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Ate the onion.
Would sir like fries with that 🍟
Honest question. At what point do people proclaim this? Did you read the article or did you internally respond before checking the source?
No. You read the headline, and react. Just the same as any other article. Then you see the community posted, laugh, and reply "ate the onion".
See in the 90s, the whole point of the onion (the actual original paper distributed onion newsletter) was to grab peoples attention and fool them into thinking it's a real headline.
Thats what happened here. I believed it was a legit headline. Thus, I ate the onion.
also fuckin at it (not completely sober)
Yeah, it is fucking sad to say that I had to double check and make sure this wasn't a not-the-onion story.
It's not fair, it sounds so plausible!
Fuck, yeah it got me too
(in fairness i'm tipsy rn)
100% something they'd do, which makes it even easier to swallow the onion
I think this site also had a really funny article about an alpha male that touched a tampon and ended up in an ER.
damn, good thing I'm a woman. sending my condolences to the victim and his family
Bro had UHC too
Alpha Male in Critical Condition After Accidentally Touching Unopened Box of Tampons