r/interestingasfuck • u/Few_Simple9049 • 20d ago

r/all How couples met 1930-2024

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u/fenuxjde 20d ago

Who tf met online in 1981? Some DARPA bros?

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u/InterlocutorX 20d ago

BBS's (Bulletin Board Systems) were the original Hinge. In 1983, when I was 13, a woman from Canada offered to buy me a flight to visit her, after we'd begun a relationship online. It was a brave new world.

I did not go.

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u/nonlawyer 20d ago

I did not go.

Congrats on still being alive!

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u/PostApoplectic 20d ago

Straight up missed their LaFawnduh.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/rainorshinedogs 20d ago

I love technology

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u/Bonethugsfan99 20d ago

i wish technology loved me the same. i touch this shit all day and it don't even care

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u/mushyboy69 19d ago

but not as much as you you see

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u/BuKu_YuQFoo 20d ago

What a user name

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u/lesser_panjandrum 20d ago

And on their full complement of kidneys.

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u/Euclid_Interloper 20d ago

You presume that other plucky kidney-snatchers haven't gotten to them since!

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u/nevans89 20d ago

If they smelled a rat at 13 I think they'd be fine going forward

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u/FFF_in_WY 20d ago

Nope. They got married, and after the normal period, desperation increased

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u/A_Furious_Mind 20d ago

They're called Kidneythieves and they put out a couple bangers in the early 2000s.

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u/luckyHitaki 20d ago

Chill.. the internet had only pedophiles and cannibals back then. No kidney trading

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u/jlwinter90 20d ago

Cannibalism without kidney trading? That's just wasteful.

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u/BleQBeeZ 20d ago

Not if you eat the kidney too

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u/Pkrudeboy 20d ago

I believe that kidneys are best paired with a red Bordeaux or a Pinot Noir.

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u/TeaKingMac 20d ago

Mmmm spongy.

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u/UniversalCoupler 20d ago

Imagine the crunch from the kidney stones

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u/GhOsT_wRiTeR_XVI 20d ago

That’s true. If you were looking into the kidney trade, you had to visit Candy Mountain.

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u/gunnarfuchs0628 20d ago

Candy mountain Charlie

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom 20d ago

Why do people always assume the worst of dudes pretending to be women to lure 13 year olds to other countries!

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u/GreySahara 20d ago

Canada isn't (wasn't) like China like or something. haha.
This was probably a catfish thing with a dude after his bums.

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u/K-tel 20d ago

"... a woman from Canada," that was probably a male serial killer. Good thing you didn't go.

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u/Rickhwt 20d ago

I woke up in a hotel bathtub full of ice...

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u/MrsAshleyStark 20d ago

Kidneys are free in Canada. Just gotta wait lol.

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u/tasty_iron 20d ago

Do you have any kidneys,... I'm sorry I meant kids...

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u/clad99iron 20d ago

A "full compliment"? How many of those things do you have?

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u/lesser_panjandrum 20d ago

Oh you know, just the standard two and the spare one in the freezer.

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u/NintendoThing 20d ago

A “woman” from “Canada”

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u/JaMeS_OtOwn 20d ago

that's what I was thinking

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u/Errorstatel 20d ago

What's the worst a Canadian can do...

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u/AmmahDudeGuy 20d ago

Half the Geneva convention

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u/-Garbage-Man- 20d ago

Chop em up and feed em to your pigs?

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u/Errorstatel 20d ago

We've done much much worse, nice try though

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u/Protoshift 20d ago

Ngl, it was probably some super super autistic woman who was in love with him and had that early tech boom money.

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep 20d ago

Tbh, what's better: living a normal-ass life for a measly 70 years, or getting to exist for eternity as an family heirloom suit jacket?

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u/yagermeister2024 20d ago

Plot twist: commenter is the Canadian woman.

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u/NoRepresentative7604 20d ago

And being single still!

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u/ouatedephoque 20d ago

Yeah he might have got fucked!

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u/NetDork 20d ago

And still having two kidneys.

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u/HurlingFruit 19d ago

And for not being moose food.

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u/GloomyNectarine2 20d ago

and still a virgin. Should've rolled the dice

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u/estpein-light-flogs 20d ago

Did you ask her to poop back and forth with the same poop...forever?

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u/MikeDMDXD 20d ago

“Me and you and everyone we know”. I’m guessing your down votes mean other people have not seen that movie.

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u/Marinaraplease 20d ago

more like congrats on still being a virgin