• @jordanlund
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    1463 months ago

    Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet, that’s how World War I got started.

    • macniel
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      True, Archduke did a sick run at the Sarajevo Skatepark, everyone cheered but the Serbs didn’t liked being owned like that. Thus WW 1 started.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      383 months ago

      That reminds me of my favorite quote from the author of Eat, Pray, Love:

    • @dragontamer
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      293 months ago

      Abe Lincoln famously warned us about how people make up shit on the Internet.

    • @son_named_bort
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      On the other hand you don’t want to dismiss everything you read on the Internet. That’s how World War II got started.

  • @PetteriPano
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    973 months ago

    Akshually, skateboarding was invented by a certain Marty McFly in 1955.

  • @atomicorange
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    683 months ago

    Before Avril, we called it rollerboarding. The boards were considerably larger and you would propel yourself along with a long pole, like a gondola. Only the wealthy could afford true rollerboards, however, we would make our own with scrap wood. I had one that was a modified old door that I had attached bicycle wheels to the sides of. That board would FLY down hills but you needed the whole neighborhood to pull the damn thing back up again.

  • @[email protected]
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    Skateboarding is male dominated because women learn falling as you age isn’t fun faster than men.

        • kamenLady.
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          I watched a French series a while ago. I think it was called Derby Girls. I ended up watching the 3 seasons 3 times in a row.

      • @Bacano
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        43 months ago

        I’ve never seen so many women at the skatepark. On quads, inline, and skateboards whatever. Ik its a shit post but I really like skating and I like how inclusive it tends to be these days.

        Women on street league are doing tricks never been done before by women, always pushing the envelope. When I was growing up, my one skater friend was one of like 3 girls compromising the entire scene. Now you can catch 3 at the parks on any given day.

    • peopleproblems
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      203 months ago

      But everyone knows Avril Lavigne died in 2003, and Avril Lavigne did invent skateboarding in 2002. He’s not spreading lies, he’s exaggerating the truth.

      The truth being, of course, there is no spoon.

    • lad
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      183 months ago
      On a non-shitpost note

      I’m amazed how things turn out sometimes:

      The creator of the blog that originated the Avril Está Morta conspiracy has apologized and changed the whole blog post to state that Avril has not died yet, and that the blog was a way of showing how conspiracy theories may seem true.

      I’m almost sure it was about the same way we got flat earth and sovereignty of citizens

  • HubertManne
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    183 months ago

    I do hate this stuff because there are so many things that just don’t know things and get their information from searches that then might then use this.

    • @dragontamer
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      3 months ago

      There is more that meets the eye,

      Can I make it more obvious?

      This is how the story ends…

    • @wildcardology
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      33 months ago

      Around 52 percent of Americans will fall for this.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      this is what I said about the Linux memes about Linux being hard to use, people were upset I said that because of the “can’t take a joke” angle

      but I seriously believe that those memes do more harm than good

      • HubertManne
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        thing is im such a hypocrite because I was super sarcastic and I can totally see why folks do this stuff for fun but man I never realized how it would end up influencing little cults when the internet grew up.

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          it’s more of a “know your audience” thing for me

          I can make all sorts of stupidly sarcastic jokes with my friends but when it comes to the internet there’s probably thousands of idiots who read content and take it as face value and as genuine

  • @dragontamer
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    173 months ago

    Well it wasn’t good enough for her.

  • @buzz86us
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    163 months ago

    It was invented in 1955 by Calvin Klein

  • Roflmasterbigpimp
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    133 months ago

    The Skateboard was invented by “Gustav zu Skate” in 1965 in West-Berlin and was called “Lustigkeitsrollbrett” then shortened to Skatebrett and in English Skateboard 🥸

  • @Snapz
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    123 months ago

    It’s complicated…

  • @[email protected]
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    Growing up in the 60’s I had a skateboard called a monster with a picture of a monster on the top. It had metal skate wheels on it. My uncle said they used to make something like that in the 40’s by nailing a skate onto a board, though it sounded more like a scooter since they usually added a handle to the front.

    • NielsBohron
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      It had metal skate wheels on it. My uncle said they used to make something like that in the 40’s by nailing a skate onto a board, though it sounded more like a scooter since they usually added a handle to the front.

      As seen in the documentary Back to the Future

  • @JusticeForPorygon
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    83 months ago

    Isn’t Avril Lavigne the singer who was replaced with a clone?

    /s

  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    Wait skating is male dominated? I’m an old now, but that wasn’t the case in my town when I was a fellow kid.

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      Not many people scare anymore. Cars or walk (mainly car). At my school of 1,500 there’s maybe 3 bikes.
      Nobody rides anything to go anywhere it’s just for fun now around the neighborhood.

  • @hakunawazo
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    I thought she was the inventor of too much eye make-up.