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[–] 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's because in America, the entire country was built on a native burial ground and out ghosts are fucking PISSED. They don't want corn dogs, they want your bone marrow and teeth.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    How come it's always some pale-ass Victorian era ghost? Where's all the ghosts of kids who died doing tiktok challenges? Wake up at the witching hour hearing a disembodied voice be like

    "On god I'm dead, no cap fam."

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'd buy a carbon monoxide monitor, if I was that guy.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Good idea if they have gas. But it's probably just the photos framed on the wall.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    wall people that have their eyes open are just family photos

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I'll never forget I was 4 years old I asked my dad if the pictures on the wall could see. Without taking a moment to think, he simply said "Yes." I immediately suspected he was an idiot and that entire exchange has stayed with me.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    My ancestors are smiling at me, Imperial. Can you say the same?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I do not have nearly enough Mormon blood on my hands for my ancestors to like me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

    i think eating fried butter is the usual penance for that

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    The fuck region are you from where they fry butter?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I, too, need this information. I now know how and when I'm going to die, I just need to know where.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    i was under the impression it was standard united states midwest fair food. freeze the butter, beer batter, fry.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Course it's the fucken Midwest, love em but I swear those lands have the same properties as the Black Forest or the bogs of Scotland. Which is to say the region is collectively insane in a very particular way.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Kinda, but it's also just an area in which Scots and Germans intermarried and built a culture together.

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  • That's what I was referencing just as a joke about the environment driving them nuts. I'm descended from Scots who were hanging the frontier until the 1870-1880s so our family recipes are a bit unhinged on first glance since they are meant to be filling Incase you don't get to eat for the rest of the day, for example chili and rice with a bit of corn bread mixed in.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    I think many Americans perceive themselves as having a spiritual 'negative karma' so to speak.

    Especially religious people and in particular Christians that believe they are born with that negative karma (original sin).

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That or we believe the only reason any dead person would stay in the US is because they're trying to do as much damage as physically possible as vengeance

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are we gonna acknowledge the hundreds/thousands of years Christians used their faith to invade and occupy numerous regions of the world? Then they enslaved the native people to extract local resources for the gain of the Church white people. Or in the case of America just lynch and murder the indigenous people. Maybe thats why Americans are afraid of their racist origins and ghosts

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yes that would the source of the negative karma but honestly most Americans are too busy mainlining Sprite and getting cheetoh dust in every possible human crevice while watching grown men give each other premature dementia to care.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    probably the puritans’ fault

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I wonder if it's because of what Americans did to the native population.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I embrace the ghosts in my dwellings. Americans are just afraid of everything. You can tell by how many guns they own, usually.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    America was founded by people who moved out because they got scared.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What kinda "friendship" requires yearly appeasement? Y'all out here getting bullied and pretending they're besties.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is actually the right way to approach them.

    Exercise the scary house and banish needy house spirits like gnomes or brownies. If it's fae, tell them to get fucked, fae are the worst abusers. Don't let parasites dictate how you run your home.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I wonder if it's due to the US not really having a strong culture of folklore, like in Europe or Asia.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Can someone from "everywhere else" confirm?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Europe and Asia have extensive folklore traditions...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Doesn't mean they stay in the haunted house lol

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    they invented those traditions so that they can stay in the haunted house. being haunted ain't fun but moving is a fucking hassle.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    America has them too. They just tend to be the hyper progressives that society shunned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lay no hotdogs thou.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    May I suggest a nice rice porridge and foaming mug of hvitøl? It works around these parts.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Parents oughta be like: "Tell us more about these wall people!" and a couple hours later you got a film treatment like "Vengeance of the Wall People with their Eyes Always Open."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Now I have a hankering for a forest hot dog. Would anyone be so kind? Maybe a side of forest curly fries? Thank you for being a friend.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    We use to take care of our fae friends.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    https://youtube.com/shorts/BFb0gkFqfSs?MZlHsIbXWWTXFELm

    Lol ppl may change their tube if the rent is cheap enough.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago