• candyman337@sh.itjust.works
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    This was thankfully debunked as fake

    Edit; I looked for the post, I couldn’t find it, IM SORRY. There was evidence that she made it up for clout but I don’t remember anything more than that.

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      So it doesn’t actually work well when you say that the claim without source was debunked… And you also don’t provide source.

      Whatchoo talking about, bro?

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        The meme itself is not even a source.

        Like, me saying I had lunch with sasquatch is not something someone needs to rigorously debunk.

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          I mean I get what you’re saying but… One is a hairy apeman people claim to see in the woods, the other is companies doing something unethical and shady to improve their bottom line which there is absolutely precedent for.

          Yeah it’s unlikely this story is real but your analogy makes no sense

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        It’s a fucking meme, of course it doesn’t have a source. No one in their right mind would trust this as fact anyway.

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          No one is claiming a meme needs a source. That reply said it was fake. Maybe true, but again provide a link if it is.

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      I’ve seen others saying it’s legit.

      Also would be pretty hard to substantiate or debunk definitively.

      Concrete evidence would be, say, the tiktoker in question being caught out or admitting it was fabricated.

      I’ll show you my source if you show me yours.

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      Dang so it’s advertising that this is an untapped idea

      Hire the VAs (Virtual Assistants) now to start ghostkitching (catfishing)! Great return on investment 😬

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    This seems suspect.

    The woman in question is a tiktok ‘influencer’ who has the most amazing things hapoen to her - always wiithout evidence.

    I think it’s just as likely that she’s lying to get views and subscribers,

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    Well that’s a great way to have a customer come exactly once to your place and order something small and cheap and then never return out of bad memories and embarrassment. It’s also a great way to make a name as “that restaurant where you’ll get ghosted” for yourself. For real, either the place would get a bad rep as a cursed place, or (more likely) they lose valuable potential customers because they will never go back to a place where they have been stood up.

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    The original creator of the video never named the restaurant and also has since deleted the video. I can’t find any explanation or followup from her, so this is likely a fake story.

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    That’s called fraud, and it violates consent, and it’s therefore not a free market activity, which makes it more of a breakdown of capitalism than the thing itself.

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    This was already debunked awhile ago. it’s bullshit. no restaurant, regardless of how poorly they’re doing, is going to go through all this work to maybe, just mabye, get $50 out of them.

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    Man, I saw a guy once getting stood up and I was really sad. The guy was seated, waited, asked for something small, waited more, changed tables to free space for a larger group and then paid and left. I mean, everyone here probably went on dates that got nowhere. Finish the meal, shake hands and leave separate. It’s part of life. But the golden rule is never go into the restaurant alone. Always meet outside l, somewhere else.

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      Spoken like someone who isn’t afraid of potential dates. Lol.

      No way I’m meeting privately on a first date with someone I don’t know. I’d rather be stood up in the restaurant.

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        What do you mean privately? I said do get into the restaurant. Meet at a mall, on a bench, in front of a store. If they appear, good, have a 5 minutes conversation and go to the restaurant.

        I’m from the time of mIRC, where I met a few girls, including the one who has been my wife for the past 22 years.

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      Genuine question - do people seriously have dates in restaurants? I’m 32 and never have I ever been asked on a date in a restaurant. Cafe, sure. But a full on meal with a person? I literally don’t know anyone who went on a first/early date in a restaurant. I assumed that’s a 90s thing that was nowadays only taking place in movies and sitcoms.

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        I did. Restaurants, movies, parks… I don’t recommend movies. We met, got to the theatre, watched the movie, but we didn’t actually talk, because, well, movie. How do you call that big sidewalk alongside a beach? That was awesome. Long walk just talking and listening.

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          How do you call that big sidewalk alongside a beach? That was awesome. Long walk just talking and listening.

          Esplanade?

          And yeah I agree just a long walk’n’talk where you don’t have to constantly look at the other person is kind of the best to get to know someone.

          And ffs movies… I had one first date at the movies and this was really awful. Especially since afterwards we drove home (not together). Like, what was that even?

          The only way it works is if you go have drinks afterwards and heatedly discuss the movie. But for this you have to meet a cinemaholic and the movie has to have been at least not neutral. Maybe still better on a second or third date than first.

          Maybe I’ve never been to a restaurant because I effectively stopped dating at 24 and before that I just wasn’t in the age group that could afford restaurants?

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      Once I went on a date with someone, we were both perfectly reasonable and polite, and we both felt zero chemistry midway through the date and ended it early. It was the best terrible date I’ve ever had.

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      I know you wanna believe the world is shit, but try to remember that this probably isn’t even real. Don’t get lost in your social media feed. Don’t take curated content as a representative sample of reality. Worst case scenario, someone crafted a story… which is a story older than our timelines themselves.

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    This seems like it is illegal… If it isn’t now, it certainly will be as soon as it happens to a politician.

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      IMHO it says more about humans and social media. People on Facebook and Reddit will believe much more far-fetched stories.

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      I don’t actually think there’s a ministry of silly walks. While this piece probably didn’t start out as satire it effectively tickles the same bones.