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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm a star of a YouTube video with about 9 million views, where I'm pretending to believe some outrageous things to an interviewer (who thought I was being serious) just because I thought it would be funny. Never knew it would blow up, and now there's a good portion of the population who would recognise me as 'that insane guy from the YouTube video'. Unfortunately to give more info would be to dox myself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I bummed a cigarette off Jeremy Clarkson in the middle of the desert.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You're James May then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Two Secret Service guys stood behind me and watched me pee so they could clear the bathroom for John McCain to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I also got guest listed into a neutral milk hotel show because I was the only barista working that wasn't star struck by the lawn gnome looking guy and I accidentally made it sound like I tried to get tickets but couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am the right hand man for one of the biggest drug empires in america

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Purdue Pharma?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

but do you take half measures?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Many years ago, I had a few beers with someone who turned out to be a descendant of Stalin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

David Cronenberg knows me by name.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I once charged Xibit $300 for an Oz of weed. Also smoked a joint with George Clinton in front of the same club. Also one time Bunny Wailer gave me donuts back stage at reggae on the river when I was like 13.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a Family Guy cutaway gag that features me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

As of 1650 gmt-5 03/29/25 this is the most insane thing I've heard on this site

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I got free backstage tickets to a very popular (like A list popular) sold out concert because the day of a few hours before, I randomly met the artists son at an antiwar political organizing event and I told him how I was planning on trying to sneak in afterwards (this was before I knew he was their son)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, you blew my 3 year old cover! I am in fact actually....... billionaire-tears

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If you've ever given me mutual aid pls DM me the amount so I can tell you how to set it up as a tax write off

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I have no idea what that means, but it looks like this is the place to say that I know a guy who threw up on Derrida

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It means: "Something that actually happened to me but is so weird/unbelievable no one would believe me"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A north korean bloke struck up a conversation with me next to a news stand. I didn't know what to talk about so I showed him the Pokemon magazine I'd just bought

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

my girlfriend actually did go to a different school but it turned out one of my classmates knew her through some church frisbee golf thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I came really close to needing to fight an alpaca once.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My apartment was used for an episode of Simon & Simon (80s tv show) and i got to see a car shot up, ride on a horse and also sat in one of the Simon's laps while they were setting up.

I won't tell you which Simon or which episode (because i don't know)

If you don't like that one, one time i was on the bad side of a drug deal gone wrong, 2 guys sharing one shotgun busted into my place and demanded the money but i convinced em i got fucked same as them and then we played Tekken together until they just left.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You gotta elaborate on this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I told him about the time Carly Simon wrote a song about me and he said "that's a lame claim to fame" then his eyes lit up and he started scribbling in a notebook.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And what's the story of Carly Simon writing a song about you? And which one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I met a high ranking politician of an African country

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One of my family members used an bazooka against an important governmental building of a foreign country (during peacetime) because hurr durr communism bad. (I'm sorry I probably can't give any more details so this probably sounds completely ridiculous)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I got lost in the snow on one of the most statistically dangerous mountains in the US and fell off a cliff and got out without having to call search and rescue

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm the one who introduced Gorbachev to Pizza Hut

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A lot of people I know have personally met Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, but I was late both times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've simultaneously met more wallstreet oligarchs, high ranking members of JSOC and the intelligence community and high ranking government officials of the PRC than any normal person should in a life completely coincidentally by being in the right place at the right time - excluding one person who I actually heard about ahead of time and actively worked to meet. Like yeah this sounds super fucking suspect but every time it happened I was literally minding my own business going about life when coincidentally people that can shake the world to its foundations just cross paths with me and I go slightly wide-eyed recognizing them and immediately say "Oh hi."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

one of the wall street oligarch meetings wasn't me meeting them and more like I was minding my own business enjoying a most sumptuous breakfast and was rudely dragged into meeting that cranky old fucking boomer who was arguing with some dipshit techbro over him throwing techno-buzzwords that few over the boomer's head on why the boomer should invest into his start up venture capitalist pump-and-dump scheme which lead to a multi-hour lecture on how the boomer oligarch takes inspiration from the greatest managers of history such as napoleon, alexander the great, and sun tzu, among other absolutely inane shit that made me want to lobotomize myself with my fork because the new generation doesn't know how to manage their assets anymore. Sitting through that really made me really question whether or not the world would be better or worse off with the oligarch boomers continuing their iron-fisted rule or the techbros supplanting them as the oligarchs that rule as the high priests of capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm so sorry you had to meet all these people. You work in finance right? I thankfully am able to avoid these types even though I'm also very close but it seems in finance you kind of have to socialize/network as part of the job

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I blasted a famous chud with a water cannon once.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Bernie Sanders showed up at my workplace once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A piece of equipment I worked on was used by the myth busters on TV once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don’t wear caps yells-at-cloud

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Everyone in this thread: I've once met this famous person or I was once on TV.

Me: My mom once ran over my foot with her car, but somehow it didn't break every single bone in my foot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I was once interviewed for Icelandic television

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's like a 50/50 I won't be able to use one of my hands in 20 years (doctor says), but it looks fine and acts fine right now, and I don't have a degenerative disease.

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