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The Mandela Effect

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Bellver888 · 07/03/2021 23:32

Has anyone experienced it?
I’m currently sending my head backwards and forwards because I thought “Vimto” was “Vimpto”

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 12/03/2021 12:22

The song We are the Champions no longer says 'Of the World' at the end

FullofCurryandparatha · 12/03/2021 12:24

The song We are the Champions no longer says 'Of the World' at the end

It never did. Only at live concerts.

MintyMabel · 15/03/2021 11:18

My parents are both convinced they watched the Hillsborough disaster happen live, but it was never shown live in the U.K. The footage you see was taken from the BBC who were recording highlights to be shown later on Match of The Day.

You sure about that? My memory is watching it reported on TV in the afternoon as I had a school project to do a talk about something that happened in the news over the weekend. The reason I remember giving the talk in the Monday is that pretty much everyone did the same thing.

My memory of it would be supported by the law. There is a famous law case about duty of care, Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police, where the defendant brought a case that the Police had a duty of care to them, despite them not having been in the stadium, and they had suffered psychiatric harm because they saw the events being played live on TV and radio. The case is still the precedent for duty of care.

The match may not have been a televised one, the BBC may not have covered the disaster, but it definitely was on TV. Your parents are correct.

Pukkatea · 15/03/2021 11:52

@LApprentiSorcier

So, what does it do?' 'What does it do? Well that's the beauty of it. It doesn't do anything.'

I think this may just be a very common question/answer formula in script writing, so it seems universally familiar but can't be pinned to a specific film.

A bit like the "80s pattern" I've attached that went viral a couple of years ago because everyone recognised it but no one could say what it was from. It was just a very common style of 1980s pattern. I swore it was used on the ring binder I had for a GCSE coursework project in 1988, but I'm sad enough still to possess it and it wasn't that pattern but one in a similar vein.

It's not exactly the same but that pattern looks a lot like the opening credits of Saved by the Bell.
FoonySpucker · 15/03/2021 12:18

We didn't have Walkers when I was younger!! We had a choice of Golden Wonder or Smiths. I know Walkers are S&V (green) and C&O (blue) but Golden Wonder were definitely the correct other way around ,

But as numerous people have explained, all that actually means is that Walkers chose to use different colours for their crisps. Nobody "swapped" anything or changed their branding.

lottiegarbanzo · 15/03/2021 12:39

The predominant crisp packaging colour changed, by virtue of a change in market leader. It changed, it swapped, it was not changed, it was not swapped.

This has become an endless exercise in people talking past each other, by virtue of misuse or misreading of passive and active verbs.

mummy2CnB · 01/04/2021 07:12

@HarrietSchulenberg

I was one of the many people who swore salt n vinegar crisp packets swapped colours with cheese n onion. Apparently they didn't.
I'm with you on this they defintatly did! Salt and vinegar were blue! So sure of it. They are lying 😆
NashvilleQueen · 02/03/2022 21:30

It's probably been said already but I learned this week that the Snow Whjte and the Seven Dwarfs song doesn't go 'hi ho, hi hi it's off to work we go' but 'it's home from work we go.

StaceyR0 · 04/04/2022 20:34

Hello, I definitely remember one of the hairy bikers dying as well. Came across this post because I was surprised to see they are both still alive and want to see if it was a common mandala effect.

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