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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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Are you interpreting it literally? It's a figure of speech—a kind of hyperbole; it's just a way of implying something was common, not that literally every person had one.
Whether it actually was common though, I don't know. Joe here might be taking some liberties for the sake of a catchy thumbnail.
It's a race to the bottom. Everything is blown the hell outta proportion until meaning is well meaningless.
"Everybody had one" is not a figure of speech or even hyperbole. It is a very simple literal claim, which also happens to be a flat out lie.