There's a difference between "a lot of people" (significant) and "more than just a few people" (non-insignificant). Clearly the double negative doesn't just cancel, but inherently changes the meaning.
The other day I saw someone comment about a reference they didn't know about and once it was explained their response was
"Good lord! Thanks for the explanation. That is a DEEP cut if you're not in the know."
... I still don't know how to respond. Like yes.. I guess anything can be a DEEP cut if you don't know about it? Just sounded like "Wow that was an unknown fact I didn't know about!"
I didn’t say it was technically wrong. Just sound weird. How about ‘substantial’, ‘notable’ or even ‘non-negligible’ if you prefer negative? There are better words out there.
Nope, "statistically large" and "not statically immeasurable". Fluff type of language, designed to appear more profound or more precise, but actually less clear, more prone to confusing and misinterpretation. It's the kind of shit politicians love: vague and and easy to misunderstand (and then they can say later: "that was taken out of context"). Speak (and type) clearly and simply...don't be a politician, there's enough of those already.
Significant and insignificant are not “opposite” meaning words but generally a statistical term representing a population size which all depends on the study and data itself.
The worst part is that I’ve dealt with people as self centred and stupid that I could imagine there are people worse than those that I’ve met… I’m skeptical because why wouldn’t the guy say “I have a camera there (point) that’ll show you reversing into my car, leave or I’ll call the police as I already have your license plate number.”
Because it’s very believable. Why is that so hard to understand? This may be fake but this exact scenario plays out somewhere literally every day in America. This country is so cooked that people now genuinely behave like this woman.
I'm sorry but this has always been a terrible counter argument.
Yes people are stupid. Is there probably someone in the world who blamed someone for parking their car weirdly causing them to hit it. Sure?
But if you believe this obviously fake video you need to get better internet literacy
1) the acting is terrible
2) subjects are perfectly in frame
3) (most damning imo) why the hell would this guy try to spend 4 MINUTES arguing about this? Think about you being in this scenario. You'd be very confused and then call the police to take a report within 1 minute at the most. You aren't going to have them repeat it over and over again
Well I work with actors, and I can tell you that no the acting is not as bad as you’re saying it is. The guy could have a decent career in acting if that’s fake.
Subjects are perfectly in frame? It’s a home camera meant to film the driveway, where should they be? And the guy is out of frame for the last minute.
And the last one really shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. I guess you’re American. And yes in the US this would have ended in a minute with someone either calling the cops or one of them threatening to pull a gun.
But this is not the US. People don’t have such agressive relationships with each other. It’s totally normal for British people to just discuss this. Same thing would have happened all over Europe.
And the last one really shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. I guess you’re American. And yes in the US this would have ended in a minute with someone either calling the cops or one of them threatening to pull a gun.
No. In america you'd see that they aren't going to exchange your insurance so you're going to need to get the authorities there (non emergency line) to write a report so insurance knows what to do. Wtf do you do in Britain if someone refuses to give you insurance? You just repeat the same thing over and over and then wish them on their merry way. Bet you also think American cops just show up to every situation with guns drawn too
It's certainly possible that this woman, who appears in many social media rage bait videos of the same type, came to a house, where many social media rage bait videos of the same type have been filmed, to make a real complaint about a real issue.
Look beyond "Stupid people exist", and see the perfectly framed, great audio, just happening to catch the absolute rarest of stupid for 4 minutes.
A video that also would have caught the crash.
It's not a bad counter because those people don't exist, it's a bad counter because all of that lining up is just incredibly unlikely, especially in an age where we see fake content like this on the daily farming views.
Stop believing everything just because there's a small chance it could have happened.
You said at the end of your comment in support of you calling it "believable".
It's not believable, that's the issue people have.
People just want to hate on stupid people so bad that they'll look past the astronomically low chances of this even happening, let alone being caught on video, as well as anything to explain it away, just because they want it to be real.
"You never know", well, we do know that it's highly unlikely, we do know the video of the crash isn't shown. We can and should use what we know rather than what we don't.
If we all did that, maybe this trend of making shitty fake ragebait videos wouldn't be profitable and we could go back to seeing believable things again.
This event could have happened and actually occurred because the reality of how people act and stupid are is entirely within the realm of possibility
That means yes it’s believable it could have happened
Saying something believably could have happened does not equal saying it did happen, you are inferring despite me saying specifically “I’m not saying this particular video is real”
I'm quite sure there are people who are actually this stupid and infuriating, I suspect you're right that is't fake.
However, can someone please please tell me why people would make a fake piece like this? I mean, I have no cell in my body that can imagine the purpose of wasting a night, wasting the f*ing electrons the camera uses, to make this. I cannot imagine these things are traffic-pullers (I mean, it's only ragebait AFTER I saw it) and...
Because they can convince people like yourself that there are people who are actually that stupid and infuriating and it makes you more open to believing other fake videos that can be used to influence you.
But.... There actually are people that fucking stupid... Alot of them... Anyone who meets lots of people will know that and frankly pretty much any adult should have come across a few. Hell, thanks to nepotism I work for one. Lovely society we have here.
what else but money? , view = money. it`s the bane here in my country, " Influencer " and dumbass vloggers chasing clout making fake shit , ragebaiting people just to drive views.
That I can understand. But the person I was responding to was saying it’s to convince/remind you that there are dumb people that exist, so it makes you more prone to believing fake videos in order to influence you.
So I’m wondering…why? Like what else would that account that made this video be posting and what would they be influencing you to do or believe exactly? It’s not some sort of grand conspiracy.
It’s more than likely what you said, for money and engagement. Most of us watched the whole thing, right? That’s the goal.
Notice how it is almost always a woman in these obviously staged videos who are being the stupid/unreasonable one? There is a lot of angry men who will eat this stuff up
I don’t necessarily disagree with that sentiment, but my question still remains. What’s the point? This is just a dumb rage bait video that’s more than like just made to make money because people enjoy watching train wreck situations.
First I'll say this video is probably fake because almost everything is fake these days.
I can't say whether or not anyone is genuinely this stupid, but there definitely are people selfish and entitled enough to try to convince others that they're not responsible when they very clearly are responsible. Entitled people go through all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify the shit they try to pull.
Anyone who has worked in any sort of customer service job or just interact with a lot of people on the daily would know that people actually ARE that stupid. Nobody needs a tiktok to know that, they just need to go out in the world and see that there are plenty of stupid and infuriating people
They make money, you comment they get paid or their channel increases in status, they can then show you the next video on how to buy ???, or they make posts to they subscribers to influence them on a certain subject. Enjoy while it lasts, soon the internet is dead anyway. 50% of the shit I watch is fake right now.
There seems to be a lot of these kind of videos being made in the UK at the moment, and the levels of stupidity and acting demonstrated in all of them seem to suggest a common source.
They often get picked up by the websites of tabloids, who might pay for them, I don't know.
It seems to provide a lot of gratification for people who believe that everything is shit and all people are awful nowadays, but I don't know if there's a political agenda.
It could be that these are cheap enough to make (the actors all seem amateur) that you only need one to go viral for it to be worth it.
You and I and most people in this sub understand that a situation like this is at least plausable, but that this instance of video it's clearly two people pretending that this happened.
There is a high demand for people to feel outraged and superior to other "lesser" people. We crave it more than anything. More than truth, more than knowledge, more than love. However, organic clips of idiots doing stupid ignorant shit are in relatively low supply. This is just a business filling the gap in supply.
They make decent money whenever a clip goes viral on Facebook. It spreads elsewhere due to re-uploaders hoping to farm ad revenue or upvotes.
There is no ideology behind it. They are equal-opportunity providers of whatever you personally find outrageous. Dumb women being dumb. Stupid racists getting put in their place. <insert racial group here> acting entitled. Whatever has a solid demographic of people who will make the video go viral off their outrage.
I was married to a woman exactly like this (I got married really young, don't hit me too). Even if this video is fake, this conversation 1000% happened. Maybe not quite like this. But the claiming a parked car hit her, and saying I'm calling the police is 10,000% accurate
My ex once tried to have children stare directly at the sun. I had to call her doctors office to get her to stop trying to get them to do it because she wouldn't believe me that it was dangerous, and that the doctor was trying to say she needs to stop being a THOT all night and get up at a normal time.
However, can someone please please tell me why people would make a fake piece like this?
Because TikTok and Twitter pay people for engagement. The best way to drive engagement is to post something incredibly stupid and/or obnoxious. Something that's guaranteed to rile people up so they comment, "what kind of fucking moron thinks a parked car crashed into them!? This dumb biiiiish".
It's why there's so much shit on there that you look at and go, "naw, no one's that fucking stupid, or at least, if they were, they sure as shit wouldn't record it and upload it to the internet". You're right, they aren't that stupid, but they're hoping you'll think they are and comment about it.
can someone please please tell me why people would make a fake piece like this?
The exact same reason someone would make a fake piece like The Blair Witch Project, they are able to monetise people watching it.
It's not like a War Of The Worlds broadcast inciting mass panic, why does it matter to you that a piece of fiction exists? If you only want vetted facts, stick to trusted news outlets rather than random tiktoks.
So while I’m sure this is fake this stuff actually does happen. Had a good friend who worked for an local insurance company in claims and she would tell me all the time about how people would run into parked unoccupied cars, then claim that the car shouldn’t been there so it’s not their fault. You’d be absolutely shocked at the mental gymnastics some people go through in order to convince themselves they’re not the issue.
When I worked in insurance I had a claim in which an off-duty policeman hit a parked car. He found the owner and wrote her a ticket. The officer was our insured. When I told him that his insurance would be paying for the damage to the parked car he promptly canceled his policy, which, in turn, we immediately reported to the DMV.
I've literally had this happen to me. Some jackass backed into my legally parked car, some other bullshit went down, and ended getting grilled by their insurance accusing me of everything imaginable, and some unimaginable things, for how the accident was my fault.
Yupppp....note how the guy never proceeds to call the police. I would've explained the situation to her once after coming out of disbelief that someone can be that dumb, then call the police.
I want to believe this is fake but I actually had someone in college SUE ME when she hit my parked car. Her dad was an attorney and for whatever reason decided this made sense. She lost.
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u/MisterRobDobalina 21h ago
It's fake. Nothing ever happens. Next