that people somehow bought and their funny comments together. Don't forget to upvote your favs!
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Analyn Lahr 6 years ago
I need new glasses because when I first saw it, I thought it said "stripped of titties" .
rhyan lumilay 6 years ago
oh my your comment makes me scroll up again to check it.
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Daria B 6 years ago
But even if that were true... It would still require some insane tennis skills....
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
Venus plays with a third racquet in her mouth, so why hasn't she been punished, too?
SykesDaMan 6 years ago
I have a hard time believing THIS! This certainly must be someone trolling or joking and not someone who took this "article" at face value!
How does did a small-town satire newspaper grow into an online media presence that caused the lawyer of the U.S president to write an angry letter telling them to remove one of their fake articles? The company was founded by a group of University of Wisconsin students Tim Keck, Christopher Johnson, Scot Dikkers and Peter Haise 1988. "People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from", said former President Sean Mills in an interview with Wikinews; "and, when I recently asked (co-founder) Tim Keck, who was one of the founders, he told me...literally that his uncle said he should call it The Onion when he saw him and Chris Johnson eating an onion sandwich. They had literally just cut up the onion and put it on bread."
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OI Loi 6 years ago
Hasn't it been proven that you can put a false memory into someone's mind? Apparently this happened to them
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Emily Stander 6 years ago
I hope they survived all the narwhals down there... Those things are dangerous
danielw 6 years ago
positively viscious. Their favorite game is 'skewer the idiot'.
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When The Onion was in its early days it was just a popular publication among the universities in the area, primarily made-up of cartoons by Dikkers. They remained a small print publication until 1996 when one of their funny stories titled "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia" began circulating around the internet but without any attribution. Thus The Onion's official website the onion.com was born (largely so they could get Internet credit for their work).
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tuzdayschild 6 years ago
The movies portray hobbits as these sweet benevolent creatures. But I know from experience that they are vicious little monsters that bite. Only Gollum was portrayed accurately.
Bettye McKee 6 years ago
Is that some racist thing? It reeks of discrimination.
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In 1996 the owners of the publication got their first taste of celebrity when Janet Jackson threatened them with a lawsuit for an article titled "Dying Boy Gets Wish: To Pork Janet Jackson." This could have been the end for the white lies rag but as we know they have gone on to receive plenty more threats.
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Jill Pulcifer 6 years ago (edited)
My 11 year old actually saw this one, she came upstairs completely outraged, demanding we do something to stop someone from killing the poor girl. On one hand proud that my girl was like "oh heck no... MOOOMMM" but on the other... well, lets just say, when she was 6 I jokingly told her she blew her bottom away after she tooted and she burst into tears.. Seems like not a whole lot has changed.
Bettye McKee 6 years ago
How is the Subway hoax more disturbing than this one? The whole idea is to be so outlandish people will laugh. I know the terrorist attack is a trigger, but this one should be also for people who don't "get it."
The Onion website won its first Webby Award for "humor" in 1999 and in fall of 2000 the company had grown large enough to move its offices from Madison, Wisconsin to the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan, NYC. The company has continued to evolve and now is full on production company with video content.
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Smerv 6 years ago
"fun" fact: it was believed women were not humans and even Sigmund Freud claimed we had a penis envy
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earringnut 6 years ago
And way too many businesses. See bathtub tray post for one of my many sources.
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tarebear 6 years ago
Wait.... I was born without a penis also..... does that mean.....IM A FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chris Jones 6 years ago
"A boy without a winkle? God be praised" - that's for any Blackadder fans here.
pseudosapien 6 years ago
And all this time I thought I was the freak with this enormous growth between my legs... Okay, so it's a rather small growth but still...
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Nicky OldfieldDesciple 6 years ago
Even as a joke this one is not funny. People lost so much that day. What next? "Jokes" about the Holocaust?
Josie Jones 6 years ago
I don't see why the onion would get bad rep, the whole point is subway is a heartless company that would gladly capitalise on something so tragic
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
The very least they could do is make the twins look like twins. Come on Subway!
Dayyan Perkins 2 years ago
I love 911, this realy gets to my heart, such an emotional message being sent out. Happy September 11th!
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Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
This is why we need better education and courses in how to think critically.
Samhhain Cat 6 years ago
Keep voting Republican, America, and this is what you get. Education is their lowest priority.
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Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Since a few years primary schools in our country teach "Media Wisdom". Kids learn how to use search engines to find information but also how to check the credibility. Luckily there aren't too much sites in Dutch spreading misinformation or just plain lies. I guess it's much harder for kids in countries where English is spoken. They have to find their information while there are thousands of sites that deliberatly post false information.
Kryogen 6 years ago
na, some are using it for a different purpose "stare at the cucumber"
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Mae Mosse 6 years ago
Thing is so much money is wasted on stupid reports, tests etc that needn’t be done every year that it is possible that this could have been done. If you look up random facts on the internet, I mean anything that comes into your head, you’ll probably find that some research has been done on it! Money that could be spent on education, cancer research or any other damn thing that is actually needed!!
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Symbole Simple 6 years ago
This guy should be in jail, right? Oh wait, never mind, there is a statute of limitations!
Catlady6000 6 years ago
Wouldn't it be freaky if there is an envelope with his will, to be opened after his death, and that envelope contains conclusive evidence!?
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danielw 6 years ago
"MINE IS AN EVIL LAUGH. HAHAHAHA" "OH DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN!"
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Christina Sersif 6 years ago
They all thought the meteor was just watching over them all until it wasn't
PolarPunk 6 years ago
Hypothetically what if the dinosaurs had a religion where they worship the comet until it's second coming? "The end is near, repent your sins or we'll all die!"-Pterydactal before the comet hit
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Symbole Simple 6 years ago
Oh well, some things never change no matter the era! You get betrayed by the ones closest to you! Very sad!
Emma Utterback 6 years ago
You know how those cartoon characters will go back in time to "learn about dinosaurs"? The internet was right. They are all murderers after all.
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
They were only 200 yards from their front door, as well. Poor bastards. Whoever did this is ironically more cold-blooded than the dinosaurs themselves.
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Άρης Παπαδόπουλος 6 years ago
Sad thing is that recently something like this happened in Greece. People who were evacuated from a fire, were directed towards a worse one.
Cute_Angel 6 years ago
It keeps them away from the parts that are going to be affected later..
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 6 years ago
Take people to the eye of the storm and hide in plain sight. The storm would never expect that.
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Char Char 6 years ago
"snickering researcher" made me snicker uncontrollably
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Kjorn 6 years ago (edited)
you'd be surprise what people do… beware, the video in this page is disgusting but dont have to Watch it… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5848945/Woman-claims-drinking-dogs-URINE-helped-clear-acne-horrifying-video.html
Bored Fox 6 years ago
I also remember that woman. There are also plenty of other people around the world who think that drinking urine or using urine to your skin is healthy and they call it 'urine therapy'. Usually they use their own pee put some people use the pee of the other people or their pets. :D
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Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
I don't trust researchers who snicker. Cackling or up, or they're a waste of my time.
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Chancey 6 years ago
This one actually made me laugh out loud in the doctor's office and people turned around and looked at me!
M.A.D. 6 years ago
I lost it when I saw the falling bear on the far right side! XD
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comboplush 6 years ago
Love the detail of the one tumbling off the ice berg on the right side.
sanjay ramrakhyani 6 years ago
This might happen in next 10 years if we dont kill them all sooner
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Viviane Katz 6 years ago
I don't see the problem. The hand drill and the knife are safely out of reach of the kids in the space ship.
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OI Loi 6 years ago
I wouldn't. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't SeaWorld inject their animals with something to make them behave better. Like I said, please correct me if I'm wrong because I heard this information from PETA and you know how they are
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not a scene 6 years ago (edited)
*valley girl voice* here i am composing a burlesque *growly voice* OUT IF WHERE THEY REST THEIR NECKS (alternatively: somewhere downtown with a burlesque queen, they even asked my name)
FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago
That costume is ridiculous though. If I were wearing this even as a human I'd mutilate anybody who dare forced it onto me.
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Daria B 6 years ago
Errr... The Bible teaches Jesus resurrected, actually... And flew away back to his planet. We can be with him only if we pass the test. Then we will be granted a visa to his kingdom.
Pungent Sauce 6 years ago
When debunking things as “Completely ridiculous”, I find King James’s Big Book of Fairy Tales to be an -excellent- reference tool....
Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
LOL... yep. :) The Bible is true because the Bible says it's true!
Load More Replies... Bettye McKee 6 years ago
Bored Panda, get your stuff together. When I post a reply, you add it all through the comments. Then when I delete them, it looks like I've withdrawn a comment!
Master Markus 6 years ago
I mean, yeah, in the mythology, angels AREN'T dead people, despite popular opinion, but they still don't exist just... on principle. It's weird when you have to correct Christians on their own mythology, so at least some of them know it.
Dora Bedpan 6 years ago
Nowhere does the Bible say you're allowed to go to the bathroom: I guess we're all born to sin...
Bored Fox 6 years ago (edited)
here in Finland we have one Christian group who think that watching TV and movies is a sin because TV and movies are not mentioned in the Bible. But they still think that smoking tobacco is OK and those people smoke very much because alcohol and other drugs are not allowed for them. :D And they know that tobacco is not mentioned in the Bible.
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Kirsten Lockwood 6 years ago
Idk what y’all are talking about. When we die, we go to heaven. No test has to be taken, we just go. That’s if your a good person...
Kylee Alligood 6 years ago
You are right about no test, but God will judge you based on if you gave your heart to him or not. Good deeds will not save you.
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Nick Sady 6 years ago
People person, outgoing personality, cheery outlook, strong communication skills...
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tuzdayschild 6 years ago
Airline attendants will then inform them that planes sometimes crash.
Christina Sersif 6 years ago
I work in a call center and have to make outbound calls...I started laughing mid voicemail..sorry to the customer who had to hear that lol
Moe Less 6 years ago
I wonder why almost nobody with a uniform shirt knows that is the WRONG way to carry the pen... Well, it IS the TSA.
Bettye McKee 6 years ago
You are so right. It should be stuck behind his ear at all times. No exceptions.
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Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
Don't give Beijing any ideas... they might just make that a public holiday... XD
Daniel Tinelli 6 years ago
I was gonna say...this one isn't that far off.
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Symbole Simple 6 years ago
Well, I say Impressive! He managed to hold up for 4 years !!! There should definitely exists a Guinness Record for this feat!
danielw 6 years ago
Given the wide assortment of weapons at our disposal, this guy was an idiot if it really took him four years to off one gorilla. Why one wants to off a gorilla I don't know... but it's not like they've got nukes.
Load More Replies... Viviane Katz 6 years ago
He did swing by, yes. Oh c**p, am I going to Hell for writing that??
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Blue Cicada 6 years ago
4 years--not in constant 1:1 fighting daily. It was more of a neighbor-from-hell situation. They would also lay in hiding and ambush each other. You know, guerrilla warfare.
Nick Sady 6 years ago
How does someone believe one can engage in combat with a primate for almost half a decade? This is why I hate people. One of the reasons. Many reasons. More now.
Viviane Katz 6 years ago
He did okay spanking the monkey for decades. Then he got ambitious...
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Jasmine Walker 6 years ago
Zelda kept up a 100 year old fight with Ganon and you don't see HER making the news, ijs..
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Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
Maybe it wasn't a hot iron but tattoo needles. Some horses are into that kind of thing. Read 50 Shades of Neigh.
John Louis 6 years ago
Paul K. Johnson's comment on 50 shades of Neigh may be the wittiest comment in the history of Boredpanda
Blue Cicada 6 years ago
Meta! The iron horse advertising itself with its logo of a horse on the side of a horse!
Load More Replies... FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago
People actually did brand their horses back in the wild west. He's not wrong about it being cruel, though!
Grumble O'Pug 6 years ago
Branding goes on today in Europe: Warmblood breeds brand using a freeze branding technique. Some ranches out west do brand horses, but it's less frequent.
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Heaven Scott 6 years ago
i have a horse......you just put a stencil on them then take a brush and brush downwards. https://www.thesprucepets.com/decorate-a-horse-1886821
Honesty Olishia 6 years ago
Or you can shave their hair into a pattern. I've seen it done before where instead of just doing a regular saddle clip they do something cool and unique.
Load More Replies... LOttawa 6 years ago
A Ford Mustang, Dodge Colt or Hyundai Pony logo would have been ironic and funny.
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Ben Steinberg 6 years ago
I find it pretty funny that this is the "ugliest" thing they have ever read. Really? All that hate and violence in the world and a comment about masturbation curdles your milk?
Symbole Simple 6 years ago
It's pretty obvious you've never been on a long road trip with hormonal pre teens in the back seat!
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Bettye McKee 6 years ago
Yes, but there's only two of them. It was basically a toothless attack.
Load More Replies... Viviane Katz 6 years ago
Chip had become such an a*****e when he let fame get to his head. He bit a little kid for calling him "Dale". Mickey, Dale and Thumper were the only ones who showed up at his burial, and that was just so they could chew on the casket. Otherwise, it would have been a complete waste of a cardboard box.
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Symbole Simple 6 years ago
Does hating dumb people who believe this group exists is a requirement enough to be part of the group !? I wanna join!
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
Noo, I love that they believe that all faiths can work successfully together for a common aim. That's a lot more optimistic than many people.
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Zenozenobee 6 years ago
Yep, if any Lord could help us, that would be nice. Those people believing everything they read on Internet are likely to have the right to vote...
Analyn Lahr 6 years ago
A group like that would never get off the ground. All the members would kill each other.
danielw 6 years ago
is it bad if i feel like this is a great reason to help found (but not join) the group? I mean, the greater good for the greatest number of people.... all that.
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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 6 years ago
She should have been paid more, there's even a red arrow pointing directly at her, threatening her life!
Jasmine Walker 6 years ago
Would that text imply that she was also getting paid 10 million? The extra? Is that a thing? Coz I can scream SO much louder than her.
Honesty Olishia 6 years ago
No it wouldn't. She's an extra with no lines. In this case, gender is irrelevant because Pratt is the star of the movie with tons of lines and action sequences, while she is simply a crowd filler.
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Calypso poet 6 years ago
Last year I watched a horror movie on Netflix from 2016 called The Windmill. It was a great terrible movie. Which came first, the onion or the movie?
FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago
Well, it could be something life endangering as you could DIE from boredom!
Viviane Katz 6 years ago
My husband went and he lost a few fingers when he raised his hand too close to the blades. :(
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Jasmine Walker 6 years ago
Ooh-Palmela Handerson!! Even better!! Too bad I can't delete mah first post, now you can see how much of an idiot I am!
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Christina Sersif 6 years ago
I'm going to use Wikipedia as a source on an Onion article. Oh irony
tarebear 6 years ago
I'm REALLY hoping that maybe they were trying to demonstrate the absurd by being absurd but that may be giving too much credit to people....
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Lars Lasersson 6 years ago
Well you've got to hand it to this commenter, he/she not only reported their suspicions, but actually made an effort to give others correct info!
Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
There is a sad truth related to this. I have refused to buy cola-cola produts for maybe 6-7 years now. This story is just a drop in the bucket: "Coca-Cola sucking wells dry in indigenous Mexican town - forcing residents to buy bottled water" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coca-cola-mexico-wells-dry-bottled-water-sucking-san-felipe-ecatepec-chiapas-a7953026.html. Really, there are just too many people -- that's the real problem.
WillemPenn 6 years ago
Yeah, I had the same thought. Too close to the truth. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/31/17377964/coca-cola-water-sustainability-recycling-controversy-investigation
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Broken Bay 6 years ago
The people who call the Onion out for being fake news are the funniest, because they're smart enough to know that not all news is real, but they're not familiar with satire.
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Todd Chesser 6 years ago
I love how this person complains about the police convicting and sentencing... I mean, considering they do neither of those things. Ever.
Daniel Tinelli 6 years ago (edited)
Look, if they are innocent at least let them take longer showers, or something. Something to make it worthwhile.
Catlady6000 6 years ago
Ummm, hey, it's not the. Police who do the actual convicting and sentencing. Just, FYI:)
danielw 6 years ago
People are going to downvote me, but whatever. My personal opinion on capitol punishment is, given that given adequate opportunity to appeal, that there's no reason to believe it was a show-trial, and on the assumption that the individual is being locked away for the rest of their life with no chance of bail or parole or leaving, then that lifetime sentence is the same as a death sentence. (your holding them until they die either way. their life, as it existed prior to the conviction is over.
Load More Replies... Bettye McKee 6 years ago
Hey, they had a fair trial. Are you saying they deserve something MORE?
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Symbole Simple 6 years ago
How would you like to be a local and not being able to enjoy rides because of too many people !?
Bettye McKee 6 years ago
That sounds fair (no pun intended). Out-of-staters are hogging the best parking spots and the long lines are just spoiling all the fun. But I hope you have a crew to remove the bodies quickly so the locals aren't tripping over them.
sh 6 years ago
This is being a Floridian at the beach. Hogging on the parking spots, long lines, and all the other fun stuff that comes with flocks of people migrating to your home state.
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BRIANNA SHANNON 6 years ago
If they wanted this to be mmore believable make it the texas state fair
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danielw 6 years ago
we should find some island, somewhere, and export all the morons of the world to that island. Unfortunately, the only 'Island' I could think of that'd work, geopolitically is Antarctica, and lets be honest... we don't want to impose our idiots on the penguins.
Load More Replies... WillemPenn 6 years ago
Why just BLACK sociopaths?! ALL sociopaths matter, Becky! White (collar) Lives Matter!
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Barkleaf 6 years ago (edited)
Thousands of donkeys rampaged through Iowa later that night. Destroying crops and homes.
Bettye McKee 6 years ago
And no one could sleep with all that braying. Even those who marked their doors had a sleepless night.
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Reilly Beryll 6 years ago
I send a pestilence and plague into your house, into your bed...
Load More Replies... Symbole Simple 6 years ago
How did she not win in Iowa then!? I doubt Trump supporters went through the hassle!
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Devin Robinson 6 years ago
Study finds that internet users prefer to laugh at other people's stupidity other than coming to terms with their mortality
fruit_panda 6 years ago
Devin, my man, why did you have to bring us all down like this? :P
Load More Replies... Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
While all the reactions to the jokes prove how gullible a lot of people are, the comments also paint a picture of narrowminded uninformed people that will believe anything. No wonder the Anti-Science groups do so well.
Sandy 6 years ago
This is exactly why i left Facebook. Fed up of the constant eye-rolling at the sheer stupidity of people i know.
Christina Sersif 6 years ago
I find it's usually the baby boomers who would believe this nonsense
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SykesDaMan 6 years ago
The few times I tried to read the Onion, the articles were not that funny! These ones seem hilarious and I want to read most of them!
JerryWayne A 6 years ago
The main stream media gets most of their information from The Onion. It's TRUE!
Vincent Jay 6 years ago
I was laughing my katunkas off while reading all of these items. I'm gonna make it a point to look at the Onion on a daily basis.
Kiss Army 6 years ago
My parents came over to visit once and my dad picked up a print copy of "The Onion" and started reading. My husband and I didn't say anything and just started watching him... the looks that went across his face were hilarious. We finally bust out laughing and had to tell him the truth...
April Simnel 6 years ago
I still have my copy of issue #3 from when I was at uni in Madison. The headline was to promote a "new board game" called Drunk, Backstabbing Sorority Girls. You had to paste the game, which was two pages in the middle section of the issue, to cardboard and use your own dice. I have it in a plastic sleeve now. Almost all the articles had to do with making fun of stuff on campus back then, and the bottom of most pages were coupons for local shops, but they were only good if you had your UW student ID (and it was recent).
Devin Robinson 6 years ago
Study finds that internet users prefer to laugh at other people's stupidity other than coming to terms with their mortality
fruit_panda 6 years ago
Devin, my man, why did you have to bring us all down like this? :P
Load More Replies... Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
While all the reactions to the jokes prove how gullible a lot of people are, the comments also paint a picture of narrowminded uninformed people that will believe anything. No wonder the Anti-Science groups do so well.
Sandy 6 years ago
This is exactly why i left Facebook. Fed up of the constant eye-rolling at the sheer stupidity of people i know.
Christina Sersif 6 years ago
I find it's usually the baby boomers who would believe this nonsense
Load More Replies... SykesDaMan 6 years ago
The few times I tried to read the Onion, the articles were not that funny! These ones seem hilarious and I want to read most of them!
JerryWayne A 6 years ago
The main stream media gets most of their information from The Onion. It's TRUE!
Vincent Jay 6 years ago
I was laughing my katunkas off while reading all of these items. I'm gonna make it a point to look at the Onion on a daily basis.
Kiss Army 6 years ago
My parents came over to visit once and my dad picked up a print copy of "The Onion" and started reading. My husband and I didn't say anything and just started watching him... the looks that went across his face were hilarious. We finally bust out laughing and had to tell him the truth...
April Simnel 6 years ago
I still have my copy of issue #3 from when I was at uni in Madison. The headline was to promote a "new board game" called Drunk, Backstabbing Sorority Girls. You had to paste the game, which was two pages in the middle section of the issue, to cardboard and use your own dice. I have it in a plastic sleeve now. Almost all the articles had to do with making fun of stuff on campus back then, and the bottom of most pages were coupons for local shops, but they were only good if you had your UW student ID (and it was recent).
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