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Or am I just a victim of the Mandela affect?

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WhimsicalGubbins · 11/08/2022 17:45

Not really an AIBU (or it could be, depends how passionately you think I’m wrong)

But am I alone in thinking the word Rhythm used to be spelt ‘Rhythmn’??

I could honestly swear up was down that it used to have the n on the end

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cushioncovers · 11/08/2022 22:34

Slightly off topic but when did avocado pears become just avocados?

Pumperthepumper · 11/08/2022 22:22

ReneBumsWombats · 11/08/2022 22:10

I remembered it!

The film quote loads of people know, that doesn't exist!

"What does it do? That's the beauty of it. It doesn't do anything."

Possible explanation here...

Thats so interesting, I immediately thought of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Bizarre.

ReneBumsWombats · 11/08/2022 22:10

I remembered it!

The film quote loads of people know, that doesn't exist!

"What does it do? That's the beauty of it. It doesn't do anything."

Possible explanation here...

Mapletreelane · 11/08/2022 21:42

MistressoftheDarkSide · 11/08/2022 18:45

Dolly’s braces.

That is all.

Completely with you on this one.

britneyisfree · 11/08/2022 21:30

@WhimsicalGubbins I mean yes I thought it was like that too

britneyisfree · 11/08/2022 21:30

Yes!!!!! @WhimsicalGubbins

SavoirFlair · 11/08/2022 21:30

WhimsicalGubbins · 11/08/2022 21:14

@SavoirFlair im not even going to dignify any of that with a response, you’ve come to a lighthearted thread looking for a fight, and you won’t get one off me. Not today cupcake.
Trying to create a race row? Really?

Pointing out a fallacy isn’t looking for a fight. And a “race row”…. good lord.

As for “lighthearted”.

this thread?! really?

To paraphrase a recent quote on here

Whether or not something is lighthearted is decided by the individual feeling the lightheartedness, it’s not universal.

EinsteinaGogo · 11/08/2022 21:16

Nikkynakkynoo · 11/08/2022 19:42

Yeah so the dilemna dilemma has its own website: www.dilemna.info/ 😂

Oh wow - I'm off to read that right now!

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WhimsicalGubbins · 11/08/2022 21:14

@SavoirFlair im not even going to dignify any of that with a response, you’ve come to a lighthearted thread looking for a fight, and you won’t get one off me. Not today cupcake.
Trying to create a race row? Really?

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SavoirFlair · 11/08/2022 21:11

I’d like to add, that the term ‘Mandela effect’ isn’t actually offensive. Whether or not something is offensive is decided by the individual feeling the offence, it’s not universal.

Ah I must have skipped that bit in second year ethics and philosophy classes

So you’ve just declared an entire term not offensive, because according to you nothing can ever be offensive . As the offence only exists at the time the individual feels it.

Therefore am I correct in saying @WhimsicalGubbins that we can declare the N word or other such terms (I am mixed race Afro-Caribbean,, before we start) are not offensive, ever?

because the offence can only be decided by the person feeling the offence?

ah don’t tell me … “bore off”

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WhimsicalGubbins · 11/08/2022 21:05

SO224350 · 11/08/2022 20:57

I still spell yogurt with an h even spell check on my phone says yoghurt

Yogurt is the American spelling, the correct spelling for English is with the H. Phones are always irritatingly set to American English

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SO224350 · 11/08/2022 20:57

I still spell yogurt with an h even spell check on my phone says yoghurt

whynotwhatknot · 11/08/2022 20:45

ah the old walkers crisp change rears its head again

knittingaddict · 11/08/2022 20:30

RiderOfTheBlue · 11/08/2022 17:47

Are you getting it confused with "hymn"?

Good call. I was trying to work out why you would think that and this seems a good explanantion.

ShaneTwane · 11/08/2022 20:29

Actually yes I always spelled it with an n on the end as well and I also was top of the class for spellings at school. (Not so great now.)

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WhimsicalGubbins · 11/08/2022 20:27

Well!!

If anyone wanted to know where the unpleasant folk gather (and I don’t mean the majority of commenters, the majority have had me in stitches, whether you were telling me I was nuts or coming out with your own misspellings)
But some posts! Jesus! Who knew that a lighthearted thread could bring out so many nasty folk.
Get a sense of humour or just move on!
And to the poster (it’s not worth checking the username) who very pettily tried to correct me on a typo, you’re a bit of a bore 😂

I’d like to add, that the term ‘Mandela effect’ isn’t actually offensive. Whether or not something is offensive is decided by the individual feeling the offence, it’s not universal.
Are any of you offended by the fact that there are many eponymous diseases, and those people that they are named after didn’t actually choose to have an awful disease bear their name

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bighats · 11/08/2022 20:13

I'm with you OP pre spell check I always spelt it like that and was usually top of the class in English.

ReneBumsWombats · 11/08/2022 20:12

ParanoidGynodroid · 11/08/2022 20:06

Last little fart before I leave:

But that's precisely why it's so weird that so many people thought he was dead while he was still very much alive

But it's not weird, it's just ignorance.

Which is why it's useful to have a term for when it happens

From an ill-informed woo promoter? There is already a term for false memory!

But that same false fact, to be so widely believed? That is odd.

False memory is an individual thing. The Mandela effect is when it's bloody societal and so many people make the same mistake. There are other examples, like the crisp packet colour thing, "Luke, I am your father" and that non-existent film line that, ironically, I can't remember.

Inthesameboatatmo · 11/08/2022 20:10

It's just you op

ShaneTwane · 11/08/2022 20:08

Jfc the term Mandela effect is not offensive. It literally just came about from a huge amount of people believing the same thing. He was in prison for years and amazingly at the time he was not on the news every single day of his incarceration and not really relevant to ordinary lives of people not in south Africa, therefore yeah it's ignorant people didn't know but not offensive.

ParanoidGynodroid · 11/08/2022 20:06

Last little fart before I leave:

But that's precisely why it's so weird that so many people thought he was dead while he was still very much alive

But it's not weird, it's just ignorance.

Which is why it's useful to have a term for when it happens

From an ill-informed woo promoter? There is already a term for false memory!

ParanoidGynodroid · 11/08/2022 20:02

Yes, @Pumperthepumper I'll take a walk.

I wasn't reacting to the thread - my initial post was brief, if a bit humourless - but to that other poster's venom and ageism.

Sorry to have sourpussed all over your thread, OP, I'm actually usually quite nice.
but do find the "Mandela effect" offensive

ReneBumsWombats · 11/08/2022 20:01

Imagine being so titanically ignorant and ill-informed as to have thought this? Mandela's 1990 release was worldwide news, and his subsequent election as leader of SA was monumental for various reasons and made him the most internationally famous leader at the time. He won the Nobel peace prize, and met the queen, Bill Clinton, FFS.

But that's precisely why it's so weird that so many people thought he was dead while he was still very much alive.

They've been around as long as people have, and have been much studied by psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, criminologists.

Which is why it's useful to have a term for when it happens.

ColonelCarter · 11/08/2022 19:57

You are not alone. I can distinctly remember being taught to spell it in year 4.

applegrumbles · 11/08/2022 19:56

Jengnr · 11/08/2022 18:15

Rhythm Has Your Two Hips Moving is how I was taught it in the 80s.

Came here to say this!