• Nomecks
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    5711 months ago

    A friend of mine was bet a dollar he couldn’t climb aboard and to the top deck of a cruise ship moored in harbor. He made it, $5000 fine.

  • Punkie
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    5411 months ago

    As a kid, I never got that concept because it seemed like being manipulated. “I dare you to do this dangerous thing for my amusement!” Uh. No? “Chicken!” Okay, whatever, dude.

    • MentalEdge
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      611 months ago

      Peer pressure is such a wierd thing. It works, but the second you see how cruel it is, it just disgusts you and loses all power.

      • Punkie
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        811 months ago

        This was also where “yo momma” insults were also invisible to me. Like, “You don’t even know my mother, you’re just saying that and it makes no sense.” It wasn’t a trigger for me like it was other kids. I saw it for what it was. I’d tell my friends, “they just say that to get you mad, don’t listen,” but they’d get mad anyway. It’s like they couldn’t help it. I think dares were in that headspace as well.

        I wasn’t popular growing up. I was really awkward and non-athletic, so I didn’t bow to peer pressure as much as the other kids. I was going to be unpopular either way, so…

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    4511 months ago

    I ended up with a pink-and-purple triple mohawk, my clothes in shreds, and my skin splattered with four different colors of dye. There was exactly one Polaroid taken of the final result and I looked like a plus-sized goblin. Sadly, the photo is lost to time.

  • @wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net
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    1211 months ago

    When we were young, my partner dared my friend to put peanut butter on bread and stick them under his underwear on his butt for the rest of the night.

    He did and told me he wasn’t able to eat peanut butter for almost a decade lmao. Absolute trooper for going through with it.

  • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    As a kid I once got on my knees and prayed, prayed for Princess Diana to die. About a week later, well…