What do you doubt the existence of?

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

National lottery winners. Ok I know they 'exist' but since 1994 the jackpot has been won over 7400 time, yet I haven't personally known anyone whose won it.

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likes2milk@reddit

So my very basic maths on a population of 60m means you'd have to have a circle of friends of 10,000 to know 1.

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AcceptableCustomer89@reddit

People underestimate how large the population is. Not when you compare it to America etc. But 60-70 million is a hell of a lot of people

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

Hmm but if you include friends of friends that number probably isn't that high. Suppose you have 30 friends/ colleagues that 1 degree of separation pool probably is close to 10k people.

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watryatalkinabout@reddit

Do you everyone if your they know someone who's won the lottery?

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

No you might tell those close to you and they spread.

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northernblazer11@reddit

I know of 3 people who won over 2 million each.

All 3 are now skint and back working.

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nightmaresgrow@reddit

My granddad's neighbour won when I was a kid, not long after the lottery started.

He was already retired and barely changed his lifestyle.

They went on the same group trip as my grandad not long afterwards and my grandad was upset that he didn't buy him a pint.

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Someone once gave me some money for the kids to spend at the shopping centre. She had won a fair amount apparently but didn't say how much. She said they were behaving nice so she thought she would treat them, if I didn't mind. Could have just been a few 100 or 1000 but who knows. The kids got a tenner each I think, but it was a few years ago now.

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DifficultConcept9832@reddit

I knew someone that won, well it was a family they had a little group ticket, one son died soon after through drug, the other some time later in a car crash, he wasted his money on fast cars and expensive divorces, the mother died from cancer, the dad died of a stroke.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

You may know people who haven't told anyone. I know of a couple of people who have nice houses, barely work and say they got money in "property". This could be a cover story for a lottery win for all I know. The funny thing is there are a lot more smaller prizes that would still be lifechanging. I never hear about people who won even a few grand.

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luckeratron@reddit

I know of two people who have won the lottery.

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JayR_97@reddit

If I won the lottery, id keep super quiet about it. Heard too many horror stories.

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

If I won it, nobody would know.

I don't have expensive tastes. I'd just get a small house with a massive garden. More room for the dogs to run with minimal housework required.

I'd probably go on quite a few holidays but I never take pictures so I could spend a fortune going to Easter island and just say I was in Benidorm.

The national lottery isn't private jet money these days, it's live very comfortably with a few luxuries money.

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_ShredBundy@reddit

Inner peace

People from Brighton

That one sock

Printer ink

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

I've met 2 people that claimed to be from Brighton. They both grew up in Cambridge.

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4321zxcvb@reddit

Big sample size.

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

In my defence, I try to avoid meeting people so it's a lot for me.

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4321zxcvb@reddit

All my children are from Brighton and so are their friends

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_ShredBundy@reddit

False

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4321zxcvb@reddit

They were born here and live here so where else are they from?

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CurrentTurbulent@reddit

Wherever you're from

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4321zxcvb@reddit

And the oldest has lived here 23 years since birth, went to school here did his apprenticeship here and works here. I’m fairly sure he is from Brighton. He was 6 last time he went to Liverpool and he doesn’t even like football.

All his friends as far as I know are also brighton born and bred.

I accept that many people from outside Brighton have also settled here . From my friends I would say about half were born and raised here. Can’t tell you about their parents though. At Least one is from Guatemala though.

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4321zxcvb@reddit

But that’s not true. I was raised in Liverpool by Geordie parent does that make me a Geordie?

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rinomartino@reddit

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4321zxcvb@reddit

Don’t know why no one believes me but I like your picture

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cmdrxander@reddit

As someone from near Brighton, I agree

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DizzyMine4964@reddit

Loaded questions. "Would you rather (a) water bills went up or (b) your tap water was liquid sewage."

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MisterWednesday6@reddit (OP)

I'd be more willing to accept an increase in my water bill (although I still consider 41% to be morally wrong in the current financial climate) if I was certain that money from water bills was not going towards the £371,000 bonus of the repulsive woman in charge of my water company, who defended her decision to keep it by saying that she needed to be "incentivised".

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BoggyRolls@reddit

The existence of migraines. I think people just get a headache and aren't as robust or perpetuate the existence of a more serious headache condition to get out of things.

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donkeymonkey00@reddit

I once overheard a girl on the bus saying she got migraines so bad she had to go to the hospital because she went temporarily blind in one eye. Shit's messed up! I'm scared of ever having one.

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BoggyRolls@reddit

probably a more serious condition like a artery dissection and migraines are still made up.

Or she was trying to get out of something ae didn't want to do with the person on the phone and migraines are still made up

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sandra_nz@reddit

""We are currently experiencing an unusually high number of calls..."

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SoggyWotsits@reddit

In other words, I’m working from home and I’ve just nipped out to walk the dog and make a cup of tea.

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

My theory is they average the number of expected calls over 24 hours despite the lines only being open for 8-10 hours.

Sounds like the kind of cost saving measure someone would suggest in a zoom meeting.

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NatchezAndes@reddit

Karma

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fookreddit22@reddit

The world's worst people live in luxury and the world's best people live in poverty.

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Henegunt@reddit

Not really true either

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fookreddit22@reddit

I agree, I forgot to add the word some.

Some of the worst people live in poverty. Some of the best people live in luxury.

Some of the worst people live in luxury, some of the best people live in poverty.

Regardless, the sentiment is the same.

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Henegunt@reddit

Right so karma is obviously bollox.

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fookreddit22@reddit

Obviously, if karma actually existed it would require a deity to enforce it.

I believe the average person feels good when doing good and feels bad when doing bad. What's good or bad varies wildly case by case.

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Henegunt@reddit

Karma is obviously bollox though.

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Zavodskoy@reddit

The resident a-hole in my year who bullied everyone including the disabled kids at school owns a business and makes 7 figures a year

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MadWifeUK@reddit

Karma, in the Western sense (I know it's not the exact same as the Eastern sense) does not exist. Life is not fair. Nice people get cancer, good people lose loved ones, and good things happen to bad people.

So no, karma won't "get them in the end." But I also won't waste my time or energy on worrying about it.

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geese_moe_howard@reddit

The Eastern sense is simply the law of cause and effect.

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GrumpyOlBastard@reddit

Genuine Flat Earthers. They're just trolls

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Unfair_Original_2536@reddit

They asked "would you rather have your bills raised by 41% or have a toe chopped off", 80% were in favour of higher bills.

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donkeymonkey00@reddit

Which toe? Pinky maybe.

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pullingsneakies@reddit

New Zealand.

As we all know, the earth is flat so it can't exist, Australia just wanted to rig the rugby so they made it up.

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donkeymonkey00@reddit

It's not even on half the maps! It totally doesn't exist! Probably someone groped some coffee on an old map and everybody copied from it, like Sandy Island!

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GKogger@reddit

What Netflix says is popular in the UK right now. Really?

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Eastern-Move549@reddit

Probably more like what netflix is forcing to be popular right now but that is the same for every media outlet mind you.

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Justboy__@reddit

Yea it’s no accident everyone has always watched all the same stuff on Netflix.

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

Fun fact, Mrs browns boys peak audience was over 11million.

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Boldboy72@reddit

Mrs Brown's Boys is Irelands revenge for 800 years of British occupation of Ireland.

Brendan O'Carroll has been doing the same tired joke of Mrs Brown since the 80s (a short 2 minute segment on radio)... Ireland tuned out, England came a callin..

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

Hey, we already took Louis Walsh and Westlife. How much longer do you want us to pay.

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Boldboy72@reddit

Louis Walsh and Westlife, and B'witched... we're sorry for all that

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memcwho@reddit

This is not fun, and in the spirit of this post, I doubt it's a fact.

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MyBeardSaysHi@reddit

11 million morons. Sigh.

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pajamakitten@reddit

Those lists are based on very short-term data. Those are what is popular within the last few hours.

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mo_oemi@reddit

There must be some fine prints somewhere "for customers like you" (well, what Netflix algorithms think of you), because my partner & I don't have the same Top 10!

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AdministrativeLaugh2@reddit

It’s a small thing obviously, but I’ve never put any faith in those lists. It’s simply whatever Netflix wants to show you, whether that’s because it’s one of their Originals or something they’ve just paid a ton to licence.

I remember when they got Harry Potter and I happened to be pottering (lol) about on Netflix when they were put up, which I assume was just after midnight.

They were all immediately in the “Top 10 Popular Movies” list.

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JustPassingShhh@reddit

Gods

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bishibashi@reddit

Rare to see someone take the agnostic position rather than bang on and on about atheism.

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Valuable-Wallaby-167@reddit

I suspect most of the UK are actually agnostic but it's not so much a stance as a lack of one so people feel less need to share.

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bishibashi@reddit

Totally agree, I’m easily wound up by people who claim atheism without realising what a serious position they’re taking.

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what_sBrownandSticky@reddit

There's no real concencus on where the line between agnosticism and atheism should be drawn, so you're just encountering people who define it differently

I normally take atheism just to mean the absence of belief in any gods which is not a very demanding position at all

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CurrentTurbulent@reddit

Well they are different, agnostic is you're sat on the fence as to whether a god exists or not, Atheists say 100% there is no god

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blamordeganis@reddit

I’m an atheist, and I don’t “say 100% there is no god”.

I don’t believe in God, same way I don’t believe in leprechauns, but I accept the possibility that I could be mistaken (as I could about the leprechauns).

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CurrentTurbulent@reddit

Your agnostic then, not atheist

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blamordeganis@reddit

My copy of the Shorter OED gives this as its first definition of “atheist”:

One who denies or disbelieves the existence of God.

That seems to capture my position pretty concisely.

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bishibashi@reddit

Yeah I’ve been reading a bit since this morning and agree with your definition, so I’m happy to adjust my position. I was coming at it from people I’ve had drunken rows with in the past who are what are now called “hard atheists”.

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FondantCrazy8307@reddit

What makes it serious?

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bishibashi@reddit

Just said to someone else I didn’t appreciate that “hard atheism” isn’t the only kind - if it’s just not believing there is a god I have no issue, I’m thinking of people I’ve spoken with in the past who espouse the absolute impossibility of the existence of deities. I have no problem changing my position based on new info. Welcome, atheists!

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FondantCrazy8307@reddit

Oh okay, Im an atheist because I believe it’s the easiest way to live life! Life is already hard, I don’t need any more rules or judgement!

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olivercroke@reddit

It's about as serious as saying I don't have an invisible, silent green man on my shoulder at all times. Sure, I can't know it to not exist for certain but the distinction between that and being agnostic about its existence is frankly irrelevant.

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MisterWednesday6@reddit (OP)

I'm agnostic after it hit me that, without exception, the most spiteful and horrible people I have ever had dealings with have all been practising Christians.

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CurrentTurbulent@reddit

There's a lot of them in the US and it's weird how spiteful and full of hate they are, so unchristian!

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Unfair-Ad-9479@reddit

This precisely. It is incredibly weird and in itself sort of ‘reverse cultish’ how atheism is A Big Thing in the US and is seen as an affront to any sort of theism [that is in line with what theists of their chosen religion believe].

In the UK, it’s more an ‘okay, cool’ situation.

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AdministrativeLaugh2@reddit

I suspect that the vast majority who aren’t religious simply don’t think about whether there’s a god or not

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takesthebiscuit@reddit

Wasn’t the Archbishop of Canterbury at least agnostic?

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flippertyflip@reddit

I used to have it on pc. Good game. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_(video_game)

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

If there is a god, it's not the one most religious people worship.

Many of the bible stories were adapted from Sumerian stories about their multiple gods.

We have the stories on cuneiform tablets they left.

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LittleSadRufus@reddit

Ah but god needs a pope to communicate through, and to correctly communicate his holy messages like "give all your money to the pope".

The Sumerians didn't have a pope, so they just heard garbled messages and wrote down their best guess at what was intended. "Homosexuality is a sin unless a priest's doing it with a handsome choirboy in which case let's all forget about it" can easily be misheard as "Enki is the god of wind, water and all creation and I thank you not to forget it".

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H16HP01N7@reddit

Non evil capitalists.

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quellflynn@reddit

the the megacorp L'Oréal couldn't muster up more than 60 participants for a cream trial.

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fucks_news_channel@reddit

I'm sure 60 is probably the minimum they need to make it legal to use in advertising. They aren't going to waste money analysing 500 data points when 60 is all they need.

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quellflynn@reddit

minimum and legal are the words I trust from companies!

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Whimbley@reddit

My wife used to get all sorts of creams and lotions from one of those survey companies. It was nearly always unbranded with stuck-on labels, but sometimes they used the same shape bottle as what the final product would come in, so you could tell what company it came from.

Can confirm the surveys she had to fill in at the end were incredibly long-winded, when she just wanted free stuff, so the responses were mostly made up or she got me to fill them in.

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AdministrativeLaugh2@reddit

Finding people to survey is easy. Getting people to respond for the duration of the survey and fill in all the required information is significantly more difficult.

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First_Television_600@reddit

💀💀💀

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Old_Distance6314@reddit

Trumps brain

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CorpusCalossum@reddit

The president's brain... is missing

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Go_Nadds@reddit

Birds

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wilof@reddit

God

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blamordeganis@reddit

Furniture shops that aren’t currently having a sale.

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Hot-Whereas9535@reddit

Australians

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ABlokeFromChester@reddit

I went there once. I'm convinced the plane just did a giant loop and landed in Norwich. They are doing a good job of convincing us that Oz exists, but they get sloppy with New Zealand. Have you noticed how many maps they forget to put it on.

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RoughTricky1@reddit

Australia doesn’t exist

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Brave-Conclusion6069@reddit

My Sister lives in Australia with her husband and three children.

And they are definitely not Australian.

So there are 5.

Anyone else got any good info on the rest?

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RoughTricky1@reddit

They are lying to you. It isn’t real. 😉

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shut_up_ur_fine@reddit

Happiness

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MunkeeseeMonkeydoo@reddit

Magic sky men who help you if you sing to them.

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Ok-Chest-7932@reddit

Myself. I reckon probably a 10% chance I don't exist.

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demonedge@reddit

Love

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m9b5@reddit

Spain

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Separate-Egg-9599@reddit

Bison. Their heads look like AI.

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CurrentTurbulent@reddit

Stag Beetles - cool beetle but you never see one

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Snooker1471@reddit

The G-spot

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Sad_Cardiologist5388@reddit

Aliens. There are sub reddits where this is a given, I just find it a bit mad.

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NuisancePenguin44@reddit

Pandas. They're not real, just people in furry suits.

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Fabulous_Tune84@reddit

I am almost certain that nobody actually wins radio call in competitions. The majority (especially Heart Radio) sound like paid actors being pre recorded and put out to make people enter.

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ianjhardie@reddit

Bigfoot

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B0dkin@reddit

Common sense.

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MrPogoUK@reddit

I’ve heard/read a couple of people insist the usual rules of the road - in terms of arrows making rows one way, give way markings etc - don’t technically apply in car parks, so they actively ignore them, which would explain a lot!

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Skyremmer102@reddit

I insist that there is no such thing.

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JBo_the_3rd@reddit

I agree 100%. It's a convenient way for people to get angry or exasperated at others for not knowing how to do something. It's also used by individuals, generally in positions of authority, to disguise their lack of competence or solutions.

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MattLaidlow@reddit

People who got a megabus for £1

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Harrry-Otter@reddit

Wombles.

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Mundane-Research@reddit

As a kid I used to think the song was "the wombles of Wimbledon. Common are we" and I kept thinking "if they are so common, how do they hide from humans so well?"

It wasn't until I was an adult and someone mentioned "Wimbledon Common" as a place that I twigged.

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DameKumquat@reddit

My kids swear blind they saw one driving a Tube train coming out of Wimbledon.

I have to admit if I was a tube driver and got a job using Wimbledon, I'd invest in a Womble outfit.

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LegalShowerXX@reddit

I suggest you take a look around Wimbledon. They're usually found underground / overground, wombling free.

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pip_goes_pop@reddit

Scandalous accusation

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Suspicious-Possible9@reddit

Common sense

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pajamakitten@reddit

It exists. I think a lot of people actively choose to ignore it.

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ChangingMonkfish@reddit

Common sense isn’t common

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purrcthrowa@reddit

"Common sense" almost always means "something that appears to be superficially appealing, but which is complete nonsense when you actually apply some facts and logic". When you apply that definition, you find that there's far too much of it.

(Also, for some bizarre reason, it seems disproportionately popular among right wingers).

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NecroVelcro@reddit

r/OkayBoomer

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Phelsumaman@reddit

Badgers, never seen a live one

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douggieball1312@reddit

Only once in my life have I ever seen a live hedgehog, and that was during lockdown when there were very few cars on the road. Before then, I had honestly convinced myself that they must all be extinct by now.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

Seen several dead ones. It is more things like pine martens and otters. Never seen one in any state.

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

I saw one strolling past my house a few nights ago.

It was either a badger or a very pissed nun.

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Intruder313@reddit

I can confirm I've seen them on trail cams only last week but the location of their setts (they have a few) are kept very secret for obvious reasons. It was fun to watch them fighting over peanuts.

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JennyW93@reddit

There used to be a live one who would go for a walk and sit on a bench like a human in our village as his nightly routine.

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MyBeardSaysHi@reddit

At least you HOPE it was alive...

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JennyW93@reddit

I actually wonder if OC is correct and it wasn’t a real badger but was a toddler in a badger costume. It really did sit like a human.

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fookreddit22@reddit

I was once chased by a badger and had to jump up on someone's car bonnet. They are a lot bigger than I thought they would be.

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Leicsbob@reddit

I live in a city and see them regularly. They scare my dog.

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MisterWednesday6@reddit (OP)

Do you live in Somerset by any chance?

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Phelsumaman@reddit

Used to live in Wiltshire so not too far away

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Boldboy72@reddit

oh they did do a survey alright, it just wasn't of very many people and was probably just within their office.

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No-Zookeepergame6630@reddit

That every single customer service telephone number is currently experiencing a high volume of calls......

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Ricky_Martins_Vagina@reddit

Horny women in my area waiting to fuck 🤔

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Mr_Bumcrest@reddit

The decency of mankind

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PaulJMacD@reddit

Father Christmas 🎄

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SironRagnarsson@reddit

Useful politicians

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sgbea_13@reddit

Red Hot Chilli Pepper fans.

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ChangingMonkfish@reddit

The hot MILFS supposedly in my area that apparently want to speak with me.

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cari-strat@reddit

Reliable used cars! I have just had my THIRD car in nine months conk out on me, each with a different catastrophic issue that occurred with no prior warning signs. I am slowly losing the will to live.

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olivercroke@reddit

Critical thinking

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powpow198@reddit

Smart reform voters.

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Dyalikedagz@reddit

Needle spiking

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Sam-Lowry27B-6@reddit

Have you ever seen the back of your head?

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

If you're a woman or gay, pretty much everyone you've slept with has seen your butthole more than you.

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fookreddit22@reddit

Yes, every time I go to the barbers.

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colin_staples@reddit

How do you know he's not holding up a photo of the back of somebody else's head?

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fookreddit22@reddit

Scars

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ManGullBearE@reddit

Maybe he battered that person before taking the photo?

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docju@reddit

“Yeah that’s great mate, cheers!”

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fookreddit22@reddit

You know the score

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Spam_Frittering@reddit

Schroedinger's noggin.

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cheandbis@reddit

The Trustpilot rating for Evri

Terrible courier.

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Professional-Day6965@reddit

A quiet life.

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

Very easy to achieve but it requires removing pretty much everyone from your life.

That's a terrible price to pay for most people.

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Floyd_Pink@reddit

Intelligent Americans.

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FunGuyUK83@reddit

History in the way we're told it.

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

Americans are taught they won both world wars almost single handily.

Russians are taught they did pretty much all the work.

Europeans are taught it was a joint effort by everyone involved.

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RockNMelanin@reddit

History is written by the victors and all that.

Context is so important for so many historical events and we just don't see / are taught anything close to the full story imo

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First_Television_600@reddit

Imagine being able to time travel

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SwitchSmart7151@reddit

The afterlife.

Logically, its a nice story to help deal with the fact that we have lost a loved one and thats it, they're gone. Everything they were, is gone. I hope I'm wrong about this one.

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Round_Caregiver2380@reddit

I hope you're right. Once was more than enough for me.

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Solid_Bee666@reddit

I don't know if you're right or wrong - but I know that you're less wrong than the commenter who has stated that don't Wombles exist.

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Scared_Research_8426@reddit

Prague

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xdq@reddit

Would you be happy for us to increase your bill by 41% if the alternative was to have your water untreated and on for only 2 hours, 3 days/week?

Yeah, I suppose 🤷‍♂️

✅ Customer is happy with 41% increase

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20% of customers increased their usage by 305%

And before you ask...between the bots, troll farms, and redditors who take multiple shame-showers a day you won't meet any of those happy customers

They are outside watering their gardens and touching grass...

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