• Jerkface@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It took me reading this comment to appreciate how out of the ordinary this must sound to someone not from here.

      • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I’m not from the US and to be honest, it still sounds like something “normal”. That’s not a rumor. That’s just something that happened. A rumor is more like “I heard our ethics teacher has a wooden foot and that is because she got stuck in a bear trap when scaring off a weasel while comforting our biology teacher who found a corpse while scuba diving in the town’s lake.”

        • Unless the guy who tells it to you has direct involvement or there is public reports i’d say it is still a rumor. Because he heard it from someone who probably heard it from someone.

          At least that’s what some guy at a bar told me the other day.