To not point out story is an urban legend?

And Meconium!

Overheard the word said on the maternity ward, thought it sounded pretty and decided to use it off their new baby.

Like the registrar wouldn't have had a gentle word! 🤣

There are a lot of sad people on the Internet like this who get all their news and taking points from the same sights etc.

They don't have much going on in their lives, probably have few friends and interesting stuff to take about l actually feel a bit sorry for them.

Most MN users exempted from these people of course.

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The micro chip one has apparently happened in every Chinese buffet in a 20 mile radius of here…

there was also the car seat at the side of the road thing, a girl I knew insisted she had a lucky escape from getting kidnapped

folk too busy ‘sharing just in case’ exactly how the red and blue thing went mental

Marc Almond...hell of a thirst...

I think sometimes for young children, dreams get mixed up with reality too. If they'd heard adults talking about something in their peripheral, they might then dream about it happening, which then gets mixed up with their actual memories and they believe it happened.

I’ve heard that one

OMG!! someone I worked with who had pet snakes told me his vet told him that that's what his snake was doing!! Ten years I have believed this!!

The lying bastard!! 🤣

I once heard a story from a bloke I was chatting to in a pub.
It was a "Urgh, Americans are so stupid and self-centred" type story.
He said he got chatting to an American couple on Holiday in Morocco and they asked him if he wanted to come up on the roof and see the fireworks, he was like, what fireworks? And they said, it's 4th July. They were then apparently unable to comprehend that there wouldn't be fireworks on 4th in July in other countries. I had never heard it before and I believed him.
I repeated it in a comment on tiktok and about 100 different people preceded to tell me that this is a well known urban legend and I'm a big fat liar.
I was really embarrassed and felt very stupid.
So I do see how it can happen.

That was a story on the children’s tv series Grange Hill many years ago. It was smuggled out in a duffle bag.

I worked with a guy who told me a funny story about his child at school saying something to the teacher. Few weeks later I read the exact story in an old copy of Reader's Digest in the Tearoom. Knew the guy was full of shit but this confirmed it.

Ummmm but it’s true!! There couple of lads in Australia visiting from wales who did exactly this. The penguin was call Dirk. And the guys are known to our family, Rhys jones and Keri.

Yes!! I believed that one for years!!

It was told when I was a kid in the south of England and then when we moved to Scotland, it was being told up there too! No internet!

I usually let them be (and perhaps discreetly roll my eyes) unless it’s racist - as it often is (Eastern Europeans/swans etc) where I do make a fuss

Yes, that has happened, they had to be referred to our specialist eye hospital.

The story isn’t about genuine stuck lenses. The story is always they where drunk and kept pulling at them but they where stuck half way, he to the hospital and they had half pulled out their cornea.

I mean torn cornea like that would require surgery

The contact lens is an actual common reason to go to ED (I worked there many moons ago and have also had trouble with my contact lenses, although managed to get them out myself eventually). People forget to take them out before bed and they stick to your eyes until you’ve rehydrated,

I have heard so many multiple times and the storyteller is always furiously adamant that its true and the person they heard if from knows the source directly (even though theu don't)

The teenager whose friends thrown her a surprise party. They hide in the kitchen pantry when she returns home and burst out to find her with the dog licking dog food off her intimate parts.

The family who are on a day out at the beach, find a dog swimming and take him in their to the vets. .. it's a giant rat.

The woman who hooks up with some man on a night out then gets a strange rash on her face. After some investigation bodies are discovered in the dead man's attic and he was engaging in necrophilia.

A particularly vile one that signalled the end of a relationship for me as my then boyfriend believed it and found it funny: his colleague returned home and found his flatmate taking acid with his friend. They were completely off their faces and said they had gone to the park and captured a goblin. They put the goblin under the stairs and didn't know what to do next. The bloke checked under the stairs and found a young boy with downs syndrome. He let him out of the house and hoped he found his way home. I knew it wasn't true but my then boyfriend thought it was... And he found it hilarious. I was repulsed.

Oh yes, I've heard the poo on the roof one too, in fact a friend of mine, who claimed it had actually happened to someone she sort of knew at one remove, wrote a short story based on it. I don't think it was ever published and I suddenly understand why.

I've met someone whose "brother's friend" had had the mouse in the KFC, and someone whose "auntie's friend" had had some experience with a person in the back of her car that I've since found out is an urban myth. I always wonder, if it's someone as close as the "brother's friend" rather than just "someone I heard about," did that mean the bother originally told it as"my friend" and at the end of the line there's someone who's claiming it actually happened to them? And if so, why do we never actually meet that person? I can only assume that quite a lot of the "brother's friend" people know full well they're telling a lie.

That story went around about Prince too

It's also in a Ross O'Carroll book.

Is that an urban legend? I (not a friend of a friend) have gone go a&e with a contact lens in my eye.

Friend at a dinner party told the Anne Frank stage play story(acting so bad an audience member yelled “She’s in the attic!” when the Nazis arrived). Said he was there. Then a bit later trotted out the one about stopping on a car journey and peeing in an empty whisky bottle. Later of course the bottle was stolen when his car was broken into. Everyone was roaring laughing, so annoying. I did have a quiet word with him afterwards and he insisted both things had actually happened!

A relative of mine was convinced that a newly arrived migrant had named her daughter Female pronunced Fa ma lee.I assume it's bullshit but stranger things have happened.

I was always told it was a ferret!