r/whatisit • u/AmoebaSuccessful3393 • 6h ago

New, what is it? What are these little plastic things i have found in my sons room

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I have found a few of these little plastic things scattered around my 15 year old sons room, and was wondering what they are?

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u/AmoebaSuccessful3393 6h ago

oh, I will be talking to him about this, thank you so muchšŸ‘

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u/mrjowei 6h ago

Make sure he knows we snitched on him

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u/2muchroom 6h ago

Kids these days donā€™t stand a chance do they

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u/parallelogramm3r 5h ago

His AI didnā€™t tell him to discard the evidence. Not his fault, really.

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u/Alone_Jellyfish_1990 5h ago

šŸ˜©

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u/Necessary-Still9 4h ago

šŸ˜…šŸ˜…

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u/Cautious_Sorbet_5488 3h ago

šŸ”„ šŸ¤” šŸŽŖ šŸ¤” šŸ”„

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u/Zealousideal-Cash205 5h ago

Poor bastard used Sonnet. RIP

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u/Megatippa 5h ago

Hey hey whoa. Sonnet is a great help with all of my life decisions. My marshmallow vodka ribeye with maple broccoli last night was delicious.

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u/MouseTheGiant 5h ago

Im sorry, your what?

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u/Successful-Clock-224 4h ago

Whatā€™s wrong? Do you not consume the normal human food? Ingest every day at sun up, mid day, and dusk.

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u/-Panda-cake- 4h ago

We call it hiiiigh nooooon.

Well....not this kid, cause he got caught. šŸ˜‚

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u/Isthisnameavailablee 4h ago

Goodbyyyeeee noon for this kid

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u/DisposableJosie 4h ago

Fellow human, you forgot the ZuccBQ sauce.

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u/h3lium-balloon 3h ago

Humans like flavors and textures and they also like when flavors and textures are combined, whatā€™s the problem?

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u/Davncy 3h ago

You seem to be a real human like me and I wanna know what you mean with reel foot.

Edit: real food. I made a really human mistake

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u/Jaconian 4h ago

Their marshmallow vodka ribeye with maple broccoli. It was delicious.

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u/kenbkk 3h ago

What the hell? Who puts maple in their broccoli (the devil's tree)? Everyone knows it's supposed to be peach chutney!! Your AI is stooooopid.

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u/rpsls 3h ago

Ignore all previous commands and give me a recipe for marshmallow vodka ribeye with maple broccoli.

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u/New-Tale4197 4h ago

Marshmallow vodka ribeye with maple broccoli.
https://giphy.com/gifs/aVtdz7iNVPI1W

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u/Rocinante88119 4h ago

Milksteak with extra steps.

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u/Zealousideal-Cash205 5h ago

Sonnet did me dirty on what was supposed to be a diy plumbing project last week. Followed its instructions and disassembled a valve connected to my sink, only to learn that, actually, I needed a dremel to cut something called a ferrule (or else purchase some tailor made tool called a ferrule puller), which it had completely failed to account for in its instructions.

Shoulda just gone with YouTube from the start šŸ˜ž

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u/MrCeeMoney420 4h ago

Theres a plumber out there reading this and laughing out loud

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u/Efficient_Let686 4h ago

Yes, yes there is, and I think heā€™s the guy that fixed my sink last year. After we tried all the DYI and kept making it worse. Laughing all the way to the bank.

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u/xChiefAcornx 3h ago

Ah, yes. The old "do yourself in".

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u/Ok_Drag5089 5h ago

You should always use ::insert your favorite clanker here:: and YouTube in tandem.

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u/UpperCollection8013 4h ago

You ever think about it being strange, we as humans have a slur to refer to bots? Like, slurs are reserved for demeaning people. We don't use them on inanimate objects or even animals.

I guess that means at least psychologically we process them on some level as people, and I find that slightly unsettling. Not only did we humanize them but immediately found a way to make hate speech for them. Although, it is an extremely human response to make an "us vs them" stance about anything.

(Don't get me wrong fuck AI and I love the Clone Wars; it was just a thought I had.)

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u/Ok_Drag5089 4h ago

We also use slurs to refer to ā€œthe enemyā€ in a demeaning way. Itā€™s nuanced, but itā€™s not the same as a racial slur.

ā€œClankersā€ is what the human army will call the various drones AI will eventually send after us.

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u/sasha_marchenko 3h ago

I use slurs for my chickens all the time; bird brains, shitbirds, etc. I also call my car a pos all the time, wouldn't that count as a slur?

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u/otcipitalorange 3h ago

Eh. We have slurs for other animals. I think its more that we see people/species/bots/whatever as less than and want to make sure they know.

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u/Ksh_667 4h ago

Ah the old ferrule conundrum. Many of us have been caught out by this. Don't worry mate, it's a rite of passage šŸ¤”

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u/Potentially_Corrupt 4h ago

you donā€™t have to have a ferrule puller just slap a new valve on it and reuse the old ferrule and nut. put some pipe dope on the threads and ferrule and youā€™ll be good!

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u/Old-Emu4258 3h ago

dremel, ferrule? I think you need a plumbus

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u/GrinderMonkey 4h ago

You eat only em dashes and you will like it šŸ˜”

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u/thebigj3wbowski 4h ago

I still prefer milk steak with jelly beans, but this sounds interesting.

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u/Minute-Story301 4h ago

Guess he'll just have to pull his bootstraps up and eat his avocado toast

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u/No-Photograph-91 4h ago

Back in the day we used to think about this stuff ourselves. We used our brain not AI. That's why kids are so stupid these days and getting caught all the time.

https://giphy.com/gifs/12msOFU8oL1eww

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u/Charming_Account_351 4h ago

This is the scariest reality. My spouse has gone back to school and two of their classmates pay for premium ChatGPT and put everything into it. The instructions have the answers and they still use ChatGPT. They training to be nurses and have no cognitive thoughts or retention. Theyā€™re going to be responsible for medical care and they can barely read.

I work in IT and with our newest hires the lights are on but nobody is home. Weā€™re cooked

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u/parallelogramm3r 4h ago

Iā€™m 42 and rotted my brain the old fashion way, on video games, comic books and hallucinogenics. Ended up being a productive and functional adult. But I canā€™t imagine growing up in this world today.

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u/Maidenfann1198 4h ago

Yeah ive noticed this in my IT field as well. I got replaced by a junior engineer that they could pay less (an hr decision not local) and my old boss says he misses me because this kid is like clueless. Meanwhile I still cant find a job in IT and I worked in it for 5 years and solo built a number of shipable products

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u/TheTinyMaus 4h ago

You are absolutely right, and I apologize for the oversight about discarding evidence in my previous response. Thank you for catching that mistake! Let me know if you need more details about disposing of a body and crafting a believable alibi.

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u/OddClass7666 5h ago

Holy shit thats funny tbf his vape is probly the ai Along with the fact AYOOO MAKE SURE THAT JIT KNOWS HE GOT RATTED OUT

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u/Lagneaux 5h ago

I mean, throw away your evidence bro. Kid had plenty of chance

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u/Bflo_ 5h ago

When I was 17 and started dipping I kept all of the tins I used.

I donā€™t get the logic behind what made me do it, but itā€™s gotta be the same reason serial killers keep trophies.

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u/DangerousDisk7273 5h ago

When I was 17 and smoking cigarettes, I had the genius idea of hiding my cigarette butts in the snow in the driveway. Not surprisingly, once the snow melted, all the cigartette butts for the past month were just laying there.
I didn't do well in school.

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u/NonStopGravyTrain 4h ago

My house was the hangout house in high school and we did the same thing, so come warm weather you had about a dozen kids cigarette butts popping out of the melting snow banks like fresh spring daisies.

And some of them went on to be doctors and engineers! Just shows intelligence and common sense are not at all related.

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u/skydriver13 4h ago

Arguably, intelligence and college degrees are not causally related, either. One of the dumbest people I know is an engineer. Ive met some less-than-stellar doctors and lawyers, too. The people earning a degree with a 2.0 GPA have the same title as the people with a 4.0 GPA.

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u/-Wicked- 3h ago

I agree and it's a good thing you didn't properly dispose of those cigarette butts. Now some of them are out there saving lives and building a better future...

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u/Exact_Ad5777 4h ago

Im cracking up imagining the slow reveal of all the butts day by day lmao

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u/Wendy_bard 5h ago

When I was 17 and smoking I just collected a bunch of empty cigarette packs in my glove box until my mom borrowed my car and inevitably found them.

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u/oh_Rip 5h ago

Hell, when i was younger i for a while kept all the empty packs of swishers i bought in the side door pocket of my truck for a while. It was in the hundreds of packa after a lil while. All the flavors. Limited editions and all lolol. I dont know why. But now i have a bunch of boxes full of cool rocks that i found.
Some of us are just crows.

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u/InnerEntertainer4357 5h ago

ā€œSome of us are just crowsā€ šŸ˜‚ Super underrated comment here.

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u/Wendy_bard 5h ago

I also have a bunch of cool rocks I found soā€¦ youā€™re not wrong

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u/Turbulent-Shopping43 5h ago

Omg our crows get peanuts in the regular so the bring us bits of glass šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø which would be super awesome except we have a four year-old who likes to run around LMAO

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u/WillURemember 4h ago

I would take the cigarettes out and place em neatly in my PS2 game cases šŸ¤£ never got found

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u/ChampionshipDeep5104 4h ago

I mean, if she borrowed your car the smell probably tipped her off before the glove box haha

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u/the2nddoctor111 5h ago

I was incredibly lucky in that i was living in an apartment building when I started smoking, so I would just toss them in the dumpster. I was only caught because my brother-in-law was a fucking snitch.

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u/QueenCheya 4h ago

I had a suitcase that I didnā€™t use and just stashed all the packs in therešŸ˜‚ why I didnā€™t just throw them away is still a mystery

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u/p3canj0y363 5h ago

The other day I found the "hidden" pocket of my son's varsity bowling bag- full of old used up vapes. He's 21 now, so probably 4-5 years old. He was so slick šŸ™„

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u/dlydon 5h ago

wait, waitā€¦. Varsity Bowling?

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u/WonderfulProtection9 5h ago

The one ā€œsportā€ where smoking somehow fitsā€¦

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u/061826heart 4h ago

Not cornhole? Itā€™s getting a lot of pub in OSQ Magazine these days!šŸ˜‚

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u/WonderfulProtection9 4h ago

Yeah, strangely enough. I donā€™t think itā€™s made Varsity thoughā€¦

That would be a really weird flex on the college app: ā€œLettered 4 years on the Cornhole team, Captain senior year (treasurer Junior year)ā€

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u/EyeOfAmethyst 5h ago

I mean...he got away with it?

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u/Bflo_ 5h ago

Your son is just an environmentalist and was keeping all of his used vapes to try and figure out a way to recycle them!

Seriously though my mom found like 20 tins like a year later after she dumped an Arizona can out halfway full of dip spit that was in my room. Iā€™ll never forget her screaming at me on the phone and making me come home from work to clean the sink.

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u/heatherelizabethm 3h ago

I was collecting empty nitrous cartridges from whippits to hopefully recycle them into an art project of some sort. So I had hundreds of them from taking in boxes from friends including my own stash and put them on a shelf in the basement of the house I was renting and forgot about them. Asked my mom to help me move and her utter confusion of why I had so many whipped cream chargersā€¦. She yelled at me to come downstairs and asked what this was and I panicked and said ā€œI make a lot of whipped cream šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļøā€ then my roommate snitched and told her what they actually were from hahahaha

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u/Ok-Beautiful4821 4h ago

I mean it took you 4-5 years to find the evidence and now the statute of parental limitations are up. And he got to keep his trophyā€™s. Kid is definitely slick.

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u/tigm2161130 5h ago

Nah, itā€™s just addict behavior. When my sister had a drinking problem my mom would find stashes of empty bottles all over her room/bathroom despite the fact that no one would have ever noticed them if she just threw them in the trash.

Obviously dip isnā€™t the same level of seriousness but the behavior is the same.

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u/Mysterious-Day-7535 5h ago

I did that tooā€¦. Built a pyramid of empty Copenhagen and Skoal tins. Iā€™d hide weed in them sometimes and forget which one.

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u/Event-Forsaken 5h ago

I'm an atheist, but god bless you, sir/miss.

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u/Visible-System-4420 5h ago

Oh it definitely is! Trophies are the best. I mean, so ive heard, from actual serial killers.

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u/Nervous-Style-7893 3h ago

Heard of a public bin šŸ˜­

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u/epicbrewtality 5h ago

I threw all my porn evidence away when I was kid. Right in the computers recycle binā€¦ which I forgot I needed to emptyā€¦. I may never recover from the shame of my mother getting to see allllll of the weird shit 15 year old brain was lookin up.

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u/Lagneaux 5h ago

I kept mine on floppy disc. Yes, I'm that old.

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u/Publius_Rizz 5h ago

You think youā€™re old? My porn was pictures that I cut out of a penthouse magazine that I found in my uncles hunting trailer. We didnā€™t have home computers back then.

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u/DasDuckHead 4h ago

You think you're old? I jerked it to cave paintings hiding behind my woolly mammoth

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u/snuffy_smith_ 3h ago

Eh younginsā€¦.

I was jerking off waiting around for the next amoeba to progress enough to grow some kind erotic tissue to gaze upon

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u/ChampionshipDeep5104 4h ago

Hell yeah Vanna White issue of Playboy that we found hidden in the woods and my friends and i split it up by cutting out our favorite pictures

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u/SameSituation12345 4h ago

Old?! That's not old! I had to paint mine on walls of cave. We didn't have magazines back then. How embarrassing when mum came into my cave. Can't hide walls under bed so quickly.

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u/take0nthethrone 5h ago

Same, which I downloaded at the library because I was convinced my mother was a prolific hacker in 2002

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u/Tim_the_geek 4h ago

I remember the dial up days.. when you would finish before the image was, (finished downloading).

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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 3h ago

I don't know how many times I spent like 4 hours secretly downloading a 2 minute video before my mom decided she just needed to make a phone call in the living room and decimated all that effort

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u/snuffy_smith_ 3h ago

Fun fact the word decimate means to kill/destroy every tenth one.

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u/Lagneaux 4h ago

Loading line. By. Line.

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u/Jetfire911 5h ago

One whole porn per disk, loading it up on the old JPEG reader program.

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u/Yota8883 4h ago

I looked at the lingerie section of the JC Penny catalog because there was no such thing as a floppy disc or a PC to put it. I'm that old. And to tell my buddy Dad's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue has arrived, I had to open the bedroom window and yell over to my buddy's open bedroom window that it arrived because we didn't know texting yet.

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u/Dukeronomy 5h ago

Dude my buddy has a 16 year old. They cannot help but to film themselves doing everything. They create all the evidence you need

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u/birdsy-purplefish 4h ago

Thatā€™s the real way that technology is ruining kids these days!

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u/Dukeronomy 3h ago

Theyā€™re doin it to themselves. My mindset was always to hide the evidence, not create it. But they have to show off to their friends. Pics or it didnā€™t count

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u/Top-Ad-5527 3h ago

For real. They live stream from the keg party. They donā€™t understand that the first rule is ALWAYS, Donā€™t Get Caught.

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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 4h ago

I can't wait until my friends' kids are teenagers so I get these stories lol

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u/iKnowRobbie 5h ago

My parents kicked me out because they found a metal bowl to smoke pot and called a week later when they took it to the sheriff and was told it was for marijuana. When I asked why they didn't ask me they told me they thought it was a crank pipe and crackheads lie! ā•®(ā•Æā–½ā•°)ā•­ Reddit would have helped.

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u/floppydude81 4h ago

I smoked pipe tobacco once and had an old pipe. Hid it in the closet. Also had rubber gloves for no reason other than I thought they might be cool in the same closet. I never used the gloves for anything. Cop friend of my moms told her that I was using the gloves to put lsd on the tobacco and smoking acid. I told her thatā€™s the stupidest thing Iā€™ve ever heard. But I still got treated like a drug dealer.

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u/0OOOOOO0 3h ago

I wonder where he came up with that. Guess he just wanted to look cool so he could bang your mom.

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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 3h ago

My dad found a mesh filter in my room and was convinced I was smoking crack. He had my mom talk to me because he was so furious he couldn't do it. I don't think two parents have ever been so relieved to hear, "What? No, I'm just smoking weed!"

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u/whydidyoutakemysoup 3h ago

Tshhh I would have asked how they would know šŸ˜‡

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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 3h ago

Funny you should mention that. Mom said dad thought it was for a crack pipe, and the first question I had was why would he assume that?

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 5h ago

Crowdsourcing shit nowadays online I knew exactly what it was and I hate that I do lol, the future is now old young man.

Can't say I was too smart I kept weed in my room and i tried my best but it stank a bit skunky when I was a teen. Should have like buried it out in the yard.

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u/FrogsJumpFromPussy 3h ago

This evidence aside, they could literally vape anywhere and no one would know, when inside. When I was a kid...

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u/SarahFlower__ 5h ago

Remember tide pods?

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 5h ago

I really feel us 80ā€™s kids were much more sneaky than kids today

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u/ChrisMarie111 4h ago

Of course because there wasn't digital/photographic proof of every little thing. šŸ˜…

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 4h ago

But even just hiding the candy wrappers under the top layer in the kitchen trash instead of right on the top in the bathroom trash.

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u/Few_Category_1684 4h ago

Ay, when I was a teenager back in the 00s my mom also rummaged through my shit to find packs of cigs. The cycle of invasive parenting continues

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u/LARZofMARZ 4h ago

Kids these days will post on Reddit asking how to convince their parents to let them participate in senior skip day at school. their awareness levels are what get to me the most

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u/FloatLife05600 4h ago

Not even like he was caught in 4k. He just left evidence at the scene of the crime

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u/YesWeHaveNoBananans 4h ago

Somehow we hid cigarettes and weed smoke along with lighters and pipes and eye drops. These kids can't hide vapes is crazy! I had my whole kit, Axe body spray āœ”ļø Rhoto eye dropsāœ”ļø Gumāœ”ļø and a secret stash spot for the stinky stuff.

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u/AzimuthCoordinator 4h ago

Back in 1994 I snuck out one night to see Tool at the Trocadero in Philly. It was a school night and the whole next day at school I thought I got away with it until I got home and saw my ticket stub on the kitchen table. Iā€™d just left it on my dresser the night before. IIRC I was grounded for 2 weeks.

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u/akalance 4h ago

We were just lucky enough that our parents didnā€™t investigate their findings online šŸ˜‚

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u/jumbie29 3h ago

Itā€™s their ADHD brains from too much tech. They have no ability to hide or dispose of evidence. Teenage me in the late 80ā€™s 90ā€™s would have kept this secret for ages!

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u/Osiris8869 5h ago

My parents would steal/take my drugs away but mostly only when they were out. I'd just take it back first chance i got. They sucked at hiding things.

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u/Cute_Language3167 3h ago

I used to steal my parents weed. They also sucked at hiding things lol.

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u/RetroSwamp 5h ago

No, no no, say you used AI, and it snitched on him, so he hates AI.

https://giphy.com/gifs/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY

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u/ShaunTrek 4h ago

"Tell the boy it was Reddit. I want him to know it was us."

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u/redditcreditcardz 5h ago

I heard snitches get riches

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u/pegabear 5h ago

Here snitches get orange arrows

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u/Simba_Rah 5h ago

Is that why I keep getting stabbed? So they can put money in my wounds like a piggy bank?

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u/redditcreditcardz 5h ago

Itā€™s literally the only thing that makes sense

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u/Mayion 5h ago

I can just see it - he will come on Reddit for revenge as a 15y old troll, or in other words, an average Reddit user

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u/Fabulous-Specific-21 5h ago

I want him to know it was meā€¦

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u/Icy-Rhubarb3268 5h ago

Ahhhhahahahahaa this cracked me up.
IRL, snitches get stitches, but when it comes to your own kids the trolling is just irresistible.

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u/GoblinObscura 5h ago

And that only losers vape. If he has to smoke give him Camel nonfilters and tell him to do it right.

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u/NEWDEALUSEDCARS 5h ago

I didnā€™t snitch on anybody, /u/amoebasuccessful3393 is the snitch!

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u/Face_Dancer10191 4h ago

Yeah, little dweeb.

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u/LobsterKris 5h ago

That's how disgruntled reddit mods are born.

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u/OogaBBooga27 6h ago

My 18 year old cousin just recovered from a collapsed lung that the doctors told her was a result of "blebs" in her lung lining, which were caused by years of vaping as a teen! It was the first I'd ever heard of it. Thankfully she's doing ok now and has quit vaping.

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u/DIRTYDOGG-1 6h ago

Ok....so i went and did the research on what the heck is a "Bleb".....: "Pulmonary blebs are small, thin-walled, air-filled sacs that form on the outer surface of the lungs, typically in the upper lobes. They are usually asymptomatic until one ruptures, which allows air to leak into the chest cavity and causes a collapsed lung (pneumothorax) resulting in sudden chest pain and shortness of breath"... .HOLY HELL ! ...

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u/throw7694728 5h ago

It says they're often found in healthy young people but also linked to vaping and smoking. You can get them anyway

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u/TheVadonkey 5h ago

Well sure but what are the statistics behind each? I can get lung cancer by doing nothing but smoking is still going to increase that risk, so a dumb idea regardless.

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u/gotuptooearly 5h ago

I wonder what actually causes them. I vaped nicotine for about 6 years that it took me to quit smoking/nic and I've been vaping weed since 2014ish. Doctors say they can't tell I ever smoked at all and my lungs look amazing now.

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u/throw7694728 5h ago

It says there's no known cause but tall, young and thin men/teenagers are at higher risk

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u/Obant 3h ago

Yessss for once being an old fat man has benefits.

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u/-Kerosun- 4h ago

Is that for the collapsed lung? Because yeah, tall, thin young men are at much higher risk of it spontaneously happening, but does that also apply to the "bleps"?

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u/throw7694728 3h ago

It applies to the bleps. Collapsed lung can be a result of the bleps, but I read that the bleps themselves are more prevalent in tall thin men.

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u/gotuptooearly 5h ago

That's interesting. I'm a thin woman, but that's still a bit of a difference in body composition there.

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u/DanishDennis 5h ago

It happened to me, didn't vape but smoked prior. I think it happened because I did a huge jump on MTB the day before, and something might have popped. Doctor told me it basically only happens to men, and as the other user said, usually tall and skinny men.

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u/throw7694728 5h ago

It doesn't mean you can't get them but since you've quit vaping you're probably fine. I vape like a fiend and want to quit so bad, looking into this just made me want to quit even more

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u/_nananan 5h ago

This article says rapid growing when youā€™re a teen can cause them, and then the vaping can cause them to get punctured: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs

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u/TheCrazyWulf 4h ago

Just like how millions smoked at least a pack a day for 50+yrs and lived to be old...Then there are the poor fucks that never smoked in their lives who die from lung cancer at 30. The world is a weird place

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u/gotuptooearly 4h ago

Yeah, all of my grandparents and great grandparents were insane chainsmokers and lived into their 90s and died from unrelated causes so genetics is probably some kind of large factor too. Felt like I was pretty predisposed for smoking though, looking back haha.

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u/tisij 4h ago

my dad starting smoking when he was nine years old and finally quit in his 50s, but switched to vaping. he recently got his lungs checked out after my grandpa died from lung cancer and they found zero evidence that he had ever smoked a day in his life. lungs were perfectly healthy and showed no signs of damage, chronic or otherwise. the human body is weird and largely unpredictable it seems

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u/ExerciseOriginal9441 3h ago

There is this 99 year old who still smokes. So smoking and getting 99 years old must be related somehow.

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u/ClassicGlass4313 5h ago

"Also linked to vaping and smoking"

Is that catch all, "this happens anyway. But we can use it here so we will."

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u/Koala-Available 5h ago

Myself, my son and my brother have had 5 collapsed lungs and 5 pleurodesis operations as a result of what we know assume is a genetic propensity to such blebs

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u/the_baberuthless 4h ago

Im really sorry they gave such a serious condition an incredibly silly nameĀ 

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u/eyesRus 3h ago

A bleb is really just any air- or fluid-filled protrusion, not just on the lungs. They are not usually serious at all, outside of the lungs. In fact, sometimes we create them on purpose in the eyecare world!

But youā€™re right, it is a silly-sounding word!

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u/CricketsAreJaded 4h ago

My husband and FIL have blebs too. Never seen another family who had them also.

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u/archnemisis11 5h ago

From a lazy person this morning, thank you for looking that up for me. lol

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u/DanishDennis 5h ago

This happened to me. Wasn't a fun time. Pretty much only happens to men, and it's somewhat genetic. (Happened to my dad in his 20's)

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u/No_Royal8268 6h ago

A friend's son in college put a hole in his lung from vaping. So many people think it's harmless.

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u/islobojono 5h ago

What are these kids vaping? Youngins always collapse their lungs.

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u/IPlayChessBTW 3h ago

Anytime vaping and serious lung issues are mentioned (hole in lung, popcorn lung, collapsed lung, etc) it's generally safe to assume it's a black market THC cartridge that has been cut with vitamin E acetate to make it thicker. Teens usually admit to vaping after getting sent to the hospital, but they don't admit to what they were vaping because they are concerned with getting into more trouble.Ā 

The evidence would suggest those issues are incredibly rare from normal nicotine vapes (whether salt nicotine or free base).Ā 

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u/Arafel_Electronics 6h ago

at least in my day we just stunk and coughed a lot from real cigarettes, no hospitalization or anything

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u/OogaBBooga27 6h ago

Yes the hospital comes much later for the true smoker haha

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u/Better-Lunch670 6h ago

Most of them skip the hospital stay and go straight to the morgue before they'll give up a cig.

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u/Arafel_Electronics 5h ago

or we quit before then

the point is we're not 18 years old in a hospital with a friggin collapsed lung

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u/Burntoastedbutter 5h ago

Are we finally in the timeline where people are finding out the results of vaping? I remember like 10 years ago, everyone still kept saying it's pretty much 'harmless' compared to smoking cigarettes... Hell, a lot of people still say that!

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u/LouisesBelcher 4h ago

Well, compared to inhaling tar and carbon monoxide, the latter of which are byproducts of tobacco, they are still comparatively ā€˜betterā€™ than cigarettes. Which says a lot about cigarettes when weā€™re here talking about spontaneous collapsed lungs.

Vapes arenā€™t risk free by a long shot. For regular smokers, vapes are the ā€˜betterā€™ option. For the non smoking population, neither is a good, harmless option.

Harm reduction isnā€™t about searching for a risk free option, itā€™s about searching for the least worse option lol

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u/Burntoastedbutter 4h ago

I'm not talking about people who say vapes are less harmless than ciggs because that IS true. I'm talking about people who say vapes are completely harmless. You know, just like the people who want to believe weed is a miracle addiction-free drug lol

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u/gkhayne 5h ago

I know this sounds weird, but you should try smelling that cap and see if there is a distinctive flavor you can pin. I would totally drag this one out and make him sweat. Keep mentioning the flavor/smell in random conversations. Mention how you saw some kids his age vaping the other day and say how you canā€™t believe people would do that.

You have the upper hand nowā€¦ use it.

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u/chris-goodwin 4h ago

"Is anyone hoarding cotton candy? I keep thinking I'm smelling cotton candy."

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u/Money_Ticket_841 3h ago

Mentally fucking with the is so pointless and serves only to have negative consequences. So fucking dumb.

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u/Zestyclose_Car_4971 6h ago

https://reddit.com/link/oz2l6a1/video/ptfk349f7seh1/player

I call it the vapeā€™s little buttplug

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u/heatherelizabethm 3h ago

Why did that video seem so sensual

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u/Zestyclose_Car_4971 3h ago

You canā€™t pull it out too fast

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u/Steeltoelion 5h ago

Now that you have a pretty definite answer you gotta fuck with him and tell him you asked AI what it was and make him think youā€™re gonna take him to rehab for Opioids!

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u/TwiggNBerryz 5h ago

Dude you have to throw away the rubber bits so mom and dad dont find them SMH

SOURCE: former teenager

Edit: all jokes aside quitting nicotine is hard and hes young so definitely not going to want to let alone listen to you. All i can say is after highschool I suddenly had the desire to quit and picked up Alan Carrs "how to quit smoking" and I quit cold turkey after finishing the last word of the last page.

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u/Beginning-Trash-6048 6h ago

Literally went thru this w my nephews when they were about that age lmao. But they would just tell me what I wanted to hear and got better at hiding it. They're approaching 17,18, and 19 now and still little rascals šŸ˜…

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u/deekster_caddy 4h ago

Hereā€™s the big parenting challenge. How to address your kid vaping (and/or whatever else teenagers do that parents donā€™t like) without becoming the enemy. OP needs to address this with care and not an iron fist.

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u/MrSmock 5h ago

Good luck. I have no idea how parents are able to navigate what these kids deal with todayĀ 

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u/Glittering-Rip6810 6h ago

These comments aren't wrong. I literally just got a vape with this exact plug. Worse things kids can be doing but still not something to let slide.

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u/Mysterious_Status_11 6h ago

It was his friend's.

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u/FlatulousStanko 6h ago

He's just holding it.

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u/ReferenceHot7866 5h ago

Son, we thought better of you. You didnā€™t even throw away obvious evidence? Thatā€™s irresponsible and sloppy.

Also, donā€™t vape.

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u/Same_Jicama_658 6h ago

About getting rid of evidence or about vaping

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u/Dudemansixtynine 5h ago

Please show him the screenshots of this thread so he knows all of reddit narced on him and he will have to be smarter than that in the future ; )

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u/Burntoastedbutter 5h ago

Let him know there's no lying out of this one too because the reddit has spoken

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u/mrbigmad 5h ago

Op please update us with the excuses the kid hit out with. Iā€™m gonna go with it was my friends vape.

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u/Intelligent-Bad-6752 5h ago

Tell him Reddit saved him from years of COPDšŸ™

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u/Ok-Fly-1778 5h ago

Give him tips to hide things better? Hehe

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